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The Devil You Know
Slimepriestess
May 21, 2020, 9:50 PM
5
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Reflective Complaints
Raemon
May 21, 2020, 9:11 PM
37
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are objects that have made your life better?
Mark Xu
May 21, 2020, 8:59 PM
30
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wrapping and Centering
jefftk
May 21, 2020, 2:30 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How does publishing a paper work?
Liron
May 21, 2020, 12:14 PM
42
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comparing reward learning/reward tampering formalisms
Stuart_Armstrong
May 21, 2020, 12:03 PM
9
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Orthogonality
lsusr
May 21, 2020, 3:17 AM
21
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What was your reasoning for deciding to have ‘your own’/ natural-birthed children?
R L
May 21, 2020, 1:30 AM
2
points
3
comments
LW
link
[Question]
If bacteria gave us a tool for bio engineering, have viruses given us a delivery mechanism?
jmh
May 20, 2020, 10:31 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a way to replicate photosynthesis artificially?
basu_enterprise
May 20, 2020, 7:45 PM
−2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”
Zack_M_Davis
May 20, 2020, 6:04 PM
158
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting
Rohin Shah
May 20, 2020, 5:30 PM
33
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Probabilities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for reward functions
Stuart_Armstrong
May 20, 2020, 3:19 PM
11
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6
jefftk
May 20, 2020, 12:10 PM
12
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Meta] Three small suggestions for the LW-website
B Jacobs
May 20, 2020, 11:18 AM
9
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Source code size vs learned model size in ML and in humans?
riceissa
May 20, 2020, 8:47 AM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life?
Thomas Kwa
May 20, 2020, 4:55 AM
16
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Signaling: Why People Have Conversations
liam_hinzman
May 20, 2020, 3:18 AM
15
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(liamhinzman.com)
Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online summer program in the history of technology
jasoncrawford
May 20, 2020, 12:52 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
How to convince Y that X has committed a murder with >0.999999 probability?
Colin Tang
May 19, 2020, 10:55 PM
1
point
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Haskenthetical
philh
May 19, 2020, 10:00 PM
18
points
9
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
A Problem With Patternism
B Jacobs
May 19, 2020, 8:16 PM
5
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bag-Drying Clips
jefftk
May 19, 2020, 2:00 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Learning and manipulating learning
Stuart_Armstrong
May 19, 2020, 1:02 PM
39
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Pointing to a Flower
johnswentworth
May 18, 2020, 6:54 PM
61
points
18
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Why Artists Study Anatomy
Sisi Cheng
May 18, 2020, 6:44 PM
98
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria
eapache
May 18, 2020, 5:25 PM
51
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Mechanistic and Normative Structure of Agency
Gordon Seidoh Worley
May 18, 2020, 4:03 PM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(philpapers.org)
Reward functions and updating assumptions can hide a multitude of sins
Stuart_Armstrong
May 18, 2020, 3:18 PM
16
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
English Bread Regulations
jefftk
May 18, 2020, 1:20 PM
33
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
“Starwink” by Alicorn
Zack_M_Davis
May 18, 2020, 8:17 AM
47
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(alicorn.elcenia.com)
[Question]
Isn’t Tesla stock highly undervalued?
Liron
May 18, 2020, 1:56 AM
31
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Replication Dynamics Bridge to RL in Thermodynamic Limit
Past Account
May 18, 2020, 1:02 AM
6
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Effective altruism and criticism toward activism: Answer to a paradox
Arthur Milchior
May 17, 2020, 9:15 PM
9
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why you should minimax in two-player zero-sum games
Nisan
May 17, 2020, 8:48 PM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Outbuilding Thoughts
jefftk
May 17, 2020, 12:10 PM
11
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Learning to build conviction
benkuhn
May 16, 2020, 11:30 PM
36
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(www.benkuhn.net)
[Question]
Do any mammal species exhibit an immune response in some of the herd in response to the infection in other herd members?
jmh
May 16, 2020, 5:33 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?
Mark Xu
May 16, 2020, 4:53 PM
118
points
171
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making a Crowdaction platform
B Jacobs
May 16, 2020, 4:08 PM
25
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Learning Rhythms
jefftk
May 16, 2020, 11:00 AM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[link] Biostasis / Cryopreservation Survey 2020
Mati_Roy
May 16, 2020, 7:20 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Multi-agent safety
Richard_Ngo
May 16, 2020, 1:59 AM
31
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Conjecture Workshop
johnswentworth
May 15, 2020, 10:41 PM
35
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to choose a PhD with AI Safety in mind
kwiat.dev
15 May 2020 22:19 UTC
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Movable Housing for Scalable Cities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15 May 2020 21:21 UTC
124
points
28
comments
21
min read
LW
link
The EMH Aten’t Dead
Richard Meadows
15 May 2020 20:44 UTC
197
points
88
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Dishwasher Filter
jefftk
15 May 2020 20:30 UTC
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Craving, suffering, and predictive processing (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
15 May 2020 13:21 UTC
96
points
56
comments
19
min read
LW
link
How should AIs update a prior over human preferences?
Stuart_Armstrong
15 May 2020 13:14 UTC
17
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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