Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing: the flip side of AI ingenuity

May 6, 2020, 11:51 PM
66 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Tips/​tricks/​notes on op­ti­miz­ing investments

Wei DaiMay 6, 2020, 11:21 PM
83 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Cop­ing and Cultures

SpiracularMay 6, 2020, 10:49 PM
50 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does iso­lat­ing the high-risk sup­press COVID-19?

Fahad AlkhaterMay 6, 2020, 9:18 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Covid-19: New York’s An­ti­body Tests 2

ZviMay 6, 2020, 5:40 PM
16 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #98]: Un­der­stand­ing neu­ral net train­ing by see­ing which gra­di­ents were helpful

Rohin ShahMay 6, 2020, 5:10 PM
22 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

In­tro­duc­tion to fore­cast­ing work­sheet

edoaradMay 6, 2020, 1:54 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.foretold.io)

Au­dioWorklet La­tency: Fire­fox vs Chrome

jefftkMay 6, 2020, 1:50 PM
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Assess­ing Kurzweil pre­dic­tions about 2019: the results

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 1:36 PM
146 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should po­ten­tial AI al­ign­ment re­searchers gauge whether the field is right for them?

TurnTroutMay 6, 2020, 12:24 PM
20 points
5 commentsLW link

[Question] How to quan­tify un­cer­tainty about a prob­a­bil­ity es­ti­mate?

micMay 6, 2020, 12:06 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Maths writer/​cowrit­ter needed: how you can’t dis­t­in­guish early ex­po­nen­tial from early sigmoid

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 9:41 AM
41 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

How can non­prof­its gain the ad­van­tages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawfordMay 6, 2020, 1:15 AM
37 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Model­ing nat­u­ral­ized de­ci­sion prob­lems in lin­ear logic

jessicataMay 6, 2020, 12:15 AM
14 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

The ways of knowing

aelwoodMay 5, 2020, 8:35 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM
134 points
40 comments12 min readLW link

Com­pet­i­tive safety via gra­dated curricula

Richard_NgoMay 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
38 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Writ­ing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM
90 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

“AI and Effi­ciency”, OA (44✕ im­prove­ment in CNNs since 2012)

gwernMay 5, 2020, 4:32 PM
48 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[Question] I’d Like To Max­i­miz­ing Profit and Hap­piness but My Hap­piness con­flicts a lot with mak­ing profit...

Master MintZMay 5, 2020, 5:54 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Direct work vs. earn-to-give?

warrenjordanMay 5, 2020, 5:52 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much money would you pay to get ac­cess to video footage of your sur­round­ings for a year of your choice (in the past)?

Mati_RoyMay 5, 2020, 5:50 AM
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Con­struc­tive Definitions

Chris_LeongMay 4, 2020, 11:50 PM
15 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Needn’t Gen­er­al­ize to Ra­tional Consensus

Akshat MahajanMay 4, 2020, 10:53 PM
42 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Ra­tion­al­ist Games—Face­book Group

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a differ­ent angle

jmhMay 4, 2020, 5:58 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­sights from Eu­clid’s ‘Ele­ments’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM
126 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What in­for­ma­tion on (or rele­vant to) modal im­mor­tal­ity do you recom­mend?

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 11:30 AM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sis­tent Glo­ma­riza­tion should be feasible

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2020, 10:06 AM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Garrabrant’s prob­lem on re­cov­er­ing Brouwer as a corol­lary of Lawvere

RupertMay 4, 2020, 10:01 AM
26 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Named Distri­bu­tions as Artifacts

George3d6May 4, 2020, 8:54 AM
22 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

How uniform is the neo­cor­tex?

zhukeepaMay 4, 2020, 2:16 AM
80 points
23 comments11 min readLW link1 review

Hate Crime Statistics

jefftkMay 3, 2020, 10:30 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Biolog­i­cal evolu­tion as an anal­ogy for the mar­ket economy

SnorkelfarsanMay 3, 2020, 6:51 PM
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

ZviMay 3, 2020, 5:00 PM
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

TFW No Incels

Jacob FalkovichMay 3, 2020, 4:56 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

What is a “Good” Pre­dic­tion?

eapacheMay 3, 2020, 4:51 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Narconomics

ketchupduckMay 3, 2020, 1:19 AM
77 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How does iter­ated am­plifi­ca­tion ex­ceed hu­man abil­ities?

riceissaMay 2, 2020, 11:44 PM
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

What Is The Cost of Your At­ten­tion?

Ari LewisMay 2, 2020, 8:50 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism

MellivoraMay 2, 2020, 2:07 PM
18 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you whit­tle path-de­pen­dent (prob­a­bil­is­tic) ques­tions?

Mary ChernyshenkoMay 2, 2020, 8:53 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“Don’t even think about hell”

emmabMay 2, 2020, 8:06 AM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_SotalaMay 2, 2020, 7:35 AM
43 points
19 comments7 min readLW link
(plato.stanford.edu)

Med­i­ta­tion: the screen-and-watcher model of the hu­man mind, and how to use it

femtogrammarMay 1, 2020, 10:36 PM
32 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Pueyo: How to Do Test­ing and Con­tact Trac­ing [Sum­mary]

DerekFMay 1, 2020, 10:29 PM
7 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

April 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernMay 1, 2020, 8:47 PM
11 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

2020 predictions

BuckyMay 1, 2020, 8:11 PM
11 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Ni­coti­namide ri­boside and SARS-CoV-2

William WalkerMay 1, 2020, 4:10 PM
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex 2020 Pre­dic­tions: Buy, Sell, Hold

ZviMay 1, 2020, 2:30 PM
53 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)