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The ground of optimization

Alex Flint20 Jun 2020 0:38 UTC

247 points

80 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

We’ve built Connected Papers—a visual tool for researchers to find and explore academic papers

discordy8 Jun 2020 18:44 UTC

209 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

Simulacra Levels and their Interactions

Zvi15 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC

198 points

50 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Growing Independence

jefftk7 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC

185 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Everyday Lessons from High-Dimensional Optimization

johnswentworth6 Jun 2020 20:57 UTC

163 points

44 comments6 min readLW link

A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem

Davidmanheim25 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC

163 points

41 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Wireless is a trap

benkuhn7 Jun 2020 15:30 UTC

158 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

New York Times, Please Do Not Threaten The Safety of Scott Alexander By Revealing His True Name

Zvi23 Jun 2020 12:20 UTC

153 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A revolution in philosophy: the rise of conceptual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC

139 points

50 comments21 min readLW link

Five Ways To Prioritize Better

lynettebye27 Jun 2020 18:40 UTC

135 points

7 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Philosophy in the Darkest Timeline: Basics of the Evolution of Meaning

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC

131 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

Self-sacrifice is a scarce resource

mingyuan28 Jun 2020 5:08 UTC

129 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

DontDoxScottAlexander.com—A Petition

Ben Pace, jacobjacob and Rob Bensinger

25 Jun 2020 5:44 UTC

120 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

(DontDoxScottAlexander.com)

Covid 6/25: The Dam Breaks

Zvi25 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC

116 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Our take on CHAI’s research agenda in under 1500 words

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:24 UTC

113 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”

Zack_M_Davis29 Jun 2020 2:45 UTC

105 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Betting with Mandatory Post-Mortem

abramdemski24 Jun 2020 20:04 UTC

105 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Public Static: What is Abstraction?

johnswentworth9 Jun 2020 18:36 UTC

97 points

18 comments11 min readLW link

A reply to Agnes Callard

Vaniver28 Jun 2020 3:25 UTC

91 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott

Rudi C23 Jun 2020 7:51 UTC

89 points

93 comments1 min readLW link

Plausible cases for HRAD work, and locating the crux in the “realism about rationality” debate

riceissa22 Jun 2020 1:10 UTC

85 points

15 comments10 min readLW link

Inaccessible information

paulfchristiano3 Jun 2020 5:10 UTC

83 points

17 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

(ai-alignment.com)

The Skill of Noticing Emotions

Neel Nanda4 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC

78 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

Reply to Paul Christiano on Inaccessible Information

Alex Flint5 Jun 2020 9:10 UTC

77 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] For moderately well-resourced people in the US, how quickly will things go from “uncomfortable” to “too late to exit”?

Dagon12 Jun 2020 16:59 UTC

76 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Your Cognitive Algorithm?

Raemon18 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC

74 points

23 comments13 min readLW link

Three characteristics: impermanence

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2020 7:48 UTC

73 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC

73 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

AI safety via market making

evhub26 Jun 2020 23:07 UTC

71 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Coronavirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC

71 points

11 comments18 min readLW link

My weekly review habit

benkuhn21 Jun 2020 14:40 UTC

70 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Prediction = Compression [Transcript]

alkjash and Ben Pace

22 Jun 2020 23:54 UTC

69 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update

lsusr18 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC

69 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Where to Start Research?

Elizabeth16 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC

68 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Creating better infrastructure for controversial discourse

Rudi C16 Jun 2020 15:17 UTC

66 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve

lsusr27 Jun 2020 8:49 UTC

65 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Can Covid-19 spread by surface transmission?

Raemon10 Jun 2020 22:09 UTC

65 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Preparing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC

64 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

GPT-3 Fiction Samples

gwern25 Jun 2020 16:12 UTC

63 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Half-Baked Products and Idea Kernels

Liron24 Jun 2020 1:00 UTC

63 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Using a memory palace to memorize a textbook.

DirectedEvolution19 Jun 2020 2:09 UTC

62 points

16 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Don’t Make Your Problems Hide

orthonormal27 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC

61 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Covid-19 6/11: Bracing For a Second Wave

Zvi11 Jun 2020 21:30 UTC

61 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Results of $1,000 Oracle contest!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC

60 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

Tetraspace14 Jun 2020 0:16 UTC

60 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

A History Of Universalist Greed

namespace4 Jun 2020 0:22 UTC

56 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Covid-19 6/18: The Virus Goes South

Zvi18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC

55 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Building brain-inspired AGI is infinitely easier than understanding the brain

Steven Byrnes2 Jun 2020 14:13 UTC

53 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Relating HCH and Logical Induction

abramdemski16 Jun 2020 22:08 UTC

50 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Sunday June 21st – talks by Abram Demski, alkjash, orthonormal, eukaryote, Vaniver

Ben Pace and jacobjacob

18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC

49 points

4 comments1 min readLW link