The ground of optimization

Alex FlintJun 20, 2020, 12:38 AM
248 points
80 comments27 min readLW link1 review

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

discordyJun 8, 2020, 6:44 PM
209 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels and their Interactions

ZviJun 15, 2020, 1:10 PM
200 points
51 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Grow­ing Independence

jefftkJun 7, 2020, 8:20 PM
186 points
27 comments10 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Every­day Les­sons from High-Di­men­sional Optimization

johnswentworthJun 6, 2020, 8:57 PM
165 points
44 comments6 min readLW link

A Per­sonal (In­terim) COVID-19 Postmortem

DavidmanheimJun 25, 2020, 6:10 PM
163 points
41 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Wire­less is a trap

benkuhnJun 7, 2020, 3:30 PM
158 points
13 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

ZviJun 23, 2020, 12:20 PM
153 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended ReasonJun 2, 2020, 6:30 PM
141 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

Five Ways To Pri­ori­tize Better

lynettebyeJun 27, 2020, 6:40 PM
136 points
7 comments20 min readLW link1 review

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

Zack_M_DavisJun 7, 2020, 7:52 AM
132 points
16 comments14 min readLW link

Self-sac­ri­fice is a scarce resource

mingyuanJun 28, 2020, 5:08 AM
129 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Don­tDoxS­cot­tAlexan­der.com—A Petition

Jun 25, 2020, 5:44 AM
120 points
32 comments1 min readLW link
(DontDoxScottAlexander.com)

Covid 6/​25: The Dam Breaks

ZviJun 25, 2020, 6:30 PM
116 points
21 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Alex FlintJun 17, 2020, 12:24 PM
113 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

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

Zack_M_DavisJun 29, 2020, 2:45 AM
105 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Bet­ting with Manda­tory Post-Mortem

abramdemskiJun 24, 2020, 8:04 PM
105 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Public Static: What is Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworthJun 9, 2020, 6:36 PM
97 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

A re­ply to Agnes Callard

VaniverJun 28, 2020, 3:25 AM
91 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex deleted be­cause NYT wants to dox Scott

Rudi CJun 23, 2020, 7:51 AM
89 points
93 comments1 min readLW link

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

riceissaJun 22, 2020, 1:10 AM
85 points
15 comments10 min readLW link

The Skill of Notic­ing Emotions

Neel NandaJun 4, 2020, 5:48 PM
84 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Inac­cessible information

paulfchristianoJun 3, 2020, 5:10 AM
83 points
17 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews
(ai-alignment.com)

Re­ply to Paul Chris­ti­ano on Inac­cessible Information

Alex FlintJun 5, 2020, 9:10 AM
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”?

DagonJun 12, 2020, 4:59 PM
76 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Your Cog­ni­tive Al­gorithm?

RaemonJun 18, 2020, 10:16 PM
74 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

Turns Out In­ter­rup­tions Are Bad, Who Knew?

ElizabethJun 11, 2020, 11:10 PM
74 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Three char­ac­ter­is­tics: impermanence

Kaj_SotalaJun 5, 2020, 7:48 AM
73 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

AI safety via mar­ket making

evhubJun 26, 2020, 11:07 PM
72 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

My weekly re­view habit

benkuhnJun 21, 2020, 2:40 PM
71 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

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

lsusrJun 18, 2020, 4:34 PM
69 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion = Com­pres­sion [Tran­script]

Jun 22, 2020, 11:54 PM
69 points
13 comments8 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

ElizabethJun 16, 2020, 6:10 PM
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi CJun 16, 2020, 3:17 PM
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve

lsusrJun 27, 2020, 8:49 AM
65 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

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

RaemonJun 10, 2020, 10:09 PM
65 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Half-Baked Prod­ucts and Idea Kernels

LironJun 24, 2020, 1:00 AM
64 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

GPT-3 Fic­tion Samples

gwernJun 25, 2020, 4:12 PM
63 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Us­ing a mem­ory palace to mem­o­rize a text­book.

DirectedEvolutionJun 19, 2020, 2:09 AM
62 points
16 comments6 min readLW link1 review

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

ZviJun 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
61 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Don’t Make Your Prob­lems Hide

orthonormalJun 27, 2020, 8:24 PM
61 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

TetraspaceJun 14, 2020, 12:16 AM
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2020, 5:44 PM
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A His­tory Of Univer­sal­ist Greed

namespaceJun 4, 2020, 12:22 AM
56 points
0 comments29 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Covid-19 6/​18: The Virus Goes South

ZviJun 18, 2020, 8:10 PM
55 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Steven ByrnesJun 2, 2020, 2:13 PM
53 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemskiJun 16, 2020, 10:08 PM
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfaJun 3, 2020, 8:35 PM
49 points
31 comments2 min readLW link