Train­ing our hu­mans on the wrong dataset

George3d621 Jun 2020 17:17 UTC
4 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

The Bright Side of rationalization

Alexey Smirnov21 Jun 2020 16:30 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are Hu­mans Fun­da­men­tally Good?

Nyarlathotep21 Jun 2020 16:29 UTC
1 point
24 comments1 min readLW link

My weekly re­view habit

benkuhn21 Jun 2020 14:40 UTC
70 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

The af­fect heuris­tic and study­ing autocracies

Tim Liptrot21 Jun 2020 4:07 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How to make a pre­dicted AI al­ign­ment event/​meet­ing calendar

rmoehn20 Jun 2020 22:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­sights Over Frameworks

lifelonglearner20 Jun 2020 19:52 UTC
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?

eapache20 Jun 2020 18:23 UTC
44 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

Types of Knowledge

Elizabeth20 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Coron­avirus and Rents

jefftk20 Jun 2020 16:20 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] ‘Max­i­mum’ level of suffer­ing?

Anirandis20 Jun 2020 14:05 UTC
6 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Rele­vant pre-AGI possibilities

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Jun 2020 10:52 UTC
38 points
7 comments19 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

The point of a mem­ory palace

DirectedEvolution20 Jun 2020 1:00 UTC
28 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

The ground of optimization

Alex Flint20 Jun 2020 0:38 UTC
247 points
80 comments27 min readLW link1 review

Are All Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Equiv­a­lent to a Lack of Gen­eral Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence? And is GCI there­fore the Most Im­por­tant Hu­man In­no­va­tion in the His­tory and Im­me­di­ate Fu­ture of Mankind?

williamsae19 Jun 2020 20:38 UTC
0 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Col­lab­o­ra­tors for Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject wanted

DavidJanku19 Jun 2020 20:38 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­no­va­tion and Dependence

smaslennikov19 Jun 2020 19:39 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(smaslennikov.com)

Prac­ti­cal Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: A Tax­on­omy of Disagreement

eapache19 Jun 2020 2:25 UTC
12 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

On­line Cu­rated LessWrong Talks

Ben Pace19 Jun 2020 2:16 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing a mem­ory palace to mem­o­rize a text­book.

DirectedEvolution19 Jun 2020 2:09 UTC
62 points
16 comments6 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What should I teach to my fu­ture daugh­ter?

Anabel RC19 Jun 2020 0:32 UTC
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Your Cog­ni­tive Al­gorithm?

Raemon18 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
74 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] If AI is based on GPT, how to en­sure its safety?

avturchin18 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC
49 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 6/​18: The Virus Goes South

Zvi18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC
55 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #104]: The per­ils of in­ac­cessible in­for­ma­tion, and what we can learn about AI al­ign­ment from COVID

Rohin Shah18 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
19 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

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

lsusr18 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC
69 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Like­li­hood of hy­per­ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe from a bug?

Anirandis18 Jun 2020 16:23 UTC
14 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good pub­lic con­tri­bu­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties? (100$ bounty)

Gurkenglas18 Jun 2020 14:47 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Image GPT

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jun 2020 11:41 UTC
29 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Taymon Beal18 Jun 2020 1:48 UTC
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect

DirectedEvolution17 Jun 2020 21:44 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

Yitz17 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
21 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworth17 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyotic17 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

Set image di­men­sions us­ing markdown

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:37 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_Leong17 Jun 2020 2:20 UTC
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemski16 Jun 2020 22:08 UTC
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

Elizabeth16 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What are the high-level ap­proaches to AI al­ign­ment?

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi C16 Jun 2020 15:17 UTC
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkoc16 Jun 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How does one au­then­ti­cate with the less­wrong API?

Alex Flint15 Jun 2020 23:46 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben Pace15 Jun 2020 21:49 UTC
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­search snap-shot: ques­tion about Global Workspace Theory

Hazard15 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
21 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] By what met­ric do you judge a refer­ence class?

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworth15 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link