A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC
139 points
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[Question] What pro­por­tion of US com­pa­nies would agree to this gross pay de­duc­tion /​ di­rect dona­tion if asked by an em­ployee?

Bobby Shen2 Jun 2020 18:27 UTC
3 points
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Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2020

habryka2 Jun 2020 18:19 UTC
19 points
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GPT-3: A Summary

leogao2 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
20 points
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(leogao.dev)

Air Conditioning

jefftk2 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
14 points
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0oo.li: Fi­nan­cial Think Tank

Mindey2 Jun 2020 16:03 UTC
2 points
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May Gw­ern.net newslet­ter (w/​GPT-3 com­men­tary)

gwern2 Jun 2020 15:40 UTC
32 points
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Build­ing brain-in­spired AGI is in­finitely eas­ier than un­der­stand­ing the brain

Steven Byrnes2 Jun 2020 14:13 UTC
53 points
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Spoiler-Free Re­view: Mon­ster Train

Zvi2 Jun 2020 13:40 UTC
13 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Ex­is­ten­tial Risks from Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, for an EA audience

JoshuaFox2 Jun 2020 8:30 UTC
10 points
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Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise2 Jun 2020 3:17 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Restricted Diet and Longevity, does eat­ing pat­tern mat­ter?

jmh1 Jun 2020 21:28 UTC
7 points
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You See The Ter­ri­tory or Noth­ing at All

calebo1 Jun 2020 15:24 UTC
7 points
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Blog Post Day III

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jun 2020 13:56 UTC
33 points
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Spar­sity and in­ter­pretabil­ity?

1 Jun 2020 13:25 UTC
41 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Feed­back is cen­tral to agency

Alex Flint1 Jun 2020 12:56 UTC
29 points
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Over­cor­rect­ing As De­liber­ate Practice

lifelonglearner1 Jun 2020 6:26 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal is the path of least re­sis­tance?

TruetoThis1 Jun 2020 1:34 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

My pre­dic­tion for Covid-19

TheMajor31 May 2020 23:25 UTC
17 points
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Pos­si­ble take­aways from the coro­n­avirus pan­demic for slow AI takeoff

Vika31 May 2020 17:51 UTC
135 points
36 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Covid-19: My Cur­rent Model

Zvi31 May 2020 17:40 UTC
188 points
73 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher, self-lo­cat­ing in­for­ma­tion, and Solomonoff induction

Charlie Steiner31 May 2020 16:35 UTC
58 points
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Sim­plify­ing Board Games

jefftk31 May 2020 14:10 UTC
28 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: May 2020.

NunoSempere31 May 2020 12:35 UTC
9 points
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[Question] Will the many protests through­out the USA prove to be good test cases for re­open­ing?

jmh31 May 2020 12:15 UTC
9 points
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[Question] Any­one recom­mend a video course on the the­ory of com­pu­ta­tion?

Eli Tyre30 May 2020 19:52 UTC
8 points
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How to (not) do a liter­a­ture review

Katarina Slama30 May 2020 0:11 UTC
79 points
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(katarinaslama.github.io)

Shut­ting Down RegularlyScheduled

jefftk29 May 2020 22:50 UTC
8 points
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Why take notes: what I get from note­tak­ing and my desider­ata for note­tak­ing systems

philip_b29 May 2020 21:46 UTC
9 points
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(github.com)

Covid-19 5/​29: Dumb Reopening

Zvi29 May 2020 21:00 UTC
26 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An overview of 11 pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

evhub29 May 2020 20:38 UTC
213 points
36 comments38 min readLW link2 reviews

GPT-3: a dis­ap­point­ing paper

nostalgebraist29 May 2020 19:06 UTC
65 points
43 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Should we stop us­ing the term ‘Ra­tion­al­ist’?

B Jacobs29 May 2020 15:11 UTC
12 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

On the con­struc­tion of the self

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2020 13:04 UTC
71 points
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Our Need for Need

eapache29 May 2020 11:12 UTC
32 points
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OpenAI an­nounces GPT-3

gwern29 May 2020 1:49 UTC
67 points
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(arxiv.org)

Trust-Build­ing: The New Ra­tion­al­ity Project

DirectedEvolution28 May 2020 22:53 UTC
39 points
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The prin­ci­ple of no non-Apologies

agentydragon28 May 2020 19:58 UTC
26 points
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[Question] look­ing for name/​fur­ther read­ing on fal­lacy I came across

Yitz28 May 2020 18:01 UTC
1 point
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Wrist Issues

jefftk28 May 2020 16:50 UTC
16 points
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Spec­u­la­tions on the Fu­ture of Fic­tion Writing

johnswentworth28 May 2020 16:34 UTC
35 points
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Up­dated Hier­ar­chy of Disagreement

B Jacobs28 May 2020 15:57 UTC
14 points
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One sys­temic failure in particular

MoritzG28 May 2020 5:25 UTC
−3 points
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Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC
61 points
1 comment6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

A tax­on­omy of Cruxes

Eli Tyre27 May 2020 17:25 UTC
43 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[AN #101]: Why we should rigor­ously mea­sure and fore­cast AI progress

Rohin Shah27 May 2020 17:20 UTC
15 points
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(mailchi.mp)

AI Safety Dis­cus­sion Days

Linda Linsefors27 May 2020 16:54 UTC
13 points
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[Job ad] Lead an am­bi­tious COVID-19 fore­cast­ing pro­ject [Dead­line ex­tended: June 10th]

jacobjacob27 May 2020 16:38 UTC
54 points
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Ob­sidian: A Mind Map­ping Mark­down Editor

lifelonglearner27 May 2020 16:26 UTC
12 points
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(obsidian.md)

Pre­dicted Land Value Tax: a bet­ter tax than an unim­proved land value tax

michaelcohen27 May 2020 13:40 UTC
21 points
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