Every­day Les­sons from High-Di­men­sional Optimization

johnswentworth6 Jun 2020 20:57 UTC
164 points
44 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Most re­li­able news sources?

Eli Tyre6 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC
37 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Your best fu­ture self

Raemon6 Jun 2020 19:10 UTC
36 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Accidents

Rodrigo Fernandes6 Jun 2020 18:29 UTC
0 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Attitude

eapache6 Jun 2020 12:29 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is Ra?

Chris_Leong6 Jun 2020 4:29 UTC
18 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic Mindsets

ExCeph6 Jun 2020 0:44 UTC
2 points
5 comments13 min readLW link

Pas­teur’s quadrant

jasoncrawford5 Jun 2020 17:47 UTC
36 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Emer­gence and Con­trol: An ex­am­i­na­tion of our abil­ity to gov­ern the be­hav­ior of in­tel­li­gent systems

meanderingmoose5 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Re­ply to Paul Chris­ti­ano on Inac­cessible Information

Alex Flint5 Jun 2020 9:10 UTC
77 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Three char­ac­ter­is­tics: impermanence

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2020 7:48 UTC
73 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] Does tak­ing ex­treme mea­sures to avoid the coro­n­avirus make sense when you fac­tor in the pos­si­bil­ity of a re­ally long life?

Adam Zerner5 Jun 2020 0:58 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing About Su­per-Hu­man AI: An Ex­am­i­na­tion of Likely Paths and Ul­ti­mate Constitution

meanderingmoose4 Jun 2020 23:22 UTC
−3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How to val­i­date re­search ideas?

Ariel Kwiatkowski4 Jun 2020 21:37 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

jacobjacob4 Jun 2020 21:06 UTC
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

Covid-19 6/​4: The Eye of the Storm

Zvi4 Jun 2020 20:50 UTC
33 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vi­sual Bab­ble and Prune

DirectedEvolution4 Jun 2020 18:49 UTC
46 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Pantry Sta­ples for DIY

jefftk4 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
16 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why isn’t as­sas­si­na­tion/​sab­o­tage more com­mon?

Rudi C4 Jun 2020 18:04 UTC
8 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Skill of Notic­ing Emotions

Neel Nanda4 Jun 2020 17:48 UTC
84 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter spring 2020

avturchin4 Jun 2020 14:27 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Stopped Clock Problem

eapache4 Jun 2020 12:07 UTC
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Introduction

eapache4 Jun 2020 1:03 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

A His­tory Of Univer­sal­ist Greed

namespace4 Jun 2020 0:22 UTC
56 points
0 comments29 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

[Question] Is a near-term, self-sus­tain­ing Mars colony im­pos­si­ble?

ESRogs3 Jun 2020 22:43 UTC
13 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­tus-Reg­u­lat­ing Emotions

lsusr3 Jun 2020 22:32 UTC
40 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Fo­cus: you are al­lowed to be bad at ac­com­plish­ing your goals

adamShimi3 Jun 2020 21:04 UTC
19 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

kotrfa3 Jun 2020 20:35 UTC
49 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: CrossCells

Zvi3 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #102]: Meta learn­ing by GPT-3, and a list of full pro­pos­als for AI alignment

Rohin Shah3 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
38 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Die­tary De­bates among the Fruit Gnomes

Sherrinford3 Jun 2020 14:09 UTC
26 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can you find the best in­for­ma­tion out of all in­for­ma­tion?

Raj Thimmiah3 Jun 2020 6:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Inac­cessible information

paulfchristiano3 Jun 2020 5:10 UTC
83 points
17 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews
(ai-alignment.com)

The Law of Cul­tural Proximity

eapache3 Jun 2020 2:18 UTC
8 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended Reason2 Jun 2020 18:30 UTC
139 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

[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
4 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2020

habryka2 Jun 2020 18:19 UTC
19 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3: A Summary

leogao2 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(leogao.dev)

Air Conditioning

jefftk2 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

0oo.li: Fi­nan­cial Think Tank

Mindey2 Jun 2020 16:03 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

May Gw­ern.net newslet­ter (w/​GPT-3 com­men­tary)

gwern2 Jun 2020 15:40 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

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

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
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise2 Jun 2020 3:17 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Restricted Diet and Longevity, does eat­ing pat­tern mat­ter?

jmh1 Jun 2020 21:28 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

You See The Ter­ri­tory or Noth­ing at All

calebo1 Jun 2020 15:24 UTC
7 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Blog Post Day III

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jun 2020 13:56 UTC
33 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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
1 comment3 min readLW link