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Goal-directedness is behavioral, not structural

adamShimi8 Jun 2020 23:05 UTC

6 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What does “torture vs. dust specks” imply for insect suffering?

Tejas Subramaniam8 Jun 2020 20:37 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

GAN Discriminators Don’t Generalize?

tryactions8 Jun 2020 20:36 UTC

18 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

The “hard” problem of consciousness is the least interesting problem of consciousness

Hazard8 Jun 2020 19:00 UTC

17 points

45 comments5 min readLW link

COVID-19: The Illusion of Stability

PeterMcCluskey8 Jun 2020 18:46 UTC

32 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

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

Legibility: Notes on “Man as a Rationalist Animal”

Hazard8 Jun 2020 2:18 UTC

13 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

An Illustrated Proof of the No Free Lunch Theorem

lifelonglearner8 Jun 2020 1:54 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(mlu.red)

Growing Independence

jefftk7 Jun 2020 20:20 UTC

185 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Quarantine Bubbles Require Directness, and Tolerance of Rudeness

Raemon7 Jun 2020 19:52 UTC

37 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Consciousness as Metaphor: What Jaynes Has to Offer

Hazard7 Jun 2020 18:41 UTC

15 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates

Benquo7 Jun 2020 15:45 UTC

8 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Self-help, hard and soft

technicalities7 Jun 2020 15:39 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Wireless is a trap

benkuhn7 Jun 2020 15:30 UTC

158 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Zack_M_Davis7 Jun 2020 7:52 UTC

132 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

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 link 2 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