[Question] How should AI de­bate be judged?

abramdemskiJul 15, 2020, 10:20 PM
49 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

Au­to­mat­i­cally Turn­ing Off Com­puter at Night

RaemonJul 15, 2020, 8:42 PM
19 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Public Figures Con­tract­ing COVID-19 as Pos­i­tive Event

mcJul 15, 2020, 7:56 PM
−11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Diver­gence causes iso­lated de­mands for rigor

George3d6Jul 15, 2020, 6:59 PM
14 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

[Question] What do we now know about long-term con­se­quences of a COVID-19 in­fec­tion?

ChristianKlJul 15, 2020, 2:42 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

New pa­per: AGI Agent Safety by Iter­a­tively Im­prov­ing the Utility Function

Koen.HoltmanJul 15, 2020, 2:05 PM
21 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion 2.0 — A brand new ed­u­ca­tion system

aryanJul 15, 2020, 10:09 AM
−8 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Clas­sifi­ca­tion of AI al­ign­ment re­search: de­con­fu­sion, “good enough” non-su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI al­ign­ment, su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI alignment

philip_bJul 14, 2020, 10:48 PM
35 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Mazes and Duality

Jul 14, 2020, 7:54 PM
62 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

The Gold­bach con­jec­ture is prob­a­bly cor­rect; so was Fer­mat’s last theorem

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 14, 2020, 7:30 PM
82 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Dremeling

CzynskiJul 14, 2020, 7:23 PM
64 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion Prac­tice: Retro­d­ic­tions on Metaculus

RaemonJul 14, 2020, 6:35 PM
34 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Benefits Post 4: Out­stand­ing Ques­tions on Select­ing Benefits

CullenJul 14, 2020, 5:26 PM
4 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup July 2020

Laszlo_TreszkaiJul 14, 2020, 1:06 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Limits of Cur­rent US Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets (Pre­dic­tIt Case Study)

aphyerJul 14, 2020, 7:24 AM
210 points
50 comments7 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic In­tent: A Han­so­nian Gen­er­al­ized Anti-Zom­bie Principle

Zack_M_DavisJul 14, 2020, 6:03 AM
51 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What are the mostly likely ways AGI will emerge?

Craig QuiterJul 14, 2020, 12:58 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to per­suade peo­ple/​groups out of sunk cost fal­lacy?

vernamcipherJul 13, 2020, 10:51 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Life Through Quan­tum An­neal­ing: How a quan­tum com­put­ing tech­nique could shape existence

ChrisMJul 13, 2020, 10:48 PM
2 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

[Question] 3-P Group op­ti­mal for dis­cus­sion?

AiresJLJul 13, 2020, 10:23 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Fooled by Randomness

SherrinfordJul 13, 2020, 9:02 PM
34 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Roll for Sanity

eapacheJul 13, 2020, 4:39 PM
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Null-box­ing New­comb’s Problem

YitzJul 13, 2020, 4:32 PM
33 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Sur­vey Results

B JacobsJul 13, 2020, 1:53 PM
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What You Are

Jarred FilmerJul 13, 2020, 11:35 AM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Up­date more slowly!

DavidmanheimJul 13, 2020, 7:10 AM
51 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

In praise of con­tribut­ing ex­am­ples, analo­gies and lingo

Adam ZernerJul 13, 2020, 6:43 AM
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Six eco­nomics mis­con­cep­tions of mine which I’ve re­solved over the last few years

BuckJul 13, 2020, 3:01 AM
196 points
59 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What is the cur­rent state of knowl­edge around COVID-19 at-home reme­dies?

DorikkaJul 12, 2020, 10:50 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What counts as defec­tion?

TurnTroutJul 12, 2020, 10:03 PM
81 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Pos­si­ble new pneu­mo­nia in Kazahk­stan (July 2020)

JayJul 12, 2020, 8:41 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

School Has It Backwards

proshowersingerJul 12, 2020, 7:24 PM
33 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the cur­rent pro­cess for in­creases test­ing?

jmhJul 12, 2020, 5:21 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Bu­dapest meetup Mar­git Sz­iget, 7/​19 2pm

Timothy UnderwoodJul 12, 2020, 2:07 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Science eats its young

George3d6Jul 12, 2020, 12:32 PM
14 points
13 comments10 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

Gödel In­com­plete­ness: For Dummies

jollybardJul 12, 2020, 9:13 AM
9 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Covid-19: Anal­y­sis of Mor­tal­ity Data

ZviJul 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
32 points
12 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How well can the GPT ar­chi­tec­ture solve the par­ity task?

FactorialCodeJul 11, 2020, 7:02 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Canon­i­cal forms

senJul 11, 2020, 6:53 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.fimfiction.net)

Lurk­ing More Be­fore Join­ing Com­plex Conversations

RaemonJul 11, 2020, 5:11 PM
42 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Meta Pro­gram­ming GPT: A route to Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

dmteaJul 11, 2020, 2:51 PM
10 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Hier­ar­chy of Evidence

B JacobsJul 11, 2020, 12:54 PM
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­mal Ventilation

jefftkJul 11, 2020, 1:20 AM
31 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Mod Note: Tag­ging Ac­tivity is Not Private

RubyJul 11, 2020, 12:56 AM
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Cost/​Benefit anal­y­sis of School Clo­sures in the US

anna.becca.g@gmail.comJul 10, 2020, 11:35 PM
9 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Your Pri­ori­ti­za­tion is Underspecified

romeostevensitJul 10, 2020, 8:48 PM
85 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Was a PhD nec­es­sary to solve out­stand­ing math prob­lems?

DirectedEvolutionJul 10, 2020, 6:43 PM
22 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Talk: Key Is­sues In Near-Term AI Safety Research

Aryeh EnglanderJul 10, 2020, 6:36 PM
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] When is evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy use­ful?

snog toddgrassJul 10, 2020, 6:22 PM
3 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

A space of pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

Richard_NgoJul 10, 2020, 4:58 PM
55 points
4 comments4 min readLW link