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Analyzing Blackmail Being Illegal (Hanson and Mowshowitz related)
curi
Aug 20, 2020, 6:56 PM
0
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
July 2020 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Aug 20, 2020, 4:39 PM
29
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
How More Knowledge is Making Us Dumber
jdcampolargo
Aug 20, 2020, 3:08 PM
1
point
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
“Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)
Callmesalticidae
Aug 20, 2020, 2:31 PM
5
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Covid 8/20: A Little Progress
Zvi
Aug 20, 2020, 2:30 PM
47
points
6
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Market Misconceptions
gilch
Aug 20, 2020, 4:46 AM
27
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Highlights from the Blackmail Debate (Robin Hanson vs Zvi Mowshowitz)
Ben Pace
Aug 20, 2020, 12:49 AM
48
points
37
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The Bayesian Tyrant
abramdemski
Aug 20, 2020, 12:08 AM
143
points
21
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Should we write more about social life?
DirectedEvolution
Aug 19, 2020, 8:07 PM
13
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #113]: Checking the ethical intuitions of large language models
Rohin Shah
Aug 19, 2020, 5:10 PM
23
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Alex Irpan: “My AI Timelines Have Sped Up”
Vaniver
Aug 19, 2020, 4:23 PM
43
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.alexirpan.com)
The US Already Has A Wealth Tax
jefftk
Aug 19, 2020, 2:50 PM
46
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Which way should we update about uncertain events, over time?
Milton
Aug 19, 2020, 12:18 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
AI safety as featherless bipeds *with broad flat nails*
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 19, 2020, 10:22 AM
38
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Survey Results: 10 Fun Questions for LWers
Ben Pace
Aug 19, 2020, 6:10 AM
42
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On Defining your Terms
Chris_Leong
Aug 19, 2020, 3:30 AM
13
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Looking for adversarial collaborators to test our Debate protocol
Beth Barnes
Aug 19, 2020, 3:15 AM
52
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Status for status sake is a fact of political life
Tim Liptrot
Aug 18, 2020, 10:06 PM
10
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Radical Probabilism
abramdemski
Aug 18, 2020, 9:14 PM
182
points
49
comments
35
min read
LW
link
1
review
Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control
abramdemski
Aug 18, 2020, 6:51 PM
55
points
45
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Updating My LW Commenting Policy
curi
Aug 18, 2020, 4:48 PM
7
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Bayesiance (Filk)
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Aug 18, 2020, 4:30 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
WordPress Destroys Editing Process, Seeking Alternatives
Zvi
Aug 18, 2020, 3:50 PM
25
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Learning human preferences: optimistic and pessimistic scenarios
Stuart_Armstrong
Aug 18, 2020, 1:05 PM
27
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
On Creativity—The joys of 5 minute timers
Neel Nanda
Aug 18, 2020, 6:26 AM
17
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Multitudinous outside views
Davidmanheim
Aug 18, 2020, 6:21 AM
55
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
10 Fun Questions for LessWrongers
Ben Pace
Aug 18, 2020, 3:28 AM
47
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Spending Update 2020
jefftk
Aug 18, 2020, 1:40 AM
12
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?
jasoncrawford
Aug 17, 2020, 8:34 PM
198
points
69
comments
12
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
A way to beat superrational/EDT agents?
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Aug 17, 2020, 2:33 PM
5
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
GPT-3, belief, and consistency
skybrian
Aug 16, 2020, 11:12 PM
18
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Goal-Directedness: What Success Looks Like
adamShimi
Aug 16, 2020, 6:33 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Search versus design
Alex Flint
Aug 16, 2020, 4:53 PM
109
points
40
comments
36
min read
LW
link
1
review
On Systems—Living a life of zero willpower
Neel Nanda
Aug 16, 2020, 4:44 PM
42
points
9
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Partially Enlightened AMA
grumpyfreyr
Aug 16, 2020, 9:36 AM
−10
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Becoming an EA-influencer on YouTube etc.
culturechange
Aug 16, 2020, 8:09 AM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Human Condition
Martin Sustrik
Aug 16, 2020, 5:23 AM
25
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Wrong Side of Risk
gilch
Aug 16, 2020, 3:50 AM
22
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On Need-Sets
Marcello
Aug 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
48
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My Understanding of Paul Christiano’s Iterated Amplification AI Safety Research Agenda
Chi Nguyen
Aug 15, 2020, 8:02 PM
120
points
20
comments
39
min read
LW
link
Does crime explain the exceptional US incarceration rate?
braces
Aug 15, 2020, 6:27 PM
60
points
27
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Self-Similarity Experiment
Dawn Drescher
Aug 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
12
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Mapping Out Alignment
Logan Riggs
,
adamShimi
,
Gurkenglas
,
AlexMennen
and
Gyrodiot
Aug 15, 2020, 1:02 AM
43
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Talk and Q&A—Dan Hendrycks—Paper: Aligning AI With Shared Human Values. On Discord at Aug 28, 2020 8:00-10:00 AM GMT+8.
wassname
Aug 14, 2020, 11:57 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Study Group for Progress
jasoncrawford
Aug 14, 2020, 8:18 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Setting Up a Green Screen
jefftk
Aug 14, 2020, 8:00 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Do we have updated data about the risk of ~ permanent chronic fatigue from COVID-19?
Eli Tyre
Aug 14, 2020, 7:19 PM
60
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Invitation to the Guild of the Rose — Alpha (formerly the Guild of Servants)
moridinamael
Aug 14, 2020, 7:03 PM
32
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Lose a Fair Game
gilch
Aug 14, 2020, 6:41 PM
36
points
15
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Sunday August 16, 12pm (PDT) — talks by Ozzie Gooen, habryka, Ben Pace
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Aug 14, 2020, 6:32 PM
27
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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