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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
The Case for Education
SamuelKnoche
Aug 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
24
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Room and Board for People Self-Learning ML or Doing Independent ML Research
SamuelKnoche
Aug 14, 2020, 5:19 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Best Educational Institution in the World
SamuelKnoche
Aug 14, 2020, 5:18 PM
41
points
13
comments
9
min read
LW
link
How webs of meaning grow and change
Hazard
Aug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM
14
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism
mako yass
Aug 14, 2020, 11:53 AM
21
points
52
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Petrov Day 2020 Virtual Celebration
konstell
Aug 14, 2020, 8:03 AM
22
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” by Thomas Ligotti
Callmesalticidae
Aug 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
19
points
4
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Apology of (a form of) authoritarianism and inequality from an egalitarian
jyby
Aug 13, 2020, 9:54 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Many-worlds versus discrete knowledge
jessicata
Aug 13, 2020, 6:35 PM
20
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
[AN #112]: Engineering a Safer World
Rohin Shah
Aug 13, 2020, 5:20 PM
26
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Covid 8/13: Same As It Ever Was
Zvi
Aug 13, 2020, 3:40 PM
53
points
3
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Tombstone Mentality
SuperDaveWhite
Aug 13, 2020, 1:46 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Repeat Until Broke
gilch
Aug 13, 2020, 7:19 AM
14
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Sentence by Sentence: “Why Most Published Research Findings are False”
DirectedEvolution
Aug 13, 2020, 6:51 AM
22
points
5
comments
47
min read
LW
link
This Territory Does Not Exist
ike
Aug 13, 2020, 12:30 AM
7
points
197
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Imagine a World Where Governments Treated COVID-19 Properly
jdcampolargo
Aug 12, 2020, 10:52 PM
−2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Investment idea: basket of tech stocks weighted towards AI
ioannes
Aug 12, 2020, 9:30 PM
19
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Blog post: A tale of two research communities
Aryeh Englander
12 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
18
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Rationally Ending Discussions
curi
12 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
−7
points
27
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Money creation and debt
AnthonyC
12 Aug 2020 20:30 UTC
27
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How GPT-N will escape from its AI-box
hippke
12 Aug 2020 19:34 UTC
7
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strong implication of preference uncertainty
Stuart_Armstrong
12 Aug 2020 19:02 UTC
19
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Alignment By Default
johnswentworth
12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC
174
points
96
comments
11
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms
Adam Scholl
12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC
154
points
87
comments
5
min read
LW
link
You Need More Money
gilch
12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
55
points
16
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Zen and Rationality: Trust in Mind
Gordon Seidoh Worley
11 Aug 2020 20:23 UTC
25
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Will OpenAI’s work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI?
adamShimi
11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC
53
points
55
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book review: Architects of Intelligence by Martin Ford (2018)
Ofer
11 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
15
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Utility functions without a maximum
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
11 Aug 2020 12:58 UTC
3
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moloch and multi-level selection
thoughtfulmadison
11 Aug 2020 7:08 UTC
19
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)
Martin Sustrik
11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC
72
points
8
comments
22
min read
LW
link
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