A cog­ni­tive al­gorithm for “free will.”

DirectedEvolution14 Jul 2021 21:33 UTC
23 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing Pu­n­ish­ment as Preventation

Yair Halberstadt14 Jul 2021 15:12 UTC
2 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Model-based RL, De­sires, Brains, Wireheading

Steven Byrnes14 Jul 2021 15:11 UTC
22 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Essen­tial­ness of Data

jefftk14 Jul 2021 3:40 UTC
15 points
21 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Imag­i­nary reen­act­ment to heal trauma – how and when does it work?

Kaj_Sotala13 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC
41 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The Bul­lwhip Effect

aysajan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC
19 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

CGP Grey on the difficulty of know­ing what’s true [au­dio]

DanielFilan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.relay.fm)

Epony­mous Laws Part 3: Mis­cel­la­neous

rogersbacon13 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC
5 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

An­swer­ing ques­tions hon­estly in­stead of pre­dict­ing hu­man an­swers: lots of prob­lems and some solutions

evhub13 Jul 2021 18:49 UTC
62 points
24 comments31 min readLW link

The Ad­di­tive Sum­mary Equation

johnswentworth13 Jul 2021 18:23 UTC
15 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Seek­ing Samsara

jblue13 Jul 2021 18:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What will the twen­ties look like if AGI is 30 years away?

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jul 2021 8:14 UTC
29 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ex­plo­ra­tive Ques­tions to­wards Ar­gu­men­ta­tion + GitHub

cod3d13 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ty­pol­ogy of blog posts that don’t always add any­thing clear and insightful

KatjaGrace13 Jul 2021 1:40 UTC
50 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Ideal Col­lege Ed­u­ca­tion for an Aspiring Ra­tion­al­ist?

Collisteru13 Jul 2021 1:39 UTC
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

A new op­tion for build­ing lumenators

Alex_Altair12 Jul 2021 23:45 UTC
33 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Musk’s non-miss­ing mood

jimrandomh12 Jul 2021 22:09 UTC
71 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

(Brain­stem, Neo­cor­tex) ≠ (Base Mo­ti­va­tions, Honor­able Mo­ti­va­tions)

Steven Byrnes12 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC
62 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near?

Tomás B.12 Jul 2021 15:22 UTC
55 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Rea­sons for Punishment

Yair Halberstadt12 Jul 2021 14:53 UTC
7 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

An­thropic de­ci­sion the­ory for self-lo­cat­ing beliefs

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jul 2021 14:11 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Win­ston Churchill, fu­tur­ist and EA

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2021 2:07 UTC
74 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The in­escapa­bil­ity of knowledge

Alex Flint11 Jul 2021 22:59 UTC
28 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

A low-prob­a­bil­ity strat­egy to elmi­nate suffer­ing via hos­tile takeover of a pub­li­cally traded corporation

jpgeiger11 Jul 2021 21:41 UTC
−21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

We have some ev­i­dence that masks work

technicalities11 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC
97 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

The More Power At Stake, The Stronger In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence Gets For Op­ti­mal Policies

TurnTrout11 Jul 2021 17:36 UTC
45 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

And the Dark­ness Answered

Slimepriestess11 Jul 2021 5:54 UTC
12 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to make more peo­ple in­ter­ested in ra­tio­nal­ity?

mukashi11 Jul 2021 2:30 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC
64 points
5 comments49 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

The ac­cu­mu­la­tion of knowl­edge: liter­a­ture review

Alex Flint10 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC
29 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot

Josh Jacobson10 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC
58 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will the US have more than 100,000 new daily COVID-19 cases be­fore Jan­uary 1, 2022?

Annapurna10 Jul 2021 14:01 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Fire­fox does not block an­a­lyt­ics by default

jefftk10 Jul 2021 12:50 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Re­search Fa­cil­i­ta­tion Invitation

LoganStrohl10 Jul 2021 1:04 UTC
53 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Go­ing Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC
194 points
25 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Gen­er­al­ised mod­els: im­perfect mor­phisms and in­for­ma­tional entropy

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jul 2021 17:35 UTC
9 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] For re­duc­ing caf­feine de­pen­dence, does daily max­i­mum mat­ter more, or does to­tal daily in­take mat­ter more?

Maxwell Peterson9 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC
14 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: Con­di­tional Orthogonality

Scott Garrabrant9 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC
29 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing cap­i­tal gains taxes

paulfchristiano9 Jul 2021 5:20 UTC
60 points
38 comments3 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

The news at­ten­tion span

damiensnyder9 Jul 2021 1:44 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.damiensnyder.com)

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #4: Semi­con­duc­tors, Eco­nomics, In­tel­li­gence, and Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress.

Mark Xu8 Jul 2021 22:14 UTC
81 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Jack­pot! An AI Vignette

bgold8 Jul 2021 20:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Whis­tle Synth Pi

jefftk8 Jul 2021 19:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

BASALT: A Bench­mark for Learn­ing from Hu­man Feedback

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2021 17:40 UTC
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

[AN #155]: A Minecraft bench­mark for al­gorithms that learn with­out re­ward functions

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC
21 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The Effi­cient Mar­ket Hy­poth­e­sis in Research

libai8 Jul 2021 17:00 UTC
11 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Prac­ti­cal an­throp­ics summary

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 15:10 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

An­throp­ics and Fermi: grabby, visi­ble, zoo-keep­ing, and early aliens

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 15:07 UTC
15 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Covid 7/​8: Delta Takes Over

Zvi8 Jul 2021 13:00 UTC
72 points
16 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The SIA pop­u­la­tion up­date can be sur­pris­ingly small

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 10:45 UTC
48 points
12 comments10 min readLW link