Bayesi­anism ver­sus con­ser­vatism ver­sus Goodhart

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jul 2021 23:39 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

“If and Only If” Should Be Spel­led “Ifeff”

jimrandomh16 Jul 2021 22:03 UTC
24 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

16 Jul 2021 21:19 UTC
61 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[AN #156]: The scal­ing hy­poth­e­sis: a plan for build­ing AGI

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
46 points
20 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Un­der­ly­ing model of an im­perfect morphism

Stuart_Armstrong16 Jul 2021 13:13 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

When be­liefs be­come iden­tities, truth-seek­ing be­comes hard

Writer16 Jul 2021 9:02 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Bench­mark­ing an old chess en­g­ine on new hardware

hippke16 Jul 2021 7:58 UTC
74 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review

La­fayette: empty traf­fic signals

KatjaGrace16 Jul 2021 4:30 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC
48 points
49 comments15 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Koop­man-Pit­man-Darmois

johnswentworth15 Jul 2021 22:33 UTC
61 points
14 comments11 min readLW link

AlphaFold 2 pa­per re­leased: “Highly ac­cu­rate pro­tein struc­ture pre­dic­tion with AlphaFold”, Jumper et al 2021

gwern15 Jul 2021 19:27 UTC
39 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

Frac­tional progress es­ti­mates for AI timelines and im­plied re­source requirements

15 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC
55 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Covid 7/​15: Rates of Change

Zvi15 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
64 points
63 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion with AI-gen­er­ated images (VQGAN+CLIP) | So­larpunk air­ships flee­ing a dragon

Kaj_Sotala15 Jul 2021 11:00 UTC
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

A closer look at chess scal­ings (into the past)

hippke15 Jul 2021 8:13 UTC
50 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Re: Com­pe­tent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC
50 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

Is so­cial the­ory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

La­fayette: traf­fic vessels

KatjaGrace15 Jul 2021 1:00 UTC
27 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

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