Definitions

TagLast edit: 31 Jul 2020 6:48 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Posts that attempt to Define or clarify the meaning of a concept, a word, phrase, or something else.

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC

64 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Broadly human level, cognitively complete AGI

p.b.6 Aug 2024 9:26 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What Do We Mean By “Rationality”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC

367 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

Compact vs. Wide Models

Vaniver16 Jul 2018 4:09 UTC

31 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

What is autonomy, and how does it lead to greater risk from AI?

Davidmanheim1 Aug 2023 7:58 UTC

30 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC

200 points

58 comments7 min readLW link

“AI Alignment” is a Dangerously Overloaded Term

Roko15 Dec 2023 14:34 UTC

108 points

100 comments3 min readLW link

What Does “Signalling” Mean?

abramdemski16 Sep 2020 21:19 UTC

38 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

When to use “meta” vs “self-reference”, “recursive”, etc.

Alex_Altair6 Apr 2022 4:57 UTC

21 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

The Problem With The Current State of AGI Definitions

Yitz29 May 2022 13:58 UTC

40 points

22 comments8 min readLW link

Logical Foundations of Government Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC

2 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

Behavioral and mechanistic definitions (often confuse AI alignment discussions)

LawrenceC20 Feb 2023 21:33 UTC

33 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Essential Behaviorism Terms

Rivka17 Mar 2023 17:41 UTC

15 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

The Useful Idea of Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2012 18:16 UTC

185 points

544 comments14 min readLW link

What Boston Can Teach Us About What a Woman Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC

18 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

A point of clarification on infohazard terminology

eukaryote2 Feb 2020 17:43 UTC

51 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Personhood is a Religious Belief

jan Sijan3 May 2023 16:16 UTC

−42 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Disambiguating “alignment” and related notions

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)5 Jun 2018 15:35 UTC

22 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Four kinds of problems

jacobjacob21 Aug 2018 23:01 UTC

35 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Note on Terminology: “Rationality”, not “Rationalism”

Vladimir_Nesov14 Jan 2011 21:21 UTC

40 points

51 comments1 min readLW link

An Agent is a Worldline in Tegmark V

komponisto12 Jul 2018 5:12 UTC

24 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Flowsheet Logic and Notecard Logic

moridinamael9 Sep 2015 16:42 UTC

46 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

In favor of tabooing the word “values” and using only “priorities” instead

chaosmage25 Oct 2018 22:28 UTC

21 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Definitions are about efficiency and consistency with common language.

Nacruno9610 Jul 2023 23:46 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC

202 points

36 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Technical model refinement formalism

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:54 UTC

19 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Glossary of Futurology

mind_bomber21 Aug 2015 5:51 UTC

3 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

Define Rationality

Marshall5 Mar 2009 18:25 UTC

1 point

14 comments1 min readLW link

Seeking better name for “Effective Egoism”

DataPacRat25 Nov 2016 22:31 UTC

14 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What Belongs in my Glossary?

Zvi2 Nov 2020 19:52 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Beginning at the Beginning

Annoyance11 Mar 2009 19:23 UTC

5 points

60 comments4 min readLW link

What’s in a name? That which we call a rationalist…

badger24 Apr 2009 23:53 UTC

8 points

92 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality is winning—or is it?

taw7 May 2009 14:51 UTC

−8 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

My concerns about the term ‘rationalist’

JamesCole4 Jun 2009 15:31 UTC

12 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

The two meanings of mathematical terms

JamesCole15 Jun 2009 14:30 UTC

0 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

ESR’s comments on some EY:OB/LW posts

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jun 2009 0:16 UTC

7 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Rationalists, Post-Rationalists, And Rationalist-Adjacents

orthonormal13 Mar 2020 20:25 UTC

80 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

Genocide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC

33 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

Sentience, Sapience, Consciousness & Self-Awareness: Defining Complex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC

10 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Disentangling inner alignment failures

Erik Jenner10 Oct 2022 18:50 UTC

23 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Rationality Is Expertise With Reality

Horatio Von Becker2 Sep 2021 20:45 UTC

−14 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Formal “left” and “right” definitions

Roman Nastenko30 Mar 2024 23:42 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some posthumanist/more-than-human approaches to definitions of intelligence and agency? Particularly in application to AI research.

Eli Hiton9 Apr 2024 21:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT defines 10 concrete terms: generically, for 5- and 11-year-olds, and for a scientist

Bill Benzon11 Apr 2024 20:27 UTC

3 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

“Open Source AI” is a lie, but it doesn’t have to be

jacobhaimes30 Apr 2024 23:10 UTC

18 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(jacob-haimes.github.io)

Let’s Talk About Emergence

jacobhaimes7 Jun 2024 19:18 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

Relationships among words, metalingual definition, and interpretability

Bill Benzon7 Jun 2024 19:18 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

What is space? What is time?

Tahp7 Jun 2024 22:15 UTC

8 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Common Uses of “Acceptance”

Yi-Yang26 Jul 2024 11:18 UTC

9 points

5 comments24 min readLW link

Clarifying Alignment Fundamentals Through the Lens of Ontology

eternal/ephemera7 Oct 2024 20:57 UTC

12 points

4 comments24 min readLW link

Active Recall and Spaced Repetition are Different Things

Saul Munn8 Nov 2024 20:14 UTC

48 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.brasstacks.blog)

Why There Is No Answer to Your Philosophical Question

Bryan Frances24 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC

−12 points

10 comments12 min readLW link

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