[Question] I’m interested in a sub-field of AI but don’t know what to call it.

25 Aug 2019 14:55 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)

24 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC

31 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Performance IQ and higher mathematics

24 Aug 2019 17:31 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How has rationalism helped you?

24 Aug 2019 1:31 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW making progress?

24 Aug 2019 0:32 UTC

20 points

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[Question] Is there a simple parameter that controls human working memory capacity, which has been set tragically low?

23 Aug 2019 22:10 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Optimization Provenance

23 Aug 2019 20:08 UTC

29 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

23 Aug 2019 18:36 UTC

64 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Understanding understanding

23 Aug 2019 18:10 UTC

25 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Actually updating

23 Aug 2019 17:46 UTC

45 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

23 Aug 2019 17:19 UTC

15 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Constraint and Actualization

23 Aug 2019 16:56 UTC

10 points

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Thoughts on Retrieving Knowledge from Neural Networks

23 Aug 2019 16:41 UTC

14 points

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Algorithmic Similarity

23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC

21 points

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Soft takeoff can still lead to decisive strategic advantage

Daniel Kokotajlo

23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC

86 points

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OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

23 Aug 2019 11:32 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Torture and Dust Specks and Joy—Oh my! or: Non-Archimedean Utility Functions as Pseudograded Vector Spaces

23 Aug 2019 11:11 UTC

17 points

18 comments8 min readLW link

Metalignment: Deconfusing metaethics for AI alignment.

23 Aug 2019 10:25 UTC

10 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] A basic probability question

23 Aug 2019 7:13 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Intentional Research Agenda

23 Aug 2019 5:27 UTC

17 points

7 comments3 min readLW link