[Question] How do we identify bottlenecks to scientific and technological progress?

NaiveTortoise31 Dec 2018 20:21 UTC

31 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Why do Contemplative Practitioners Make so Many Metaphysical Claims?

romeostevensit31 Dec 2018 19:44 UTC

59 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What do you do when you find out you have inconsistent probabilities?

NunoSempere31 Dec 2018 18:13 UTC

15 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a standard discussion of vegetarianism/veganism?

Sherrinford30 Dec 2018 20:22 UTC

4 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Conceptual Analysis for AI Alignment

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)30 Dec 2018 0:46 UTC

26 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

Ben Pace29 Dec 2018 23:37 UTC

99 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What makes people intellectually active?

abramdemski29 Dec 2018 22:29 UTC

116 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Why I expect successful (narrow) alignment

Tobias_Baumann29 Dec 2018 15:44 UTC

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(s-risks.org)

Penalizing Impact via Attainable Utility Preservation

TurnTrout28 Dec 2018 21:46 UTC

24 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Akrasia is confusion about what you want

Gordon Seidoh Worley28 Dec 2018 21:09 UTC

26 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Isaac Asimov’s predictions for 2019 from 1984

Jan_Kulveit28 Dec 2018 9:51 UTC

39 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.thestar.com)

1987 Sci-Fi Authors Timecapsule Predictions For 2012

namespace28 Dec 2018 6:50 UTC

20 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(web.archive.org)

[Question] In what ways are holidays good?

DanielFilan28 Dec 2018 0:42 UTC

20 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Sunscreen. When? Why? Why not?

Viktor Riabtsev27 Dec 2018 22:04 UTC

5 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can dying people “hold on” for something they are waiting for?

Raemon27 Dec 2018 19:53 UTC

28 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What does it mean to “believe” a thing to be true?

Bae's Theorem27 Dec 2018 13:28 UTC

1 point

13 comments1 min readLW link

On Disingenuity

Chris_Leong26 Dec 2018 17:08 UTC

28 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Reinterpreting “AI and Compute”

habryka25 Dec 2018 21:12 UTC

30 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Alignment Newsletter #38

Rohin Shah25 Dec 2018 16:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are the axioms of rationality?

Yoav Ravid25 Dec 2018 6:47 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Contrite Strategies and The Need For Standards

sarahconstantin24 Dec 2018 18:30 UTC

125 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Video] Why Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation? (Robert Miles)

habryka23 Dec 2018 21:49 UTC

17 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Best arguments against worrying about AI risk?

Chris_Leong23 Dec 2018 14:57 UTC

15 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why Don’t Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

Jacob Falkovich23 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

42 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Cognitive Bias of AI Researchers?

Mindey22 Dec 2018 9:20 UTC

9 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC

187 points

28 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Anthropic probabilities and cost functions

Stuart_Armstrong21 Dec 2018 17:54 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Standing on a pile of corpses

Jsevillamol21 Dec 2018 10:36 UTC

35 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Systems Engineering and the META Program

ryan_b20 Dec 2018 20:19 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Pavlov Strategy

sarahconstantin20 Dec 2018 16:20 UTC

247 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

[Question] What self-help has helped you?

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2018 3:31 UTC

35 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Defining Freedom

pku20 Dec 2018 2:41 UTC

8 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Reasons compute may not drive AI capabilities growth

Tristan H19 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC

42 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Anthropic paradoxes transposed into Anthropic Decision Theory

Stuart_Armstrong19 Dec 2018 18:07 UTC

17 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

18-month follow-up on my self-concept work

Kaj_Sotala18 Dec 2018 17:40 UTC

60 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

[Question] Experiences of Self-deception

Bucky18 Dec 2018 11:10 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks18 Dec 2018 4:46 UTC

190 points

26 comments62 min readLW link 1 review

Equivalence of State Machines and Coroutines

Martin Sustrik18 Dec 2018 4:40 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

You can be wrong about what you like, and you often are

Adam Zerner17 Dec 2018 23:49 UTC

30 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #37

Rohin Shah17 Dec 2018 19:10 UTC

25 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

A simple approach to 5-and-10

Gurkenglas17 Dec 2018 18:33 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Two Neglected Problems in Human-AI Safety

Wei Dai16 Dec 2018 22:13 UTC

98 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Babble, Learning, and the Typical Mind Fallacy

NaiveTortoise16 Dec 2018 16:51 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(an1lam.github.io)

[Question] What are some concrete problems about logical counterfactuals?

Chris_Leong16 Dec 2018 10:20 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The E-Coli Test for AI Alignment

johnswentworth16 Dec 2018 8:10 UTC

70 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

on wellunderstoodness

Quinn16 Dec 2018 7:22 UTC

9 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Sabine “Bee” Hossenfelder (and Robin Hanson) on How to fix Academia with Prediction Markets

shminux16 Dec 2018 6:37 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(backreaction.blogspot.com)

New edition of “Rationality: From AI to Zombies”

Rob Bensinger15 Dec 2018 21:33 UTC

84 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

Gwern about centaurs: there is no chance that any useful man+machine combination will work together for more than 10 years, as humans soon will be only a liability

avturchin15 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Argue Politics* With Your Best Friends

sarahconstantin15 Dec 2018 19:00 UTC

75 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Interpreting genetic testing

jefftk15 Dec 2018 15:56 UTC

24 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What is abstraction?

Adam Zerner15 Dec 2018 8:36 UTC

25 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics

sarahconstantin14 Dec 2018 19:40 UTC

88 points

27 comments7 min readLW link 3 reviews

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

103 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

Three AI Safety Related Ideas

Wei Dai13 Dec 2018 21:32 UTC

68 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

An Extensive Categorisation of Infinite Paradoxes

Chris_Leong13 Dec 2018 18:36 UTC

−14 points

48 comments13 min readLW link

The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited

drossbucket13 Dec 2018 7:16 UTC

69 points

30 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

Multi-agent predictive minds and AI alignment

Jan_Kulveit12 Dec 2018 23:48 UTC

63 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Internet Search Tips: how I use Google/Google Scholar/Libgen

gwern12 Dec 2018 14:50 UTC

51 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Dec 2018 1:40 UTC

91 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #36

Rohin Shah12 Dec 2018 1:10 UTC

21 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

A hundred Shakespeares

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 23:11 UTC

29 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups

sarahconstantin11 Dec 2018 22:10 UTC

192 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Quantum immortality: Is decline of measure compensated by merging timelines?

avturchin11 Dec 2018 19:39 UTC

9 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Bounded rationality abounds in models, not explicitly defined

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 19:34 UTC

14 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Figuring out what Alice wants: non-human Alice

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 19:31 UTC

14 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Assuming we’ve solved X, could we do Y...

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 18:13 UTC

31 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

Raemon10 Dec 2018 10:50 UTC

44 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Measly Meditation Measurements

justinpombrio9 Dec 2018 20:54 UTC

62 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Kindergarten in NYC: Much More than You Wanted to Know

Laura B9 Dec 2018 15:36 UTC

36 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

New Ratfic: Nyssa in the Realm of Possibility

Alicorn9 Dec 2018 5:00 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What precisely do we mean by AI alignment?

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 Dec 2018 2:23 UTC

29 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is “Social Reality?”

Raemon8 Dec 2018 17:41 UTC

38 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction Markets Are About Being Right

Zvi8 Dec 2018 14:00 UTC

83 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Why should I care about rationality?

TurnTrout8 Dec 2018 3:49 UTC

24 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security

PeterMcCluskey8 Dec 2018 3:47 UTC

27 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

[Question] Is the human brain a valid choice for the Universal Turing Machine in Solomonoff Induction?

habryka8 Dec 2018 1:49 UTC

22 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Transhumanists Don’t Need Special Dispositions

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2018 22:24 UTC

96 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Is cognitive load a factor in community decline?

ryan_b7 Dec 2018 15:45 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

COEDT Equilibria in Games

Diffractor6 Dec 2018 18:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC

170 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

Why we need a theory of human values

Stuart_Armstrong5 Dec 2018 16:00 UTC

66 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Factored Cognition

stuhlmueller5 Dec 2018 1:01 UTC

45 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

Playing Politics

sarahconstantin5 Dec 2018 0:30 UTC

97 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Alignment Newsletter #35

Rohin Shah4 Dec 2018 1:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Book Review—Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Vaughn Papenhausen3 Dec 2018 8:00 UTC

34 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

Coherence arguments do not entail goal-directed behavior

Rohin Shah3 Dec 2018 3:26 UTC

123 points

69 comments7 min readLW link 3 reviews

Benign model-free RL

paulfchristiano2 Dec 2018 4:10 UTC

15 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

November 2018 gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Dec 2018 13:57 UTC

35 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Intuitions about goal-directed behavior

Rohin Shah1 Dec 2018 4:25 UTC

54 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

ChristianKl30 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC

53 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Overconfident talking down, humble or hostile talking up

ozziegooen30 Nov 2018 12:41 UTC

49 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

Iterated Distillation and Amplification

Ajeya Cotra30 Nov 2018 4:47 UTC

47 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Moving Factward

Tyrrell_McAllister29 Nov 2018 5:54 UTC

14 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Formal Open Problem in Decision Theory

Scott Garrabrant29 Nov 2018 3:25 UTC

36 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Reflective oracles as a solution to the converse Lawvere problem

SamEisenstat29 Nov 2018 3:23 UTC

31 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

The Ubiquitous Converse Lawvere Problem

Scott Garrabrant29 Nov 2018 3:16 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Hyperreal Brouwer

Scott Garrabrant29 Nov 2018 3:15 UTC

30 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Counterintuitive Comparative Advantage

Wei Dai28 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC

84 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Stabilize-Reflect-Execute

ozziegooen28 Nov 2018 17:26 UTC

30 points

1 comment2 min readLW link