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A reply to Francois Chollet on intelligence explosion
DragonGod
Dec 9, 2017, 4:42 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(intelligence.org)
Success and Fail Rates of Monthly Policies
lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)
Dec 9, 2017, 3:24 PM
23
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Rules of variety
KatjaGrace
Dec 8, 2017, 5:10 PM
32
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
The Benefits of Taking Cold Showers: A 3 Month Trial
JohnGreer
Dec 8, 2017, 5:01 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Fixing science via a basic income
Kaj_Sotala
Dec 8, 2017, 2:20 PM
14
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser
Malo
Dec 7, 2017, 9:47 PM
27
points
5
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Learning AI if you suck at math
Hazard
Dec 7, 2017, 3:15 PM
2
points
0
comments
LW
link
(hackernoon.com)
Can we see light?
Zane Scheepers
Dec 7, 2017, 12:54 PM
3
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Trolley Problem Experiment Run IRL
Eneasz
Dec 7, 2017, 4:32 AM
8
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Blinded by Insight
Chris_Leong
Dec 7, 2017, 2:45 AM
7
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Levels of Play
Davis_Kingsley
Dec 6, 2017, 9:55 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Evidence as Rhetoric — Normative or Positive?
Davidmanheim
Dec 6, 2017, 5:38 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
The Critical Rationalist View on Artificial Intelligence
Fallibilist_duplicate0.16882559340231862
Dec 6, 2017, 5:26 PM
0
points
67
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Teaching rationality in a lyceum
Hafurelus
Dec 6, 2017, 4:57 PM
1
point
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
DragonGod
Dec 6, 2017, 6:01 AM
13
points
4
comments
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
TSR #4 Value Producing Work
Hazard
Dec 6, 2017, 2:44 AM
9
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
LDL 8: A Silly Realization
magfrump
Dec 6, 2017, 2:20 AM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Strategic High Skill Immigration
Gentzel
Dec 6, 2017, 1:15 AM
32
points
8
comments
21
min read
LW
link
The World as Phenomena
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 5, 2017, 11:21 PM
18
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Updates from Boston
evolution-is-just-a-theorem
Dec 5, 2017, 5:22 PM
88
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thinking as the Crow Flies: Part 1 - Introduction
Anthony Hart
Dec 5, 2017, 3:55 PM
5
points
16
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Stub: Information Theoretic Ontology
DragonGod
Dec 5, 2017, 8:32 AM
1
point
18
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Show LW: Diaspora Project Map and Preregistration Database
namespace
Dec 5, 2017, 6:02 AM
22
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What if we’re right?
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 5, 2017, 4:00 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
The Basic Object Model and Definition by Interface
Chris_Leong
Dec 5, 2017, 12:07 AM
5
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Towards a Rigorous Model of Virtue-Signalling
SilentCal
Dec 4, 2017, 7:08 PM
5
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Book review: The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self–Not Just Your “Good” Self–Drives Success and Fulfillment
Kaj_Sotala
Dec 4, 2017, 1:10 PM
10
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Convincing the world to build something
whpearson
Dec 3, 2017, 10:11 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayes, Backwards
ec429
Dec 3, 2017, 6:17 PM
4
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Questions about the NY Megameetup
NancyLebovitz
Dec 3, 2017, 2:41 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Being legible to other agents by committing to using weaker reasoning systems
AlexMennen
Dec 3, 2017, 7:49 AM
4
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Philosophy of Numbers (part 1)
Charlie Steiner
Dec 2, 2017, 6:20 PM
11
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Taxonomy of technological resurrection—request for comment
Deku-shrub
Dec 2, 2017, 5:06 PM
1
point
1
comment
LW
link
(hpluspedia.org)
The New Riddle of Induction: Neutral and Relative Perspectives on Color
Anders_H
Dec 2, 2017, 4:15 PM
6
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
More Dakka
Zvi
Dec 2, 2017, 1:10 PM
222
points
30
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Explicit content
Benquo
Dec 2, 2017, 12:00 AM
7
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
TSR #3 Entrainment: Discussion
Hazard
Dec 1, 2017, 4:46 PM
11
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser
Malo
Dec 1, 2017, 1:45 PM
19
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Comment on SSC’s Review of Inadequate Equilibria
Ben Pace
Dec 1, 2017, 11:46 AM
13
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cash transfers are not necessarily wealth transfers
Benquo
Dec 1, 2017, 10:10 AM
59
points
36
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
December 2017 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Dec 1, 2017, 9:02 AM
1
point
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Policy Selection Solves Most Problems
abramdemski
Dec 1, 2017, 12:35 AM
21
points
7
comments
13
min read
LW
link
A limit to punishment
RST
Nov 30, 2017, 5:08 PM
4
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Improved formalism for corruption in DIRL
Vanessa Kosoy
Nov 30, 2017, 4:52 PM
0
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
DeepMind article: AI Safety Gridworlds
scarcegreengrass
Nov 30, 2017, 4:13 PM
25
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(deepmind.com)
Why DRL doesn’t work for arbitrary environments
Vanessa Kosoy
Nov 30, 2017, 12:22 PM
0
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Impossibility of the Intelligence Explosion
DragonGod
Nov 30, 2017, 5:47 AM
−4
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Logical Updatelessness as a Robust Delegation Problem
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 30, 2017, 4:23 AM
0
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Examples of Mitigating Assumption Risk
SatvikBeri
Nov 30, 2017, 2:09 AM
26
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LDL 7: I wish I had a map
magfrump
Nov 30, 2017, 2:03 AM
13
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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