Towards a Ri­gor­ous Model of Virtue-Signalling

SilentCalDec 4, 2017, 7:08 PM
5 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Book re­view: The Up­side of Your Dark Side: Why Be­ing Your Whole Self–Not Just Your “Good” Self–Drives Suc­cess and Fulfillment

Kaj_SotalaDec 4, 2017, 1:10 PM
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Con­vinc­ing the world to build something

whpearsonDec 3, 2017, 10:11 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bayes, Backwards

ec429Dec 3, 2017, 6:17 PM
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ques­tions about the NY Megameetup

NancyLebovitzDec 3, 2017, 2:41 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Be­ing leg­ible to other agents by com­mit­ting to us­ing weaker rea­son­ing systems

AlexMennenDec 3, 2017, 7:49 AM
4 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy of Num­bers (part 1)

Charlie SteinerDec 2, 2017, 6:20 PM
11 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Tax­on­omy of tech­nolog­i­cal re­s­ur­rec­tion—re­quest for comment

Deku-shrubDec 2, 2017, 5:06 PM
1 point
1 commentLW link
(hpluspedia.org)

The New Rid­dle of In­duc­tion: Neu­tral and Rel­a­tive Per­spec­tives on Color

Anders_HDec 2, 2017, 4:15 PM
6 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

More Dakka

ZviDec 2, 2017, 1:10 PM
222 points
30 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ex­plicit content

BenquoDec 2, 2017, 12:00 AM
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

TSR #3 En­train­ment: Discussion

HazardDec 1, 2017, 4:46 PM
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser

MaloDec 1, 2017, 1:45 PM
19 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Com­ment on SSC’s Re­view of Inad­e­quate Equilibria

Ben PaceDec 1, 2017, 11:46 AM
13 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Cash trans­fers are not nec­es­sar­ily wealth transfers

BenquoDec 1, 2017, 10:10 AM
59 points
36 comments11 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

De­cem­ber 2017 Me­dia Thread

ArisKatsarisDec 1, 2017, 9:02 AM
1 point
16 comments1 min readLW link

Policy Selec­tion Solves Most Problems

abramdemskiDec 1, 2017, 12:35 AM
21 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

A limit to pun­ish­ment

RSTNov 30, 2017, 5:08 PM
4 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Im­proved for­mal­ism for cor­rup­tion in DIRL

Vanessa KosoyNov 30, 2017, 4:52 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Deep­Mind ar­ti­cle: AI Safety Gridworlds

scarcegreengrassNov 30, 2017, 4:13 PM
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Why DRL doesn’t work for ar­bi­trary environments

Vanessa KosoyNov 30, 2017, 12:22 PM
0 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of the In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion

DragonGodNov 30, 2017, 5:47 AM
−4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Up­date­less­ness as a Ro­bust Del­e­ga­tion Problem

Scott GarrabrantNov 30, 2017, 4:23 AM
0 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of Miti­gat­ing As­sump­tion Risk

SatvikBeriNov 30, 2017, 2:09 AM
26 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

LDL 7: I wish I had a map

magfrumpNov 30, 2017, 2:03 AM
13 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

The Mad Scien­tist De­ci­sion Problem

Linda LinseforsNov 29, 2017, 11:41 AM
6 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Right to be Wrong

sarahconstantinNov 28, 2017, 11:43 PM
48 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Any Good Crit­i­cism of Karl Pop­per’s Episte­mol­ogy?

Elliot_TempleNov 28, 2017, 10:31 PM
−8 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Free Speech as Le­gal Right vs. Eth­i­cal Value

ozymandiasNov 28, 2017, 4:49 PM
14 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Stable agent, sub­agent-unstable

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 28, 2017, 4:05 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Stable agent, sub­agent-unstable

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 28, 2017, 4:04 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­ward learn­ing summary

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 28, 2017, 3:55 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Mes­sage to Any Fu­ture AI: “There are sev­eral in­stru­men­tal rea­sons why ex­ter­mi­nat­ing hu­man­ity is not in your in­ter­est”

avturchinNov 28, 2017, 3:39 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Big Ad­vance in In­finite Ethics

bwestNov 28, 2017, 3:10 PM
32 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

USA v Pro­gres­sive 1979 excerpt

RyanCareyNov 27, 2017, 5:32 PM
22 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

You Have the Right to Think

ZviNov 27, 2017, 2:10 AM
17 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and the Lo­gis­tic Suc­cess Curve

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 26, 2017, 3:58 PM
106 points
49 comments20 min readLW link

An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of In­fer­en­tial Distance

RichardJActon26 Nov 2017 14:13 UTC
14 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Chang­ing habits for open threads

Hazard26 Nov 2017 12:54 UTC
3 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Let­ter from Utopia: Talk­ing to Nick Bostrom

morganism25 Nov 2017 22:19 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.lareviewofbooks.org)

Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Or­di­nary Paranoia

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Nov 2017 17:53 UTC
132 points
25 comments29 min readLW link

The Dar­win Results

Zvi25 Nov 2017 13:30 UTC
53 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some mind experiments

RST25 Nov 2017 12:46 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mes­sage to Any Fu­ture AI: “There are sev­eral in­stru­men­tal rea­sons why ex­ter­mi­nat­ing hu­man­ity is not in your in­ter­est”

turchin25 Nov 2017 11:44 UTC
0 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesserwrong.com)

Mes­sage to any fu­ture AI: “There are sev­eral in­stru­men­tal rea­sons why ex­ter­mi­nat­ing hu­man­ity is not in your in­ter­est” [AI al­ign­ment prize en­try]

avturchin25 Nov 2017 11:28 UTC
3 points
22 comments67 min readLW link

Com­mu­ni­ties you might join thread

whpearson25 Nov 2017 9:07 UTC
6 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Un­jus­tified ideas com­ment thread

MrRobot24 Nov 2017 20:15 UTC
8 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Time­less Modesty?

abramdemski24 Nov 2017 11:12 UTC
17 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Gears Level & Policy Level

abramdemski24 Nov 2017 7:17 UTC
63 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

List of civil­i­sa­tional inadequacy

ChristianKl23 Nov 2017 13:56 UTC
36 points
52 comments1 min readLW link