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What Should the Average EA Do About AI Alignment?
Raemon
Feb 25, 2017, 8:37 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(effective-altruism.com)
“Field Patterns” as a new mathmatical construct.
morganism
Feb 24, 2017, 11:56 PM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unews.utah.edu)
The AI Paper with The Best Title Ever
Zvi
Feb 24, 2017, 10:38 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems
sleepingthinker
Feb 24, 2017, 9:51 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(gainweightjournal.com)
First principles thinking and better, more creative solutions to problems
sleepingthinker
Feb 24, 2017, 9:49 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
DEAD THREAD
Halfwitz
Feb 24, 2017, 9:41 PM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against neglectedness considerations
Benquo
Feb 24, 2017, 9:41 PM
4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing
Halfwitz
Feb 24, 2017, 9:34 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Selecting Leaders with Random Sampling and Standardized Testing:https://medium.com/@LyleCantor/an-alternative-to-democracy-e4ba2af07a85#.wtdza9jy2
Halfwitz
Feb 24, 2017, 9:31 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Translation “counterfactual”
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 24, 2017, 6:36 PM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Concrete Takeaways Post-CFAR
lifelonglearner
Feb 24, 2017, 6:31 PM
20
points
6
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion
iarwain1
Feb 24, 2017, 5:08 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 24, 2017, 4:49 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Group Debugging
rocurley
Feb 24, 2017, 4:29 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The price you pay for arriving to class on time
alex_zag_al
Feb 24, 2017, 2:11 PM
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)
The Monkey and the Machine
ProofOfLogic
Feb 23, 2017, 9:38 PM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(sideways-view.com)
Moral Philosophers as Ethical Engineers: Limits of Moral Philosophy and a Pragmatist Alternative
Kaj_Sotala
Feb 23, 2017, 1:02 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 23, 2017, 12:42 PM
21
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Nearest unblocked strategy versus learning patches
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 23, 2017, 12:33 PM
1
point
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts
morganism
Feb 23, 2017, 3:46 AM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
DARPA Perspective on AI
morganism
Feb 23, 2017, 3:27 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.darpa.mil)
Maximally efficient agents will probably have an anti-daemon immune system
jessicata
Feb 23, 2017, 12:40 AM
13
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Denver Area LW March Meetup (CHANGED TO MONDAY 3/6!)
PonchoPal
Feb 22, 2017, 11:42 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prescientific Organizational Theory (Ribbonfarm)
Davidmanheim
Feb 22, 2017, 11:00 PM
4
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.ribbonfarm.com)
David Chalmers on LessWrong and the rationalist community (from his reddit AMA)
ignoranceprior
Feb 22, 2017, 7:07 PM
20
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 2
mingyuan
Feb 22, 2017, 3:05 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prediction Based Robust Cooperation
Scott Garrabrant
Feb 22, 2017, 1:52 AM
17
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
The Semiotic Fallacy
Stabilizer
Feb 21, 2017, 4:50 AM
29
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Levers, Emotions, and Lazy Evaluators:
lifelonglearner
Feb 20, 2017, 11:00 PM
9
points
11
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Create & Complete
RobinZ
Feb 20, 2017, 6:24 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: February
Maelin
Feb 20, 2017, 11:27 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Thread, Feb. 20 - Feb 26, 2017
Elo
Feb 20, 2017, 4:51 AM
6
points
163
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A semi-technical question about prediction markets and private info
CronoDAS
Feb 20, 2017, 2:20 AM
14
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause clathrate gun—report
morganism
Feb 19, 2017, 10:47 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects
maia
Feb 19, 2017, 5:51 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
Zvi
Feb 18, 2017, 6:43 PM
2
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
Brendan Long
Feb 18, 2017, 4:00 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(smus.com)
Ontologies are Operating Systems
lifelonglearner
Feb 18, 2017, 5:00 AM
6
points
36
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Baltimore / UMBC Meetup—general discussion
iarwain1
Feb 17, 2017, 5:13 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly LW Meetups
FrankAdamek
Feb 17, 2017, 4:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Highlights From The Comments On Cost Disease
Scott Alexander
Feb 17, 2017, 7:28 AM
10
points
2
comments
25
min read
LW
link
“The unrecognised simplicities of effective action #2: ‘Systems engineering’ and ‘systems management’ - ideas from the Apollo programme for a ‘systems politics’”, Cummings 2017
gwern
Feb 17, 2017, 12:59 AM
13
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com)
Attacking machine learning with adversarial examples
ike
Feb 17, 2017, 12:28 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Increasing GDP is not growth
PhilGoetz
Feb 16, 2017, 6:04 PM
21
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Pub meetup—February
Elo
Feb 16, 2017, 9:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Chicago Rationality Reading Group—Luminosity Part 1
mingyuan
Feb 16, 2017, 3:09 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Judgement Extrapolations
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Feb 15, 2017, 6:51 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
Meetup : Moscow: unconference
Slava Matyukhin
Feb 15, 2017, 6:02 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Amsterdam—Meetup #12 - Friendly AI
null
Feb 15, 2017, 3:08 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Indifference and compensatory rewards
Stuart_Armstrong
15 Feb 2017 14:49 UTC
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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