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Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction
Zvi
Jun 4, 2017, 9:20 PM
1
point
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Seder: Dayenu, Lo Dayenu
Raemon
Jun 4, 2017, 8:55 PM
7
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Personal Growth Cycle
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jun 4, 2017, 5:20 PM
8
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(mapandterritory.org)
A new, better way to read the Sequences
Said Achmiz
Jun 4, 2017, 5:10 AM
20
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationalist Seder: A Story of War
Raemon
Jun 3, 2017, 8:17 PM
12
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Nonexploited Bargaining
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:39 AM
6
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Stratified Pareto Optima and Almost Stratified Pareto Optima
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:38 AM
5
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cooperative Oracles: Introduction
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 3, 2017, 12:36 AM
18
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Entangled Equilibria and the Twin Prisoners’ Dilemma
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 2, 2017, 10:09 PM
5
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An algorithm with preferences: from zero to one variable
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:35 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reward/value learning for reinforcement learning
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:34 PM
0
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The best value indifference method (so far)
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:33 PM
0
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How to judge moral learning failure
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:32 PM
0
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Counterfactuals on POMDP
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:30 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Uninfluenceable learning agents
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:30 PM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ontology, lost purposes, and instrumental goals
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:28 PM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts I: caring about multiple things
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:27 PM
2
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts II: the robot operator
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:27 PM
0
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility thoughts III: manipulating versus deceiving
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:27 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The radioactive burrito and learning from positive examples
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:25 PM
0
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on Quantilizers
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:24 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Emergency learning
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:23 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Humans as a truth channel
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:22 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
All the indifference designs
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:20 PM
2
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Indifference and compensatory rewards
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:19 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counterfactually uninfluenceable agents
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:17 PM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Translation “counterfactual”
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:16 PM
0
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Understanding the important facts
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:15 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Low impact versus low side effects
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:14 PM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Agents that don’t become maximisers
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:13 PM
0
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI safety: three human problems and one AI issue
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 4:12 PM
2
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Optimisation in manipulating humans: engineered fanatics vs yes-men
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:51 PM
0
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Divergent preferences and meta-preferences
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:51 PM
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Acausal trade: double decrease
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:33 PM
10
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Acausal trade: different utilities, different trades
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:33 PM
1
point
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Acausal trade: universal utility, or selling non-existence insurance too late
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:33 PM
1
point
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Acausal trade: trade barriers
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 3:32 PM
0
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Futarchy, Xrisks, and near misses
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 8:02 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Futarchy, Xrisks, and near misses
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 2, 2017, 8:02 AM
10
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book recommendation requests
ChristianKl
Jun 1, 2017, 10:33 PM
16
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I am not currently working on the AAMLS agenda
jessicata
Jun 1, 2017, 5:57 PM
28
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
June 2017 Media Thread
ArisKatsaris
Jun 1, 2017, 6:17 AM
2
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strong men are socialist—how to use a study’s own data to disprove it
Jacob Falkovich
May 31, 2017, 4:18 AM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(putanumonit.com)
Regulatory lags for New Technology [2013 notes]
gwern
May 31, 2017, 1:27 AM
9
points
5
comments
69
min read
LW
link
Philosophical Parenthood
SquirrelInHell
May 30, 2017, 2:09 PM
1
point
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)
Divergent preferences and meta-preferences
Stuart_Armstrong
May 30, 2017, 7:33 AM
6
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Futarchy Fix
abramdemski
May 30, 2017, 5:46 AM
7
points
9
comments
9
min read
LW
link
“AIXIjs: A Software Demo for General Reinforcement Learning”, Aslanides 2017
gwern
May 29, 2017, 9:09 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Invitation to comment on a draft on multiverse-wide cooperation via alternatives to causal decision theory (FDT/UDT/EDT/...)
Caspar Oesterheld
May 29, 2017, 8:34 AM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meetup : Sydney Rationality—Pub meetup June
Elo
May 29, 2017, 6:52 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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