Is Click­bait De­stroy­ing Our Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2018 23:06 UTC
189 points
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Act of Charity

jessicata17 Nov 2018 5:19 UTC
186 points
49 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Embed­ded Agency (full-text ver­sion)

15 Nov 2018 19:49 UTC
180 points
17 comments54 min readLW link

In­cor­rect hy­pothe­ses point to cor­rect observations

Kaj_Sotala20 Nov 2018 21:10 UTC
160 points
37 comments4 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Is Science Slow­ing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC
125 points
77 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantin11 Nov 2018 22:00 UTC
116 points
19 comments7 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Ro­bust Delegation

4 Nov 2018 16:38 UTC
116 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sub­sys­tem Alignment

6 Nov 2018 16:16 UTC
99 points
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Up­date the best text­books on ev­ery sub­ject list

ryan_b8 Nov 2018 20:54 UTC
92 points
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Embed­ded World-Models

2 Nov 2018 16:07 UTC
92 points
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Embed­ded Curiosities

8 Nov 2018 14:19 UTC
91 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Sam Har­ris and the Is–Ought Gap

Tyrrell_McAllister16 Nov 2018 1:04 UTC
89 points
46 comments6 min readLW link

Dou­ble-Dip­ping in Dun­ning—Kruger

isovector28 Nov 2018 3:40 UTC
88 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Coun­ter­in­tu­itive Com­par­a­tive Advantage

Wei Dai28 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC
84 points
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Manda­tory Obsessions

Jacob Falkovich14 Nov 2018 18:19 UTC
77 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

Topolog­i­cal Fixed Point Exercises

17 Nov 2018 1:40 UTC
71 points
51 comments3 min readLW link

Cur­rent AI Safety Roles for Soft­ware Engineers

ozziegooen9 Nov 2018 20:57 UTC
70 points
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When does ra­tio­nal­ity-as-search have non­triv­ial im­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraist4 Nov 2018 22:42 UTC
66 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

Zvi20 Nov 2018 19:30 UTC
65 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Clar­ify­ing “AI Align­ment”

paulfchristiano15 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC
65 points
83 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

His­tory of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said Achmiz16 Nov 2018 7:07 UTC
65 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser

Malo27 Nov 2018 5:30 UTC
60 points
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Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant17 Nov 2018 1:39 UTC
60 points
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The easy goal in­fer­ence prob­lem is still hard

paulfchristiano3 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC
59 points
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Four fac­tors that mod­er­ate the in­ten­sity of emotions

Ruby24 Nov 2018 20:40 UTC
58 points
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Corrigibility

paulfchristiano27 Nov 2018 21:50 UTC
57 points
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What is am­bi­tious value learn­ing?

Rohin Shah1 Nov 2018 16:20 UTC
55 points
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Hu­mans can be as­signed any val­ues what­so­ever…

Stuart_Armstrong5 Nov 2018 14:26 UTC
54 points
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On MIRI’s new re­search directions

Rob Bensinger22 Nov 2018 23:42 UTC
53 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(intelligence.org)

Com­pet­i­tive Mar­kets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworth10 Nov 2018 16:47 UTC
52 points
10 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Win­ter Sols­tice 2018 Roundup

Raemon28 Nov 2018 3:09 UTC
50 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Vuln­er­a­ble World Hy­poth­e­sis (by Bostrom)

Ben Pace6 Nov 2018 20:05 UTC
50 points
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(nickbostrom.com)

Burnout: What it is and how to Treat it.

Elizabeth7 Nov 2018 22:02 UTC
49 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Fu­ture di­rec­tions for am­bi­tious value learning

Rohin Shah11 Nov 2018 15:53 UTC
48 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding

Davis_Kingsley22 Nov 2018 18:10 UTC
46 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­saic AI alignment

paulfchristiano20 Nov 2018 13:56 UTC
46 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-Aug­mented Eval­u­a­tion Systems

ozziegooen9 Nov 2018 10:55 UTC
44 points
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Pre­face to the se­quence on iter­ated amplification

paulfchristiano10 Nov 2018 13:24 UTC
43 points
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The Steer­ing Problem

paulfchristiano13 Nov 2018 17:14 UTC
43 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Fixed Point Discussion

Scott Garrabrant24 Nov 2018 20:53 UTC
42 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Up­com­ing: Open Questions

Raemon24 Nov 2018 1:39 UTC
41 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tive Evopsych, Ep. 1

Optimization Process22 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC
41 points
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Di­ag­o­nal­iza­tion Fixed Point Exercises

18 Nov 2018 0:31 UTC
40 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Sto­icism: Cau­tion­ary Advice

VivaLaPanda14 Nov 2018 23:18 UTC
40 points
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Bodega Bay: workshop

KatjaGrace27 Nov 2018 3:20 UTC
38 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)

New GreaterWrong fea­ture: image zoom + image slideshows

Said Achmiz4 Nov 2018 7:34 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plore/​Ex­ploit for Conversations

Hazard15 Nov 2018 4:11 UTC
37 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

EA Funds: Long-Term Fu­ture fund is open to ap­pli­ca­tions un­til Novem­ber 24th (this Satur­day)

habryka21 Nov 2018 3:39 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Is Not Sys­tem­atized Winning

namespace11 Nov 2018 22:05 UTC
36 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

For­mal Open Prob­lem in De­ci­sion Theory

Scott Garrabrant29 Nov 2018 3:25 UTC
36 points
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