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Stoicism: Cautionary Advice

VivaLaPandaNov 14, 2018, 11:18 PM

41 points

19 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Mandatory Obsessions

Jacob FalkovichNov 14, 2018, 6:19 PM

77 points

30 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

Pub meetup: Developmental Milestones

GilesNov 14, 2018, 4:18 AM

6 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Deck Guide: Burning Drakes

ZviNov 13, 2018, 7:40 PM

8 points

2 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Acknowledging Human Preference Types to Support Value Learning

NandiNov 13, 2018, 6:57 PM

34 points

13 votes

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4 comments9 min readLW link

The Steering Problem

paulfchristianoNov 13, 2018, 5:14 PM

44 points

15 votes

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12 comments7 min readLW link

Post-Rationality and Rationality, A Dialogue

agilecavemanNov 13, 2018, 5:55 AM

2 points

18 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Laughing Away the Little Miseries

RossinNov 13, 2018, 3:31 AM

12 points

10 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Kelly bettors

DanielFilanNov 13, 2018, 12:40 AM

24 points

8 votes

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3 comments10 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Wireheading as a Possible Contributor to Civilizational Decline

avturchinNov 12, 2018, 8:33 PM

3 points

2 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Alignment Newsletter #32

Rohin ShahNov 12, 2018, 5:20 PM

18 points

4 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

AI development incentive gradients are not uniformly terrible

rkNov 12, 2018, 4:27 PM

21 points

10 votes

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12 comments6 min readLW link

What is being?

Andrew BindonNov 12, 2018, 3:33 PM

−14 points

9 votes

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20 comments7 min readLW link

Aligned AI, The Scientist

ShmiNov 12, 2018, 6:36 AM

12 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Combat vs Nurture: Cultural Genesis

RubyNov 12, 2018, 2:11 AM

35 points

11 votes

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12 comments6 min readLW link

Rationality Is Not Systematized Winning

namespaceNov 11, 2018, 10:05 PM

36 points

16 votes

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20 comments1 min readLW link

(www.thelastrationalist.com)

“She Wanted It”

sarahconstantinNov 11, 2018, 10:00 PM

120 points

63 votes

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21 comments7 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Future directions for ambitious value learning

Rohin ShahNov 11, 2018, 3:53 PM

48 points

18 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Reconciling Left and Right, from the Bottom-Up

jesseduffieldNov 11, 2018, 8:36 AM

14 points

6 votes

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2 comments15 min readLW link

Competitive Markets as Distributed Backprop

johnswentworthNov 10, 2018, 4:47 PM

59 points

25 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Productivity: Instrumental Rationality

frdk666Nov 10, 2018, 2:58 PM

6 points

3 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Preface to the sequence on iterated amplification

paulfchristianoNov 10, 2018, 1:24 PM

44 points

19 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

Specification gaming examples in AI

Samuel RødalNov 10, 2018, 12:00 PM

24 points

9 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Real-time hiring with prediction markets

ryan_bNov 9, 2018, 10:10 PM

17 points

5 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Current AI Safety Roles for Software Engineers

ozziegooenNov 9, 2018, 8:57 PM

70 points

31 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Model Mis-specification and Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Owain_Evans and jsteinhardt

Nov 9, 2018, 3:33 PM

34 points

18 votes

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3 comments16 min readLW link

Open AI: Can we rule out near-term AGI?

ShardPhoenixNov 9, 2018, 12:16 PM

13 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Prediction-Augmented Evaluation Systems

ozziegooenNov 9, 2018, 10:55 AM

44 points

18 votes

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12 comments8 min readLW link

Update the best textbooks on every subject list

ryan_bNov 8, 2018, 8:54 PM

93 points

40 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Multi-Agent Overoptimization, and Embedded Agent World Models

DavidmanheimNov 8, 2018, 8:33 PM

8 points

4 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Embedded Curiosities

Scott Garrabrant and abramdemski

Nov 8, 2018, 2:19 PM

91 points

43 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

On first looking into Russell’s History

Richard_NgoNov 8, 2018, 11:20 AM

23 points

11 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Is Copenhagen or Many Worlds true? An experiment. What? Yes.

JonathanmNov 8, 2018, 10:10 AM

11 points

9 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The new Effective Altruism forum just launched

habrykaNov 8, 2018, 1:59 AM

27 points

13 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

What are Universal Inductors, Again?

DiffractorNov 7, 2018, 10:32 PM

16 points

7 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Burnout: What it is and how to Treat it.

ElizabethNov 7, 2018, 10:02 PM

51 points

18 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Bayes Questions

BuckyNov 7, 2018, 4:54 PM

21 points

4 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

Latent Variables and Model Mis-Specification

jsteinhardtNov 7, 2018, 2:48 PM

24 points

14 votes

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8 comments9 min readLW link

Paris SSC Meetup

fbretonNov 7, 2018, 10:04 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Reframing a Crush: Distilling the “like” out of “like like”

squidiousNov 7, 2018, 2:50 AM

6 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Rationality of demonstrating & voting

bfinnNov 7, 2018, 12:09 AM

24 points

7 votes

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21 comments8 min readLW link

Triangle SSC Meetup

willbobagginsNov 6, 2018, 10:43 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis (by Bostrom)

Ben PaceNov 6, 2018, 8:05 PM

50 points

22 votes

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17 comments4 min readLW link

(nickbostrom.com)

Subsystem Alignment

abramdemski and Scott Garrabrant

Nov 6, 2018, 4:16 PM

102 points

40 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #31

Rohin ShahNov 5, 2018, 11:50 PM

17 points

3 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Octopath Traveler: Spoiler-Free Review

ZviNov 5, 2018, 5:50 PM

11 points

4 votes

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1 comment14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Speculations on improving debating

Richard_NgoNov 5, 2018, 4:10 PM

22 points

10 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Boulder Slate Star Codex Meetup

corticalcircuitryNov 5, 2018, 3:01 PM

5 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Humans can be assigned any values whatsoever…

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 5, 2018, 2:26 PM

54 points

27 votes

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27 comments4 min readLW link

When does rationality-as-search have nontrivial implications?

nostalgebraistNov 4, 2018, 10:42 PM

72 points

29 votes

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12 comments3 min readLW link

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