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What if people simply forecasted your future choices?

ozziegooenNov 23, 2018, 10:52 AM

16 points

6 votes

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6 comments6 min readLW link

Oversight of Unsafe Systems via Dynamic Safety Envelopes

DavidmanheimNov 23, 2018, 8:37 AM

10 points

5 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

On MIRI’s new research directions

Rob BensingerNov 22, 2018, 11:42 PM

53 points

16 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

LW Update 2018-11-22 – Abridged Comments

RaemonNov 22, 2018, 10:11 PM

11 points

8 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

Approval-directed agents

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2018, 9:15 PM

31 points

8 votes

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10 comments15 min readLW link

Believing others’ priors

rkNov 22, 2018, 8:44 PM

8 points

4 votes

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19 comments7 min readLW link

Speculative Evopsych, Ep. 1

Optimization ProcessNov 22, 2018, 7:00 PM

41 points

23 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

If You Want to Win, Stop Conceding

Davis_KingsleyNov 22, 2018, 6:10 PM

47 points

28 votes

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15 comments3 min readLW link

Review: Artifact

ZviNov 22, 2018, 3:00 PM

21 points

8 votes

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3 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Perspective Reasoning and the Sleeping Beauty Problem

dadadarrenNov 22, 2018, 11:55 AM

6 points

4 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

The Semantic Man

namespaceNov 22, 2018, 8:38 AM

19 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.generalsemantics.org)

Jesus Made Me Rational (An Introduction)

MotasaurusNov 22, 2018, 5:09 AM

−14 points

11 votes

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56 comments3 min readLW link

Iteration Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

Nov 22, 2018, 12:35 AM

33 points

11 votes

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12 comments3 min readLW link

Suggestion: New material shouldn’t be released too fast

Chris_LeongNov 21, 2018, 4:39 PM

23 points

8 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

EA Bristol Strategy Meeting

thegreatnickNov 21, 2018, 10:57 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Café No. 6 - The Sequences, Part 1; Section B Repeat

thegreatnickNov 21, 2018, 10:54 AM

8 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

habrykaNov 21, 2018, 3:39 AM

37 points

9 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Incorrect hypotheses point to correct observations

Kaj_SotalaNov 20, 2018, 9:10 PM

181 points

101 votes

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40 comments4 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Preschool: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

ZviNov 20, 2018, 7:30 PM

65 points

24 votes

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15 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New safety research agenda: scalable agent alignment via reward modeling

VikaNov 20, 2018, 5:29 PM

34 points

13 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Prosaic AI alignment

paulfchristianoNov 20, 2018, 1:56 PM

48 points

22 votes

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10 comments8 min readLW link

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Nov 20, 2018, 12:19 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Insert clever intro here]

Bae's TheoremNov 20, 2018, 3:26 AM

18 points

10 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #33

Rohin ShahNov 19, 2018, 5:20 PM

23 points

7 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery

Alexander230Nov 19, 2018, 2:23 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Letting Others Be Vulnerable

lifelonglearnerNov 19, 2018, 2:59 AM

34 points

22 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Clickbait might not be destroying our general Intelligence

Donald HobsonNov 19, 2018, 12:13 AM

25 points

10 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup 12/8

DavidFriedmanNov 19, 2018, 12:04 AM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “They go together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government”

CronoDASNov 18, 2018, 4:51 PM

11 points

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Collaboration-by-Design versus Emergent Collaboration

DavidmanheimNov 18, 2018, 7:22 AM

11 points

3 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Diagonalization Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

Nov 18, 2018, 12:31 AM

40 points

12 votes

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25 comments3 min readLW link

Ia! Ia! Extradimensional Cephalopod Nafl’fhtagn!

ExCephNov 17, 2018, 11:00 PM

14 points

10 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism, YouTube, and AI (talk by Lê Nguyên Hoang)

Paperclip MinimizerNov 17, 2018, 7:21 PM

3 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

An unaligned benchmark

paulfchristianoNov 17, 2018, 3:51 PM

31 points

10 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

On Rigorous Error Handling

Martin SustrikNov 17, 2018, 9:20 AM

13 points

6 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Act of Charity

jessicataNov 17, 2018, 5:19 AM

186 points

89 votes

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49 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Topological Fixed Point Exercises

Scott Garrabrant and SamEisenstat

Nov 17, 2018, 1:40 AM

71 points

30 votes

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51 comments3 min readLW link

Fixed Point Exercises

Scott GarrabrantNov 17, 2018, 1:39 AM

64 points

27 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Is Clickbait Destroying Our General Intelligence?

Eliezer YudkowskyNov 16, 2018, 11:06 PM

210 points

132 votes

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68 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Dimensional regret without resets

Vanessa KosoyNov 16, 2018, 7:22 PM

11 points

4 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

History of LessWrong: Some Data Graphics

Said AchmizNov 16, 2018, 7:07 AM

65 points

24 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Harris and the Is–Ought Gap

Tyrrell_McAllisterNov 16, 2018, 1:04 AM

91 points

54 votes

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46 comments6 min readLW link

Embedded Agency (full-text version)

Scott Garrabrant and abramdemski

Nov 15, 2018, 7:49 PM

210 points

99 votes

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17 comments54 min readLW link

Switching hosting providers today, there probably will be some hiccups

habrykaNov 15, 2018, 7:45 PM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Clarifying “AI Alignment”

paulfchristianoNov 15, 2018, 2:41 PM

67 points

26 votes

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84 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere

Chris_LeongNov 15, 2018, 10:55 AM

24 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(allendowney.blogspot.com)

SSC Atlanta Meetup Number 3

Steve FrenchNov 15, 2018, 5:19 AM

2 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Explore/Exploit for Conversations

HazardNov 15, 2018, 4:11 AM

40 points

18 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Washington, DC LW Meetup

rusalkiiNov 15, 2018, 2:13 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Stoicism: Cautionary Advice

VivaLaPandaNov 14, 2018, 11:18 PM

41 points

19 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

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