Up­date the best text­books on ev­ery sub­ject list

ryan_b8 Nov 2018 20:54 UTC
92 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Multi-Agent Overop­ti­miza­tion, and Embed­ded Agent World Models

Davidmanheim8 Nov 2018 20:33 UTC
8 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Help Me Re­fac­tor My­self I am Lost

Pausecafe8 Nov 2018 20:18 UTC
12 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Embed­ded Curiosities

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

On first look­ing into Rus­sell’s History

Richard_Ngo8 Nov 2018 11:20 UTC
23 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

Jonathanm8 Nov 2018 10:10 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

The new Effec­tive Altru­ism fo­rum just launched

habryka8 Nov 2018 1:59 UTC
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What are Univer­sal In­duc­tors, Again?

Diffractor7 Nov 2018 22:32 UTC
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

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)

Bayes Questions

Bucky7 Nov 2018 16:54 UTC
21 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

La­tent Vari­ables and Model Mis-Specification

jsteinhardt7 Nov 2018 14:48 UTC
24 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

Paris SSC Meetup

fbreton7 Nov 2018 10:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

squidious7 Nov 2018 2:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity of demon­strat­ing & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 0:09 UTC
24 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Tri­an­gle SSC Meetup

willbobaggins6 Nov 2018 22:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Vuln­er­a­ble World Hy­poth­e­sis (by Bostrom)

Ben Pace6 Nov 2018 20:05 UTC
50 points
17 comments4 min readLW link
(nickbostrom.com)

Sub­sys­tem Alignment

6 Nov 2018 16:16 UTC
99 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #31

Rohin Shah5 Nov 2018 23:50 UTC
17 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Oc­topath Trav­eler: Spoiler-Free Review

Zvi5 Nov 2018 17:50 UTC
11 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spec­u­la­tions on im­prov­ing debating

Richard_Ngo5 Nov 2018 16:10 UTC
22 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Boulder Slate Star Codex Meetup

corticalcircuitry5 Nov 2018 15:01 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans can be as­signed any val­ues what­so­ever…

Stuart_Armstrong5 Nov 2018 14:26 UTC
54 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

When does ra­tio­nal­ity-as-search have non­triv­ial im­pli­ca­tions?

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

Beliefs at differ­ent timescales

Nisan4 Nov 2018 20:10 UTC
25 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

No Really, Why Aren’t Ra­tion­al­ists Win­ning?

Sailor Vulcan4 Nov 2018 18:11 UTC
35 points
90 comments5 min readLW link

Ro­bust Delegation

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

New GreaterWrong fea­ture: image zoom + image slideshows

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

The easy goal in­fer­ence prob­lem is still hard

paulfchristiano3 Nov 2018 14:41 UTC
59 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

My In­tu­itions on Coun­ter­log­i­cal Reasoning

DragonGod2 Nov 2018 21:36 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Embed­ded World-Models

2 Nov 2018 16:07 UTC
92 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Kansas City SSC Read­ers Meetup

Todd3262 Nov 2018 10:45 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meta-execution

paulfchristiano1 Nov 2018 22:18 UTC
20 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion on the ma­chine learn­ing ap­proach to AI safety

Vika1 Nov 2018 20:54 UTC
27 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

What is am­bi­tious value learn­ing?

Rohin Shah1 Nov 2018 16:20 UTC
55 points
28 comments2 min readLW link

Im­ple­men­ta­tions of immortality

Richard_Ngo1 Nov 2018 14:20 UTC
20 points
11 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Linkpost: Arena’s New Open­ing Hand Rule Has Huge Im­pli­ca­tions For How We Play the Game

Zvi1 Nov 2018 12:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Good­hart’s Law and Genies

thomascolthurst1 Nov 2018 1:38 UTC
15 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Oc­to­ber gw­ern.net links

gwern1 Nov 2018 1:11 UTC
29 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

De­ci­sion Theory

31 Oct 2018 18:41 UTC
117 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Two Ap­proaches to Struc­tured Concurrency

Martin Sustrik31 Oct 2018 16:20 UTC
19 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

Prince­ton Univer­sity- En­vi­sion Con­fer­ence App Due Sun­day!

noazarur31 Oct 2018 4:39 UTC
−6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Open Thread Novem­ber 2018

Ben Pace31 Oct 2018 3:39 UTC
14 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on “On­tolog­i­cal Crises”

thomascolthurst31 Oct 2018 2:39 UTC
20 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

De­bate Rules In Ben­jamin Fran­klin’s Junto

namespace30 Oct 2018 23:42 UTC
77 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Good Sa­mar­i­tans in experiments

Bucky30 Oct 2018 23:34 UTC
125 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on value learning

Rohin Shah30 Oct 2018 22:04 UTC
70 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

De­con­struct­ing Bi­ases In Media

Apollo1330 Oct 2018 22:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(umich.edu)

writ­ing as the thinker’s canvas

brown30 Oct 2018 21:05 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

An Un­der­grad­u­ate Read­ing Of: Se­man­tic in­for­ma­tion, au­tonomous agency and non-equil­ibrium statis­ti­cal physics

ryan_b30 Oct 2018 18:36 UTC
29 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

SSC Meetup in Wash­ing­ton, DC

Robi Rahman30 Oct 2018 12:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link