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Computational Morality (Part 4) - Consequentialism

David CooperApr 26, 2018, 11:58 PM

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The Leading and Trailing Edges of Development

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 26, 2018, 6:02 PM

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Washington, D.C.: Science

RobinZApr 26, 2018, 2:27 AM

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The One-Channel Paradigm

Noah WaltonApr 25, 2018, 9:49 PM

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Effective Altruism’s Ultimate Goal: Eradicate Human Suffering.

willfranksApr 25, 2018, 12:12 PM

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Ten Commandments for Aspiring Superforecasters

Evan_GaensbauerApr 25, 2018, 4:55 AM

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Don’t Believe Wrong Things

Jacob FalkovichApr 25, 2018, 3:36 AM

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Follow Standard Incentives

queryApr 25, 2018, 1:09 AM

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Wrongology 101

sarahconstantinApr 25, 2018, 12:00 AM

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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Computational Morality (Part 3) - Similarity of Proposals

David CooperApr 24, 2018, 10:12 PM

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[Alert] Running Final Migration (possible downtime)

RaemonApr 24, 2018, 8:23 PM

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Reward function learning: the value function

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 4:29 PM

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Community Page Mini-Guide

Ben PaceApr 24, 2018, 3:04 PM

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Reward function learning: the learning process

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 12:56 PM

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On Emotional Responsibility & Abuse

devasApr 24, 2018, 12:50 PM

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(landofwindandskyscrapers.tumblr.com)

The many ways AIs behave badly

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 24, 2018, 11:40 AM

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LW Update 4/23/2018 – Small Fixes

RaemonApr 24, 2018, 3:38 AM

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EA Global SF 2018

epiphiApr 23, 2018, 6:34 PM

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The Alignment Newsletter #3: 04/23/18

Rohin ShahApr 23, 2018, 4:00 PM

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Hold On To The Curiosity

Ben PaceApr 23, 2018, 7:32 AM

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The Spousal Chain of Succession

pkuApr 23, 2018, 12:10 AM

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(shakeddown.wordpress.com)

Symbiosis—An Intentional Community For Radical Self-Improvement

Matt GoldenbergApr 22, 2018, 11:15 PM

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Computational Morality (Part 2) - on the Need for a Dynamic League Table of Proposed Solutions

David CooperApr 22, 2018, 10:35 PM

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On exact mathematical formulae

daozaichApr 22, 2018, 7:41 PM

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—May

luminosityApr 22, 2018, 12:01 PM

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The First Rung: Insights from ‘Linear Algebra Done Right’

TurnTroutApr 22, 2018, 5:23 AM

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Modeling Society as a Damped Harmonic Oscillator

pkuApr 22, 2018, 1:31 AM

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(shakeddown.wordpress.com)

Fermi Paradox—Reference Class arguments and Other Possibilities

agilecavemanApr 22, 2018, 12:56 AM

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(steemit.com)

The Case Against Education: Foundations

ZviApr 21, 2018, 2:30 PM

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rationality and Spirituality—Summary and Open Thread

Chris_LeongApr 21, 2018, 2:37 AM

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March gwern.net link roundup

gwernApr 20, 2018, 7:09 PM

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NYT: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit

RainApr 20, 2018, 6:33 PM

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(www.nytimes.com)

My confusions with Paul’s Agenda

VaniverApr 20, 2018, 5:24 PM

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On Equivalence of Supergoals

Alexey FeldgendlerApr 20, 2018, 3:06 PM

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

Alexander230Apr 20, 2018, 12:01 PM

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Oops Prize update

BenquoApr 20, 2018, 9:10 AM

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Weird question: could we see distant aliens?

paulfchristianoApr 20, 2018, 6:40 AM

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Funeral Ritual

RaemonApr 20, 2018, 1:40 AM

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Some Simple Observations Five Years After Starting Mindfulness Meditation

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Apr 19, 2018, 10:28 PM

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Humans need places

BenquoApr 19, 2018, 7:50 PM

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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Github Repo and Issue Tracker

RaemonApr 19, 2018, 6:25 PM

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An Undergraduate Reading Of: Macroscopic Prediction by E.T. Jaynes

ryan_bApr 19, 2018, 5:30 PM

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Honest Friends Don’t Tell Comforting Lies

Serpent-StareApr 19, 2018, 4:34 PM

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Washington, D.C.: Meditation

RobinZApr 19, 2018, 2:33 AM

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Sentience

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 9:58 PM

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Origin of Morality

David CooperApr 18, 2018, 8:46 PM

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Mitigate the Loss; Fight for the Living

Serpent-StareApr 18, 2018, 10:23 AM

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Understanding Iterated Distillation and Amplification: Claims and Oversight

William_SApr 17, 2018, 10:36 PM

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Multi-winner Voting: a question of Alignment

Jameson QuinnApr 17, 2018, 6:51 PM

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Computational Morality (Part 1) - a Proposed Solution

David CooperApr 17, 2018, 12:09 AM

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