Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets: When Do They Work?

Zvi26 Jul 2018 12:30 UTC
162 points
17 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Strate­gies for Per­sonal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
142 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Paul’s re­search agenda FAQ

zhukeepa1 Jul 2018 6:25 UTC
126 points
74 comments19 min readLW link1 review

Me­la­tonin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander11 Jul 2018 17:40 UTC
119 points
16 comments15 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Are eth­i­cal asym­me­tries from prop­erty rights?

KatjaGrace2 Jul 2018 3:00 UTC
108 points
37 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

An­nounce­ment: AI al­ign­ment prize round 3 win­ners and next round

cousin_it15 Jul 2018 7:40 UTC
93 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Learn­ing-The­o­retic AI Align­ment Re­search Agenda

Vanessa Kosoy4 Jul 2018 9:53 UTC
92 points
37 comments32 min readLW link

Ex­pected Pain Parameters

Alicorn14 Jul 2018 19:30 UTC
87 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Bayesian Prob­a­bil­ity is for things that are Space-like Separated from You

Scott Garrabrant10 Jul 2018 23:47 UTC
80 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is Real, and Value is Complex

abramdemski20 Jul 2018 5:24 UTC
79 points
20 comments6 min readLW link

How to par­ent more predictably

jefftk10 Jul 2018 15:18 UTC
78 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Why it took so long to do the Fermi calcu­la­tion right?

Jan_Kulveit2 Jul 2018 20:29 UTC
76 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

A Gym Grid­world En­vi­ron­ment for the Treach­er­ous Turn

Michaël Trazzi28 Jul 2018 21:27 UTC
74 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(github.com)

Meetup Cookbook

maia14 Jul 2018 22:26 UTC
74 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(tigrennatenn.neocities.org)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #13: 07/​02/​18

Rohin Shah2 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC
70 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Book re­view: Pearl’s Book of Why

PeterMcCluskey7 Jul 2018 17:30 UTC
69 points
8 comments6 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

An­nounc­ing Align­men­tFo­rum.org Beta

Raemon10 Jul 2018 20:19 UTC
67 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Re­place your­self be­fore you stop or­ga­niz­ing your com­mu­nity.

Raemon22 Jul 2018 20:57 UTC
63 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

How To Use Bureaucracies

Samo Burja17 Jul 2018 8:10 UTC
63 points
37 comments9 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Another take on agent foun­da­tions: for­mal­iz­ing zero-shot reasoning

zhukeepa1 Jul 2018 6:12 UTC
60 points
20 comments12 min readLW link

Don’t Get Dis­tracted by the Boilerplate

johnswentworth26 Jul 2018 2:15 UTC
58 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

12 Virtues of Ra­tion­al­ity posters/​icons

habryka22 Jul 2018 5:19 UTC
58 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal Mindset

komponisto11 Jul 2018 3:03 UTC
54 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Mechanis­tic Trans­parency for Ma­chine Learning

DanielFilan11 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC
54 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Com­plete Class: Con­se­quen­tial­ist Foundations

abramdemski11 Jul 2018 1:57 UTC
53 points
34 comments13 min readLW link

Sto­ries of Sum­mer Sols­tice

Raemon8 Jul 2018 7:16 UTC
53 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Buri­dan’s ass in co­or­di­na­tion games

jessicata16 Jul 2018 2:51 UTC
52 points
26 comments10 min readLW link

A Sarno-Han­son Synthesis

moridinamael12 Jul 2018 16:13 UTC
52 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Sav­ing the world in 80 days: Epilogue

Logan Riggs28 Jul 2018 17:04 UTC
51 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Debt is an Anti-investment

Jacob Falkovich5 Jul 2018 20:00 UTC
46 points
42 comments6 min readLW link

The Fermi Para­dox: What did Sand­berg, Drexler and Ord Really Dis­solve?

shminux8 Jul 2018 21:18 UTC
46 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

A Step-by-step Guide to Find­ing a (Good!) Therapist

squidious18 Jul 2018 1:50 UTC
44 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Good­hart Tax­on­omy: Agreement

Ben Pace1 Jul 2018 3:50 UTC
43 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Bound­ing Good­hart’s Law

eric_langlois11 Jul 2018 0:46 UTC
43 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #16: 07/​23/​18

Rohin Shah23 Jul 2018 16:20 UTC
42 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sim­pli­cio and Sophisticus

Zvi22 Jul 2018 13:30 UTC
42 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #15: 07/​16/​18

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC
42 points
0 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Towards dis­solv­ing the mys­tery of consciousness

GeometryOfTheShadows6 Jul 2018 21:36 UTC
41 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A com­ment on the IDA-AlphaGoZero metaphor; ca­pa­bil­ities ver­sus alignment

AlexMennen11 Jul 2018 1:03 UTC
40 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

De­ci­sions are not about chang­ing the world, they are about learn­ing what world you live in

shminux28 Jul 2018 8:41 UTC
39 points
71 comments11 min readLW link

The risk of an Amer­i­can Civil War is remote

Samo Burja23 Jul 2018 18:00 UTC
37 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Coun­ter­fac­tual out­come state tran­si­tion parameters

Anders_H27 Jul 2018 21:13 UTC
37 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-the­o­retic prob­lems and The­o­ries; An (In­com­plete) com­par­a­tive list

somervta11 Jul 2018 2:59 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

June gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern4 Jul 2018 22:59 UTC
34 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Mak­ing a Differ­ence Tem­pore: In­sights from ‘Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: An In­tro­duc­tion’

TurnTrout5 Jul 2018 0:34 UTC
33 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #17

Rohin Shah30 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC
32 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Com­pact vs. Wide Models

Vaniver16 Jul 2018 4:09 UTC
31 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-07-27 – Shar­ing Drafts

Raemon28 Jul 2018 2:54 UTC
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-07-01 – De­fault Weak Upvotes

Raemon1 Jul 2018 23:47 UTC
30 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2018-7-14 – Styling Re­work, Com­mentsItem, Performance

Raemon14 Jul 2018 1:13 UTC
30 points
0 comments1 min readLW link