An On­tol­ogy of Sys­temic Failures: Dragons, Bul­lshit Moun­tain, and the Cloud of Doom

ialdabaoth8 Sep 2018 18:19 UTC
29 points
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On Robin Han­son’s Board Game

Zvi8 Sep 2018 17:10 UTC
49 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam] Ac­com­mo­date Your­self; Kind­ness Is An Epistemic Virtue; Priv­ileg­ing the Future

tcheasdfjkl8 Sep 2018 5:54 UTC
49 points
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Archiv­ing link posts?

Said Achmiz8 Sep 2018 5:45 UTC
56 points
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Ask Us Any­thing: Sub­mit Ques­tions Ask­ing About What We Think SSC is Wrong About, and Why

Evan_Gaensbauer7 Sep 2018 21:49 UTC
−22 points
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I am the very model of a self-re­cur­sive modeler

Jacob Falkovich6 Sep 2018 21:45 UTC
46 points
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No stan­dard met­ric for CFAR work­shops?

ioannes6 Sep 2018 18:06 UTC
11 points
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Quick Thoughts on Gen­er­a­tion and Eval­u­a­tion of Hy­pothe­ses in a Community

Ben Pace6 Sep 2018 1:01 UTC
60 points
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Beauty bias: “Lost in Math” by Sabine Hossenfelder

avturchin5 Sep 2018 22:19 UTC
8 points
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(www.amazon.com)

In­ter­pre­tive Labor

Benquo5 Sep 2018 18:36 UTC
28 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

AI Gover­nance: A Re­search Agenda

habryka5 Sep 2018 18:00 UTC
25 points
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(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and re­flec­tive oracles

Nisan5 Sep 2018 8:54 UTC
9 points
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thought: the prob­lem with less wrong’s epistemic health is that stuff isn’t short form

the gears to ascension5 Sep 2018 8:09 UTC
0 points
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Hy­poth­e­sis about how so­cial stuff works and arises

the gears to ascension4 Sep 2018 22:47 UTC
31 points
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Birth or­der effect found in No­bel Lau­re­ates in Physics

Bucky4 Sep 2018 12:17 UTC
61 points
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nos­talge­braist—bayes: a kinda-sorta masterpost

Kaj_Sotala4 Sep 2018 11:08 UTC
25 points
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(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

What is your re­la­tion­ship with your self?

Elo4 Sep 2018 1:32 UTC
6 points
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Mo­ral re­al­ism and AI alignment

Caspar Oesterheld3 Sep 2018 18:46 UTC
13 points
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(casparoesterheld.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #22

Rohin Shah3 Sep 2018 16:10 UTC
18 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Re­s­ur­rec­tion of the dead via mul­ti­verse-wide acausual cooperation

avturchin3 Sep 2018 11:21 UTC
24 points
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A Pro­cess for Deal­ing with Mo­ti­vated Reasoning

Vaughn Papenhausen3 Sep 2018 3:34 UTC
15 points
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Im­pact Mea­sure Desiderata

TurnTrout2 Sep 2018 22:21 UTC
36 points
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When wish­ful think­ing works

AlexMennen1 Sep 2018 23:43 UTC
41 points
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Co­op­er­a­tive Oracles

Diffractor1 Sep 2018 8:05 UTC
18 points
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Why I Don’t Like Scotty Slate Star and His Codex and So Can You

Evan_Gaensbauer1 Sep 2018 7:45 UTC
−13 points
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On memetic weapons

ioannes1 Sep 2018 3:25 UTC
42 points
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Open Thread Septem­ber 2018

Elo31 Aug 2018 21:38 UTC
10 points
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Psy­chol­ogy Repli­ca­tion Quiz

Ben Pace31 Aug 2018 18:54 UTC
46 points
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(80000hours.org)

Bot­tle Caps Aren’t Optimisers

DanielFilan31 Aug 2018 18:30 UTC
97 points
22 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(danielfilan.com)

VOI is Only Non­nega­tive When In­for­ma­tion is Un­cor­re­lated With Fu­ture Action

Diffractor31 Aug 2018 5:13 UTC
22 points
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Do what we mean vs. do what we say

Rohin Shah30 Aug 2018 22:03 UTC
34 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

You Play to Win the Game

Zvi30 Aug 2018 14:10 UTC
27 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Petrov Day Cel­e­bra­tion 2018 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshir30 Aug 2018 3:43 UTC
5 points
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Player of Games

Jacob Falkovich29 Aug 2018 21:26 UTC
64 points
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At­lanta SSC Meetup

mingyuan29 Aug 2018 16:56 UTC
5 points
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Com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity of RL with traps

Vanessa Kosoy29 Aug 2018 9:17 UTC
16 points
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Walk the Seawall with Chris­tine Peterson

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 7:28 UTC
6 points
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2 Events with Chris­tine Peter­son in Van­cou­ver This Week!

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 7:04 UTC
11 points
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Dis­cus­sion with Chris­tine Peter­son of the Fore­sight Institute

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Aug 2018 6:37 UTC
6 points
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His­tory of the Devel­op­ment of Log­i­cal Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC
100 points
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HLAI 2018 Field Report

Gordon Seidoh Worley29 Aug 2018 0:11 UTC
48 points
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[Paper] The Global Catas­trophic Risks of the Pos­si­bil­ity of Find­ing Alien AI Dur­ing SETI

avturchin28 Aug 2018 21:32 UTC
13 points
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Cor­rigi­bil­ity doesn’t always have a good ac­tion to take

Stuart_Armstrong28 Aug 2018 20:30 UTC
19 points
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Effec­tive Altru­ism & Ra­tion­al­ity Hangout

Orpheus28 Aug 2018 13:59 UTC
3 points
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Un­known Knowns

Zvi28 Aug 2018 13:20 UTC
120 points
17 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter #21

Rohin Shah27 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC
25 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Refer­ence Post: For­mal vs. Effec­tive Pre-Commitment

Chris_Leong27 Aug 2018 12:04 UTC
16 points
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Au­mann’s Agree­ment Revisited

agilecaveman27 Aug 2018 6:21 UTC
4 points
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Us­ing ex­pected util­ity for Good(hart)

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2018 3:32 UTC
42 points
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Zetetic explanation

Benquo27 Aug 2018 0:12 UTC
90 points
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(benjaminrosshoffman.com)