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Wireheading is in the eye of the beholder
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 30, 2019, 6:23 PM
26
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Masculine Virtues
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 30, 2019, 4:03 PM
52
points
32
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Deconfusing Logical Counterfactuals
Chris_Leong
Jan 30, 2019, 3:13 PM
27
points
16
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Book Trilogy Review: Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Problem)
Zvi
Jan 30, 2019, 1:10 AM
49
points
15
comments
40
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Alignment Newsletter #43
Rohin Shah
Jan 29, 2019, 9:10 PM
14
points
2
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
The Question Of Perception
The Arkon
Jan 29, 2019, 8:59 PM
0
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which textbook would you recommend to learn decision theory?
supermartingale
Jan 29, 2019, 8:48 PM
27
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Towards equilibria-breaking methods
ryan_b
Jan 29, 2019, 4:19 PM
22
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Can there be an indescribable hellworld?
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 29, 2019, 3:00 PM
39
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How much can value learning be disentangled?
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 29, 2019, 2:17 PM
22
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Techniques for optimizing worst-case performance
paulfchristiano
Jan 28, 2019, 9:29 PM
23
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Link] Did AlphaStar just click faster?
aog
Jan 28, 2019, 8:23 PM
4
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Giftedness” and Genius, Crucial Differences
ArthurLidia
Jan 28, 2019, 8:22 PM
6
points
0
comments
29
min read
LW
link
Quantum Neural Net and You
ScrubbyBubbles
Jan 28, 2019, 6:42 PM
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A small example of one-step hypotheticals
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 28, 2019, 4:12 PM
14
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How would one go about defining the ideal personality compatibility test?
digitalcaffeine
Jan 28, 2019, 3:02 AM
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solomonoff induction and belief in God
Berkeley Beetle
Jan 28, 2019, 3:01 AM
0
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(randalrauser.com)
Practical Considerations Regarding Political Polarization
joshuabecker
Jan 27, 2019, 10:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“The Unbiased Map”
SebastianG
Jan 27, 2019, 7:08 PM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Prediction Contest 2018: Scores and Retrospective
jbeshir
Jan 27, 2019, 5:20 PM
28
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Freely Complying With the Ideal: A Theory of Happiness
Solnassant
Jan 27, 2019, 12:28 PM
20
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Confessions of an Abstraction Hater
Martin Sustrik
Jan 27, 2019, 5:50 AM
12
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Río Grande: judgment calls
KatjaGrace
Jan 27, 2019, 3:50 AM
25
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldlypositions.tumblr.com)
“Forecasting Transformative AI: An Expert Survey”, Gruetzemacher et al 2019
gwern
Jan 27, 2019, 2:34 AM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Building up to an Internal Family Systems model
Kaj_Sotala
Jan 26, 2019, 12:25 PM
289
points
86
comments
28
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Future directions for narrow value learning
Rohin Shah
Jan 26, 2019, 2:36 AM
12
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
For what do we need Superintelligent AI?
avturchin
Jan 25, 2019, 3:01 PM
14
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II”, DeepMind [won 10 of 11 games against human pros]
gwern
Jan 24, 2019, 8:49 PM
62
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(deepmind.com)
Thoughts on reward engineering
paulfchristiano
Jan 24, 2019, 8:15 PM
30
points
30
comments
11
min read
LW
link
From Personal to Prison Gangs: Enforcing Prosocial Behavior
johnswentworth
Jan 24, 2019, 6:07 PM
153
points
26
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
[Question]
Is Agent Simulates Predictor a “fair” problem?
Chris_Leong
Jan 24, 2019, 1:18 PM
22
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
In what way has the generation after us “gone too far”?
Elo
Jan 24, 2019, 10:22 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The human side of interaction
Rohin Shah
Jan 24, 2019, 10:14 AM
19
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
South Bay Meetup
David Friedman
Jan 24, 2019, 5:29 AM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
Allowing a formal proof system to self improve while avoiding Lobian obstacles.
Donald Hobson
Jan 23, 2019, 11:04 PM
6
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Café No. 9 - The Sequences, Part 1; Section C b
thegreatnick
Jan 23, 2019, 10:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Edinburgh SSC meetup ϛ
Hamish Peter Todd
Jan 23, 2019, 6:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
LW
link
S-Curves for Trend Forecasting
Matt Goldenberg
Jan 23, 2019, 6:17 PM
113
points
23
comments
7
min read
LW
link
4
reviews
One-step hypothetical preferences
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 23, 2019, 3:14 PM
10
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Shanghai LessWrong Meetup
Mindey
Jan 23, 2019, 12:59 PM
11
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Games in Kocherga club: Fallacymania, Tower of Chaos, Scientific Discovery
Alexander230
Jan 23, 2019, 11:57 AM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Could declining interest to the Doomsday Argument explain the Doomsday Argument?
avturchin
Jan 23, 2019, 11:51 AM
8
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Link: That Time a Guy Tried to Build a Utopia for Mice and it all Went to Hell
Alexei
Jan 23, 2019, 6:27 AM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learning with catastrophes
paulfchristiano
Jan 23, 2019, 3:01 AM
27
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth
sarahconstantin
Jan 23, 2019, 2:00 AM
59
points
8
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
Too Smart for My Own Good
isovector
Jan 22, 2019, 5:51 PM
38
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Vote counting bug?
Richard_Ngo
Jan 22, 2019, 3:44 PM
6
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stale air / high CO2 may decrease your cognitive function
Yoav Ravid
Jan 22, 2019, 12:52 PM
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why don’t people use formal methods?
John_Maxwell
Jan 22, 2019, 9:39 AM
20
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.hillelwayne.com)
[Question]
Should questions be called “questions” or “confusions” (or “other”)?
Raemon
Jan 22, 2019, 2:45 AM
16
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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