The Parable of Pre­dict-O-Matic

abramdemski15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC
342 points
41 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Book sum­mary: Un­lock­ing the Emo­tional Brain

Kaj_Sotala8 Oct 2019 19:11 UTC
314 points
48 comments21 min readLW link3 reviews

De­bate on In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence be­tween LeCun, Rus­sell, Ben­gio, Zador, and More

Ben Pace4 Oct 2019 4:08 UTC
221 points
61 comments15 min readLW link2 reviews

Make more land

jefftk16 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC
158 points
36 comments2 min readLW link5 reviews
(www.jefftk.com)

What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

Elizabeth22 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC
121 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to In­tro­duc­tion to Cat­e­gory Theory

countedblessings6 Oct 2019 14:43 UTC
112 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent hacking

evhub16 Oct 2019 0:53 UTC
104 points
39 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Turn­ing air into bread

jasoncrawford21 Oct 2019 17:50 UTC
103 points
12 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] How do you as­sess the qual­ity /​ re­li­a­bil­ity of a sci­en­tific study?

Eli Tyre29 Oct 2019 14:52 UTC
89 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

[Site Up­date] Sub­scrip­tions, Book­marks, & Pingbacks

Ruby29 Oct 2019 4:32 UTC
88 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Two ex­pla­na­tions for vari­a­tion in hu­man abilities

Matthew Barnett25 Oct 2019 22:06 UTC
87 points
28 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Mis­con­cep­tions about con­tin­u­ous takeoff

Matthew Barnett8 Oct 2019 21:31 UTC
82 points
38 comments4 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing Fore­told.io: A New Open-Source Pre­dic­tion Registry

ozziegooen16 Oct 2019 14:23 UTC
79 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Prospect­ing for Con­cep­tual Holes

lsusr30 Oct 2019 8:34 UTC
71 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

World State is the Wrong Ab­strac­tion for Impact

TurnTrout1 Oct 2019 21:03 UTC
67 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is it harder to be­come a MIRI math­e­mat­i­cian in 2019 com­pared to in 2013?

riceissa29 Oct 2019 3:28 UTC
65 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

What is cat­e­gory the­ory?

countedblessings6 Oct 2019 14:33 UTC
64 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Maybe Ly­ing Doesn’t Exist

Zack_M_Davis14 Oct 2019 7:04 UTC
64 points
57 comments8 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Hu­man-Com­pat­i­ble”

TurnTrout10 Oct 2019 5:24 UTC
64 points
34 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why are peo­ple so bad at dat­ing?

Xodarap28 Oct 2019 14:32 UTC
64 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

A sim­ple sketch of how re­al­ism be­came unpopular

Rob Bensinger11 Oct 2019 22:25 UTC
62 points
55 comments4 min readLW link

Does the US nu­clear policy still tar­get cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 0:18 UTC
61 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Hu­man in­stincts, sym­bol ground­ing, and the blank-slate neocortex

Steven Byrnes2 Oct 2019 12:06 UTC
60 points
23 comments11 min readLW link

[AN #69] Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on why we need to re­place the stan­dard model of AI

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC
60 points
12 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Healthy Competition

Raemon20 Oct 2019 20:55 UTC
56 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review

The Gears of Impact

TurnTrout7 Oct 2019 14:44 UTC
54 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Mediums Over­power Messages

lsusr20 Oct 2019 5:46 UTC
54 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­visi­ble Choices, Made by Default

lsusr20 Oct 2019 2:09 UTC
54 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The Tech­nique Taboo

lsusr30 Oct 2019 11:22 UTC
54 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Cat­e­gories: mod­els of models

countedblessings9 Oct 2019 2:45 UTC
52 points
18 comments12 min readLW link

Effect het­ero­gene­ity and ex­ter­nal val­idity in medicine

Anders_H25 Oct 2019 20:53 UTC
49 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

How to Im­prove Your Sleep

lynettebye27 Oct 2019 23:28 UTC
48 points
19 comments18 min readLW link

We tend to for­get com­pli­cated things

Rafael Harth20 Oct 2019 20:05 UTC
48 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor May Be Suffi­cient to In­fer the Prefer­ences of Ir­ra­tional Agents: A re­ply to Arm­strong & Mindermann

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Oct 2019 19:52 UTC
47 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion mar­kets for in­ter­net points?

paulfchristiano27 Oct 2019 19:30 UTC
47 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 1 - My journey

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 0:42 UTC
46 points
12 comments38 min readLW link

Tech­ni­cal AGI safety re­search out­side AI

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2019 15:00 UTC
43 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Archiv­ing Ya­hoo Groups

jefftk18 Oct 2019 11:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Hu­man-AI Collaboration

Rohin Shah22 Oct 2019 6:32 UTC
42 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

Reflec­tions on Premium Poker Tools: Part 2 - De­cid­ing to call it quits

Adam Zerner9 Oct 2019 4:17 UTC
41 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

The sen­tence struc­ture of mathematics

countedblessings7 Oct 2019 18:58 UTC
41 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Im­ple­ment­ing an Idea-Man­age­ment System

MartinB18 Oct 2019 10:48 UTC
41 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

On In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems and multi-agent minds: a re­ply to PJ Eby

Kaj_Sotala29 Oct 2019 14:56 UTC
40 points
31 comments25 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment landscape

paulfchristiano13 Oct 2019 2:10 UTC
40 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

How fea­si­ble is long-range fore­cast­ing?

Ben Pace10 Oct 2019 22:11 UTC
40 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Cli­mate tech­nol­ogy primer (1/​3): basics

amarbles25 Oct 2019 23:18 UTC
38 points
5 comments58 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Checks: The Fall of Rome

Elizabeth16 Oct 2019 18:40 UTC
38 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

TAISU 2019 Field Report

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Oct 2019 1:09 UTC
36 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Au­gust 2019 grant recommendations

habryka3 Oct 2019 20:41 UTC
35 points
0 comments63 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Test­ing the Effi­cacy of Disagree­ment Re­s­olu­tion Tech­niques (and a Pro­posal for Test­ing Dou­ble Crux)

Ronny Fernandez21 Oct 2019 22:57 UTC
35 points
2 comments15 min readLW link