Karate Kid and Real­is­tic Ex­pec­ta­tions for Disagree­ment Resolution

Raemon4 Dec 2019 23:25 UTC
101 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

Re­cent Progress in the The­ory of Neu­ral Networks

interstice4 Dec 2019 23:11 UTC
83 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Paper-Read­ing for Gears

johnswentworth4 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
159 points
6 comments4 min readLW link1 review

On de­ci­sion-pre­dic­tion fixed points

jollybard4 Dec 2019 20:49 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Oc­to­ber 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Au­gust 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Septem­ber 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—July 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:13 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—June 2020

Noct4 Dec 2019 20:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What ad­di­tional fea­tures would you like on LessWrong?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 19:41 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #76]: How dataset size af­fects ro­bust­ness, and bench­mark­ing safe ex­plo­ra­tion by mea­sur­ing con­straint violations

Rohin Shah4 Dec 2019 18:10 UTC
14 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

2019 Win­ter Sols­tice Collection

dspeyer4 Dec 2019 17:25 UTC
31 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

“Fully” acausal trade

Stuart_Armstrong4 Dec 2019 16:39 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If giv­ing un­so­lic­ited feed­back was a so­cial norm, what feed­back would you of­ten give?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 13:11 UTC
10 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In which ways have you self-im­proved that made you feel bad for not hav­ing done it ear­lier?

Mati_Roy4 Dec 2019 12:33 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

A let­ter on op­ti­mism about hu­man progress

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2019 4:21 UTC
34 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(letter.wiki)

Sym­biotic Conflicts

lsusr4 Dec 2019 0:06 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Long-last­ing Effects of Sus­pen­sions?

jefftk3 Dec 2019 20:40 UTC
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

(Rein­vent­ing wheels) Maybe our world has be­come more peo­ple-shaped.

aaq3 Dec 2019 20:23 UTC
5 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter #2, fall 2019

avturchin3 Dec 2019 16:54 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Search­ing Along the Trail of Crumbs

Zvi3 Dec 2019 13:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The De­cem­ber SSC AtlantaMeetup

Steve French3 Dec 2019 12:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—May 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 4:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—April 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 3:59 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—March 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 3:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Fe­bru­ary 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 3:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Jan­uary 2020

Noct3 Dec 2019 3:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser

Malo3 Dec 2019 1:16 UTC
55 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—De­cem­ber 2019

habryka3 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC
14 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Call for re­sources on the link be­tween cau­sa­tion and ontology

aaq2 Dec 2019 22:03 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Nov 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern2 Dec 2019 21:16 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

A list of good heuris­tics that the case for AI x-risk fails

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)2 Dec 2019 19:26 UTC
43 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

What I talk about when I talk about AI x-risk: 3 core claims I want ma­chine learn­ing re­searchers to ad­dress.

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)2 Dec 2019 18:20 UTC
29 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Is the rate of sci­en­tific progress slow­ing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben South­wood)

Ben Pace2 Dec 2019 3:45 UTC
49 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

The his­tory of smal­l­pox and the ori­gins of vaccines

philh1 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Two Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice Events

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 18:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Have you ex­pe­rienced a pu­rity norm around learn­ing “from first prin­ci­ples”?

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:56 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Vo­cal Range

jefftk1 Dec 2019 15:50 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

{Math} A times ta­bles mem­ory.

aaq1 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Pre-Sols­tice Un­con­fer­ence 2019

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 5:34 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice 2019

Chelsea Voss1 Dec 2019 3:17 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Learn­ing Ab­stract Math from First Prin­ci­ples?

Teach1 Dec 2019 0:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why aren’t as­surance con­tracts widely used?

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Dec 2019 0:20 UTC
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: Fa­tigue and the Cen­tral Gover­nor Module

Elizabeth1 Dec 2019 0:10 UTC
19 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

CO2 Strip­per Post­mortem Thoughts

Diffractor30 Nov 2019 21:20 UTC
113 points
37 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What’s been writ­ten about the na­ture of “son-of-CDT”?

Liam Donovan30 Nov 2019 21:03 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How To Change a Dance

jefftk30 Nov 2019 13:40 UTC
11 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als as a mat­ter of So­cial Convention

Chris_Leong30 Nov 2019 10:35 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What at­tempts have been made at global co­or­di­na­tion around AI safety?

Trey Edwin30 Nov 2019 4:28 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Use­ful Does Not Mean Secure

Ben Pace30 Nov 2019 2:05 UTC
46 points
12 comments11 min readLW link