“Other peo­ple are wrong” vs “I am right”

BuckFeb 22, 2019, 8:01 PM
267 points
20 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott AlexanderFeb 27, 2019, 2:40 AM
235 points
67 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews
(slatestarcodex.com)

Hu­mans Who Are Not Con­cen­trat­ing Are Not Gen­eral Intelligences

sarahconstantinFeb 25, 2019, 8:40 PM
191 points
35 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Un­con­scious Economics

Bird ConceptFeb 27, 2019, 12:58 PM
139 points
30 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews

Blackmail

ZviFeb 19, 2019, 3:50 AM
133 points
55 comments16 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Thoughts on Hu­man Models

Feb 21, 2019, 9:10 AM
127 points
32 comments10 min readLW link1 review

The Tale of Alice Al­most: Strate­gies for Deal­ing With Pretty Good People

sarahconstantinFeb 27, 2019, 7:34 PM
117 points
6 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Epistemic Tenure

Scott GarrabrantFeb 18, 2019, 10:56 PM
89 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity space has 2 metrics

Donald HobsonFeb 10, 2019, 12:28 AM
89 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Metaphilosophy

Wei DaiFeb 10, 2019, 12:28 AM
82 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

Test Cases for Im­pact Reg­u­lari­sa­tion Methods

DanielFilanFeb 6, 2019, 9:50 PM
72 points
5 comments13 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

[Question] How does Gra­di­ent Des­cent In­ter­act with Good­hart?

Scott GarrabrantFeb 2, 2019, 12:14 AM
68 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

The Case for a Big­ger Audience

John_MaxwellFeb 9, 2019, 7:22 AM
68 points
58 comments2 min readLW link

Pavlov Generalizes

abramdemskiFeb 20, 2019, 9:03 AM
67 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

RAISE is launch­ing their MVP

nullFeb 26, 2019, 11:45 AM
67 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Ar­gu­ment from Philo­soph­i­cal Difficulty

Wei DaiFeb 10, 2019, 12:28 AM
66 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

When to use quantilization

RyanCareyFeb 5, 2019, 5:17 PM
65 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

How the MtG Color Wheel Ex­plains AI Safety

Scott GarrabrantFeb 15, 2019, 11:42 PM
65 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

The Ham­ming Question

RaemonFeb 8, 2019, 7:34 PM
64 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If a “Kick­starter for Inad­e­quate Equlibria” was built, do you have a con­crete in­ad­e­quate equil­ibrium to fix?

RaemonFeb 21, 2019, 9:32 PM
56 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Two Small Ex­per­i­ments on GPT-2

jimrandomhFeb 21, 2019, 2:59 AM
54 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How good is a hu­man’s gut judge­ment at guess­ing some­one’s IQ?

habrykaFeb 25, 2019, 9:23 PM
52 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why didn’t Agoric Com­put­ing be­come pop­u­lar?

Wei DaiFeb 16, 2019, 6:19 AM
52 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Co­her­ent be­havi­our in the real world is an in­co­her­ent concept

Richard_NgoFeb 11, 2019, 5:00 PM
51 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

Con­clu­sion to the se­quence on value learning

Rohin ShahFeb 3, 2019, 9:05 PM
51 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

Ur­gent & im­por­tant: How (not) to do your to-do list

bfinnFeb 1, 2019, 5:44 PM
51 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

Richard_NgoFeb 12, 2019, 10:40 AM
51 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] How does OpenAI’s lan­guage model af­fect our AI timeline es­ti­mates?

jimrandomhFeb 15, 2019, 3:11 AM
50 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing Jar­gon Confusion

RaemonFeb 17, 2019, 11:37 PM
46 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

The Pre­dic­tion Pyra­mid: Why Fun­da­men­tal Work is Needed for Pre­dic­tion Work

ozziegooenFeb 14, 2019, 4:21 PM
43 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

(notes on) Policy Desider­ata for Su­per­in­tel­li­gent AI: A Vec­tor Field Approach

Ben PaceFeb 4, 2019, 10:08 PM
43 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Learn­ing prefer­ences by look­ing at the world

Rohin ShahFeb 12, 2019, 10:25 PM
43 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

Ma­jor Dona­tion: Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion Ex­tended 1 Week

habrykaFeb 16, 2019, 11:30 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Is vot­ing the­ory im­por­tant? An at­tempt to check my bias.

Jameson QuinnFeb 17, 2019, 11:45 PM
42 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

HCH is not just Me­chan­i­cal Turk

William_SFeb 9, 2019, 12:46 AM
42 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Philos­o­phy as low-en­ergy approximation

Charlie SteinerFeb 5, 2019, 7:34 PM
41 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

How to get value learn­ing and refer­ence wrong

Charlie SteinerFeb 26, 2019, 8:22 PM
40 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­tions of GPT-2

GurkenglasFeb 18, 2019, 10:57 AM
38 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Know­ing I’m Be­ing Tricked is Barely Enough

ElizabethFeb 26, 2019, 5:50 PM
38 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

The RAIN Frame­work for In­for­ma­tional Effectiveness

ozziegooenFeb 13, 2019, 12:54 PM
37 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

New ver­sions of posts in “Map and Ter­ri­tory” and “How To Ac­tu­ally Change Your Mind” are up (also, new re­vi­sion sys­tem)

habrykaFeb 26, 2019, 3:17 AM
36 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Some dis­junc­tive rea­sons for ur­gency on AI risk

Wei DaiFeb 15, 2019, 8:43 PM
36 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Is the World Get­ting Bet­ter? A brief sum­mary of re­cent debate

ErickBallFeb 6, 2019, 5:38 PM
35 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(capx.co)

[Question] When should we ex­pect the ed­u­ca­tion bub­ble to pop? How can we short it?

Bird ConceptFeb 9, 2019, 9:39 PM
35 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Drexler on AI Risk

PeterMcCluskeyFeb 1, 2019, 5:11 AM
35 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

EA grants available (to in­di­vi­d­u­als)

Jameson QuinnFeb 7, 2019, 3:17 PM
34 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Can HCH epistem­i­cally dom­i­nate Ra­manu­jan?

zhukeepaFeb 23, 2019, 10:00 PM
33 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why do you re­ject nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Teo AjantaivalFeb 11, 2019, 3:38 PM
32 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

De­cel­er­at­ing: laser vs gun vs rocket

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 18, 2019, 11:21 PM
31 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity Penalties in Statis­ti­cal Learning

michael_hFeb 6, 2019, 4:13 AM
31 points
3 comments6 min readLW link