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Automated Nomic Game 2
jefftk
Feb 5, 2019, 10:11 PM
19
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Should we bait criminals using clones ?
Aël Chappuit
Feb 5, 2019, 9:13 PM
−23
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Describing things: parsimony, fruitfulness, and adaptability
Mary Chernyshenko
Feb 5, 2019, 8:59 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Philosophy as low-energy approximation
Charlie Steiner
Feb 5, 2019, 7:34 PM
41
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
When to use quantilization
RyanCarey
Feb 5, 2019, 5:17 PM
65
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(notes on) Policy Desiderata for Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach
Ben Pace
Feb 4, 2019, 10:08 PM
43
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
SSC Paris Meetup, 09/02/18
fbreton
Feb 4, 2019, 7:54 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
January 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Feb 4, 2019, 3:53 PM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
(Why) Does the Basilisk Argument fail?
Lookingforyourlogic
Feb 3, 2019, 11:50 PM
0
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Constructing Goodhart
johnswentworth
Feb 3, 2019, 9:59 PM
29
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Conclusion to the sequence on value learning
Rohin Shah
Feb 3, 2019, 9:05 PM
51
points
20
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AI Safety Prerequisites Course: Revamp and New Lessons
philip_b
Feb 3, 2019, 9:04 PM
24
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some of bizarre theories based on anthropic reasoning?
Dr. Jamchie
Feb 3, 2019, 6:48 PM
21
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rationality: What’s the point?
Hazard
Feb 3, 2019, 4:34 PM
12
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quantifying Human Suffering and “Everyday Suffering”
willfranks
Feb 3, 2019, 1:07 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to stay concentrated for a long period of time?
infinickel
Feb 3, 2019, 5:24 AM
6
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to notice being mind-hacked
Shmi
Feb 2, 2019, 11:13 PM
18
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Depression philosophizing
aaq
Feb 2, 2019, 10:54 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LessWrong DC: Metameetup
rusalkii
Feb 2, 2019, 6:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC Atlanta Meetup
Steve French
Feb 2, 2019, 3:11 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?
Scott Garrabrant
Feb 2, 2019, 12:14 AM
68
points
19
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Philadelphia SSC Meetup
Majuscule
Feb 1, 2019, 11:51 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
STRUCTURE: Reality and rational best practice
Hazard
Feb 1, 2019, 11:51 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Attempt To Explain No-Self In Simple Terms
Justin Vriend
Feb 1, 2019, 11:50 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
STRUCTURE: How the Social Affects your rationality
Hazard
Feb 1, 2019, 11:35 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
STRUCTURE: A Crash Course in Your Brain
Hazard
Feb 1, 2019, 11:17 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
February Nashville SSC Meetup
Dude McDude
Feb 1, 2019, 10:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What kind of information would serve as the best evidence for resolving the debate of whether a centrist or leftist Democratic nominee is likelier to take the White House in 2020?
Evan_Gaensbauer
Feb 1, 2019, 6:40 PM
10
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list
bfinn
Feb 1, 2019, 5:44 PM
51
points
20
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Bucky
Feb 1, 2019, 2:02 PM
29
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
What is Wrong?
Inyuki
Feb 1, 2019, 12:02 PM
1
point
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Drexler on AI Risk
PeterMcCluskey
Feb 1, 2019, 5:11 AM
35
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
Boundaries—A map and territory experiment. [post-rationality]
Elo
Feb 1, 2019, 2:08 AM
−18
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is this utilitarian calculus wrong? Or is it?
EconomicModel
Jan 31, 2019, 11:57 PM
15
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Small hope for less bias and more practability
ArthurLidia
Jan 31, 2019, 10:09 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reliability amplification
paulfchristiano
Jan 31, 2019, 9:12 PM
24
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Cambridge (UK) SSC meetup
thisheavenlyconjugation
Jan 31, 2019, 11:45 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The role of epistemic vs. aleatory uncertainty in quantifying AI-Xrisk
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Jan 31, 2019, 6:13 AM
15
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Applied Rationality podcast—feedback?
Bae's Theorem
Jan 31, 2019, 1:46 AM
11
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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
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