What failure looks like

paulfchristiano17 Mar 2019 20:18 UTC
403 points
54 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Cry­op­reser­va­tion of Valia Zeldin

avturchin17 Mar 2019 19:15 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

In­sights from Munkres’ Topology

Rafael Harth17 Mar 2019 16:52 UTC
30 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tional Meet­ing Place

Vincent B17 Mar 2019 16:17 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Ask LW: Have you read Yud­kowsky’s AI to Zom­bie book?

CaiwitzAzaria17 Mar 2019 13:31 UTC
10 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What so­cieties have ever had le­gal or ac­cepted black­mail?

clone of saturn17 Mar 2019 9:16 UTC
33 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How large is the fal­lout area of the biggest cobalt bomb we can build?

habryka17 Mar 2019 5:50 UTC
20 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A cog­ni­tive in­ter­ven­tion for wrist pain

rmoehn17 Mar 2019 5:26 UTC
28 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

Has “poli­tics is the mind-kil­ler” been a mind-kil­ler?

SonnieBailey17 Mar 2019 3:05 UTC
31 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

Com­par­i­son of de­ci­sion the­o­ries (with a fo­cus on log­i­cal-coun­ter­fac­tual de­ci­sion the­o­ries)

riceissa16 Mar 2019 21:15 UTC
77 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

Ter­ror­ism and Rus­sell’s love of excitement

CaiwitzAzaria16 Mar 2019 6:53 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Boe­ing 737 MAX MCAS as an agent cor­rigi­bil­ity failure

shminux16 Mar 2019 1:46 UTC
60 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­mans aren’t agents—what then for value learn­ing?

Charlie Steiner15 Mar 2019 22:01 UTC
21 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Privacy

Zvi15 Mar 2019 20:20 UTC
79 points
78 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ac­tive Cu­ri­os­ity vs Open Curiosity

Unreal15 Mar 2019 16:54 UTC
70 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

IDA 5-8/​14: Ap­proval Directed Agents

RAISE14 Mar 2019 23:58 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(app.grasple.com)

Nashville SSC March Meetup

Dude McDude14 Mar 2019 19:37 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Risk of Mass Hu­man Suffer­ing /​ Ex­tinc­tion due to Cli­mate Emer­gency

willfranks14 Mar 2019 18:32 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions on Duo Standard

Zvi14 Mar 2019 14:30 UTC
9 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Com­bin­ing in­di­vi­d­ual prefer­ence util­ity functions

Stuart_Armstrong14 Mar 2019 14:14 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mys­ter­ies, iden­tity, and prefer­ences over non-rewards

Stuart_Armstrong14 Mar 2019 13:52 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Black­mailers are pri­va­teers in the war on hypocrisy

Benquo14 Mar 2019 8:13 UTC
25 points
21 comments5 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

AI Safety Pr­ereq­ui­sites Course: Ba­sic ab­stract rep­re­sen­ta­tions of computation

RAISE13 Mar 2019 19:38 UTC
28 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ques­tion: MIRI Cor­rig­bil­ity Agenda

algon3313 Mar 2019 19:38 UTC
15 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

A the­ory of hu­man values

Stuart_Armstrong13 Mar 2019 15:22 UTC
28 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] For­mal­is­ing con­tin­u­ous info cas­cades? [Info-cas­cade se­ries]

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How large is the harm from info-cas­cades? [Info-cas­cade se­ries]

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can we re­spond to info-cas­cades? [Info-cas­cade se­ries]

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Distri­bu­tion of info-cas­cades across fields? [Info-cas­cade se­ries]

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Un­der­stand­ing in­for­ma­tion cascades

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC
50 points
42 comments3 min readLW link

Ver­ify­ing vNM-ra­tio­nal­ity re­quires an ontology

jeyoor13 Mar 2019 0:03 UTC
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] OpenAI LP

Alexei12 Mar 2019 23:22 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

DATE CHANGE: Mar 18: Lex­ing­ton, KY, US

nathanheller12 Mar 2019 22:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Up­date 2019-03-12 -- Bugfixes, small features

jimrandomh12 Mar 2019 21:56 UTC
17 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

You Get About Five Words

Raemon12 Mar 2019 20:30 UTC
201 points
77 comments1 min readLW link6 reviews

[Old] Wayfind­ing series

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Mar 2019 17:54 UTC
8 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

[Old] Map­mak­ing Series

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Mar 2019 17:32 UTC
8 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] The tech left behind

Leafcraft12 Mar 2019 14:47 UTC
25 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

New York Res­tau­rants I Love: Pizza

Zvi12 Mar 2019 12:10 UTC
10 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Un­der­stand and Miti­gate Risk

Matt Goldenberg12 Mar 2019 10:14 UTC
55 points
30 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] If you wrote a let­ter to your fu­ture self ev­ery day, what would you put in it?

Pee Doom12 Mar 2019 9:42 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #48

Rohin Shah11 Mar 2019 21:10 UTC
29 points
14 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

De­sign­ing agent in­cen­tives to avoid side effects

11 Mar 2019 20:55 UTC
29 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

What Vibing Feels Like

Matt Goldenberg11 Mar 2019 20:10 UTC
19 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ple pop­u­la­tion ethics: or­dered dis­counted utility

Stuart_Armstrong11 Mar 2019 16:10 UTC
19 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Call for Con­tri­bu­tions: Im­plied Marginal Value of Time from Good/​Services

skinnersboxy11 Mar 2019 15:59 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Blegg Mode

Zack_M_Davis11 Mar 2019 15:04 UTC
18 points
68 comments1 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

IRL 2/​8: Miti­gat­ing de­gen­er­acy: mul­ti­ple experimentation

RAISE11 Mar 2019 13:33 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(app.grasple.com)

Meta-Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment: Uncer­tainty About the Val­idity of the Prob­a­bil­is­tic Pre­dic­tion of the End of the World

avturchin11 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

This is Why Your Hard Work Sits on the Shelf — and Here’s What to Do About It

Ian David Moss11 Mar 2019 1:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)