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What failure looks like
paulfchristiano
Mar 17, 2019, 8:18 PM
434
points
55
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Cryopreservation of Valia Zeldin
avturchin
Mar 17, 2019, 7:15 PM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Insights from Munkres’ Topology
Rafael Harth
Mar 17, 2019, 4:52 PM
30
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Motivational Meeting Place
Vincent B
Mar 17, 2019, 4:17 PM
8
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Ask LW: Have you read Yudkowsky’s AI to Zombie book?
CaiwitzAzaria
Mar 17, 2019, 1:31 PM
10
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?
clone of saturn
Mar 17, 2019, 9:16 AM
33
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How large is the fallout area of the biggest cobalt bomb we can build?
habryka
Mar 17, 2019, 5:50 AM
20
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A cognitive intervention for wrist pain
rmoehn
Mar 17, 2019, 5:26 AM
28
points
24
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Has “politics is the mind-killer” been a mind-killer?
SonnieBailey
Mar 17, 2019, 3:05 AM
31
points
26
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Comparison of decision theories (with a focus on logical-counterfactual decision theories)
riceissa
Mar 16, 2019, 9:15 PM
78
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Terrorism and Russell’s love of excitement
CaiwitzAzaria
Mar 16, 2019, 6:53 AM
−9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Boeing 737 MAX MCAS as an agent corrigibility failure
Shmi
Mar 16, 2019, 1:46 AM
60
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Humans aren’t agents—what then for value learning?
Charlie Steiner
Mar 15, 2019, 10:01 PM
28
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Privacy
Zvi
Mar 15, 2019, 8:20 PM
79
points
78
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Active Curiosity vs Open Curiosity
Unreal
Mar 15, 2019, 4:54 PM
76
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
IDA 5-8/14: Approval Directed Agents
RAISE
Mar 14, 2019, 11:58 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(app.grasple.com)
Nashville SSC March Meetup
Dude McDude
Mar 14, 2019, 7:37 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Risk of Mass Human Suffering / Extinction due to Climate Emergency
willfranks
Mar 14, 2019, 6:32 PM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Speculations on Duo Standard
Zvi
Mar 14, 2019, 2:30 PM
9
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Combining individual preference utility functions
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 14, 2019, 2:14 PM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mysteries, identity, and preferences over non-rewards
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 14, 2019, 1:52 PM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Blackmailers are privateers in the war on hypocrisy
Benquo
Mar 14, 2019, 8:13 AM
25
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
AI Safety Prerequisites Course: Basic abstract representations of computation
RAISE
Mar 13, 2019, 7:38 PM
28
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Question: MIRI Corrigbility Agenda
algon33
Mar 13, 2019, 7:38 PM
15
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A theory of human values
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 13, 2019, 3:22 PM
28
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Formalising continuous info cascades? [Info-cascade series]
Ben Pace
and
Bird Concept
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 AM
16
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How large is the harm from info-cascades? [Info-cascade series]
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 AM
22
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How can we respond to info-cascades? [Info-cascade series]
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 AM
14
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Distribution of info-cascades across fields? [Info-cascade series]
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 AM
14
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Understanding information cascades
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Mar 13, 2019, 10:55 AM
50
points
42
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Verifying vNM-rationality requires an ontology
jeyoor
Mar 13, 2019, 12:03 AM
25
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] OpenAI LP
Alexei
Mar 12, 2019, 11:22 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
DATE CHANGE: Mar 18: Lexington, KY, US
nathanheller
Mar 12, 2019, 10:01 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Update 2019-03-12 -- Bugfixes, small features
jimrandomh
Mar 12, 2019, 9:56 PM
17
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
You Get About Five Words
Raemon
Mar 12, 2019, 8:30 PM
250
points
81
comments
1
min read
LW
link
6
reviews
[Old] Wayfinding series
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 12, 2019, 5:54 PM
8
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Old] Mapmaking Series
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Mar 12, 2019, 5:32 PM
8
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
The tech left behind
Leafcraft
Mar 12, 2019, 2:47 PM
25
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New York Restaurants I Love: Pizza
Zvi
Mar 12, 2019, 12:10 PM
10
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
How to Understand and Mitigate Risk
Matt Goldenberg
Mar 12, 2019, 10:14 AM
55
points
30
comments
16
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If you wrote a letter to your future self every day, what would you put in it?
Pee Doom
Mar 12, 2019, 9:42 AM
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alignment Newsletter #48
Rohin Shah
Mar 11, 2019, 9:10 PM
29
points
14
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Designing agent incentives to avoid side effects
Vika
and
TurnTrout
Mar 11, 2019, 8:55 PM
29
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
What Vibing Feels Like
Matt Goldenberg
Mar 11, 2019, 8:10 PM
19
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Example population ethics: ordered discounted utility
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 11, 2019, 4:10 PM
19
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Call for Contributions: Implied Marginal Value of Time from Good/Services
skinnersboxy
Mar 11, 2019, 3:59 PM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Blegg Mode
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 11, 2019, 3:04 PM
18
points
68
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(unremediatedgender.space)
IRL 2/8: Mitigating degeneracy: multiple experimentation
RAISE
11 Mar 2019 13:33 UTC
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(app.grasple.com)
Meta-Doomsday Argument: Uncertainty About the Validity of the Probabilistic Prediction of the End of the World
avturchin
11 Mar 2019 10:30 UTC
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(philpapers.org)
This is Why Your Hard Work Sits on the Shelf — and Here’s What to Do About It
Ian David Moss
11 Mar 2019 1:09 UTC
2
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
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