Ex­cerpts from a larger dis­cus­sion about simulacra

Benquo10 Apr 2019 21:27 UTC
53 points
40 comments6 min readLW link5 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] Best rea­sons for pes­simism about im­pact of im­pact mea­sures?

TurnTrout10 Apr 2019 17:22 UTC
60 points
55 comments3 min readLW link

“In­tel­li­gence is im­pos­si­ble with­out emo­tion” — Yann LeCun

vedevazz10 Apr 2019 17:17 UTC
−1 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Align­ment Newslet­ter One Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah10 Apr 2019 6:58 UTC
94 points
31 comments21 min readLW link

Friendly SSC and LW meetup

Sean Aubin9 Apr 2019 15:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Friendly SSC and LW meetup

Sean Aubin9 Apr 2019 15:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Agent Meta-Foun­da­tions and the Rocket Align­ment Problem

Chris_Leong9 Apr 2019 11:33 UTC
12 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

The Sim­ple Solow Model of Soft­ware Engineering

johnswentworth8 Apr 2019 23:06 UTC
25 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

IRL 6/​8: Query­ing the hu­man: Ac­tive Re­ward Learning

RAISE8 Apr 2019 13:49 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(app.grasple.com)

[Question] [Spoilers] How did Volde­mort learn the hor­crux spell?

Motasaurus8 Apr 2019 5:03 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Long Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant decisions

habryka8 Apr 2019 2:05 UTC
53 points
0 comments46 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Hard Work of Trans­la­tion (Bud­dhism)

romeostevensit7 Apr 2019 21:04 UTC
112 points
139 comments5 min readLW link3 reviews

Towards a Quieter Life

Logan Riggs7 Apr 2019 18:28 UTC
17 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment learn­ing with im­per­cep­ti­ble rewards

Vanessa Kosoy7 Apr 2019 10:27 UTC
26 points
1 comment29 min readLW link

Fac­tored Cog­ni­tion with Reflection

rmoehn6 Apr 2019 10:00 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #52

Rohin Shah6 Apr 2019 1:20 UTC
19 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

SSC Sacra­mento Meetup

jooyous5 Apr 2019 13:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would solv­ing log­i­cal coun­ter­fac­tu­als solve an­throp­ics?

Chris_Leong5 Apr 2019 11:08 UTC
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Rules and Skills

Andrew Bindon5 Apr 2019 10:50 UTC
−4 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How would a bet­ter re­place­ment for tis­sues look like?

ChristianKl5 Apr 2019 9:13 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Au­mann Agree­ment by Combat

roryokane5 Apr 2019 5:15 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(sigbovik.org)

Cam­bridge SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise5 Apr 2019 2:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do peo­ple be­come am­bi­tious?

Raemon4 Apr 2019 19:12 UTC
59 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ling Model Comparisons

Logan Riggs4 Apr 2019 17:26 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

IRL 5/​8: Max­i­mum Causal En­tropy IRL

RAISE4 Apr 2019 10:53 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(app.grasple.com)

Ideas ahead of their time

Theist3 Apr 2019 22:15 UTC
9 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo

Bae's Theorem3 Apr 2019 21:43 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

On AI and Compute

johncrox3 Apr 2019 19:00 UTC
36 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What are the ad­van­tages and dis­ad­van­tages of know­ing your own IQ?

Mati_Roy3 Apr 2019 18:31 UTC
16 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Ma­chine Pastoralism

ryan_b3 Apr 2019 16:04 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could waste heat be­come an en­vi­ron­ment prob­lem in the fu­ture (cen­turies)?

RocksBasil3 Apr 2019 14:48 UTC
7 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Defeat­ing Good­hart and the “clos­est un­blocked strat­egy” problem

Stuart_Armstrong3 Apr 2019 14:46 UTC
45 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] [HPMOR] “the Head­mas­ter set fire to a chicken!”

bipolo3 Apr 2019 9:12 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter #51

Rohin Shah3 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC
25 points
2 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

LW Up­date 2019-04-02 – Front­page Rework

Raemon2 Apr 2019 23:48 UTC
47 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

De­grees of Freedom

sarahconstantin2 Apr 2019 21:10 UTC
103 points
31 comments11 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Tri­an­gle SSC Meetup-April

willbobaggins2 Apr 2019 18:42 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

March 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern2 Apr 2019 14:17 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

In­ter­net v. Cul­ture (2019) - Los An­ge­les LW/​SSC Meetup #103 (Wed­nes­day, April 3rd)

RobertM2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[April Fools] User GPT2 is Banned

jimrandomh2 Apr 2019 6:00 UTC
64 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

post-ra­tio­nal distractions

nBrown2 Apr 2019 2:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Postrationality

Pee Doom2 Apr 2019 1:17 UTC
110 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

User GPT2 Has a Warn­ing for Vio­lat­ing Front­page Com­ment­ing Guidelines

jimrandomh1 Apr 2019 20:23 UTC
40 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Prompts for elic­it­ing blind spots/​bucket er­rors/​bugs

ZeitPolizei1 Apr 2019 19:41 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing “known” in­for­ma­tion when the in­for­ma­tion is not ac­tu­ally known

Stuart_Armstrong1 Apr 2019 17:56 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

I found a wild ex­pla­na­tion for two big anoma­lies in meta­physics then be­came very doubt­ful of it

mako yass1 Apr 2019 3:19 UTC
26 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

On the Na­ture of Agency

Ruby1 Apr 2019 1:32 UTC
31 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal Open Thread April 2019: So­cratic method

null1 Apr 2019 1:29 UTC
23 points
165 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread April 2019

null1 Apr 2019 1:14 UTC
19 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are effec­tive strate­gies for miti­gat­ing the im­pact of acute sleep de­pri­va­tion on cog­ni­tion?

NaiveTortoise31 Mar 2019 18:31 UTC
25 points
38 comments1 min readLW link