Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott GarrabrantMay 17, 2019, 10:39 PM
287 points
55 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

Co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent utilities

Eliezer YudkowskyMay 12, 2019, 9:33 PM
149 points
83 comments26 min readLW link3 reviews

In­te­grat­ing dis­agree­ing subagents

Kaj_SotalaMay 14, 2019, 2:06 PM
147 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

The Re­la­tion­ship Between the Village and the Mission

RaemonMay 12, 2019, 9:09 PM
137 points
70 comments18 min readLW link

Say Wrong Things

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 24, 2019, 10:11 PM
116 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Quotes from Mo­ral Mazes

ZviMay 30, 2019, 11:50 AM
114 points
27 comments53 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Com­plex Be­hav­ior from Sim­ple (Sub)Agents

moridinamaelMay 10, 2019, 9:44 PM
113 points
14 comments9 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Where are peo­ple think­ing and talk­ing about global co­or­di­na­tion for AI safety?

Wei DaiMay 22, 2019, 6:24 AM
112 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Naked mole-rats: A case study in biolog­i­cal weirdness

eukaryoteMay 19, 2019, 6:40 PM
95 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Dis­in­cen­tives for par­ti­ci­pat­ing on LW/​AF

Wei DaiMay 10, 2019, 7:46 PM
86 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Offer of col­lab­o­ra­tion and/​or mentorship

Vanessa KosoyMay 16, 2019, 2:16 PM
76 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

And the AI would have got away with it too, if...

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 22, 2019, 9:35 PM
75 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Eight Books To Read

Samo BurjaMay 14, 2019, 5:40 PM
69 points
11 comments6 min readLW link
(medium.com)

In­ter­pre­ta­tions of “prob­a­bil­ity”

So8resMay 9, 2019, 7:16 PM
69 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Sur­veys: why we should sur­vey to or­ga­nize re­spon­si­bil­ities, not just predictions

AcademianMay 7, 2019, 5:43 PM
68 points
12 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Sepa­ra­tion of Concerns

abramdemskiMay 23, 2019, 9:47 PM
67 points
30 comments6 min readLW link

Tales From the Amer­i­can Med­i­cal System

ZviMay 10, 2019, 12:40 AM
64 points
48 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ed Boy­den on the State of Science

Ben PaceMay 13, 2019, 1:54 AM
62 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Dishon­est Up­date Reporting

ZviMay 4, 2019, 2:10 PM
61 points
27 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sim­ple Rules of Law

ZviMay 19, 2019, 12:10 AM
57 points
24 comments28 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Kevin Sim­ler’s “Go­ing Crit­i­cal”

habrykaMay 16, 2019, 4:36 AM
56 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

Micro feed­back loops and learning

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) May 26, 2019, 12:50 AM
53 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

How to find a lost phone with dead bat­tery, us­ing Google Lo­ca­tion His­tory Takeout

Wei DaiMay 30, 2019, 4:56 AM
53 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Towards op­ti­mal play as Villager in a mixed game

BenquoMay 7, 2019, 5:29 AM
51 points
40 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

“UDT2” and “against UD+ASSA”

Wei DaiMay 12, 2019, 4:18 AM
50 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Claims & As­sump­tions made in Eter­nity in Six Hours

RubyMay 8, 2019, 11:11 PM
50 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

colmMay 15, 2019, 12:28 AM
49 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Self-con­firm­ing pre­dic­tions can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 3, 2019, 11:34 AM
49 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How long can peo­ple be pro­duc­tive in [time pe­riod]?

ElizabethMay 6, 2019, 10:35 PM
48 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Blame games

BenquoMay 6, 2019, 2:38 AM
46 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Cor­re­spon­dence vi­su­al­iza­tions for differ­ent in­ter­pre­ta­tions of “prob­a­bil­ity”

So8resMay 10, 2019, 5:10 PM
43 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Con­straints & Slack­ness Rea­son­ing Exercises

johnswentworthMay 21, 2019, 10:53 PM
42 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

What Botswana Can Teach Us About Poli­ti­cal Stability

Samo BurjaMay 9, 2019, 6:30 PM
40 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

An­nounc­ing my YouTube channel

Samo BurjaMay 17, 2019, 5:50 PM
40 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Prob­a­bil­ity in­ter­pre­ta­tions: Examples

So8resMay 11, 2019, 8:32 PM
39 points
23 comments5 min readLW link

Kiss­ing Scars

Logan RiggsMay 9, 2019, 4:00 PM
39 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Go Do Something

Davis_KingsleyMay 21, 2019, 3:42 PM
38 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

Richard_NgoMay 16, 2019, 12:58 PM
38 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Author­i­tar­ian Empiricism

BenquoMay 3, 2019, 7:34 PM
38 points
10 comments10 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2019

DreamFlasherMay 16, 2019, 11:44 AM
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

345M ver­sion GPT-2 released

lifelonglearnerMay 5, 2019, 2:49 AM
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

A Map of the Less­wrong-O-Sphere of Interest

EloMay 4, 2019, 4:19 AM
35 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Nash equil­ibriums can be ar­bi­trar­ily bad

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 1, 2019, 2:58 PM
35 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

More Notes on Sim­ple Rules

ZviMay 21, 2019, 2:50 PM
34 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The State of Affairs

Jacob FalkovichMay 3, 2019, 4:18 PM
33 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

By de­fault, avoid am­bigu­ous dis­tant situations

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 21, 2019, 2:48 PM
33 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaikMay 5, 2019, 3:21 PM
33 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

“One Man’s Mo­dus Po­nens Is Another Man’s Mo­dus Tol­lens”

gwernMay 17, 2019, 10:03 PM
33 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Crypto quant trad­ing: Naive Bayes

AlexeiMay 7, 2019, 7:29 PM
33 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

To­tal­i­tar­ian eth­i­cal systems

BenquoMay 3, 2019, 7:35 PM
33 points
12 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)