Con­straints & Slack­ness Rea­son­ing Exercises

johnswentworth21 May 2019 22:53 UTC
42 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

A Quick Tax­on­omy of Ar­gu­ments for The­o­ret­i­cal Eng­ineer­ing Capabilities

Ruby21 May 2019 22:38 UTC
30 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Could hu­man­ity ac­com­plish ev­ery­thing which na­ture has? Why might this not be the case?

Ruby21 May 2019 21:03 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Could hu­man­ity ever achieve atom­i­cally pre­cise man­u­fac­tur­ing (APM)? What about a much-smarter-than-hu­man-level in­tel­li­gence?

Ruby21 May 2019 21:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

TAISU—Tech­ni­cal AI Safety Unconference

Linda Linsefors21 May 2019 18:34 UTC
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Go Do Something

Davis_Kingsley21 May 2019 15:42 UTC
38 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

More Notes on Sim­ple Rules

Zvi21 May 2019 14:50 UTC
34 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

By de­fault, avoid am­bigu­ous dis­tant situations

Stuart_Armstrong21 May 2019 14:48 UTC
33 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Hunt­ing­ton’s Disease; power and duty of par­ents over offsprings

Yuxi_Liu21 May 2019 9:42 UTC
6 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #56] Should ML re­searchers stop run­ning ex­per­i­ments be­fore mak­ing hy­pothe­ses?

Rohin Shah21 May 2019 2:20 UTC
21 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why long-term AI safety is not an is­sue (IMHO)

bommi21 May 2019 1:48 UTC
−10 points
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The con­cept of ev­i­dence as hu­man­ity cur­rently uses it is a bit of a crutch.

TheSkeward20 May 2019 23:09 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ethics as War­fare: Me­ta­physics and Mo­ral­ity of the Era of Transhumanism

Dubioustunic20 May 2019 20:28 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would an op­tion to pub­lish to AF users only be a use­ful fea­ture?

Richard_Ngo20 May 2019 11:04 UTC
13 points
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Min­i­max Search and the Struc­ture of Cog­ni­tion!

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2019 5:25 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(zackmdavis.net)

Com­ment sec­tion from 05/​19/​2019

habryka20 May 2019 0:51 UTC
23 points
139 comments1 min readLW link

Get­ting Out of the Filter Bub­ble Out­side Your Filter Bubble

Evan_Gaensbauer20 May 2019 0:15 UTC
21 points
29 comments6 min readLW link

Naked mole-rats: A case study in biolog­i­cal weirdness

eukaryote19 May 2019 18:40 UTC
95 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Sim­ple Rules of Law

Zvi19 May 2019 0:10 UTC
55 points
24 comments28 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are good prac­tices for us­ing Google Scholar to re­search an­swers to LessWrong Ques­tions?

Pee Doom18 May 2019 21:44 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion Ty­pol­ogy and Ter­mi­na­tion Risks

avturchin18 May 2019 12:42 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Yes Re­quires the Pos­si­bil­ity of No

Scott Garrabrant17 May 2019 22:39 UTC
261 points
55 comments2 min readLW link2 reviews

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

gwern17 May 2019 22:03 UTC
33 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

An­nounc­ing my YouTube channel

Samo Burja17 May 2019 17:50 UTC
40 points
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(medium.com)

[Question] What makes a sci­en­tific fact ‘ripe for dis­cov­ery’?

Matt Goldenberg17 May 2019 9:01 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Why ex­actly is the song ‘Baby Shark’ so catchy?

Pee Doom17 May 2019 6:26 UTC
6 points
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[Question] What is good liter­a­ture on learned hel­pless­ness?

Pee Doom17 May 2019 3:15 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good ex­am­ples of gam­ing that is hard to de­tect?

SoerenMind16 May 2019 16:10 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Offer of col­lab­o­ra­tion and/​or mentorship

Vanessa Kosoy16 May 2019 14:16 UTC
76 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

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

Richard_Ngo16 May 2019 12:58 UTC
38 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Euro­pean Com­mu­nity Week­end 2019

DreamFlasher16 May 2019 11:44 UTC
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Kevin Sim­ler’s “Go­ing Crit­i­cal”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC
56 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.meltingasphalt.com)

[Question] How do you know it’s time for a break?

Elizabeth16 May 2019 4:33 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What is this new (?) Less Wrong fea­ture? (“hid­den re­lated ques­tion”)

Said Achmiz15 May 2019 23:51 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fea­ture Re­quest: Self-im­posed Time Restrictions

Adam Zerner15 May 2019 22:35 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Why I’ve started us­ing NoScript

benwr15 May 2019 21:32 UTC
17 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Emo­tional valence as cog­ni­tion mu­ta­tor (not a bug, but a fea­ture)

Slider15 May 2019 12:49 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

DC LW: Psychedelics

rusalkii15 May 2019 3:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI Sum­mer Fel­lows Program

colm15 May 2019 0:28 UTC
49 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Data Anal­y­sis of LW: Ac­tivity Levels + Age Distri­bu­tion of User Accounts

Ruby14 May 2019 23:53 UTC
27 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Boo votes, Yay NPS

Gordon Seidoh Worley14 May 2019 19:07 UTC
29 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

Eight Books To Read

Samo Burja14 May 2019 17:40 UTC
69 points
11 comments6 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] Flash­cards for AI Safety?

Søren Elverlin14 May 2019 14:37 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­te­grat­ing dis­agree­ing subagents

Kaj_Sotala14 May 2019 14:06 UTC
141 points
15 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] How to im­prove at crit­i­cal think­ing on sci­ence/​med­i­cal liter­a­ture?

hereisonehand14 May 2019 11:58 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Epistea Sum­mer Experiment

Jan_Kulveit13 May 2019 21:29 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing Fast and Hard

Jacob Falkovich13 May 2019 19:58 UTC
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Phys­i­cal linguistics

Yuxi_Liu13 May 2019 19:30 UTC
16 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

In sup­port of the in­side view and a counter to mod­est episte­mol­ogy

solomon alon13 May 2019 15:21 UTC
−7 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LessWrong /​ SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise13 May 2019 1:56 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link