Dis­cus­sion Thread: The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers

RubyJun 17, 2019, 11:43 PM
26 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search Agenda v0.9: Syn­the­sis­ing a hu­man’s prefer­ences into a util­ity function

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2019, 5:46 PM
70 points
26 comments33 min readLW link

Prefer­ence con­di­tional on cir­cum­stances and past prefer­ence satisfaction

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2019, 3:30 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] In phys­i­cal es­cha­tol­ogy, is Aes­ti­va­tion a sound strat­egy?

mako yassJun 17, 2019, 7:27 AM
17 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a guide to ‘Prob­lems that are too fast to Google’?

VaniverJun 17, 2019, 5:04 AM
48 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

ISO: Au­to­mated P-Hack­ing Detection

johnswentworthJun 16, 2019, 9:15 PM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does sci­en­tific pro­duc­tivity cor­re­late with IQ?

Eli TyreJun 16, 2019, 7:42 PM
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does the _timing_ of prac­tice, rel­a­tive to sleep, make a differ­ence for skill con­soli­da­tion?

Eli TyreJun 16, 2019, 7:12 PM
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is “phys­i­cal non­de­ter­minism” a mean­ingful con­cept?

LironJun 16, 2019, 3:55 PM
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

SSC-Madi­son: An­drew Yang

marywangJun 16, 2019, 2:09 PM
3 points
1 commentLW link

Rea­son­able Explanations

AlicornJun 16, 2019, 5:29 AM
78 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­cel­er­ate with­out hu­man­ity: Sum­mary of Nick Land’s philosophy

Yuxi_LiuJun 16, 2019, 3:22 AM
37 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

28 so­cial psy­chol­ogy stud­ies from *Ex­per­i­ments With Peo­ple* (Frey & Gregg, 2017)

Yuxi_LiuJun 16, 2019, 2:23 AM
12 points
1 comment26 min readLW link

The Uni­vari­ate Fallacy

Zack_M_DavisJun 15, 2019, 9:43 PM
34 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

On See­ing Through ‘On See­ing Through: A Unified The­ory’: A Unified Theory

gwernJun 15, 2019, 6:57 PM
26 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Do policy mak­ers fre­quently un­der­es­ti­mate non-hu­man threats (ie: epi­demic, nat­u­ral dis­asters, cli­mate change) when com­pared to threats that are hu­man in na­ture (ie: mil­i­tary con­flict, eco­nomic com­pe­ti­tion, Cold War)?

RocksBasilJun 15, 2019, 4:29 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Press Your Luck

ZviJun 15, 2019, 3:30 PM
14 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Paper on qual­i­ta­tive types or de­grees of knowl­edge, with ex­am­ples from medicine?

KennyJun 15, 2019, 12:31 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­men­da­tion Fea­tures on LessWrong

Jun 15, 2019, 12:23 AM
62 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­course Norms: Moder­a­tors Must Not Bully

Davis_KingsleyJun 14, 2019, 11:22 PM
7 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

SSC Sacra­mento Meetup

jooyousJun 14, 2019, 11:08 PM
8 points
3 commentsLW link

Wel­come to LessWrong!

Jun 14, 2019, 7:42 PM
466 points
71 comments2 min readLW link

LessWrong FAQ

RubyJun 14, 2019, 7:03 PM
90 points
55 comments25 min readLW link

On Freud’s ex­am­i­na­tion of the Un­canny in Literature

KyriakosCHJun 14, 2019, 5:40 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Un­known Un­knowns in AI Alignment

sayanJun 14, 2019, 5:07 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex Madi­son Meetup: Men­tal Health and Moloch

marywangJun 14, 2019, 2:59 AM
2 points
1 commentLW link

Sto­ry­tel­ling and the evolu­tion of hu­man intelligence

Richard_KennawayJun 13, 2019, 8:13 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Real-World Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems are Usu­ally In­for­ma­tion Problems

johnswentworthJun 13, 2019, 6:21 PM
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

On Hav­ing Enough Socks

gwernJun 13, 2019, 3:15 PM
21 points
9 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Learn­ing Over Time for AI and Hu­mans and Rationality

jmhJun 13, 2019, 1:23 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Some Ways Co­or­di­na­tion is Hard

ZviJun 13, 2019, 1:00 PM
55 points
11 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Can we use ideas from ecosys­tem man­age­ment to cul­ti­vate a healthy ra­tio­nal­ity memes­pace?

Jun 13, 2019, 12:38 PM
36 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Epi­sode 6 of Tsuyoku Nar­i­tai (the ‘be­com­ing stronger’ pod­cast)

Bae's TheoremJun 12, 2019, 11:31 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What kind of thing is logic in an on­tolog­i­cal sense?

Chris_LeongJun 12, 2019, 10:28 PM
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s talk about “Con­ver­gent Ra­tion­al­ity”

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Jun 12, 2019, 9:53 PM
44 points
33 comments6 min readLW link

The Ninth At­lanta SSC Meetup

Steve FrenchJun 12, 2019, 9:02 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

MLU: New Blog!

lifelonglearnerJun 12, 2019, 4:20 AM
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Out­sider and the On­looker (on es­o­teric mean­ing in fic­tion)

KyriakosCHJun 11, 2019, 8:02 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much does neatly eat­ing mat­ter? What about other food man­ners?

sapphireJun 11, 2019, 7:40 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Tal Yarkoni: No, it’s not The In­cen­tives—it’s you

Zack_M_DavisJun 11, 2019, 7:09 AM
89 points
119 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews
(www.talyarkoni.org)

Long Term Fu­ture Fund ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til June 28th

habrykaJun 10, 2019, 8:39 PM
30 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Get Rich Real Slowly

Jacob FalkovichJun 10, 2019, 5:51 PM
35 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Honors Fuel Achievement

Samo BurjaJun 10, 2019, 4:10 PM
38 points
2 comments8 min readLW link
(medium.com)

On pointless waiting

Kaj_SotalaJun 10, 2019, 8:58 AM
43 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­solv­ing the zom­bie argument

Chris_LeongJun 10, 2019, 4:54 AM
−1 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Knights and Knaves

filiusJun 10, 2019, 1:51 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Ram­ifi­ca­tions of limited pos­i­tive value, un­limited nega­tive value?

RaemonJun 9, 2019, 11:17 PM
10 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

On why math­e­mat­ics ap­pear to be non-cosmic

KyriakosCH9 Jun 2019 20:42 UTC
4 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

An at­tempt to list out my core val­ues and virtues

Ruby9 Jun 2019 20:02 UTC
26 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is positive

JanB9 Jun 2019 15:49 UTC
23 points
0 comments35 min readLW link