“The Bit­ter Les­son”, an ar­ti­cle about com­pute vs hu­man knowl­edge in AI

the gears to ascension21 Jun 2019 17:24 UTC
52 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(www.incompleteideas.net)

De­ci­sions are hard, words feel easier

Hazard21 Jun 2019 16:17 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Split­ting Concepts

Hazard21 Jun 2019 16:03 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Model­ing AGI Safety Frame­works with Causal In­fluence Diagrams

Ramana Kumar21 Jun 2019 12:50 UTC
43 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Is your un­cer­tainty re­solv­able?

Raemon21 Jun 2019 7:32 UTC
30 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Should ra­tio­nal­ity be a move­ment?

Chris_Leong20 Jun 2019 23:09 UTC
48 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Let Values Drift

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Jun 2019 20:45 UTC
3 points
19 comments8 min readLW link

A case for strat­egy re­search: what it is and why we need more of it

Siebe20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC
24 points
19 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] LW Dev ques­tion: FB-style tag­ging?

Dr_Manhattan20 Jun 2019 19:19 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

STRUCTURE: A Hazardous Guide to Words

Hazard20 Jun 2019 15:27 UTC
8 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Should there be a header fea­ture?

Chris_Leong20 Jun 2019 6:45 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Defend­ing points you don’t care about

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:40 UTC
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Words Aren’t Type Safe

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:34 UTC
22 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ing Definitions

Hazard19 Jun 2019 20:29 UTC
12 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

LW2.0: Tech­nol­ogy Plat­form for In­tel­lec­tual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC
31 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

LW2.0: Com­mu­nity, Cul­ture, and In­tel­lec­tual Progress

Ruby19 Jun 2019 20:25 UTC
27 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

1hr talk: In­tro to AGI safety

Steven Byrnes18 Jun 2019 21:41 UTC
36 points
4 comments24 min readLW link

Reneg­ing proso­cially by Dun­can Sabien

philip_b18 Jun 2019 18:52 UTC
70 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Magic Arena Bot Drafting

Zvi18 Jun 2019 16:00 UTC
18 points
1 comment18 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is the “busi­ness cy­cle” an ac­tual eco­nomic prin­ci­ple?

Liron18 Jun 2019 14:52 UTC
43 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Rea­son isn’t magic

Benquo18 Jun 2019 4:04 UTC
152 points
19 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

Ruby17 Jun 2019 23:43 UTC
26 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2019 17:46 UTC
70 points
26 comments33 min readLW link

Prefer­ence con­di­tional on cir­cum­stances and past prefer­ence satisfaction

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2019 15:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

mako yass17 Jun 2019 7:27 UTC
17 points
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[Question] Is there a guide to ‘Prob­lems that are too fast to Google’?

Vaniver17 Jun 2019 5:04 UTC
48 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

ISO: Au­to­mated P-Hack­ing Detection

johnswentworth16 Jun 2019 21:15 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does sci­en­tific pro­duc­tivity cor­re­late with IQ?

Eli Tyre16 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

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

Eli Tyre16 Jun 2019 19:12 UTC
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

Liron16 Jun 2019 15:55 UTC
23 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

SSC-Madi­son: An­drew Yang

marywang16 Jun 2019 14:09 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Rea­son­able Explanations

Alicorn16 Jun 2019 5:29 UTC
78 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­cel­er­ate with­out hu­man­ity: Sum­mary of Nick Land’s philosophy

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 3:22 UTC
34 points
24 comments12 min readLW link

Let’s Read: Borges’s Stories

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

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

Yuxi_Liu16 Jun 2019 2:23 UTC
12 points
1 comment26 min readLW link

The Uni­vari­ate Fallacy

Zack_M_Davis15 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC
32 points
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On See­ing Through ‘On See­ing Through: A Unified The­ory’: A Unified Theory

gwern15 Jun 2019 18:57 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readLW 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)?

RocksBasil15 Jun 2019 16:29 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Press Your Luck

Zvi15 Jun 2019 15:30 UTC
14 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Kenny15 Jun 2019 0:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Recom­men­da­tion Fea­tures on LessWrong

15 Jun 2019 0:23 UTC
62 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

Dis­course Norms: Moder­a­tors Must Not Bully

Davis_Kingsley14 Jun 2019 23:22 UTC
7 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

SSC Sacra­mento Meetup

jooyous14 Jun 2019 23:08 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Wel­come to LessWrong!

14 Jun 2019 19:42 UTC
403 points
48 comments2 min readLW link

LessWrong FAQ

Ruby14 Jun 2019 19:03 UTC
87 points
53 comments25 min readLW link

On Freud’s ex­am­i­na­tion of the Un­canny in Literature

KyriakosCH14 Jun 2019 17:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Un­known Un­knowns in AI Alignment

sayan14 Jun 2019 5:07 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex Madi­son Meetup: Men­tal Health and Moloch

marywang14 Jun 2019 2:59 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sto­ry­tel­ling and the evolu­tion of hu­man intelligence

Richard_Kennaway13 Jun 2019 20:13 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Real-World Co­or­di­na­tion Prob­lems are Usu­ally In­for­ma­tion Problems

johnswentworth13 Jun 2019 18:21 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link