Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of De­liber­ate Prac­tice in the Ac­qui­si­tion of Ex­pert Performance

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC
80 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Writ­ing chil­dren’s pic­ture books

jessicata25 Jun 2019 21:43 UTC
125 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[Question] Only op­ti­mize to 95 %

Leo Shine25 Jun 2019 20:50 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search Agenda in re­verse: what *would* a solu­tion look like?

Stuart_Armstrong25 Jun 2019 13:52 UTC
35 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­bital Scrape V2

emmab25 Jun 2019 10:03 UTC
40 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with self-es­teem?

abramdemski25 Jun 2019 3:38 UTC
39 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Pitts­burgh SSC/​RAT-ad­ja­cent meetup

fr8train25 Jun 2019 2:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Causal Real­ity vs So­cial Reality

Ruby24 Jun 2019 23:50 UTC
41 points
96 comments6 min readLW link

Ma­chine Learn­ing Pro­jects on IDA

24 Jun 2019 18:38 UTC
49 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
405 points
57 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

[AN #58] Mesa op­ti­miza­tion: what it is, and why we should care

Rohin Shah24 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC
55 points
10 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Ex­plain­ing “The Crack­pot Bet”

glennonymous24 Jun 2019 15:17 UTC
−40 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

How does one get in­vited to the al­ign­ment fo­rum?

Chris_Leong23 Jun 2019 9:39 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pod­cast—Pu­tanu­monit on The Switch

Jacob Falkovich23 Jun 2019 4:09 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Foun­da­tional Toolbox for Life: Introduction

ExCeph22 Jun 2019 6:11 UTC
23 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How hard is it for al­tru­ists to dis­cuss go­ing against bad equil­ibria?

abramdemski22 Jun 2019 3:42 UTC
46 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

The Hacker Learns to Trust

Ben Pace22 Jun 2019 0:27 UTC
80 points
18 comments8 min readLW link
(medium.com)

“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
11 comments1 min readLW link

[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