How Should We Cri­tique Re­search? A De­ci­sion Perspective

gwern14 Jul 2019 22:51 UTC
46 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Let’s Read: Su­per­hu­man AI for mul­ti­player poker

Yuxi_Liu14 Jul 2019 6:22 UTC
56 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

In­sights from Lin­ear Alge­bra Done Right

Rafael Harth13 Jul 2019 18:24 UTC
53 points
18 comments9 min readLW link

No non­sense ver­sion of the “racial al­gorithm bias”

Yuxi_Liu13 Jul 2019 15:39 UTC
115 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Re­claiming Ed­die Willers

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 13 Jul 2019 15:32 UTC
69 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Job de­scrip­tion for an in­de­pen­dent AI al­ign­ment researcher

rmoehn13 Jul 2019 9:47 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Raw Post: Talk­ing With My Brother

DirectedEvolution13 Jul 2019 2:57 UTC
23 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are we pre­dict­ing for Neu­ral­ink event?

Dr_Manhattan12 Jul 2019 19:33 UTC
32 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

My Con­ver­sion from LW to Prag­ma­tism: Steelman

hunterglennzero12 Jul 2019 19:17 UTC
3 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Largest open col­lec­tion quotes about AI

teradimich12 Jul 2019 17:18 UTC
35 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

[Question] By­s­tan­der effect false?

Ben Pace12 Jul 2019 6:30 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If I knew how to make an omo­hun­dru op­ti­mizer, would I be able to do any­thing good with that knowl­edge?

mako yass12 Jul 2019 1:40 UTC
5 points
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[Question] How much back­ground tech­ni­cal knowl­edge do LW read­ers have?

johnswentworth11 Jul 2019 17:38 UTC
30 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

New SSC meetup group in Lisbon

tamkin&popkin11 Jul 2019 12:19 UTC
1 point
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[Question] Are we cer­tain that gpt-2 and similar al­gorithms are not self-aware?

Ozyrus11 Jul 2019 8:37 UTC
0 points
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[Question] Model­ing AI mile­stones to ad­just AGI ar­rival es­ti­mates?

Ozyrus11 Jul 2019 8:17 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Please give your links speak­ing names!

rmoehn11 Jul 2019 7:47 UTC
44 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

AI Align­ment “Scaf­fold­ing” Pro­ject Ideas (Re­quest for Ad­vice)

DirectedEvolution11 Jul 2019 4:39 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The AI Timelines Scam

jessicata11 Jul 2019 2:52 UTC
108 points
105 comments7 min readLW link3 reviews
(unstableontology.com)

Magic is Dead, Give me Attention

Hazard10 Jul 2019 20:15 UTC
40 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How can guessti­mates work?

jacobjacob10 Jul 2019 19:33 UTC
24 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Types of Boltz­mann Brains

avturchin10 Jul 2019 8:22 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

Schism Begets Schism

Davis_Kingsley10 Jul 2019 3:09 UTC
24 points
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[Question] Do bond yield curve in­ver­sions re­ally in­di­cate there is likely to be a re­ces­sion?

bgold10 Jul 2019 1:23 UTC
20 points
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[Question] Would you join the So­ciety of the Free & Easy?

David Gross10 Jul 2019 1:15 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Diver­sify Your Friend­ship Portfolio

Davis_Kingsley9 Jul 2019 23:06 UTC
73 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

The I Ching Series (2/​10): How should I pri­ori­tize my ca­reer-build­ing pro­jects?

DirectedEvolution9 Jul 2019 22:55 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Are there easy, low cost, ways to freeze per­sonal cell sam­ples for fu­ture ther­a­pies? And is this a good idea?

Eli Tyre9 Jul 2019 21:57 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Out­line of NIST draft plan for AI standards

ryan_b9 Jul 2019 17:30 UTC
21 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] How can I help re­search Friendly AI?

avichapman9 Jul 2019 0:15 UTC
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­sults of My First LessWrong-in­spired I Ching Divination

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2019 21:26 UTC
21 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

“Ra­tion­al­iz­ing” and “Sit­ting Bolt Upright in Alarm.”

Raemon8 Jul 2019 20:34 UTC
40 points
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Some Com­ments on Stu­art Arm­strong’s “Re­search Agenda v0.9”

Charlie Steiner8 Jul 2019 19:03 UTC
21 points
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[AN #59] How ar­gu­ments for AI risk have changed over time

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2019 17:20 UTC
43 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

NIST: draft plan for AI stan­dards development

ryan_b8 Jul 2019 14:13 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.nist.gov)

In­differ­ence: mul­ti­ple changes, mul­ti­ple agents

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2019 13:36 UTC
15 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Can I au­to­mat­i­cally cross-post to LW via RSS?

lifelonglearner8 Jul 2019 5:04 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the sum in­di­vi­d­ual in­for­ma­tive­ness of two in­de­pen­dent vari­ables no more than their joint in­for­ma­tive­ness?

Ronny Fernandez8 Jul 2019 2:51 UTC
10 points
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[Question] How does the or­ga­ni­za­tion “EthAGI” fit into the broader AI safety land­scape?

Liam Donovan8 Jul 2019 0:46 UTC
4 points
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Reli­gion as Goodhart

shminux8 Jul 2019 0:38 UTC
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

First ap­pli­ca­tion round of the EAF Fund

JesseClifton8 Jul 2019 0:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] LW au­thors: How many clusters of norms do you (per­son­ally) want?

Raemon7 Jul 2019 20:27 UTC
38 points
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How to make a gi­ant white­board for $14 (plus nails)

eukaryote7 Jul 2019 19:23 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Mus­ings on Cu­mu­la­tive Cul­tural Evolu­tion and AI

calebo7 Jul 2019 16:46 UTC
19 points
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Black hole narratives

Alexei7 Jul 2019 4:07 UTC
25 points
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Thank You, Old Man Jevons, For My Job

Closed Limelike Curves6 Jul 2019 18:37 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(thelimelike.wordpress.com)

87,000 Hours or: Thoughts on Home Ownership

romeostevensit6 Jul 2019 8:01 UTC
19 points
50 comments8 min readLW link

Learn­ing bi­ases and re­wards simultaneously

Rohin Shah6 Jul 2019 1:45 UTC
41 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on The Re­plac­ing Guilt Series⁠ — pt 1

dragohole5 Jul 2019 19:35 UTC
9 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Here Be Epistemic Dragons

DirectedEvolution4 Jul 2019 22:31 UTC
8 points
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