The Re­sults of My First LessWrong-in­spired I Ching Divination

DirectedEvolutionJul 8, 2019, 9:26 PM
21 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

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

RaemonJul 8, 2019, 8:34 PM
45 points
56 comments4 min readLW link

Some Com­ments on Stu­art Arm­strong’s “Re­search Agenda v0.9”

Charlie SteinerJul 8, 2019, 7:03 PM
21 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #59] How ar­gu­ments for AI risk have changed over time

Rohin ShahJul 8, 2019, 5:20 PM
43 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

NIST: draft plan for AI stan­dards development

ryan_bJul 8, 2019, 2:13 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.nist.gov)

In­differ­ence: mul­ti­ple changes, mul­ti­ple agents

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 8, 2019, 1:36 PM
15 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

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

lifelonglearnerJul 8, 2019, 5:04 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ronny FernandezJul 8, 2019, 2:51 AM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How does the or­ga­ni­za­tion “EthAGI” fit into the broader AI safety land­scape?

Liam DonovanJul 8, 2019, 12:46 AM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Reli­gion as Goodhart

ShmiJul 8, 2019, 12:38 AM
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

First ap­pli­ca­tion round of the EAF Fund

JesseCliftonJul 8, 2019, 12:20 AM
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

RaemonJul 7, 2019, 8:27 PM
38 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

How to make a gi­ant white­board for $14 (plus nails)

eukaryoteJul 7, 2019, 7:23 PM
29 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Mus­ings on Cu­mu­la­tive Cul­tural Evolu­tion and AI

caleboJul 7, 2019, 4:46 PM
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Black hole narratives

AlexeiJul 7, 2019, 4:07 AM
25 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Thank You, Old Man Jevons, For My Job

Closed Limelike CurvesJul 6, 2019, 6:37 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(thelimelike.wordpress.com)

87,000 Hours or: Thoughts on Home Ownership

romeostevensitJul 6, 2019, 8:01 AM
20 points
50 comments8 min readLW link

Learn­ing bi­ases and re­wards simultaneously

Rohin ShahJul 6, 2019, 1:45 AM
41 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on The Re­plac­ing Guilt Series⁠ — pt 1

dragoholeJul 5, 2019, 7:35 PM
9 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Here Be Epistemic Dragons

DirectedEvolutionJul 4, 2019, 10:31 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What product are you build­ing?

RaemonJul 4, 2019, 7:08 PM
57 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How to han­dle large num­bers of ques­tions?

RaemonJul 4, 2019, 6:22 PM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Read: an es­say on AI Theology

Yuxi_LiuJul 4, 2019, 7:50 AM
23 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are good re­sources for learn­ing func­tional pro­gram­ming?

Matt GoldenbergJul 4, 2019, 1:22 AM
22 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s state-of-the-art in AI un­der­stand­ing of the­ory of mind?

ioannesJul 3, 2019, 11:11 PM
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Blatant lies are the best kind!

BenquoJul 3, 2019, 8:45 PM
26 points
17 comments5 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] What was the offi­cial story for many top physi­cists con­gre­gat­ing in Los Alamos dur­ing the Man­hat­tan Pro­ject?

mosesJul 3, 2019, 6:05 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Open Thread July 2019

ryan_bJul 3, 2019, 3:07 PM
15 points
91 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the signs of AI man­hat­tan pro­jects start­ing? Should a web­site be made watch­ing for these signs?

OzyrusJul 3, 2019, 12:22 PM
12 points
10 commentsLW link

Self-con­scious­ness wants to make ev­ery­thing about itself

jessicataJul 3, 2019, 1:44 AM
44 points
70 comments6 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Opt­ing into Ex­per­i­men­tal LW Features

RaemonJul 3, 2019, 12:51 AM
20 points
26 comments1 min readLW link

Epi­sode 7 of ‘Tsuyoku Nar­ita’: CoZE

Bae's TheoremJul 2, 2019, 10:38 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some of Robin Han­son’s best posts?

Richard_NgoJul 2, 2019, 8:58 PM
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How/​would you want to con­sume short­form posts?

RaemonJul 2, 2019, 7:55 PM
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Re-in­tro­duc­ing Selec­tion vs Con­trol for Op­ti­miza­tion (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 1)

DavidmanheimJul 2, 2019, 3:36 PM
31 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] The Right Way of For­mu­lat­ing a Prob­lem?

Virgil KurkjianJul 2, 2019, 2:40 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Every­body Knows

ZviJul 2, 2019, 12:20 PM
137 points
21 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Col­lab­o­ra­tive VS ad­ver­sar­ial truth seeking

EloJul 1, 2019, 11:48 PM
2 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

PlayS­ta­tion Odysseys

Jacob FalkovichJul 1, 2019, 5:41 PM
22 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

An In­creas­ingly Ma­nipu­la­tive Newsfeed

Michaël TrazziJul 1, 2019, 3:26 PM
63 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

June 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernJul 1, 2019, 2:35 PM
29 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] What’s the most “stuck” you’ve been with an ar­gu­ment, that even­tu­ally got re­solved?

RaemonJul 1, 2019, 5:13 AM
14 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

The Com­pe­tence Myth

Davis_KingsleyJun 30, 2019, 6:55 PM
48 points
31 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is AlphaZero any good with­out the tree search?

Steven ByrnesJun 30, 2019, 4:41 PM
31 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] I’m look­ing for al­ter­na­tive fund­ing strate­gies for cry­on­ics.

Walker VargasJun 30, 2019, 3:22 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Be­ing Wrong Doesn’t Mean You’re Stupid and Bad (Prob­a­bly)

Zack_M_DavisJun 29, 2019, 11:58 PM
20 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Do chil­dren lose ‘childlike cu­ri­os­ity?’ Why?

RaemonJun 29, 2019, 10:42 PM
44 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can we mea­sure cre­ativity?

ElizabethJun 29, 2019, 10:30 PM
32 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

An un­con­fortable epistemic po­si­tion re­gard­ing “Verb Magic”.

HijolJun 29, 2019, 3:38 AM
3 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Con­cep­tual Prob­lems with UDT and Policy Selection

abramdemskiJun 28, 2019, 11:50 PM
66 points
16 comments9 min readLW link