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Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC

214 points

75 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Why Subagents?

johnswentworth1 Aug 2019 22:17 UTC

176 points

48 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

The Commitment Races problem

Daniel Kokotajlo23 Aug 2019 1:58 UTC

169 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Soft takeoff can still lead to decisive strategic advantage

Daniel Kokotajlo23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC

122 points

47 comments8 min readLW link 4 reviews

Subagents, trauma and rationality

Kaj_Sotala14 Aug 2019 13:14 UTC

113 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

Trauma, Meditation, and a Cool Scar

Logan Riggs6 Aug 2019 16:17 UTC

102 points

17 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Can we really prevent all warming for less than 10B$ with the mostly side-effect free geoengineering technique of Marine Cloud Brightening?

mako yass5 Aug 2019 0:12 UTC

96 points

55 comments2 min readLW link

Partial summary of debate with Benquo and Jessicata [pt 1]

Raemon14 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC

89 points

63 comments22 min readLW link 3 reviews

Subagents, neural Turing machines, thought selection, and blindspots

Kaj_Sotala6 Aug 2019 21:15 UTC

87 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemski23 Aug 2019 18:36 UTC

86 points

59 comments12 min readLW link

2-D Robustness

Vlad Mikulik30 Aug 2019 20:27 UTC

86 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Problems in AI Alignment that philosophers could potentially contribute to

Wei Dai17 Aug 2019 17:38 UTC

83 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying some key hypotheses in AI alignment

Ben Cottier and Rohin Shah

15 Aug 2019 21:29 UTC

79 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Markets are Universal for Logical Induction

johnswentworth22 Aug 2019 6:44 UTC

77 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas

Wei Dai27 Aug 2019 0:40 UTC

73 points

17 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Classifying specification problems as variants of Goodhart’s Law

Vika19 Aug 2019 20:40 UTC

72 points

5 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Does Agent-like Behavior Imply Agent-like Architecture?

Scott Garrabrant23 Aug 2019 2:01 UTC

69 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Response to Glen Weyl on Technocracy and the Rationalist Community

John_Maxwell22 Aug 2019 23:14 UTC

66 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Why so much variance in human intelligence?

Ben Pace22 Aug 2019 22:36 UTC

65 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2019 4:10 UTC

62 points

10 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Dual Wielding

Zvi27 Aug 2019 14:10 UTC

60 points

23 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC

60 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests

Zack_M_Davis26 Aug 2019 2:43 UTC

60 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Tabooing ‘Agent’ for Prosaic Alignment

Hjalmar_Wijk23 Aug 2019 2:55 UTC

57 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Actually updating

SaraHax23 Aug 2019 17:46 UTC

56 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Intentional Bucket Errors

Scott Garrabrant22 Aug 2019 20:02 UTC

55 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Computational Model: Causal Diagrams with Symmetry

johnswentworth22 Aug 2019 17:54 UTC

53 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Zeno walks into a bar

lsusr4 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC

53 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Permissions in Governance

sarahconstantin2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC

53 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

A Personal Rationality Wishlist

DanielFilan27 Aug 2019 3:40 UTC

53 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

AI Forecasting Dictionary (Forecasting infrastructure, part 1)

Bird Concept and Ben Goldhaber

8 Aug 2019 16:10 UTC

50 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Vaniver’s View on Factored Cognition

Vaniver23 Aug 2019 2:54 UTC

48 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Status 451 on Diagnosis: Russell Aphasia

Zack_M_Davis6 Aug 2019 4:43 UTC

48 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(status451.com)

Towards a mechanistic understanding of corrigibility

evhub22 Aug 2019 23:20 UTC

47 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

September Bragging Thread

Raemon30 Aug 2019 21:58 UTC

47 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC)

ioannes28 Aug 2019 22:57 UTC

46 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 20:33 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

New paper: Corrigibility with Utility Preservation

Koen.Holtman6 Aug 2019 19:04 UTC

44 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Embedded Agency via Abstraction

johnswentworth26 Aug 2019 23:03 UTC

42 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

My recommendations for gratitude exercises

MaxCarpendale5 Aug 2019 19:04 UTC

40 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

The Missing Math of Map-Making

johnswentworth28 Aug 2019 21:18 UTC

40 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

LW Team Updates—September 2019

Ruby29 Aug 2019 22:12 UTC

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)

Elizabeth24 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Call for contributors to the Alignment Newsletter

Rohin Shah21 Aug 2019 18:21 UTC

39 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Cephaloponderings

Jacob Falkovich4 Aug 2019 16:45 UTC

39 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Optimization Provenance

Adele Lopez23 Aug 2019 20:08 UTC

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Unstriving

Jacob Falkovich19 Aug 2019 14:31 UTC

38 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller—Audience Q&A

Jacob Falkovich10 Aug 2019 22:37 UTC

38 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

Hoagy23 Aug 2019 17:19 UTC

37 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Mistake Versus Conflict Theory of Against Billionaire Philanthropy

Zvi1 Aug 2019 13:10 UTC

37 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)