The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_KingsleyJul 31, 2019, 11:33 PM
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Gather­ing thoughts on Distillation

RaemonJul 31, 2019, 7:48 PM
33 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Con­test: $1,000 for good ques­tions to ask to an Or­a­cle AI

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 31, 2019, 6:48 PM
59 points
154 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Another case of “com­mon sense” not be­ing com­mon?

jmhJul 31, 2019, 5:15 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 2/​2]

Matthew BarnettJul 31, 2019, 1:54 PM
13 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

HazardJul 31, 2019, 1:34 PM
378 points
79 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Drive-By Low-Effort Criticism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jul 31, 2019, 11:51 AM
32 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Will au­tonomous cars be more eco­nom­i­cal/​effi­cient as shared ur­ban tran­sit than busses or trains, and by how much? What’s some good re­search on this?

mako yassJul 31, 2019, 12:16 AM
9 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Western Mas­sachusetts SSC meetup

a_liebJul 30, 2019, 6:43 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei DaiJul 30, 2019, 6:09 PM
153 points
45 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 1/​2]

Matthew BarnettJul 30, 2019, 1:54 PM
35 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion on fore­cast­ing with Vaniver and Ozzie Gooen

Jul 30, 2019, 11:16 AM
41 points
18 comments32 min readLW link

[Question] Does im­proved in­tro­spec­tion cause ra­tio­nal­i­sa­tion to be­come less no­tice­able?

Bird ConceptJul 30, 2019, 10:03 AM
37 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

When Hav­ing Friends is More Allur­ing than Be­ing Right (by Fer­rett Stein­metz)

CronoDASJul 30, 2019, 9:58 AM
19 points
8 commentsLW link
(www.theferrett.com)

On Fram­ing Poli­ti­cal Opinions to Quickly Assess the Crux of Disagreement

TukJul 30, 2019, 3:07 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion empathy

Sunny from QADJul 30, 2019, 1:32 AM
13 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does it be­come eas­ier, or harder, for the world to co­or­di­nate around not build­ing AGI as time goes on?

Eli TyreJul 29, 2019, 10:59 PM
86 points
31 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Toy model piece #1: Par­tial prefer­ences revisited

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 29, 2019, 4:35 PM
12 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Map­ping of en­nea­gram to MTG per­son­al­ity types

AlexeiJul 29, 2019, 3:20 PM
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What woo to read?

caleboJul 29, 2019, 3:19 PM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there neu­ro­science re­search on cog­ni­tive bi­ases?

Yoav RavidJul 29, 2019, 7:45 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Com­pilers/​PLs book recom­men­da­tion?

johnswentworthJul 28, 2019, 3:49 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for the ex­is­tence of qualia

Chris_LeongJul 28, 2019, 10:52 AM
3 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing Overop­ti­miza­tion to Selec­tion vs. Con­trol (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 3)

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2019, 9:32 AM
18 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

What does Op­ti­miza­tion Mean, Again? (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 2)

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2019, 9:30 AM
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Keep Your Beliefs Cruxy

RaemonJul 28, 2019, 1:18 AM
54 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

The wis­dom of the Crowd

Jason GeringerJul 27, 2019, 11:14 PM
−2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this info on zinc lozenges ac­cu­rate?

philhJul 27, 2019, 10:05 PM
38 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Short­form Beta Launch

RaemonJul 27, 2019, 8:09 PM
67 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

The Ar­tifi­cial In­ten­tional Stance

Charlie SteinerJul 27, 2019, 7:00 AM
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Re­sults of LW Tech­ni­cal Back­ground Survey

johnswentworthJul 26, 2019, 5:33 PM
41 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many re­searchers does a new pa­per reach?

SliderJul 26, 2019, 4:14 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Old Man Jevons Can’t Save You Now (Part 2/​2)

Closed Limelike CurvesJul 26, 2019, 3:51 AM
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(thelimelike.wordpress.com)

[Question] Can you sum­ma­rize high­lights from Ver­non’s Creativity?

RaemonJul 26, 2019, 1:12 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How of­ten are new ideas dis­cov­ered in old pa­pers?

TurnTroutJul 26, 2019, 1:00 AM
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ought: why it mat­ters and ways to help

paulfchristianoJul 25, 2019, 6:00 PM
89 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

On the pur­poses of de­ci­sion the­ory research

Wei DaiJul 25, 2019, 7:18 AM
64 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Me­taphor­i­cal ex­ten­sions and con­cep­tual figure-ground inversions

jessicataJul 24, 2019, 6:21 AM
38 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

AI Safety De­bate and Its Applications

VojtaKovarikJul 23, 2019, 10:31 PM
38 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

How to take smart notes (Ahrens, 2017)

Yuxi_LiuJul 23, 2019, 3:34 PM
72 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion as coordination

Bird ConceptJul 23, 2019, 6:19 AM
42 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

The Real Rules Have No Exceptions

Said AchmizJul 23, 2019, 3:38 AM
136 points
57 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews

“Short­form” vs “Scratch­pad” or other names

RaemonJul 23, 2019, 1:21 AM
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 23, 2019, 12:47 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Where is the Mean­ing?

HazardJul 22, 2019, 8:18 PM
21 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Self-Unaware AI Oracle

Steven ByrnesJul 22, 2019, 7:04 PM
21 points
38 comments8 min readLW link

APL AI Safety Conference

Aryeh EnglanderJul 22, 2019, 6:18 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #60] A new AI challenge: Minecraft agents that as­sist hu­man play­ers in cre­ative mode

Rohin Shah22 Jul 2019 17:00 UTC
23 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Solv­ing for X in­stead of 3 in love tri­an­gles?

Eruvnal22 Jul 2019 16:35 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Self-ex­per­i­ment Pro­to­col: Effect of Cho­co­late on Sleep

NoSignalNoNoise22 Jul 2019 3:32 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link