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Raph Koster on Virtual Worlds vs Games (notes)

RaemonAug 18, 2019, 7:01 PM

26 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

“Can We Survive Technology” by von Neumann

Ben PaceAug 18, 2019, 6:58 PM

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(geosci.uchicago.edu)

Prokaryote Multiverse. An argument that potential simulators do not have significantly more complex physics than ours

mako yassAug 18, 2019, 4:22 AM

0 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Neural Nets in Python 1

lifelonglearnerAug 18, 2019, 2:48 AM

10 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Inspection Paradox as a Driver of Group Separation

ShmiAug 17, 2019, 9:47 PM

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

David FriedmanAug 17, 2019, 7:56 PM

1 point

0 comments LW link

Problems in AI Alignment that philosophers could potentially contribute to

Wei DaiAug 17, 2019, 5:38 PM

79 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can you use music to boost learning?

Matthew BarnettAug 17, 2019, 6:59 AM

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 3: The Chain Rule

Matthew BarnettAug 17, 2019, 1:50 AM

12 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Nashville SSC September Meetup

friedelcraftinessAug 16, 2019, 3:16 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Beliefs Are For True Things

Davis_KingsleyAug 15, 2019, 11:23 PM

8 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What experiments would demonstrate “upper limits of augmented working memory?”

RaemonAug 15, 2019, 10:09 PM

33 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying some key hypotheses in AI alignment

Ben Cottier and Rohin Shah

Aug 15, 2019, 9:29 PM

79 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Tessercube — OpenPGP Made Mobile

Suji YanAug 15, 2019, 9:34 AM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 2: Jacobians and other fun

Matthew BarnettAug 15, 2019, 1:13 AM

22 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

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

RaemonAug 14, 2019, 8:02 PM

89 points

63 comments22 min readLW link 3 reviews

“Designing agent incentives to avoid reward tampering”, DeepMind

gwernAug 14, 2019, 4:57 PM

28 points

15 comments LW link

(medium.com)

Subagents, trauma and rationality

Kaj_SotalaAug 14, 2019, 1:14 PM

113 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

Predicted AI alignment event/meeting calendar

rmoehnAug 14, 2019, 7:14 AM

29 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Natural laws should be explicit constraints on strategy space

ryan_bAug 13, 2019, 8:22 PM

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Distance Functions are Hard

Grue_SlinkyAug 13, 2019, 5:33 PM

31 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

Book Review: Secular Cycles

Scott AlexanderAug 13, 2019, 4:10 AM

62 points

10 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 1: Basic review

Matthew BarnettAug 12, 2019, 11:44 PM

25 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What explanatory power does Kahneman’s System 2 possess?

Richard_NgoAug 12, 2019, 3:23 PM

31 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Mesa-Optimizers and Over-optimization Failure (Optimizing and Goodhart Effects, Clarifying Thoughts—Part 4)

DavidmanheimAug 12, 2019, 8:07 AM

15 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Adjectives from the Future: The Dangers of Result-based Descriptions

Pradeep_KumarAug 11, 2019, 7:19 PM

19 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Could we solve this email mess if we all moved to paid emails?

Bird ConceptAug 11, 2019, 4:31 PM

29 points

50 comments4 min readLW link

AI Safety Reading Group

Søren ElverlinAug 11, 2019, 9:01 AM

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does human choice have to be transitive in order to be rational/consistent?

jmhAug 11, 2019, 1:49 AM

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Diana Fleischman and Geoffrey Miller—Audience Q&A

Jacob FalkovichAug 10, 2019, 10:37 PM

38 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Intransitive Preferences You Can’t Pump

zulupineappleAug 9, 2019, 11:10 PM

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Categorial preferences and utility functions

DavidHolmesAug 9, 2019, 9:36 PM

10 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is the state of the ego depletion field?

Eli TyreAug 9, 2019, 8:30 PM

27 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Why Gradients Vanish and Explode

Matthew BarnettAug 9, 2019, 2:54 AM

25 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

AI Forecasting Dictionary (Forecasting infrastructure, part 1)

Bird Concept and Ben Goldhaber

Aug 8, 2019, 4:10 PM

50 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why do humans not have built-in neural i/o channels?

Richard_NgoAug 8, 2019, 1:09 PM

25 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Which of these five AI alignment research projects ideas are no good?

rmoehnAug 8, 2019, 7:17 AM

25 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Calibrating With Cards

lifelonglearnerAug 8, 2019, 6:44 AM

32 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a source/market for LW-related t-shirts?

jooyousAug 8, 2019, 4:30 AM

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Verification and Transparency

DanielFilanAug 8, 2019, 1:50 AM

35 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Toy model piece #2: Combining short and long range partial preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 8, 2019, 12:11 AM

14 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Four Ways An Impact Measure Could Help Alignment

Matthew BarnettAug 8, 2019, 12:10 AM

21 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Nashville August SSC Meetup

friedelcraftinessAug 7, 2019, 8:11 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

In defense of Oracle (“Tool”) AI research

Steven ByrnesAug 7, 2019, 7:14 PM

22 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Help forecast study replication in this social science prediction market

rosiecamAug 7, 2019, 6:18 PM

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Edit Nickname

Luigi LottiAug 7, 2019, 5:42 PM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Self-Supervised Learning and AGI Safety

Steven ByrnesAug 7, 2019, 2:21 PM

30 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Emotions are not beliefs

Chris_LeongAug 7, 2019, 6:27 AM

25 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Understanding Recent Impact Measures

Matthew BarnettAug 7, 2019, 4:57 AM

16 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

[Site Update] Behind the scenes data-layer and caching improvements

habrykaAug 7, 2019, 12:49 AM

23 points

3 comments1 min readLW link