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OpenPhil on “GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat”

RaemonAug 24, 2019, 11:28 PM

17 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

ElizabethAug 24, 2019, 9:40 PM

39 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Performance IQ and higher mathematics

c5piAug 24, 2019, 5:31 PM

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] how should a second version of “rationality: A to Z” look like?

Yoav RavidAug 24, 2019, 7:01 AM

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Celebration 2019 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshirAug 24, 2019, 3:42 AM

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How has rationalism helped you?

Sunny from QADAug 24, 2019, 1:31 AM

9 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW making progress?

zulupineappleAug 24, 2019, 12:32 AM

21 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

LessLong Launch Party

RaemonAug 23, 2019, 10:18 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a simple parameter that controls human working memory capacity, which has been set tragically low?

LironAug 23, 2019, 10:10 PM

17 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Optimization Provenance

Adele LopezAug 23, 2019, 8:08 PM

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemskiAug 23, 2019, 6:36 PM

86 points

59 comments12 min readLW link

Understanding understanding

mthqAug 23, 2019, 6:10 PM

24 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Actually updating

SaraHaxAug 23, 2019, 5:46 PM

56 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

HoagyAug 23, 2019, 5:19 PM

30 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Constraint and Actualization

Spencer WymanAug 23, 2019, 4:56 PM

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on Retrieving Knowledge from Neural Networks

Jaime RuizAug 23, 2019, 4:41 PM

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Algorithmic Similarity

LukasMAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM

28 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

Soft takeoff can still lead to decisive strategic advantage

Daniel KokotajloAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM

122 points

47 comments8 min readLW link 4 reviews

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Aug 23, 2019, 12:40 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

avturchinAug 23, 2019, 11:32 AM

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Torture and Dust Specks and Joy—Oh my! or: Non-Archimedean Utility Functions as Pseudograded Vector Spaces

Louis_BrownAug 23, 2019, 11:11 AM

19 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

Metalignment: Deconfusing metaethics for AI alignment.

Guillaume CorlouerAug 23, 2019, 10:25 AM

13 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] A basic probability question

ShmiAug 23, 2019, 7:13 AM

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Intentional Research Agenda

romeostevensitAug 23, 2019, 5:27 AM

21 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why are people so optimistic about superintelligence?

bipoloAug 23, 2019, 4:25 AM

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Vague Thoughts and Questions about Agent Structures

loriphosAug 23, 2019, 4:01 AM

9 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Formalising decision theory is hard

Lukas FinnvedenAug 23, 2019, 3:27 AM

17 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Creating Environments to Design and Test Embedded Agents

lemonhopeAug 23, 2019, 3:17 AM

13 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Tabooing ‘Agent’ for Prosaic Alignment

Hjalmar_WijkAug 23, 2019, 2:55 AM

57 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Vaniver’s View on Factored Cognition

VaniverAug 23, 2019, 2:54 AM

48 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Redefining Fast Takeoff

VojtaKovarikAug 23, 2019, 2:15 AM

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Scott GarrabrantAug 23, 2019, 2:01 AM

69 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Commitment Races problem

Daniel KokotajloAug 23, 2019, 1:58 AM

159 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Analysis of a Secret Hitler Scenario

jaekAug 23, 2019, 1:24 AM

16 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts from a Two Boxer

jaekAug 23, 2019, 12:24 AM

18 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Deconfuse Yourself about Agency

VojtaKovarikAug 23, 2019, 12:21 AM

15 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Logical Optimizers

Donald HobsonAug 22, 2019, 11:54 PM

11 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a mechanistic understanding of corrigibility

evhubAug 22, 2019, 11:20 PM

47 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Response to Glen Weyl on Technocracy and the Rationalist Community

John_MaxwellAug 22, 2019, 11:14 PM

66 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Why so much variance in human intelligence?

Ben PaceAug 22, 2019, 10:36 PM

65 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Logical Counterfactuals and Proposition graphs, Part 1

Donald HobsonAug 22, 2019, 10:06 PM

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Time Travel, AI and Transparent Newcomb

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 10:04 PM

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Embedded Naive Bayes

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 9:40 PM

17 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Intentional Bucket Errors

Scott GarrabrantAug 22, 2019, 8:02 PM

55 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Computational Model: Causal Diagrams with Symmetry

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 5:54 PM

53 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #62] Are adversarial examples caused by real but imperceptible features?

Rohin ShahAug 22, 2019, 5:10 PM

28 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Implications of Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence Alignment Research

Jsevillamol and PabloAMC

Aug 22, 2019, 10:33 AM

24 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

Body Alignment & Balance. Our Midline Anatomy & the Median Plane.

leggiAug 22, 2019, 10:24 AM

15 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Simulation Argument: Why aren’t ancestor simulations outnumbered by transhumans?

maximkazhenkovAug 22, 2019, 9:07 AM

9 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Markets are Universal for Logical Induction

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 6:44 AM

77 points

2 comments5 min readLW link