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

Raemon24 Aug 2019 23:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

Elizabeth24 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC
39 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Perfor­mance IQ and higher mathematics

c5pi24 Aug 2019 17:31 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

Yoav Ravid24 Aug 2019 7:01 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Cel­e­bra­tion 2019 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshir24 Aug 2019 3:42 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How has ra­tio­nal­ism helped you?

Sunny from QAD24 Aug 2019 1:31 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW mak­ing progress?

zulupineapple24 Aug 2019 0:32 UTC
21 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

LessLong Launch Party

Raemon23 Aug 2019 22:18 UTC
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?

Liron23 Aug 2019 22:10 UTC
17 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion Provenance

Adele Lopez23 Aug 2019 20:08 UTC
38 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemski23 Aug 2019 18:36 UTC
79 points
58 comments12 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing understanding

mthq23 Aug 2019 18:10 UTC
24 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally updating

SaraHax23 Aug 2019 17:46 UTC
54 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

When do util­ity func­tions con­strain?

Hoagy23 Aug 2019 17:19 UTC
29 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Con­straint and Ac­tu­al­iza­tion

Spencer Wyman23 Aug 2019 16:56 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on Retriev­ing Knowl­edge from Neu­ral Networks

Jaime Ruiz23 Aug 2019 16:41 UTC
11 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Al­gorith­mic Similarity

LukasM23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC
27 points
10 comments11 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 link4 reviews

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander23023 Aug 2019 12:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

avturchin23 Aug 2019 11:32 UTC
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_Brown23 Aug 2019 11:11 UTC
19 points
29 comments8 min readLW link

Me­tal­ign­ment: De­con­fus­ing metaethics for AI al­ign­ment.

Guillaume Corlouer23 Aug 2019 10:25 UTC
13 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] A ba­sic prob­a­bil­ity question

shminux23 Aug 2019 7:13 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an In­ten­tional Re­search Agenda

romeostevensit23 Aug 2019 5:27 UTC
20 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why are peo­ple so op­ti­mistic about su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

bipolo23 Aug 2019 4:25 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Vague Thoughts and Ques­tions about Agent Structures

loriphos23 Aug 2019 4:01 UTC
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

For­mal­is­ing de­ci­sion the­ory is hard

Lukas Finnveden23 Aug 2019 3:27 UTC
17 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Creat­ing En­vi­ron­ments to De­sign and Test Embed­ded Agents

lukehmiles23 Aug 2019 3:17 UTC
13 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Ta­boo­ing ‘Agent’ for Pro­saic Alignment

Hjalmar_Wijk23 Aug 2019 2:55 UTC
57 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Vaniver’s View on Fac­tored Cognition

Vaniver23 Aug 2019 2:54 UTC
48 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Redefin­ing Fast Takeoff

VojtaKovarik23 Aug 2019 2:15 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Scott Garrabrant23 Aug 2019 2:01 UTC
57 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Com­mit­ment Races problem

Daniel Kokotajlo23 Aug 2019 1:58 UTC
151 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis of a Se­cret Hitler Scenario

jaek23 Aug 2019 1:24 UTC
16 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts from a Two Boxer

jaek23 Aug 2019 0:24 UTC
18 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

De­con­fuse Your­self about Agency

VojtaKovarik23 Aug 2019 0:21 UTC
15 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Op­ti­miz­ers

Donald Hobson22 Aug 2019 23:54 UTC
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a mechanis­tic un­der­stand­ing of corrigibility

evhub22 Aug 2019 23:20 UTC
47 points
26 comments6 min readLW link

Re­sponse to Glen Weyl on Tech­noc­racy and the Ra­tion­al­ist Community

John_Maxwell22 Aug 2019 23:14 UTC
66 points
9 comments9 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

Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Propo­si­tion graphs, Part 1

Donald Hobson22 Aug 2019 22:06 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Time Travel, AI and Trans­par­ent Newcomb

johnswentworth22 Aug 2019 22:04 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Embed­ded Naive Bayes

johnswentworth22 Aug 2019 21:40 UTC
14 points
6 comments3 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

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

Rohin Shah22 Aug 2019 17:10 UTC
28 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Im­pli­ca­tions of Quan­tum Com­put­ing for Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Align­ment Research

22 Aug 2019 10:33 UTC
24 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

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

leggi22 Aug 2019 10:24 UTC
15 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

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

maximkazhenkov22 Aug 2019 9:07 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Mar­kets are Univer­sal for Log­i­cal Induction

johnswentworth22 Aug 2019 6:44 UTC
75 points
2 comments5 min readLW link