Limits of and to (ar­tifi­cial) Intelligence

MoritzGAug 25, 2019, 10:16 PM
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Grat­ifi­ca­tion: a use­ful con­cept, maybe new

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Un­der a week left to win $1,000! By ques­tion­ing Or­a­cle AIs.

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 25, 2019, 5:02 PM
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[Question] I’m in­ter­ested in a sub-field of AI but don’t know what to call it.

fowlertmAug 25, 2019, 2:55 PM
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[Question] Am I go­ing for a job in­ter­view with a woo pusher?

CronoDASAug 25, 2019, 2:39 PM
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OpenPhil on “GiveWell’s Top Char­i­ties Are (In­creas­ingly) Hard to Beat”

RaemonAug 24, 2019, 11:28 PM
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Epistemic Spot Check: The Fate of Rome (Kyle Harper)

ElizabethAug 24, 2019, 9:40 PM
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[Question] Perfor­mance IQ and higher mathematics

c5piAug 24, 2019, 5:31 PM
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[Question] how should a sec­ond ver­sion of “ra­tio­nal­ity: A to Z” look like?

Yoav RavidAug 24, 2019, 7:01 AM
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Petrov Day Cel­e­bra­tion 2019 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshirAug 24, 2019, 3:42 AM
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[Question] How has ra­tio­nal­ism helped you?

Sunny from QADAug 24, 2019, 1:31 AM
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[Question] Is LW mak­ing progress?

zulupineappleAug 24, 2019, 12:32 AM
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LessLong Launch Party

RaemonAug 23, 2019, 10:18 PM
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[Question] Is there a sim­ple pa­ram­e­ter that con­trols hu­man work­ing mem­ory ca­pac­ity, which has been set trag­i­cally low?

LironAug 23, 2019, 10:10 PM
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Op­ti­miza­tion Provenance

Adele LopezAug 23, 2019, 8:08 PM
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Troll Bridge

abramdemskiAug 23, 2019, 6:36 PM
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Un­der­stand­ing understanding

mthqAug 23, 2019, 6:10 PM
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Ac­tu­ally updating

SaraHaxAug 23, 2019, 5:46 PM
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When do util­ity func­tions con­strain?

HoagyAug 23, 2019, 5:19 PM
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Parables of Con­straint and Ac­tu­al­iza­tion

Spencer WymanAug 23, 2019, 4:56 PM
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Thoughts on Retriev­ing Knowl­edge from Neu­ral Networks

Jaime RuizAug 23, 2019, 4:41 PM
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Al­gorith­mic Similarity

LukasMAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM
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Soft take­off can still lead to de­ci­sive strate­gic advantage

Daniel KokotajloAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM
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Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Aug 23, 2019, 12:40 PM
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OpenGPT-2: We Repli­cated GPT-2 Be­cause You Can Too

avturchinAug 23, 2019, 11:32 AM
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Tor­ture and Dust Specks and Joy—Oh my! or: Non-Archimedean Utility Func­tions as Pseu­do­graded Vec­tor Spaces

Louis_BrownAug 23, 2019, 11:11 AM
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Me­tal­ign­ment: De­con­fus­ing metaethics for AI al­ign­ment.

Guillaume CorlouerAug 23, 2019, 10:25 AM
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[Question] A ba­sic prob­a­bil­ity question

ShmiAug 23, 2019, 7:13 AM
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Towards an In­ten­tional Re­search Agenda

romeostevensitAug 23, 2019, 5:27 AM
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[Question] Why are peo­ple so op­ti­mistic about su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

bipoloAug 23, 2019, 4:25 AM
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Vague Thoughts and Ques­tions about Agent Structures

loriphosAug 23, 2019, 4:01 AM
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For­mal­is­ing de­ci­sion the­ory is hard

Lukas FinnvedenAug 23, 2019, 3:27 AM
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Creat­ing En­vi­ron­ments to De­sign and Test Embed­ded Agents

lemonhopeAug 23, 2019, 3:17 AM
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Ta­boo­ing ‘Agent’ for Pro­saic Alignment

Hjalmar_WijkAug 23, 2019, 2:55 AM
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Vaniver’s View on Fac­tored Cognition

VaniverAug 23, 2019, 2:54 AM
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Redefin­ing Fast Takeoff

VojtaKovarikAug 23, 2019, 2:15 AM
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[Question] Does Agent-like Be­hav­ior Im­ply Agent-like Ar­chi­tec­ture?

Scott GarrabrantAug 23, 2019, 2:01 AM
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The Com­mit­ment Races problem

Daniel KokotajloAug 23, 2019, 1:58 AM
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Anal­y­sis of a Se­cret Hitler Scenario

jaekAug 23, 2019, 1:24 AM
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Thoughts from a Two Boxer

jaekAug 23, 2019, 12:24 AM
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De­con­fuse Your­self about Agency

VojtaKovarikAug 23, 2019, 12:21 AM
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Log­i­cal Op­ti­miz­ers

Donald HobsonAug 22, 2019, 11:54 PM
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Towards a mechanis­tic un­der­stand­ing of corrigibility

evhubAug 22, 2019, 11:20 PM
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Re­sponse to Glen Weyl on Tech­noc­racy and the Ra­tion­al­ist Community

John_MaxwellAug 22, 2019, 11:14 PM
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[Question] Why so much var­i­ance in hu­man in­tel­li­gence?

Ben PaceAug 22, 2019, 10:36 PM
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Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Propo­si­tion graphs, Part 1

Donald HobsonAug 22, 2019, 10:06 PM
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Time Travel, AI and Trans­par­ent Newcomb

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 10:04 PM
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Embed­ded Naive Bayes

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 9:40 PM
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In­ten­tional Bucket Errors

Scott GarrabrantAug 22, 2019, 8:02 PM
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Com­pu­ta­tional Model: Causal Di­a­grams with Symmetry

johnswentworthAug 22, 2019, 5:54 PM
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