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Embedded Agency via Abstraction

johnswentworth26 Aug 2019 23:03 UTC

40 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 22:55 UTC

25 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 22:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you learn foreign language vocabulary, beyond Anki?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 21:00 UTC

9 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

Elizabeth26 Aug 2019 20:33 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with AI debate

Stuart_Armstrong26 Aug 2019 19:21 UTC

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests

Zack_M_Davis26 Aug 2019 2:43 UTC

58 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence

MoritzG25 Aug 2019 22:16 UTC

1 point

3 comments7 min readLW link

Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new

Stuart_Armstrong25 Aug 2019 18:58 UTC

17 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong25 Aug 2019 17:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] I’m interested in a sub-field of AI but don’t know what to call it.

fowlertm25 Aug 2019 14:55 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Am I going for a job interview with a woo pusher?

CronoDAS25 Aug 2019 14:39 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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 link 4 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