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[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC)

ioannesAug 28, 2019, 10:57 PM

46 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] I think I came up with a good utility function for AI that seems too obvious. Can you people poke holes in it?

litten8Aug 28, 2019, 10:33 PM

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Missing Math of Map-Making

johnswentworthAug 28, 2019, 9:18 PM

40 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

This sometimes helps to expose assumptions

MoritzGAug 28, 2019, 6:42 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What Programming Language Characteristics Would Allow Provably Safe AI?

DavidmanheimAug 28, 2019, 10:46 AM

4 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Pull a Broken Chain

johnswentworthAug 28, 2019, 1:21 AM

31 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Cartographic Processes

johnswentworthAug 27, 2019, 8:02 PM

23 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Dual Wielding

ZviAug 27, 2019, 2:10 PM

60 points

23 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Personal Rationality Wishlist

DanielFilanAug 27, 2019, 3:40 AM

53 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas

Wei DaiAug 27, 2019, 12:40 AM

73 points

17 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Embedded Agency via Abstraction

johnswentworthAug 26, 2019, 11:03 PM

42 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 10:55 PM

25 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 10:41 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethAug 26, 2019, 9:00 PM

9 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

ElizabethAug 26, 2019, 8:33 PM

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with AI debate

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 7:21 PM

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests

Zack_M_DavisAug 26, 2019, 2:43 AM

59 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence

MoritzGAug 25, 2019, 10:16 PM

1 point

3 comments7 min readLW link

Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 25, 2019, 6:58 PM

17 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

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

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 25, 2019, 5:02 PM

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.

fowlertmAug 25, 2019, 2:55 PM

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

CronoDASAug 25, 2019, 2:39 PM

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

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 Ruiz23 Aug 2019 16:41 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Algorithmic Similarity

LukasM23 Aug 2019 16:39 UTC

28 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

Shmi23 Aug 2019 7:13 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Towards an Intentional Research Agenda

romeostevensit23 Aug 2019 5:27 UTC

21 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

lemonhope23 Aug 2019 3:17 UTC

13 points

5 comments8 min readLW link