Open & Wel­come Thread—Au­gust 2019

RubyAug 2, 2019, 11:56 PM
11 points
44 comments1 min readLW link

‘Longter­mism’ defi­ni­tional dis­cus­sion on EA Forum

ESRogsAug 2, 2019, 11:53 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Prac­ti­cal con­se­quences of im­pos­si­bil­ity of value learning

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 2, 2019, 11:06 PM
23 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Power Buys You Dis­tance From The Crime

ElizabethAug 2, 2019, 8:50 PM
213 points
75 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

Very differ­ent, very ad­e­quate outcomes

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 2, 2019, 8:31 PM
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Re­think­ing Batch Normalization

Matthew BarnettAug 2, 2019, 8:21 PM
20 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Per­mis­sions in Governance

sarahconstantinAug 2, 2019, 7:50 PM
53 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Open prob­lems in hu­man ra­tio­nal­ity: guesses

romeostevensitAug 2, 2019, 6:16 PM
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How to eval­u­ate ne­glect­ed­ness and tractabil­ity of ag­ing research

emanuele ascaniAug 2, 2019, 10:33 AM
4 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

[Site Up­date] Weekly/​Monthly/​Yearly on All Posts

RaemonAug 2, 2019, 12:39 AM
33 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Subagents?

johnswentworthAug 1, 2019, 10:17 PM
175 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Sleep­ing Beauty: Is Disagree­ment While Shar­ing All In­for­ma­tion Pos­si­ble in An­thropic Prob­lems?

dadadarrenAug 1, 2019, 8:10 PM
7 points
32 comments10 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Batch Normalization

Matthew BarnettAug 1, 2019, 5:56 PM
19 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Would re­fin­ing the ques­tion a bit be bet­ter in terms of get­ting to an­swers?

jmhAug 1, 2019, 4:25 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

July 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernAug 1, 2019, 4:19 PM
23 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

The In­ter­net: Burn­ing Questions

HazardAug 1, 2019, 2:46 PM
13 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor: In need of sharp­en­ing?

Jimdrix_HendriAug 1, 2019, 1:36 PM
0 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Mis­take Ver­sus Con­flict The­ory of Against Billion­aire Philanthropy

ZviAug 1, 2019, 1:10 PM
37 points
34 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much time do you spend on twit­ter?

HazardAug 1, 2019, 12:41 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best and worst af­for­dances of twit­ter as a tech­nol­ogy and as a so­cial ecosys­tem?

HazardAug 1, 2019, 12:38 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you use twit­ter for in­tel­lec­tual en­gage­ment? Do you like it?

HazardAug 1, 2019, 12:35 PM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_KingsleyJul 31, 2019, 11:33 PM
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Gather­ing thoughts on Distillation

RaemonJul 31, 2019, 7:48 PM
33 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Con­test: $1,000 for good ques­tions to ask to an Or­a­cle AI

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 31, 2019, 6:48 PM
59 points
154 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Another case of “com­mon sense” not be­ing com­mon?

jmhJul 31, 2019, 5:15 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 2/​2]

Matthew BarnettJul 31, 2019, 1:54 PM
13 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

HazardJul 31, 2019, 1:34 PM
378 points
79 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Drive-By Low-Effort Criticism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Jul 31, 2019, 11:51 AM
32 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Will au­tonomous cars be more eco­nom­i­cal/​effi­cient as shared ur­ban tran­sit than busses or trains, and by how much? What’s some good re­search on this?

mako yassJul 31, 2019, 12:16 AM
9 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Western Mas­sachusetts SSC meetup

a_liebJul 30, 2019, 6:43 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei DaiJul 30, 2019, 6:09 PM
153 points
45 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 1/​2]

Matthew BarnettJul 30, 2019, 1:54 PM
35 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion on fore­cast­ing with Vaniver and Ozzie Gooen

Jul 30, 2019, 11:16 AM
41 points
18 comments32 min readLW link

[Question] Does im­proved in­tro­spec­tion cause ra­tio­nal­i­sa­tion to be­come less no­tice­able?

Bird ConceptJul 30, 2019, 10:03 AM
37 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

When Hav­ing Friends is More Allur­ing than Be­ing Right (by Fer­rett Stein­metz)

CronoDASJul 30, 2019, 9:58 AM
19 points
8 commentsLW link
(www.theferrett.com)

On Fram­ing Poli­ti­cal Opinions to Quickly Assess the Crux of Disagreement

TukJul 30, 2019, 3:07 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion empathy

Sunny from QADJul 30, 2019, 1:32 AM
13 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does it be­come eas­ier, or harder, for the world to co­or­di­nate around not build­ing AGI as time goes on?

Eli TyreJul 29, 2019, 10:59 PM
86 points
31 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Toy model piece #1: Par­tial prefer­ences revisited

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 29, 2019, 4:35 PM
12 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Map­ping of en­nea­gram to MTG per­son­al­ity types

AlexeiJul 29, 2019, 3:20 PM
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What woo to read?

caleboJul 29, 2019, 3:19 PM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there neu­ro­science re­search on cog­ni­tive bi­ases?

Yoav RavidJul 29, 2019, 7:45 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Com­pilers/​PLs book recom­men­da­tion?

johnswentworthJul 28, 2019, 3:49 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for the ex­is­tence of qualia

Chris_LeongJul 28, 2019, 10:52 AM
3 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing Overop­ti­miza­tion to Selec­tion vs. Con­trol (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 3)

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2019, 9:32 AM
18 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

What does Op­ti­miza­tion Mean, Again? (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 2)

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2019, 9:30 AM
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Keep Your Beliefs Cruxy

RaemonJul 28, 2019, 1:18 AM
54 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

The wis­dom of the Crowd

Jason GeringerJul 27, 2019, 11:14 PM
−2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this info on zinc lozenges ac­cu­rate?

philhJul 27, 2019, 10:05 PM
40 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Short­form Beta Launch

RaemonJul 27, 2019, 8:09 PM
67 points
18 comments2 min readLW link