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Open & Welcome Thread—August 2019

Ruby2 Aug 2019 23:56 UTC

11 points

44 comments1 min readLW link

‘Longtermism’ definitional discussion on EA Forum

ESRogs2 Aug 2019 23:53 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Practical consequences of impossibility of value learning

Stuart_Armstrong2 Aug 2019 23:06 UTC

23 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Power Buys You Distance From The Crime

Elizabeth2 Aug 2019 20:50 UTC

189 points

75 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Very different, very adequate outcomes

Stuart_Armstrong2 Aug 2019 20:31 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Rethinking Batch Normalization

Matthew Barnett2 Aug 2019 20:21 UTC

20 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Permissions in Governance

sarahconstantin2 Aug 2019 19:50 UTC

53 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Open problems in human rationality: guesses

romeostevensit2 Aug 2019 18:16 UTC

18 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

How to evaluate neglectedness and tractability of aging research

emanuele ascani2 Aug 2019 10:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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

Raemon2 Aug 2019 0:39 UTC

33 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Subagents?

johnswentworth1 Aug 2019 22:17 UTC

174 points

48 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

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

dadadarren1 Aug 2019 20:10 UTC

7 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

Understanding Batch Normalization

Matthew Barnett1 Aug 2019 17:56 UTC

19 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

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

jmh1 Aug 2019 16:25 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

July 2019 gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Aug 2019 16:19 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

The Internet: Burning Questions

Hazard1 Aug 2019 14:46 UTC

13 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Occam’s Razor: In need of sharpening?

Jimdrix_Hendri1 Aug 2019 13:36 UTC

2 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Mistake Versus Conflict Theory of Against Billionaire Philanthropy

Zvi1 Aug 2019 13:10 UTC

36 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:41 UTC

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?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:38 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:35 UTC

16 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Importance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_Kingsley31 Jul 2019 23:33 UTC

42 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Gathering thoughts on Distillation

Raemon31 Jul 2019 19:48 UTC

33 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2019 18:48 UTC

59 points

154 comments3 min readLW link

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

jmh31 Jul 2019 17:15 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 2/2]

Matthew Barnett31 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC

13 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

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

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC

353 points

74 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

Drive-By Low-Effort Criticism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jul 2019 11:51 UTC

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 yass31 Jul 2019 0:16 UTC

9 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Western Massachusetts SSC meetup

a_lieb30 Jul 2019 18:43 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Forum participation as a research strategy

Wei Dai30 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC

151 points

45 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 1/2]

Matthew Barnett30 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC

35 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Conversation on forecasting with Vaniver and Ozzie Gooen

jacobjacob, Vaniver and ozziegooen

30 Jul 2019 11:16 UTC

41 points

18 comments32 min readLW link

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

jacobjacob30 Jul 2019 10:03 UTC

37 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

CronoDAS30 Jul 2019 9:58 UTC

19 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.theferrett.com)

On Framing Political Opinions to Quickly Assess the Crux of Disagreement

Tuk30 Jul 2019 3:07 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Information empathy

Sunny from QAD30 Jul 2019 1:32 UTC

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 Tyre29 Jul 2019 22:59 UTC

86 points

31 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Toy model piece #1: Partial preferences revisited

Stuart_Armstrong29 Jul 2019 16:35 UTC

12 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Mapping of enneagram to MTG personality types

Alexei29 Jul 2019 15:20 UTC

3 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What woo to read?

calebo29 Jul 2019 15:19 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there neuroscience research on cognitive biases?

Yoav Ravid29 Jul 2019 7:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Compilers/PLs book recommendation?

johnswentworth28 Jul 2019 15:49 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Arguments for the existence of qualia

Chris_Leong28 Jul 2019 10:52 UTC

3 points

63 comments5 min readLW link

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

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2019 9:32 UTC

18 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

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

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2019 9:30 UTC

26 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Keep Your Beliefs Cruxy

Raemon28 Jul 2019 1:18 UTC

52 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

The wisdom of the Crowd

Jason Geringer27 Jul 2019 23:14 UTC

−2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this info on zinc lozenges accurate?

philh27 Jul 2019 22:05 UTC

37 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Shortform Beta Launch

Raemon27 Jul 2019 20:09 UTC

67 points

18 comments2 min readLW link