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Minneapolis SSC meetup September 2019

Drake ThomasAug 29, 2019, 11:01 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Updates—September 2019

RubyAug 29, 2019, 10:12 PM

39 points

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13 comments2 min readLW link

Why study perturbative adversarial attacks ?

Yuxi_LiuAug 29, 2019, 8:15 PM

19 points

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1 comment2 min readLW link

AI Forecasting Resolution Council (Forecasting infrastructure, part 2)

Bird Concept and Ben Goldhaber

Aug 29, 2019, 5:35 PM

35 points

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2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why are the people who could be doing safety research, but aren’t, doing something else?

Adam SchollAug 29, 2019, 8:51 AM

27 points

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19 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Book Review: Reframing Superintelligence (SSC)

ioannesAug 28, 2019, 10:57 PM

46 points

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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

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7 comments1 min readLW link

The Missing Math of Map-Making

johnswentworthAug 28, 2019, 9:18 PM

40 points

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8 comments2 min readLW link

This sometimes helps to expose assumptions

MoritzGAug 28, 2019, 6:42 PM

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

DavidmanheimAug 28, 2019, 10:46 AM

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Pull a Broken Chain

johnswentworthAug 28, 2019, 1:21 AM

31 points

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Cartographic Processes

johnswentworthAug 27, 2019, 8:02 PM

23 points

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Dual Wielding

ZviAug 27, 2019, 2:10 PM

60 points

30 votes

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23 comments2 min readLW link 3 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Personal Rationality Wishlist

DanielFilanAug 27, 2019, 3:40 AM

53 points

29 votes

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54 comments4 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Six AI Risk/Strategy Ideas

Wei DaiAug 27, 2019, 12:40 AM

73 points

32 votes

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17 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Embedded Agency via Abstraction

johnswentworthAug 26, 2019, 11:03 PM

42 points

19 votes

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20 comments11 min readLW link

Reversible changes: consider a bucket of water

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 10:55 PM

25 points

23 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

Toy model piece #3: close and distant situations

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 10:41 PM

10 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

ElizabethAug 26, 2019, 9:00 PM

9 points

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21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How Can People Evaluate Complex Questions Consistently?

ElizabethAug 26, 2019, 8:33 PM

46 points

12 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with AI debate

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 26, 2019, 7:21 PM

21 points

11 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Schelling Categories, and Simple Membership Tests

Zack_M_DavisAug 26, 2019, 2:43 AM

60 points

19 votes

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10 comments8 min readLW link

Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence

MoritzGAug 25, 2019, 10:16 PM

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3 comments7 min readLW link

Gratification: a useful concept, maybe new

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 25, 2019, 6:58 PM

17 points

7 votes

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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

3 votes

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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 votes

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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

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7 comments1 min readLW link

OpenPhil on “GiveWell’s Top Charities Are (Increasingly) Hard to Beat”

RaemonAug 24, 2019, 11:28 PM

17 points

3 votes

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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

19 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Performance IQ and higher mathematics

c5piAug 24, 2019, 5:31 PM

4 points

6 votes

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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

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day Celebration 2019 - Oxford Campsite

jbeshirAug 24, 2019, 3:42 AM

8 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How has rationalism helped you?

Sunny from QADAug 24, 2019, 1:31 AM

9 points

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11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is LW making progress?

zulupineappleAug 24, 2019, 12:32 AM

21 points

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11 comments1 min readLW link

LessLong Launch Party

RaemonAug 23, 2019, 10:18 PM

12 points

4 votes

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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

7 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Optimization Provenance

Adele LopezAug 23, 2019, 8:08 PM

38 points

25 votes

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5 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemskiAug 23, 2019, 6:36 PM

86 points

40 votes

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59 comments12 min readLW link

Understanding understanding

mthqAug 23, 2019, 6:10 PM

25 points

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Actually updating

SaraHaxAug 23, 2019, 5:46 PM

56 points

36 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

HoagyAug 23, 2019, 5:19 PM

37 points

15 votes

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8 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Constraint and Actualization

Spencer WymanAug 23, 2019, 4:56 PM

13 points

8 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on Retrieving Knowledge from Neural Networks

Jaime RuizAug 23, 2019, 4:41 PM

11 points

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Algorithmic Similarity

LukasMAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM

28 points

14 votes

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10 comments11 min readLW link

Soft takeoff can still lead to decisive strategic advantage

Daniel KokotajloAug 23, 2019, 4:39 PM

122 points

50 votes

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47 comments8 min readLW link 4 reviews

Moscow LW meetup in “Nauchka” library

Alexander230Aug 23, 2019, 12:40 PM

3 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

OpenGPT-2: We Replicated GPT-2 Because You Can Too

avturchinAug 23, 2019, 11:32 AM

18 points

5 votes

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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_BrownAug 23, 2019, 11:11 AM

19 points

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29 comments8 min readLW link

Metalignment: Deconfusing metaethics for AI alignment.

Guillaume CorlouerAug 23, 2019, 10:25 AM

13 points

8 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] A basic probability question

ShmiAug 23, 2019, 7:13 AM

11 points

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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