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Look at the Shape of Your Utility Distribution

zulupineappleAug 30, 2019, 11:27 PM

15 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does anyone know of a good overview of what humans know about depression?

Eli TyreAug 30, 2019, 11:22 PM

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

September Bragging Thread

RaemonAug 30, 2019, 9:58 PM

47 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

2-D Robustness

Vlad MikulikAug 30, 2019, 8:27 PM

85 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Billions of Dollars Reducing Loneliness

John_MaxwellAug 30, 2019, 5:30 PM

60 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

A Game of Giants [Wait But Why]

kilotarasAug 30, 2019, 5:48 AM

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(waitbutwhy.com)

The Crisis of Evidence Use

Ian David MossAug 30, 2019, 4:50 AM

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(medium.com)

AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #1

Ben PaceAug 30, 2019, 1:26 AM

32 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Minneapolis SSC meetup September 2019

Drake ThomasAug 29, 2019, 11:01 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Updates—September 2019

RubyAug 29, 2019, 10:12 PM

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Why study perturbative adversarial attacks ?

Yuxi_LiuAug 29, 2019, 8:15 PM

19 points

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

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

19 comments1 min readLW link

[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 Lopez23 Aug 2019 20:08 UTC

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Troll Bridge

abramdemski23 Aug 2019 18:36 UTC

86 points

59 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

56 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

When do utility functions constrain?

Hoagy23 Aug 2019 17:19 UTC

30 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

Parables of Constraint and Actualization

Spencer Wyman23 Aug 2019 16:56 UTC

13 points

0 comments6 min readLW link