Do Suffi­ciently Ad­vanced Agents Use Logic?

abramdemskiSep 13, 2019, 7:53 PM
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A Cri­tique of Func­tional De­ci­sion Theory

wdmacaskillSep 13, 2019, 7:23 PM
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The­ory of Ideal Agents, or of Ex­ist­ing Agents?

johnswentworthSep 13, 2019, 5:38 PM
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Rev­er­sal Tests in Ar­gu­ment and Debate

Davis_KingsleySep 13, 2019, 9:18 AM
32 points

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Up­date: Pre­dicted AI al­ign­ment event/​meet­ing calendar

rmoehnSep 13, 2019, 9:05 AM
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[Question] Re­quest for sto­ries of when quan­ti­ta­tive rea­son­ing was prac­ti­cally use­ful for you.

Eli TyreSep 13, 2019, 7:21 AM
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What You See Isn’t Always What You Want

TurnTroutSep 13, 2019, 4:17 AM
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[Question] Who’s an un­usual thinker that you recom­mend fol­low­ing?

Pee DoomSep 13, 2019, 4:11 AM
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Lon­don Ra­tion­al­ish meetup (part of SSC mee­tups ev­ery­where)

philhSep 12, 2019, 8:32 PM
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The Power to Un­der­stand “God”

LironSep 12, 2019, 6:38 PM
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The Power to Solve Cli­mate Change

LironSep 12, 2019, 6:37 PM
41 points

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An­swer­ing some ques­tions about EA

jefftkSep 12, 2019, 5:50 PM
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Pre­dictable Iden­tities—Mid­point Review

Jacob FalkovichSep 12, 2019, 2:39 PM
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SSC Mee­tups Every­where: CPH 21/​09/​19 first meetup

SønderjyeSep 12, 2019, 10:27 AM
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Austin LW/​SSC/​EA “Mee­tups Every­where” Meetup: 9/​30 6pm

jchanSep 12, 2019, 5:40 AM
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Toy model piece #5: com­bin­ing par­tial preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 12, 2019, 3:31 AM
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Toy model piece #4: par­tial prefer­ences, re-re-visited

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 12, 2019, 3:31 AM
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Con­ver­sa­tion with Paul Christiano

abergalSep 11, 2019, 11:20 PM
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Scott Alexan­der vis­its DC

Robi RahmanSep 11, 2019, 10:31 PM
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[Question] What are the mer­its of sign­ing up for cry­on­ics with Al­cor vs. with the Cry­on­ics In­sti­tute?

Eli TyreSep 11, 2019, 7:06 PM
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[Link] Truth-tel­ling is ag­gres­sion in zero-sum frames (Jes­sica Tay­lor)

ioannesSep 11, 2019, 5:53 AM
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Western Mas­sachusetts SSC meetup #16: Mee­tups Every­where 2019 Edi­tion

a_liebSep 11, 2019, 3:18 AM
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Ra­tion­al­ity Ex­er­cises Prize of Septem­ber 2019 ($1,000)

Ben PaceSep 11, 2019, 12:19 AM
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Re­laxed ad­ver­sar­ial train­ing for in­ner alignment

evhubSep 10, 2019, 11:03 PM
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“AI-GAs: AI-gen­er­at­ing al­gorithms, an al­ter­nate paradigm for pro­duc­ing gen­eral ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence”, Clune 2019

gwernSep 10, 2019, 9:33 PM
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SSC Mee­tups Every­where: Toulouse

GyrodiotSep 10, 2019, 7:17 PM
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[AN #63] How ar­chi­tec­ture search, meta learn­ing, and en­vi­ron­ment de­sign could lead to gen­eral intelligence

Rohin ShahSep 10, 2019, 7:10 PM
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Free-to-Play Games: Three Key Trade-Offs

ZviSep 10, 2019, 12:10 PM
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Hack­able Re­wards as a Safety Valve?

DavidmanheimSep 10, 2019, 10:33 AM
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Coun­ter­fac­tual Or­a­cles = on­line su­per­vised learn­ing with ran­dom se­lec­tion of train­ing episodes

Wei DaiSep 10, 2019, 8:29 AM
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Is my re­sult wrong? Maths vs in­tu­ition vs evolu­tion in learn­ing hu­man preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 10, 2019, 12:46 AM
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Shal­low Re­view of Con­sis­tency in State­ment Evaluation

ElizabethSep 9, 2019, 11:21 PM
65 points

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Sim­ple and com­pos­ite par­tial preferences

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 9, 2019, 11:07 PM
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Slat­estar­codex Meetup in Ham­burg, Germany

Gunnar_ZarnckeSep 9, 2019, 9:42 PM
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[Question] What tools ex­ist to com­pute all pos­si­ble pro­grams?

AlexeiSep 9, 2019, 4:50 PM
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[Question] Alter­na­tive name for a Bug List

Bae's TheoremSep 9, 2019, 3:14 PM
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[Question] What are some pod­casts that just read aloud worth­while con­tent?

Rudi CSep 9, 2019, 8:41 AM
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Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund grant ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til Oc­to­ber 4th ($1MM-$2MM planned for dis­per­sal)

habrykaSep 9, 2019, 4:12 AM
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[Question] Look­ing for an­swers about quan­tum im­mor­tal­ity.

FivehundredSep 9, 2019, 2:16 AM
15 points

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Sto­ries About Progress

Ben PaceSep 8, 2019, 11:07 PM
28 points

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The Power to Make Scien­tific Breakthroughs

LironSep 8, 2019, 4:14 AM
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[Question] Do you have al­gorithms for pass­ing time pro­duc­tively with only your own mind?

Rudi CSep 7, 2019, 8:48 PM
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Age gaps and Birth or­der: Reanalysis

BuckySep 7, 2019, 7:33 PM
48 points

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Age gaps and Birth or­der: Failed re­pro­duc­tion of results

BuckySep 7, 2019, 7:22 PM
59 points

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Are min­i­mal cir­cuits de­cep­tive?

evhubSep 7, 2019, 6:11 PM
78 points

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Are we liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in his­tory?

jpSep 7, 2019, 6:09 PM
14 points

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In­te­grat­ing the Lindy Effect

lsusrSep 7, 2019, 5:38 PM
55 points

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Lis­bon SSC Meetup #2

tamkin&popkinSep 7, 2019, 1:17 PM
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Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter, sum­mer 2019

avturchinSep 7, 2019, 9:50 AM
39 points

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AI Safety “Suc­cess Sto­ries”

Wei DaiSep 7, 2019, 2:54 AM
128 points

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