Another AI Win­ter?

PeterMcCluskeyDec 25, 2019, 12:58 AM
47 points
14 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Some Com­ments on “Good­hart Tax­on­omy”

Grue_SlinkyDec 24, 2019, 11:59 PM
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

ESC Pro­cess Notes: Claim Eval­u­a­tion vs. Syntheses

ElizabethDec 24, 2019, 5:00 PM
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Should I floss?

willbradshawDec 24, 2019, 4:06 PM
24 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Funk-tunul’s Le­gacy; Or, The Le­gend of the Ex­tor­tion War

Zack_M_DavisDec 24, 2019, 9:29 AM
13 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

What are you read­ing?

eigenDec 24, 2019, 12:11 AM
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Might hu­mans not be the most in­tel­li­gent an­i­mals?

Matthew BarnettDec 23, 2019, 9:50 PM
56 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

Offset Norms

jefftkDec 23, 2019, 9:30 PM
15 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Hu­mans Are Embed­ded Agents Too

johnswentworthDec 23, 2019, 7:21 PM
82 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Autoexperiments

IdeopunkDec 23, 2019, 4:53 PM
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Yet an­other Simp­son’s Para­dox Post

NaiveTortoiseDec 23, 2019, 2:20 PM
7 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(an1lam.github.io)

Con­ver­sa­tion about whether LW Moder­a­tors should ex­press in­di­vi­d­ual opinions about mod policy − 2019/​12/​22

RubyDec 23, 2019, 3:46 AM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Freezer Contents

jefftkDec 23, 2019, 2:40 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Can fear of the dark bias us more gen­er­ally?

TurnTroutDec 22, 2019, 10:09 PM
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] De­cis­sion The­ory and Quan­tum Self-Measurement

Alan GivréDec 22, 2019, 7:16 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing (II)

Rafael HarthDec 22, 2019, 6:28 PM
24 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

The Towel Cen­sus: A Method­ol­ogy for Iden­ti­fy­ing Or­phaned Ob­jects in Your Home

mingyuanDec 22, 2019, 6:04 AM
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What could a World Unifi­ca­tion In­dex track to mea­sure how unified the world is, was, and is be­com­ing?

Mati_RoyDec 22, 2019, 4:56 AM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If Antarc­tic be­came hos­pitable to hu­mans, and con­se­quently re­ceived a mass mi­gra­tion, what are likely ways the Antarc­tic le­gal sys­tem could evolve?

Mati_RoyDec 22, 2019, 4:31 AM
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Pixel 3a Review

jefftkDec 22, 2019, 3:00 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sec­tion 7: Foun­da­tions of Ra­tional Agency

JesseCliftonDec 22, 2019, 2:05 AM
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Tem­plates and videos for do­ing an­nual and daily re­views

peterslatteryDec 22, 2019, 12:48 AM
16 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Old and New Saw Blades

jefftkDec 21, 2019, 2:00 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Coun­ter­fac­tual Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Chris_LeongDec 21, 2019, 1:44 AM
21 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Free Speech and Triskaideka­pho­bic Calcu­la­tors: A Re­ply to Hub­inger on the Rele­vance of Public On­line Dis­cus­sion to Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Zack_M_DavisDec 21, 2019, 12:49 AM
77 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Quadratic vot­ing for the 2018 Review

Ben PaceDec 20, 2019, 10:59 PM
39 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

Clar­ify­ing Power-Seek­ing and In­stru­men­tal Convergence

TurnTroutDec 20, 2019, 7:59 PM
42 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Po­lio and the con­tro­versy over ran­dom­ized clini­cal trials

jasoncrawfordDec 20, 2019, 7:49 PM
18 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Un­der­stand­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing (I)

Rafael HarthDec 20, 2019, 6:22 PM
44 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Sec­tions 5 & 6: Con­tem­po­rary Ar­chi­tec­tures, Hu­mans in the Loop

JesseCliftonDec 20, 2019, 3:52 AM
27 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Should We Still Fly?

jefftkDec 20, 2019, 2:00 AM
47 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Rea­son and In­tu­ition in science

Unknown128Dec 20, 2019, 1:35 AM
−6 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Causal Ab­strac­tion Intro

johnswentworthDec 19, 2019, 10:01 PM
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

We run the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, AMA

AnnaSalamonDec 19, 2019, 4:34 PM
108 points
324 comments1 min readLW link

[Part 1] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – Models of im­pact and challenges

Dec 19, 2019, 3:50 PM
55 points
29 comments17 min readLW link

[Part 2] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – re­sults from a pre­limi­nary exploration

Dec 19, 2019, 3:49 PM
62 points
10 comments14 min readLW link1 review

When Good­hart­ing is op­ti­mal: lin­ear vs diminish­ing re­turns, un­likely vs likely, and other factors

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 19, 2019, 1:55 PM
24 points
18 comments7 min readLW link

Neu­ral net­works as non-leaky math­e­mat­i­cal abstraction

George3d6Dec 19, 2019, 12:23 PM
14 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

CFAR: Progress Re­port & Fu­ture Plans

Adam SchollDec 19, 2019, 6:19 AM
63 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Prop­a­gat­ing Facts into Aesthetics

RaemonDec 19, 2019, 4:09 AM
134 points
38 comments11 min readLW link1 review

What’s go­ing on with this failure of Bayes to con­verge?

OrbordeDec 19, 2019, 3:58 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(a-point-in-tumblspace.tumblr.com)

2019 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 19, 2019, 3:00 AM
130 points
18 comments62 min readLW link

One Million Dollars

jefftkDec 19, 2019, 2:10 AM
61 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“You can’t pos­si­bly suc­ceed with­out [My Pet Is­sue]”

RaemonDec 19, 2019, 1:12 AM
54 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tion, Causal­ity, and Embed­ded Maps: Here Be Monsters

johnswentworthDec 18, 2019, 8:25 PM
26 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Against Pre­ma­ture Ab­strac­tion of Poli­ti­cal Issues

Wei DaiDec 18, 2019, 8:19 PM
94 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

In­duc­tive bi­ases stick around

evhubDec 18, 2019, 7:52 PM
64 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #77]: Dou­ble de­scent: a unifi­ca­tion of statis­ti­cal the­ory and mod­ern ML practice

Rohin ShahDec 18, 2019, 6:30 PM
21 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Ra­tion­al­ist Sols­tice Madison

marywangDec 18, 2019, 3:56 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Neu­ro­science of Anxiety

digital_carverDec 18, 2019, 2:20 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.scotthyoung.com)