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The Universe Doesn’t Have to Play Nice
Chris_Leong
Jan 6, 2020, 2:08 AM
21
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to Throw Away Information in Causal DAGs
johnswentworth
Jan 8, 2020, 2:40 AM
20
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Value uncertainty
MichaelA
Jan 29, 2020, 8:16 PM
20
points
3
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Clarifying The Malignity of the Universal Prior: The Lexical Update
interstice
Jan 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
20
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Preference synthesis illustrated: Star Wars
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 9, 2020, 4:47 PM
20
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI alignment concepts: philosophical breakers, stoppers, and distorters
JustinShovelain
Jan 24, 2020, 7:23 PM
20
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Testing for Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 16, 2020, 8:12 AM
19
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Go F*** Someone
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 15, 2020, 6:39 PM
19
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five distributed their training computation
Rohin Shah
Jan 15, 2020, 6:20 PM
19
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
If Van der Waals was a neural network
George3d6
Jan 28, 2020, 6:38 PM
18
points
3
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(blog.cerebralab.com)
Survival and Flourishing grant applications open until March 7th ($0.8MM-$1.5MM planned for dispersal)
habryka
Jan 28, 2020, 11:36 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are the bad epistemic conditions global?
jmh
Jan 25, 2020, 11:31 PM
18
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Dec 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Jan 4, 2020, 8:48 PM
17
points
2
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Excitement vs childishness
Rafael Harth
Jan 3, 2020, 1:47 PM
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Using Vickrey auctions as a price discovery mechanism
epiphi
Jan 12, 2020, 1:00 AM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(kevinlynagh.com)
Disasters
jefftk
Jan 21, 2020, 7:20 PM
16
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[AN #83]: Sample-efficient deep learning with ReMixMatch
Rohin Shah
Jan 22, 2020, 6:10 PM
15
points
4
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Avoiding Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 15, 2020, 10:55 AM
15
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Example: Markov Chain
johnswentworth
Jan 10, 2020, 8:19 PM
15
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Theories That Can Explain Everything
Chris_Leong
Jan 2, 2020, 2:12 AM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“How quickly can you get this done?” (estimating workload)
kerspoon
Jan 18, 2020, 12:10 AM
15
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
UML VII: Meta-Learning
Rafael Harth
Jan 19, 2020, 6:23 PM
14
points
0
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Terms & literature for purposely lossy communication
ozziegooen
Jan 22, 2020, 10:35 AM
14
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How has the cost of clothing insulation changed since 1970 in the USA?
DanielFilan
Jan 12, 2020, 11:31 PM
14
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Drawing Toward Power
hiblick
Jan 13, 2020, 4:24 AM
14
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Moral uncertainty: What kind of ‘should’ is involved?
MichaelA
Jan 13, 2020, 12:13 PM
14
points
11
comments
13
min read
LW
link
UML V: Convex Learning Problems
Rafael Harth
Jan 5, 2020, 7:47 PM
14
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Cambridge Prediction Game
NoSignalNoNoise
Jan 25, 2020, 3:57 AM
13
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Credit Cards for Giving
jefftk
Jan 4, 2020, 11:00 PM
13
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Personal Experiment] Training YouTube’s Algorithm
lsusr
Jan 9, 2020, 9:04 AM
13
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Predictably Predictable Futures Talk: Using Expected Loss & Prediction Innovation for Long Term Benefits
ozziegooen
Jan 8, 2020, 12:51 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Old Airports
jefftk
Jan 9, 2020, 3:30 AM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Values and Alignment
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 30, 2020, 7:48 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(deepmind.com)
Using Expert Disagreement
dspeyer
Jan 16, 2020, 10:42 PM
13
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Making decisions when both morally and empirically uncertain
MichaelA
Jan 2, 2020, 7:20 AM
13
points
14
comments
20
min read
LW
link
[AN #79]: Recursive reward modeling as an alignment technique integrated with deep RL
Rohin Shah
Jan 1, 2020, 6:00 PM
13
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk
JustinShovelain
21 Jan 2020 13:07 UTC
13
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A method for fair bargaining over odds in 2 player bets!
Agrippa Kellum
11 Jan 2020 1:18 UTC
13
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Clumping Solstice Singalongs in Groups of 2-4
Raemon
5 Jan 2020 20:50 UTC
13
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
UML VI: Stochastic Gradient Descent
Rafael Harth
12 Jan 2020 21:59 UTC
13
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Litany Against Anger
namespace
25 Jan 2020 0:56 UTC
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Towards deconfusing values
Gordon Seidoh Worley
29 Jan 2020 19:28 UTC
12
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
In defense of deviousness
Juan Andrés Hurtado Baeza
15 Jan 2020 11:56 UTC
12
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Emergency Prescription Medication
jefftk
24 Jan 2020 1:20 UTC
12
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What research has been done on the altruistic impact of the usual good actions?
Alexei
27 Jan 2020 19:33 UTC
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meta-discussion from “Circling as Cousin to Rationality”
Raemon
3 Jan 2020 21:38 UTC
11
points
165
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can we always assign, and make sense of, subjective probabilities?
MichaelA
17 Jan 2020 3:05 UTC
11
points
15
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Remote AI alignment writing group seeking new members
rmoehn
18 Jan 2020 2:10 UTC
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Repossessing Degrees
jefftk
13 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC
11
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What will quantum computers be used for?
maximkazhenkov
1 Jan 2020 19:33 UTC
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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