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Training Regime Day 1: What is applied rationality?

Mark Xu15 Feb 2020 21:03 UTC

32 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] It “wanted” …

jmh15 Feb 2020 20:52 UTC

4 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Why Science is slowing down, Universities and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

George3d615 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC

16 points

25 comments10 min readLW link

Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering

johnswentworth15 Feb 2020 17:27 UTC

147 points

18 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Reference Post: Trivial Decision Theory Problem

Chris_Leong15 Feb 2020 17:13 UTC

16 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the difference between robustness and inner alignment?

JanB15 Feb 2020 13:28 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does iterated amplification tackle the inner alignment problem?

JanB15 Feb 2020 12:58 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Evolving-to-Extinction

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 23:55 UTC

44 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] A ‘Practice of Rationality’ Sequence?

abramdemski14 Feb 2020 22:56 UTC

79 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

The Catastrophic Convergence Conjecture

TurnTrout14 Feb 2020 21:16 UTC

45 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics or: AI vs sandwiches

Vanessa Kosoy14 Feb 2020 18:46 UTC

37 points

9 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Perceptrons Explained

[deleted]14 Feb 2020 17:34 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(owenshen24.github.io)

Please Help Metaculus Forecast COVID-19

AABoyles14 Feb 2020 17:31 UTC

34 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Training Regime Day 0: Introduction

Mark Xu14 Feb 2020 8:22 UTC

41 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Distinguishing definitions of takeoff

Matthew Barnett14 Feb 2020 0:16 UTC

79 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Effective Altruism 80,000 hours workshop materials & outline (and Feb 10 ’19 KC meetup notes)

samstowers13 Feb 2020 21:48 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do you use face masks?

ChristianKl13 Feb 2020 14:18 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

In theory: does building the subagent have an “impact”?

Stuart_Armstrong13 Feb 2020 14:17 UTC

17 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What fraction of work time in the world is done at a computer?

Mati_Roy13 Feb 2020 9:53 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Variance Indifferent Maximizer Alternative

Nevan Wichers13 Feb 2020 9:06 UTC

7 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning

Scott Alexander13 Feb 2020 7:20 UTC

43 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Building and using the subagent

Stuart_Armstrong12 Feb 2020 19:28 UTC

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #86]: Improving debate and factored cognition through human experiments

Rohin Shah12 Feb 2020 18:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Suspiciously balanced evidence

gjm12 Feb 2020 17:04 UTC

51 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are the risks of having your genome publicly available?

Mati_Roy11 Feb 2020 21:54 UTC

16 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Demons in Imperfect Search

johnswentworth11 Feb 2020 20:25 UTC

110 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Will COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting disability at a high rate?

jimrandomh11 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC

134 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

The Relational Stance

Raemon11 Feb 2020 5:16 UTC

48 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Intelligence without causality

Donald Hobson11 Feb 2020 0:34 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman10 Feb 2020 22:36 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Simulation of technological progress (work in progress)

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Feb 2020 20:39 UTC

21 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we refuse to take action claiming our impact would be too small?

hookdump10 Feb 2020 19:33 UTC

5 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Gricean communication and meta-preferences

Charlie Steiner10 Feb 2020 5:05 UTC

25 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Attainable Utility Landscape: How The World Is Changed

TurnTrout10 Feb 2020 0:58 UTC

52 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

A Simple Introduction to Neural Networks

Rafael Harth9 Feb 2020 22:02 UTC

34 points

13 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] Did AI pioneers not worry much about AI risks?

lisperati9 Feb 2020 19:58 UTC

42 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Source of Karma

jmh9 Feb 2020 14:13 UTC

4 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

State Space of X-Risk Trajectories

David_Kristoffersson9 Feb 2020 13:56 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Does there exist an AGI-level parameter setting for modern DRL architectures?

TurnTrout9 Feb 2020 5:09 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Who… (or what) designed this site and where did they come from?

thedayismine9 Feb 2020 4:04 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

How to Frame Negative Feedback as Forward-Facing Guidance

Liron9 Feb 2020 2:47 UTC

46 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Relationship Outcomes Are Not Particularly Sensitive to Small Variations in Verbal Ability

Zack_M_Davis9 Feb 2020 0:34 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

What can the principal-agent literature tell us about AI risk?

apc8 Feb 2020 21:28 UTC

105 points

29 comments16 min readLW link

A Cautionary Note on Unlocking the Emotional Brain

[deleted]8 Feb 2020 17:21 UTC

56 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is this review feature?

Long try8 Feb 2020 15:30 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Halifax SSC Meetup—FEB 8

interstice8 Feb 2020 0:45 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

On the falsifiability of hypercomputation

jessicata7 Feb 2020 8:16 UTC

24 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

More writeups!

jefftk7 Feb 2020 3:10 UTC

40 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Book Review: Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath

Ian David Moss6 Feb 2020 20:15 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Bayes-Up: An App for Sharing Bayesian-MCQ

Louis Faucon6 Feb 2020 19:01 UTC

53 points

9 comments1 min readLW link