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Emergency Prescription Medication

jefftkJan 24, 2020, 1:20 AM

12 points

4 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

LW/SSC Warsaw February Meetup

kaftanowiczJan 23, 2020, 7:49 PM

2 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Theory of Causal Models with Dynamic Structure?

johnswentworthJan 23, 2020, 7:47 PM

24 points

5 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Tokenising human verification in order to derive information from the resulting markets

Will ClarkJan 23, 2020, 7:20 PM

3 points

2 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

New paper: The Incentives that Shape Behaviour

RyanCareyJan 23, 2020, 7:07 PM

23 points

7 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Formulating Reductive Agency in Causal Models

johnswentworthJan 23, 2020, 5:03 PM

33 points

10 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Cassette Tape Thoughts

ElizabethJan 22, 2020, 10:50 PM

48 points

18 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Concerns Surrounding CEV: A case for human friendliness first

ai-crotesJan 22, 2020, 9:03 PM

1 point

3 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

(A → B) → A in Causal DAGs

johnswentworthJan 22, 2020, 6:22 PM

48 points

13 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #83]: Sample-efficient deep learning with ReMixMatch

Rohin ShahJan 22, 2020, 6:10 PM

15 points

7 votes

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4 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Terms & literature for purposely lossy communication

ozziegooenJan 22, 2020, 10:35 AM

14 points

6 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Three signs you may be suffering from imposter syndrome

lcJan 21, 2020, 10:17 PM

9 points

5 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Logical Representation of Causal Models

johnswentworthJan 21, 2020, 8:04 PM

37 points

11 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Disasters

jefftkJan 21, 2020, 7:20 PM

16 points

7 votes

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13 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk

JustinShovelainJan 21, 2020, 1:07 PM

13 points

7 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

How Doomed are Large Organizations?

ZviJan 21, 2020, 12:20 PM

81 points

26 votes

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42 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

Zack_M_DavisJan 21, 2020, 6:28 AM

27 points

9 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Whipped Cream vs Fancy Butter

jefftkJan 21, 2020, 12:30 AM

−2 points

7 votes

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36 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Inner alignment requires making assumptions about human values

Matthew BarnettJan 20, 2020, 6:38 PM

26 points

12 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Workshop on Assured Autonomous Systems (WAAS)

Aryeh EnglanderJan 20, 2020, 4:21 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Why Do You Keep Having This Problem?

Davis_KingsleyJan 20, 2020, 8:33 AM

47 points

22 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Use-cases for computations, other than running them?

johnswentworthJan 19, 2020, 8:52 PM

30 points

10 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

UML VII: Meta-Learning

Rafael HarthJan 19, 2020, 6:23 PM

14 points

4 votes

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0 comments15 min readLW link

Adjusting Outdoor Reset

jefftkJan 19, 2020, 6:20 PM

1 point

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Madison SSC Meetup: Adversarial Collaborations

marywangJan 19, 2020, 4:47 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Human Compatible

PeterMcCluskeyJan 19, 2020, 3:32 AM

37 points

11 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Is NYC Building Much Housing?

jefftkJan 18, 2020, 8:50 PM

0 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Road to Mazedom

ZviJan 18, 2020, 2:10 PM

97 points

31 votes

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26 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What types of compute/processing could we distinguish?

MoritzGJan 18, 2020, 10:04 AM

2 points

1 vote

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9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Political Roko’s basilisk

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirJan 18, 2020, 9:34 AM

10 points

9 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Risk and uncertainty: A false dichotomy?

MichaelAJan 18, 2020, 3:09 AM

6 points

2 votes

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9 comments20 min readLW link

Remote AI alignment writing group seeking new members

rmoehnJan 18, 2020, 2:10 AM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

“How quickly can you get this done?” (estimating workload)

kerspoonJan 18, 2020, 12:10 AM

15 points

8 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Studying Early Stage Science: Research Program Introduction

habrykaJan 17, 2020, 10:12 PM

32 points

10 votes

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1 comment15 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Fiddle Effects Tech

jefftkJan 17, 2020, 5:00 PM

2 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How does a Living Being solve the problem of Subsystem Alignment?

Alan GivréJan 17, 2020, 9:32 AM

3 points

5 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Can we always assign, and make sense of, subjective probabilities?

MichaelAJan 17, 2020, 3:05 AM

11 points

7 votes

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15 comments13 min readLW link

Against Rationalization II: Sequence Recap

dspeyerJan 16, 2020, 10:51 PM

6 points

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Using Expert Disagreement

dspeyerJan 16, 2020, 10:42 PM

13 points

5 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Bay Solstice 2019 Retrospective

mingyuanJan 16, 2020, 5:15 PM

75 points

23 votes

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36 comments15 min readLW link

Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles

AnnaSalamonJan 16, 2020, 4:15 PM

270 points

120 votes

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57 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

How to Escape From Immoral Mazes

ZviJan 16, 2020, 1:10 PM

81 points

32 votes

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21 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Testing for Rationalization

dspeyerJan 16, 2020, 8:12 AM

19 points

9 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How useful do you think participating to the Human Microbiome Project would be?

Mati_RoyJan 15, 2020, 11:51 PM

4 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs

GentzelJan 15, 2020, 11:10 PM

30 points

13 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

In Defense of the Arms Races… that End Arms Races

GentzelJan 15, 2020, 9:30 PM

38 points

17 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Fire Alarm for AGI

user134723Jan 15, 2020, 8:41 PM

1 point

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.acolyer.org)

Go F*** Someone

Jacob FalkovichJan 15, 2020, 6:39 PM

19 points

46 votes

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23 comments8 min readLW link

[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five distributed their training computation

Rohin ShahJan 15, 2020, 6:20 PM

19 points

6 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

ACDT: a hack-y acausal decision theory

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 15, 2020, 5:22 PM

50 points

18 votes

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16 comments7 min readLW link

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