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Absent coordination, future technology will cause human extinction
Jeffrey Ladish
Feb 3, 2020, 9:52 PM
21
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
If I were a well-intentioned AI… II: Acting in a world
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 27, 2020, 11:58 AM
20
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Hoarding and Shortages
jefftk
Feb 25, 2020, 6:40 PM
20
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Has a technological dependency graph been made?
Mati_Roy
Feb 27, 2020, 8:51 PM
20
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New article from Oren Etzioni
Aryeh Englander
Feb 25, 2020, 3:25 PM
19
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Thoughts about Dr Stone and Mythology
mako yass
Feb 25, 2020, 1:51 AM
19
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[AN #88]: How the principal-agent literature relates to AI risk
Rohin Shah
Feb 27, 2020, 9:10 AM
18
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Information hazards: Why you should care and what you can do
MichaelA
,
JustinShovelain
,
David_Kristoffersson
and
algekalipso
Feb 23, 2020, 8:47 PM
18
points
4
comments
15
min read
LW
link
In theory: does building the subagent have an “impact”?
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 13, 2020, 2:17 PM
17
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Open & Welcome Thread—February 2020
ryan_b
Feb 4, 2020, 8:49 PM
17
points
114
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Building and using the subagent
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 12, 2020, 7:28 PM
17
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Map Of Effective Altruism
Scott Alexander
Feb 3, 2020, 6:20 AM
17
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
[Question]
Is there an intuitive way to explain how much better superforecasters are than regular forecasters?
William_S
Feb 19, 2020, 1:07 AM
16
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reference Post: Trivial Decision Theory Problem
Chris_Leong
Feb 15, 2020, 5:13 PM
16
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why Science is slowing down, Universities and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
George3d6
Feb 15, 2020, 8:39 PM
16
points
25
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Counterfactuals versus the laws of physics
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 18, 2020, 1:21 PM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the risks of having your genome publicly available?
Mati_Roy
Feb 11, 2020, 9:54 PM
16
points
13
comments
LW
link
Training Regime Day 10: Systemization
Mark Xu
Feb 24, 2020, 5:20 PM
15
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Potential Research Topic: Vingean Reflection, Value Alignment and Aspiration
Vaughn Papenhausen
Feb 6, 2020, 1:09 AM
15
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Money isn’t real. When you donate money to a charity, how does it actually help?
Dagon
Feb 2, 2020, 5:03 PM
15
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UML XI: Nearest Neighbor Schemes
Rafael Harth
Feb 16, 2020, 8:30 PM
15
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[AN #86]: Improving debate and factored cognition through human experiments
Rohin Shah
Feb 12, 2020, 6:10 PM
15
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
[Question]
Does there exist an AGI-level parameter setting for modern DRL architectures?
TurnTrout
Feb 9, 2020, 5:09 AM
15
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Epistea Workshop Series: Epistemics Workshop, May 2020, UK
Nora_Ammann
,
Jan_Kulveit
,
Anna Gajdova
and
kotrfa
Feb 28, 2020, 10:37 AM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 13: Resolve Cycles
Mark Xu
Feb 27, 2020, 5:45 PM
14
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Set Ups and Summaries
Elizabeth
Feb 18, 2020, 5:00 AM
14
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
[AN #85]: The normative questions we should be asking for AI alignment, and a surprisingly good chatbot
Rohin Shah
Feb 5, 2020, 6:20 PM
14
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Relationship Outcomes Are Not Particularly Sensitive to Small Variations in Verbal Ability
Zack_M_Davis
Feb 9, 2020, 12:34 AM
14
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(zackmdavis.net)
Stuck Exploration
Chris_Leong
Feb 19, 2020, 12:31 PM
14
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Looking for books about software engineering as a field
mingyuan
Feb 3, 2020, 9:49 PM
14
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Big Yellow Tractor (Filk)
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Feb 18, 2020, 6:43 PM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Trace: Goals and Principles
johnswentworth
Feb 28, 2020, 11:50 PM
13
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
UML IX: Kernels and Boosting
Rafael Harth
Feb 2, 2020, 9:51 PM
13
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 7: Goal Factoring
Mark Xu
Feb 21, 2020, 5:55 PM
13
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Perceptrons Explained
lifelonglearner
Feb 14, 2020, 5:34 PM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(owenshen24.github.io)
Gary Marcus: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Barnett
Feb 22, 2020, 3:28 AM
13
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Training Regime Day 11: Socratic Ducking
Mark Xu
Feb 25, 2020, 5:19 PM
13
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 12: Focusing
Mark Xu
Feb 26, 2020, 7:07 PM
12
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you use face masks?
ChristianKl
Feb 13, 2020, 2:18 PM
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 9: Double-Crux
Mark Xu
Feb 23, 2020, 6:08 PM
12
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Appendix: mathematics of indexical impact measures
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 1:22 PM
12
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stepwise inaction and non-indexical impact measures
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 10:32 AM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Who… (or what) designed this site and where did they come from?
thedayismine
Feb 9, 2020, 4:04 AM
12
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The recent NeurIPS call for papers requires authors to include a statement about the potential broader impact of their work
Ofer
Feb 24, 2020, 7:44 AM
12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(In)action rollouts
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 18, 2020, 2:48 PM
11
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Subagents and impact measures: summary tables
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 2:09 PM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
State Space of X-Risk Trajectories
David_Kristoffersson
Feb 9, 2020, 1:56 PM
11
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Northwest Passage Update
jefftk
Feb 23, 2020, 3:30 AM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Training Regime Day 14: Traffic Jams
Mark Xu
Feb 28, 2020, 5:52 PM
11
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there software for goal factoring?
philip_b
Feb 18, 2020, 7:55 PM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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