An overview of 11 pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

evhub29 May 2020 20:38 UTC
205 points
36 comments38 min readLW link2 reviews

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Richard Meadows15 May 2020 20:44 UTC
194 points
86 comments19 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture Re­view For Aca­demic Out­siders: What, How, and Why

namespace9 May 2020 22:58 UTC
192 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(www.thelastrationalist.com)

Com­ment on “En­doge­nous Epistemic Fac­tion­al­iza­tion”

Zack_M_Davis20 May 2020 18:04 UTC
151 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Stud­ies On Slack

Scott Alexander13 May 2020 5:00 UTC
151 points
34 comments24 min readLW link1 review
(slatestarcodex.com)

Assess­ing Kurzweil pre­dic­tions about 2019: the results

Stuart_Armstrong6 May 2020 13:36 UTC
145 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of in­sight med­i­ta­tion and the three char­ac­ter­is­tics of ex­is­tence: in­tro­duc­tion and preamble

Kaj_Sotala5 May 2020 19:09 UTC
130 points
40 comments12 min readLW link

In­sights from Eu­clid’s ‘Ele­ments’

TurnTrout4 May 2020 15:45 UTC
126 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Mov­able Hous­ing for Scal­able Cities

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2020 21:21 UTC
122 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

Bak­ing is Not a Ritual

Sisi Cheng25 May 2020 18:08 UTC
119 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are your great­est one-shot life im­prove­ments?

Mark Xu16 May 2020 16:53 UTC
114 points
166 comments1 min readLW link

A non-mys­ti­cal ex­pla­na­tion of “no-self” (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala8 May 2020 10:37 UTC
105 points
65 comments20 min readLW link1 review

Why Artists Study Anatomy

Sisi Cheng18 May 2020 18:44 UTC
96 points
10 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Why We Age, Part 2: Non-adap­tive theories

willbradshaw26 May 2020 17:41 UTC
89 points
22 comments11 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

A Taijitu sym­bol for Moloch and Slack

B Jacobs25 May 2020 20:03 UTC
88 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Writ­ing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworth5 May 2020 18:05 UTC
87 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Tips/​tricks/​notes on op­ti­miz­ing investments

Wei Dai6 May 2020 23:21 UTC
83 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Crav­ing, suffer­ing, and pre­dic­tive pro­cess­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala15 May 2020 13:21 UTC
82 points
56 comments19 min readLW link

Mazes Se­quence Summary

Zvi23 May 2020 16:40 UTC
80 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How uniform is the neo­cor­tex?

zhukeepa4 May 2020 2:16 UTC
79 points
23 comments11 min readLW link1 review

The Oil Cri­sis of 1973

Elizabeth22 May 2020 15:50 UTC
79 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(acesounderglass.com)

How to (not) do a liter­a­ture review

Katarina Slama30 May 2020 0:11 UTC
78 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(katarinaslama.github.io)

Book Re­view: Narconomics

ketchupduck3 May 2020 1:19 UTC
76 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Why Ra­tion­al­ists Shouldn’t be In­ter­ested in To­pos Theory

jollybard25 May 2020 5:35 UTC
73 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

Zoom Tech­nolo­gies, Inc. vs. the Effi­cient Mar­kets Hypothesis

Zack_M_Davis11 May 2020 6:00 UTC
72 points
47 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI an­nounces GPT-3

gwern29 May 2020 1:49 UTC
67 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

On the con­struc­tion of the self

Kaj_Sotala29 May 2020 13:04 UTC
66 points
18 comments17 min readLW link

GPT-3: a dis­ap­point­ing paper

nostalgebraist29 May 2020 19:06 UTC
65 points
43 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Sub­space optima

Chris van Merwijk15 May 2020 12:38 UTC
61 points
7 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Point­ing to a Flower

johnswentworth18 May 2020 18:54 UTC
61 points
18 comments9 min readLW link

Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC
61 points
1 comment6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kib­itzer (hides com­ment au­thors and vote counts)

Marcello23 May 2020 23:44 UTC
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

johnswentworth9 May 2020 18:47 UTC
58 points
43 comments7 min readLW link

Get It Done Now

Zvi22 May 2020 12:20 UTC
56 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing: the flip side of AI ingenuity

6 May 2020 23:51 UTC
56 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

High­lights of Com­par­a­tive and Evolu­tion­ary Aging

johnswentworth22 May 2020 17:01 UTC
55 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Wikipe­dia Edit War Update

jefftk22 May 2020 11:30 UTC
55 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why We Age, Part 1: What age­ing is and is not

willbradshaw24 May 2020 9:06 UTC
55 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(apomorphic.com)

[Job ad] Lead an am­bi­tious COVID-19 fore­cast­ing pro­ject [Dead­line ex­tended: June 10th]

jacobjacob27 May 2020 16:38 UTC
54 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex 2020 Pre­dic­tions: Buy, Sell, Hold

Zvi1 May 2020 14:30 UTC
53 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

From self to crav­ing (three char­ac­ter­is­tics se­ries)

Kaj_Sotala22 May 2020 12:16 UTC
50 points
21 comments11 min readLW link

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

eapache18 May 2020 17:25 UTC
50 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Cop­ing and Cultures

Spiracular6 May 2020 22:49 UTC
50 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

“Star­wink” by Alicorn

Zack_M_Davis18 May 2020 8:17 UTC
47 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(alicorn.elcenia.com)

On Nega­tive Feed­back and Simulacra

Zvi3 May 2020 17:00 UTC
47 points
7 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“AI and Effi­ciency”, OA (44✕ im­prove­ment in CNNs since 2012)

gwern5 May 2020 16:32 UTC
47 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

In Search of Slack

Martin Sustrik23 May 2020 11:20 UTC
47 points
3 comments6 min readLW link
(250bpm.com)

[Question] Should I self-var­i­o­late to COVID-19

Eli Tyre25 May 2020 20:29 UTC
46 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Failures in tech­nol­ogy fore­cast­ing? A re­ply to Ord and Yudkowsky

MichaelA8 May 2020 12:41 UTC
44 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

Stan­ford En­cy­clo­pe­dia of Philos­o­phy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_Sotala2 May 2020 7:35 UTC
43 points
19 comments7 min readLW link
(plato.stanford.edu)