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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI ethics and superintelligence
Kaj_Sotala
May 2, 2020, 7:35 AM
43
points
19
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(plato.stanford.edu)
[Question]
How does publishing a paper work?
Liron
May 21, 2020, 12:14 PM
42
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus
Akshat Mahajan
May 4, 2020, 10:53 PM
42
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Covid-19: Comorbidity
Zvi
May 10, 2020, 9:30 PM
42
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Maths writer/cowritter needed: how you can’t distinguish early exponential from early sigmoid
Stuart_Armstrong
May 6, 2020, 9:41 AM
41
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Plague in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Zvi
May 24, 2020, 12:00 PM
41
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
162 benefits of coronavirus
bfinn
May 12, 2020, 11:19 AM
41
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Learning and manipulating learning
Stuart_Armstrong
May 19, 2020, 1:02 PM
39
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Trust-Building: The New Rationality Project
DirectedEvolution
May 28, 2020, 10:53 PM
39
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Competitive safety via gradated curricula
Richard_Ngo
May 5, 2020, 6:11 PM
38
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Book report: Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (von Neumann & Morgenstern)
Nisan
May 11, 2020, 9:47 AM
38
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How can Interpretability help Alignment?
RobertKirk
and
Tomáš Gavenčiak
May 23, 2020, 4:16 PM
37
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Evolution is sampling error
willbradshaw
May 23, 2020, 4:21 PM
37
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(apomorphic.com)
How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model?
jasoncrawford
May 6, 2020, 1:15 AM
37
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Reflective Complaints
Raemon
May 21, 2020, 9:11 PM
37
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Corrigibility as outside view
TurnTrout
May 8, 2020, 9:56 PM
36
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Learning to build conviction
benkuhn
May 16, 2020, 11:30 PM
36
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(www.benkuhn.net)
Conjecture Workshop
johnswentworth
May 15, 2020, 10:41 PM
35
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Speculations on the Future of Fiction Writing
johnswentworth
May 28, 2020, 4:34 PM
35
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Reopen Protest Sign Survey
jefftk
May 1, 2020, 3:40 AM
34
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
English Bread Regulations
jefftk
May 18, 2020, 1:20 PM
33
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting
Rohin Shah
May 20, 2020, 5:30 PM
33
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
The Greatest Host
trentbrick
May 10, 2020, 8:28 PM
33
points
8
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Meditation: the screen-and-watcher model of the human mind, and how to use it
femtogrammar
May 1, 2020, 10:36 PM
32
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Our Need for Need
eapache
May 29, 2020, 11:12 AM
32
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Isn’t Tesla stock highly undervalued?
Liron
May 18, 2020, 1:56 AM
31
points
41
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Multi-agent safety
Richard_Ngo
May 16, 2020, 1:59 AM
31
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Kids and Moral Agency
jefftk
May 8, 2020, 12:50 PM
30
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Utility need not be bounded
Richard_Kennaway
May 14, 2020, 6:10 PM
30
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Kids and Time
jefftk
May 12, 2020, 11:40 AM
30
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What are objects that have made your life better?
Mark Xu
May 21, 2020, 8:59 PM
30
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to avoid Schelling points?
cwg1g16
May 14, 2020, 7:37 PM
29
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #99]: Doubling times for the efficiency of AI algorithms
Rohin Shah
May 13, 2020, 5:20 PM
29
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Shared House Setup
jefftk
May 9, 2020, 11:30 AM
28
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What is a decision theory as a mathematical object?
Erik Jenner
May 25, 2020, 1:44 PM
28
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Small Data
lsusr
May 14, 2020, 4:29 AM
27
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Covid-19 5/7: Fighting Limbo
Zvi
May 7, 2020, 7:00 PM
27
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What would flourishing look like in Conway’s Game of Life?
sudhanshu_kasewa
May 12, 2020, 11:22 AM
27
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Really Fresh Baking
jefftk
May 10, 2020, 11:40 AM
26
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The principle of no non-Apologies
agentydragon
May 28, 2020, 7:58 PM
26
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid-19 5/29: Dumb Reopening
Zvi
May 29, 2020, 9:00 PM
26
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Scott Garrabrant’s problem on recovering Brouwer as a corollary of Lawvere
Rupert
May 4, 2020, 10:01 AM
26
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Mind: Board Game Review
Alexei
May 10, 2020, 12:45 AM
26
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Your abstraction isn’t wrong, it’s just really bad
George3d6
May 26, 2020, 8:14 PM
25
points
17
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(blog.cerebralab.com)
How to do remote co-working
SoerenMind
May 8, 2020, 7:38 PM
25
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why aren’t we testing general intelligence distribution?
B Jacobs
May 26, 2020, 4:07 PM
25
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Making a Crowdaction platform
B Jacobs
May 16, 2020, 4:08 PM
25
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AGIs as collectives
Richard_Ngo
May 22, 2020, 8:36 PM
24
points
23
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Distinguishing logistic curves
Stuart_Armstrong
May 15, 2020, 11:38 AM
24
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Is fake news bullshit or lying?
HarperSachs
May 26, 2020, 4:55 PM
22
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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