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A rev­olu­tion in philos­o­phy: the rise of con­cep­tual engineering

Suspended ReasonJun 2, 2020, 6:30 PM
141 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

[Question] What pro­por­tion of US com­pa­nies would agree to this gross pay de­duc­tion /​ di­rect dona­tion if asked by an em­ployee?

Bobby ShenJun 2, 2020, 6:27 PM
3 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2020

habrykaJun 2, 2020, 6:19 PM
19 points
101 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3: A Summary

leogaoJun 2, 2020, 6:14 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(leogao.dev)

Air Conditioning

jefftkJun 2, 2020, 5:20 PM
14 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

0oo.li: Fi­nan­cial Think Tank

MindeyJun 2, 2020, 4:03 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

May Gw­ern.net newslet­ter (w/​GPT-3 com­men­tary)

gwernJun 2, 2020, 3:40 PM
32 points
7 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Build­ing brain-in­spired AGI is in­finitely eas­ier than un­der­stand­ing the brain

Steven ByrnesJun 2, 2020, 2:13 PM
53 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Mon­ster Train

ZviJun 2, 2020, 1:40 PM
13 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to Ex­is­ten­tial Risks from Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, for an EA audience

JoshuaFoxJun 2, 2020, 8:30 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseJun 2, 2020, 3:17 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Restricted Diet and Longevity, does eat­ing pat­tern mat­ter?

jmhJun 1, 2020, 9:28 PM
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

You See The Ter­ri­tory or Noth­ing at All

caleboJun 1, 2020, 3:24 PM
7 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Blog Post Day III

Daniel KokotajloJun 1, 2020, 1:56 PM
33 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Spar­sity and in­ter­pretabil­ity?

Ada Böhm, RobertKirk and Tomáš Gavenčiak
Jun 1, 2020, 1:25 PM
41 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Feed­back is cen­tral to agency

Alex FlintJun 1, 2020, 12:56 PM
29 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Over­cor­rect­ing As De­liber­ate Practice

lifelonglearnerJun 1, 2020, 6:26 AM
29 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How ra­tio­nal is the path of least re­sis­tance?

TruetoThisJun 1, 2020, 1:34 AM
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

My pre­dic­tion for Covid-19

TheMajorMay 31, 2020, 11:25 PM
17 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble take­aways from the coro­n­avirus pan­demic for slow AI takeoff

VikaMay 31, 2020, 5:51 PM
135 points
36 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Covid-19: My Cur­rent Model

ZviMay 31, 2020, 5:40 PM
188 points
73 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Pre­sump­tu­ous Philoso­pher, self-lo­cat­ing in­for­ma­tion, and Solomonoff induction

Charlie SteinerMay 31, 2020, 4:35 PM
58 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Sim­plify­ing Board Games

jefftkMay 31, 2020, 2:10 PM
28 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: May 2020.

NunoSempereMay 31, 2020, 12:35 PM
9 points
1 comment20 min readLW link

[Question] Will the many protests through­out the USA prove to be good test cases for re­open­ing?

jmhMay 31, 2020, 12:15 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any­one recom­mend a video course on the the­ory of com­pu­ta­tion?

Eli TyreMay 30, 2020, 7:52 PM
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to (not) do a liter­a­ture review

Katarina SlamaMay 30, 2020, 12:11 AM
79 points
7 comments6 min readLW link
(katarinaslama.github.io)

Shut­ting Down RegularlyScheduled

jefftkMay 29, 2020, 10:50 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why take notes: what I get from note­tak­ing and my desider­ata for note­tak­ing systems

philip_bMay 29, 2020, 9:46 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

Covid-19 5/​29: Dumb Reopening

ZviMay 29, 2020, 9:00 PM
26 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An overview of 11 pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

evhubMay 29, 2020, 8:38 PM
220 points
37 comments38 min readLW link2 reviews

GPT-3: a dis­ap­point­ing paper

nostalgebraistMay 29, 2020, 7:06 PM
65 points
43 comments8 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Should we stop us­ing the term ‘Ra­tion­al­ist’?

B JacobsMay 29, 2020, 3:11 PM
12 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

On the con­struc­tion of the self

Kaj_SotalaMay 29, 2020, 1:04 PM
77 points
18 comments17 min readLW link

Our Need for Need

eapacheMay 29, 2020, 11:12 AM
32 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

OpenAI an­nounces GPT-3

gwernMay 29, 2020, 1:49 AM
67 points
23 commentsLW link
(arxiv.org)

Trust-Build­ing: The New Ra­tion­al­ity Project

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2020, 10:53 PM
39 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

The prin­ci­ple of no non-Apologies

agentydragonMay 28, 2020, 7:58 PM
26 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] look­ing for name/​fur­ther read­ing on fal­lacy I came across

YitzMay 28, 2020, 6:01 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Wrist Issues

jefftkMay 28, 2020, 4:50 PM
16 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Spec­u­la­tions on the Fu­ture of Fic­tion Writing

johnswentworthMay 28, 2020, 4:34 PM
35 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Up­dated Hier­ar­chy of Disagreement

B JacobsMay 28, 2020, 3:57 PM
14 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

One sys­temic failure in particular

MoritzGMay 28, 2020, 5:25 AM
−3 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Shut­tling be­tween sci­ence and invention

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

A tax­on­omy of Cruxes

Eli Tyre27 May 2020 17:25 UTC
44 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

[AN #101]: Why we should rigor­ously mea­sure and fore­cast AI progress

Rohin Shah27 May 2020 17:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

AI Safety Dis­cus­sion Days

Linda Linsefors27 May 2020 16:54 UTC
13 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

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

Bird Concept27 May 2020 16:38 UTC
54 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Ob­sidian: A Mind Map­ping Mark­down Editor

lifelonglearner27 May 2020 16:26 UTC
12 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(obsidian.md)

Pre­dicted Land Value Tax: a bet­ter tax than an unim­proved land value tax

michaelcohen27 May 2020 13:40 UTC
21 points
49 comments3 min readLW link