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Open & Welcome Thread—July 2020

habryka2 Jul 2020 22:41 UTC

15 points

80 comments1 min readLW link

The allegory of the hospital

Sunny from QAD2 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC

5 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(questionsanddaylight.com)

Covid 7/2: It Could Be Worse

Zvi2 Jul 2020 20:20 UTC

85 points

13 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to decide to get a nosejob or not?

snog toddgrass2 Jul 2020 17:54 UTC

3 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Goals and short descriptions

Michele Campolo2 Jul 2020 17:41 UTC

14 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Does the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (self-)identify as an EA-aligned organization?

Evan_Gaensbauer2 Jul 2020 17:38 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

June 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwern2 Jul 2020 14:19 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

The “AI Debate” Debate

michaelcohen2 Jul 2020 10:16 UTC

20 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

Cambridge Virtual LW/SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise2 Jul 2020 3:45 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Noise on the Channel

abramdemski2 Jul 2020 1:58 UTC

31 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Non offensive word for people who are not single-magisterium-Bayes thinkers

Tim Liptrot1 Jul 2020 22:33 UTC

3 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Second Wave Covid Deaths?

jefftk1 Jul 2020 20:40 UTC

35 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Harry Potter and methods of rationality alternative ending.

Klen Salubri1 Jul 2020 18:51 UTC

13 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the most easy, fast, efficient way to create and maintain a personal Blog?

Ferdinand Cachoeira1 Jul 2020 18:51 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Second-Order Existential Risk

Ideopunk1 Jul 2020 18:46 UTC

2 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

How to Find Sources in an Unreliable World

Elizabeth1 Jul 2020 18:30 UTC

40 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

Palus Astra1 Jul 2020 17:30 UTC

35 points

4 comments67 min readLW link

[AN #106]: Evaluating generalization ability of learned reward models

Rohin Shah1 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

PSA: Cars don’t have ‘blindspots’

romeostevensit1 Jul 2020 17:04 UTC

37 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter. June 2020.

NunoSempere1 Jul 2020 9:46 UTC

27 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Inviting Curated Authors to Give 5-Min Online Talks

Ben Pace1 Jul 2020 1:05 UTC

27 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC

117 points

21 comments19 min readLW link

AvE: Assistance via Empowerment

FactorialCode30 Jun 2020 22:07 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

I am Bad at Flirting; Realizing that by Noticing Confusion

snog toddgrass30 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC

8 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Comparing AI Alignment Approaches to Minimize False Positive Risk

Gordon Seidoh Worley30 Jun 2020 19:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How ought I spend time?

Quinn30 Jun 2020 16:53 UTC

10 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Sick of struggling

dqups130 Jun 2020 16:47 UTC

2 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Somerville Mask Usage

jefftk30 Jun 2020 14:50 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Web AI discussion Groups

Donald Hobson30 Jun 2020 11:22 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How do takeoff speeds affect the probability of bad outcomes from AGI?

KR29 Jun 2020 22:06 UTC

15 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

AI Benefits Post 2: How AI Benefits Differs from AI Alignment & AI for Good

Cullen29 Jun 2020 17:00 UTC

8 points

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Thoughts as open tabs

ryan wong29 Jun 2020 12:13 UTC

16 points

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Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”

Zack_M_Davis29 Jun 2020 2:45 UTC

105 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Abstractions on Inconsistent Data

eapache29 Jun 2020 0:30 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Gödel’s Legacy: A game without end

Hazard28 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC

42 points

11 comments12 min readLW link

Gary Marcus vs Cortical Uniformity

Steven Byrnes28 Jun 2020 18:18 UTC

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Illusion of Ethical Progress

lsusr28 Jun 2020 9:33 UTC

0 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

Self-sacrifice is a scarce resource

mingyuan28 Jun 2020 5:08 UTC

129 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

A reply to Agnes Callard

Vaniver28 Jun 2020 3:25 UTC

91 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Make Your Problems Hide

orthonormal27 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC

59 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Mediators of History

johnswentworth27 Jun 2020 19:55 UTC

25 points

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Five Ways To Prioritize Better

lynettebye27 Jun 2020 18:40 UTC

133 points

7 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Have general decomposers been formalized?

Quinn27 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are all these domains called from Less Wrong?

Viliam27 Jun 2020 13:46 UTC

26 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve

lsusr27 Jun 2020 8:49 UTC

65 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Map Errors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory

orthonormal27 Jun 2020 5:22 UTC

27 points

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Negotiating With Yourself

orthonormal26 Jun 2020 23:55 UTC

25 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

AI safety via market making

evhub26 Jun 2020 23:07 UTC

70 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Public Positions and Private Guts

Vaniver and jacobjacob

26 Jun 2020 23:00 UTC

22 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Radical Probabilism [Transcript]

abramdemski and Ben Pace

26 Jun 2020 22:14 UTC

48 points

12 comments6 min readLW link