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“The Conspiracy against the Human Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

20 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

Apology of (a form of) authoritarianism and inequality from an egalitarian

jyby13 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Many-worlds versus discrete knowledge

jessicata13 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC

20 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[AN #112]: Engineering a Safer World

Rohin Shah13 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

25 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Covid 8/13: Same As It Ever Was

Zvi13 Aug 2020 15:40 UTC

53 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tombstone Mentality

SuperDaveWhite13 Aug 2020 13:46 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Repeat Until Broke

gilch13 Aug 2020 7:19 UTC

14 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Sentence by Sentence: “Why Most Published Research Findings are False”

DirectedEvolution13 Aug 2020 6:51 UTC

22 points

5 comments47 min readLW link

This Territory Does Not Exist

ike13 Aug 2020 0:30 UTC

7 points

197 comments7 min readLW link

Imagine a World Where Governments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargo12 Aug 2020 22:52 UTC

−2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Investment idea: basket of tech stocks weighted towards AI

ioannes12 Aug 2020 21:30 UTC

18 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Blog post: A tale of two research communities

Aryeh Englander12 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Rationally Ending Discussions

curi12 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

−7 points

27 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Money creation and debt

AnthonyC12 Aug 2020 20:30 UTC

27 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

How GPT-N will escape from its AI-box

hippke12 Aug 2020 19:34 UTC

7 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Strong implication of preference uncertainty

Stuart_Armstrong12 Aug 2020 19:02 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment By Default

johnswentworth12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC

173 points

94 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC

153 points

87 comments5 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC

55 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Zen and Rationality: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Aug 2020 20:23 UTC

25 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will OpenAI’s work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI?

adamShimi11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC

53 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Architects of Intelligence by Martin Ford (2018)

Ofer11 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Utility functions without a maximum

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir11 Aug 2020 12:58 UTC

3 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Moloch and multi-level selection

thoughtfulmadison11 Aug 2020 7:08 UTC

19 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC

72 points

8 comments22 min readLW link

Writing Piano Songs: A Journey

Logan Riggs10 Aug 2020 21:50 UTC

24 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Social Dynamics

curi10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] UK Predicted Grades

cwg1g1610 Aug 2020 17:36 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the evidence on falling testosteron and sperm counts in men?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel10 Aug 2020 8:58 UTC

3 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Forecasting AI Progress: A Research Agenda

rossg and axioman

10 Aug 2020 1:04 UTC

39 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Effect of Numpy

jefftk10 Aug 2020 1:00 UTC

9 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Fantasy-Forbidding Expert Opinion

yamabiko10 Aug 2020 0:01 UTC

18 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

The Law of Least Effort Contributes to the Conjunction Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC

7 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

Social Interfaces

thoughtfulmadison9 Aug 2020 18:13 UTC

14 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Existential Risk is a single category

Rafael Harth9 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC

31 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can we expect more value from AI alignment than from an ASI with the goal of running alternate trajectories of our universe?

Maxime Riché9 Aug 2020 17:17 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] 10/50/90% chance of GPT-N Transformative AI?

human_generated_text9 Aug 2020 0:10 UTC

24 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a Formalisation of Logical Counterfactuals

Bunthut8 Aug 2020 22:14 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

The Fusion Power Generator Scenario

johnswentworth8 Aug 2020 18:31 UTC

140 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

Evaluating Opus

jefftk8 Aug 2020 16:40 UTC

20 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How much is known about the “inference rules” of logical induction?

Eigil Rischel8 Aug 2020 10:45 UTC

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A Hierarchy of Abstraction

lsusr8 Aug 2020 8:19 UTC

6 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

The Manual Economy

eapache7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC

14 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] Is Wirecutter still good?

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC

45 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Are Americans Becoming More Depressed?

calebo7 Aug 2020 15:57 UTC

26 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] I’m looking for research looking at the influence of fiction on changing elite/public behaviors and opinions

Timothy Underwood7 Aug 2020 13:49 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some low-information priors that you find practically useful for thinking about the world?

Linch7 Aug 2020 4:37 UTC

27 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

The Quantitative Reasoning Deficit

proshowersinger7 Aug 2020 3:05 UTC

10 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Exploring Two-Level Visual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Why is aging research our primary attempt at immortality?

sd16 Aug 2020 23:47 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link