AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Superintelligence

Richard_NgoSep 28, 2020, 7:53 PM
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AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Introduction

Richard_NgoSep 28, 2020, 7:53 PM
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[Question] is scope in­sen­si­tivity re­ally a brain er­ror?

Kaarlo TuomiSep 28, 2020, 6:37 PM
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[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

johnswentworthSep 28, 2020, 5:20 PM
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[Question] What are ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ist fable-like sto­ries?

Mati_RoySep 28, 2020, 4:52 PM
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Macro-Procrastination

Neel NandaSep 28, 2020, 4:07 PM
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[Question] What are good ice breaker ques­tions for meet­ing peo­ple in this com­mu­nity?

Mati_RoySep 28, 2020, 3:07 PM
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On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_LeongSep 28, 2020, 7:38 AM
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“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)Sep 28, 2020, 6:48 AM
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On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

RaemonSep 27, 2020, 9:55 PM
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[Question] What to do with imi­ta­tion hu­mans, other than ask­ing them what the right thing to do is?

Charlie SteinerSep 27, 2020, 9:51 PM
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[Question] What are good ra­tio­nal­ity ex­er­cises?

Ben PaceSep 27, 2020, 9:25 PM
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Puz­zle Games

Scott GarrabrantSep 27, 2020, 9:14 PM
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[Question] What hard sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries also got the so­cial sci­ences right?

Mati_RoySep 27, 2020, 8:37 PM
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Tips for the most im­mer­sive video calls

benkuhnSep 27, 2020, 8:36 PM
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A long re­ply to Ben Garfinkel on Scru­ti­niz­ing Clas­sic AI Risk Arguments

Søren ElverlinSep 27, 2020, 5:51 PM
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Not all com­mu­ni­ca­tion is ma­nipu­la­tion: Chap­er­ones don’t ma­nipu­late proteins

ChristianKlSep 27, 2020, 4:45 PM
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Numer­acy ne­glect—A per­sonal postmortem

vlad.proexSep 27, 2020, 3:12 PM
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San­der Ver­haegh on Quine’s Naturalism

Chris_LeongSep 27, 2020, 10:58 AM
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The whirlpool of reality

Gordon Seidoh WorleySep 27, 2020, 2:36 AM
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Blog posts as epistemic trust builders

Adam ZernerSep 27, 2020, 1:47 AM
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Distributed pub­lic goods provision

paulfchristianoSep 26, 2020, 9:20 PM
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Note­book for gen­er­at­ing fore­cast­ing bets

AmandangoSep 26, 2020, 8:36 PM
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Sur­viv­ing Petrov Day

Mati_RoySep 26, 2020, 4:40 PM
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Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

senSep 26, 2020, 1:41 PM
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[Question] What is com­plex­ity sci­ence? (Not com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity the­ory) How use­ful is it? What ar­eas is it re­lated to?

philip_bSep 26, 2020, 9:15 AM
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Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben PaceSep 26, 2020, 8:01 AM
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[Link] Where did you get that idea in the first place? | Meaningness

KennySep 25, 2020, 3:38 PM
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Up close and per­sonal with the world

dominicqSep 25, 2020, 6:52 AM
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Hu­man Bi­ases that Ob­scure AI Progress

Danielle EnsignSep 25, 2020, 12:24 AM
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Los­ing the for­est for the trees with grid drawings

Adam ZernerSep 24, 2020, 9:13 PM
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Petrov Event Roundup 2020

RaemonSep 24, 2020, 9:07 PM
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Vi­su­al­iz­ing the text­book for fun and profit

DirectedEvolutionSep 24, 2020, 7:37 PM
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Shittests are ac­tu­ally good

snog toddgrassSep 24, 2020, 5:20 PM
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Schedul­ing Al­gorithm for a PhD Student

Tim LiptrotSep 24, 2020, 4:10 PM
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Covid 9/​24: Un­til Mo­rale Improves

ZviSep 24, 2020, 3:40 PM
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Spoiler-Free Re­view: The Stan­ley Parable

ZviSep 24, 2020, 2:40 PM
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[Question] Should it be a re­search pa­per or a blog post?

SherrinfordSep 24, 2020, 8:09 AM
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[Question] David Deutsch on Univer­sal Ex­plain­ers and AI

alanfSep 24, 2020, 7:50 AM
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I have dis­cov­ered a new kind of un­em­ploy­ment.

Nathan BrooksSep 24, 2020, 1:04 AM
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The ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity’s lo­ca­tion problem

mingyuanSep 23, 2020, 6:39 PM
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[AN #118]: Risks, solu­tions, and pri­ori­ti­za­tion in a world with many AI systems

Rohin ShahSep 23, 2020, 6:20 PM
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Petrov Day Ri­tual: Coron­avirus Edition

mingyuanSep 23, 2020, 4:41 PM
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De­hu­man­i­sa­tion *er­rors*

Stuart_ArmstrongSep 23, 2020, 9:51 AM
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The new Editor

habrykaSep 23, 2020, 2:25 AM
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New Tag­ging Power Tools: Dash­board + Up­graded Tag Edit­ing Experience

RubySep 23, 2020, 1:49 AM
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AI Ad­van­tages [Gems from the Wiki]

Sep 22, 2020, 10:44 PM
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Sun­day Septem­ber 27, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Flint, Alex Zhu and more

habrykaSep 22, 2020, 9:59 PM
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Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage is Not About Trade

johnswentworthSep 22, 2020, 6:43 PM
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The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2020, 12:20 PM
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