AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC
86 points
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AGI safety from first prin­ci­ples: Introduction

Richard_Ngo28 Sep 2020 19:53 UTC
121 points
18 comments2 min readLW link1 review

[Question] is scope in­sen­si­tivity re­ally a brain er­ror?

Kaarlo Tuomi28 Sep 2020 18:37 UTC
4 points
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[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

johnswentworth28 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
56 points
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[Question] What are ex­am­ples of Ra­tion­al­ist fable-like sto­ries?

Mati_Roy28 Sep 2020 16:52 UTC
19 points
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Macro-Procrastination

Neel Nanda28 Sep 2020 16:07 UTC
9 points
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(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] What are good ice breaker ques­tions for meet­ing peo­ple in this com­mu­nity?

Mati_Roy28 Sep 2020 15:07 UTC
9 points
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On De­stroy­ing the World

Chris_Leong28 Sep 2020 7:38 UTC
78 points
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“Win First” vs “Chill First”

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)28 Sep 2020 6:48 UTC
101 points
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On “Not Screw­ing Up Ri­tual Can­dles”

Raemon27 Sep 2020 21:55 UTC
48 points
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[Question] What to do with imi­ta­tion hu­mans, other than ask­ing them what the right thing to do is?

Charlie Steiner27 Sep 2020 21:51 UTC
10 points
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[Question] What are good ra­tio­nal­ity ex­er­cises?

Ben Pace27 Sep 2020 21:25 UTC
54 points
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Puz­zle Games

Scott Garrabrant27 Sep 2020 21:14 UTC
56 points
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[Question] What hard sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries also got the so­cial sci­ences right?

Mati_Roy27 Sep 2020 20:37 UTC
15 points
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Tips for the most im­mer­sive video calls

benkuhn27 Sep 2020 20:36 UTC
60 points
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(www.benkuhn.net)

A long re­ply to Ben Garfinkel on Scru­ti­niz­ing Clas­sic AI Risk Arguments

Søren Elverlin27 Sep 2020 17:51 UTC
17 points
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Not all com­mu­ni­ca­tion is ma­nipu­la­tion: Chap­er­ones don’t ma­nipu­late proteins

ChristianKl27 Sep 2020 16:45 UTC
35 points
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Numer­acy ne­glect—A per­sonal postmortem

vlad.proex27 Sep 2020 15:12 UTC
81 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

San­der Ver­haegh on Quine’s Naturalism

Chris_Leong27 Sep 2020 10:58 UTC
8 points
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(www.sanderverhaegh.nl)

The whirlpool of reality

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Sep 2020 2:36 UTC
9 points
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Blog posts as epistemic trust builders

Adam Zerner27 Sep 2020 1:47 UTC
18 points
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Distributed pub­lic goods provision

paulfchristiano26 Sep 2020 21:20 UTC
26 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Note­book for gen­er­at­ing fore­cast­ing bets

Amandango26 Sep 2020 20:36 UTC
25 points
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Sur­viv­ing Petrov Day

Mati_Roy26 Sep 2020 16:40 UTC
35 points
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Petrov Day is not about unilat­eral action

sen26 Sep 2020 13:41 UTC
25 points
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[Question] What is com­plex­ity sci­ence? (Not com­pu­ta­tional com­plex­ity the­ory) How use­ful is it? What ar­eas is it re­lated to?

philip_b26 Sep 2020 9:15 UTC
6 points
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Honor­ing Petrov Day on LessWrong, in 2020

Ben Pace26 Sep 2020 8:01 UTC
117 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Where did you get that idea in the first place? | Meaningness

Kenny25 Sep 2020 15:38 UTC
7 points
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Up close and per­sonal with the world

dominicq25 Sep 2020 6:52 UTC
12 points
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Hu­man Bi­ases that Ob­scure AI Progress

Danielle Ensign25 Sep 2020 0:24 UTC
42 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Los­ing the for­est for the trees with grid drawings

Adam Zerner24 Sep 2020 21:13 UTC
19 points
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Petrov Event Roundup 2020

Raemon24 Sep 2020 21:07 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Vi­su­al­iz­ing the text­book for fun and profit

DirectedEvolution24 Sep 2020 19:37 UTC
25 points
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Shittests are ac­tu­ally good

snog toddgrass24 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC
−11 points
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Schedul­ing Al­gorithm for a PhD Student

Tim Liptrot24 Sep 2020 16:10 UTC
7 points
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Covid 9/​24: Un­til Mo­rale Improves

Zvi24 Sep 2020 15:40 UTC
95 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spoiler-Free Re­view: The Stan­ley Parable

Zvi24 Sep 2020 14:40 UTC
27 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Should it be a re­search pa­per or a blog post?

Sherrinford24 Sep 2020 8:09 UTC
15 points
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[Question] David Deutsch on Univer­sal Ex­plain­ers and AI

alanf24 Sep 2020 7:50 UTC
3 points
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I have dis­cov­ered a new kind of un­em­ploy­ment.

Nathan Brooks24 Sep 2020 1:04 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(seekingalpha.com)

The ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity’s lo­ca­tion problem

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 18:39 UTC
168 points
142 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #118]: Risks, solu­tions, and pri­ori­ti­za­tion in a world with many AI systems

Rohin Shah23 Sep 2020 18:20 UTC
15 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Petrov Day Ri­tual: Coron­avirus Edition

mingyuan23 Sep 2020 16:41 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

De­hu­man­i­sa­tion *er­rors*

Stuart_Armstrong23 Sep 2020 9:51 UTC
13 points
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The new Editor

habryka23 Sep 2020 2:25 UTC
58 points
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New Tag­ging Power Tools: Dash­board + Up­graded Tag Edit­ing Experience

Ruby23 Sep 2020 1:49 UTC
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

AI Ad­van­tages [Gems from the Wiki]

22 Sep 2020 22:44 UTC
22 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Sun­day Septem­ber 27, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Flint, Alex Zhu and more

habryka22 Sep 2020 21:59 UTC
11 points
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Com­par­a­tive Ad­van­tage is Not About Trade

johnswentworth22 Sep 2020 18:43 UTC
89 points
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The Haters Gonna Hate Fallacy

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2020 12:20 UTC
47 points
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(kajsotala.fi)