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A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy
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Beware of black boxes in AI alignment research
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cousin_it
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Teaching Ladders
alkjash
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9
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The Loudest Alarm Is Probably False
orthonormal
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Dispel your justification-monkey with a “HWA!”
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Aliveness
Ziz
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Global online debate on the governance of AI
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Learning to make better decisions
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A model I use when making plans to reduce AI x-risk
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Why everything might have taken so long
KatjaGrace
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No, Seriously. Just Try It: TAPs
Hazard
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Epiphenomenal Oracles Ignore Holes in the Box
SilentCal
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8
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110
"Taking AI Risk Seriously" (thoughts by Critch)
Raemon
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68
4
What Is Love?
Bound_up
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Zvi Will Be In San Francisco January 15-21
Zvi
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Bug: Inconsistent session status
SquirrelInHell
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What happened with the Slate Star Codex import?
ChristianKl
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211
The Intelligent Social Web
Valentine
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"Cheat to Win": Engineering Positive Social Feedback
sarahconstantin
5y
36
34
The Principled Intelligence Hypothesis
KatjaGrace
5y
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23
Rationality Feed: Last Month's Best Posts
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Replacing expensive costly signals
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Robustness to Scale
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19
Crypto autopsy reply
alexei
5y
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Inconvenience Is Qualitatively Bad
Alicorn
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52
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Hufflepuff Cynicism on Crocker's Rule
abramdemski
5y
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Mapping the Archipelago
alkjash
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24
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Beyond algorithmic equivalence: self-modelling
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An alternative way to browse LessWrong 2.0
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5y
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Intuition should be applied at the lowest possible level
Rafael Harth
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UDT as a Nash Equilibrium
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cousin_it
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Teaching rationality
Sønderjye
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3
15
Using the universal prior for logical uncertainty (retracted)
cousin_it
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2/27/08 Update – Frontpage 3.0
Raemon
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Read Backwards
Allen Kim
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1
5
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation
Gordon Seidoh Worley
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183
The Costly Coordination Mechanism of Common Knowledge
Ben Pace
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My attempt to explain Looking, insight meditation, and enlightenment in non-mysterious terms
Kaj_Sotala
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A Sketch of Good Communication
Ben Pace
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35
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An Untrollable Mathematician Illustrated
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abramdemski
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29
Problems with Amplification/Distillation
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
7
28
Idea: Open Access AI Safety Journal
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Gordon Seidoh Worley
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Making yourself small
Helen
5y
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A Developmental Framework for Rationality
[anonymous]
5y
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Extended Quote on the Institution of Academia
Ben Pace
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23
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Vote on a date of April meetup!
kaftanowicz
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On Dualities
Chris_Leong
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Explanation of Paul's AI-Alignment agenda by Ajeya Cotra
habryka
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The master skill of matching map and territory
Rafael Harth
5y
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Is this what FAI outreach success looks like?
Charlie Steiner
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Monthly Meta: Common Knowledge
Chris_Leong
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14
15
GreaterWrong—several new features & enhancements
Said Achmiz
5y
3
5
Salience
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Raising funds to establish a new AI Safety charity
[anonymous]
5y
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1
Welcome to Berkeley LessWrong Meetup [Edit With Your Details]
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LW Migration Announcement
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210
A voting theory primer for rationalists
Jameson Quinn
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Noticing the Taste of Lotus
Valentine
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Local Validity as a Key to Sanity and Civilization
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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On exact mathematical formulae
daozaich
5y
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30
I'm going to help you quit Facebook with some science
Elo
5y
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Announcement: AI alignment prize round 2 winners and next round
cousin_it
5y
29
55
Adult Neurogenesis – A Pointed Review
Scott Alexander
5y
17
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The Chromatic Number of the Plane is at Least 5 - Aubrey de Grey
Scott Garrabrant
5y
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66
Is Rhetoric Worth Learning?
sarahconstantin
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5
Raven Paradox Revisited
Chris_Leong
5y
12
4
Idea: OpenAI Gym environments where the AI is a part of the environment
philip_b
5y
5
6
Schelling Shifts During AI Self-Modification
MikailKhan
5y
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46
Reframing misaligned AGI's: well-intentioned non-neurotypical assistants
zhukeepa
5y
14
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Critique my Model: The EV of AGI to Selfish Individuals
ozziegooen
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9
10
Announcing Rational Newsletter
Alexey Lapitsky
5y
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Meditations on the Medium
[anonymous]
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Why Karma 2.0? (A Kabbalistic Explanation)
Ben Pace
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Cambridge (UK) SSC meetup
rlms
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NYT: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit
Rain
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A Test of Faith
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