Tag Index [Beta]
post by Ruby · 2020-04-17T01:25:58.501Z · LW · GW · 2 commentsContents
AI Meta Rationality Formal / Theoretical Models of the Mind / Agents Techniques & Skills Failure Modes Communication / Argument Other World Modeling World Optimization Causes / Interventions / Domains Practical with Others Community Other Content Type Site Meta None 2 comments
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AI [? · GW]
Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.
- AI Boxing (Containment) [? · GW]
- Factored Cognition [? · GW]
- Mesa-Optimization [? · GW]
- Orthogonality Thesis [? · GW]
- Value Learning [? · GW]
- Utility Functions [? · GW] (also #Rationality)
- Instrumental Convergence [? · GW]
- GPT-2 [? · GW]
Meta
- Research Agendas [? · GW] (not exclusively AI Alignment)
See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.
Rationality [? · GW]
Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms.
Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.
Formal / Theoretical
- Conservation of Expected Evidence [? · GW]
- Decision Theory [? · GW]
- Game Theory [? · GW]
- Solomonoff Induction [? · GW]
- Utility Functions [? · GW]
- Value of Information [? · GW]
- Robust Agents
Models of the Mind / Agents
Techniques & Skills
- Techniques [? · GW]
- Focusing [? · GW]
- Trigger Action Planning / Trigger Action Patterns [? · GW]
- Goal Factoring [? · GW] (also under #Practical)
- Hamming Questions [? · GW]
- Identity [? · GW]
- Betting [? · GW]
- Forecasting & Prediction [? · GW] (methodology)
- Forecasts [? · GW] (concrete predictions)
- Scholarship & Learning [? · GW]
- Replicability [? · GW] (see also #World Modeling)
- Dark Arts [? · GW] (also a Failure Mode)
Failure Modes
- Bucket Errors [? · GW]
- Compartmentalization [? · GW]
- Goodhart’s Law [? · GW]
- Heuristics and Biases [? · GW]
- Mind Projection Fallacy [? · GW]
- Rationalization [? · GW]
- Motivated Reasoning [? · GW]
- Confirmation Bias [? · GW]
- Sunk-Cost Fallacy [? · GW]
- Logical Fallacies [? · GW]
- Pica [? · GW]
- Pitfalls of Rationality [? · GW]
Communication / Argument
- Inferential Distance [? · GW]
- Information Cascades [? · GW]
- Steelmanning [? · GW]
Other
- Rationality Quotes [? · GW]
World Modeling [? · GW]
How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.
- Biology [? · GW]
- Causality [? · GW]
- Consciousness [? · GW] (also #Rationality)
- Economics [? · GW]
- Cost Disease [? · GW]
- History [? · GW]
- Machine Learning [? · GW]
- Probability & Statistics [? · GW]
- Programming [? · GW]
- Social Reality [? · GW]
- Fact Posts [? · GW]
Meta (see also #Rationality)
- Epistemic Review [? · GW]
- Replicability [? · GW]
See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning [? · GW], and research.
World Optimization [? · GW]
Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.
- Aesthetics [? · GW]
- Ethics & Metaethics [? · GW]
- Moloch [? · GW]
- Moral Mazes [? · GW]
- Politics [? · GW]
- Signaling [? · GW]
- Social Reality [? · GW]
- Voting Theory [? · GW]
Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.
Causes / Interventions / Domains
- Animal Welfare [? · GW]
- Coronavirus [? · GW]
- Prediction Markets [? · GW]
Practical [? · GW]
All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.
- Virtues [? · GW]
- Practical Advice [? · GW]
- Cryonics [? · GW]
- Goal Factoring [? · GW] (also #Rationality)
- Meditation [? · GW]
- Pica [? · GW]
- Productivity [? · GW]
- Slack [? · GW]
- Scholarship & Learning [? · GW] (also #Rationality)
- Spaced Repetition [? · GW]
- Motivations [? · GW]
- Willpower [? · GW]
- Akrasia [? · GW]
- Financial Investing [? · GW]
See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).
Optimizing with Others
- Circling [? · GW](has individual benefits too)
- Communication Cultures [? · GW]
- Game Theory [? · GW]
- Groupthink [? · GW]
- Information Hazards [? · GW]
- Meta-Honesty [? · GW]
- Ritual [? · GW]
Community [? · GW]
For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
- Research Agendas [? · GW]
- Solstice Celebration [? · GW]
- Petrov Day [? · GW]
- Ritual [? · GW]
Other
Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.
- Postmortems & Retrospectives [? · GW]
- Fiction [? · GW]
- Humor [? · GW]
- Eldritch Analogies [? · GW]
- Paradoxes [? · GW]
Content Type
- Book Reviews [? · GW]
- Interviews [? · GW]
- List of Links [? · GW]
Site Meta [? · GW]
All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.
- GreaterWrong Meta [? · GW]
More subtags for Site-Meta coming soon.
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