Epistemic Spot Checks: The Fall of Rome

16 Oct 2019 18:40 UTC

23 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Gradient hacking

16 Oct 2019 0:53 UTC

36 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Always Discard Fascist Policies

15 Oct 2019 22:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Parable of Predict-O-Matic

15 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

95 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Strong stances

15 Oct 2019 0:40 UTC

27 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

Impact measurement and value-neutrality verification

15 Oct 2019 0:06 UTC

33 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Schematic Thinking: heuristic generalization using Korzybski’s method

14 Oct 2019 19:29 UTC

16 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #68]: The attainable utility theory of impact

14 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC

19 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Maybe Lying Doesn’t Exist

14 Oct 2019 7:04 UTC

52 points

19 comments8 min readLW link

Regarding Archimedes (a philosophy of math anecdote)

13 Oct 2019 21:25 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(a)

13 Oct 2019 17:39 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s going on with “provability”?

13 Oct 2019 3:59 UTC

24 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

AI alignment landscape

paulfchristiano

13 Oct 2019 2:10 UTC

38 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Prediction Markets Don’t Reveal The Territory

12 Oct 2019 23:54 UTC

9 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

A simple sketch of how realism became unpopular

11 Oct 2019 22:25 UTC

48 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

A Short Introduction to Theory of Change

11 Oct 2019 19:00 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Sets and Functions

countedblessings

11 Oct 2019 5:06 UTC

23 points

20 comments10 min readLW link

Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 4 - Smaller things that I’ve learned

11 Oct 2019 1:26 UTC

19 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 3 - What I’ve learned

11 Oct 2019 0:49 UTC

26 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

How feasible is long-range forecasting?

10 Oct 2019 22:11 UTC

40 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)