[Question] What are some triggers that prompt you to do a Fermi estimate, or to pull up a spreadsheet and make a simple/rough quantitative model?

Eli Tyre25 Jul 2021 6:47 UTC

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Failing safely is the anomaly

Andrew Vlahos25 Jul 2021 4:56 UTC

2 points

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A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC

14 points

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Social media: designed to be bad for you & for society

matto24 Jul 2021 18:59 UTC

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Believing vs understanding

adamzerner24 Jul 2021 3:39 UTC

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AXRP Episode 10 - AI’s Future and Impacts with Katja Grace

DanielFilan23 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC

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Delta variant: we should probably be re-masking

aaronb5023 Jul 2021 21:13 UTC

31 points

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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

How is low-latency phasic dopamine so fast?

Steven Byrnes23 Jul 2021 17:43 UTC

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[AN #157]: Measuring misalignment in the technology underlying Copilot

rohinmshah23 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC

27 points

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(mailchi.mp)

Hypergames 101

Josephine23 Jul 2021 13:19 UTC

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Decision Duels

Josephine23 Jul 2021 9:22 UTC

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A Guide for Productivity

Marius Hobbhahn23 Jul 2021 7:03 UTC

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[Question] What is the net effect of memes that call out the huge impact of big players in climate change?

hookdump23 Jul 2021 2:46 UTC

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Re-Define Intent Alignment?

abramdemski22 Jul 2021 19:00 UTC

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Learning in layers of muscle memory

Anshul Jain22 Jul 2021 18:57 UTC

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(www.anshuljain.me)

The Inside View #4–Sav Sidorov–Learning, Contrarianism and Robotics

Michaël Trazzi22 Jul 2021 18:53 UTC

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(www.youtube.com)

Progress, Stagnation, & Collapse

abramdemski22 Jul 2021 16:51 UTC

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The Walking Dead

Logan Zoellner22 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC

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Covid 7/22: Error Correction

Zvi22 Jul 2021 14:20 UTC

64 points

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Epistemic Optimism: A Shield Against Error

SocratesDissatisfied22 Jul 2021 12:33 UTC

2 points

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