Cli­mate tech­nol­ogy primer (1/​3): basics

amarblesOct 25, 2019, 11:18 PM
38 points
5 comments59 min readLW link

Two ex­pla­na­tions for vari­a­tion in hu­man abilities

Matthew BarnettOct 25, 2019, 10:06 PM
87 points
28 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Effect het­ero­gene­ity and ex­ter­nal val­idity in medicine

Anders_HOct 25, 2019, 8:53 PM
49 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Door Ideas

jefftkOct 25, 2019, 12:40 PM
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Min­neapo­lis/​Twin Cities SSC meetup: 10/​26/​19

Drake ThomasOct 25, 2019, 3:56 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Iron: From myth­i­cal to mundane

jasoncrawfordOct 24, 2019, 10:43 PM
19 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Na­ture’s Hid­den Pro­cesses and Struc­tures (Novum Or­ganum Book 2: 1-9)

Francis BaconOct 24, 2019, 8:27 PM
10 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Jester’s Court—Mini Group Exercises

hamnoxOct 24, 2019, 7:49 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Jester’s Court—Mini Group Exercises

hamnoxOct 24, 2019, 6:49 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] De­ci­sions with Non-Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als: re­quest for input

reavowedOct 24, 2019, 5:23 PM
3 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Multi-bel­led Brass

jefftkOct 24, 2019, 2:20 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Who cap­tures eco­nomic gains from life ex­ten­sion treat­ments?

OrbordeOct 24, 2019, 5:17 AM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What eco­nomic gains are there in life ex­ten­sion treat­ments?

OrbordeOct 24, 2019, 5:12 AM
15 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

CPH meetup 11/​04/​19

SønderjyeOct 23, 2019, 9:28 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What video games are more fa­mous in our com­mu­nity than in the gen­eral pub­lic?

Rudi COct 23, 2019, 7:07 PM
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial gen­eral in­tel­li­gence is here, and it’s useless

George3d6Oct 23, 2019, 7:01 PM
−8 points
22 comments10 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

[AN #70]: Agents that help hu­mans who are still learn­ing about their own preferences

Rohin ShahOct 23, 2019, 5:10 PM
16 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why “Referer”?

jefftkOct 23, 2019, 1:40 PM
27 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cur­rent Law Pro­posed to al­low com­pe­ti­tion in So­cial Media

jmhOct 23, 2019, 1:13 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Deleted

defilippisOct 22, 2019, 6:49 PM
1 point
160 comments1 min readLW link

What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

ElizabethOct 22, 2019, 5:00 PM
122 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

De­liber­a­tion as a method to find the “ac­tual prefer­ences” of humans

riceissaOct 22, 2019, 9:23 AM
23 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

Hu­man-AI Collaboration

Rohin ShahOct 22, 2019, 6:32 AM
42 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

[Question] 2 small prob­lems with the site...

Long tryOct 22, 2019, 4:31 AM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Test­ing the Effi­cacy of Disagree­ment Re­s­olu­tion Tech­niques (and a Pro­posal for Test­ing Dou­ble Crux)

Ronny FernandezOct 21, 2019, 10:57 PM
35 points
2 comments15 min readLW link

Let Peo­ple Move to Jobs

jefftkOct 21, 2019, 6:00 PM
12 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Turn­ing air into bread

jasoncrawfordOct 21, 2019, 5:50 PM
103 points
12 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Link: An ex­er­cise: meta-ra­tio­nal phe­nom­ena | Meaningness

KennyOct 21, 2019, 4:56 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are So Many Ra­tion­al­ists Polyamorous?

Wes FOct 21, 2019, 4:12 PM
7 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What does “meta-ex­e­cu­tion with­out in­di­rec­tion” look like?

Liam_DonovanOct 21, 2019, 12:59 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

All I know is Goodhart

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 21, 2019, 12:12 PM
28 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Where to ab­solutely start?

Long tryOct 21, 2019, 2:45 AM
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Healthy Competition

RaemonOct 20, 2019, 8:55 PM
56 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review

We tend to for­get com­pli­cated things

Rafael HarthOct 20, 2019, 8:05 PM
49 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Effect pat­tern: Trans­par­ent up­dates in Elm

philhOct 20, 2019, 8:00 PM
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

En­doge­nous Epinephrine for Ana­phy­laxis?

jefftkOct 20, 2019, 12:10 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The prob­lem/​solu­tion ma­trix: Calcu­lat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of AI safety “on the back of an en­velope”

John_MaxwellOct 20, 2019, 8:03 AM
22 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Mediums Over­power Messages

lsusrOct 20, 2019, 5:46 AM
55 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­visi­ble Choices, Made by Default

lsusrOct 20, 2019, 2:09 AM
59 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Anti-coun­terfeit­ing Ink—an al­ter­na­tive way of com­bat­ing oil theft?

maximkazhenkovOct 19, 2019, 11:04 PM
1 point
4 comments2 min readLW link

Defin­ing Myopia

abramdemskiOct 19, 2019, 9:32 PM
32 points
18 comments8 min readLW link

Al­gorithms of De­cep­tion!

Zack_M_DavisOct 19, 2019, 6:04 PM
24 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Billion-scale semi-su­per­vised learn­ing for state-of-the-art image and video classification

NaiveTortoiseOct 19, 2019, 3:10 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(ai.facebook.com)

Why Ranked Choice Vot­ing Isn’t Great

jefftkOct 19, 2019, 11:10 AM
21 points
28 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does the body have an al­most in­finite num­ber of po­ten­tial po­si­tions?

leggiOct 19, 2019, 5:39 AM
2 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #69] Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on why we need to re­place the stan­dard model of AI

Rohin ShahOct 19, 2019, 12:30 AM
60 points
12 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why does the mind wan­der?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 18, 2019, 9:34 PM
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

Polyamory is Ra­tional(ist)

Jacob FalkovichOct 18, 2019, 4:48 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

[Question] What’s your big idea?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 18, 2019, 3:47 PM
30 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­ni­cal AGI safety re­search out­side AI

Richard_NgoOct 18, 2019, 3:00 PM
43 points
3 comments3 min readLW link