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[Question]
What empirical work has been done that bears on the ‘freebit picture’ of free will?
DanielFilan
Oct 4, 2019, 11:11 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ideal Number of Parents
jefftk
Oct 4, 2019, 8:00 PM
20
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
13 Causes of Bad Science (Novum Organum Book 1: 69-92)
Francis Bacon
Oct 4, 2019, 7:52 PM
33
points
1
comment
30
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are your strategies for avoiding micro-mistakes?
NaiveTortoise
Oct 4, 2019, 6:42 PM
17
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
September 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Oct 4, 2019, 4:44 PM
21
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
The AI is the model
Charlie Steiner
Oct 4, 2019, 8:11 AM
14
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Conscious Proprioception.
leggi
Oct 4, 2019, 4:33 AM
20
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Debate on Instrumental Convergence between LeCun, Russell, Bengio, Zador, and More
Ben Pace
Oct 4, 2019, 4:08 AM
221
points
61
comments
15
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
AI Alignment Open Thread October 2019
habryka
Oct 4, 2019, 1:28 AM
26
points
58
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Tools for thought (Matuschak & Nielsen)
ioannes
Oct 4, 2019, 12:42 AM
21
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Long-Term Future Fund: August 2019 grant recommendations
habryka
Oct 3, 2019, 8:41 PM
35
points
0
comments
64
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
New Petrov Game Brainstorm
Alexei
Oct 3, 2019, 7:48 PM
17
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
To Be Decided #1
Ian David Moss
Oct 3, 2019, 7:30 PM
8
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
DC LW: Priors
rusalkii
Oct 3, 2019, 6:11 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Solving the forgetting. Spaced repetition beyond rationality community.
MrAKaDeus
Oct 3, 2019, 3:03 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Can we make peace with moral indeterminacy?
Charlie Steiner
Oct 3, 2019, 12:56 PM
16
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Comments are back!
jefftk
Oct 3, 2019, 10:50 AM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Late to the Party: Climate
Thewal
Oct 3, 2019, 1:36 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] (EA Podcast) Global Optimum: How to Learn Better
Daniel_Gambacorta
Oct 3, 2019, 12:29 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] What do conservatives know that liberals don’t (and vice versa)?
defilippis
Oct 2, 2019, 4:14 PM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are we assuming about utility functions?
Grue_Slinky
Oct 2, 2019, 3:11 PM
17
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Human instincts, symbol grounding, and the blank-slate neocortex
Steven Byrnes
Oct 2, 2019, 12:06 PM
62
points
24
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Toy model #6: Rationality and partial preferences
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 2, 2019, 12:04 PM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Double Tongue Whistling
jefftk
Oct 2, 2019, 11:10 AM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Cambridge LW/SSC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Oct 2, 2019, 3:37 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does the US nuclear policy still target cities?
Jeffrey Ladish
Oct 2, 2019, 12:18 AM
61
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Survival and Flourishing Fund Applications closing in 3 days
habryka
Oct 2, 2019, 12:12 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open & Welcome Thread—October 2019
Ruby
Oct 1, 2019, 11:10 PM
10
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LW Team Updates—October 2019
Ruby
Oct 1, 2019, 11:08 PM
30
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
World State is the Wrong Abstraction for Impact
TurnTrout
Oct 1, 2019, 9:03 PM
67
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Meditations on Moloch and Pair Debugging
Dan Valentine
Oct 1, 2019, 7:37 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What funding sources exist for technical AI safety research?
johnswentworth
Oct 1, 2019, 3:30 PM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Communication and Waking Hours
jefftk
Oct 1, 2019, 11:00 AM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Social awkwardness as an application of analysis paralysis
Paperhopes
Oct 1, 2019, 6:16 AM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Farlamp project
rmoehn
Oct 1, 2019, 2:16 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Looking for remote writing partners (for AI alignment research)
rmoehn
Oct 1, 2019, 2:16 AM
23
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Please Take the 2019 EA Survey!
Peter Wildeford
Sep 30, 2019, 9:21 PM
21
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.surveymonkey.co.uk)
Elimination of Bias in Introspection: Methodological Advances, Refinements, and Recommendations
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Sep 30, 2019, 8:23 PM
15
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(philpapers.org)
List of resolved confusions about IDA
Wei Dai
Sep 30, 2019, 8:03 PM
97
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Meeting the Dragon in Your Garage.
valentinslepukhin
Sep 30, 2019, 7:55 PM
1
point
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Connectome-specific harmonic waves and meditation
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Sep 30, 2019, 6:08 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #66]: Decomposing robustness into capability robustness and alignment robustness
Rohin Shah
Sep 30, 2019, 6:00 PM
12
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Thermal Mass Thermos
jefftk
Sep 30, 2019, 1:10 PM
15
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What’s your favorite notetaking system?
Elizabeth
Sep 30, 2019, 6:18 AM
32
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Noticing Frame Differences
Raemon
Sep 30, 2019, 1:24 AM
218
points
40
comments
9
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
DC Meetup
Robi Rahman
Sep 29, 2019, 10:37 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Thinking Ladder—Wait But Why
Liron
Sep 29, 2019, 6:51 PM
20
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(waitbutwhy.com)
Candy for Nets
jefftk
Sep 29, 2019, 11:10 AM
63
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Asking extremely basic questions to win arguments—Name the bias or the fallacy at play
Boni Aditya
Sep 29, 2019, 11:05 AM
−3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Christiano decision theory excerpt
Rob Bensinger
Sep 29, 2019, 2:55 AM
71
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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