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Causal Ab­strac­tion Toy Model: Med­i­cal Sensor

johnswentworth11 Dec 2019 21:12 UTC
34 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] (EA Pod­cast) So­cial Sta­tus: The Key to the Ma­trix Part III

Daniel_Gambacorta11 Dec 2019 20:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults by Lev­er­ag­ing Knowl­edge of Mechanisms

Carlos_Cinelli11 Dec 2019 20:39 UTC
50 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

ToL: Meth­ods and Success

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:17 UTC
8 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

ToL: This ONE WEIRD Trick to make you a GENIUS at Topol­ogy!

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
10 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s an im­por­tant (new) idea you haven’t had time to ar­gue for yet?

Mati_Roy10 Dec 2019 20:36 UTC
8 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

ToL: The Topolog­i­cal Connection

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:29 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

ToL: Introduction

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

ToL: Foundations

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:15 UTC
10 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Ap­pli­ca­tions of Eco­nomic Models to Phys­iol­ogy?

johnswentworth10 Dec 2019 18:09 UTC
38 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Many Tur­ing Machines

Logan Zoellner10 Dec 2019 17:36 UTC
−5 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive cod­ing = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC

Steven Byrnes10 Dec 2019 11:45 UTC
56 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] About BOINC

Teerth Aloke10 Dec 2019 9:22 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Re­view] Meta-Hon­esty (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben Pace10 Dec 2019 0:37 UTC
29 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

[Re­view] On the Chatham House Rule (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben Pace10 Dec 2019 0:24 UTC
40 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Were vac­cines rele­vant to 20th cen­tury US mor­tal­ity im­prove­ments?

jasoncrawford10 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC
12 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC
86 points
56 comments5 min readLW link

Is Ra­tion­al­ist Self-Im­prove­ment Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC
279 points
82 comments11 min readLW link3 reviews

[Question] Who are some peo­ple you met that were the most ex­treme on some axis?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:49 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to be­ing/​look­ing weird?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:10 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Long Bets by Con­fi­dence Level

jefftk9 Dec 2019 14:20 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Dublin SSC Meetup—Death and Self

Dan Valentine9 Dec 2019 7:50 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best ar­gu­ments and/​or plans for do­ing work in “AI policy”?

Eli Tyre9 Dec 2019 7:04 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­view Phase

Ben Pace9 Dec 2019 0:54 UTC
53 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Books on the zeit­geist of sci­ence dur­ing Lord Kelvin’s time.

Hazard9 Dec 2019 0:17 UTC
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What de­ter­mines the bal­ance be­tween in­tel­li­gence sig­nal­ing and virtue sig­nal­ing?

Wei Dai9 Dec 2019 0:11 UTC
70 points
37 comments2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als: Smok­ing Le­sion vs. New­comb’s

Chris_Leong8 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
9 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Progress and preser­va­tion in IDA

cole_haus8 Dec 2019 19:39 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.col-ex.org)

Confabulation

lsusr8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC
63 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Chakras & Qi—Old Sto­ries for the Base-Line Ex­pe­rience. Im­prove your phys­i­cal & men­tal health by con­nect­ing body and mind.

leggi8 Dec 2019 4:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What do the Char­ter Cities In­sti­tute likely mean when they re­fer to long term prob­lems with the use of em­i­nent do­main?

mako yass8 Dec 2019 0:53 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Les­son To Unlearn

Ben Pace8 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC
38 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(paulgraham.com)

Un­gen­dered Spanish

jefftk7 Dec 2019 16:20 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The ‘5 Main Mus­cles of Move­ment’ Made Easy.

leggi7 Dec 2019 9:17 UTC
5 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] What is a rea­son­ably com­plete set of the differ­ent mean­ings of “hard work”?

Pee Doom7 Dec 2019 4:54 UTC
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

The New Age of So­cial Engineering

VivaLaPanda7 Dec 2019 0:23 UTC
22 points
7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What sub­fields of math­e­mat­ics are most use­ful for what sub­fields of AI?

Rudi C6 Dec 2019 20:45 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What is Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth6 Dec 2019 20:30 UTC
38 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist sols­tice Lund

Laural6 Dec 2019 11:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­ment on Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments do not im­ply goal di­rected behavior

Ronny Fernandez6 Dec 2019 9:30 UTC
30 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a web­site for track­ing fads?

romeostevensit6 Dec 2019 4:48 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Ac­tion­able Ver­sion of “Keep Your Iden­tity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC
80 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing “Deep Dou­ble Des­cent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC
155 points
51 comments5 min readLW link4 reviews

Tap­ping Out In Two

philh5 Dec 2019 23:10 UTC
18 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Values, Valence, and Alignment

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Dec 2019 21:06 UTC
12 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—Novem­ber 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

LW Team Up­dates—De­cem­ber 2019

Ruby5 Dec 2019 20:40 UTC
40 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

On Sto­ries vs. Data

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 20:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(medium.com)

To Be De­cided #3

Ian David Moss5 Dec 2019 19:06 UTC
4 points
3 comments3 min readLW link