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Boston Solstice 2019 Retrospective
jefftk
Dec 15, 2019, 9:20 PM
32
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Approval Extraction Advertised as Production
Benquo
Dec 15, 2019, 2:51 PM
82
points
39
comments
19
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
[Question]
When would an agent do something different as a result of believing the many worlds theory?
mako yass
Dec 15, 2019, 1:02 AM
13
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is the term mesa optimizer too narrow?
Matthew Barnett
Dec 14, 2019, 11:20 PM
39
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Tabletop Role Playing Game or interactive stories for my daughter
kotrfa
Dec 14, 2019, 2:05 PM
2
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media
lsusr
Dec 14, 2019, 8:26 AM
45
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Acknowledgements & References
JesseClifton
Dec 14, 2019, 7:04 AM
6
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Eggy Waffles
jefftk
Dec 14, 2019, 2:40 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Book Recommendations for social skill development?
Teach
Dec 14, 2019, 12:36 AM
11
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] “Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction” by David Chapman
Kenny
Dec 13, 2019, 11:54 PM
12
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Preface to CLR’s Research Agenda on Cooperation, Conflict, and TAI
JesseClifton
Dec 13, 2019, 9:02 PM
62
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
LWCM—LessWrong Congress Meetup
Felix Karg
Dec 13, 2019, 6:09 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Under what circumstances is “don’t look at existing research” good advice?
Kaj_Sotala
Dec 13, 2019, 1:59 PM
76
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Vantress Gargoyle Dimir
Zvi
Dec 13, 2019, 12:50 PM
−1
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
CHAI Internship applications are due by 12/15
martinfukui
Dec 13, 2019, 9:19 AM
24
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ialdabaoth is banned
Vaniver
Dec 13, 2019, 6:34 AM
30
points
68
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Re-Interpretation of the Normative Foundations of Majority Rule
June Ku
Dec 13, 2019, 4:09 AM
11
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(preprints.apsanet.org)
Fractional Sweets
jefftk
Dec 13, 2019, 1:50 AM
14
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Examples of Causal Abstraction
johnswentworth
Dec 12, 2019, 10:54 PM
24
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Two-headed Go
jefftk
Dec 12, 2019, 3:30 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell
Gentzel
Dec 12, 2019, 3:20 AM
35
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
Causal Abstraction Toy Model: Medical Sensor
johnswentworth
Dec 11, 2019, 9:12 PM
34
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Link] (EA Podcast) Social Status: The Key to the Matrix Part III
Daniel_Gambacorta
Dec 11, 2019, 8:59 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms
Carlos_Cinelli
Dec 11, 2019, 8:39 PM
50
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ToL: Methods and Success
Hazard
Dec 10, 2019, 9:17 PM
8
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
ToL: This ONE WEIRD Trick to make you a GENIUS at Topology!
Hazard
Dec 10, 2019, 9:02 PM
10
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s an important (new) idea you haven’t had time to argue for yet?
Mati_Roy
Dec 10, 2019, 8:36 PM
8
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ToL: The Topological Connection
Hazard
Dec 10, 2019, 8:29 PM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ToL: Introduction
Hazard
Dec 10, 2019, 8:19 PM
12
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ToL: Foundations
Hazard
Dec 10, 2019, 8:15 PM
10
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?
johnswentworth
Dec 10, 2019, 6:09 PM
38
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Many Turing Machines
Logan Zoellner
Dec 10, 2019, 5:36 PM
−5
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Predictive coding = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC
Steven Byrnes
Dec 10, 2019, 11:45 AM
56
points
8
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
About BOINC
Teerth Aloke
Dec 10, 2019, 9:22 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Review] Meta-Honesty (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)
Ben Pace
Dec 10, 2019, 12:37 AM
29
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Review] On the Chatham House Rule (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)
Ben Pace
Dec 10, 2019, 12:24 AM
40
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?
jasoncrawford
Dec 10, 2019, 12:13 AM
12
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Bayesian examination
Lê Nguyên Hoang
Dec 9, 2019, 7:50 PM
86
points
56
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 9, 2019, 5:11 PM
263
points
78
comments
11
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
[Question]
Who are some people you met that were the most extreme on some axis?
Mati_Roy
Dec 9, 2019, 4:49 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to being/looking weird?
Mati_Roy
Dec 9, 2019, 4:10 PM
13
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Long Bets by Confidence Level
jefftk
Dec 9, 2019, 2:20 PM
24
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Dublin SSC Meetup—Death and Self
Dan Valentine
Dec 9, 2019, 7:50 AM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the best arguments and/or plans for doing work in “AI policy”?
Eli Tyre
Dec 9, 2019, 7:04 AM
14
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Review Phase
Ben Pace
Dec 9, 2019, 12:54 AM
53
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Books on the zeitgeist of science during Lord Kelvin’s time.
Hazard
Dec 9, 2019, 12:17 AM
30
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?
Wei Dai
Dec 9, 2019, 12:11 AM
70
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Counterfactuals: Smoking Lesion vs. Newcomb’s
Chris_Leong
8 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC
9
points
24
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Progress and preservation in IDA
cole_haus
8 Dec 2019 19:39 UTC
11
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.col-ex.org)
Confabulation
lsusr
8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC
62
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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