2020′s Pre­dic­tion Thread

bgold30 Dec 2019 23:18 UTC
48 points
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2010s Pre­dic­tions Review

Tofly30 Dec 2019 21:47 UTC
47 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Look­ing for non-AI peo­ple to work on AGI risks

otto.barten30 Dec 2019 20:41 UTC
10 points
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A hu­mane solu­tion was never in­tended.

Kolya30 Dec 2019 20:41 UTC
−17 points
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Austin LW: Sur­vey for far-trav­el­ing at­ten­dees Jan-Feb 2020

jchan30 Dec 2019 15:40 UTC
2 points
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Im­perfect Competition

Zvi30 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC
63 points
8 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Speak­ing Truth to Power Is a Schel­ling Point

Zack_M_Davis30 Dec 2019 6:12 UTC
52 points
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Sunny from QAD30 Dec 2019 5:23 UTC
3 points
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Mak­ing de­ci­sions un­der moral uncertainty

MichaelA30 Dec 2019 1:49 UTC
21 points
26 comments17 min readLW link

CFAR’s 2019 Fundraiser

Timothy Telleen-Lawton30 Dec 2019 0:03 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Real­ity van­ishes in a puff of logic

monktastic29 Dec 2019 21:55 UTC
−3 points
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[Question] Why is the mail so much bet­ter than the DMV?

Logan Zoellner29 Dec 2019 18:55 UTC
30 points
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Judg­ment Day: In­sights from ‘Judg­ment in Man­age­rial De­ci­sion Mak­ing’

TurnTrout29 Dec 2019 18:03 UTC
24 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Phage ther­apy in a post-an­tibiotics world

ChristianKl29 Dec 2019 17:03 UTC
22 points
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Perfect Competition

Zvi29 Dec 2019 13:30 UTC
51 points
29 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Self and No-Self

Vaniver29 Dec 2019 6:15 UTC
48 points
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[Question] Good goals for lev­el­ing up?

wolverdude29 Dec 2019 5:25 UTC
11 points
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Pro­gram­mers Should Plan For Lower Pay

jefftk29 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC
76 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are the most ex­cit­ing de­vel­op­ments from non-Europe and/​or non-North­ern-Hemi­sphere?

Raemon29 Dec 2019 1:30 UTC
13 points
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Safe ex­plo­ra­tion and corrigibility

evhub28 Dec 2019 23:12 UTC
17 points
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[Question] What is your recom­mended statis­tics text­book for a be­gin­ner?

Rudi C28 Dec 2019 21:19 UTC
5 points
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Stu­pidity and Dishon­esty Ex­plain Each Other Away

Zack_M_Davis28 Dec 2019 19:21 UTC
38 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing Epistemic Rationality

edoarad28 Dec 2019 18:46 UTC
6 points
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An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altruists

bice28 Dec 2019 18:02 UTC
9 points
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[Question] How was your decade?

namespace28 Dec 2019 17:14 UTC
26 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Moloch Hasn’t Won

Zvi28 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC
179 points
40 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Has there been a “memetic col­lapse”?

Eli Tyre28 Dec 2019 5:36 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Out in the Great Northwest

jefftk28 Dec 2019 3:40 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
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Cam­bridge LW/​SC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise28 Dec 2019 3:07 UTC
6 points
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Med­i­ta­tion Re­treat: Im­moral Mazes Se­quence Introduction

Zvi28 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC
78 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cri­tiquing “What failure looks like”

Grue_Slinky27 Dec 2019 23:59 UTC
35 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

More on po­lio and ran­dom­ized clini­cal trials

jasoncrawford27 Dec 2019 21:07 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Vac­cine… Help? De­pro­gram­ming? Some­thing?

Golden Delicious27 Dec 2019 20:27 UTC
4 points
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[Question] Ex­pected util­ity and re­peated choices

Marco Discendenti27 Dec 2019 20:26 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

We need to re­visit AI rewrit­ing its source code

ryan_b27 Dec 2019 18:27 UTC
11 points
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Firm­ing Up Not-Ly­ing Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Use­ful Than One Might Ini­tially Think

Zack_M_Davis27 Dec 2019 5:09 UTC
122 points
43 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] What spiritual ex­pe­riences have you had?

Gordon Seidoh Worley27 Dec 2019 3:41 UTC
22 points
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Nam­ing Rooms

jefftk27 Dec 2019 2:40 UTC
8 points
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Link: Does the fol­low­ing seem like a rea­son­able brief sum­mary of the key dis­agree­ments re­gard­ing AI risk?

Davidmanheim26 Dec 2019 20:14 UTC
11 points
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New pa­per: (When) is Truth-tel­ling Fa­vored in AI de­bate?

VojtaKovarik26 Dec 2019 19:59 UTC
32 points
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(medium.com)

[Question] Find­ing a quote: “proof by con­tra­dic­tion is the clos­est math comes to irony”

Hazard26 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC
8 points
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Defin­ing “An­timeme”

lsusr26 Dec 2019 9:35 UTC
17 points
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Talk­ing Through A Fear of Death

jesseduffield26 Dec 2019 5:23 UTC
6 points
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Gortha Ick

jefftk26 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC
9 points
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[AN #78] For­mal­iz­ing power and in­stru­men­tal con­ver­gence, and the end-of-year AI safety char­ity comparison

Rohin Shah26 Dec 2019 1:10 UTC
26 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Get a Life

Stanislav Kozlovski26 Dec 2019 0:51 UTC
0 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Values As­simila­tion Premortem

wolverdude26 Dec 2019 0:30 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Ma­chine Learn­ing (III)

Rafael Harth25 Dec 2019 18:55 UTC
16 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

12020: a fine fu­ture for these holidays

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2019 15:01 UTC
38 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ab­solutely Win­ning Bridge Hands

jefftk25 Dec 2019 2:50 UTC
9 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)