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Imperfect Competition

ZviDec 30, 2019, 12:20 PM

73 points

30 votes

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8 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Speaking Truth to Power Is a Schelling Point

Zack_M_DavisDec 30, 2019, 6:12 AM

52 points

24 votes

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19 comments2 min readLW link

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Sunny from QADDec 30, 2019, 5:23 AM

3 points

4 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Making decisions under moral uncertainty

MichaelADec 30, 2019, 1:49 AM

21 points

9 votes

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26 comments17 min readLW link

CFAR’s 2019 Fundraiser

Timothy Telleen-LawtonDec 30, 2019, 12:03 AM

32 points

10 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Reality vanishes in a puff of logic

monktasticDec 29, 2019, 9:55 PM

−3 points

10 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why is the mail so much better than the DMV?

Logan ZoellnerDec 29, 2019, 6:55 PM

30 points

17 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

Judgment Day: Insights from ‘Judgment in Managerial Decision Making’

TurnTroutDec 29, 2019, 6:03 PM

24 points

8 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Phage therapy in a post-antibiotics world

ChristianKlDec 29, 2019, 5:03 PM

22 points

8 votes

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Perfect Competition

ZviDec 29, 2019, 1:30 PM

55 points

31 votes

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29 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Self and No-Self

VaniverDec 29, 2019, 6:15 AM

48 points

19 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Good goals for leveling up?

wolverdudeDec 29, 2019, 5:25 AM

11 points

6 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay

jefftkDec 29, 2019, 3:20 AM

77 points

33 votes

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72 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

RaemonDec 29, 2019, 1:30 AM

13 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Safe exploration and corrigibility

evhubDec 28, 2019, 11:12 PM

17 points

8 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is your recommended statistics textbook for a beginner?

Rudi CDec 28, 2019, 9:19 PM

5 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Stupidity and Dishonesty Explain Each Other Away

Zack_M_DavisDec 28, 2019, 7:21 PM

38 points

17 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

Measuring Epistemic Rationality

edoaradDec 28, 2019, 6:46 PM

6 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists

biceDec 28, 2019, 6:02 PM

9 points

5 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How was your decade?

namespaceDec 28, 2019, 5:14 PM

26 points

9 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Moloch Hasn’t Won

ZviDec 28, 2019, 4:30 PM

192 points

94 votes

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41 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Eli TyreDec 28, 2019, 5:36 AM

32 points

7 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Out in the Great Northwest

jefftkDec 28, 2019, 3:40 AM

6 points

2 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Cambridge LW/SC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseDec 28, 2019, 3:07 AM

6 points

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Meditation Retreat: Immoral Mazes Sequence Introduction

ZviDec 28, 2019, 12:50 AM

89 points

41 votes

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16 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Critiquing “What failure looks like”

Grue_SlinkyDec 27, 2019, 11:59 PM

35 points

13 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

More on polio and randomized clinical trials

jasoncrawfordDec 27, 2019, 9:07 PM

18 points

6 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Vaccine… Help? Deprogramming? Something?

Golden DeliciousDec 27, 2019, 8:27 PM

4 points

3 votes

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27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Expected utility and repeated choices

Marco DiscendentiDec 27, 2019, 8:26 PM

9 points

7 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

We need to revisit AI rewriting its source code

ryan_bDec 27, 2019, 6:27 PM

11 points

8 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think

Zack_M_DavisDec 27, 2019, 5:09 AM

132 points

62 votes

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43 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] What spiritual experiences have you had?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 27, 2019, 3:41 AM

22 points

5 votes

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23 comments1 min readLW link

Naming Rooms

jefftkDec 27, 2019, 2:40 AM

8 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Link: Does the following seem like a reasonable brief summary of the key disagreements regarding AI risk?

DavidmanheimDec 26, 2019, 8:14 PM

11 points

5 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

New paper: (When) is Truth-telling Favored in AI debate?

VojtaKovarikDec 26, 2019, 7:59 PM

32 points

12 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

(medium.com)

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

HazardDec 26, 2019, 5:40 PM

8 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Talking Through A Fear of Death

jesseduffieldDec 26, 2019, 5:23 AM

6 points

6 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Gortha Ick

jefftkDec 26, 2019, 3:20 AM

9 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #78] Formalizing power and instrumental convergence, and the end-of-year AI safety charity comparison

Rohin ShahDec 26, 2019, 1:10 AM

26 points

7 votes

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10 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Get a Life

Stanislav KozlovskiDec 26, 2019, 12:51 AM

0 points

3 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

Values Assimilation Premortem

wolverdudeDec 26, 2019, 12:30 AM

16 points

7 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

Understanding Machine Learning (III)

Rafael HarthDec 25, 2019, 6:55 PM

16 points

5 votes

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2 comments11 min readLW link

12020: a fine future for these holidays

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 25, 2019, 3:01 PM

41 points

18 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Absolutely Winning Bridge Hands

jefftkDec 25, 2019, 2:50 AM

9 points

2 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Another AI Winter?

PeterMcCluskeyDec 25, 2019, 12:58 AM

47 points

17 votes

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14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Some Comments on “Goodhart Taxonomy”

Grue_SlinkyDec 24, 2019, 11:59 PM

9 points

7 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

ESC Process Notes: Claim Evaluation vs. Syntheses

ElizabethDec 24, 2019, 5:00 PM

19 points

6 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Should I floss?

willbradshawDec 24, 2019, 4:06 PM

24 points

18 votes

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11 comments3 min readLW link

Funk-tunul’s Legacy; Or, The Legend of the Extortion War

Zack_M_DavisDec 24, 2019, 9:29 AM

13 points

20 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

What are you reading?

eigenDec 24, 2019, 12:11 AM

7 points

4 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

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