[Question] Models pre­dict­ing sig­nifi­cant vi­o­lence in the US?

kdbscott25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
54 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Some crit­i­cisms of polling

Jimdrix_Hendri25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Re­ply to Je­bari and Lund­borg on Ar­tifi­cial Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo25 Oct 2020 13:50 UTC
31 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

In­creas­ing Iso­la­tion Again

jefftk25 Oct 2020 13:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Yet an­other world spirit sock puppet

KatjaGrace25 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Which head­lines and nar­ra­tives are mostly click­bait?

Pontor25 Oct 2020 1:19 UTC
5 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Why Hunt­ing­ton-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Notes on Courage

David Gross24 Oct 2020 22:32 UTC
15 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

“Pre­dic­tion” and “ex­pla­na­tion” are not causation

jasoncrawford24 Oct 2020 18:55 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Kar­ls­ruhe Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup

wilm24 Oct 2020 8:23 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Dar­win Game—Rounds 0 to 10

lsusr24 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC
107 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

Bab­ble and Prune : 5 new ideas

Teja Prabhu23 Oct 2020 23:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is our true life ex­pec­tancy?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 23:17 UTC
15 points
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Just For Fun

proshowersinger23 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

No Cau­sa­tion with­out Reification

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Oct 2020 20:28 UTC
21 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Des­per­ately look­ing for the right per­son to dis­cuss an al­ign­ment re­lated idea with. (and some gen­eral thoughts for oth­ers with similar prob­lems)

Rasmus Eide23 Oct 2020 19:42 UTC
5 points
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Lo­cal So­lar Time

jefftk23 Oct 2020 19:40 UTC
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ad­just­ing prob­a­bil­ities for the pas­sage of time, us­ing Squiggle

NunoSempere23 Oct 2020 18:55 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Hu­mans are stun­ningly ra­tio­nal and stun­ningly irrational

Stuart_Armstrong23 Oct 2020 14:13 UTC
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Pow­er­less Mo­ral Evaluation

SocratesDissatisfied23 Oct 2020 10:44 UTC
5 points
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The bads of ads

KatjaGrace23 Oct 2020 5:50 UTC
105 points
38 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Should we use qual­ifiers in speech?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
35 points
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[Question] What is the cur­rent bot­tle­neck on ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing of hu­man em­bryos for im­proved IQ

Eli Tyre23 Oct 2020 2:36 UTC
35 points
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Find­ing Lev­er­age: Sys­tem Think­ing & Change Management

JASmithy22 Oct 2020 23:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

The Trou­ble With Babbles

DirectedEvolution22 Oct 2020 21:31 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Chang­ing the size of Congress

jefftk22 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should I pre­fer to get a tax re­fund, or not to?

MichaelDickens22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
1 point
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An Open Let­ter On Love

nroman22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Effec­tive Epidemiology

Mike Harris22 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
26 points
13 comments9 min readLW link

My case for start­ing blogging

Neel Nanda22 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC
36 points
2 comments16 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Covid 10/​22: Europe in Crisis

Zvi22 Oct 2020 15:40 UTC
80 points
13 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

GPT-X, Paper­clip Max­i­mizer? An­a­lyz­ing AGI and Fi­nal Goals

meanderingmoose22 Oct 2020 14:33 UTC
8 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant22 Oct 2020 13:00 UTC
153 points
32 comments22 min readLW link1 review

“Lit­tle glimpses of em­pa­thy” as the foun­da­tion for so­cial emotions

Steven Byrnes22 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
33 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel Kokotajlo22 Oct 2020 10:41 UTC
145 points
32 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2021

Next22 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing is (Asymp­tot­i­cally) Com­pu­ta­tion­ally Ineffi­cient, Choose Your Ex­po­nents Wisely

shminux22 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

jacobjacob22 Oct 2020 4:49 UTC
33 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Virtue ethics and why the ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity might care about it.

David Gross22 Oct 2020 3:53 UTC
36 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: Pan­demic Edition

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 23:54 UTC
50 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Mal­i­cious link!

bmeacham21 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween GAI and a gov­ern­ment?

DirectedEvolution21 Oct 2020 23:04 UTC
11 points
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[Question] When was the term “AI al­ign­ment” coined?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
10 points
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The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

Zvi21 Oct 2020 18:10 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #122]: Ar­gu­ing for AGI-driven ex­is­ten­tial risk from first principles

Rohin Shah21 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
28 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Re­ward large con­tri­bu­tions?

GuySrinivasan21 Oct 2020 16:26 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Stupid Ques­tions Oc­to­ber 2020

ChristianKl21 Oct 2020 11:41 UTC
48 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day Oc­to­ber 25, 12:00PM (PT) — Scott Garrabrant on “Carte­sian Frames”

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 3:27 UTC
48 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one re­searched speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing with biolog­i­cal an­i­mals?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 0:20 UTC
9 points
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[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga Babeeva20 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
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