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Sleeping Beauty, Cloning Beauty, and Frequentist Arguments In Anthropic Paradoxes

dadadarren9 Nov 2020 23:17 UTC

5 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC

122 points

9 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Automating reasoning about the future at Ought

jungofthewon9 Nov 2020 21:51 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(ought.org)

Notes on Self Control

David Gross9 Nov 2020 21:27 UTC

8 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Clarifying inner alignment terminology

evhub9 Nov 2020 20:40 UTC

102 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What fraction of Dan Ariely’s Irrational Game hasn’t replicated?

Mati_Roy9 Nov 2020 20:25 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Problems Create Paradigms

johnswentworth9 Nov 2020 20:04 UTC

49 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Committing, Assuming, Externalizing, and Internalizing

Scott Garrabrant9 Nov 2020 16:59 UTC

31 points

25 comments10 min readLW link

Time Travel Markets for Intellectual Accounting

abramdemski9 Nov 2020 16:58 UTC

45 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Building AGI Using Language Models

leogao9 Nov 2020 16:33 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(leogao.dev)

Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.

NunoSempere and Alex Lawsen

9 Nov 2020 16:20 UTC

44 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Costs and benefits of metaphysics

George3d69 Nov 2020 14:31 UTC

11 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Why You Should Care About Goal-Directedness

adamShimi9 Nov 2020 12:48 UTC

38 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Competitive Universal Basic Services?

Gentzel9 Nov 2020 3:20 UTC

13 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Notes on Temperance

David Gross9 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC

14 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Model Depth as Panacea and Obfuscator

abstractapplic9 Nov 2020 0:02 UTC

8 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Where Do We Go From Here?

eapache8 Nov 2020 19:53 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

When Hindsight Isn’t 20/20: Incentive Design With Imperfect Credit Allocation

johnswentworth8 Nov 2020 19:16 UTC

72 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

Two reasons to expect a peaceful change of power in the US

Tim Liptrot8 Nov 2020 17:13 UTC

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Cartesian Frames Definitions

Rob Bensinger8 Nov 2020 12:44 UTC

28 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is corruption a valuable antidote to overregulation?

ChristianKl8 Nov 2020 12:15 UTC

17 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Scoring 2020 U.S. Presidential Election Predictions

Zack_M_Davis8 Nov 2020 2:28 UTC

38 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

Sunday 8th 2pm PT: Scott Garrabrant’s Office Hours / Cartesian Frames

Raemon8 Nov 2020 2:03 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Frequentist practice incorporates prior information all the time

Maxwell Peterson7 Nov 2020 20:43 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Three Open Problems in Aging

johnswentworth7 Nov 2020 19:39 UTC

48 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Can we prime people to take risk?

tonyoconnor7 Nov 2020 17:17 UTC

5 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Somerville Mask Usage II

jefftk7 Nov 2020 17:00 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How can I bet on short timelines?

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Nov 2020 12:44 UTC

43 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Why philosophy of science?

Richard_Ngo7 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC

54 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

the scaling “inconsistency”: openAI’s new insight

nostalgebraist7 Nov 2020 7:40 UTC

148 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC

125 points

47 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?

Mark Xu6 Nov 2020 23:48 UTC

96 points

9 comments16 min readLW link

Ethics in Many Worlds

fin6 Nov 2020 23:21 UTC

8 points

24 comments9 min readLW link

The Power & Tragedy of Names

SocratesDissatisfied6 Nov 2020 22:50 UTC

12 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Observe, babble, and prune

DirectedEvolution6 Nov 2020 21:45 UTC

8 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC

103 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid ‘Mink variant’

henryaj6 Nov 2020 17:50 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine II: Thermodynamic Efficiency Limit

johnswentworth6 Nov 2020 17:30 UTC

69 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Teach People to Recognize the Sound of Covid?

jefftk6 Nov 2020 14:30 UTC

21 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Additive and Multiplicative Subagents

Scott Garrabrant6 Nov 2020 14:26 UTC

20 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

“model scores” is a questionable concept

Maxwell Peterson6 Nov 2020 3:19 UTC

26 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Sunday, Nov 8: Tuning Your Cognitive Algorithms

Raemon6 Nov 2020 0:57 UTC

16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Justice (as a virtue)

David Gross5 Nov 2020 20:27 UTC

6 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch

Viliam5 Nov 2020 20:05 UTC

93 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What considerations influence whether I have more influence over short or long timelines?

Daniel Kokotajlo5 Nov 2020 19:56 UTC

28 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine

johnswentworth5 Nov 2020 19:01 UTC

186 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Sub-Sums and Sub-Tensors

Scott Garrabrant5 Nov 2020 18:06 UTC

34 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Defining capability and alignment in gradient descent

Edouard Harris5 Nov 2020 14:36 UTC

22 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 11/5: Don’t Mention the War

Zvi5 Nov 2020 14:20 UTC

64 points

16 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Babble Challenge: 50 thoughts on stable, cooperative institutions

jacobjacob5 Nov 2020 6:38 UTC

29 points

12 comments3 min readLW link