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How does one authenticate with the lesswrong API?

Alex FlintJun 15, 2020, 11:46 PM

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Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman

Ben PaceJun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM

43 points

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6 comments5 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit

jasoncrawfordJun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM

42 points

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9 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Research snap-shot: question about Global Workspace Theory

HazardJun 15, 2020, 9:00 PM

21 points

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12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] By what metric do you judge a reference class?

B JacobsJun 15, 2020, 6:34 PM

7 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Causality Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworthJun 15, 2020, 5:19 PM

13 points

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[Question] What do drafts look like?

SarahNibsJun 15, 2020, 4:02 PM

21 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If the reproduction number is socially “controlled” to its inflection point 1, what are the ethical and predictive implications?

Tim LiptrotJun 15, 2020, 4:01 PM

1 point

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Simulacra Levels and their Interactions

ZviJun 15, 2020, 1:10 PM

203 points

92 votes

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51 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achieving AI alignment through deliberate uncertainty in multiagent systems

Florian DietzJun 15, 2020, 12:19 PM

3 points

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10 comments7 min readLW link

The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders

FactorialCodeJun 14, 2020, 5:14 PM

45 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nber.org)

How alienated should you be?

VaniverJun 14, 2020, 3:55 PM

36 points

19 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] List of public predictions of what GPT-X can or can’t do?

Daniel KokotajloJun 14, 2020, 2:25 PM

20 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Second Wave?

jefftkJun 14, 2020, 2:00 PM

25 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some Civilizational Sanity Interventions?

Eli TyreJun 14, 2020, 1:38 AM

34 points

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27 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

TetraspaceJun 14, 2020, 12:16 AM

60 points

35 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link

Preparing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 11:01 PM

64 points

25 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Coronavirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM

71 points

27 votes

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11 comments18 min readLW link

Testing Hanson’s hypothesis about the uselessness of health care.

JoshuaFoxJun 13, 2020, 6:34 PM

28 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

A Practical Guide to Conflict Resolution: Comprehension

eapacheJun 13, 2020, 3:08 PM

30 points

11 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you find good content on Youtube?

Rudi CJun 13, 2020, 12:29 PM

6 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Reminder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 10:28 AM

14 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics

lsusrJun 13, 2020, 9:19 AM

27 points

10 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas KwaJun 13, 2020, 12:03 AM

12 points

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Short essays on various things I’ve watched

philhJun 12, 2020, 10:50 PM

9 points

4 votes

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6 comments12 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book review (Scott Aaronson)

ioannesJun 12, 2020, 10:16 PM

15 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out attacks actually work?

lcJun 12, 2020, 8:33 PM

44 points

21 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] For moderately well-resourced people in the US, how quickly will things go from “uncomfortable” to “too late to exit”?

DagonJun 12, 2020, 4:59 PM

76 points

33 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Pragmatism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 12, 2020, 4:34 PM

16 points

7 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff Induction, up with the Presumptuous Philosopher

Charlie SteinerJun 12, 2020, 9:44 AM

13 points

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10 comments2 min readLW link

An online prediction market with reputation points

kickboxerJun 12, 2020, 9:29 AM

11 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

What gripes do you have with Mustachianism?

Adam ZernerJun 11, 2020, 11:42 PM

12 points

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?

ElizabethJun 11, 2020, 11:10 PM

74 points

32 votes

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15 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Covid-19 6/11: Bracing For a Second Wave

ZviJun 11, 2020, 9:30 PM

61 points

25 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey

B JacobsJun 11, 2020, 8:05 PM

20 points

8 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Cartesian Boundary as Abstraction Boundary

johnswentworthJun 11, 2020, 5:38 PM

35 points

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Mistake Theorists

DirectedEvolutionJun 11, 2020, 2:49 PM

8 points

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7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there something like a “meta-encyclopedia”?

PabloJun 11, 2020, 12:16 PM

20 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Does equanimity prevent negative utility?

Chris_LeongJun 11, 2020, 7:00 AM

14 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Ideology/narrative stabilizes path-dependent equilibria

Eli TyreJun 11, 2020, 2:50 AM

22 points

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5 comments5 min readLW link

Good and bad ways to think about downside risks

MichaelA and JustinShovelain

Jun 11, 2020, 1:38 AM

19 points

9 votes

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12 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Karma fluctuations?

eapacheJun 11, 2020, 12:33 AM

7 points

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24 comments1 min readLW link

Keep: Move checked items to bottom

jefftkJun 11, 2020, 12:30 AM

10 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Self-Predicting Markets

eapacheJun 10, 2020, 10:39 PM

26 points

17 votes

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19 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Can Covid-19 spread by surface transmission?

RaemonJun 10, 2020, 10:09 PM

65 points

17 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #103]: ARCHES: an agenda for existential safety, and combining natural language with deep RL

Rohin ShahJun 10, 2020, 5:20 PM

29 points

11 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Maximizing impact at startup with high EA potential?

kniteJun 10, 2020, 6:25 AM

8 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What past highly-upvoted posts are overrated today?

Thomas KwaJun 9, 2020, 9:25 PM

14 points

13 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

BBE W1: HMCM and Notetaking Systems

SpiracularJun 9, 2020, 7:20 PM

26 points

11 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

BBE W1: Personal Notetaking Desiderata Walkthrough

SpiracularJun 9, 2020, 7:19 PM

17 points

7 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

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