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Industry and workers

smaslennikovJun 25, 2020, 8:03 PM

−3 points

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12 comments4 min readLW link

(smaslennikov.com)

Covid 6/25: The Dam Breaks

ZviJun 25, 2020, 6:30 PM

116 points

44 votes

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21 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An agile approach to pre-research

DirectedEvolutionJun 25, 2020, 6:29 PM

15 points

7 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem

DavidmanheimJun 25, 2020, 6:10 PM

163 points

69 votes

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41 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

GPT-3 Fiction Samples

gwernJun 25, 2020, 4:12 PM

63 points

21 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

There’s an Awesome AI Ethics List and it’s a little thin

AABoylesJun 25, 2020, 1:43 PM

13 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(github.com)

DontDoxScottAlexander.com—A Petition

Ben Pace, Bird Concept and Rob Bensinger

Jun 25, 2020, 5:44 AM

120 points

42 votes

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32 comments1 min readLW link

(DontDoxScottAlexander.com)

Preview On Hover

jefftkJun 24, 2020, 10:20 PM

20 points

8 votes

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22 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Don’t punish yourself for bad luck

SherrinfordJun 24, 2020, 9:52 PM

16 points

8 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

Betting with Mandatory Post-Mortem

abramdemskiJun 24, 2020, 8:04 PM

105 points

49 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Quick Look #1 Diophantus of Alexandria

SebastianG Jun 24, 2020, 7:12 PM

19 points

9 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the name for that plausible deniability thing?

eapacheJun 24, 2020, 6:42 PM

11 points

5 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can I archive content from lesswrong.com on the wayback machine (internet archive, archive.org) ?

nick lacombeJun 24, 2020, 6:15 PM

14 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Abstraction, Evolution and Gears

johnswentworthJun 24, 2020, 5:39 PM

29 points

12 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #105]: The economic trajectory of humanity, and what we might mean by optimization

Rohin ShahJun 24, 2020, 5:30 PM

24 points

7 votes

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3 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Linkpost: M21 Review: We Have Normality

ZviJun 24, 2020, 4:10 PM

10 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Models, myths, dreams, and Cheshire cat grins

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 24, 2020, 10:50 AM

21 points

8 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does NYT have policies?

Douglas_KnightJun 24, 2020, 4:06 AM

19 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Dark Miracle of Optics

Suspended ReasonJun 24, 2020, 3:09 AM

27 points

10 votes

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5 comments8 min readLW link

Half-Baked Products and Idea Kernels

LironJun 24, 2020, 1:00 AM

64 points

23 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has anyone explored deliberate infection with milder coronavirus strains for cross-immunity?

polyamorousRobotJun 23, 2020, 10:23 PM

2 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you Murphyjitsu essentially risky activities?

9eB1Jun 23, 2020, 9:09 PM

12 points

5 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is “Instrumental Corrigibility”?

joebernsteinJun 23, 2020, 8:24 PM

4 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Modelling Continuous Progress

Sammy MartinJun 23, 2020, 6:06 PM

30 points

12 votes

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3 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Requesting feedback/advice: what Type Theory to study for AI safety?

rvnntJun 23, 2020, 5:03 PM

7 points

3 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship

Donald HobsonJun 23, 2020, 2:12 PM

36 points

21 votes

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33 comments2 min readLW link

Old-world Politics Fallacy

Rudi CJun 23, 2020, 12:32 PM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

New York Times, Please Do Not Threaten The Safety of Scott Alexander By Revealing His True Name

ZviJun 23, 2020, 12:20 PM

153 points

77 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Personal experience of coffee as nootropic

ryan wongJun 23, 2020, 12:00 PM

21 points

16 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott

Rudi CJun 23, 2020, 7:51 AM

89 points

48 votes

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93 comments1 min readLW link

Slate Star Codex Deleted

Jeremy_NixonJun 23, 2020, 7:21 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction = Compression [Transcript]

alkjash and Ben Pace

Jun 22, 2020, 11:54 PM

70 points

23 votes

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13 comments8 min readLW link

Locality of goals

adamShimiJun 22, 2020, 9:56 PM

16 points

7 votes

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8 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Question on GPT-3 Excel Demo

Zhitao HouJun 22, 2020, 8:31 PM

0 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

News ⊂ Advertising

lsusrJun 22, 2020, 7:19 PM

40 points

37 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

The Indexing Problem

johnswentworthJun 22, 2020, 7:11 PM

36 points

8 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

AI Benefits Post 1: Introducing “AI Benefits”

CullenJun 22, 2020, 4:59 PM

11 points

7 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

The Queen of the Damned

SlimepriestessJun 22, 2020, 4:50 AM

4 points

1 vote

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory

HazardJun 22, 2020, 4:19 AM

31 points

13 votes

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9 comments8 min readLW link

Fight the Power

Jacob FalkovichJun 22, 2020, 2:19 AM

23 points

12 votes

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3 comments7 min readLW link

Do Women Like Assholes?

Jacob FalkovichJun 22, 2020, 2:14 AM

30 points

23 votes

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10 comments17 min readLW link

You have become the supreme dictator of the United States.

NyarlathotepJun 22, 2020, 1:45 AM

−11 points

0 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Plausible cases for HRAD work, and locating the crux in the “realism about rationality” debate

riceissaJun 22, 2020, 1:10 AM

85 points

28 votes

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15 comments10 min readLW link

Training our humans on the wrong dataset

George3d6Jun 21, 2020, 5:17 PM

4 points

3 votes

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5 comments8 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

The Bright Side of rationalization

Alexey SmirnovJun 21, 2020, 4:30 PM

0 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are Humans Fundamentally Good?

NyarlathotepJun 21, 2020, 4:29 PM

1 point

4 votes

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24 comments1 min readLW link

My weekly review habit

benkuhnJun 21, 2020, 2:40 PM

71 points

27 votes

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7 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

The affect heuristic and studying autocracies

Tim LiptrotJun 21, 2020, 4:07 AM

13 points

6 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

How to make a predicted AI alignment event/meeting calendar

rmoehnJun 20, 2020, 10:43 PM

6 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Insights Over Frameworks

lifelonglearnerJun 20, 2020, 7:52 PM

14 points

6 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

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