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Short (2.5 min) intro to Effective Altruism for busy people

dominicqJul 6, 2020, 7:53 PM

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[Question] What are your thoughts on rational wiki

snog toddgrassJul 6, 2020, 7:10 PM

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AI Benefits Post 3: Direct and Indirect Approaches to AI Benefits

CullenJul 6, 2020, 6:48 PM

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[Question] (answered: yes) Has anyone written up a consideration of Downs’s “Paradox of Voting” from the perspective of MIRI-ish decision theories (UDT, FDT, or even just EDT)?

Jameson QuinnJul 6, 2020, 6:26 PM

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Quantifying Household Transmission of COVID-19

Owain_EvansJul 6, 2020, 11:19 AM

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What should we do about network-effect monopolies?

benkuhnJul 6, 2020, 12:40 AM

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(www.benkuhn.net)

The Echo Fallacy

Mati_RoyJul 5, 2020, 11:00 PM

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Better priors as a safety problem

paulfchristianoJul 5, 2020, 9:20 PM

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7 comments5 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Learning the prior

paulfchristianoJul 5, 2020, 9:00 PM

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28 comments8 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

[Question] How far is AGI?

Roko JelavićJul 5, 2020, 5:58 PM

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[Question] How do you visualize the Poisson PDF?

Rudi CJul 5, 2020, 3:54 PM

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July 5: Anders Sandberg on Information Hazards (SSC Online Meetup)

JoshuaFoxJul 5, 2020, 8:46 AM

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[Question] Could Nixon going to China be a cause for the big stagnation?

ChristianKlJul 5, 2020, 6:58 AM

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[Question] How to Get Off the Hedonic Treadmill?

simbadJul 5, 2020, 5:23 AM

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Spoiler-Free Review: Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (plus a Spoilerific section)

ZviJul 4, 2020, 11:10 PM

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Classifying games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma

philhJul 4, 2020, 5:10 PM

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(reasonableapproximation.net)

Causality and its harms

George3d6Jul 4, 2020, 2:42 PM

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(blog.cerebralab.com)

Tradeoff between desirable properties for baseline choices in impact measures

VikaJul 4, 2020, 11:56 AM

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AI-Feynman as a benchmark for what we should be aiming for

Faustus2Jul 4, 2020, 9:24 AM

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[Question] Replicated cognitive bias list?

moderockJul 4, 2020, 4:15 AM

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Let There be Sound: A Fristonian Meditation on Creativity

jollybardJul 4, 2020, 3:33 AM

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(jollybard.wordpress.com)

The silence is deafening – Devon Zuegel

Ben PaceJul 4, 2020, 2:30 AM

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(devonzuegel.com)

Site Redesign Feedback Requested

RaemonJul 3, 2020, 10:28 PM

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AI Unsafety via Non-Zero-Sum Debate

VojtaKovarikJul 3, 2020, 10:03 PM

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[Question] If someone you loved was experiencing unremitting suffering (related to a constellation of multi-dimensional factors and processes, those of which include anomalous states of consciousness and an iatrogenic mental health system), what would you think and what would you do?

Sara CJul 3, 2020, 9:02 PM

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[Crowdfunding] LessWrong podcast

Mati_RoyJul 3, 2020, 8:59 PM

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High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now

johnswentworthJul 3, 2020, 8:16 PM

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Splitting Debate up into Two Subsystems

NandiJul 3, 2020, 8:11 PM

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Research ideas to study humans with AI Safety in mind

Riccardo VolpatoJul 3, 2020, 4:01 PM

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Poly Domestic Partnerships

jefftkJul 3, 2020, 2:10 PM

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The Book of HPMOR Fanfics

Mati_RoyJul 3, 2020, 1:32 PM

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Open & Welcome Thread—July 2020

habrykaJul 2, 2020, 10:41 PM

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The allegory of the hospital

Sunny from QADJul 2, 2020, 9:46 PM

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(questionsanddaylight.com)

Covid 7/2: It Could Be Worse

ZviJul 2, 2020, 8:20 PM

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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to decide to get a nosejob or not?

snog toddgrassJul 2, 2020, 5:54 PM

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Goals and short descriptions

Michele CampoloJul 2, 2020, 5:41 PM

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[Question] Does the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (self-)identify as an EA-aligned organization?

Evan_GaensbauerJul 2, 2020, 5:38 PM

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June 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwernJul 2, 2020, 2:19 PM

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(www.gwern.net)

The “AI Debate” Debate

michaelcohenJul 2, 2020, 10:16 AM

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Cambridge Virtual LW/SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 2, 2020, 3:45 AM

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Noise on the Channel

abramdemskiJul 2, 2020, 1:58 AM

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[Question] Non offensive word for people who are not single-magisterium-Bayes thinkers

Tim LiptrotJul 1, 2020, 10:33 PM

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Second Wave Covid Deaths?

jefftkJul 1, 2020, 8:40 PM

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[Question] Harry Potter and methods of rationality alternative ending.

Klen SalubriJul 1, 2020, 6:51 PM

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[Question] What’s the most easy, fast, efficient way to create and maintain a personal Blog?

Ferdinand CachoeiraJul 1, 2020, 6:51 PM

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Second-Order Existential Risk

IdeopunkJul 1, 2020, 6:46 PM

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How to Find Sources in an Unreliable World

ElizabethJul 1, 2020, 6:30 PM

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(acesounderglass.com)

Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

Palus AstraJul 1, 2020, 5:30 PM

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[AN #106]: Evaluating generalization ability of learned reward models

Rohin ShahJul 1, 2020, 5:20 PM

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(mailchi.mp)

PSA: Cars don’t have ‘blindspots’

romeostevensitJul 1, 2020, 5:04 PM

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