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Abstractions on Inconsistent Data

eapacheJun 29, 2020, 12:30 AM

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Gödel’s Legacy: A game without end

HazardJun 28, 2020, 6:50 PM

45 points

11 comments12 min readLW link

Gary Marcus vs Cortical Uniformity

Steven ByrnesJun 28, 2020, 6:18 PM

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Self-sacrifice is a scarce resource

mingyuanJun 28, 2020, 5:08 AM

129 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

A reply to Agnes Callard

VaniverJun 28, 2020, 3:25 AM

91 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t Make Your Problems Hide

orthonormalJun 27, 2020, 8:24 PM

61 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Mediators of History

johnswentworthJun 27, 2020, 7:55 PM

25 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Five Ways To Prioritize Better

lynettebyeJun 27, 2020, 6:40 PM

136 points

7 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Have general decomposers been formalized?

QuinnJun 27, 2020, 6:09 PM

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are all these domains called from Less Wrong?

ViliamJun 27, 2020, 1:46 PM

26 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Life at Three Tails of the Bell Curve

lsusrJun 27, 2020, 8:49 AM

67 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Map Errors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory

orthonormalJun 27, 2020, 5:22 AM

29 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Negotiating With Yourself

orthonormalJun 26, 2020, 11:55 PM

28 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

AI safety via market making

evhubJun 26, 2020, 11:07 PM

72 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Public Positions and Private Guts

Vaniver and Bird Concept

Jun 26, 2020, 11:00 PM

22 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Radical Probabilism [Transcript]

abramdemski and Ben Pace

Jun 26, 2020, 10:14 PM

48 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Missing dog reasoning

eukaryote and Bird Concept

Jun 26, 2020, 9:30 PM

27 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Atemporal Ethical Obligations

eapacheJun 26, 2020, 7:52 PM

13 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Sunday June 28 – talks by johnswentworth, Daniel kokotajlo, Charlie Steiner, TurnTrout

Bird Concept and Ben Pace

Jun 26, 2020, 7:13 PM

28 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Black Death at the Golden Gate (book review)

PeterMcCluskeyJun 26, 2020, 4:09 PM

17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Institutional Senescence

Martin SustrikJun 26, 2020, 4:40 AM

27 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Industry and workers

smaslennikovJun 25, 2020, 8:03 PM

−3 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(smaslennikov.com)

Covid 6/25: The Dam Breaks

ZviJun 25, 2020, 6:30 PM

116 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An agile approach to pre-research

DirectedEvolutionJun 25, 2020, 6:29 PM

15 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem

DavidmanheimJun 25, 2020, 6:10 PM

163 points

41 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

GPT-3 Fiction Samples

gwernJun 25, 2020, 4:12 PM

63 points

15 comments LW 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

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

32 comments1 min readLW link

(DontDoxScottAlexander.com)

Preview On Hover

jefftkJun 24, 2020, 10:20 PM

20 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Don’t punish yourself for bad luck

SherrinfordJun 24, 2020, 9:52 PM

16 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Betting with Mandatory Post-Mortem

abramdemskiJun 24, 2020, 8:04 PM

105 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Quick Look #1 Diophantus of Alexandria

SebastianG Jun 24, 2020, 7:12 PM

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

eapacheJun 24, 2020, 6:42 PM

11 points

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

3 comments1 min readLW link

Abstraction, Evolution and Gears

johnswentworthJun 24, 2020, 5:39 PM

29 points

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

3 comments11 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Linkpost: M21 Review: We Have Normality

ZviJun 24, 2020, 4:10 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Models, myths, dreams, and Cheshire cat grins

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 24, 2020, 10:50 AM

21 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does NYT have policies?

Douglas_KnightJun 24, 2020, 4:06 AM

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Dark Miracle of Optics

Suspended ReasonJun 24, 2020, 3:09 AM

27 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Half-Baked Products and Idea Kernels

LironJun 24, 2020, 1:00 AM

64 points

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 comments LW link

[Question] How do you Murphyjitsu essentially risky activities?

9eB1Jun 23, 2020, 9:09 PM

12 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is “Instrumental Corrigibility”?

joebernsteinJun 23, 2020, 8:24 PM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Modelling Continuous Progress

Sammy Martin23 Jun 2020 18:06 UTC

30 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

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

rvnnt23 Jun 2020 17:03 UTC

7 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship

Donald Hobson23 Jun 2020 14:12 UTC

36 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Old-world Politics Fallacy

Rudi C23 Jun 2020 12:32 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Zvi23 Jun 2020 12:20 UTC

153 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Personal experience of coffee as nootropic

ryan wong23 Jun 2020 12:00 UTC

21 points

6 comments2 min readLW link