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[Question]
How far along are you on the Lesswrong Path?
AiresJL
Jul 9, 2020, 9:41 PM
10
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Taking the first step
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:33 AM
10
points
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Nicotinamide riboside vs. SARS-coV-2 update
William Walker
Jul 8, 2020, 7:50 PM
10
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the current state of knowledge around COVID-19 at-home remedies?
Dorikka
Jul 12, 2020, 10:50 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (self-)identify as an EA-aligned organization?
Evan_Gaensbauer
Jul 2, 2020, 5:38 PM
10
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Musical Outgroups
eapache
Jul 19, 2020, 10:55 PM
9
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are your thoughts on rational wiki
snog toddgrass
Jul 6, 2020, 7:10 PM
9
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Something about the Pinker Cancellation seems Suspicious
Virgil Kurkjian
Jul 8, 2020, 6:08 PM
9
points
34
comments
5
min read
LW
link
July 5: Anders Sandberg on Information Hazards (SSC Online Meetup)
JoshuaFox
Jul 5, 2020, 8:46 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Forum Assisted Discussion
Dan B
Jul 19, 2020, 10:38 PM
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Curse of Cursory Idealism
Noah Blaff
Jul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
9
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would a halfway copied brain emulation be at risk of having different values/identity?
Ghatanathoah
Jul 30, 2020, 5:43 AM
9
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Antitrust-Compliant AI Industry Self-Regulation
Cullen
Jul 7, 2020, 8:53 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(cullenokeefe.com)
Cost/Benefit analysis of School Closures in the US
anna.becca.g@gmail.com
Jul 10, 2020, 11:35 PM
9
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Crowdfunding] LessWrong podcast
Mati_Roy
Jul 3, 2020, 8:59 PM
9
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Preprint] The Computational Limits of Deep Learning
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jul 21, 2020, 9:25 PM
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
AI and Efficiency
DragonGod
Jul 27, 2020, 8:58 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Gödel Incompleteness: For Dummies
jollybard
Jul 12, 2020, 9:13 AM
9
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI Benefits Post 3: Direct and Indirect Approaches to AI Benefits
Cullen
Jul 6, 2020, 6:48 PM
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Canonical forms
sen
Jul 11, 2020, 6:53 PM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fimfiction.net)
A community-curated repository of interesting GPT-3 stuff
Rudi C
Jul 28, 2020, 2:16 PM
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
(github.com)
AI-Feynman as a benchmark for what we should be aiming for
Faustus2
Jul 4, 2020, 9:24 AM
8
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
The Rise of Commonsense Reasoning
DragonGod
Jul 27, 2020, 7:01 PM
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Rationalist Reading Group (Online)
NoSignalNoNoise
Jul 30, 2020, 2:14 AM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How should I back up and redo, in a publicly-edited article?
Jameson Quinn
Jul 28, 2020, 7:07 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What should be the topic of my LW mini-talk this Sunday (July 18th)?
Jameson Quinn
Jul 16, 2020, 4:32 PM
7
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Conceited Folly of Certainty
Noah Blaff
Jul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
7
points
3
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Hierarchy of Evidence
B Jacobs
Jul 11, 2020, 12:54 PM
7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can an agent use interactive proofs to check the alignment of succesors?
PabloAMC
Jul 17, 2020, 7:07 PM
7
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How far is AGI?
Roko Jelavić
Jul 5, 2020, 5:58 PM
6
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cambridge
Virtual LW/SSC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Jul 23, 2020, 3:25 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
PointlessOne
Jul 9, 2020, 7:20 PM
6
points
2
comments
LW
link
(www.newyorker.com)
Why associative operations?
Sunny from QAD
Jul 16, 2020, 12:36 PM
6
points
7
comments
LW
link
(questionsanddaylight.com)
Born as the seventh month dies …
Rudi C
Jul 10, 2020, 3:07 PM
6
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What it means to optimise
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:40 AM
6
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
A New Way to Visualize Biases
dtm
Jul 22, 2020, 5:57 PM
6
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cambridge
Virtual LW/SSC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Jul 2, 2020, 3:45 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Godel in second-order logic?
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Jul 26, 2020, 7:16 AM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Meta] anonymous merit or public status
[anonymous]
Jul 21, 2020, 6:01 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against Reopening Ottawa
eapache
Jul 18, 2020, 8:08 PM
6
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you visualize the Poisson PDF?
Rudi C
Jul 5, 2020, 3:54 PM
6
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Erving Goffman’s ‘paper’
Saffron
Jul 18, 2020, 1:12 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Rediscovery of Interiority in Machine Learning
DanB
Jul 21, 2020, 5:02 AM
5
points
4
comments
LW
link
(danburfoot.net)
[Question]
[Reference request] Can Love be Explained?
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Jul 7, 2020, 10:09 AM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
“Do Nothing” utility function, 3½ years later?
niplav
20 Jul 2020 11:09 UTC
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meaning is Quasi-Idempotent
Chris_Leong
24 Jul 2020 4:08 UTC
5
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The allegory of the hospital
Sunny from QAD
2 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC
5
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(questionsanddaylight.com)
Access to AI: a human right?
dmtea
25 Jul 2020 9:38 UTC
5
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When a status symbol loses its plausible deniability, how much power does it lose?
Mati_Roy
7 Jul 2020 0:48 UTC
5
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sporting vs. Herding: two styles of discourse
Suspended Reason
25 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
5
points
4
comments
9
min read
LW
link
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