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Announcing: Progress Studies Reading Group.

Sami_beanzAug 30, 2020, 10:39 AM

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microCOVID.org: A tool to estimate COVID risk from common activities

catherioAug 29, 2020, 11:01 PM

176 points

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[Question] Thoughts on Neuralink update?

NoUsernameSelectedAug 29, 2020, 10:59 PM

14 points

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Pong from pixels without reading “Pong from Pixels”

Ian McKenzieAug 29, 2020, 5:26 PM

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Meaningful Rest

Neel NandaAug 29, 2020, 3:50 PM

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Safe Scrambling?

HoagyAug 29, 2020, 2:31 PM

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Spoiler-Free Review: Death and Taxes

ZviAug 29, 2020, 1:10 PM

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Please take a survey on the quality/impact of things I’ve written

MichaelAAug 29, 2020, 10:39 AM

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Updates and additions to “Embedded Agency”

Rob Bensinger and abramdemski

Aug 29, 2020, 4:22 AM

82 points

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Objective Dog Ratings: The Irish Wolfhound

CallmesalticidaeAug 29, 2020, 4:01 AM

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Objective Dog Ratings: An Introduction & Explanation

CallmesalticidaeAug 29, 2020, 3:54 AM

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The Case for Human Genetic Engineering

GeneSmithAug 28, 2020, 10:21 PM

51 points

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My guide to lifelogging

Matthew BarnettAug 28, 2020, 9:34 PM

28 points

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How to teach things well

Neel NandaAug 28, 2020, 4:44 PM

112 points

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[Question] How hard would it be to change GPT-3 in a way that allows audio?

ChristianKlAug 28, 2020, 2:42 PM

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Zibbaldone With It All

RandominiAug 28, 2020, 11:37 AM

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Cambridge Virtual LW/SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseAug 28, 2020, 2:45 AM

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“On Bullshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

CallmesalticidaeAug 28, 2020, 12:44 AM

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Preface to the sequence on economic growth

Matthew BarnettAug 27, 2020, 8:29 PM

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Notes on “The Anthropology of Childhood”

juliawiseAug 27, 2020, 5:11 PM

187 points

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10 comments45 min readLW link

Covid 8/27: The Fall of the CDC

ZviAug 27, 2020, 2:10 PM

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16 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Technical model refinement formalism

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2020, 11:54 AM

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Model splintering: moving from one imperfect model to another

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2020, 11:53 AM

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10 comments33 min readLW link

Are We Right about How Effective Mockery Is?

Ronny FernandezAug 27, 2020, 10:48 AM

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12 comments9 min readLW link

Basic Inframeasure Theory

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 8:02 AM

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20 comments29 min readLW link

Belief Functions And Decision Theory

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 8:00 AM

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Proofs Section 1.1 (Initial results to LF-duality)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:59 AM

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Proofs Section 1.2 (Mixtures, Updates, Pushforwards)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:57 AM

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0 comments14 min readLW link

Proofs Section 2.1 (Theorem 1, Lemmas)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:54 AM

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0 comments36 min readLW link

Proofs Section 2.2 (Isomorphism to Expectations)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:52 AM

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0 comments46 min readLW link

Proofs Section 2.3 (Updates, Decision Theory)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:49 AM

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0 comments31 min readLW link

19th-century progress studies

jasoncrawfordAug 27, 2020, 2:28 AM

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What is the interpretation of the do() operator?

BunthutAug 26, 2020, 9:54 PM

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Introduction To The Infra-Bayesianism Sequence

Diffractor and Vanessa Kosoy

Aug 26, 2020, 8:31 PM

111 points

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62 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

WebBundles and URL Randomization

jefftkAug 26, 2020, 5:50 PM

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[AN #114]: Theory-inspired safety solutions for powerful Bayesian RL agents

Rohin ShahAug 26, 2020, 5:20 PM

21 points

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3 comments8 min readLW link

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Excusing a Failure to Adjust

Ronny FernandezAug 26, 2020, 1:51 PM

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nostalgebraist: Recursive Goodhart’s Law

Kaj_SotalaAug 26, 2020, 11:07 AM

53 points

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27 comments1 min readLW link

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On Suddenly Not Being Able to Work

Jacob FalkovichAug 25, 2020, 10:14 PM

35 points

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11 comments4 min readLW link

I Started a Sports and Gambling Substack

ZviAug 25, 2020, 9:30 PM

17 points

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A Refutation of (Global) “Happiness Maximization”

fareAug 25, 2020, 8:33 PM

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5 comments15 min readLW link

Sunday, 20/8/30, 12pm PDT – Tagging Celebration: Habryka/Crawford + Party

RubyAug 25, 2020, 8:21 PM

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Mathematical Inconsistency in Solomonoff Induction?

curiAug 25, 2020, 5:09 PM

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The Best Toy In The Park

jefftkAug 25, 2020, 2:30 PM

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[Question] Why hasn’t there been research on the effectiveness of zinc for Covid-19?

Rudi CAug 24, 2020, 8:58 PM

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Socially-distanced outdoor Petrov Day ceremonial manual

jchanAug 24, 2020, 2:11 PM

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When can Fiction Change the World?

Timothy UnderwoodAug 24, 2020, 1:47 PM

79 points

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18 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Do you vote based on what you think total karma should be?

Rafael HarthAug 24, 2020, 1:37 PM

44 points

17 votes

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[Question] Is ‘satificing’ optimisation?

Riccardo VolpatoAug 24, 2020, 11:51 AM

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Learning human preferences: black-box, white-box, and structured white-box access

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2020, 11:42 AM

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