The Man­ual Economy

eapache7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Is Wire­cut­ter still good?

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC
45 points
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Are Amer­i­cans Be­com­ing More De­pressed?

calebo7 Aug 2020 15:57 UTC
26 points
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[Question] I’m look­ing for re­search look­ing at the in­fluence of fic­tion on chang­ing elite/​pub­lic be­hav­iors and opinions

Timothy Underwood7 Aug 2020 13:49 UTC
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[Question] What are some low-in­for­ma­tion pri­ors that you find prac­ti­cally use­ful for think­ing about the world?

Linch7 Aug 2020 4:37 UTC
27 points
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The Quan­ti­ta­tive Rea­son­ing Deficit

proshowersinger7 Aug 2020 3:05 UTC
10 points
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Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC
11 points
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[Question] Why is ag­ing re­search our pri­mary at­tempt at im­mor­tal­ity?

sd16 Aug 2020 23:47 UTC
1 point
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Sun­day Au­gust 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by eli­tyre, ja­cob­ja­cob, Ruby

6 Aug 2020 22:50 UTC
31 points
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An­a­lyz­ing the Prob­lem GPT-3 is Try­ing to Solve

adamShimi6 Aug 2020 21:58 UTC
16 points
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Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
7 points
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Covid 8/​6: The Case of the Miss­ing Data

Zvi6 Aug 2020 21:40 UTC
43 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Para­doxes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

scasper6 Aug 2020 19:47 UTC
21 points
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Mar­ket norms and So­cial norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
3 points
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[Question] How do you or­ganise your read­ing?

brook6 Aug 2020 14:54 UTC
20 points
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Open & Wel­come Thread—Au­gust 2020

habryka6 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
13 points
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Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Don’t Know Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Aug 2020 4:33 UTC
25 points
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The Iso­la­tion As­sump­tion of Ex­pected Utility Maximization

Pedro Oliboni6 Aug 2020 4:05 UTC
7 points
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[Question] Ti­tan (the Wealth­front of ac­tive stock pick­ing) - What’s the catch?

Liron6 Aug 2020 1:06 UTC
10 points
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[Question] What should an Ein­stein-like figure in Ma­chine Learn­ing do?

Razied5 Aug 2020 23:52 UTC
7 points
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Di­a­gram­ming “Re­plac­ing Guilt,” Part 1

armatures5 Aug 2020 23:36 UTC
34 points
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Mea­sur­ing hard­ware overhang

hippke5 Aug 2020 19:59 UTC
113 points
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[Question] Which COVID-19 serol­ogy (an­ti­body) test is best?

knite5 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC
5 points
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[AN #111]: The Cir­cuits hy­pothe­ses for deep learning

Rohin Shah5 Aug 2020 17:40 UTC
23 points
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(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC
8 points
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Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC
128 points
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(www.benkuhn.net)

The Golden Age of Data

Collisteru4 Aug 2020 21:35 UTC
5 points
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My pa­per was sig­nal­ling the whole time—Robin Han­son wins again

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC
49 points
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Bos­ton/​Cam­bridge LW Han­gout, Sun­day 8/​16/​20

ItsGiusto4 Aug 2020 20:43 UTC
1 point
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In­finite Data/​Com­pute Ar­gu­ments in Alignment

johnswentworth4 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC
50 points
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Prop­erty as Co­or­di­na­tion Minimization

Vaniver4 Aug 2020 19:24 UTC
38 points
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In­ter­pretabil­ity in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearner4 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC
53 points
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Bu­dapest Meetup on Mar­git Sziget

Timothy Underwood4 Aug 2020 12:29 UTC
2 points
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RT-LAMP is the right way to scale di­ag­nos­tic test­ing for the coronavirus

Kevin4 Aug 2020 10:05 UTC
35 points
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A sketch of ‘Si­mu­lacra Levels and their In­ter­ac­tions’

Yoav Ravid4 Aug 2020 9:13 UTC
44 points
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What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

Philosophistry4 Aug 2020 6:48 UTC
13 points
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[Question] RFC: COVID-19 Statis­ti­cal Guilt

Erhannis4 Aug 2020 6:46 UTC
3 points
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(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

filozof3377@gmial.com3 Aug 2020 20:57 UTC
3 points
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is gpt-3 few-shot ready for real ap­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraist3 Aug 2020 19:50 UTC
31 points
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(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Solv­ing Key Align­ment Prob­lems Group

Logan Riggs3 Aug 2020 19:30 UTC
19 points
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Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
46 points
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Three men­tal images from think­ing about AGI de­bate & corrigibility

Steven Byrnes3 Aug 2020 14:29 UTC
55 points
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Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

Zvi3 Aug 2020 12:10 UTC
84 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of ‘sci­en­tific’ stud­ies that con­tra­dict what you be­lieve about your­self?

Mati_Roy3 Aug 2020 6:11 UTC
12 points
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[Question] What are the most im­por­tant pa­pers/​post/​re­sources to read to un­der­stand more of GPT-3?

adamShimi2 Aug 2020 20:53 UTC
22 points
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Ir­ra­tional Re­sis­tance to Busi­ness Success

curi2 Aug 2020 19:15 UTC
3 points
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[Question] Why isn’t there a LessWrong App? Is a “blog-app” sus­tain­able/​use­ful for a com­mu­nity?

Osson42 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC
8 points
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Burley Bee kids bike trailer review

jefftk2 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC
11 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Eng­ineer­ing Ex­pe­rience Through Score

ZorbaTHut2 Aug 2020 12:09 UTC
25 points
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When Gears Go Wrong

Matt Goldenberg2 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
28 points
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