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Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

BunthutAug 8, 2020, 10:14 PM
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The Fu­sion Power Gen­er­a­tor Scenario

johnswentworthAug 8, 2020, 6:31 PM
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Eval­u­at­ing Opus

jefftkAug 8, 2020, 4:40 PM
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[Question] How much is known about the “in­fer­ence rules” of log­i­cal in­duc­tion?

Eigil RischelAug 8, 2020, 10:45 AM
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The Man­ual Economy

eapacheAug 7, 2020, 10:29 PM
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[Question] Is Wire­cut­ter still good?

Ben PaceAug 7, 2020, 9:54 PM
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Are Amer­i­cans Be­com­ing More De­pressed?

caleboAug 7, 2020, 3:57 PM
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[Question] I’m look­ing for re­search look­ing at the in­fluence of fic­tion on chang­ing elite/​pub­lic be­hav­iors and opinions

Timothy UnderwoodAug 7, 2020, 1:49 PM
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[Question] What are some low-in­for­ma­tion pri­ors that you find prac­ti­cally use­ful for think­ing about the world?

LinchAug 7, 2020, 4:37 AM
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Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armaturesAug 6, 2020, 11:58 PM
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[Question] Why is ag­ing re­search our pri­mary at­tempt at im­mor­tal­ity?

sd1Aug 6, 2020, 11:47 PM
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Sun­day Au­gust 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by eli­tyre, ja­cob­ja­cob, Ruby

Bird Concept and Ben Pace
Aug 6, 2020, 10:50 PM
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An­a­lyz­ing the Prob­lem GPT-3 is Try­ing to Solve

adamShimiAug 6, 2020, 9:58 PM
16 points

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Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curiAug 6, 2020, 9:46 PM
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Covid 8/​6: The Case of the Miss­ing Data

ZviAug 6, 2020, 9:40 PM
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Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Para­doxes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

scasperAug 6, 2020, 7:47 PM
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Mar­ket norms and So­cial norms

TruetoThisAug 6, 2020, 6:27 PM
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[Question] How do you or­ganise your read­ing?

brookAug 6, 2020, 2:54 PM
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Open & Wel­come Thread—Au­gust 2020

habrykaAug 6, 2020, 6:16 AM
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Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Don’t Know Mind

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 6, 2020, 4:33 AM
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The Iso­la­tion As­sump­tion of Ex­pected Utility Maximization

Pedro OliboniAug 6, 2020, 4:05 AM
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[Question] Ti­tan (the Wealth­front of ac­tive stock pick­ing) - What’s the catch?

LironAug 6, 2020, 1:06 AM
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[Question] What should an Ein­stein-like figure in Ma­chine Learn­ing do?

RaziedAug 5, 2020, 11:52 PM
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Di­a­gram­ming “Re­plac­ing Guilt,” Part 1

armaturesAug 5, 2020, 11:36 PM
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Mea­sur­ing hard­ware overhang

hippkeAug 5, 2020, 7:59 PM
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[Question] Which COVID-19 serol­ogy (an­ti­body) test is best?

kniteAug 5, 2020, 6:54 PM
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[AN #111]: The Cir­cuits hy­pothe­ses for deep learning

Rohin ShahAug 5, 2020, 5:40 PM
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[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

curiAug 5, 2020, 8:50 AM
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Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhnAug 5, 2020, 2:10 AM
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The Golden Age of Data

CollisteruAug 4, 2020, 9:35 PM
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My pa­per was sig­nal­ling the whole time—Robin Han­son wins again

Tim LiptrotAug 4, 2020, 9:13 PM
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Bos­ton/​Cam­bridge LW Han­gout, Sun­day 8/​16/​20

ItsGiustoAug 4, 2020, 8:43 PM
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In­finite Data/​Com­pute Ar­gu­ments in Alignment

johnswentworthAug 4, 2020, 8:21 PM
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Prop­erty as Co­or­di­na­tion Minimization

VaniverAug 4, 2020, 7:24 PM
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In­ter­pretabil­ity in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearnerAug 4, 2020, 7:03 PM
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Bu­dapest Meetup on Mar­git Sziget

Timothy UnderwoodAug 4, 2020, 12:29 PM
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RT-LAMP is the right way to scale di­ag­nos­tic test­ing for the coronavirus

KevinAug 4, 2020, 10:05 AM
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A sketch of ‘Si­mu­lacra Levels and their In­ter­ac­tions’

Yoav RavidAug 4, 2020, 9:13 AM
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What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

PhilosophistryAug 4, 2020, 6:48 AM
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[Question] RFC: COVID-19 Statis­ti­cal Guilt

ErhannisAug 4, 2020, 6:46 AM
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(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

filozof3377@gmial.comAug 3, 2020, 8:57 PM
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is gpt-3 few-shot ready for real ap­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraistAug 3, 2020, 7:50 PM
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Solv­ing Key Align­ment Prob­lems Group

Logan RiggsAug 3, 2020, 7:30 PM
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Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplavAug 3, 2020, 5:30 PM
46 points

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Three men­tal images from think­ing about AGI de­bate & corrigibility

Steven ByrnesAug 3, 2020, 2:29 PM
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Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

ZviAug 3, 2020, 12:10 PM
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[Question] What are ex­am­ples of ‘sci­en­tific’ stud­ies that con­tra­dict what you be­lieve about your­self?

Mati_RoyAug 3, 2020, 6:11 AM
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[Question] What are the most im­por­tant pa­pers/​post/​re­sources to read to un­der­stand more of GPT-3?

adamShimiAug 2, 2020, 8:53 PM
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Ir­ra­tional Re­sis­tance to Busi­ness Success

curiAug 2, 2020, 7:15 PM
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[Question] Why isn’t there a LessWrong App? Is a “blog-app” sus­tain­able/​use­ful for a com­mu­nity?

Osson4Aug 2, 2020, 5:47 PM
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