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Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy
curi
Aug 6, 2020, 9:46 PM
7
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Mathematical Inconsistency in Solomonoff Induction?
curi
Aug 25, 2020, 5:09 PM
7
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How GPT-N will escape from its AI-box
hippke
Aug 12, 2020, 7:34 PM
7
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A trick for Safer GPT-N
Razied
Aug 23, 2020, 12:39 AM
7
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
The Isolation Assumption of Expected Utility Maximization
Pedro Oliboni
Aug 6, 2020, 4:05 AM
7
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
I’m looking for research looking at the influence of fiction on changing elite/public behaviors and opinions
Timothy Underwood
Aug 7, 2020, 1:49 PM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cambridge
Virtual LW/SSC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Aug 28, 2020, 2:45 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing: Progress Studies Reading Group.
Sami_beanz
Aug 30, 2020, 10:39 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tombstone Mentality
SuperDaveWhite
Aug 13, 2020, 1:46 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Towards a Formalisation of Logical Counterfactuals
Bunthut
Aug 8, 2020, 10:14 PM
6
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is ‘satificing’ optimisation?
Riccardo Volpato
Aug 24, 2020, 11:51 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Technology and the Future of Persons”, by Lynne Rudder Baker (2013)
Callmesalticidae
Aug 20, 2020, 2:31 PM
5
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
A way to beat superrational/EDT agents?
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Aug 17, 2020, 2:33 PM
5
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Golden Age of Data
Collisteru
Aug 4, 2020, 9:35 PM
5
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which COVID-19 serology (antibody) test is best?
knite
Aug 5, 2020, 6:54 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Era Of Unlimited Everything: Unlimited Materials & Unlimited Money
jdcampolargo
Aug 1, 2020, 3:01 AM
4
points
11
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Utility functions without a maximum
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Aug 11, 2020, 12:58 PM
3
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Market norms and Social norms
TruetoThis
Aug 6, 2020, 6:27 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
RFC: COVID-19 Statistical Guilt
Erhannis
Aug 4, 2020, 6:46 AM
3
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would AGIs parent young AGIs?
Vishrut Arya
Aug 2, 2020, 12:57 AM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Ant Farm
JimBaler
Aug 21, 2020, 11:25 PM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(Ir)rationality of Pascal’s wager
filozof3377@gmial.com
Aug 3, 2020, 8:57 PM
3
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Safe Scrambling?
Hoagy
Aug 29, 2020, 2:31 PM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which way should we update about uncertain events, over time?
Milton
Aug 19, 2020, 12:18 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Irrational Resistance to Business Success
curi
Aug 2, 2020, 7:15 PM
3
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s the evidence on falling testosteron and sperm counts in men?
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Aug 10, 2020, 8:58 AM
3
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Budapest Meetup on Margit Sziget
Timothy Underwood
Aug 4, 2020, 12:29 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
UK Predicted Grades
cwg1g16
Aug 10, 2020, 5:36 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can we expect more value from AI alignment than from an ASI with the goal of running alternate trajectories of our universe?
Maxime Riché
Aug 9, 2020, 5:17 PM
2
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How More Knowledge is Making Us Dumber
jdcampolargo
Aug 20, 2020, 3:08 PM
1
point
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Apology of (a form of) authoritarianism and inequality from an egalitarian
jyby
Aug 13, 2020, 9:54 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is aging research our primary attempt at immortality?
sd1
Aug 6, 2020, 11:47 PM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Talk and Q&A—Dan Hendrycks—Paper: Aligning AI With Shared Human Values. On Discord at Aug 28, 2020 8:00-10:00 AM GMT+8.
wassname
Aug 14, 2020, 11:57 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Principles Behind Bottlenecks
curi
Aug 1, 2020, 10:48 PM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Boston/Cambridge LW Hangout, Sunday 8/16/20
ItsGiusto
Aug 4, 2020, 8:43 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Objective Dog Ratings: The Irish Wolfhound
Callmesalticidae
Aug 29, 2020, 4:01 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Analyzing Blackmail Being Illegal (Hanson and Mowshowitz related)
curi
Aug 20, 2020, 6:56 PM
0
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
A Refutation of (Global) “Happiness Maximization”
fare
Aug 25, 2020, 8:33 PM
−1
points
5
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Imagine a World Where Governments Treated COVID-19 Properly
jdcampolargo
Aug 12, 2020, 10:52 PM
−2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Rationally Ending Discussions
curi
Aug 12, 2020, 8:34 PM
−7
points
27
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Partially Enlightened AMA
grumpyfreyr
Aug 16, 2020, 9:36 AM
−10
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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