The Box Spread Trick: Get rich slightly faster

Thomas Kwa1 Sep 2020 21:41 UTC
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Au­gust 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Sep 2020 21:04 UTC
25 points
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(www.gwern.net)

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter Sum­mer 2020

avturchin1 Sep 2020 14:06 UTC
22 points
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An­thropic Rea­son­ing and Per­spec­tive-Based Ar­gu­ments

dadadarren1 Sep 2020 12:36 UTC
28 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Au­gust 2020.

NunoSempere1 Sep 2020 11:38 UTC
16 points
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SlateS­tarCodex On­line Meetup: Con­nor Leahy on GPT-N

JoshuaFox1 Sep 2020 6:49 UTC
12 points
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[Question] Why is Bayesi­anism im­por­tant for ra­tio­nal­ity?

Chris_Leong1 Sep 2020 4:24 UTC
37 points
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Reflec­tions on AI Timelines Fore­cast­ing Thread

Amandango1 Sep 2020 1:42 UTC
53 points
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On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Weekend

Linda Linsefors31 Aug 2020 23:35 UTC
19 points
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A Policy for Bit­ing Bullets

eapache31 Aug 2020 21:00 UTC
6 points
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Helping peo­ple to solve their problems

Neel Nanda31 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
18 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

(Hu­mor) AI Align­ment Crit­i­cal Failure Table

Kaj_Sotala31 Aug 2020 19:51 UTC
24 points
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(sl4.org)

[Question] Plans /​ prep­ping for pos­si­ble poli­ti­cal vi­o­lence from up­com­ing US elec­tion?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
18 points
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Vir­tual Ra­tion­al­ity Congress 2020

Sophie Strobl31 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
1 point
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From GPT to AGI

ChristianKl31 Aug 2020 13:28 UTC
6 points
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Alarmism

Basil Marte31 Aug 2020 12:53 UTC
−5 points
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in­ter­pret­ing GPT: the logit lens

nostalgebraist31 Aug 2020 2:47 UTC
204 points
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An­nounc­ing: Progress Stud­ies Read­ing Group.

Sami_beanz30 Aug 2020 10:39 UTC
6 points
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microCOVID.org: A tool to es­ti­mate COVID risk from com­mon activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
169 points
36 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(microcovid.org)

[Question] Thoughts on Neu­ral­ink up­date?

NoUsernameSelected29 Aug 2020 22:59 UTC
14 points
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Pong from pix­els with­out read­ing “Pong from Pix­els”

Ian McKenzie29 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
17 points
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Mean­ingful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
70 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Safe Scram­bling?

Hoagy29 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC
3 points
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Spoiler-Free Re­view: Death and Taxes

Zvi29 Aug 2020 13:10 UTC
8 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

MichaelA29 Aug 2020 10:39 UTC
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Up­dates and ad­di­tions to “Embed­ded Agency”

29 Aug 2020 4:22 UTC
82 points
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Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: The Ir­ish Wolfhound

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC
1 point
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Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: An In­tro­duc­tion & Explanation

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 3:54 UTC
20 points
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The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC
50 points
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My guide to lifelogging

Matthew Barnett28 Aug 2020 21:34 UTC
28 points
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How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
106 points
16 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

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

ChristianKl28 Aug 2020 14:42 UTC
9 points
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Zib­bal­done With It All

Randomini28 Aug 2020 11:37 UTC
24 points
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[Question] Is there a pos­si­bil­ity of be­ing sub­jected to eter­nal tor­ture by aliens?

onevoyager28 Aug 2020 5:37 UTC
1 point
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Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise28 Aug 2020 2:45 UTC
6 points
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“On Bul­lshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC
20 points
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Pre­face to the se­quence on eco­nomic growth

Matthew Barnett27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC
51 points
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Notes on “The An­thro­pol­ogy of Child­hood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC
183 points
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Covid 8/​27: The Fall of the CDC

Zvi27 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
85 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tech­ni­cal model re­fine­ment formalism

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:54 UTC
19 points
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Model splin­ter­ing: mov­ing from one im­perfect model to another

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC
79 points
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Are We Right about How Effec­tive Mock­ery Is?

Ronny Fernandez27 Aug 2020 10:48 UTC
44 points
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Ba­sic In­framea­sure Theory

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 8:02 UTC
36 points
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Belief Func­tions And De­ci­sion Theory

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 8:00 UTC
17 points
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Proofs Sec­tion 1.1 (Ini­tial re­sults to LF-du­al­ity)

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 7:59 UTC
8 points
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Proofs Sec­tion 1.2 (Mix­tures, Up­dates, Push­for­wards)

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 7:57 UTC
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Proofs Sec­tion 2.1 (The­o­rem 1, Lem­mas)

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 7:54 UTC
8 points
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Proofs Sec­tion 2.2 (Iso­mor­phism to Ex­pec­ta­tions)

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 7:52 UTC
8 points
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Proofs Sec­tion 2.3 (Up­dates, De­ci­sion The­ory)

Diffractor27 Aug 2020 7:49 UTC
8 points
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19th-cen­tury progress studies

jasoncrawford27 Aug 2020 2:28 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)