In Wikipe­dia — read­ing about Roko’s basilisk caus­ing “ner­vous break­downs” …

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[Pro­posal] Method of lo­cat­ing use­ful sub­nets in large models

Quintin PopeOct 13, 2021, 8:52 PM
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Books Re­view: “Sapi­ens”, “Homo Deus” and “21 Les­sons For The 21st Cen­tury”, by Yu­val Noah Harari

Luca ParodiOct 13, 2021, 4:21 PM
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Notes from the book ‘First Three Minutes’ by Steven Weinberg

invertedpassionOct 13, 2021, 9:06 AM
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Choos­ing a meetup venue

mingyuanOct 13, 2021, 6:23 AM
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Meetup ad­vice se­quence intro

mingyuanOct 13, 2021, 6:21 AM
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Zoe Curzi’s Ex­pe­rience with Lev­er­age Research

Ilverin the Stupid and OffensiveOct 13, 2021, 4:44 AM
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Book Re­view: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Go­ing To Die So I’ll Never Go There

AnmoljainOct 13, 2021, 3:46 AM
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[linkpost] Fan­ta­sia for Two Voices

mike_hawkeOct 13, 2021, 2:55 AM
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Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_FlexmanOct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM
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Open Thread: What are you work­ing on? (Oc­to­ber)

Raj ThimmiahOct 13, 2021, 1:42 AM
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What’s your plan?

jefftkOct 13, 2021, 1:20 AM
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Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship

lsusrOct 12, 2021, 9:35 PM
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Model­ing Risks From Learned Optimization

Ben CottierOct 12, 2021, 8:54 PM
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Book Re­view: Philo­soph­i­cal In­ves­ti­ga­tions by Wittgenstein

Chris_LeongOct 12, 2021, 8:14 PM
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San Fran­cisco, CA – ACX Meetup

derekpankaewOct 12, 2021, 6:32 PM
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Book Re­view: Feel­ing Great by David Burns

FeiOct 12, 2021, 4:32 PM
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Quan­tify­ing Risk

devanshOct 12, 2021, 2:41 PM
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Build­ing Blocks of Poli­tics: An Overview of Selec­torate Theory

Yoav RavidOct 12, 2021, 11:27 AM
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Niacin as a treat­ment for covid? (Prob­a­bly no, but I’m glad we’re check­ing)

ElizabethOct 12, 2021, 5:40 AM
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EDT with up­dat­ing dou­ble counts

paulfchristianoOct 12, 2021, 4:40 AM
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my new short­sight reminder

mike_hawkeOct 11, 2021, 8:06 PM
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Am­man, Jor­dan – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

mingyuanOct 11, 2021, 8:03 PM
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Yet Another Covid Risk Calculator

Thomas ColthurstOct 11, 2021, 7:24 PM
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Book Re­view: Free Will

Ape in the coatOct 11, 2021, 6:41 PM
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NVIDIA and Microsoft re­leases 530B pa­ram­e­ter trans­former model, Me­ga­tron-Tur­ing NLG

OzyrusOct 11, 2021, 3:28 PM
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Detroit Third ACX Meetup

MattArnoldOct 11, 2021, 1:32 PM
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On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimiOct 11, 2021, 8:20 AM
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Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
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Out­door danc­ing is likely very safe

jefftkOct 11, 2021, 1:40 AM
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Book Re­view: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth

jkim2Oct 11, 2021, 1:07 AM
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[Question] Does any­one have an anki deck on age­ing /​ re­ju­ve­na­tion biotech­nol­ogy that they could share?

freedomandutilityOct 10, 2021, 4:54 PM
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Bu­dapest Less Wrong/​ SSC

Timothy UnderwoodOct 10, 2021, 4:14 PM
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Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristianoOct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM
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The eval­u­a­tion func­tion of an AI is not its aim

Yair HalberstadtOct 10, 2021, 2:52 PM
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Book Re­view: Open Borders

Sam EnrightOct 10, 2021, 12:27 PM
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Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin SpiegelOct 10, 2021, 5:19 AM
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The Ex­trap­o­la­tion Problem

lsusrOct 10, 2021, 5:11 AM
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The S&P 500 Will Drop Below 3029 Be­fore July 16 (65 per­cent con­fi­dence)

FCCCOct 10, 2021, 4:02 AM
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Bayeswatch 12: The Sin­gu­lar­ity War

lsusrOct 10, 2021, 1:04 AM
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De­bug­ging Writer’s Block

mattoOct 9, 2021, 7:04 PM
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Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy MartinOct 9, 2021, 7:01 PM
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ACX At­lanta Meetup Oct 23rd, 2021

Steve FrenchOct 9, 2021, 5:50 PM
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In­tel­li­gence or Evolu­tion?

Ramana KumarOct 9, 2021, 5:14 PM
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Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik KarlssonOct 9, 2021, 1:50 PM
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[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael HarthOct 9, 2021, 1:10 PM
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[Question] Do you like ex­ces­sive sugar?

momom2Oct 9, 2021, 10:40 AM
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Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum

lsusrOct 9, 2021, 7:08 AM
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Steel­man ar­gu­ments against the idea that AGI is in­evitable and will ar­rive soon

RomanSOct 9, 2021, 6:22 AM
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Shoulder Ad­vi­sors 101

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 9, 2021, 5:30 AM
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