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Framing Practicum: Semistable Equilibrium
DirectedEvolution
Oct 14, 2021, 11:31 PM
26
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to respond to a series of defiantly persistent evidence-free claims?
ThurstonBT
Oct 14, 2021, 11:01 PM
−18
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Classical symbol grounding and causal graphs
Stuart_Armstrong
Oct 14, 2021, 6:04 PM
22
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Consciousness, Free Will and Scientific Objectivity in Perspective-Based Reasoning
dadadarren
Oct 14, 2021, 6:00 PM
7
points
25
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)
Book Analysis: New Thrawn Trilogy
ozymandias
Oct 14, 2021, 5:49 PM
64
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Is anchoring a reliable cognitive bias?
justindomke
Oct 14, 2021, 3:15 PM
22
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(justindomke.wordpress.com)
Commentary on “AGI Safety From First Principles by Richard Ngo, September 2020”
Robert Kralisch
Oct 14, 2021, 3:11 PM
3
points
0
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Covid 10/14: Less Long Cvoid
Zvi
Oct 14, 2021, 2:20 PM
57
points
22
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Is nuking women and children cheaper than firebombing them?
lsusr
Oct 14, 2021, 8:25 AM
28
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Compute Governance and Conclusions—Transformative AI and Compute [3/4]
lennart
Oct 14, 2021, 8:23 AM
13
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Book Review: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen
weft
Oct 14, 2021, 6:56 AM
76
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Creating a truly formidable Art
Valentine
Oct 14, 2021, 4:39 AM
132
points
59
comments
23
min read
LW
link
1
review
Book Review: Denial of Death
PatrickDFarley
Oct 14, 2021, 4:28 AM
14
points
5
comments
37
min read
LW
link
Book Review: The End of Average
Vanilla_cabs
Oct 14, 2021, 1:49 AM
17
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
In Wikipedia — reading about Roko’s basilisk causing “nervous breakdowns” …
ThurstonBT
Oct 13, 2021, 11:12 PM
4
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Proposal] Method of locating useful subnets in large models
Quintin Pope
Oct 13, 2021, 8:52 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
dmanningcoe
Oct 13, 2021, 4:22 PM
28
points
3
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Books Review: “Sapiens”, “Homo Deus” and “21 Lessons For The 21st Century”, by Yuval Noah Harari
Luca Parodi
Oct 13, 2021, 4:21 PM
19
points
2
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Notes from the book ‘First Three Minutes’ by Steven Weinberg
invertedpassion
Oct 13, 2021, 9:06 AM
6
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Choosing a meetup venue
mingyuan
Oct 13, 2021, 6:23 AM
35
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Meetup advice sequence intro
mingyuan
Oct 13, 2021, 6:21 AM
35
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Zoe Curzi’s Experience with Leverage Research
Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive
Oct 13, 2021, 4:44 AM
229
points
261
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Book Review: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There
Anmoljain
Oct 13, 2021, 3:46 AM
3
points
2
comments
46
min read
LW
link
[linkpost] Fantasia for Two Voices
mike_hawke
Oct 13, 2021, 2:55 AM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(everythingstudies.com)
Choice Writings of Dominic Cummings
Connor_Flexman
Oct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM
121
points
75
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Open Thread: What are you working on? (October)
Raj Thimmiah
Oct 13, 2021, 1:42 AM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
What’s your plan?
jefftk
Oct 13, 2021, 1:20 AM
28
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship
lsusr
Oct 12, 2021, 9:35 PM
56
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Modeling Risks From Learned Optimization
Ben Cottier
Oct 12, 2021, 8:54 PM
45
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
Chris_Leong
Oct 12, 2021, 8:14 PM
34
points
11
comments
34
min read
LW
link
San Francisco, CA – ACX Meetup
derekpankaew
Oct 12, 2021, 6:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Feeling Great by David Burns
Fei
Oct 12, 2021, 4:32 PM
13
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Quantifying Risk
devansh
Oct 12, 2021, 2:41 PM
4
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Building Blocks of Politics: An Overview of Selectorate Theory
Yoav Ravid
Oct 12, 2021, 11:27 AM
86
points
26
comments
49
min read
LW
link
1
review
Niacin as a treatment for covid? (Probably no, but I’m glad we’re checking)
Elizabeth
Oct 12, 2021, 5:40 AM
24
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
EDT with updating double counts
paulfchristiano
Oct 12, 2021, 4:40 AM
56
points
12
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(sideways-view.com)
my new shortsight reminder
mike_hawke
Oct 11, 2021, 8:06 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Amman, Jordan – ACX Meetups Everywhere 2021
mingyuan
Oct 11, 2021, 8:03 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yet Another Covid Risk Calculator
Thomas Colthurst
Oct 11, 2021, 7:24 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book Review: Free Will
Ape in the coat
Oct 11, 2021, 6:41 PM
28
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
NVIDIA and Microsoft releases 530B parameter transformer model, Megatron-Turing NLG
Ozyrus
Oct 11, 2021, 3:28 PM
51
points
36
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(developer.nvidia.com)
Detroit Third ACX Meetup
MattArnold
Oct 11, 2021, 1:32 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment
adamShimi
Oct 11, 2021, 8:20 AM
110
points
10
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Cup-Stacking Skills (or, Reflexive Involuntary Mental Motions)
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
122
points
36
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Outdoor dancing is likely very safe
jefftk
Oct 11, 2021, 1:40 AM
14
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Book Review: Existential Risk and Growth
jkim2
Oct 11, 2021, 1:07 AM
9
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does anyone have an anki deck on ageing / rejuvenation biotechnology that they could share?
freedomandutility
Oct 10, 2021, 4:54 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Budapest Less Wrong/ SSC
Timothy Underwood
Oct 10, 2021, 4:14 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Secure homes for digital people
paulfchristiano
Oct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM
161
points
37
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
(sideways-view.com)
The evaluation function of an AI is not its aim
Yair Halberstadt
Oct 10, 2021, 2:52 PM
13
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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