Fram­ing Practicum: Semistable Equilibrium

DirectedEvolutionOct 14, 2021, 11:31 PM
26 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to re­spond to a se­ries of defi­antly per­sis­tent ev­i­dence-free claims?

ThurstonBTOct 14, 2021, 11:01 PM
−18 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Clas­si­cal sym­bol ground­ing and causal graphs

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 14, 2021, 6:04 PM
22 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness, Free Will and Scien­tific Ob­jec­tivity in Per­spec­tive-Based Reasoning

dadadarrenOct 14, 2021, 6:00 PM
7 points
25 comments4 min readLW link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

Book Anal­y­sis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandiasOct 14, 2021, 5:49 PM
64 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Is an­chor­ing a re­li­able cog­ni­tive bias?

justindomkeOct 14, 2021, 3:15 PM
22 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(justindomke.wordpress.com)

Com­men­tary on “AGI Safety From First Prin­ci­ples by Richard Ngo, Septem­ber 2020”

Robert KralischOct 14, 2021, 3:11 PM
3 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 10/​14: Less Long Cvoid

ZviOct 14, 2021, 2:20 PM
57 points
22 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is nuk­ing women and chil­dren cheaper than fire­bomb­ing them?

lsusrOct 14, 2021, 8:25 AM
28 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pute Gover­nance and Con­clu­sions—Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [3/​4]

lennartOct 14, 2021, 8:23 AM
13 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How To Talk So Lit­tle Kids Will Listen

weftOct 14, 2021, 6:56 AM
76 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

ValentineOct 14, 2021, 4:39 AM
132 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: De­nial of Death

PatrickDFarleyOct 14, 2021, 4:28 AM
14 points
5 comments37 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The End of Average

Vanilla_cabsOct 14, 2021, 1:49 AM
17 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

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

ThurstonBTOct 13, 2021, 11:12 PM
4 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Pro­posal] Method of lo­cat­ing use­ful sub­nets in large models

Quintin PopeOct 13, 2021, 8:52 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

dmanningcoeOct 13, 2021, 4:22 PM
28 points
3 comments17 min readLW link

Books Re­view: “Sapi­ens”, “Homo Deus” and “21 Les­sons For The 21st Cen­tury”, by Yu­val Noah Harari

Luca ParodiOct 13, 2021, 4:21 PM
19 points
2 comments16 min readLW link

Notes from the book ‘First Three Minutes’ by Steven Weinberg

invertedpassionOct 13, 2021, 9:06 AM
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Choos­ing a meetup venue

mingyuanOct 13, 2021, 6:23 AM
35 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Meetup ad­vice se­quence intro

mingyuanOct 13, 2021, 6:21 AM
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Ex­pe­rience with Lev­er­age Research

Ilverin the Stupid and OffensiveOct 13, 2021, 4:44 AM
229 points
261 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

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
3 points
2 comments46 min readLW link

[linkpost] Fan­ta­sia for Two Voices

mike_hawkeOct 13, 2021, 2:55 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_FlexmanOct 13, 2021, 2:41 AM
121 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Open Thread: What are you work­ing on? (Oc­to­ber)

Raj ThimmiahOct 13, 2021, 1:42 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What’s your plan?

jefftkOct 13, 2021, 1:20 AM
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship

lsusrOct 12, 2021, 9:35 PM
56 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ing Risks From Learned Optimization

Ben CottierOct 12, 2021, 8:54 PM
45 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Philo­soph­i­cal In­ves­ti­ga­tions by Wittgenstein

Chris_LeongOct 12, 2021, 8:14 PM
34 points
11 comments34 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco, CA – ACX Meetup

derekpankaewOct 12, 2021, 6:32 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Feel­ing Great by David Burns

FeiOct 12, 2021, 4:32 PM
13 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Quan­tify­ing Risk

devanshOct 12, 2021, 2:41 PM
4 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Build­ing Blocks of Poli­tics: An Overview of Selec­torate Theory

Yoav RavidOct 12, 2021, 11:27 AM
86 points
26 comments49 min readLW link1 review

Niacin as a treat­ment for covid? (Prob­a­bly no, but I’m glad we’re check­ing)

ElizabethOct 12, 2021, 5:40 AM
24 points
1 comment11 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

EDT with up­dat­ing dou­ble counts

paulfchristianoOct 12, 2021, 4:40 AM
56 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

my new short­sight reminder

mike_hawkeOct 11, 2021, 8:06 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Am­man, Jor­dan – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

mingyuanOct 11, 2021, 8:03 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Yet Another Covid Risk Calculator

Thomas ColthurstOct 11, 2021, 7:24 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Free Will

Ape in the coatOct 11, 2021, 6:41 PM
28 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

NVIDIA and Microsoft re­leases 530B pa­ram­e­ter trans­former model, Me­ga­tron-Tur­ing NLG

OzyrusOct 11, 2021, 3:28 PM
51 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(developer.nvidia.com)

Detroit Third ACX Meetup

MattArnoldOct 11, 2021, 1:32 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimiOct 11, 2021, 8:20 AM
110 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 11, 2021, 7:16 AM
122 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Out­door danc­ing is likely very safe

jefftkOct 11, 2021, 1:40 AM
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book Re­view: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth

jkim2Oct 11, 2021, 1:07 AM
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one have an anki deck on age­ing /​ re­ju­ve­na­tion biotech­nol­ogy that they could share?

freedomandutilityOct 10, 2021, 4:54 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bu­dapest Less Wrong/​ SSC

Timothy UnderwoodOct 10, 2021, 4:14 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristianoOct 10, 2021, 3:50 PM
161 points
37 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

The eval­u­a­tion func­tion of an AI is not its aim

Yair HalberstadtOct 10, 2021, 2:52 PM
13 points
5 comments3 min readLW link