Ap­plied Math­e­mat­i­cal Logic For The Prac­tic­ing Researcher

JanOct 17, 2021, 8:28 PM
9 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

How much should you up­date on a COVID test re­sult?

mayleafOct 17, 2021, 7:49 PM
114 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Fea­ture Sugges­tion: one way anonymity

Yair HalberstadtOct 17, 2021, 5:54 PM
14 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

[Pre­dic­tion] We are in an Al­gorith­mic Over­hang, Part 2

lsusrOct 17, 2021, 7:48 AM
21 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabri­cated Options

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 17, 2021, 2:47 AM
302 points
132 comments14 min readLW link2 reviews

Ex­plain­ing Cap­i­tal­ism Harder

jefftkOct 17, 2021, 2:40 AM
111 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

“Re­dun­dant” AI Alignment

Mckay JensenOct 16, 2021, 9:32 PM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(quevivasbien.github.io)

My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

jessicataOct 16, 2021, 9:28 PM
95 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion Con­cepts in the Game of Life

Oct 16, 2021, 8:51 PM
75 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

What if we should use more en­ergy, not less?

SnorkelfarsanOct 16, 2021, 7:51 PM
7 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The AGI needs to be honest

rokosbasiliskOct 16, 2021, 7:24 PM
2 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is moral duty/​blame ir­ra­tional be­cause a per­son does only what they must?

benn@4efix.comOct 16, 2021, 5:00 PM
12 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Memetic haz­ards of AGI ar­chi­tec­ture posts

OzyrusOct 16, 2021, 4:10 PM
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Write Sur­pris­ingly About Reality

lsusrOct 16, 2021, 7:30 AM
40 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid In­for­mal Study Results

ElizabethOct 16, 2021, 7:10 AM
43 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

NLP Po­si­tion Paper: When Com­bat­ting Hype, Pro­ceed with Caution

Sam BowmanOct 15, 2021, 8:57 PM
46 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you think you are a Boltz­mann brain? If not, why not?

Jack ROct 15, 2021, 6:02 AM
2 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence, epistemics, and san­ity, in three short parts

ozziegooenOct 15, 2021, 4:01 AM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view Re­view (end of the bounty pro­gram)

RubyOct 15, 2021, 3:23 AM
85 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Di­ag­nos­tic Tests

TornusOct 15, 2021, 2:58 AM
6 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: A Pat­tern Lan­guage by Christo­pher Alexander

lincolnquirkOct 15, 2021, 1:11 AM
57 points
8 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Pay­ing peo­ple to vote for good poli­cies.

MatteodimaioOct 15, 2021, 1:00 AM
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

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