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

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
61 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
87 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
13 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
29 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
152 points
36 comments8 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

Book Re­view: Open Borders

Sam EnrightOct 10, 2021, 12:27 PM
26 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin SpiegelOct 10, 2021, 5:19 AM
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Ex­trap­o­la­tion Problem

lsusrOct 10, 2021, 5:11 AM
26 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The S&P 500 Will Drop Below 3029 Be­fore July 16 (65 per­cent con­fi­dence)

FCCCOct 10, 2021, 4:02 AM
9 points
36 comments9 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 12: The Sin­gu­lar­ity War

lsusrOct 10, 2021, 1:04 AM
42 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

De­bug­ging Writer’s Block

mattoOct 9, 2021, 7:04 PM
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy MartinOct 9, 2021, 7:01 PM
47 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

ACX At­lanta Meetup Oct 23rd, 2021

Steve FrenchOct 9, 2021, 5:50 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence or Evolu­tion?

Ramana KumarOct 9, 2021, 5:14 PM
56 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik KarlssonOct 9, 2021, 1:50 PM
52 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael HarthOct 9, 2021, 1:10 PM
110 points
68 comments1 min readLW link