How to es­ti­mate my prob­a­bil­ity of get­ting a (com­pet­i­tive) job in Academia

Tim Liptrot22 Oct 2021 23:58 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

Elizabeth22 Oct 2021 22:00 UTC
102 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

30-ish fo­cus­ing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC
21 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Young Scientists

A Ray22 Oct 2021 18:01 UTC
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

AMA on Truth­ful AI: Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt, Owain Evans & co-authors

Owain_Evans22 Oct 2021 16:23 UTC
31 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Gen­eral al­ign­ment plus hu­man val­ues, or al­ign­ment via hu­man val­ues?

Stuart_Armstrong22 Oct 2021 10:11 UTC
50 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Epistemic Strate­gies of Safety-Ca­pa­bil­ities Tradeoffs

adamShimi22 Oct 2021 8:22 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

ACX Mon­treal Oct 30th 2021

Emmett22 Oct 2021 2:06 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Mo­ti­va­tion: The Pandemic

Raemon21 Oct 2021 21:57 UTC
64 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

An Idea for a More Com­mu­nal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben Pace21 Oct 2021 21:51 UTC
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Petrov Day Ret­ro­spec­tive: 2021

Ruby21 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC
80 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Fea­ture idea: No­tifi­ca­tion when a par­ent com­ment is modified

Viliam21 Oct 2021 18:15 UTC
38 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Sto­icism vs the Meth­ods of Rationality

Space L Clottey21 Oct 2021 18:07 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Notic­ing the Value of Notic­ing Confusion

Space L Clottey21 Oct 2021 18:04 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What’s Stop­ping You?

Neel Nanda21 Oct 2021 16:20 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Rapid Anti­gen Tests for COVID

Tornus21 Oct 2021 15:26 UTC
25 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Covid 10/​21: Ro­gan vs. Gupta

Zvi21 Oct 2021 15:10 UTC
70 points
62 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna goes hiking

Laszlo_Treszkai21 Oct 2021 11:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

NATO: Cog­ni­tive War­fare Project

ChristianKl21 Oct 2021 9:57 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.innovationhub-act.org)

Suc­cess­ful Men­tor­ing on Par­ent­ing, Ar­ranged Through LessWrong

21 Oct 2021 8:27 UTC
78 points
22 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment­ing with An­droid Digi­tal Wellbeing

Yair Halberstadt21 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Emer­gent mod­u­lar­ity and safety

Richard_Ngo21 Oct 2021 1:54 UTC
31 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

[$10k bounty] Read and com­pile Robin Han­son’s best posts

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 22:03 UTC
134 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Safety Fun­da­men­tals cur­ricu­lum and application

Richard_Ngo20 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
69 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

[AN #167]: Con­crete ML safety prob­lems and their rele­vance to x-risk

Rohin Shah20 Oct 2021 17:10 UTC
19 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Bor­ing ma­chine learn­ing is where it’s at

George3d620 Oct 2021 11:23 UTC
28 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

关于中国的“巫”的部分解释(Some ex­pla­na­tions of “wu” in China)

Axioms20 Oct 2021 8:56 UTC
−4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ravec’s Para­dox Comes From The Availa­bil­ity Heuristic

james.lucassen20 Oct 2021 6:23 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

Book re­view: Lost Con­nec­tions by Jo­hann Hari

maia20 Oct 2021 2:40 UTC
38 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

[Up­date] Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel20 Oct 2021 1:17 UTC
11 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: ‘Pre­dict­ing the Next Pres­i­dent: The Keys to the White House’

TranscendetalIdealist20 Oct 2021 0:42 UTC
10 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Some of the best ra­tio­nal­ity essays

Jack R19 Oct 2021 22:57 UTC
28 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal For­mat/​Fre­quency of In­for­ma­tion Consumption

Avi19 Oct 2021 15:39 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Listen to top LessWrong posts with The Non­lin­ear Library

KatWoods19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC
74 points
27 comments8 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Hor­mone-dis­rupt­ing plas­tics and re­pro­duc­tive health

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel19 Oct 2021 11:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In the shadow of the Great War

jasoncrawford18 Oct 2021 23:08 UTC
32 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Re­search for Ad­vanc­ing Wis­dom and Intelligence

ozziegooen18 Oct 2021 22:28 UTC
49 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Beyond the hu­man train­ing dis­tri­bu­tion: would the AI CEO cre­ate al­most-ille­gal ted­dies?

Stuart_Armstrong18 Oct 2021 21:10 UTC
36 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

On The Risks of Emer­gent Be­hav­ior in Foun­da­tion Models

jsteinhardt18 Oct 2021 20:00 UTC
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Truth­ful AI: Devel­op­ing and gov­ern­ing AI that does not lie

18 Oct 2021 18:37 UTC
82 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ism for New EAs

Zach Stein-Perlman18 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup

Dan H18 Oct 2021 15:19 UTC
59 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Causal vs Pre­dic­tive Models, and the Causal Taboo

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:05 UTC
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive Cat­e­gories Make Bad Causal Variables

Hazard18 Oct 2021 15:02 UTC
27 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Epistemic Strate­gies of Selec­tion Theorems

adamShimi18 Oct 2021 8:57 UTC
33 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Hu­mans are the uni­ver­sal eco­nomic bottleneck

Dach18 Oct 2021 8:32 UTC
24 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_O18 Oct 2021 8:16 UTC
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Quick Look: Alti­tude and Child Development

Elizabeth18 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC
58 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think

Mark Xu18 Oct 2021 0:55 UTC
56 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(markxu.com)