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Harry Potter and the Methods of Psychomagic | Chapter 2: The Global Neuronal Workspace

Henry ProwbellOct 26, 2021, 6:54 PM

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X-Risk, Anthropics, & Peter Thiel’s Investment Thesis

Jackson WagnerOct 26, 2021, 6:50 PM

21 points

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[Question] Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday?

idontwanttodieOct 26, 2021, 6:14 PM

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Don’t Use the “God’s-Eye View” in Anthropic Problems.

dadadarrenOct 26, 2021, 1:47 PM

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Impressive vs honest signaling

Adam ZernerOct 26, 2021, 7:16 AM

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12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Effectiveness of Moderna booster shot and mix-and-match?

warrenjordanOct 26, 2021, 6:18 AM

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth

AlexanderOct 26, 2021, 5:44 AM

34 points

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[Question] No, really, can “dead” time be salvaged?

Nicholas KrossOct 26, 2021, 12:02 AM

17 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElfOct 25, 2021, 10:55 PM

119 points

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18 comments10 min readLW link

Child Walksheds

jefftkOct 25, 2021, 9:00 PM

25 points

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The Roots of Progress events in Austin, November 4–6

jasoncrawfordOct 25, 2021, 4:12 PM

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Feature request: templates

Randomized, ControlledOct 25, 2021, 3:04 PM

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Postmodern Warfare

lsusrOct 25, 2021, 9:02 AM

64 points

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[Question] Orthogonality and the increased overlap of actions with the set of all events that comes with increased intelligence

Jay95Oct 25, 2021, 5:17 AM

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Dating profiles from first principles: heterosexual male profile design

XodarapOct 25, 2021, 3:23 AM

110 points

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32 comments15 min readLW link

Walking and Navigating

qazzquimbyOct 25, 2021, 1:54 AM

6 points

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Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer YudkowskyOct 24, 2021, 8:57 PM

344 points

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91 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Phil Trammell on Economic Growth Under Transformative AI

Michaël TrazziOct 24, 2021, 6:11 PM

14 points

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3 comments54 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better

Ramana Kumar and Daniel Kokotajlo

Oct 24, 2021, 3:21 PM

44 points

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Deleted comments archive?

Said AchmizOct 24, 2021, 11:19 AM

10 points

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Nanosystems are Poorly Abstracted

J BostockOct 24, 2021, 10:44 AM

25 points

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Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

JanOct 24, 2021, 9:54 AM

9 points

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3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Deliberate Play

jsteinhardtOct 24, 2021, 2:50 AM

94 points

38 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Towards Deconfusing Gradient Hacking

leogaoOct 24, 2021, 12:43 AM

39 points

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3 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Grading scheme from Valentine Smith

Valentin2026Oct 23, 2021, 7:29 PM

7 points

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T-Mobile: Spurious Account Takeover Warning

jefftkOct 23, 2021, 3:30 PM

13 points

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My ML Scaling bibliography

gwernOct 23, 2021, 2:41 PM

35 points

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Scout Mindset and Latter-Day Saint Apostasy

Erich_GrunewaldOct 23, 2021, 2:18 PM

21 points

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Naive self-supervised approaches to truthful AI

ryan_greenblattOct 23, 2021, 1:03 PM

10 points

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Inference cost limits the impact of ever larger models

SoerenMindOct 23, 2021, 10:51 AM

42 points

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33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What health-related tips do you have for buying meat?

Adam ZernerOct 23, 2021, 7:09 AM

17 points

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Where are the quick, easy wins?

Barry_CotterOct 23, 2021, 12:27 AM

11 points

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

Tim LiptrotOct 22, 2021, 11:58 PM

8 points

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I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

ElizabethOct 22, 2021, 10:00 PM

106 points

62 votes

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10 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

30-ish focusing tips

Raymond DouglasOct 22, 2021, 7:38 PM

22 points

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Young Scientists

A RayOct 22, 2021, 6:01 PM

28 points

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3 comments4 min readLW link

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

Owain_EvansOct 22, 2021, 4:23 PM

31 points

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

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 22, 2021, 10:11 AM

50 points

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27 comments3 min readLW link

Epistemic Strategies of Safety-Capabilities Tradeoffs

adamShimiOct 22, 2021, 8:22 AM

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ACX Montreal Oct 30th 2021

EOct 22, 2021, 2:06 AM

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Coordination Motivation: The Pandemic

RaemonOct 21, 2021, 9:57 PM

64 points

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An Idea for a More Communal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben PaceOct 21, 2021, 9:51 PM

44 points

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Petrov Day Retrospective: 2021

RubyOct 21, 2021, 9:50 PM

80 points

36 votes

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43 comments9 min readLW link

Feature idea: Notification when a parent comment is modified

ViliamOct 21, 2021, 6:15 PM

38 points

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Stoicism vs the Methods of Rationality

Space L ClotteyOct 21, 2021, 6:07 PM

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Noticing the Value of Noticing Confusion

Space L ClotteyOct 21, 2021, 6:04 PM

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What’s Stopping You?

Neel NandaOct 21, 2021, 4:20 PM

40 points

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Rapid Antigen Tests for COVID

TornusOct 21, 2021, 3:26 PM

25 points

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Covid 10/21: Rogan vs. Gupta

ZviOct 21, 2021, 3:10 PM

70 points

42 votes

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62 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rationality Vienna goes hiking

Laszlo_TreszkaiOct 21, 2021, 11:34 AM

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