Nu­clear Es­pi­onage and AI Governance

GuiveOct 4, 2021, 11:04 PM
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[Question] How good is se­cu­rity for LessWrong and the Align­ment Fo­rum?

Quintin PopeOct 4, 2021, 10:27 PM
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[Question] How much mem­ory is re­served for cute kit­ten pic­tures?

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Open & Wel­come Thread Oc­to­ber 2021

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[Book Re­view] “I Con­tain Mul­ti­tudes” by Ed Yong

J BostockOct 4, 2021, 7:29 PM
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An­drew Yang on “The Priests of the De­cline”

Timothy JohnsonOct 4, 2021, 7:24 PM
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To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair HalberstadtOct 4, 2021, 6:42 PM
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Candy Innovation

jefftkOct 4, 2021, 1:50 PM
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[Question] What role should LW play in AI Safety?

Chris_LeongOct 4, 2021, 2:21 AM
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Trust and The Small World Fallacy

DPiepgrassOct 4, 2021, 12:38 AM
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An anal­y­sis of the Less Wrong D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion game

Maxwell PetersonOct 4, 2021, 12:03 AM
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Blink: The Power of Think­ing Without Think­ing (book re­view)

Andrew VlahosOct 3, 2021, 11:21 PM
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Vax pass­ports—the­ory and practice

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How to build a mind—neu­ro­science edition

JanOct 3, 2021, 9:45 PM
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[Question] What LCC call num­bers would you give “Ra­tion­al­ity: AI to Zom­bie”?

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The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron BergOct 3, 2021, 8:10 PM
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[Book Re­view] Evolu­tion of Sex

Alex HollowOct 3, 2021, 6:54 PM
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Dis­solv­ing the Ex­pe­rience Ma­chine Objection

leogaoOct 3, 2021, 4:56 PM
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Porch­fest 2021

jefftkOct 3, 2021, 2:20 PM
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A Frame­work of Pre­dic­tion Technologies

isaduanOct 3, 2021, 10:26 AM
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AI Pre­dic­tion Ser­vices and Risks of War

isaduanOct 3, 2021, 10:26 AM
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Pos­si­ble Wor­lds af­ter Pre­dic­tion Take-off

isaduanOct 3, 2021, 10:26 AM
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What makes us happy and de­pressed?

Marius HobbhahnOct 3, 2021, 6:25 AM
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En­gag­ing with hy­po­thet­i­cals as they are defined

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2021 Dar­win Game—Contestants

lsusrOct 3, 2021, 5:09 AM
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Oc­cam’s Ra­zor and the Univer­sal Prior

Peter ChatainOct 3, 2021, 3:23 AM
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Do­minic Cum­mings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Sili­con Valley

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[linkpost] Vi­talik Bu­terin on Nathan Sch­nei­der on the limits of cryp­toe­co­nomics

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From The Great Man to The Great Founder The­ory: Be­zos, Musk, and Systrom

hivemindsingularityOct 2, 2021, 5:07 PM
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Proso­cial Capitalism

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The un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated value of origi­nal think­ing be­low the frontier

EmrikOct 2, 2021, 4:03 PM
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Fore­cast­ing Com­pute—Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [2/​4]

lennartOct 2, 2021, 3:54 PM
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Why We Should Always Distrust Our Certainties

Ted ReynoldsOct 2, 2021, 6:05 AM
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[Event] A Me­tac­u­lus Open Panel Dis­cus­sion: How Fore­casts In­form COVID-19 Policy

ChristianWilliamsOct 2, 2021, 12:37 AM
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Book Re­view: Spark! How ex­er­cise will im­prove the perfor­mance of your brain

Caridorc TergiltiOct 1, 2021, 10:43 PM
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The Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis Un­der­cuts the SIA/​Great Filter Dooms­day Argument

Oct 1, 2021, 10:23 PM
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Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconiOct 1, 2021, 9:44 PM
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Pro­posal: Scal­ing laws for RL generalization

axiomanOct 1, 2021, 9:32 PM
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Meta learn­ing to gra­di­ent hack

Quintin PopeOct 1, 2021, 7:25 PM
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How does fore­cast quan­tity im­pact fore­cast qual­ity on Me­tac­u­lus?

CharlesDOct 1, 2021, 7:09 PM
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2021.

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What Selec­tion The­o­rems Do We Ex­pect/​Want?

johnswentworthOct 1, 2021, 4:03 PM
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Con­tra Paul Chris­ti­ano on Sex

George3d6Oct 1, 2021, 11:17 AM
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How does The Cir­cle grow, ex­actly?

RaemonOct 1, 2021, 7:53 AM
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SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Joe CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 5:59 AM
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SIA > SSA, part 3: An aside on bet­ting in anthropics

Joe CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 5:52 AM
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SIA > SSA, part 2: Telekine­sis, refer­ence classes, and other scandals

Joe CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 5:49 AM
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SIA > SSA, part 1: Learn­ing from the fact that you exist

Joe CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 5:43 AM
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Eval­u­at­ing ter­mi­nal values

kiwi0fruitOct 1, 2021, 4:54 AM
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Con­sider Tak­ing Zinc Every Time You Travel

ElizabethOct 1, 2021, 3:50 AM
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