66 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

(Book Review) The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Xylitol7 Oct 2021 22:21 UTC

25 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

No Really, There Are No Rules!

J Bostock7 Oct 2021 22:08 UTC

54 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworth7 Oct 2021 21:58 UTC

219 points

64 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Book summary: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Optimization Process7 Oct 2021 20:19 UTC

21 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Safety-capabilities tradeoff dials are inevitable in AGI

Steven Byrnes7 Oct 2021 19:03 UTC

59 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Blog Post Day IV (Impromptu)

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Oct 2021 17:17 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/7: Steady as She Goes

Zvi7 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC

58 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Nov-Dec 2021

Yi-Yang7 Oct 2021 10:37 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Is Legal Reasoning Fundamentally Irrational?

ThomasMore7 Oct 2021 8:22 UTC

3 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a Bayesian model for Empirical Science

Yair Halberstadt7 Oct 2021 5:38 UTC

11 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes cooperative ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC

70 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Automated Fact Checking: A Look at the Field

Hoagy6 Oct 2021 23:52 UTC

12 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Considerations on Compensation

RobertM6 Oct 2021 23:37 UTC

50 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What to read instead of news?

ekritose6 Oct 2021 22:59 UTC

8 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do bounded utility functions work if you are uncertain how close to the bound your utility is?

Ghatanathoah6 Oct 2021 21:31 UTC

13 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Everywhere Else

lsusr6 Oct 2021 20:39 UTC

48 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup: Debugging Misconceptions

SilasBarta6 Oct 2021 19:28 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is GPT-3 already sample-efficient?

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Oct 2021 13:38 UTC

36 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Theory: The Political Incentives for Progressive Policy Promote Policy Failure

BDay6 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC

−2 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Preferences from (real and hypothetical) psychology papers

Stuart_Armstrong6 Oct 2021 9:06 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—River

lsusr6 Oct 2021 7:29 UTC

30 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Human Garbage Dump

lsusr6 Oct 2021 6:31 UTC

36 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

We’re Redwood Research, we do applied alignment research, AMA

Nate Thomas6 Oct 2021 5:51 UTC

56 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Metaculus is seeking Analytical Storytellers to write essays fortified with testable predictions

ChristianWilliams6 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Benthic

lsusr6 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC

25 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Ocean

lsusr6 Oct 2021 1:59 UTC

27 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Appropriately Gray Products

Adam Zerner6 Oct 2021 0:56 UTC

20 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

An Investigation into the Passage of Time

hivemindsingularity6 Oct 2021 0:31 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Desert

lsusr6 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC

37 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can one identify the absolute safest car in practice rather than theory?

rockwell5 Oct 2021 21:19 UTC

9 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should an interviewer evaluate management skills in a candidate?

Maxwell Peterson5 Oct 2021 18:25 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edition: League of Defenders of the Storm Evaluation & Ruleset

aphyer5 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC

38 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Covid Home Test Experiment

JohnBuridan5 Oct 2021 15:24 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Modelling and Understanding SGD

J Bostock5 Oct 2021 13:41 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Force neural nets to use models, then detect these

Stuart_Armstrong5 Oct 2021 11:31 UTC

17 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

State Projection Bias

nomiddlename5 Oct 2021 6:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts

mike_hawke5 Oct 2021 5:04 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021 Darwin Game—Tundra

lsusr5 Oct 2021 5:03 UTC

48 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

What can we learn from traditional societies?

mukashi5 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC

18 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

Nuclear Espionage and AI Governance

GAA4 Oct 2021 23:04 UTC

32 points

5 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] How good is security for LessWrong and the Alignment Forum?

Quintin Pope4 Oct 2021 22:27 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much memory is reserved for cute kitten pictures?

Bezzi4 Oct 2021 21:30 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread October 2021

qazzquimby4 Oct 2021 19:52 UTC

21 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

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

J Bostock4 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Andrew Yang on “The Priests of the Decline”

Timothy Johnson4 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.andrewyang.com)

To every people according to their language

Yair Halberstadt4 Oct 2021 18:42 UTC

32 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Candy Innovation

jefftk4 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC

13 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What role should LW play in AI Safety?

Chris_Leong4 Oct 2021 2:21 UTC

28 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Trust and The Small World Fallacy

DPiepgrass4 Oct 2021 0:38 UTC

26 points

14 comments14 min readLW link