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[AN #166]: Is it crazy to claim we’re in the most important century?

Rohin ShahOct 8, 2021, 5:30 PM

52 points

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5 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Questions about YIMBY

Sam EnrightOct 8, 2021, 12:48 PM

18 points

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2 comments6 min readLW link

“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up

ElizabethOct 8, 2021, 8:30 AM

72 points

42 votes

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13 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Glen Weyl: “Why I Was Wrong to Demonize Rationalism”

Zack_M_DavisOct 8, 2021, 5:36 AM

46 points

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.radicalxchange.org)

Noragami

lsusrOct 8, 2021, 5:11 AM

25 points

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5 comments2 min readLW link

How much slower is remote work?

jsteinhardtOct 8, 2021, 2:00 AM

108 points

61 votes

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11 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Perceptual dexterity: a case study

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 7, 2021, 10:25 PM

66 points

29 votes

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19 comments4 min readLW link

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

XylitolOct 7, 2021, 10:21 PM

25 points

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11 comments17 min readLW link

No Really, There Are No Rules!

J BostockOct 7, 2021, 10:08 PM

57 points

32 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworthOct 7, 2021, 9:58 PM

222 points

111 votes

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64 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Book summary: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Optimization ProcessOct 7, 2021, 8:19 PM

24 points

20 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

Safety-capabilities tradeoff dials are inevitable in AGI

Steven ByrnesOct 7, 2021, 7:03 PM

58 points

19 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

Blog Post Day IV (Impromptu)

Daniel KokotajloOct 7, 2021, 5:17 PM

11 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/7: Steady as She Goes

ZviOct 7, 2021, 12:10 PM

58 points

33 votes

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26 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Nov-Dec 2021

Yi-YangOct 7, 2021, 10:37 AM

3 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a Bayesian model for Empirical Science

Yair HalberstadtOct 7, 2021, 5:38 AM

11 points

4 votes

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7 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes cooperative ethics

lsusrOct 7, 2021, 1:52 AM

73 points

55 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

Automated Fact Checking: A Look at the Field

HoagyOct 6, 2021, 11:52 PM

12 points

8 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Considerations on Compensation

RobertMOct 6, 2021, 11:37 PM

50 points

20 votes

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15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What to read instead of news?

ekritoseOct 6, 2021, 10:59 PM

8 points

9 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

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

GhatanathoahOct 6, 2021, 9:31 PM

21 points

5 votes

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26 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Everywhere Else

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 8:39 PM

48 points

23 votes

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18 comments6 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup: Debugging Misconceptions

SilasBartaOct 6, 2021, 7:28 PM

8 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Daniel KokotajloOct 6, 2021, 1:38 PM

36 points

15 votes

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32 comments1 min readLW link

Theory: The Political Incentives for Progressive Policy Promote Policy Failure

BDayOct 6, 2021, 12:10 PM

−2 points

8 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Preferences from (real and hypothetical) psychology papers

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 6, 2021, 9:06 AM

15 points

5 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—River

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 7:29 AM

30 points

17 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Human Garbage Dump

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 6:31 AM

36 points

21 votes

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7 comments4 min readLW link

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

Nate ThomasOct 6, 2021, 5:51 AM

56 points

17 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

ChristianWilliamsOct 6, 2021, 4:44 AM

6 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Benthic

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 4:39 AM

25 points

13 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Ocean

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 1:59 AM

27 points

16 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

Appropriately Gray Products

Adam ZernerOct 6, 2021, 12:56 AM

20 points

9 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

An Investigation into the Passage of Time

hivemindsingularityOct 6, 2021, 12:31 AM

1 point

3 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Darwin Game—Desert

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 12:24 AM

37 points

16 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

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

rockwellOct 5, 2021, 9:19 PM

9 points

5 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Maxwell PetersonOct 5, 2021, 6:25 PM

6 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

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

aphyerOct 5, 2021, 5:30 PM

40 points

17 votes

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17 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Covid Home Test Experiment

SebastianG Oct 5, 2021, 3:24 PM

3 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Modelling and Understanding SGD

J BostockOct 5, 2021, 1:41 PM

8 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Force neural nets to use models, then detect these

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 5, 2021, 11:31 AM

17 points

8 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

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

mike_hawkeOct 5, 2021, 5:04 AM

24 points

9 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021 Darwin Game—Tundra

lsusrOct 5, 2021, 5:03 AM

48 points

26 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

What can we learn from traditional societies?

mukashiOct 5, 2021, 12:24 AM

18 points

9 votes

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11 comments11 min readLW link

Nuclear Espionage and AI Governance

GuiveOct 4, 2021, 11:04 PM

34 points

14 votes

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5 comments24 min readLW link

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

Quintin PopeOct 4, 2021, 10:27 PM

20 points

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4 comments1 min readLW link

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

BezziOct 4, 2021, 9:30 PM

4 points

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread October 2021

qazzquimbyOct 4, 2021, 7:52 PM

21 points

9 votes

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49 comments1 min readLW link

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

J BostockOct 4, 2021, 7:29 PM

12 points

8 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

Andrew Yang on “The Priests of the Decline”

Timothy JohnsonOct 4, 2021, 7:24 PM

14 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.andrewyang.com)

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