Omicron Post #8

Zvi20 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC
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[Question] Good com­plete views on motivation

Valdes20 Dec 2021 22:10 UTC
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Prizes for last year’s 2019 Review

Raemon20 Dec 2021 21:58 UTC
40 points
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Omicron Paths

jefftk20 Dec 2021 18:30 UTC
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[Question] Is there a term /​ bet­ter way of phras­ing the gen­eral case where an in­ter­ven­tion helps cer­tain in­di­vi­d­u­als do bet­ter at zero-sum games but doesn’t provide any ex­ter­nal value?

freedomandutility20 Dec 2021 17:35 UTC
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Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Con­serv­ing Evidence

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC
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[Question] Are “non-com­putable func­tions” always hard to solve in prac­tice?

Morpheus20 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC
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A Short Note on My Value Notion

aysajan20 Dec 2021 14:35 UTC
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Par­ent­ing: “Try harder next time” is bad ad­vice for kids too

Steven Byrnes20 Dec 2021 14:18 UTC
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Law of No Evidence

Zvi20 Dec 2021 13:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Buck­ets & Bayes

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien20 Dec 2021 5:54 UTC
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Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #2

lsusr20 Dec 2021 5:06 UTC
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Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #1

lsusr20 Dec 2021 5:02 UTC
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The Tree of Wor­lds (Sols­tice speech)

jchan20 Dec 2021 4:39 UTC
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SGD Un­der­stood through Prob­a­bil­ity Current

J Bostock19 Dec 2021 23:26 UTC
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Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald Hobson19 Dec 2021 16:52 UTC
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Quis can­cel­lat ip­sos can­cel­lores?

ChristianKl19 Dec 2021 11:58 UTC
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Don’t In­fluence the In­fluencers!

lhc19 Dec 2021 9:02 UTC
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[Question] Should I de­lay hav­ing chil­dren to take ad­van­tage of poly­genic screen­ing?

Mati_Roy19 Dec 2021 6:39 UTC
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Falsify­ing Eth­i­cal Values

lsusr19 Dec 2021 1:44 UTC
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Ele­vated Air Puri­fier Cubes

jefftk19 Dec 2021 0:50 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing De­ci­sion The­o­ries With Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Dy­namic Agent Self-Pointers

JoshuaOSHickman18 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC
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Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicata18 Dec 2021 20:56 UTC
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Lau­rie An­der­son talks

Dagon18 Dec 2021 20:47 UTC
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Disen­tan­gling Per­spec­tives On Strat­egy-Steal­ing in AI Safety

shawnghu18 Dec 2021 20:13 UTC
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The end of Vic­to­rian cul­ture, part II: peo­ple and history

David Hugh-Jones18 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC
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(wyclif.substack.com)

How I be­came a per­son who wakes up early

Alex_Altair18 Dec 2021 18:41 UTC
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[Ex­tended Dead­line: Jan 23rd] An­nounc­ing the PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Nora_Ammann18 Dec 2021 16:56 UTC
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Univer­sal coun­ter­ar­gu­ment against “bad­ness of death” is wrong

avturchin18 Dec 2021 16:02 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing the Prin­ci­ples of In­tel­li­gent Be­havi­our in Biolog­i­cal and So­cial Sys­tems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimi18 Dec 2021 15:23 UTC
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[Question] Im­por­tant ML sys­tems from be­fore 2012?

Jsevillamol18 Dec 2021 12:12 UTC
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How the Equiv­a­lent Bet Test Ac­tu­ally Works

Erich_Grunewald18 Dec 2021 11:17 UTC
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Per­ish­able Knowledge

lsusr18 Dec 2021 5:53 UTC
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[Question] Dis­tract­ing­ness of Var­i­ous Parts of Facebook

emily.fan18 Dec 2021 3:35 UTC
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DL to­wards the un­al­igned Re­cur­sive Self-Op­ti­miza­tion attractor

jacob_cannell18 Dec 2021 2:15 UTC
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A Tree of Light

Jarred Filmer18 Dec 2021 0:36 UTC
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In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

Cathleen17 Dec 2021 23:08 UTC
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[Question] Get­ting di­ag­nosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on tak­ing meds?

vroomerify17 Dec 2021 19:27 UTC
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Ven­ture Gran­ters, The VCs of pub­lic goods, in­cen­tiviz­ing good dreams

mako yass17 Dec 2021 8:57 UTC
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Un­der­stand the ex­po­nen­tial func­tion: R0 of the COVID

Yandong Zhang17 Dec 2021 6:44 UTC
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Some mo­ti­va­tions to gra­di­ent hack

peterbarnett17 Dec 2021 3:06 UTC
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Blog Respectably

lsusr17 Dec 2021 1:23 UTC
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The Case for Rad­i­cal Op­ti­mism about Interpretability

Quintin Pope16 Dec 2021 23:38 UTC
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Alice K16 Dec 2021 23:03 UTC
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Ev­i­dence Sets: Towards In­duc­tive-Bi­ases based Anal­y­sis of Pro­saic AGI

bayesian_kitten16 Dec 2021 22:41 UTC
22 points
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Hous­ing Mar­kets, Satis­ficers, and One-Track Goodhart

J Bostock16 Dec 2021 21:38 UTC
2 points
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Covid 12/​16: On Your Marks

Zvi16 Dec 2021 21:00 UTC
53 points
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Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe Carlsmith16 Dec 2021 20:48 UTC
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The “Other” Option

jsteinhardt16 Dec 2021 20:20 UTC
24 points
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(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

What Ca­plan’s “Miss­ing Mood” Heuris­tic Is Really For

DirectedEvolution16 Dec 2021 19:47 UTC
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