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[Question] Confusion about Sequences and Review Sequences

Alex_AltairDec 21, 2021, 6:13 PM

14 points

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Working through D&D.Sci, problem 1 (solution)

Pablo RepettoDec 21, 2021, 5:42 PM

9 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Demanding and Designing Aligned Cognitive Architectures

Koen.HoltmanDec 21, 2021, 5:32 PM

8 points

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5 comments5 min readLW link

Experiences raising children in shared housing

juliawiseDec 21, 2021, 5:09 PM

118 points

53 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What questions do you have about doing work on AI safety?

peterbarnettDec 21, 2021, 4:36 PM

13 points

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Perpetual Dickensian Poverty?

jefftkDec 21, 2021, 1:30 PM

121 points

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On (Not) Reading Papers

JanDec 21, 2021, 9:57 AM

53 points

32 votes

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10 comments7 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Quick Poll: Booster Reactions

ElizabethDec 21, 2021, 7:40 AM

40 points

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition

Ben PaceDec 21, 2021, 7:24 AM

174 points

89 votes

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56 comments5 min readLW link

Researcher incentives cause smoother progress on benchmarks

ryan_greenblattDec 21, 2021, 4:13 AM

20 points

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Omicron Post #8

ZviDec 20, 2021, 11:10 PM

96 points

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33 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Good complete views on motivation

ValdesDec 20, 2021, 10:10 PM

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Prizes for last year’s 2019 Review

RaemonDec 20, 2021, 9:58 PM

40 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Paths

jefftkDec 20, 2021, 6:30 PM

14 points

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8 comments2 min readLW link

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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?

freedomandutilityDec 20, 2021, 5:35 PM

4 points

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Conserving Evidence

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM

9 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are “non-computable functions” always hard to solve in practice?

MorpheusDec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM

4 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

A Short Note on My Value Notion

aysajanDec 20, 2021, 2:35 PM

11 points

6 votes

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10 comments3 min readLW link

Parenting: “Try harder next time” is bad advice for kids too

Steven ByrnesDec 20, 2021, 2:18 PM

60 points

34 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

ZviDec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM

122 points

71 votes

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20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Buckets & Bayes

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Dec 20, 2021, 5:54 AM

34 points

18 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

Business Writing Example #2

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:06 AM

55 points

43 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Business Writing Example #1

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:02 AM

65 points

44 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

The Tree of Worlds (Solstice speech)

jchanDec 20, 2021, 4:39 AM

8 points

4 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

SGD Understood through Probability Current

J BostockDec 19, 2021, 11:26 PM

24 points

10 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Beware using words off the probability distribution that generated them.

Donald HobsonDec 19, 2021, 4:52 PM

42 points

18 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Quis cancellat ipsos cancellores?

ChristianKlDec 19, 2021, 11:58 AM

2 points

24 votes

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31 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wholezero.org)

Don’t Influence the Influencers!

lhcDec 19, 2021, 9:02 AM

14 points

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2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Should I delay having children to take advantage of polygenic screening?

Mati_RoyDec 19, 2021, 6:39 AM

54 points

22 votes

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50 comments1 min readLW link

Falsifying Ethical Values

lsusrDec 19, 2021, 1:44 AM

5 points

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6 comments4 min readLW link

Elevated Air Purifier Cubes

jefftkDec 19, 2021, 12:50 AM

13 points

8 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

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Exploring Decision Theories With Counterfactuals and Dynamic Agent Self-Pointers

JoshuaOSHickmanDec 18, 2021, 9:50 PM

2 points

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Occupational Infohazards

jessicataDec 18, 2021, 8:56 PM

40 points

93 votes

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134 comments47 min readLW link

Laurie Anderson talks

DagonDec 18, 2021, 8:47 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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Disentangling Perspectives On Strategy-Stealing in AI Safety

shawnghuDec 18, 2021, 8:13 PM

20 points

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The end of Victorian culture, part II: people and history

David Hugh-JonesDec 18, 2021, 6:55 PM

9 points

7 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

How I became a person who wakes up early

Alex_AltairDec 18, 2021, 6:41 PM

71 points

45 votes

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12 comments4 min readLW link

[Extended Deadline: Jan 23rd] Announcing the PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship

Nora_AmmannDec 18, 2021, 4:56 PM

6 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Universal counterargument against “badness of death” is wrong

avturchinDec 18, 2021, 4:02 PM

27 points

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42 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing the Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimiDec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM

61 points

22 votes

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5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Important ML systems from before 2012?

JsevillamolDec 18, 2021, 12:12 PM

12 points

7 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

How the Equivalent Bet Test Actually Works

Erich_GrunewaldDec 18, 2021, 11:17 AM

4 points

2 votes

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Perishable Knowledge

lsusrDec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM

105 points

55 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Distractingness of Various Parts of Facebook

emily.fanDec 18, 2021, 3:35 AM

2 points

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DL towards the unaligned Recursive Self-Optimization attractor

jacob_cannellDec 18, 2021, 2:15 AM

32 points

13 votes

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22 comments4 min readLW link

A Tree of Light

Jarred FilmerDec 18, 2021, 12:36 AM

7 points

6 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM

115 points

36 votes

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42 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

[Question] Getting diagnosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on taking meds?

vroomerifyDec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM

6 points

3 votes

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Venture Granters, The VCs of public goods, incentivizing good dreams

mako yassDec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM

12 points

6 votes

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9 comments12 min readLW link

Understand the exponential function: R0 of the COVID

Yandong ZhangDec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM

−6 points

5 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

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