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[Question]
Confusion about Sequences and Review Sequences
Alex_Altair
Dec 21, 2021, 6:13 PM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Working through D&D.Sci, problem 1 (solution)
Pablo Repetto
Dec 21, 2021, 5:42 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Demanding and Designing Aligned Cognitive Architectures
Koen.Holtman
Dec 21, 2021, 5:32 PM
8
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Experiences raising children in shared housing
juliawise
Dec 21, 2021, 5:09 PM
117
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What questions do you have about doing work on AI safety?
peterbarnett
Dec 21, 2021, 4:36 PM
13
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Perpetual Dickensian Poverty?
jefftk
Dec 21, 2021, 1:30 PM
120
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
On (Not) Reading Papers
Jan
Dec 21, 2021, 9:57 AM
53
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
Quick Poll: Booster Reactions
Elizabeth
Dec 21, 2021, 7:40 AM
40
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Book Launch: The Engines of Cognition
Ben Pace
Dec 21, 2021, 7:24 AM
174
points
56
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Researcher incentives cause smoother progress on benchmarks
ryan_greenblatt
Dec 21, 2021, 4:13 AM
20
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Omicron Post #8
Zvi
Dec 20, 2021, 11:10 PM
96
points
33
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Good complete views on motivation
Valdes
Dec 20, 2021, 10:10 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prizes for last year’s 2019 Review
Raemon
Dec 20, 2021, 9:58 PM
40
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Omicron Paths
jefftk
Dec 20, 2021, 6:30 PM
14
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[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?
freedomandutility
Dec 20, 2021, 5:35 PM
4
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Conserving Evidence
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are “non-computable functions” always hard to solve in practice?
Morpheus
Dec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Short Note on My Value Notion
aysajan
Dec 20, 2021, 2:35 PM
11
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Parenting: “Try harder next time” is bad advice for kids too
Steven Byrnes
Dec 20, 2021, 2:18 PM
60
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Law of No Evidence
Zvi
Dec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM
122
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Buckets & Bayes
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Dec 20, 2021, 5:54 AM
34
points
0
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Business Writing Example #2
lsusr
Dec 20, 2021, 5:06 AM
55
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Business Writing Example #1
lsusr
Dec 20, 2021, 5:02 AM
65
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Tree of Worlds (Solstice speech)
jchan
Dec 20, 2021, 4:39 AM
8
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
SGD Understood through Probability Current
J Bostock
Dec 19, 2021, 11:26 PM
24
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Beware using words off the probability distribution that generated them.
Donald Hobson
Dec 19, 2021, 4:52 PM
42
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Quis cancellat ipsos cancellores?
ChristianKl
Dec 19, 2021, 11:58 AM
2
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.wholezero.org)
Don’t Influence the Influencers!
lhc
Dec 19, 2021, 9:02 AM
14
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Should I delay having children to take advantage of polygenic screening?
Mati_Roy
Dec 19, 2021, 6:39 AM
54
points
50
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Falsifying Ethical Values
lsusr
Dec 19, 2021, 1:44 AM
5
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Elevated Air Purifier Cubes
jefftk
Dec 19, 2021, 12:50 AM
13
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Exploring Decision Theories With Counterfactuals and Dynamic Agent Self-Pointers
JoshuaOSHickman
Dec 18, 2021, 9:50 PM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Occupational Infohazards
jessicata
Dec 18, 2021, 8:56 PM
39
points
134
comments
47
min read
LW
link
Laurie Anderson talks
Dagon
Dec 18, 2021, 8:47 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Disentangling Perspectives On Strategy-Stealing in AI Safety
shawnghu
Dec 18, 2021, 8:13 PM
20
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
The end of Victorian culture, part II: people and history
David Hugh-Jones
Dec 18, 2021, 6:55 PM
9
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(wyclif.substack.com)
How I became a person who wakes up early
Alex_Altair
Dec 18, 2021, 6:41 PM
71
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Extended Deadline: Jan 23rd] Announcing the PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship
Nora_Ammann
Dec 18, 2021, 4:56 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Universal counterargument against “badness of death” is wrong
avturchin
Dec 18, 2021, 4:02 PM
27
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing the Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Fellowship
adamShimi
Dec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM
61
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Important ML systems from before 2012?
Jsevillamol
Dec 18, 2021, 12:12 PM
12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How the Equivalent Bet Test Actually Works
Erich_Grunewald
Dec 18, 2021, 11:17 AM
4
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
Perishable Knowledge
lsusr
Dec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM
104
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Distractingness of Various Parts of Facebook
emily.fan
Dec 18, 2021, 3:35 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
DL towards the unaligned Recursive Self-Optimization attractor
jacob_cannell
Dec 18, 2021, 2:15 AM
32
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Tree of Light
Jarred Filmer
Dec 18, 2021, 12:36 AM
7
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
Dec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115
points
43
comments
LW
link
2
reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)
[Question]
Getting diagnosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on taking meds?
vroomerify
Dec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Venture Granters, The VCs of public goods, incentivizing good dreams
mako yass
Dec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM
12
points
9
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Understand the exponential function: R0 of the COVID
Yandong Zhang
Dec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM
−6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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