Gifts

George3d622 Dec 2021 23:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

A spread­sheet/​tem­plate for do­ing an an­nual review

peterslattery22 Dec 2021 23:29 UTC
12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What time in your life were you the most pro­duc­tive at learn­ing and/​or think­ing and why?

Jack R22 Dec 2021 22:56 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Trans­former Circuits

evhub22 Dec 2021 21:09 UTC
144 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(transformer-circuits.pub)

[Question] Help figur­ing out my sex­u­al­ity?

Centhart22 Dec 2021 20:28 UTC
13 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

DnD.Sci GURPS Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

J Bostock22 Dec 2021 19:05 UTC
17 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial gears level ex­pla­na­tions of smooth progress

ryan_greenblatt22 Dec 2021 18:05 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ran­dom facts can come back to bite you

tailcalled22 Dec 2021 17:33 UTC
66 points
7 comments2 min readLW link1 review

What’s Up With the CDC Now­cast?

Zvi22 Dec 2021 13:00 UTC
61 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 1

Joe Carlsmith22 Dec 2021 8:47 UTC
20 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

Six Spe­cial­iza­tions Makes You World-Class

lsusr22 Dec 2021 8:03 UTC
53 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Wor­ld­build­ing ex­er­cise: The High­way­verse.

Yair Halberstadt22 Dec 2021 6:47 UTC
13 points
13 comments11 min readLW link

Two (very differ­ent) kinds of donors

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien22 Dec 2021 1:43 UTC
101 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Con­fu­sion about Se­quences and Re­view Sequences

Alex_Altair21 Dec 2021 18:13 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Pablo Repetto21 Dec 2021 17:42 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

De­mand­ing and De­sign­ing Aligned Cog­ni­tive Architectures

Koen.Holtman21 Dec 2021 17:32 UTC
8 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­pe­riences rais­ing chil­dren in shared housing

juliawise21 Dec 2021 17:09 UTC
116 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

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

peterbarnett21 Dec 2021 16:36 UTC
13 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Per­pet­ual Dick­en­sian Poverty?

jefftk21 Dec 2021 13:30 UTC
119 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On (Not) Read­ing Papers

Jan21 Dec 2021 9:57 UTC
52 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Quick Poll: Booster Reactions

Elizabeth21 Dec 2021 7:40 UTC
40 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Book Launch: The Eng­ines of Cognition

Ben Pace21 Dec 2021 7:24 UTC
174 points
55 comments5 min readLW link

Re­searcher in­cen­tives cause smoother progress on bench­marks

ryan_greenblatt21 Dec 2021 4:13 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ma­nipu­la­tion re­sis­tance of futarchy

harper owen21 Dec 2021 0:33 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Omicron Post #8

Zvi20 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC
96 points
33 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Good com­plete views on motivation

Valdes20 Dec 2021 22:10 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prizes for last year’s 2019 Review

Raemon20 Dec 2021 21:58 UTC
40 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Paths

jefftk20 Dec 2021 18:30 UTC
14 points
8 comments2 min readLW 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?

freedomandutility20 Dec 2021 17:35 UTC
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Con­serv­ing Evidence

Gordon Seidoh Worley20 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

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

Morpheus20 Dec 2021 16:32 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Short Note on My Value Notion

aysajan20 Dec 2021 14:35 UTC
11 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

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

Steven Byrnes20 Dec 2021 14:18 UTC
57 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

Zvi20 Dec 2021 13:50 UTC
121 points
19 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Buck­ets & Bayes

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien20 Dec 2021 5:54 UTC
34 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #2

lsusr20 Dec 2021 5:06 UTC
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #1

lsusr20 Dec 2021 5:02 UTC
65 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Tree of Wor­lds (Sols­tice speech)

jchan20 Dec 2021 4:39 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

SGD Un­der­stood through Prob­a­bil­ity Current

J Bostock19 Dec 2021 23:26 UTC
23 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald Hobson19 Dec 2021 16:52 UTC
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Quis can­cel­lat ip­sos can­cel­lores?

ChristianKl19 Dec 2021 11:58 UTC
2 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wholezero.org)

Don’t In­fluence the In­fluencers!

lhc19 Dec 2021 9:02 UTC
14 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

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

Mati_Roy19 Dec 2021 6:39 UTC
54 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Falsify­ing Eth­i­cal Values

lsusr19 Dec 2021 1:44 UTC
5 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Ele­vated Air Puri­fier Cubes

jefftk19 Dec 2021 0:50 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­plor­ing De­ci­sion The­o­ries With Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Dy­namic Agent Self-Pointers

JoshuaOSHickman18 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicata18 Dec 2021 20:56 UTC
35 points
133 comments47 min readLW link

Lau­rie An­der­son talks

Dagon18 Dec 2021 20:47 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Disen­tan­gling Per­spec­tives On Strat­egy-Steal­ing in AI Safety

shawnghu18 Dec 2021 20:13 UTC
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

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

David Hugh-Jones18 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)