Im­pact of de­lay­ing vac­ci­na­tions on the to­tal num­ber of deaths

qbolecMar 11, 2021, 11:49 PM
5 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

I want to die in an in­finite uni­verse. How philos­o­phy led me to the deep­est heights of in­differ­ent de­spair.

Szymon KucharskiMar 11, 2021, 11:16 PM
−1 points
2 comments20 min readLW link

[Question] What’s a good way to test ba­sic ma­chine learn­ing code?

KennyMar 11, 2021, 9:27 PM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Learn and prac­tice us­ing Oc­cam’s Ra­zor with exercises

icompetetowinMar 11, 2021, 8:29 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

Killing Moloch with “Nudge tech”?

nathanlippiMar 11, 2021, 8:28 PM
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Four Mo­ti­va­tions for Learn­ing Normativity

abramdemskiMar 11, 2021, 8:13 PM
42 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Re­s­olu­tions to the Challenge of Re­solv­ing Forecasts

DavidmanheimMar 11, 2021, 7:08 PM
58 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Partnership

RubyMar 11, 2021, 5:17 PM
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Community

RubyMar 11, 2021, 5:14 PM
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[re­cur­rent] Fo­cus­mate: cry­on­ics and lifelogging

Mati_RoyMar 11, 2021, 4:28 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pa­ram­e­ter vs Sy­napse?

Tomás B.Mar 11, 2021, 3:30 PM
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral Suffi­cient Statis­tics for Goal-Directedness

adamShimiMar 11, 2021, 3:01 PM
21 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

An­i­mal faces

KatjaGraceMar 11, 2021, 8:50 AM
45 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Are dogs bad?

qbolecMar 11, 2021, 8:11 AM
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Tom Chivers, au­thor of “The AI Does Not Hate You”, is run­ning an AMA on the EA Forum

aarongertlerMar 11, 2021, 6:22 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

TASP Ep 3 - Op­ti­mal Poli­cies Tend to Seek Power

QuinnMar 11, 2021, 1:44 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)

Re­sponses and Tes­ti­monies on EA Growth

AppliedDivinityStudiesMar 10, 2021, 10:57 PM
67 points
3 comments15 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems with Myopia

Mar 10, 2021, 6:38 PM
66 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

[AN #141]: The case for prac­tic­ing al­ign­ment work on GPT-3 and other large models

Rohin ShahMar 10, 2021, 6:30 PM
27 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Link] Whit­tle­stone et al., The So­cietal Im­pli­ca­tions of Deep Re­in­force­ment Learning

Aryeh EnglanderMar 10, 2021, 6:13 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(jair.org)

Ex­tended Pic­ture The­ory or Models in­side Models in­side Models

Chris_LeongMar 10, 2021, 1:24 PM
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What is the low hang­ing fruit of things we could be do­ing to im­prove so­ciety?

davidgasquezMar 10, 2021, 1:03 PM
5 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Quaran­tine variety

KatjaGraceMar 10, 2021, 8:40 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Even In­fla­tion­ary Cur­ren­cies Should Have Fixed To­tal Supply

MikkWMar 10, 2021, 5:41 AM
0 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 5 - In­fra-Bayesi­anism with Vanessa Kosoy

DanielFilanMar 10, 2021, 4:30 AM
35 points
12 comments36 min readLW link

The Cost of a Sixth Seat

jefftkMar 10, 2021, 3:20 AM
16 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Primer on United States Treasuries

AnnapurnaMar 10, 2021, 3:08 AM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Defla­tion­ism isn’t the solu­tion to philos­o­phy’s woes

Rob BensingerMar 10, 2021, 12:20 AM
63 points
44 comments8 min readLW link

[Pre­dic­tion] The Con­se­quences of Rad­i­cal Reform

lsusrMar 9, 2021, 11:05 PM
36 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Defend­ing the non-cen­tral fallacy

Matthew BarnettMar 9, 2021, 9:42 PM
140 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

De-con­fus­ing my­self about Pas­cal’s Mug­ging and New­comb’s Problem

DirectedEvolutionMar 9, 2021, 8:45 PM
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Towards a Mechanis­tic Un­der­stand­ing of Goal-Directedness

Mark XuMar 9, 2021, 8:17 PM
46 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Why does Ap­plied Div­inity Stud­ies think EA hasn’t grown since 2015?

KatjaGraceMar 9, 2021, 10:10 AM
51 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Will Mar­tian G be enough to make healthy baseline ba­bies?

Randomized, ControlledMar 9, 2021, 3:30 AM
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

CLR’s re­cent work on multi-agent systems

JesseCliftonMar 9, 2021, 2:28 AM
54 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Why Hasn’t Effec­tive Altru­ism Grown Since 2015?

AppliedDivinityStudiesMar 9, 2021, 1:43 AM
64 points
28 comments9 min readLW link

D&D.Sci III Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplicMar 8, 2021, 11:01 PM
16 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Fram­ing for AI Align­ment Research

adamShimiMar 8, 2021, 10:05 PM
58 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

What I’d change about differ­ent philos­o­phy fields

Rob BensingerMar 8, 2021, 6:25 PM
56 points
52 comments4 min readLW link

[Lec­ture Club] Awak­en­ing from the Mean­ing Crisis

VaniverMar 8, 2021, 3:22 PM
72 points
207 comments2 min readLW link

If you’ve learned from the best, you’re do­ing it wrong

George3d6Mar 8, 2021, 1:14 PM
36 points
18 comments6 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

Sim­ple Tricks to Im­prove KN95 Masks

dawangyMar 8, 2021, 8:59 AM
25 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Care and demandingness

Joe CarlsmithMar 8, 2021, 7:03 AM
25 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

Ir­ra­tional ar­gu­ments or valuable heuris­tics?

Hauntology Ph.D.Mar 8, 2021, 5:34 AM
8 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How I Meditate

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMar 8, 2021, 3:34 AM
18 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

The Case for Log­i­cal Fallacies

Aaron BergmanMar 8, 2021, 3:04 AM
14 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

A sim­ple way to make GPT-3 fol­low instructions

Quintin PopeMar 8, 2021, 2:57 AM
11 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Sleep math: red clay blue clay

KatjaGraceMar 8, 2021, 12:30 AM
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

See­ing Sta­tus Quo Bias

LironMar 8, 2021, 12:24 AM
27 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

PhD stu­dent mu­tual line-man­ager invitation

Tim LiptrotMar 7, 2021, 11:06 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link