Strong Ev­i­dence is Common

Mark Xu13 Mar 2021 22:04 UTC
244 points
50 comments1 min readLW link4 reviews
(markxu.com)

Quotes from the WWMoR Pod­cast Epi­sode with Eliezer

MondSemmel13 Mar 2021 21:43 UTC
94 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Mak­ing friends

dominicq13 Mar 2021 19:23 UTC
27 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

My at­tempt to find the mean­ing of existence

PeterL13 Mar 2021 17:13 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

On Chang­ing Minds That Aren’t Mine, and The In­stinct to Sur­ren­der.

Anomal313 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC
14 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

How to use hyp­n­a­gogic hal­lu­ci­na­tions as biofeed­back to re­lieve insomnia

David Gross13 Mar 2021 15:28 UTC
47 points
21 comments21 min readLW link

Fe­bru­ary 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern13 Mar 2021 14:57 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Ex­ploit­ing Crypto Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets for Fun and Profit

Srdjan Miletic13 Mar 2021 2:31 UTC
31 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

[Video] In­tel­li­gence and Stu­pidity: The Orthog­o­nal­ity Thesis

plex13 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Trapped Pri­ors As A Ba­sic Prob­lem Of Rationality

Scott Alexander12 Mar 2021 20:02 UTC
141 points
32 comments14 min readLW link3 reviews

Covid 3/​12: New CDC Guidelines Available

Zvi12 Mar 2021 17:20 UTC
101 points
28 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Beliefs” vs. “No­tions”

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)12 Mar 2021 16:04 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Ri­gor­ous poli­ti­cal sci­ence?

abramdemski12 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How can we stop talk­ing past each other when it comes to pos­tra­tional­ity?

ChristianKl12 Mar 2021 15:15 UTC
−21 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

Erich_Grunewald12 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC
26 points
0 comments11 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

How I come up with ideas

lsusr12 Mar 2021 9:01 UTC
38 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where does the phrase “cen­tral ex­am­ple” come from?

Alex_Altair12 Mar 2021 5:57 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Kelly Bet­ting Discussion

Raemon12 Mar 2021 0:10 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Im­pact of de­lay­ing vac­ci­na­tions on the to­tal num­ber of deaths

qbolec11 Mar 2021 23:49 UTC
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 Kucharski11 Mar 2021 23:16 UTC
−1 points
2 comments20 min readLW link

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

Kenny11 Mar 2021 21:27 UTC
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Learn and prac­tice us­ing Oc­cam’s Ra­zor with exercises

icompetetowin11 Mar 2021 20:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

Killing Moloch with “Nudge tech”?

nathanlippi11 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Four Mo­ti­va­tions for Learn­ing Normativity

abramdemski11 Mar 2021 20:13 UTC
42 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Re­s­olu­tions to the Challenge of Re­solv­ing Forecasts

Davidmanheim11 Mar 2021 19:08 UTC
58 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Partnership

Ruby11 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Community

Ruby11 Mar 2021 17:14 UTC
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[re­cur­rent] Fo­cus­mate: cry­on­ics and lifelogging

Mati_Roy11 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pa­ram­e­ter vs Sy­napse?

Tomás B.11 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral Suffi­cient Statis­tics for Goal-Directedness

adamShimi11 Mar 2021 15:01 UTC
21 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

An­i­mal faces

KatjaGrace11 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC
45 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Are dogs bad?

qbolec11 Mar 2021 8:11 UTC
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

aarongertler11 Mar 2021 6:22 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

TASP Ep 3 - Op­ti­mal Poli­cies Tend to Seek Power

Quinn11 Mar 2021 1:44 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)

Re­sponses and Tes­ti­monies on EA Growth

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC
67 points
3 comments15 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems with Myopia

10 Mar 2021 18:38 UTC
65 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

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

Rohin Shah10 Mar 2021 18:30 UTC
27 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

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

Aryeh Englander10 Mar 2021 18:13 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(jair.org)

Ex­tended Pic­ture The­ory or Models in­side Models in­side Models

Chris_Leong10 Mar 2021 13:24 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

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

davidgasquez10 Mar 2021 13:03 UTC
5 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Quaran­tine variety

KatjaGrace10 Mar 2021 8:40 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Even In­fla­tion­ary Cur­ren­cies Should Have Fixed To­tal Supply

MikkW10 Mar 2021 5:41 UTC
0 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 5 - In­fra-Bayesi­anism with Vanessa Kosoy

DanielFilan10 Mar 2021 4:30 UTC
35 points
12 comments36 min readLW link

The Cost of a Sixth Seat

jefftk10 Mar 2021 3:20 UTC
16 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Primer on United States Treasuries

Annapurna10 Mar 2021 3:08 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Defla­tion­ism isn’t the solu­tion to philos­o­phy’s woes

Rob Bensinger10 Mar 2021 0:20 UTC
62 points
44 comments8 min readLW link

[Pre­dic­tion] The Con­se­quences of Rad­i­cal Reform

lsusr9 Mar 2021 23:05 UTC
36 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

Defend­ing the non-cen­tral fallacy

Matthew Barnett9 Mar 2021 21:42 UTC
133 points
38 comments6 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolution9 Mar 2021 20:45 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Towards a Mechanis­tic Un­der­stand­ing of Goal-Directedness

Mark Xu9 Mar 2021 20:17 UTC
45 points
1 comment5 min readLW link