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[Question]
Voting-like mechanisms which address size of preferences?
abramdemski
Mar 18, 2021, 11:23 PM
36
points
29
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Chaos Induces Abstractions
johnswentworth
Mar 18, 2021, 8:08 PM
100
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The EMH is False—Specific Strong Evidence
sapphire
Mar 18, 2021, 6:38 PM
62
points
83
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Why sigmoids are so hard to predict
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 18, 2021, 6:21 PM
56
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Book Club: Software Design for Flexibility
stuhlmueller
Mar 18, 2021, 3:42 PM
43
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Acetylcholine = Learning rate (aka plasticity)
Steven Byrnes
Mar 18, 2021, 1:57 PM
38
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Is RL involved in sensory processing?
Steven Byrnes
Mar 18, 2021, 1:57 PM
21
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Learn and practice using the Circle of Competence with exercises
icompetetowin
Mar 18, 2021, 1:56 PM
1
point
4
comments
LW
link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)
Covid 3/18: An Expected Quantity of Blood Clots
Zvi
Mar 18, 2021, 1:50 PM
74
points
25
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Spirits vs Terms as Arbitration Norms
rai
Mar 18, 2021, 5:07 AM
20
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are fun little puzzles / games / exercises to learn interesting concepts?
Mati_Roy
Mar 18, 2021, 3:26 AM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The best things are often free or cheap
Adam Zerner
Mar 18, 2021, 2:57 AM
25
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Product orientation
DirectedEvolution
Mar 18, 2021, 12:41 AM
14
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Age of Imaginative Machines
Yuli_Ban
Mar 18, 2021, 12:35 AM
10
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
“Objective vs Social Reality” vs “Simulacra 1/3″
Raemon
Mar 17, 2021, 10:15 PM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AstraZeneca vaccine shows no protection against Covid-19 variant from Africa
Gytis Daujotas
Mar 17, 2021, 6:45 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #142]: The quest to understand a network well enough to reimplement it by hand
Rohin Shah
Mar 17, 2021, 5:10 PM
36
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Sharing a Car
jefftk
Mar 17, 2021, 1:30 PM
12
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
HCH Speculation Post #2A
Charlie Steiner
Mar 17, 2021, 1:26 PM
43
points
7
comments
9
min read
LW
link
On Attempts to Transcend our Models of Numbers
Chris_Leong
Mar 17, 2021, 8:37 AM
9
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Politics is way too meta
Rob Bensinger
Mar 17, 2021, 7:04 AM
291
points
46
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Intermittent Distillations #1
Mark Xu
Mar 17, 2021, 5:15 AM
25
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Nutrition for brain.
Valentin2026
Mar 17, 2021, 5:00 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comments on “The Singularity is Nowhere Near”
Steven Byrnes
Mar 16, 2021, 11:59 PM
51
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
MetaPrompt: a tool for telling yourself what to do.
abramdemski
Mar 16, 2021, 8:49 PM
66
points
12
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Partial-Consciousness as semantic/symbolic representational language model trained on NN
Joe Kwon
Mar 16, 2021, 6:51 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Antropic Argument for Post-singularity Antinatalism
monkaap
Mar 16, 2021, 5:40 PM
1
point
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is rhetoric taboo among rationalists?
TOoHNA
Mar 16, 2021, 5:38 PM
−5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can an economy keep on growing?
invertedpassion
Mar 16, 2021, 9:55 AM
1
point
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Conversation Exchange Statistics
lsusr
Mar 16, 2021, 8:50 AM
23
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Link: How to Star-Man
Chris_Leong
Mar 16, 2021, 3:12 AM
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(centerforinquiry.org)
Bay and/or Global Solstice* Job Search (2021 − 2022)
Raemon
,
Alex_Altair
and
LauraVaughan
Mar 16, 2021, 12:21 AM
37
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Mathematical Definitions?
johnswentworth
Mar 15, 2021, 9:51 PM
208
points
61
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Wild Reading
DirectedEvolution
Mar 15, 2021, 9:34 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Nitric Oxide Spray… a cure for COVID19??
Shmi
Mar 15, 2021, 7:36 PM
25
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Anyone been through IFS or coherence therapy?
warrenjordan
Mar 15, 2021, 6:35 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Return to New York City
Zvi
Mar 15, 2021, 3:20 PM
19
points
6
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Feedback calibration
cousin_it
Mar 15, 2021, 2:24 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AstraZeneca COVID Vaccine and blood clots
jmh
Mar 15, 2021, 1:16 PM
10
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Clubhouse
lsusr
Mar 15, 2021, 3:38 AM
41
points
33
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Impact of the rationalist community who someone who aspired to be “rational”
Arthur Milchior
Mar 15, 2021, 2:54 AM
27
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 15, 2021, 1:55 AM
44
points
8
comments
11
min read
LW
link
1
review
Dark Matters
Diffractor
Mar 14, 2021, 11:36 PM
240
points
23
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Predictions for future dispositions toward Twitter
mike_hawke
Mar 14, 2021, 10:10 PM
14
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Seatbelt Extenders and Booster Seats
jefftk
14 Mar 2021 21:50 UTC
16
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Haskenthetical update: user-defined macros
philh
14 Mar 2021 21:20 UTC
7
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
Exploring Luck
arashparam
14 Mar 2021 19:12 UTC
3
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AI x-risk reduction: why I chose academia over industry
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
14 Mar 2021 17:25 UTC
56
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The non-central fallacy and Law
ThomasMore
14 Mar 2021 15:09 UTC
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Physicalism implies experience never dies. So what am I going to experience after it does?
Szymon Kucharski
14 Mar 2021 14:45 UTC
−1
points
1
comment
30
min read
LW
link
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