Notes on effec­tive-al­tru­ism-re­lated re­search, writ­ing, test­ing fit, learn­ing, and the EA Forum

MichaelA28 Mar 2021 23:43 UTC
14 points
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Trans­parency Trichotomy

Mark Xu28 Mar 2021 20:26 UTC
25 points
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Im­prove­ment for pun­dit pre­dic­tion comparisons

orthonormal28 Mar 2021 18:50 UTC
16 points
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The Point of Easy Progress

silentbob28 Mar 2021 16:38 UTC
59 points
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Re­view of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Com­pute”

28 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC
63 points
21 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Buy­ing a house and mak­ing friends in un­ex­pected places

dominicq28 Mar 2021 14:35 UTC
28 points
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The (not so) para­dox­i­cal asym­me­try be­tween po­si­tion and momentum

Erik Jenner28 Mar 2021 13:31 UTC
21 points
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In­framea­sures and Do­main Theory

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:19 UTC
27 points
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In­fra-Do­main proofs 1

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:16 UTC
13 points
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In­fra-Do­main Proofs 2

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:15 UTC
13 points
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Vio­lat­ing the EMH—Pre­dic­tion Markets

sapphire28 Mar 2021 4:05 UTC
40 points
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Core Path­ways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC
264 points
123 comments22 min readLW link1 review

Nash Equil­ibria in Liti­ga­tion Set­tle­ment Ne­go­ti­a­tion in the U.S.A.

supposedlyfun27 Mar 2021 23:26 UTC
10 points
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Mak­ing a Cheer­ful Bid

DirectedEvolution27 Mar 2021 19:37 UTC
10 points
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Think like an ed­u­ca­tor about code quality

Adam Zerner27 Mar 2021 5:43 UTC
44 points
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[Question] Cal­ibrat­ing Ad­e­quate Food Consumption

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Mar 2021 0:00 UTC
5 points
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Guild of Ser­vants Bac­cha­na­lia (March 27, 2021)

moridinamael26 Mar 2021 16:35 UTC
12 points
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Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments im­ply a force for goal-di­rected behavior

KatjaGrace26 Mar 2021 16:10 UTC
91 points
24 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

Where did the idea of x-risk come from?

fowlertm26 Mar 2021 15:39 UTC
−8 points
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Learn and prac­tice us­ing Han­lon’s Ra­zor with ex­er­cises.

icompetetowin26 Mar 2021 14:20 UTC
−7 points
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(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

CFAR rEUnion (Septem­ber 24-27, 2021)

Jiří Nádvorník26 Mar 2021 10:51 UTC
33 points
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Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Re­quires Com­mon In­ter­ests or Differ­en­tial Sig­nal Costs

Zack_M_Davis26 Mar 2021 6:41 UTC
40 points
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Toward A Bayesian The­ory Of Willpower

Scott Alexander26 Mar 2021 2:33 UTC
102 points
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Some things I’ve learned in college

Aaron Bergman25 Mar 2021 21:30 UTC
22 points
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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Use your ra­tio­nal­ity or it’s useless

XxX25 Mar 2021 21:23 UTC
4 points
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Money Buys Happiness

XxX25 Mar 2021 21:02 UTC
0 points
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Call to the tech­ni­cal sup­port of reality

bayesyatina25 Mar 2021 20:05 UTC
8 points
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The dan­ger of er­ror descriptions

gistya25 Mar 2021 20:05 UTC
−1 points
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Austin Vir­tual Meetup 3/​27: Cal­ibra­tion prac­tice with Wits and Wagers

SilasBarta25 Mar 2021 17:53 UTC
9 points
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On lan­guage mod­el­ing and fu­ture ab­stract rea­son­ing research

alexlyzhov25 Mar 2021 17:43 UTC
3 points
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(docs.google.com)

[Question] Is a Self-Iter­at­ing AGI Vuln­er­a­ble to Thomp­son-style Tro­jans?

sxae25 Mar 2021 14:46 UTC
15 points
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Covid 3/​25: Own Goals

Zvi25 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC
80 points
17 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

My AGI Threat Model: Misal­igned Model-Based RL Agent

Steven Byrnes25 Mar 2021 13:45 UTC
68 points
40 comments16 min readLW link

The Strange Case of the Amar­illo Option

adaminoue25 Mar 2021 6:16 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(inoue.substack.com)

The best fre­quently don’t rise to the top

Adam Zerner25 Mar 2021 6:10 UTC
34 points
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Cu­ri­os­ity needs courage

Amir Bolous25 Mar 2021 3:38 UTC
24 points
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Why 1-box­ing doesn’t im­ply back­wards causation

Chris_Leong25 Mar 2021 2:32 UTC
7 points
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Write a busi­ness plan already

bfinn25 Mar 2021 0:13 UTC
17 points
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How You Can Gain Self Con­trol Without “Self-Con­trol”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC
109 points
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Magic Shoes

onur24 Mar 2021 21:14 UTC
11 points
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[Question] Why is COVID re­in­fec­tion rate still so un­cer­tain.

gleb24 Mar 2021 21:12 UTC
1 point
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[AN #143]: How to make em­bed­ded agents that rea­son prob­a­bil­is­ti­cally about their environments

Rohin Shah24 Mar 2021 17:20 UTC
13 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What does the re­ac­tion to NFTs tell us about how peo­ple eval­u­ate ecolog­i­cal dam­age?

sxae24 Mar 2021 16:01 UTC
1 point
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The Price Of Space Is Friendship

sxae24 Mar 2021 11:27 UTC
13 points
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Toy model of prefer­ence, bias, and ex­tra information

Stuart_Armstrong24 Mar 2021 10:14 UTC
9 points
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Sel­ling At­ten­tion for Money

MikkW24 Mar 2021 6:24 UTC
24 points
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Another RadVac Test­ing Update

johnswentworth23 Mar 2021 17:29 UTC
138 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

Mary and the Black And White Me­mory Implant

sxae23 Mar 2021 16:48 UTC
−2 points
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Prefer­ences and bi­ases, the in­for­ma­tion argument

Stuart_Armstrong23 Mar 2021 12:44 UTC
14 points
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Against evolu­tion as an anal­ogy for how hu­mans will cre­ate AGI

Steven Byrnes23 Mar 2021 12:29 UTC
65 points
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