Con­vict Con­di­tion­ing Book Review

BoraskoApr 9, 2021, 10:10 PM
40 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Iden­ti­fi­a­bil­ity Prob­lem for Su­per­ra­tional De­ci­sion Theories

BunthutApr 9, 2021, 8:33 PM
17 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Opinions on In­ter­pretable Ma­chine Learn­ing and 70 Sum­maries of Re­cent Papers

Apr 9, 2021, 7:19 PM
141 points
17 comments102 min readLW link

My Cur­rent Take on Counterfactuals

abramdemskiApr 9, 2021, 5:51 PM
54 points
57 comments25 min readLW link

[AN #145]: Our three year an­niver­sary!

Rohin ShahApr 9, 2021, 5:48 PM
19 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why un­rig­gable *al­most* im­plies uninfluenceable

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 9, 2021, 5:07 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 4/​9: Another Vac­cine Pass­port Objection

ZviApr 9, 2021, 2:50 PM
54 points
34 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beliefs as emo­tional strategies

Kaj_SotalaApr 9, 2021, 2:28 PM
75 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawfordApr 8, 2021, 10:03 PM
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chwApr 8, 2021, 9:42 PM
29 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

A Sys­tem For Evolv­ing In­creas­ingly Gen­eral Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence From Cur­rent Technologies

Tsang Chung ShuApr 8, 2021, 9:37 PM
1 point
3 comments11 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 6 - De­bate and Imi­ta­tive Gen­er­al­iza­tion with Beth Barnes

DanielFilanApr 8, 2021, 9:20 PM
26 points
3 comments60 min readLW link

Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

QuinnApr 8, 2021, 7:25 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Homeo­static Bruce

matejsuchyApr 8, 2021, 7:13 PM
13 points
8 comments10 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

A pos­si­ble prefer­ence algorithm

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2021, 6:25 PM
22 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

If you don’t de­sign for ex­trap­o­la­tion, you’ll ex­trap­o­late poorly—pos­si­bly fatally

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 8, 2021, 6:10 PM
17 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Statis­ti­cal Inference

Rafael HarthApr 8, 2021, 5:49 PM
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Probability

Rafael HarthApr 8, 2021, 5:48 PM
7 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

The Ja­panese Quiz: a Thought Ex­per­i­ment of Statis­ti­cal Epistemology

DanBApr 8, 2021, 5:37 PM
11 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Solv­ing the whole AGI con­trol prob­lem, ver­sion 0.0001

Steven ByrnesApr 8, 2021, 3:14 PM
63 points
7 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] How should I be­have ≥14 days af­ter my first mRNA vac­cine dose but be­fore my sec­ond dose?

dsjApr 8, 2021, 6:24 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any plau­si­ble mechanisms for why tak­ing an mRNA vac­cine might be un­de­sir­able for a young healthy adult?

Mati_RoyApr 8, 2021, 1:18 AM
28 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Perseverance

David GrossApr 8, 2021, 12:01 AM
10 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Open and Wel­come Thread—April 2021

RaemonApr 7, 2021, 9:15 PM
13 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Another (outer) al­ign­ment failure story

paulfchristianoApr 7, 2021, 8:12 PM
249 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Which coun­ter­fac­tu­als should an AI fol­low?

Stuart_ArmstrongApr 7, 2021, 4:47 PM
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If my pre­vi­ous re­search is wrong, what are my op­tions ?

BB6Apr 7, 2021, 4:44 PM
50 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Newslet­ter Three Year Retrospective

Rohin ShahApr 7, 2021, 2:39 PM
55 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

2020 pre­dic­tions—Poli­tics, Econ, Tech

BuckyApr 7, 2021, 2:10 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Com­pound­ing In­cum­bent Advantage

adaminoueApr 7, 2021, 1:40 PM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inoue.today)

I Trained a Neu­ral Net­work to Play Helltaker

lsusrApr 7, 2021, 8:24 AM
34 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Vim

lsusrApr 7, 2021, 6:35 AM
48 points
57 comments18 min readLW link

Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolutionApr 6, 2021, 10:38 PM
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg9005Apr 6, 2021, 9:28 PM
−1 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworthApr 6, 2021, 9:24 PM
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

AI or­a­cles on blockchain

CaravaggioApr 6, 2021, 8:13 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will GPT-4 be in­ca­pable of?

Michaël TrazziApr 6, 2021, 7:57 PM
34 points
33 commentsLW link

Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemskiApr 6, 2021, 7:48 PM
62 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:02 PM
72 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:00 PM
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

There Is No Con­trol Sys­tem For COVID

Mike HarrisApr 6, 2021, 5:16 PM
35 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

The Accord

Timothy UnderwoodApr 6, 2021, 3:44 PM
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

March 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernApr 6, 2021, 2:06 PM
16 points
2 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Prevent­ing over­charg­ing by prosecutors

ChristianKlApr 6, 2021, 11:13 AM
29 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykovApr 6, 2021, 11:01 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Many Faces of In­fra-Beliefs

DiffractorApr 6, 2021, 10:43 AM
30 points
6 comments63 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a mu-like term that means some­thing like “why is this any of my busi­ness?”

CraigMichaelApr 6, 2021, 7:47 AM
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to A Crack­pot Physics

ACrackedPotApr 5, 2021, 11:59 PM
−4 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

Apr 5, 2021, 10:09 PM
173 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Risk Bud­gets vs. Ba­sic De­ci­sion Theory

Vlad FiroiuApr 5, 2021, 9:55 PM
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link