Want­ing to Suc­ceed on Every Met­ric Presented

Logan RiggsApr 12, 2021, 8:43 PM
72 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Flash­cards for De­liber­ate Practice

DirectedEvolutionApr 12, 2021, 7:07 PM
23 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How long would you wait to get Moderna/​Pfizer vs J&J?

SameerishereApr 12, 2021, 6:23 PM
25 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci April 2021: Voy­ages of the Gray Swan

abstractapplicApr 12, 2021, 6:23 PM
53 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Post-COVID In­te­gra­tion Rituals

UnrealApr 12, 2021, 4:54 PM
43 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

A New Cen­ter? [Poli­tics] [Wish­ful Think­ing]

abramdemskiApr 12, 2021, 3:19 PM
62 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

On Falsify­ing the Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis (or Em­brac­ing its Pre­dic­tions)

lorepieriApr 12, 2021, 12:12 AM
8 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

“Tak­ing your en­vi­ron­ment as ob­ject” vs “Be­ing sub­ject to your en­vi­ron­ment”

Ben PaceApr 11, 2021, 10:47 PM
87 points
17 comments3 min readLW link

Bayes’ the­o­rem, plau­si­ble de­ni­a­bil­ity, and smiley faces

Adam ZernerApr 11, 2021, 8:41 PM
24 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Peo­ple Will Listen

sapphireApr 11, 2021, 4:51 PM
85 points
36 comments4 min readLW link

[LINK] Luck, Skill, and Im­prov­ing at Games

Davis_KingsleyApr 11, 2021, 2:35 PM
13 points
3 commentsLW link
(towernumbernine.com)

Ben Go­ertzel’s “Kinds of Minds”

JoshuaFoxApr 11, 2021, 12:41 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Spe­cial­iz­ing in Prob­lems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworthApr 10, 2021, 10:40 PM
176 points
29 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Re­cently I bought a new laptop

TetraspaceApr 10, 2021, 8:29 PM
31 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

A Brief Re­view of Cur­rent and Near-Fu­ture Meth­ods of Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmithApr 10, 2021, 7:16 PM
82 points
33 comments15 min readLW link

A DIY cryp­tocur­rency hard­ware wallet for free

jorgesApr 10, 2021, 5:36 PM
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Re­cruit­ing for a Dis­cord Server] AI Fore­cast­ing & Threat Model­ing Workshop

QuinnApr 10, 2021, 4:15 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Forc­ing Your­self is Self Harm, or Don’t Good­hart Yourself

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 10, 2021, 3:19 PM
32 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Redis­cov­ery, the Mind’s Curare

Erich_GrunewaldApr 10, 2021, 7:42 AM
3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Some­times, it can take a while to no­tice confusion

masasinApr 10, 2021, 3:24 AM
27 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

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)