[Question] Ex­am­ples of Acausal Trade with an Alien Uni­verse?

MikkWApr 1, 2021, 6:10 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

April drafts

AI ImpactsApr 1, 2021, 6:10 PM
49 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: March 2021

NunoSempereApr 1, 2021, 5:12 PM
23 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2021, 4:56 PM
116 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How Crypto Crosses the Moat

adaminoueApr 1, 2021, 3:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inoue.today)

Covid 4/​1: Vac­cine Passports

ZviApr 1, 2021, 12:10 PM
50 points
52 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cen­ter for Ap­plied Pos­tra­tional­ity: An Update

Pee DoomApr 1, 2021, 8:13 AM
78 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

AI and the Prob­a­bil­ity of Conflict

tonyoconnorApr 1, 2021, 7:00 AM
8 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben PaceApr 1, 2021, 6:34 AM
132 points
44 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What spe­cific de­ci­sion, event, or ac­tion sig­nifi­cantly im­proved an as­pect of your life in a value-con­gru­ent way? How?

WillaApr 1, 2021, 4:26 AM
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Bridg­ing Two Eso­teric 4-Value Log­ics Us­ing Quan­tum Physics: An­swered Mo­dal Logic vs Catuṣkoṭi

Sven NilsenApr 1, 2021, 12:34 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Where can one draw the line be­tween sen­tience and the state of be­ing just a ran­dom bunch of quarks? At what point is the ‘con­science’ gen­er­ated?

Astaroth07Apr 1, 2021, 12:30 AM
1 point
6 commentsLW link

[Question] What is the se­man­tics of as­sign­ing prob­a­bil­ities to fu­ture events?

MichalApr 1, 2021, 12:29 AM
12 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What Mul­tipo­lar Failure Looks Like, and Ro­bust Agent-Ag­nos­tic Pro­cesses (RAAPs)

Andrew_CritchMar 31, 2021, 11:50 PM
285 points
65 comments22 min readLW link1 review

What Do We Know About The Con­scious­ness, Any­way?

SurvivalBiasMar 31, 2021, 11:30 PM
13 points
49 comments24 min readLW link

Could billions spa­cially dis­con­nected “Boltz­mann neu­rons” give rise to con­scious­ness?

Szymon KucharskiMar 31, 2021, 7:58 PM
5 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Unifi­ca­tion seems to be a way to avoid in­fini­tar­ian paral­y­sis in con­se­quen­tial­ist ag­grega­tive ethics.

Szymon KucharskiMar 31, 2021, 7:04 PM
1 point
2 comments4 min readLW link

[April – weekly] Fo­cus­mate: biosta­sis, lifel­og­ging, death-fo­cus ethics

Mati_RoyMar 31, 2021, 4:49 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Men­strual cy­cle effects—Clue study sum­mary and commentary

just_browsingMar 31, 2021, 4:28 PM
79 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Should I ad­vo­cate for peo­ple to not buy Iver­mectin as a treat­ment for COVID-19 in the Philip­pines for now?

BrianTanMar 31, 2021, 1:59 PM
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Jaan Tal­linn at the Slate Star Codex On­line Meetup

JoshuaFoxMar 31, 2021, 8:04 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions Con­cern­ing the First Free-ish Pre­dic­tion Market

mike_hawkeMar 31, 2021, 3:20 AM
29 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

A use for Clas­si­cal AI—Ex­pert Systems

GlpusnaMar 31, 2021, 2:37 AM
1 point
2 comments2 min readLW link

Gold­fish Reading

DirectedEvolutionMar 31, 2021, 1:04 AM
20 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

Hard­ware is already ready for the sin­gu­lar­ity. Al­gorithm knowl­edge is the only bar­rier.

Andrew VlahosMar 30, 2021, 10:48 PM
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion, spec­u­la­tions on the X and only X prob­lem.

Donald HobsonMar 30, 2021, 9:38 PM
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

A com­mand-line gram­mar of graphics

philhMar 30, 2021, 8:30 PM
21 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] How many micro­morts do you get per UV-in­dex-hour?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Mar 30, 2021, 5:23 PM
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Many meth­ods of causal in­fer­ence try to iden­tify a “safe” sub­set of variation

tailcalledMar 30, 2021, 2:36 PM
13 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric RaymondMar 30, 2021, 2:04 PM
596 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] TAI?

Logan ZoellnerMar 30, 2021, 12:41 PM
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In­fo­haz­ard Dis­cus­sion with An­ders Sandberg

Linda LinseforsMar 30, 2021, 10:12 AM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do we pre­pare for fi­nal crunch time?

Eli TyreMar 30, 2021, 5:47 AM
118 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Lo­gan Strohl on ex­er­cise norms

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 4:28 AM
64 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Ju­lia Galef and Matt Ygle­sias on bioethics and “ethics ex­per­tise”

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 3:06 AM
45 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­gres­sive High­light­ing: Pick­ing What To Make Into Flashcards

DirectedEvolutionMar 29, 2021, 10:57 PM
51 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Some Com­plaint-Ac­tion Gaps

mike_hawkeMar 29, 2021, 9:15 PM
40 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atiz­ing Epistemics: Prin­ci­ples for Re­solv­ing Forecasts

DavidmanheimMar 29, 2021, 8:46 PM
33 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Bureau­cracy is a world of magic

dominicqMar 29, 2021, 12:41 PM
73 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

Joe CarlsmithMar 29, 2021, 4:59 AM
35 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Agree­ing to Disagree: to­wards a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of agreeableness

Aaron BergmanMar 29, 2021, 3:14 AM
11 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Sce­nar­ios and Warn­ing Signs for Ajeya’s Ag­gres­sive, Con­ser­va­tive, and Best Guess AI Timelines

Kevin LiuMar 29, 2021, 1:38 AM
25 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(kliu.io)

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

MichaelAMar 28, 2021, 11:43 PM
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Trans­parency Trichotomy

Mark XuMar 28, 2021, 8:26 PM
25 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Im­prove­ment for pun­dit pre­dic­tion comparisons

orthonormalMar 28, 2021, 6:50 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Point of Easy Progress

silentbobMar 28, 2021, 4:38 PM
59 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Re­view of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Com­pute”

Mar 28, 2021, 2:55 PM
65 points
21 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Buy­ing a house and mak­ing friends in un­ex­pected places

dominicqMar 28, 2021, 2:35 PM
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The (not so) para­dox­i­cal asym­me­try be­tween po­si­tion and momentum

Erik JennerMar 28, 2021, 1:31 PM
21 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

In­framea­sures and Do­main Theory

DiffractorMar 28, 2021, 9:19 AM
28 points
3 comments33 min readLW link