[Question] Is there any­thing that can stop AGI de­vel­op­ment in the near term?

Wulky Wilkinsen22 Apr 2021 20:37 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prin­ci­plesYou—Seems to be a new per­son­al­ity as­sess­ment tool

jmh22 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Have an idea for an in­ter­ac­tive learn­ing mod­ule? Con­sider ap­ply­ing for a Clear­erThink­ing.org micro grant!

spencerg22 Apr 2021 18:13 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Designs

SatvikBeri22 Apr 2021 16:32 UTC
31 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 4/​22: Cri­sis in India

Zvi22 Apr 2021 13:40 UTC
100 points
25 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Löb’s the­o­rem sim­ply shows that Peano ar­ith­metic can­not prove its own soundness

Adrià Garriga-alonso22 Apr 2021 9:17 UTC
5 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Faerie Ring: A Small Gather.Town Call

hamnox22 Apr 2021 6:02 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

NTK/​GP Models of Neu­ral Nets Can’t Learn Features

interstice22 Apr 2021 3:01 UTC
33 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

What books are for: a re­sponse to “Why books don’t work.”

Aaron Bergman21 Apr 2021 23:18 UTC
35 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Faerie Rings

hamnox21 Apr 2021 21:47 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In Defence of Spock

Zac Hatfield-Dodds21 Apr 2021 21:34 UTC
35 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Crack­pot Physics: Time, Spe­cial Rel­a­tivity, and Why Bother?

ACrackedPot21 Apr 2021 20:17 UTC
−3 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

[AN #147]: An overview of the in­ter­pretabil­ity landscape

Rohin Shah21 Apr 2021 17:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Where are in­ten­tions to be found?

Alex Flint21 Apr 2021 0:51 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we vac­ci­nate peo­ple against smal­l­pox any more?

maximkazhenkov21 Apr 2021 0:08 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What am I fight­ing for?

Quinn20 Apr 2021 23:27 UTC
12 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of In­ner Align­ment Obstacles

abramdemski20 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC
80 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

Thiel on se­crets and indefiniteness

Rob Bensinger20 Apr 2021 21:59 UTC
58 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Why “put down your phone and go out­side” is Bad Ad­vice.

madilynHex20 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Hard vs Soft in fields as at­ti­tudes to­wards model collision

J Bostock20 Apr 2021 18:57 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Young kids catch­ing COVID: how much to worry?

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2021 18:03 UTC
55 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruth20 Apr 2021 17:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Crack­pot Physics: Issues

ACrackedPot20 Apr 2021 17:07 UTC
−1 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Types of generalism

Nora_Ammann20 Apr 2021 8:22 UTC
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does an app/​group for per­sonal fore­cast­ing ex­ist?

DirectedEvolution20 Apr 2021 5:04 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Ad­vice for High School #1

lsusr20 Apr 2021 4:09 UTC
93 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Iter­ated Trust Kickstarters

Raemon20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
74 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

Quick ex­am­i­na­tion of miles per micro­mort for US drivers, with ad­just­ments for safety-in­creas­ing behavior

Josh Jacobson19 Apr 2021 23:19 UTC
44 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

How can we in­crease the fre­quency of rare in­sights?

MichaelDickens19 Apr 2021 22:54 UTC
19 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Wanted: Re­search As­sis­tant for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford19 Apr 2021 19:03 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

You Can Now Embed Flash­card Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!

spencerg19 Apr 2021 13:44 UTC
57 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci April 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic19 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
44 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Pa­ram­e­ter count of ML sys­tems through time?

Jsevillamol19 Apr 2021 12:54 UTC
31 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­lems of evil

Joe Carlsmith19 Apr 2021 8:06 UTC
29 points
16 comments17 min readLW link

the fat baker principle

faint reminder19 Apr 2021 7:58 UTC
−6 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Bel­l­man’s Curse on Advice

nibnalin19 Apr 2021 2:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Are there good classes (or just ar­ti­cles) on blog writ­ing?

Brendan Long19 Apr 2021 1:10 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing the Lot­tery Ticket Hypothesis

johnswentworth18 Apr 2021 21:45 UTC
73 points
41 comments2 min readLW link

Anger

lsusr18 Apr 2021 16:14 UTC
34 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Ris­ing rents and ap­pro­pri­ate responses

dominicq18 Apr 2021 14:05 UTC
10 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

The hour I first alieved

matejsuchy17 Apr 2021 17:02 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)

Defin­ing “op­ti­mizer”

Chantiel17 Apr 2021 15:38 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view and policy dis­cus­sion: di­ver­sity and complexity

victorsintnicolaas17 Apr 2021 11:36 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How long should I de­lay my sec­ond shot?

purge17 Apr 2021 8:51 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Net­works of Meaning

Erich_Grunewald17 Apr 2021 7:30 UTC
21 points
1 comment10 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] Are there any good ways to place a bet on Rad­i­calXChange and/​or re­lated ideas/​mechanisms tak­ing off in a big way? e.g. is there some­thing to in­vest $$$ in?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)17 Apr 2021 6:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alex Flint on “A soft­ware en­g­ineer’s per­spec­tive on log­i­cal in­duc­tion”

Raemon17 Apr 2021 6:56 UTC
21 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

All is fair in love and war, on Zero-sum games in life

Ratios17 Apr 2021 2:11 UTC
−6 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fan17 Apr 2021 2:10 UTC
22 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What does vac­cine effec­tive­ness as a func­tion of time look like?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)17 Apr 2021 0:36 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link