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[Question] People are gathering 2 million USD to save a kid with a rare disease. I feel weird about it. Why?

hookdumpApr 2, 2021, 11:00 PM

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Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusrApr 2, 2021, 9:42 PM

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[Question] In plain English—in what ways are Bayes’ Rule and Popperian falsificationism conflicting epistemologies?

Sandro P.Apr 2, 2021, 9:21 PM

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33 comments1 min readLW link

Phylactery Decision Theory

BunthutApr 2, 2021, 8:55 PM

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Affordances

abramdemskiApr 2, 2021, 8:53 PM

58 points

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18 comments6 min readLW link

My take on Michael Littman on “The HCI of HAI”

Alex FlintApr 2, 2021, 7:51 PM

59 points

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4 comments7 min readLW link

Analyzing Multiplayer Games using IMPACT

midcoApr 2, 2021, 7:10 PM

10 points

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3 comments9 min readLW link

Learning Russian Roulette

BunthutApr 2, 2021, 6:56 PM

24 points

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38 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #144]: How language models can also be finetuned for non-language tasks

Rohin ShahApr 2, 2021, 5:20 PM

19 points

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawiseApr 2, 2021, 4:34 PM

255 points

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12 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

2012 Robin Hanson comment on “Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import”

Rob BensingerApr 2, 2021, 4:26 PM

28 points

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4 comments3 min readLW link

On Information Presented by Authorities

adaminoueApr 2, 2021, 3:40 PM

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(www.inoue.today)

The Meaning Crisis

RaemonApr 2, 2021, 1:04 AM

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3 comments1 min readLW link

2 innovative life extension approaches using cryonics technology

Mati_RoyApr 2, 2021, 12:54 AM

41 points

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7 comments2 min readLW link

“AI and Compute” trend isn’t predictive of what is happening

alexlyzhovApr 2, 2021, 12:44 AM

133 points

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16 comments1 min readLW link

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

MikkWApr 1, 2021, 6:10 PM

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April drafts

AI ImpactsApr 1, 2021, 6:10 PM

49 points

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(aiimpacts.org)

Forecasting Newsletter: March 2021

NunoSempereApr 1, 2021, 5:12 PM

23 points

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3 comments9 min readLW link

A new acausal trading platform: RobinShould

Matthew BarnettApr 1, 2021, 4:56 PM

116 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

How Crypto Crosses the Moat

adaminoueApr 1, 2021, 3:26 PM

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(www.inoue.today)

Covid 4/1: Vaccine Passports

ZviApr 1, 2021, 12:10 PM

50 points

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52 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Center for Applied Postrationality: An Update

Pee DoomApr 1, 2021, 8:13 AM

78 points

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1 comment3 min readLW link

AI and the Probability of Conflict

tonyoconnorApr 1, 2021, 7:00 AM

8 points

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10 comments8 min readLW link

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben PaceApr 1, 2021, 6:34 AM

131 points

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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

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

Sven NilsenApr 1, 2021, 12:34 AM

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[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

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

MichalApr 1, 2021, 12:29 AM

12 points

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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

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65 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

What Do We Know About The Consciousness, Anyway?

SurvivalBiasMar 31, 2021, 11:30 PM

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49 comments24 min readLW link

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

Szymon KucharskiMar 31, 2021, 7:58 PM

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

Szymon KucharskiMar 31, 2021, 7:04 PM

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

Mati_RoyMar 31, 2021, 4:49 PM

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Menstrual cycle effects—Clue study summary and commentary

just_browsingMar 31, 2021, 4:28 PM

79 points

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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

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Jaan Tallinn at the Slate Star Codex Online Meetup

JoshuaFoxMar 31, 2021, 8:04 AM

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Speculations Concerning the First Free-ish Prediction Market

mike_hawkeMar 31, 2021, 3:20 AM

29 points

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11 comments2 min readLW link

A use for Classical AI—Expert Systems

GlpusnaMar 31, 2021, 2:37 AM

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Goldfish Reading

DirectedEvolutionMar 31, 2021, 1:04 AM

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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

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Optimization, speculations on the X and only X problem.

Donald HobsonMar 30, 2021, 9:38 PM

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A command-line grammar of graphics

philhMar 30, 2021, 8:30 PM

21 points

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(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

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

tailcalledMar 30, 2021, 2:36 PM

13 points

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6 comments9 min readLW link

Rationalism before the Sequences

Eric RaymondMar 30, 2021, 2:04 PM

597 points

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83 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] TAI?

Logan ZoellnerMar 30, 2021, 12:41 PM

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Infohazard Discussion with Anders Sandberg

Linda LinseforsMar 30, 2021, 10:12 AM

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

Eli TyreMar 30, 2021, 5:47 AM

121 points

53 votes

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30 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Logan Strohl on exercise norms

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 4:28 AM

64 points

37 votes

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30 comments3 min readLW link

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

Rob BensingerMar 30, 2021, 3:06 AM

45 points

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10 comments4 min readLW link

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