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Open & Wel­come Thread – April 2021

niplav4 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
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[Question] What do you think would be the best in­vest­ment policy for a cry­on­ics trust?

Mati_Roy4 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
14 points
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About Me: Back­ground and Biases

tkpwaeub4 Apr 2021 14:19 UTC
19 points
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[Question] What if we could use the the­ory of Mechanism De­sign from Game The­ory as a medium achieve AI Align­ment?

farari74 Apr 2021 12:56 UTC
4 points
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[Question] How do scal­ing laws work for fine-tun­ing?

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Apr 2021 12:18 UTC
24 points
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[Question] By which mechanism does im­mu­nity fa­vor new Covid var­i­ants?

anorangicc4 Apr 2021 10:24 UTC
2 points
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A Cru­civer­bal­ist’s In­tro­duc­tion to Bayesian reasoning

Davidmanheim4 Apr 2021 8:50 UTC
11 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Tales from Pre­dic­tion Markets

ike3 Apr 2021 23:38 UTC
128 points
15 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

An ex­plo­ra­tion of ex­ploita­tion bias

Eric Neyman3 Apr 2021 23:03 UTC
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0 comments10 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

dominicq3 Apr 2021 20:16 UTC
81 points
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The Holy Algorithm

Malmesbury3 Apr 2021 18:09 UTC
7 points
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(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

[Question] Would a post about op­ti­miz­ing phys­i­cal at­trac­tive­ness be fit­ting for this fo­rum?

TemporaryPseudonym3 Apr 2021 16:19 UTC
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Forc­ing your­self to keep your iden­tity small is self-harm

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2021 14:03 UTC
38 points
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Mo­ral Golems

Erich_Grunewald3 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
8 points
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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

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

hookdump2 Apr 2021 23:00 UTC
9 points
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Pre­dic­tive Cod­ing has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusr2 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
174 points
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[Question] In plain English—in what ways are Bayes’ Rule and Pop­pe­rian falsifi­ca­tion­ism con­flict­ing episte­molo­gies?

Sandro P.2 Apr 2021 21:21 UTC
2 points
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Phy­lac­tery De­ci­sion Theory

Bunthut2 Apr 2021 20:55 UTC
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Affordances

abramdemski2 Apr 2021 20:53 UTC
58 points
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My take on Michael Littman on “The HCI of HAI”

Alex Flint2 Apr 2021 19:51 UTC
59 points
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An­a­lyz­ing Mul­ti­player Games us­ing IMPACT

midco2 Apr 2021 19:10 UTC
10 points
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Learn­ing Rus­sian Roulette

Bunthut2 Apr 2021 18:56 UTC
24 points
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[AN #144]: How lan­guage mod­els can also be fine­tuned for non-lan­guage tasks

Rohin Shah2 Apr 2021 17:20 UTC
19 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
245 points
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2012 Robin Han­son com­ment on “In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion: Ev­i­dence and Im­port”

Rob Bensinger2 Apr 2021 16:26 UTC
28 points
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On In­for­ma­tion Pre­sented by Authorities

adaminoue2 Apr 2021 15:40 UTC
1 point
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(www.inoue.today)

The Mean­ing Crisis

Raemon2 Apr 2021 1:04 UTC
18 points
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2 in­no­va­tive life ex­ten­sion ap­proaches us­ing cry­on­ics technology

Mati_Roy2 Apr 2021 0:54 UTC
41 points
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“AI and Com­pute” trend isn’t pre­dic­tive of what is happening

alexlyzhov2 Apr 2021 0:44 UTC
133 points
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[Question] Ex­am­ples of Acausal Trade with an Alien Uni­verse?

MikkW1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
5 points
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April drafts

AI Impacts1 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
49 points
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(aiimpacts.org)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: March 2021

NunoSempere1 Apr 2021 17:12 UTC
23 points
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A new acausal trad­ing plat­form: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC
114 points
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How Crypto Crosses the Moat

adaminoue1 Apr 2021 15:26 UTC
1 point
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(www.inoue.today)

Covid 4/​1: Vac­cine Passports

Zvi1 Apr 2021 12:10 UTC
50 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Cen­ter for Ap­plied Pos­tra­tional­ity: An Update

Pee Doom1 Apr 2021 8:13 UTC
70 points
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AI and the Prob­a­bil­ity of Conflict

tonyoconnor1 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC
8 points
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Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben Pace1 Apr 2021 6:34 UTC
130 points
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[Question] What spe­cific de­ci­sion, event, or ac­tion sig­nifi­cantly im­proved an as­pect of your life in a value-con­gru­ent way? How?

Willa1 Apr 2021 4:26 UTC
9 points
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Bridg­ing Two Eso­teric 4-Value Log­ics Us­ing Quan­tum Physics: An­swered Mo­dal Logic vs Catuṣkoṭi

Sven Nilsen1 Apr 2021 0:34 UTC
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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?

Astaroth071 Apr 2021 0:30 UTC
1 point
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[Question] What is the se­man­tics of as­sign­ing prob­a­bil­ities to fu­ture events?

Michal1 Apr 2021 0:29 UTC
12 points
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What Mul­tipo­lar Failure Looks Like, and Ro­bust Agent-Ag­nos­tic Pro­cesses (RAAPs)

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC
272 points
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What Do We Know About The Con­scious­ness, Any­way?

SurvivalBias31 Mar 2021 23:30 UTC
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Could billions spa­cially dis­con­nected “Boltz­mann neu­rons” give rise to con­scious­ness?

Szymon Kucharski31 Mar 2021 19:58 UTC
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Unifi­ca­tion seems to be a way to avoid in­fini­tar­ian paral­y­sis in con­se­quen­tial­ist ag­grega­tive ethics.

Szymon Kucharski31 Mar 2021 19:04 UTC
1 point
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[April – weekly] Fo­cus­mate: biosta­sis, lifel­og­ging, death-fo­cus ethics

Mati_Roy31 Mar 2021 16:49 UTC
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Men­strual cy­cle effects—Clue study sum­mary and commentary

just_browsing31 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC
79 points
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[Question] Should I ad­vo­cate for peo­ple to not buy Iver­mectin as a treat­ment for COVID-19 in the Philip­pines for now?

BrianTan31 Mar 2021 13:59 UTC
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Jaan Tal­linn at the Slate Star Codex On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox31 Mar 2021 8:04 UTC
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