Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolutionApr 6, 2021, 10:38 PM
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg9005Apr 6, 2021, 9:28 PM
−1 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworthApr 6, 2021, 9:24 PM
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

AI or­a­cles on blockchain

CaravaggioApr 6, 2021, 8:13 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will GPT-4 be in­ca­pable of?

Michaël TrazziApr 6, 2021, 7:57 PM
34 points
33 commentsLW link

Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemskiApr 6, 2021, 7:48 PM
62 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:02 PM
72 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob FalkovichApr 6, 2021, 7:00 PM
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

There Is No Con­trol Sys­tem For COVID

Mike HarrisApr 6, 2021, 5:16 PM
35 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

The Accord

Timothy UnderwoodApr 6, 2021, 3:44 PM
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

March 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwernApr 6, 2021, 2:06 PM
16 points
2 commentsLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Prevent­ing over­charg­ing by prosecutors

ChristianKlApr 6, 2021, 11:13 AM
29 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykovApr 6, 2021, 11:01 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Many Faces of In­fra-Beliefs

DiffractorApr 6, 2021, 10:43 AM
30 points
6 comments63 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a mu-like term that means some­thing like “why is this any of my busi­ness?”

CraigMichaelApr 6, 2021, 7:47 AM
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to A Crack­pot Physics

ACrackedPotApr 5, 2021, 11:59 PM
−4 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

Apr 5, 2021, 10:09 PM
173 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Risk Bud­gets vs. Ba­sic De­ci­sion Theory

Vlad FiroiuApr 5, 2021, 9:55 PM
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal Ex­am­ples of Op­po­si­tion to Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress

chwApr 5, 2021, 9:26 PM
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Noise Pol­lu­tion and Cognition

chwApr 5, 2021, 9:26 PM
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Avert­ing suffer­ing with sen­tience throt­tlers (pro­posal)

QuinnApr 5, 2021, 10:54 AM
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Ranked Choice Vot­ing is Ar­bi­trar­ily Bad

AppliedDivinityStudiesApr 5, 2021, 6:44 AM
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The in­no­cent gene

Joe CarlsmithApr 5, 2021, 3:31 AM
39 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread – April 2021

niplavApr 4, 2021, 7:25 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think would be the best in­vest­ment policy for a cry­on­ics trust?

Mati_RoyApr 4, 2021, 7:20 PM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

About Me: Back­ground and Biases

tkpwaeubApr 4, 2021, 2:19 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What if we could use the the­ory of Mechanism De­sign from Game The­ory as a medium achieve AI Align­ment?

farari7Apr 4, 2021, 12:56 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do scal­ing laws work for fine-tun­ing?

Daniel KokotajloApr 4, 2021, 12:18 PM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] By which mechanism does im­mu­nity fa­vor new Covid var­i­ants?

anorangiccApr 4, 2021, 10:24 AM
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Cru­civer­bal­ist’s In­tro­duc­tion to Bayesian reasoning

DavidmanheimApr 4, 2021, 8:50 AM
11 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Tales from Pre­dic­tion Markets

ikeApr 3, 2021, 11:38 PM
128 points
15 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

An ex­plo­ra­tion of ex­ploita­tion bias

Eric NeymanApr 3, 2021, 11:03 PM
16 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

dominicqApr 3, 2021, 8:16 PM
84 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

The Holy Algorithm

MalmesburyApr 3, 2021, 6:09 PM
7 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

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

TemporaryPseudonymApr 3, 2021, 4:19 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Forc­ing your­self to keep your iden­tity small is self-harm

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 3, 2021, 2:03 PM
40 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral Golems

Erich_GrunewaldApr 3, 2021, 10:12 AM
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[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
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive Cod­ing has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusrApr 2, 2021, 9:42 PM
177 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

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

Sandro P.Apr 2, 2021, 9:21 PM
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Phy­lac­tery De­ci­sion Theory

BunthutApr 2, 2021, 8:55 PM
14 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Affordances

abramdemskiApr 2, 2021, 8:53 PM
58 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

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

Alex FlintApr 2, 2021, 7:51 PM
59 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing Mul­ti­player Games us­ing IMPACT

midcoApr 2, 2021, 7:10 PM
10 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Learn­ing Rus­sian Roulette

BunthutApr 2, 2021, 6:56 PM
24 points
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
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawiseApr 2, 2021, 4:34 PM
255 points
12 comments12 min readLW link1 review

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

Rob BensingerApr 2, 2021, 4:26 PM
28 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

On In­for­ma­tion Pre­sented by Authorities

adaminoueApr 2, 2021, 3:40 PM
1 point
0 commentsLW link
(www.inoue.today)

The Mean­ing Crisis

RaemonApr 2, 2021, 1:04 AM
18 points
3 comments1 min readLW link