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Thoughts on Iterated Distillation and Amplification

WaddingtonMay 11, 2021, 9:32 PM

9 points

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2 comments20 min readLW link

Massachusetts Tick-Borne Disease Distribution

jefftkMay 11, 2021, 6:40 PM

12 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Texas Far-Comers Meetup in Austin

SilasBartaMay 11, 2021, 4:37 PM

16 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Yampolskiy on AI Risk Skepticism

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 11, 2021, 2:50 PM

18 points

8 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.researchgate.net)

Meditations on Kotzebue

adaminoueMay 11, 2021, 2:34 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.inoue.today)

Challenge: know everything that the best go bot knows about go

DanielFilanMay 11, 2021, 5:10 AM

48 points

26 votes

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113 comments2 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

[Question] Is driving worth the risk?

Adam ZernerMay 11, 2021, 5:04 AM

28 points

16 votes

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29 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What is the best chemistry textbook?

Maxwell PetersonMay 11, 2021, 2:39 AM

12 points

6 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

A Wiki for Questions

weathersystemsMay 11, 2021, 2:31 AM

17 points

9 votes

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18 comments3 min readLW link

Massachusetts Lyme Reporting

jefftkMay 10, 2021, 10:40 PM

27 points

12 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Human priors, features and models, languages, and Solmonoff induction

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 10, 2021, 10:55 AM

16 points

8 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to preview comments?

Jan Christian RefsgaardMay 10, 2021, 9:26 AM

4 points

3 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you think TDT/FDT imply magic is real?

emmabMay 10, 2021, 9:23 AM

−15 points

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Biological Holism: A New Paradigm?

WaddingtonMay 9, 2021, 10:42 PM

6 points

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9 comments19 min readLW link

How to Know Yourself

regkithMay 9, 2021, 9:06 PM

−4 points

4 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Peekskill Lyme Incidence

jefftkMay 9, 2021, 7:50 PM

39 points

16 votes

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28 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Academia as Company Hierarchy

Virgil KurkjianMay 9, 2021, 5:29 PM

72 points

57 votes

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40 comments18 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/10)

adamShimiMay 9, 2021, 11:05 AM

16 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Social host liability

CraigMichaelMay 9, 2021, 7:24 AM

22 points

38 votes

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39 comments6 min readLW link

Implementing the Second Virtue: Feel the Emotions Which Fit the Facts

LukeOnlineMay 9, 2021, 5:47 AM

5 points

2 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

The Nuclear Energy Alignment Problem

lsusrMay 9, 2021, 3:50 AM

31 points

23 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Review and Comparison: Onto-Cartography & Promise Theory

JosephineMay 9, 2021, 12:42 AM

13 points

9 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

MIRI location optimization (and related topics) discussion

Rob BensingerMay 8, 2021, 11:12 PM

142 points

72 votes

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163 comments12 min readLW link

Android Video with External Microphone

jefftkMay 8, 2021, 10:30 PM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Munich SSC/ACX (+LW) (online) meetup May 2021

vi21maobk9vpMay 8, 2021, 8:04 PM

5 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction and Calibration—Part 1

Jan Christian RefsgaardMay 8, 2021, 7:48 PM

6 points

11 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

(www.badprior.com)

a visual explanation of Bayesian updating

Jan Christian RefsgaardMay 8, 2021, 7:45 PM

21 points

11 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

(www.badprior.com)

Pre-Training + Fine-Tuning Favors Deception

Mark XuMay 8, 2021, 6:36 PM

27 points

8 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Migraine hallucinations, phenomenology, and cognition

Richard_KennawayMay 8, 2021, 3:56 PM

38 points

16 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism

Erich_GrunewaldMay 8, 2021, 11:44 AM

11 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Crowdfunding Vaccine Development

RiverMay 8, 2021, 4:10 AM

1 point

2 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci May 2021: Monster Carcass Auction

abstractapplicMay 7, 2021, 7:33 PM

28 points

12 votes

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25 comments2 min readLW link

Why quantitative finance is so hard

lsusrMay 7, 2021, 7:29 PM

45 points

35 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Life and expanding steerable consequences

Alex FlintMay 7, 2021, 6:33 PM

46 points

15 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Zero to One: A Minimum Viable Review

dominicqMay 7, 2021, 5:45 PM

11 points

6 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Occam’s Guillotine

SlimepriestessMay 7, 2021, 4:30 PM

5 points

6 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Domain Theory and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: FairBot

GurkenglasMay 7, 2021, 7:33 AM

22 points

8 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 3: A Study in Scarlet

lsusrMay 7, 2021, 5:29 AM

56 points

39 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Taking the outside view on code quality

Adam ZernerMay 7, 2021, 4:16 AM

11 points

5 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

Dumb dichotomies in ethics, part 2: instrumental vs. intrinsic values

Aaron BergmanMay 7, 2021, 2:31 AM

7 points

3 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Less Realistic Tales of Doom

Mark XuMay 6, 2021, 11:01 PM

113 points

59 votes

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13 comments4 min readLW link

Parsing Chris Mingard on Neural Networks

Alex FlintMay 6, 2021, 10:16 PM

69 points

23 votes

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26 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 5/6: Vaccine Patent Suspension

ZviMay 6, 2021, 8:20 PM

87 points

48 votes

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58 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What questions should we ask ourselves when trying to improve something?

weathersystemsMay 6, 2021, 7:03 PM

3 points

3 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why are the websites of major companies so bad at core functionality?

ChristianKlMay 6, 2021, 4:02 PM

13 points

3 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could MMRPGs be used to test economic theories?

Yair HalberstadtMay 6, 2021, 2:26 PM

7 points

5 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropics: different probabilities, different questions

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2021, 1:14 PM

25 points

11 votes

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10 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What do we know about how much protection COVID vaccines provide against transmitting the virus to others?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)May 6, 2021, 7:39 AM

9 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do we know about how much protection COVID vaccines provide against long COVID?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)May 6, 2021, 7:39 AM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Go Back To Normal

Connor_FlexmanMay 6, 2021, 3:10 AM

60 points

32 votes

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18 comments11 min readLW link

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