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Social Calibration

SimulatedCrowMay 20, 2021, 11:22 PM

3 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

jasoncrawfordMay 20, 2021, 9:10 PM

73 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

It’s like poetry, they rhyme: Lanier and Yudkowsky, Glen and Scott

CraigMichaelMay 20, 2021, 6:48 PM

23 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob BensingerMay 20, 2021, 6:33 PM

57 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Response to “What does the universal prior actually look like?”

michaelcohenMay 20, 2021, 4:12 PM

37 points

33 comments18 min readLW link

Time & Memory

abramdemskiMay 20, 2021, 3:16 PM

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MUM

WaddingtonMay 20, 2021, 7:57 AM

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Abstractions and translation

Amir BolousMay 20, 2021, 2:45 AM

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Solar Production Data

jefftkMay 20, 2021, 1:30 AM

10 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is Ray Kurzweil’s prediction accuracy still being tracked?

CraigMichaelMay 20, 2021, 12:06 AM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How refined is your art of note-taking?

DirectedEvolutionMay 19, 2021, 10:12 PM

23 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Re: Fierce Nerds

lsusrMay 19, 2021, 8:18 PM

36 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

[AN #151]: How sparsity in the final layer makes a neural net debuggable

Rohin ShahMay 19, 2021, 5:20 PM

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What should we expect from ARPA-H?

ChristianKlMay 19, 2021, 12:21 PM

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusrMay 19, 2021, 3:17 AM

47 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

There is no No Evidence

MalcolmOceanMay 19, 2021, 2:44 AM

49 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

This Sunday, 12PM PT: Scott Garrabrant on “Finite Factored Sets”

RaemonMay 19, 2021, 1:48 AM

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Functional Trade-offs

weathersystemsMay 19, 2021, 1:06 AM

5 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

SGD’s Bias

johnswentworthMay 18, 2021, 11:19 PM

63 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Seriously?

ejacobMay 18, 2021, 9:36 PM

5 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any methods for NNs or other ML systems to get information from knockout-like or assay-like experiments?

J BostockMay 18, 2021, 9:33 PM

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Saving Time

Scott GarrabrantMay 18, 2021, 8:11 PM

162 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Are PS5 scalpers actually bad?

willbradshawMay 18, 2021, 12:27 PM

23 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers

evhubMay 17, 2021, 10:54 PM

100 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

What Would You Store to Maximize Value in 100 Years? A Thought Experiment

JohnGreerMay 17, 2021, 8:46 PM

10 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Love on Cartesian Planes

bksilv3rMay 17, 2021, 7:19 PM

36 points

6 comments23 min readLW link

Announcing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge

nikosMay 17, 2021, 5:29 PM

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

ZviMay 17, 2021, 4:40 PM

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A.D&D.Sci May 2021: Interdimensional Monster Carcass Auction

abstractapplicMay 17, 2021, 3:54 PM

29 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS proxies with Starlink

ChristianKlMay 17, 2021, 3:05 PM

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to determine the value of optionality?

sphericaltreeMay 17, 2021, 2:19 AM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How concerned are you about LW reputation management?

DirectedEvolutionMay 17, 2021, 2:11 AM

42 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?

Daniel KokotajloMay 16, 2021, 10:10 PM

122 points

86 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Optimizers: To Define or not to Define

J BostockMay 16, 2021, 7:55 PM

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan ZoellnerMay 16, 2021, 6:19 PM

5 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

ChristianKlMay 16, 2021, 6:01 PM

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Power Outage Chances

jefftkMay 16, 2021, 4:40 PM

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Christenson’s “Epistemology of Disagreement: The Good News”

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 3:58 AM

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Thinking About Generators

jefftkMay 16, 2021, 2:40 AM

16 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

On “Epistemic Trespassing” and Intellectual Modesty

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 12:40 AM

9 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Research Motivations and “The Division of Cognitive Labor”

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 12:00 AM

4 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Suppose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent?

hunterglennMay 15, 2021, 11:24 PM

23 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/17)

adamShimiMay 15, 2021, 10:07 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Purpose of Purpose

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 15, 2021, 9:00 PM

17 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful?

Erich_Grunewald15 May 2021 12:55 UTC

5 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Technocratic Plimsoll Line

Martin Sustrik15 May 2021 8:34 UTC

53 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Intermittent Distillations #3

Mark Xu15 May 2021 7:13 UTC

21 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

How to compute the probability you are flipping a trick coin

lsusr15 May 2021 0:02 UTC

18 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Under Pressure

Alex Hollow14 May 2021 22:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

[Question] Who has argued in detail that a current AI system is phenomenally conscious?

Robbo14 May 2021 22:03 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link