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[Question] What’s your probability that the concept of probability makes sense?

Mati_Roy22 May 2021 21:53 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphire22 May 2021 20:09 UTC

134 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Kids NCurses Messenger

jefftk22 May 2021 17:50 UTC

40 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What is the biggest crypto news of the past year?

mike_hawke22 May 2021 2:01 UTC

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Triangle SSC (Virtual) Meetup-May 27th

willbobaggins21 May 2021 23:40 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Web is Turning into Cable TV

matto21 May 2021 23:06 UTC

19 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/24)

adamShimi21 May 2021 17:45 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Reebok effect

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 17:11 UTC

13 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

AI Safety Research Project Ideas

Owain_Evans21 May 2021 13:39 UTC

58 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Get your gun license

Alex Hollow21 May 2021 12:44 UTC

5 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

The Argument For Spoilers

abramdemski21 May 2021 12:23 UTC

21 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 10:23 UTC

66 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 5: Hivemind

lsusr21 May 2021 7:35 UTC

47 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 5/20: The Great Unmasking

Zvi21 May 2021 0:30 UTC

49 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Social Calibration

SimulatedCrow20 May 2021 23:22 UTC

3 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

jasoncrawford20 May 2021 21:10 UTC

73 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

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

CraigMichael20 May 2021 18:48 UTC

23 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob Bensinger20 May 2021 18:33 UTC

57 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

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

michaelcohen20 May 2021 16:12 UTC

36 points

33 comments18 min readLW link

Time & Memory

abramdemski20 May 2021 15:16 UTC

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MUM

Waddington20 May 2021 7:57 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Abstractions and translation

Amir Bolous20 May 2021 2:45 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Solar Production Data

jefftk20 May 2021 1:30 UTC

10 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

CraigMichael20 May 2021 0:06 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolution19 May 2021 22:12 UTC

22 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Re: Fierce Nerds

lsusr19 May 2021 20:18 UTC

36 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

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

Rohin Shah19 May 2021 17:20 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

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

ChristianKl19 May 2021 12:21 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusr19 May 2021 3:17 UTC

44 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

There is no No Evidence

MalcolmOcean19 May 2021 2:44 UTC

49 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

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

Raemon19 May 2021 1:48 UTC

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Functional Trade-offs

weathersystems19 May 2021 1:06 UTC

5 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

SGD’s Bias

johnswentworth18 May 2021 23:19 UTC

61 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Seriously?

ejacob18 May 2021 21:36 UTC

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 Bostock18 May 2021 21:33 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Saving Time

Scott Garrabrant18 May 2021 20:11 UTC

156 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Are PS5 scalpers actually bad?

willbradshaw18 May 2021 12:27 UTC

23 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers

evhub17 May 2021 22:54 UTC

100 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

JohnGreer17 May 2021 20:46 UTC

10 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Love on Cartesian Planes

bksilv3r17 May 2021 19:19 UTC

36 points

6 comments23 min readLW link

Announcing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge

nikos17 May 2021 17:29 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

Zvi17 May 2021 16:40 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

abstractapplic17 May 2021 15:54 UTC

29 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS proxies with Starlink

ChristianKl17 May 2021 15:05 UTC

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to determine the value of optionality?

sphericaltree17 May 2021 2:19 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolution17 May 2021 2:11 UTC

42 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

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

Daniel Kokotajlo16 May 2021 22:10 UTC

121 points

86 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Optimizers: To Define or not to Define

J Bostock16 May 2021 19:55 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan Zoellner16 May 2021 18:19 UTC

5 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

ChristianKl16 May 2021 18:01 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link