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[Question] Is anyone else frustrated with ‘un-informative’ post titles?

KennyMay 28, 2021, 8:11 PM

18 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers

paulfchristianoMay 28, 2021, 5:30 PM

53 points

18 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

The blue-minimising robot and model splintering

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 28, 2021, 3:09 PM

13 points

5 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM

154 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

(Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2021, 5:51 AM

70 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Why Prefetch Is Broken

jefftkMay 28, 2021, 2:20 AM

13 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Aphantasia

CrackatookMay 28, 2021, 1:55 AM

7 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Predict responses to the “existential risk from AI” survey

Rob BensingerMay 28, 2021, 1:32 AM

44 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 7.5 - Forecasting Transformative AI from Biological Anchors with Ajeya Cotra

DanielFilanMay 28, 2021, 12:20 AM

24 points

1 comment67 min readLW link

The Homunculus Problem

abramdemskiMay 27, 2021, 8:25 PM

50 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

99% shorter

philhMay 27, 2021, 7:50 PM

16 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Data on forecasting accuracy across different time horizons and levels of forecaster experience

CharlesDMay 27, 2021, 6:53 PM

25 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your visual experience when reading technical material?

DirectedEvolutionMay 27, 2021, 6:34 PM

24 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum

reviewerMay 27, 2021, 6:22 PM

55 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] How likely is our view of the cosmos?

YitzMay 27, 2021, 4:35 PM

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Freaking blockchains: How do they work?

norswapMay 27, 2021, 4:22 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(norswap.com)

Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown

ZviMay 27, 2021, 12:30 PM

72 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?

Siddhartha GautamaMay 27, 2021, 8:20 AM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichaelMay 26, 2021, 11:26 PM

8 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon GilbertMay 26, 2021, 10:56 PM

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is (“Chemical Imbalance” ⇒ Depression) an example of fake causality?

const LIZARDMANMay 26, 2021, 10:55 PM

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] List of good AI safety project ideas?

Aryeh EnglanderMay 26, 2021, 10:36 PM

24 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Dallas SSC Meetup #11

DacynMay 26, 2021, 10:19 PM

4 points

0 comments LW link

Antifragility in Games of Chance, Research, and Debate

DirectedEvolutionMay 26, 2021, 5:51 PM

13 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusrMay 26, 2021, 6:24 AM

76 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

The Practice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooenMay 26, 2021, 12:34 AM

41 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

MDP models are determined by the agent architecture and the environmental dynamics

TurnTroutMay 26, 2021, 12:14 AM

23 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

The BTC equilibriumating and the ETH one-eightening

Randomized, ControlledMay 25, 2021, 9:32 PM

22 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a term for ‘the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead’?

freedomandutilityMay 25, 2021, 7:18 PM

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Decoupling deliberation from competition

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2021, 6:50 PM

84 points

17 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Knowledge is not just map/territory resemblance

Alex FlintMay 25, 2021, 5:58 PM

28 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Abstraction Talk

johnswentworthMay 25, 2021, 4:45 PM

38 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Starting a Rationalist Meetup during Lockdown

Felix KargMay 25, 2021, 3:43 PM

29 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Oracles, Informers, and Controllers

ozziegooenMay 25, 2021, 2:16 PM

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

We should probably buy ADA?

mako yassMay 24, 2021, 11:58 PM

15 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

Books on Infant and Early Childhood Development?

moderockMay 24, 2021, 11:44 PM

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Questions are tools to help answerers optimize utility

ozziegooenMay 24, 2021, 7:30 PM

33 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

A.D&D.Sci May 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplicMay 24, 2021, 4:25 PM

19 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Problems facing a correspondence theory of knowledge

Alex FlintMay 24, 2021, 4:02 PM

30 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Controlling Intelligent Agents The Only Way We Know How: Ideal Bureaucratic Structure (IBS)

Justin BullockMay 24, 2021, 12:53 PM

14 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] If individual performance is Pareto distributed, how should we reform education?

yhoisethMay 24, 2021, 12:22 PM

27 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Signalling lack of familiarity with outsiders or outside knowledge, to raise status among your in-group peers?

orthogenesisMay 24, 2021, 3:42 AM

11 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not knowing basic things

Adam ZernerMay 24, 2021, 1:49 AM

90 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Is nuclear war indeed unlikely?

Valentin202623 May 2021 23:14 UTC

2 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Burmese Days #4 Targeted costs

Tim Liptrot23 May 2021 20:54 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets

Scott Garrabrant23 May 2021 20:52 UTC

149 points

95 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

Book review: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

Aaron Bergman23 May 2021 20:21 UTC

27 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[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

140 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Kids NCurses Messenger

jefftk22 May 2021 17:50 UTC

40 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)