Why don’t long run­ning con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen on LessWrong?

Adam ZernerMay 30, 2021, 10:36 PM
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Paper Re­view: Math­e­mat­i­cal Truth

Alex HollowMay 30, 2021, 8:25 PM
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How count­ing neu­trons ex­plains nu­clear waste

jasoncrawfordMay 30, 2021, 6:10 PM
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Elec­tric heat pumps (Mini-Splits) vs Nat­u­ral gas boilers

Steven ByrnesMay 30, 2021, 3:51 PM
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What is the most effec­tive way to donate to AGI XRisk miti­ga­tion?

JoshuaFoxMay 30, 2021, 11:08 AM
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[Question] Use of GPT-3 for iden­ti­fy­ing Phish­ing and other email based at­tacks?

jmhMay 29, 2021, 5:11 PM
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[Event] Weekly Align­ment Re­search Coffee Time

adamShimiMay 29, 2021, 1:26 PM
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How to Write Science Fic­tion and Fan­tasy—A Short Summary

JsevillamolMay 29, 2021, 11:47 AM
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Two Defi­ni­tions of Generalization

ozziegooenMay 29, 2021, 4:20 AM
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The San­ity Water­line Bul­ges at the Middle

matejsuchyMay 29, 2021, 3:15 AM
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Against Be­ing Against Growth

Alex HollowMay 29, 2021, 2:18 AM
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Wrist Update

jefftkMay 29, 2021, 1:30 AM
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[Question] How one uses set the­ory for al­ign­ment prob­lem?

Valentin2026May 29, 2021, 12:28 AM
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[Question] Is any­one else frus­trated with ‘un-in­for­ma­tive’ post ti­tles?

KennyMay 28, 2021, 8:11 PM
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Teach­ing ML to an­swer ques­tions hon­estly in­stead of pre­dict­ing hu­man answers

paulfchristianoMay 28, 2021, 5:30 PM
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The blue-min­imis­ing robot and model splintering

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 28, 2021, 3:09 PM
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Cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM
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(Try­ing To) Study Text­books Effec­tively: A Year of Experimentation

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2021, 5:51 AM
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Why Prefetch Is Broken

jefftkMay 28, 2021, 2:20 AM
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[Question] Aphantasia

CrackatookMay 28, 2021, 1:55 AM
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Pre­dict re­sponses to the “ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” survey

Rob BensingerMay 28, 2021, 1:32 AM
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AXRP Epi­sode 7.5 - Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI from Biolog­i­cal An­chors with Ajeya Cotra

DanielFilanMay 28, 2021, 12:20 AM
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The Ho­muncu­lus Problem

abramdemskiMay 27, 2021, 8:25 PM
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99% shorter

philhMay 27, 2021, 7:50 PM
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Data on fore­cast­ing ac­cu­racy across differ­ent time hori­zons and lev­els of fore­caster experience

CharlesDMay 27, 2021, 6:53 PM
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[Question] What’s your vi­sual ex­pe­rience when read­ing tech­ni­cal ma­te­rial?

DirectedEvolutionMay 27, 2021, 6:34 PM
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A Re­view and Sum­mary of the Land­mark Forum

reviewerMay 27, 2021, 6:22 PM
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[Question] How likely is our view of the cos­mos?

YitzMay 27, 2021, 4:35 PM
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Freak­ing blockchains: How do they work?

norswapMay 27, 2021, 4:22 PM
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Covid 5/​27: The Fi­nal Countdown

ZviMay 27, 2021, 12:30 PM
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[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
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What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichaelMay 26, 2021, 11:26 PM
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The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon GilbertMay 26, 2021, 10:56 PM
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[Question] Is (“Chem­i­cal Im­bal­ance” ⇒ De­pres­sion) an ex­am­ple of fake causal­ity?

const LIZARDMANMay 26, 2021, 10:55 PM
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[Question] List of good AI safety pro­ject ideas?

Aryeh EnglanderMay 26, 2021, 10:36 PM
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Dal­las SSC Meetup #11

DacynMay 26, 2021, 10:19 PM
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An­tifrag­ility in Games of Chance, Re­search, and Debate

DirectedEvolutionMay 26, 2021, 5:51 PM
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[Pre­dic­tion] What war be­tween the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusrMay 26, 2021, 6:24 AM
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The Prac­tice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooenMay 26, 2021, 12:34 AM
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MDP mod­els are de­ter­mined by the agent ar­chi­tec­ture and the en­vi­ron­men­tal dynamics

TurnTroutMay 26, 2021, 12:14 AM
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The BTC equil­ibriu­mat­ing and the ETH one-eightening

Randomized, ControlledMay 25, 2021, 9:32 PM
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[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
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De­cou­pling de­liber­a­tion from competition

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2021, 6:50 PM
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Knowl­edge is not just map/​ter­ri­tory resemblance

Alex FlintMay 25, 2021, 5:58 PM
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Ab­strac­tion Talk

johnswentworthMay 25, 2021, 4:45 PM
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Start­ing a Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup dur­ing Lockdown

Felix KargMay 25, 2021, 3:43 PM
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Or­a­cles, In­form­ers, and Controllers

ozziegooenMay 25, 2021, 2:16 PM
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We should prob­a­bly buy ADA?

mako yassMay 24, 2021, 11:58 PM
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Books on In­fant and Early Child­hood Devel­op­ment?

moderockMay 24, 2021, 11:44 PM
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Ques­tions are tools to help an­swer­ers op­ti­mize utility

ozziegooenMay 24, 2021, 7:30 PM
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