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Washington DC Meeetup: Reading Discussion
rocurley
16 Jun 2021 23:54 UTC
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Neo-Mohism
Bae's Theorem
16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC
5
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Variables Don’t Represent The Physical World (And That’s OK)
johnswentworth
16 Jun 2021 19:05 UTC
42
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[AN #152]: How we’ve overestimated few-shot learning capabilities
Rohin Shah
16 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC
22
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Announcing the Nuclear Risk Forecasting Tournament
MichaelA
16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC
16
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AI-Based Code Generation Using GPT-J-6B
Tomás B.
16 Jun 2021 15:05 UTC
21
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(minimaxir.com)
Insufficient Values
Jozdien
,
Jacob Abraham
and
Abraham Francis
16 Jun 2021 14:33 UTC
31
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Reward Is Not Enough
Steven Byrnes
16 Jun 2021 13:52 UTC
120
points
19
comments
10
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Open problem: how can we quantify player alignment in 2x2 normal-form games?
TurnTrout
16 Jun 2021 2:09 UTC
23
points
59
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Three Paths to Existential Risk from AI
harsimony
16 Jun 2021 1:37 UTC
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)
Unbundling Humans, or, Unbundling Human Creation.
Sajith Pai
16 Jun 2021 0:03 UTC
10
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Escaping the Löbian Obstacle
Morgan_Rogers
16 Jun 2021 0:02 UTC
14
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can someone help me understand the arrow of time?
Yair Halberstadt
15 Jun 2021 17:26 UTC
6
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If instead of giving out dividends, public companies bought total market index funds, which companies would be the biggest?
Mati_Roy
15 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Vignettes Workshop (AI Impacts)
Daniel Kokotajlo
15 Jun 2021 12:05 UTC
47
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Stanford EA Confusion Dinner
Jack R
15 Jun 2021 10:49 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bookclub Discussion: The Precipice (Intro + Chap. 1 − 2) (1/4)
Aditya Kedia
15 Jun 2021 5:12 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Knowledge is not just digital abstraction layers
Alex Flint
15 Jun 2021 3:49 UTC
21
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Anyone have experience with metabolic network modelling that would be willing to help me out?
CraigMichael
14 Jun 2021 22:40 UTC
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(Another) Using a Memory Palace to Memorize a Textbook
Spencer_Green
14 Jun 2021 22:12 UTC
14
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
PeterMcCluskey
14 Jun 2021 20:54 UTC
42
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
A Breakdown of AI Chip Companies
Tomás B.
14 Jun 2021 19:25 UTC
20
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(geohot.github.io)
[Question]
Are there any existing open source human evolution models?
ChristianKl
14 Jun 2021 17:28 UTC
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Introduction to Prediction Markets
Annapurna
14 Jun 2021 16:43 UTC
9
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Walking to School
jefftk
14 Jun 2021 15:30 UTC
36
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Doomsday, Sampling Assumptions, and Bayes
Yair Halberstadt
14 Jun 2021 12:41 UTC
6
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
A lateral way of thinking about Cause X: barely visible but potentially enormous categories of value
Writer
14 Jun 2021 11:44 UTC
6
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Coronavirus crash vs history
bfinn
14 Jun 2021 10:55 UTC
39
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which rationalists faced significant side-effects from COVID-19 vaccination?
ChristianKl
14 Jun 2021 9:39 UTC
18
points
45
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The value of low-conscientiousness people on teams
CraigMichael
14 Jun 2021 2:06 UTC
60
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Five Suggestions For Rationality Research and Development
LoganStrohl
14 Jun 2021 1:09 UTC
64
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Precognition
jasoncrawford
14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
229
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
(jasoncrawford.org)
Shall we count the living or the dead?
Anders_H
14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
30
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Looking Deeper at Deconfusion
adamShimi
13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
61
points
13
comments
15
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What other problems would a successful AI safety algorithm solve?
DirectedEvolution
13 Jun 2021 21:07 UTC
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Avoiding the instrumental policy by hiding information about humans
paulfchristiano
13 Jun 2021 20:00 UTC
31
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Answering questions honestly given world-model mismatches
paulfchristiano
13 Jun 2021 18:00 UTC
34
points
2
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(ai-alignment.com)
Experiments with a random clock
Malmesbury
13 Jun 2021 17:08 UTC
58
points
12
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)
The Cult Deficit: Analysis and Speculation
rogersbacon
13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC
18
points
11
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Covid vaccine safety: how correct are these allegations?
DPiepgrass
13 Jun 2021 3:08 UTC
45
points
93
comments
19
min read
LW
link
The Moon is Down; I have not heard the clock
chemslug
13 Jun 2021 1:40 UTC
52
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A systematic error that lead to a bad policy response to COVID-19
ChristianKl
12 Jun 2021 19:56 UTC
23
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do patients in mental institutions get so little attention in the public discourse?
ChristianKl
12 Jun 2021 17:37 UTC
41
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Internal Memo from Bleggs Universal
kithpendragon
12 Jun 2021 16:44 UTC
24
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Some people just won’t get it
Amir Bolous
12 Jun 2021 15:10 UTC
3
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is the length of the Covid-19 incubation period likely to be affected by whether you are vaccinated?
Josh Jacobson
12 Jun 2021 3:27 UTC
9
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does anyone have any Data Sidequests?
abstractapplic
11 Jun 2021 23:40 UTC
18
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comment on the lab leak hypothesis
Jeffrey Ladish
11 Jun 2021 22:49 UTC
61
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Overview of Rethink Priorities’ work on risks from nuclear weapons
MichaelA
11 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC
12
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Self-study ideas for micro-projects in “abstract” subjects?
DirectedEvolution
11 Jun 2021 19:09 UTC
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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