A Rea­son to Ex­pect Repub­lics to Perform Bet­ter than Ab­solute Monar­chies in the Long-Term

MikkW17 Jun 2021 22:22 UTC
9 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Thoughts on a “Se­quences In­spired” PhD Topic

goose00017 Jun 2021 20:36 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Pros and cons of work­ing on near-term tech­ni­cal AI safety and assurance

Aryeh Englander17 Jun 2021 20:17 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What is your coro­n­avirus pre­dic­tion for Is­rael?

Yair Halberstadt17 Jun 2021 19:10 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 6/​17: One Last Scare

Zvi17 Jun 2021 18:40 UTC
86 points
42 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The ad­u­canumab approval

ChristianKl17 Jun 2021 14:05 UTC
18 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(blogs.sciencemag.org)

Who wants to run a B2B SaaS startup?

jefftk17 Jun 2021 13:40 UTC
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Ap­pren­tice Thread

Zvi17 Jun 2021 13:10 UTC
139 points
59 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Epony­mous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet

rogersbacon17 Jun 2021 12:22 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

How to make er­rands fun

dominicq17 Jun 2021 11:27 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ta­boo “Out­side View”

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jun 2021 9:36 UTC
348 points
33 comments8 min readLW link3 reviews

Wash­ing­ton DC Meeetup: Read­ing Discussion

rocurley16 Jun 2021 23:54 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC
5 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Vari­ables Don’t Rep­re­sent The Phys­i­cal World (And That’s OK)

johnswentworth16 Jun 2021 19:05 UTC
42 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #152]: How we’ve over­es­ti­mated few-shot learn­ing capabilities

Rohin Shah16 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC
22 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

AI-Based Code Gen­er­a­tion Us­ing GPT-J-6B

Tomás B.16 Jun 2021 15:05 UTC
21 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(minimaxir.com)

In­suffi­cient Values

16 Jun 2021 14:33 UTC
31 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Re­ward Is Not Enough

Steven Byrnes16 Jun 2021 13:52 UTC
120 points
19 comments10 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Open prob­lem: how can we quan­tify player al­ign­ment in 2x2 nor­mal-form games?

TurnTrout16 Jun 2021 2:09 UTC
23 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Three Paths to Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from AI

harsimony16 Jun 2021 1:37 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Un­bundling Hu­mans, or, Un­bundling Hu­man Creation.

Sajith Pai16 Jun 2021 0:03 UTC
10 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Es­cap­ing the Löbian Obstacle

Morgan_Rogers16 Jun 2021 0:02 UTC
14 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Can some­one help me un­der­stand the ar­row of time?

Yair Halberstadt15 Jun 2021 17:26 UTC
6 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If in­stead of giv­ing out div­i­dends, pub­lic com­pa­nies bought to­tal mar­ket in­dex funds, which com­pa­nies would be the biggest?

Mati_Roy15 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Vignettes Work­shop (AI Im­pacts)

Daniel Kokotajlo15 Jun 2021 12:05 UTC
47 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Stan­ford EA Con­fu­sion Din­ner

Jack R15 Jun 2021 10:49 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book­club Dis­cus­sion: The Precipice (In­tro + Chap. 1 − 2) (1/​4)

Aditya Kedia15 Jun 2021 5:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Knowl­edge is not just digi­tal ab­strac­tion layers

Alex Flint15 Jun 2021 3:49 UTC
21 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Any­one have ex­pe­rience with metabolic net­work mod­el­ling that would be will­ing to help me out?

CraigMichael14 Jun 2021 22:40 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

(Another) Us­ing a Me­mory Palace to Me­morize a Textbook

Spencer_Green14 Jun 2021 22:12 UTC
14 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Mar­ket Taught Me about News

PeterMcCluskey14 Jun 2021 20:54 UTC
42 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

A Break­down of AI Chip Companies

Tomás B.14 Jun 2021 19:25 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(geohot.github.io)

[Question] Are there any ex­ist­ing open source hu­man evolu­tion mod­els?

ChristianKl14 Jun 2021 17:28 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Pre­dic­tion Markets

Annapurna14 Jun 2021 16:43 UTC
9 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Walk­ing to School

jefftk14 Jun 2021 15:30 UTC
36 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Dooms­day, Sam­pling As­sump­tions, and Bayes

Yair Halberstadt14 Jun 2021 12:41 UTC
6 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

A lat­eral way of think­ing about Cause X: barely visi­ble but po­ten­tially enor­mous cat­e­gories of value

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:44 UTC
6 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Coron­avirus crash vs history

bfinn14 Jun 2021 10:55 UTC
39 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Which ra­tio­nal­ists faced sig­nifi­cant side-effects from COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion?

ChristianKl14 Jun 2021 9:39 UTC
18 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

The value of low-con­scien­tious­ness peo­ple on teams

CraigMichael14 Jun 2021 2:06 UTC
60 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Five Sugges­tions For Ra­tion­al­ity Re­search and Devel­op­ment

LoganStrohl14 Jun 2021 1:09 UTC
64 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
229 points
35 comments2 min readLW link1 review
(jasoncrawford.org)

Shall we count the liv­ing or the dead?

Anders_H14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC
30 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Look­ing Deeper at Deconfusion

adamShimi13 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
61 points
13 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What other prob­lems would a suc­cess­ful AI safety al­gorithm solve?

DirectedEvolution13 Jun 2021 21:07 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Avoid­ing the in­stru­men­tal policy by hid­ing in­for­ma­tion about humans

paulfchristiano13 Jun 2021 20:00 UTC
31 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

An­swer­ing ques­tions hon­estly given world-model mismatches

paulfchristiano13 Jun 2021 18:00 UTC
34 points
2 comments16 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Ex­per­i­ments with a ran­dom clock

Malmesbury13 Jun 2021 17:08 UTC
58 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

The Cult Deficit: Anal­y­sis and Speculation

rogersbacon13 Jun 2021 5:33 UTC
18 points
11 comments13 min readLW link