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Generalizing Koopman-Pitman-Darmois

johnswentworth15 Jul 2021 22:33 UTC

59 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

AlphaFold 2 paper released: “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold”, Jumper et al 2021

gwern15 Jul 2021 19:27 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements

Mark Xu and CarlShulman

15 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC

55 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Covid 7/15: Rates of Change

Zvi15 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC

64 points

63 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Experimentation with AI-generated images (VQGAN+CLIP) | Solarpunk airships fleeing a dragon

Kaj_Sotala15 Jul 2021 11:00 UTC

44 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

A closer look at chess scalings (into the past)

hippke15 Jul 2021 8:13 UTC

50 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Re: Competent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC

49 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

Is social theory our doom?

pchvykov15 Jul 2021 3:31 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Lafayette: traffic vessels

KatjaGrace15 Jul 2021 1:00 UTC

27 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

A cognitive algorithm for “free will.”

DirectedEvolution14 Jul 2021 21:33 UTC

23 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Analyzing Punishment as Preventation

Yair Halberstadt14 Jul 2021 15:12 UTC

2 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Model-based RL, Desires, Brains, Wireheading

Steven Byrnes14 Jul 2021 15:11 UTC

22 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

Essentialness of Data

jefftk14 Jul 2021 3:40 UTC

15 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Imaginary reenactment to heal trauma – how and when does it work?

Kaj_Sotala13 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC

41 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The Bullwhip Effect

aysajan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC

19 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

CGP Grey on the difficulty of knowing what’s true [audio]

DanielFilan13 Jul 2021 20:40 UTC

23 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.relay.fm)

Eponymous Laws Part 3: Miscellaneous

rogersbacon13 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC

5 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Answering questions honestly instead of predicting human answers: lots of problems and some solutions

evhub13 Jul 2021 18:49 UTC

62 points

24 comments31 min readLW link

The Additive Summary Equation

johnswentworth13 Jul 2021 18:23 UTC

15 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Seeking Samsara

jblue13 Jul 2021 18:03 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What will the twenties look like if AGI is 30 years away?

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jul 2021 8:14 UTC

29 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Explorative Questions towards Argumentation + GitHub

cod3d13 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful

KatjaGrace13 Jul 2021 1:40 UTC

50 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] Ideal College Education for an Aspiring Rationalist?

Collisteru13 Jul 2021 1:39 UTC

6 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

A new option for building lumenators

Alex_Altair12 Jul 2021 23:45 UTC

29 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

[Link] Musk’s non-missing mood

jimrandomh12 Jul 2021 22:09 UTC

70 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(lukemuehlhauser.com)

(Brainstem, Neocortex) ≠ (Base Motivations, Honorable Motivations)

Steven Byrnes12 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC

62 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near?

Tomás B.12 Jul 2021 15:22 UTC

55 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Reasons for Punishment

Yair Halberstadt12 Jul 2021 14:53 UTC

7 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Anthropic decision theory for self-locating beliefs

Stuart_Armstrong12 Jul 2021 14:11 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Winston Churchill, futurist and EA

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2021 2:07 UTC

66 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The inescapability of knowledge

Alex Flint11 Jul 2021 22:59 UTC

28 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

A low-probability strategy to elminate suffering via hostile takeover of a publically traded corporation

jpgeiger11 Jul 2021 21:41 UTC

−21 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

We have some evidence that masks work

technicalities11 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC

97 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

The More Power At Stake, The Stronger Instrumental Convergence Gets For Optimal Policies

TurnTrout11 Jul 2021 17:36 UTC

45 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

And the Darkness Answered

Slimepriestess11 Jul 2021 5:54 UTC

11 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

[Question] How to make more people interested in rationality?

mukashi11 Jul 2021 2:30 UTC

2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC

64 points

5 comments49 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

The accumulation of knowledge: literature review

Alex Flint10 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC

29 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot

Josh Jacobson10 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC

58 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will the US have more than 100,000 new daily COVID-19 cases before January 1, 2022?

Annapurna10 Jul 2021 14:01 UTC

5 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Firefox does not block analytics by default

jefftk10 Jul 2021 12:50 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Research Facilitation Invitation

LoganStrohl10 Jul 2021 1:04 UTC

53 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Going Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC

193 points

25 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Generalised models: imperfect morphisms and informational entropy

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jul 2021 17:35 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] For reducing caffeine dependence, does daily maximum matter more, or does total daily intake matter more?

Maxwell Peterson9 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC

14 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Conditional Orthogonality

Scott Garrabrant9 Jul 2021 6:01 UTC

27 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Improving capital gains taxes

paulfchristiano9 Jul 2021 5:20 UTC

60 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

The news attention span

damiensnyder9 Jul 2021 1:44 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.damiensnyder.com)

Intermittent Distillations #4: Semiconductors, Economics, Intelligence, and Technological Progress.

Mark Xu8 Jul 2021 22:14 UTC

81 points

9 comments10 min readLW link