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Causes of a Debt Crisis—Economic
Connor_Flexman
Jul 1, 2021, 10:46 PM
39
points
11
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Forecasting Newsletter: June 2021
NunoSempere
Jul 1, 2021, 9:35 PM
13
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Online LessWrong Community Weekend
EGI
Jul 1, 2021, 7:28 PM
53
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Experimentally evaluating whether honesty generalizes
paulfchristiano
Jul 1, 2021, 5:47 PM
103
points
24
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
Covid 7/1: Don’t Panic
Zvi
Jul 1, 2021, 12:30 PM
53
points
35
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Could Advanced AI Drive Explosive Economic Growth?
Matthew Barnett
Jun 30, 2021, 10:17 PM
15
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
Thoughts on safety in predictive learning
Steven Byrnes
Jun 30, 2021, 7:17 PM
20
points
17
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Musings on general systems alignment
Alex Flint
Jun 30, 2021, 6:16 PM
31
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[AN #154]: What economic growth theory has to say about transformative AI
Rohin Shah
Jun 30, 2021, 5:20 PM
12
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Progress on Causal Influence Diagrams
tom4everitt
Jun 30, 2021, 3:34 PM
73
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Simulacrum Levels of Trust
alkexr
Jun 30, 2021, 10:14 AM
21
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is it true that most studies in Kahneman’s ‘Thinking fast and slow’ are not replicable and the book is largely not supported by evidence?
Davy Jones
Jun 30, 2021, 7:14 AM
18
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do incoherent entities have stronger reason to become more coherent than less?
KatjaGrace
Jun 30, 2021, 5:50 AM
46
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
[Question]
How do the ivermectin meta-reviews come to so different conclusions?
ChristianKl
Jun 29, 2021, 10:34 PM
39
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset
abstractapplic
Jun 29, 2021, 9:02 PM
30
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Search by abstraction
p.b.
Jun 29, 2021, 8:56 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?
jasoncrawford
Jun 29, 2021, 7:55 PM
104
points
20
comments
12
min read
LW
link
1
review
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
Is there a “coherent decisions imply consistent utilities”-style argument for non-lexicographic preferences?
Tetraspace
Jun 29, 2021, 7:14 PM
4
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Trying to approximate Statistical Models as Scoring Tables
Jsevillamol
Jun 29, 2021, 5:20 PM
18
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How will OpenAI + GitHub’s Copilot affect programming?
smountjoy
Jun 29, 2021, 4:42 PM
55
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Opinionated Uncertainty
DirectedEvolution
Jun 29, 2021, 12:11 AM
10
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
Intro to Debt Crises
Connor_Flexman
Jun 28, 2021, 11:50 PM
59
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
A quantitative introduction to churning
electroswing
Jun 28, 2021, 10:21 PM
19
points
4
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much interest would there be in a fringe theories wiki?
Matthew Barnett
Jun 28, 2021, 9:03 PM
14
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How teams went about their research at AI Safety Camp edition 5
Remmelt
Jun 28, 2021, 3:15 PM
24
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Eponymous Laws Part 2: Laws of Programming and Software Development
rogersbacon
Jun 28, 2021, 12:46 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Voicing Voice
Willa
Jun 28, 2021, 4:29 AM
6
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Optimism about Social Technology
mike_hawke
Jun 27, 2021, 11:35 PM
23
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Intentionally Making Close Friends
Neel Nanda
Jun 27, 2021, 11:06 PM
290
points
35
comments
18
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.neelnanda.io)
Brute force searching for alignment
Donald Hobson
Jun 27, 2021, 9:54 PM
23
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What precautions should fully-vaccinated people still be taking?
Sameerishere
Jun 27, 2021, 7:10 PM
32
points
48
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some claims or opinions about multi-multi delegation you’ve seen in the memeplex that you think deserve scrutiny?
Quinn
Jun 27, 2021, 5:44 PM
17
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Finite Factored Sets: LW transcript with running commentary
Rob Bensinger
and
Scott Garrabrant
Jun 27, 2021, 4:02 PM
30
points
0
comments
51
min read
LW
link
Nuclear Strategy in a Semi-Vulnerable World
Jackson Wagner
Jun 27, 2021, 8:17 AM
7
points
1
comment
17
min read
LW
link
The Unexpected Hanging Paradox
Chris_Leong
Jun 27, 2021, 6:17 AM
17
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Sam Altman and Ezra Klein on the AI Revolution
Zack_M_Davis
Jun 27, 2021, 4:53 AM
38
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
The Language of Bird
johnswentworth
Jun 27, 2021, 4:44 AM
45
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Deep limitations? Examining expert disagreement over deep learning
Richard_Ngo
Jun 27, 2021, 12:55 AM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(link.springer.com)
[Question]
What will be the aftermath of the US intelligence lab leak report?
ChristianKl
Jun 26, 2021, 8:33 PM
20
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #153]: Experiments that demonstrate failures of objective robustness
Rohin Shah
Jun 26, 2021, 5:10 PM
25
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Improving parliamentary information processing
victorsintnicolaas
Jun 26, 2021, 4:11 PM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Cliffnotes to Craft of Research parts I, II, and III
Quinn
Jun 26, 2021, 2:00 PM
7
points
1
comment
17
min read
LW
link
Why you should try a live reading session
Nihal M
Jun 26, 2021, 8:30 AM
13
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Anthropics and Embedded Agency
dadadarren
26 Jun 2021 1:45 UTC
7
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Internal Information Cascades
JenniferRM
25 Jun 2021 16:35 UTC
45
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Replacing Guilt audiobook
gianlucatruda
25 Jun 2021 13:38 UTC
65
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
I Will Organize Meetups in Norfolk, Virginia [Hampton Roads Metro Area]
Willa
25 Jun 2021 2:41 UTC
12
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Somewhat Rationalist Baptism
ZorbaTHut
25 Jun 2021 0:39 UTC
12
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 9 - Finite Factored Sets with Scott Garrabrant
DanielFilan
24 Jun 2021 22:10 UTC
59
points
2
comments
59
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do the side effects of Novavax compare to other COVID-19 vaccines?
ChristianKl
24 Jun 2021 16:36 UTC
14
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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