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Social media: designed to be bad for you & for society
matto
Jul 24, 2021, 6:59 PM
29
points
18
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Believing vs understanding
Adam Zerner
Jul 24, 2021, 3:39 AM
15
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Housing Without Street Parking: Implemented
jefftk
Jul 24, 2021, 2:40 AM
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
AXRP Episode 10 - AI’s Future and Impacts with Katja Grace
DanielFilan
Jul 23, 2021, 10:10 PM
34
points
2
comments
77
min read
LW
link
Delta variant: we should probably be re-masking
Aaron Bergman
Jul 23, 2021, 9:13 PM
34
points
34
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)
How is low-latency phasic dopamine so fast?
Steven Byrnes
Jul 23, 2021, 5:43 PM
41
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[AN #157]: Measuring misalignment in the technology underlying Copilot
Rohin Shah
Jul 23, 2021, 5:20 PM
28
points
18
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Hypergames 101
Josephine
Jul 23, 2021, 1:19 PM
12
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Decision Duels
Josephine
Jul 23, 2021, 9:22 AM
11
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Examples of human-level AI running unaligned.
df fd
Jul 23, 2021, 8:49 AM
−3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(sortale.substack.com)
A Guide for Productivity
Marius Hobbhahn
Jul 23, 2021, 7:03 AM
39
points
8
comments
41
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the net effect of memes that call out the huge impact of big players in climate change?
hookdump
Jul 23, 2021, 2:46 AM
7
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Re-Define Intent Alignment?
abramdemski
Jul 22, 2021, 7:00 PM
32
points
32
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Learning in layers of muscle memory
Anshul Jain
Jul 22, 2021, 6:57 PM
5
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.anshuljain.me)
Progress, Stagnation, & Collapse
abramdemski
Jul 22, 2021, 4:51 PM
38
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Walking Dead
Logan Zoellner
Jul 22, 2021, 4:19 PM
22
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/22: Error Correction
Zvi
Jul 22, 2021, 2:20 PM
66
points
45
comments
21
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Hobbies and the curse of Spontaneity
J Bostock
Jul 22, 2021, 1:25 PM
4
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Fire Law Incentives
jefftk
Jul 22, 2021, 12:30 PM
32
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Handicapping competitive games
DanielFilan
Jul 22, 2021, 3:00 AM
15
points
19
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
[Question]
($1000 bounty) How effective are marginal vaccine doses against the covid delta variant?
Bird Concept
Jul 22, 2021, 1:26 AM
105
points
73
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Jaynesian interpretation—How does “estimating probabilities” make sense?
Haziq Muhammad
Jul 21, 2021, 9:36 PM
4
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ask Not “How Are You Doing?”
Collisteru
Jul 21, 2021, 5:53 PM
15
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Randomized Zettelkasten Test
Josephine
Jul 21, 2021, 5:21 PM
32
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The shoot-the-moon strategy
jchan
Jul 21, 2021, 4:19 PM
90
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reward splintering for AI design
Stuart_Armstrong
Jul 21, 2021, 4:13 PM
30
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why is Kleros valued so low?
ChristianKl
Jul 21, 2021, 1:50 PM
12
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Marriage Vows
Vanessa Kosoy
Jul 21, 2021, 10:48 AM
84
points
53
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a reasonable reading according to which Baric, Shi et al 2015 isn’t gain-of-function research?
ChristianKl
Jul 21, 2021, 8:19 AM
31
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Utility Function of a Prepper
Alex Hollow
Jul 21, 2021, 2:26 AM
4
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)
Funds are available to support LessWrong groups, among others
Buck
and
ClaireZabel
Jul 21, 2021, 1:11 AM
88
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Punishing the good
KatjaGrace
Jul 20, 2021, 11:30 PM
28
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Entropic boundary conditions towards safe artificial superintelligence
Santiago Nunez-Corrales
Jul 20, 2021, 10:15 PM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.tandfonline.com)
Working With Monsters
johnswentworth
Jul 20, 2021, 3:23 PM
251
points
54
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
An examination of Metaculus’ resolved AI predictions and their implications for AI timelines
CharlesD
Jul 20, 2021, 9:08 AM
28
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Pi Sound Box
jefftk
Jul 20, 2021, 4:10 AM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Book review: The Explanation of Ideology
PeterMcCluskey
Jul 20, 2021, 3:42 AM
43
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)
Joe Carlsmith
Jul 20, 2021, 1:12 AM
26
points
0
comments
33
min read
LW
link
Future Of Work
specbug
Jul 19, 2021, 11:16 PM
−1
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(sixeleven.in)
Some thoughts on David Roodman’s GWP model and its relation to AI timelines
Tom Davidson
Jul 19, 2021, 10:59 PM
32
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Work on Bayesian fitting of AI trends of performance?
Jsevillamol
Jul 19, 2021, 6:45 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is the argument that AI is an xrisk valid?
MACannon
Jul 19, 2021, 1:20 PM
5
points
61
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
Preparing for ambition
Adam Zerner
Jul 19, 2021, 6:13 AM
19
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Compositionality: SQL and Subways
DanB
Jul 19, 2021, 5:37 AM
30
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Happy paths and the planning fallacy
Adam Zerner
Jul 18, 2021, 11:26 PM
38
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
One Study, Many Results (Matt Clancy)
aarongertler
Jul 18, 2021, 11:10 PM
84
points
19
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mattsclancy.substack.com)
Book Review: The Signal and the Noise
Sam Enright
Jul 18, 2021, 10:05 PM
16
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Munich SSC/ACX (+LW) (online) meetup August 2021
vi21maobk9vp
Jul 18, 2021, 8:39 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Any taxonomies of conscious experience?
JohnDavidBustard
Jul 18, 2021, 6:28 PM
7
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A model of decision-making in the brain (the short version)
Steven Byrnes
Jul 18, 2021, 2:39 PM
20
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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