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[Question] What’s your personal TAP setup?

Raj Thimmiah29 Jul 2021 22:38 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Brief thoughts on inefficient writing systems

Srdjan Miletic29 Jul 2021 20:20 UTC

22 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #158]: Should we be optimistic about generalization?

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Covid 7/29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC

97 points

25 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slack Has Positive Externalities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC

90 points

11 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Gaming Incentives

Jozdien29 Jul 2021 13:51 UTC

10 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Did they or didn’t they learn tool use?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 13:26 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to bayesian update on multiple covid tests?

rchplg29 Jul 2021 13:15 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Importance of Ideas and People We Disagree With

Olitness29 Jul 2021 11:50 UTC

−1 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(olitness.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much compute was used to train DeepMind’s generally capable agents?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 11:34 UTC

32 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Violent Unraveling: Suicidal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC

6 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Do we have a term for the issue with quantifying policy effect Scott Alexander stumbled on multiple times?

yhoiseth29 Jul 2021 8:45 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 2

konstell and gilch

29 Jul 2021 7:39 UTC

30 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Evidence that adds up

TekhneMakre29 Jul 2021 3:27 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Premiums vs Prediction Markets

SimonM28 Jul 2021 23:03 UTC

33 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC

119 points

60 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] How much do variations in diet quality determine individual productivity?

Natália28 Jul 2021 3:05 UTC

37 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

A reasonable debate about Ivermectin

CraigMichael27 Jul 2021 22:31 UTC

7 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC

50 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC

247 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

−8 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

(olitness.wordpress.com)

More Useful Way of Answering “Mind vs. Body” Problem

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(olitness.wordpress.com)

A conversation about cooking, science, and creativity

DirectedEvolution27 Jul 2021 5:00 UTC

16 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Neuroscience things that confuse me right now

Steven Byrnes26 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC

16 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

Refactoring Alignment (attempt #2)

abramdemski26 Jul 2021 20:12 UTC

46 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

Wanted: Foom-scared alignment research partner

Icarus Gallagher26 Jul 2021 19:23 UTC

40 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What does knowing the heritability of a trait tell me in practice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC

58 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a theoretical upper limit on the R0 of Covid variants?

CraigMichael26 Jul 2021 6:53 UTC

11 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

When writing triggers memory reconsolidation

Adam Zerner25 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC

34 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Can I teach myself scientific creativity?

DirectedEvolution25 Jul 2021 20:15 UTC

13 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

When Arguing Definitions is Arguing Decisions

Hazard25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC

28 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Come Build Affordable Housing!

jefftk25 Jul 2021 14:10 UTC

24 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Academic Rationality Research

ChristianKl25 Jul 2021 13:59 UTC

63 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The biological intelligence explosion

Rob Lucas25 Jul 2021 13:08 UTC

8 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

My Productivity Tips and Systems

Jack R25 Jul 2021 12:52 UTC

15 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are some triggers that prompt you to do a Fermi estimate, or to pull up a spreadsheet and make a simple/rough quantitative model?

Eli Tyre25 Jul 2021 6:47 UTC

38 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Failing safely is the anomaly

Andrew Vlahos25 Jul 2021 4:56 UTC

12 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC

99 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

Social media: designed to be bad for you & for society

matto24 Jul 2021 18:59 UTC

29 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Believing vs understanding

Adam Zerner24 Jul 2021 3:39 UTC

15 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Housing Without Street Parking: Implemented

jefftk24 Jul 2021 2:40 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AXRP Episode 10 - AI’s Future and Impacts with Katja Grace

DanielFilan23 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC

34 points

2 comments77 min readLW link

Delta variant: we should probably be re-masking

Aaron Bergman23 Jul 2021 21:13 UTC

34 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

How is low-latency phasic dopamine so fast?

Steven Byrnes23 Jul 2021 17:43 UTC

41 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[AN #157]: Measuring misalignment in the technology underlying Copilot

Rohin Shah23 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC

28 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Hypergames 101

Josephine23 Jul 2021 13:19 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Decision Duels

Josephine23 Jul 2021 9:22 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Examples of human-level AI running unaligned.

df fd23 Jul 2021 8:49 UTC

−3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(sortale.substack.com)

A Guide for Productivity

Marius Hobbhahn23 Jul 2021 7:03 UTC

33 points

7 comments41 min readLW link

[Question] What is the net effect of memes that call out the huge impact of big players in climate change?

hookdump23 Jul 2021 2:46 UTC

7 points

5 comments2 min readLW link