Relentlessness

Alicorn6 Jul 2021 20:27 UTC
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[Question] Con­se­quences of Bayesian Episte­mol­ogy?

Benjamin Hendricks6 Jul 2021 20:05 UTC
6 points
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Po­ten­tial Bot­tle­necks to Tak­ing Over The World

johnswentworth6 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC
152 points
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[Question] Ra­tion­al­ity Yel­low Belt Test Ques­tions?

moridinamael6 Jul 2021 18:15 UTC
19 points
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[Question] Is keep­ing AI “in the box” dur­ing train­ing enough?

tgb6 Jul 2021 15:17 UTC
7 points
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[Question] Should gov­ern­ment set in­ter­est rates?

yhoiseth6 Jul 2021 13:57 UTC
1 point
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In-group loy­alty is so­cial cement

David Hugh-Jones6 Jul 2021 9:57 UTC
19 points
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(wyclif.substack.com)

Preschooler Turnovers

jefftk6 Jul 2021 1:20 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

A sim­ple ex­am­ple of con­di­tional or­thog­o­nal­ity in finite fac­tored sets

DanielFilan6 Jul 2021 0:36 UTC
44 points
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(danielfilan.com)

The topic is not the content

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC
178 points
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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[cross-post with EA Fo­rum] The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

Garrett Baker5 Jul 2021 21:52 UTC
3 points
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Mus­ing on the Many Wor­lds Hypothesis

David Gross5 Jul 2021 19:38 UTC
26 points
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Are co­in­ci­dences clues about missed dis­asters? It de­pends on your an­swer to the Sleep­ing Beauty Prob­lem.

Harlan5 Jul 2021 19:12 UTC
32 points
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Spoiler-Free Re­view: Roguebook

Zvi5 Jul 2021 11:30 UTC
13 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You are al­lowed to edit Wikipedia

ChristianKl5 Jul 2021 9:56 UTC
38 points
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Re­sources On Men­tal Health And Find­ing A Therapist

lynettebye5 Jul 2021 7:54 UTC
19 points
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We Still Don’t Know If Masks Work

Mike Harris5 Jul 2021 4:52 UTC
21 points
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An­thropic Effects in Es­ti­mat­ing Evolu­tion Difficulty

Mark Xu5 Jul 2021 4:02 UTC
12 points
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Can group iden­tity be a force for good?

Eric Neyman4 Jul 2021 17:16 UTC
22 points
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(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Programming

4 Jul 2021 3:29 UTC
67 points
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Should VS Would and New­comb’s Paradox

dadadarren3 Jul 2021 23:45 UTC
5 points
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Notes on Kindness

David Gross3 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC
17 points
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Mauhn Re­leases AI Safety Documentation

Berg Severens3 Jul 2021 21:23 UTC
4 points
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Open and Wel­come Thread – July 2021

habryka3 Jul 2021 19:53 UTC
14 points
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Bram Co­hen at the As­tralCodexTen On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox3 Jul 2021 18:22 UTC
9 points
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[Question] How would you run the statis­tics on whether Iver­mectin helped In­dia re­duce COVID-19 cases?

ChristianKl3 Jul 2021 16:09 UTC
13 points
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Pos­i­tive Ex­pec­ta­tions; how to build Hopefulness

J Bostock3 Jul 2021 13:41 UTC
9 points
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New De­men­tia Trial Results

PeterMcCluskey2 Jul 2021 23:04 UTC
49 points
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(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

[Question] What’s the effec­tive R for the Delta var­i­ant of COVID-19?

ChristianKl2 Jul 2021 12:49 UTC
7 points
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Con­fu­sions re: Higher-Level Game Theory

Diffractor2 Jul 2021 3:15 UTC
38 points
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A (some­what beta) site for em­bed­ding bet­ting odds in your writing

Optimization Process2 Jul 2021 1:10 UTC
51 points
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(biatob.com)

Causes of a Debt Cri­sis—Economic

Connor_Flexman1 Jul 2021 22:46 UTC
39 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: June 2021

NunoSempere1 Jul 2021 21:35 UTC
13 points
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On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Weekend

EGI1 Jul 2021 19:28 UTC
53 points
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Ex­per­i­men­tally eval­u­at­ing whether hon­esty generalizes

paulfchristiano1 Jul 2021 17:47 UTC
103 points
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Covid 7/​1: Don’t Panic

Zvi1 Jul 2021 12:30 UTC
53 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Could Ad­vanced AI Drive Ex­plo­sive Eco­nomic Growth?

Matthew Barnett30 Jun 2021 22:17 UTC
15 points
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(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Thoughts on safety in pre­dic­tive learning

Steven Byrnes30 Jun 2021 19:17 UTC
19 points
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Mus­ings on gen­eral sys­tems alignment

Alex Flint30 Jun 2021 18:16 UTC
31 points
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[AN #154]: What eco­nomic growth the­ory has to say about trans­for­ma­tive AI

Rohin Shah30 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC
12 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Progress on Causal In­fluence Diagrams

tom4everitt30 Jun 2021 15:34 UTC
73 points
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Si­mu­lacrum Levels of Trust

alkexr30 Jun 2021 10:14 UTC
21 points
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[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 Jones30 Jun 2021 7:14 UTC
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Do in­co­her­ent en­tities have stronger rea­son to be­come more co­her­ent than less?

KatjaGrace30 Jun 2021 5:50 UTC
46 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] How do the iver­mectin meta-re­views come to so differ­ent con­clu­sions?

ChristianKl29 Jun 2021 22:34 UTC
39 points
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D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic29 Jun 2021 21:02 UTC
30 points
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Search by abstraction

p.b.29 Jun 2021 20:56 UTC
5 points
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Why did we wait so long for the thresh­ing ma­chine?

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2021 19:55 UTC
104 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Is there a “co­her­ent de­ci­sions im­ply con­sis­tent util­ities”-style ar­gu­ment for non-lex­i­co­graphic prefer­ences?

Tetraspace29 Jun 2021 19:14 UTC
4 points
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Try­ing to ap­prox­i­mate Statis­ti­cal Models as Scor­ing Tables

Jsevillamol29 Jun 2021 17:20 UTC
18 points
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