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For God’s sake, Google it.
Aaron Bergman
Aug 10, 2021, 11:52 PM
19
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)
Free course review — Reliable and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence (ETH Zurich)
Jan Czechowski
Aug 10, 2021, 4:36 PM
7
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dopamine-supervised learning in mammals & fruit flies
Steven Byrnes
Aug 10, 2021, 4:13 PM
18
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
The two-headed bacterium
Malmesbury
Aug 10, 2021, 3:28 PM
73
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Rationality Vienna Meetup 2021 August
Laszlo_Treszkai
Aug 10, 2021, 7:45 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A Qualitative and Intuitive Explanation of Expected Value
Adam Zerner
Aug 10, 2021, 3:31 AM
11
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Outline of Galef’s “Scout Mindset”
Rob Bensinger
Aug 10, 2021, 12:16 AM
163
points
17
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity
Sam Enright
Aug 9, 2021, 9:53 PM
39
points
16
comments
32
min read
LW
link
Eight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games
Scott Alexander
Aug 9, 2021, 8:17 PM
111
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Fermi Fingers
Optimization Process
Aug 9, 2021, 7:56 PM
28
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Implicature Conflation
abramdemski
Aug 9, 2021, 7:48 PM
54
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Calculated Clairvoyance
Space L Clottey
Aug 9, 2021, 7:46 PM
14
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Combining two posts: Blankface (Scott Aa) and Is Science Slowing Down? (Scott Al)
William Gasarch
Aug 9, 2021, 5:37 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Framing Practicum: Stable Equilibrium
johnswentworth
Aug 9, 2021, 5:28 PM
57
points
42
comments
4
min read
LW
link
When Most VNM-Coherent Preference Orderings Have Convergent Instrumental Incentives
TurnTrout
Aug 9, 2021, 5:22 PM
53
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Question about Test-sets and Bayesian machine learning
Haziq Muhammad
Aug 9, 2021, 5:16 PM
2
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Reductionist Trap
J Bostock
Aug 9, 2021, 5:00 PM
11
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Goal-Directedness and Behavior, Redux
adamShimi
Aug 9, 2021, 2:26 PM
16
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A new definition of “optimizer”
Chantiel
Aug 9, 2021, 1:42 PM
5
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Great Negotiation MOOC on Coursera
eg
Aug 9, 2021, 12:23 PM
16
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What should rationalists call themselves?
Nathan Young
Aug 9, 2021, 8:50 AM
4
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against “blankfaces”
philh
Aug 8, 2021, 11:00 PM
103
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
There are transparent monsters in the world—part 1
Writer
Aug 8, 2021, 7:47 PM
7
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
The Future: Where are the Colors and the Sports?
rogersbacon
Aug 8, 2021, 6:55 PM
82
points
37
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Dallas SSC/ACX August 2021 Meetup
nomagicpill
Aug 8, 2021, 5:55 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book review: Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell
victorsintnicolaas
Aug 8, 2021, 5:05 PM
16
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Predictions about the state of crypto in ten years
mike_hawke
Aug 8, 2021, 4:18 PM
5
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Applications for Deconfusing Goal-Directedness
adamShimi
Aug 8, 2021, 1:05 PM
38
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Seeking Power is Convergently Instrumental in a Broad Class of Environments
TurnTrout
Aug 8, 2021, 2:02 AM
44
points
15
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Delta, Deaths, and Vaccinations
jefftk
Aug 7, 2021, 7:10 PM
21
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Rage Against The MOOChine
Borasko
Aug 7, 2021, 5:57 PM
20
points
12
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A map: “Global Catastrophic Risks of Scientific Experiments”
avturchin
Aug 7, 2021, 3:35 PM
10
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Research agenda update
Steven Byrnes
Aug 6, 2021, 7:24 PM
55
points
40
comments
7
min read
LW
link
What 2026 looks like
Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 6, 2021, 4:14 PM
571
points
162
comments
16
min read
LW
link
1
review
Thoughts on the Recent Haitian Assassination
Tim Liptrot
Aug 6, 2021, 3:00 PM
31
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Scoring My AstraZeneca Predictions
Erich_Grunewald
Aug 6, 2021, 11:52 AM
7
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
Moving Away From The GPL
jefftk
Aug 6, 2021, 11:50 AM
22
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How many parameters do self-driving-car neural nets have?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 6, 2021, 11:24 AM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some good pieces on civilizational decay / civilizational collapse / weakening of societal fabric?
Eli Tyre
Aug 6, 2021, 7:18 AM
22
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What are some beautiful, rationalist sounds?
DirectedEvolution
Aug 6, 2021, 1:22 AM
31
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Traps of Formalization in Deconfusion
adamShimi
Aug 5, 2021, 10:40 PM
28
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Covid 8/5: Much Ado About Nothing
Zvi
Aug 5, 2021, 2:00 PM
63
points
34
comments
31
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Two AI-risk-related game design ideas
Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 5, 2021, 1:36 PM
48
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why not more small, intense research teams?
eg
Aug 5, 2021, 11:57 AM
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Training Better Rationalists?
Davis_Kingsley
5 Aug 2021 11:13 UTC
42
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- Potential
lsusr
5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC
28
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to get mRNA after J&J
jefftk
5 Aug 2021 1:50 UTC
19
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What do we know about vaccinating children?
Gunnar_Zarncke
4 Aug 2021 23:57 UTC
17
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Art Meet
Alicorn
4 Aug 2021 23:40 UTC
37
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Should doctors be neutral?
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC
31
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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