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Podcast Club IRL: Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

Aditya Kedia15 Aug 2021 22:59 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Strategy vs. PR-narrative

TekhneMakre15 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Pedophile Problems

rogersbacon15 Aug 2021 18:23 UTC

11 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia

Erich_Grunewald15 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC

12 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Open and Welcome Thread – August 2021

habryka15 Aug 2021 5:59 UTC

13 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance

orthonormal14 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Staying Grounded

johnswentworth14 Aug 2021 17:43 UTC

66 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Perhaps vastly more people should be on FDA-approved weight loss medication

25Hour14 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC

56 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

Approaches to gradient hacking

adamShimi14 Aug 2021 15:16 UTC

16 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

NJ Still Has Silly Rotary Rules

jefftk14 Aug 2021 2:00 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Absent-Minded Driver and Self-Locating Probabilities

dadadarren14 Aug 2021 0:09 UTC

12 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

D&D.Sci August 2021: The Oracle and the Monk

abstractapplic13 Aug 2021 22:36 UTC

31 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Fudging Work and Rationalization

J Bostock13 Aug 2021 19:51 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A deeper look at doxepin and the FDA

DirectedEvolution13 Aug 2021 18:59 UTC

22 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

You are invited to apply to the Guild of the ROSE

moridinamael13 Aug 2021 18:25 UTC

29 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Guild of the ROSE Mixer

moridinamael13 Aug 2021 18:11 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In Most Markets, Lower Risk Means Higher Reward

dawangy13 Aug 2021 17:32 UTC

33 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

[AN #160]: Building AIs that learn and think like people

Rohin Shah13 Aug 2021 17:10 UTC

28 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

OpenAI Codex: First Impressions

specbug13 Aug 2021 16:52 UTC

49 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(sixeleven.in)

[Question] How would the Scaling Hypothesis change things?

Aryeh Englander13 Aug 2021 15:42 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Coase’s “Nature of the Firm” on Polyamory

1a3orn13 Aug 2021 13:15 UTC

101 points

34 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

A review of “Agents and Devices”

adamShimi13 Aug 2021 8:42 UTC

20 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is microCOVID “badness” superlinear?

Optimization Process13 Aug 2021 6:37 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Sep-Oct 2021

Yi-Yang13 Aug 2021 2:55 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Technical Predictions Related to AI Safety

lsusr13 Aug 2021 0:29 UTC

29 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Power-seeking for successive choices

adamShimi12 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

11 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Obesity Epidemic Explained in 0.9 Subway Cookies

tinyanon12 Aug 2021 15:45 UTC

8 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Jaynes-Cox Probability: Are plausibilities objective?

Haziq Muhammad12 Aug 2021 14:23 UTC

9 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 8/12: The Worst Is Over

Zvi12 Aug 2021 13:30 UTC

79 points

66 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New GPT-3 competitor

Quintin Pope12 Aug 2021 7:05 UTC

32 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SL4 in more legible format

Richard_Ngo12 Aug 2021 6:36 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Combining the best of Georgian and Harberger taxes

Yair Halberstadt12 Aug 2021 5:55 UTC

23 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Bistability

johnswentworth12 Aug 2021 4:51 UTC

36 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Erratum for “From AI to Zombies”

Just Learning12 Aug 2021 4:39 UTC

12 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Response to A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

skot52312 Aug 2021 4:23 UTC

82 points

36 comments10 min readLW link

(goodtosell.substack.com)

Some criteria for sandwiching projects

dmz12 Aug 2021 3:40 UTC

18 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Request for comment on a novel reference work of understanding

ender12 Aug 2021 0:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Might intelligence decrease among humanity?

throwawayaccount11112 Aug 2021 0:05 UTC

−3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

What is the problem?

Carlos Ramirez11 Aug 2021 22:33 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Automating Auditing: An ambitious concrete technical research proposal

evhub11 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC

88 points

13 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Don’t walk through the fire! Walk through the fire!

Icarus Gallagher11 Aug 2021 19:38 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Founding a rationalist group at the University of Michigan

DirectedEvolution11 Aug 2021 19:07 UTC

30 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Dangerous Virtual Worlds

Davis_Kingsley11 Aug 2021 12:53 UTC

9 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Purple Lipstick

lsusr11 Aug 2021 9:36 UTC

16 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Halpern’s paper—A refutation of Cox’s theorem?

Haziq Muhammad11 Aug 2021 9:25 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the name of this fallacy?

mukashi11 Aug 2021 2:10 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Interest in Biostasis: Much More Than You Wanted to Know. (Results from the ACX 2021 Biostasis/Cryonics Survey)

Synaptic11 Aug 2021 0:43 UTC

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(synopticz.github.io)

For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron Bergman10 Aug 2021 23:52 UTC

19 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Free course review — Reliable and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence (ETH Zurich)

Jan Czechowski10 Aug 2021 16:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Dopamine-supervised learning in mammals & fruit flies

Steven Byrnes10 Aug 2021 16:13 UTC

17 points

6 comments9 min readLW link