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Podcast Club IRL: Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

Aditya KediaAug 15, 2021, 10:59 PM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Strategy vs. PR-narrative

TekhneMakreAug 15, 2021, 10:40 PM

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Pedophile Problems

rogersbaconAug 15, 2021, 6:23 PM

11 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia

Erich_GrunewaldAug 15, 2021, 11:31 AM

12 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Open and Welcome Thread – August 2021

habrykaAug 15, 2021, 5:59 AM

13 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance

orthonormalAug 14, 2021, 5:52 PM

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Staying Grounded

johnswentworthAug 14, 2021, 5:43 PM

66 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

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

25HourAug 14, 2021, 5:22 PM

59 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

Approaches to gradient hacking

adamShimiAug 14, 2021, 3:16 PM

16 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

NJ Still Has Silly Rotary Rules

jefftkAug 14, 2021, 2:00 AM

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Absent-Minded Driver and Self-Locating Probabilities

dadadarrenAug 14, 2021, 12:09 AM

12 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

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

abstractapplicAug 13, 2021, 10:36 PM

33 points

23 comments2 min readLW link

Fudging Work and Rationalization

J BostockAug 13, 2021, 7:51 PM

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A deeper look at doxepin and the FDA

DirectedEvolutionAug 13, 2021, 6:59 PM

22 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

You are invited to apply to the Guild of the ROSE

moridinamaelAug 13, 2021, 6:25 PM

29 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Guild of the ROSE Mixer

moridinamaelAug 13, 2021, 6:11 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In Most Markets, Lower Risk Means Higher Reward

dawangyAug 13, 2021, 5:32 PM

33 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahAug 13, 2021, 5:10 PM

28 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

OpenAI Codex: First Impressions

specbugAug 13, 2021, 4:52 PM

49 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(sixeleven.in)

[Question] How would the Scaling Hypothesis change things?

Aryeh EnglanderAug 13, 2021, 3:42 PM

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Coase’s “Nature of the Firm” on Polyamory

1a3ornAug 13, 2021, 1:15 PM

102 points

34 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

A review of “Agents and Devices”

adamShimiAug 13, 2021, 8:42 AM

21 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is microCOVID “badness” superlinear?

Optimization ProcessAug 13, 2021, 6:37 AM

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Sep-Oct 2021

Yi-YangAug 13, 2021, 2:55 AM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Technical Predictions Related to AI Safety

lsusrAug 13, 2021, 12:29 AM

29 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Power-seeking for successive choices

adamShimiAug 12, 2021, 8:37 PM

11 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Obesity Epidemic Explained in 0.9 Subway Cookies

tinyanonAug 12, 2021, 3:45 PM

8 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

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

Haziq MuhammadAug 12, 2021, 2:23 PM

9 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 8/12: The Worst Is Over

ZviAug 12, 2021, 1:30 PM

79 points

66 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New GPT-3 competitor

Quintin PopeAug 12, 2021, 7:05 AM

32 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SL4 in more legible format

Richard_NgoAug 12, 2021, 6:36 AM

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Combining the best of Georgian and Harberger taxes

Yair HalberstadtAug 12, 2021, 5:55 AM

23 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Bistability

johnswentworthAug 12, 2021, 4:51 AM

37 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Erratum for “From AI to Zombies”

Valentin2026Aug 12, 2021, 4:39 AM

12 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Response to A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

skot523Aug 12, 2021, 4:23 AM

82 points

36 comments10 min readLW link

(goodtosell.substack.com)

Some criteria for sandwiching projects

dmzAug 12, 2021, 3:40 AM

18 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Request for comment on a novel reference work of understanding

enderAug 12, 2021, 12:06 AM

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Might intelligence decrease among humanity?

throwawayaccount111Aug 12, 2021, 12:05 AM

−3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

What is the problem?

Carlos RamirezAug 11, 2021, 10:33 PM

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Automating Auditing: An ambitious concrete technical research proposal

evhubAug 11, 2021, 8:32 PM

89 points

13 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

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

Icarus GallagherAug 11, 2021, 7:38 PM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Founding a rationalist group at the University of Michigan

DirectedEvolutionAug 11, 2021, 7:07 PM

30 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Dangerous Virtual Worlds

Davis_KingsleyAug 11, 2021, 12:53 PM

10 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Purple Lipstick

lsusrAug 11, 2021, 9:36 AM

17 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

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

Haziq MuhammadAug 11, 2021, 9:25 AM

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the name of this fallacy?

mukashiAug 11, 2021, 2:10 AM

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)

SynapticAug 11, 2021, 12:43 AM

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(synopticz.github.io)

For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron BergmanAug 10, 2021, 11:52 PM

19 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

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

Jan CzechowskiAug 10, 2021, 4:36 PM

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Dopamine-supervised learning in mammals & fruit flies

Steven ByrnesAug 10, 2021, 4:13 PM

18 points

6 comments9 min readLW link