Jit­ters No Ev­i­dence of Stu­pidity in RL

1a3orn16 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC
96 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ments on Ja­cob Falkovich on loneliness

Alex Flint16 Sep 2021 22:04 UTC
29 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Eco­nomic AI Safety

jsteinhardt16 Sep 2021 20:50 UTC
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini16 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Dat­ing Minefield vs. Dat­ing Playground

Vlad Loweren16 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
23 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Contracts

harsimony16 Sep 2021 15:20 UTC
10 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Question] ‘Good enough’ way to clean an O2 Curve res­pi­ra­tor?

Kenny16 Sep 2021 14:51 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How truth­ful is GPT-3? A bench­mark for lan­guage models

Owain_Evans16 Sep 2021 10:09 UTC
58 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

I wanted to in­ter­view Eliezer Yud­kowsky but he’s busy so I simu­lated him instead

lsusr16 Sep 2021 7:34 UTC
111 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

“Who’s In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”

David Gross16 Sep 2021 2:38 UTC
10 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Mul­ti­ple Im­perfect Filters

johnswentworth15 Sep 2021 22:57 UTC
50 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[in­ac­tive] £2000 bounty—con­tra­cep­tives (and UTI) liter­a­ture review

Chi Nguyen15 Sep 2021 22:37 UTC
70 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Ed­mon­ton Meetup

JS15 Sep 2021 19:16 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

His­tory of count­ing to three?

jefftk15 Sep 2021 18:10 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Austin Petrov Day and Potluck

SilasBarta15 Sep 2021 17:38 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #164]: How well can lan­guage mod­els write code?

Rohin Shah15 Sep 2021 17:20 UTC
13 points
7 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 1: Affect

Henry Prowbell15 Sep 2021 17:03 UTC
64 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How to deal with prob­a­bil­ities in the pres­ence of clones?

depressurize15 Sep 2021 17:01 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Vir­tual Pro­grams Oct-Nov 2021

Yi-Yang15 Sep 2021 13:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Or­a­cle pre­dic­tions don’t ap­ply to non-ex­is­tent worlds

Chris_Leong15 Sep 2021 9:44 UTC
10 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

The Mo­ti­vated Rea­son­ing Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Linch15 Sep 2021 1:43 UTC
26 points
0 comments23 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Film Study for Research

jsteinhardt14 Sep 2021 18:53 UTC
50 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why didn’t we find katas for ra­tio­nal­ity?

ChristianKl14 Sep 2021 16:43 UTC
9 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-Aug­mented Blogging

lsusr14 Sep 2021 11:55 UTC
52 points
18 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a bee­minder with­out the pun­ish­ment?

warrenjordan14 Sep 2021 2:51 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong is pay­ing $500 for Book Reviews

Ruby14 Sep 2021 0:24 UTC
133 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Par­tial Deriva­tives and Par­tial Narratives

mike_hawke13 Sep 2021 21:02 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Digi­tal Peo­ple FAQ

HoldenKarnofsky13 Sep 2021 15:24 UTC
28 points
13 comments16 min readLW link

Digi­tal Peo­ple Would Be An Even Big­ger Deal

HoldenKarnofsky13 Sep 2021 15:23 UTC
34 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

[linkpost] The Psy­cholog­i­cal Econ­omy of In­ac­tion by William Gillis

Quinn12 Sep 2021 22:04 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(humaniterations.net)

EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: $10,000 in prizes for good stories

aarongertler12 Sep 2021 21:25 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Pivot!

Carlos Ramirez12 Sep 2021 20:39 UTC
−18 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How fac­to­ries were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC
181 points
46 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­view of A Map that Reflects the Territory

William Gasarch12 Sep 2021 19:43 UTC
65 points
20 comments18 min readLW link

Brus­sels ACX Meetup

Bruno D.12 Sep 2021 18:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

What I’ve been do­ing in­stead of writing

benkuhn12 Sep 2021 12:40 UTC
57 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Equal Par­ent­ing Ad­vice for Dads

jefftk12 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC
36 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Soldiers, Scouts, and Al­ba­trosses.

Jan12 Sep 2021 10:36 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Albany, NY – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

Steve12 Sep 2021 1:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[CANCELED]Cebu City, Philip­pines – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

Hamp12 Sep 2021 1:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Child­care III

jefftk12 Sep 2021 1:30 UTC
35 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Pack a travel bath­room bag

Alex Hollow11 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is MIRI’s read­ing list up to date?

Aryeh Englander11 Sep 2021 18:56 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­fer the Bri­tish Style of Quo­ta­tion Mark Punc­tu­a­tion over the American

Erich_Grunewald11 Sep 2021 13:37 UTC
46 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Bayeswatch 9: Zombies

lsusr11 Sep 2021 5:57 UTC
42 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Does Di­verse News De­crease Po­lariza­tion?

jsteinhardt11 Sep 2021 2:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Mea­sure­ment, Op­ti­miza­tion, and Take-off Speed

jsteinhardt10 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC
48 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Paths To High-Level Ma­chine Intelligence

Daniel_Eth10 Sep 2021 13:21 UTC
68 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

Han­dling Iden­ti­cal USB Sound Cards

jefftk10 Sep 2021 12:30 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do you de­cide when to change N95/​FFP-2 masks?

ChristianKl10 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link