In­tel­li­gence, Fast and Slow

Mateusz MazurkiewiczSep 1, 2021, 7:52 PM
−3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Path­fin­der: Re­turn of the Gray Swan

aphyerSep 1, 2021, 5:43 PM
31 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Au­gust 2021

NunoSempereSep 1, 2021, 5:01 PM
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Tasker ac­tions which save me time and sanity

just_browsingSep 1, 2021, 2:49 PM
30 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

US Mili­tary Global In­for­ma­tion Dom­i­nance Experiments

NunoSempereSep 1, 2021, 1:34 PM
25 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.defense.gov)

Guide to War­wick, New York

ZviSep 1, 2021, 1:30 PM
21 points
10 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open & Wel­come Thread Septem­ber 2021

Horatio Von BeckerSep 1, 2021, 8:58 AM
16 points
65 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid Is Not Ne­c­es­sar­ily Your Biggest Problem

ElizabethSep 1, 2021, 7:20 AM
201 points
40 comments10 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Pe­ti­tion To Make Inar­tic­u­late Down­vot­ing More Difficult

Horatio Von BeckerSep 1, 2021, 6:23 AM
−2 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Spon­sored] Job Hunt­ing in the Modern Economy

lsusrSep 1, 2021, 6:07 AM
35 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

NIST AI Risk Man­age­ment Frame­work re­quest for in­for­ma­tion (RFI)

Aryeh EnglanderSep 1, 2021, 12:15 AM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Call for re­search on eval­u­at­ing al­ign­ment (fund­ing + ad­vice available)

Beth BarnesAug 31, 2021, 11:28 PM
105 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

A Lay­man’s Guide to Re­cre­ational Math­e­mat­ics Videos

Sam EnrightAug 31, 2021, 11:11 PM
33 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

Re­ward splin­ter­ing as re­verse of interpretability

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2021, 10:27 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: Applications

Scott GarrabrantAug 31, 2021, 9:19 PM
34 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: In­fer­ring Time

Scott GarrabrantAug 31, 2021, 9:18 PM
23 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

What are bi­ases, any­way? Mul­ti­ple type signatures

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2021, 9:16 PM
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

From Branes to Brains. How math­e­mat­i­cal physics can be used in life sci­ences.

From_Branes_to_BrainsAug 31, 2021, 7:40 PM
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Cross­post] On Hreha On Be­hav­ioral Economics

Scott AlexanderAug 31, 2021, 6:14 PM
104 points
7 comments22 min readLW link

The Tele­phone The­o­rem: In­for­ma­tion At A Dis­tance Is Me­di­ated By Deter­minis­tic Constraints

johnswentworthAug 31, 2021, 4:50 PM
96 points
26 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] What could small scale dis­asters from AI look like?

CharlesDAug 31, 2021, 3:52 PM
14 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Grokking the In­ten­tional Stance

jbkjrAug 31, 2021, 3:49 PM
47 points
22 comments20 min readLW link1 review

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 4

Aug 31, 2021, 7:56 AM
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

World War Zero

lsusrAug 31, 2021, 7:22 AM
54 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Ex­er­cise Trade Offs

ElizabethAug 31, 2021, 2:40 AM
32 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How much COVID pro­tec­tion is gained from pro­tect­ing your eyes?

Davis_KingsleyAug 31, 2021, 1:18 AM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ljubl­jana—ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

VesterDeAug 31, 2021, 12:50 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Quote Quiz

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 30, 2021, 11:30 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

We Live in an Era of Un­prece­dented World Peace

lsusrAug 30, 2021, 10:25 PM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment Re­search = Con­cep­tual Align­ment Re­search + Ap­plied Align­ment Research

adamShimiAug 30, 2021, 9:13 PM
37 points
14 comments5 min readLW link

An­ti­dotes to Num­ber Numbness

CollisteruAug 30, 2021, 8:17 PM
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Causal with­out cor­re­la­tion, how?

MoritzGAug 30, 2021, 4:43 PM
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A short in­tro­duc­tion to ma­chine learning

Richard_NgoAug 30, 2021, 2:31 PM
95 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Be­ware of small world puzzles

mukashiAug 30, 2021, 6:00 AM
59 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man­ity is Win­ning the Fight Against In­fec­tious Disease

lsusrAug 30, 2021, 1:31 AM
60 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Re­minder: On­line—Less Wrong Com­mu­nity Week­end 2021

EGIAug 29, 2021, 10:19 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Small Vacation

DanBAug 29, 2021, 7:55 PM
44 points
21 comments8 min readLW link

Vir­tual Ma­chine Learn­ing Con­fer­ences: The Good and the Bad

libaiAug 29, 2021, 7:26 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Solow-Swan model of eco­nomic growth

Matthew BarnettAug 29, 2021, 6:55 PM
31 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq MuhammadAug 29, 2021, 6:36 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Gover­nance Prob­lem and the “Pretty Good” X-Risk

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 29, 2021, 6:00 PM
5 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the most im­por­tant re­source af­ter the in­for­ma­tion age?

actuallynotaustralianAug 29, 2021, 10:23 AM
0 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] High­lights From The Com­ments On Miss­ing School

mike_hawkeAug 29, 2021, 8:01 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

How much should we still worry about catch­ing COVID? [Links and Dis­cus­sion Thread]

MichaelStJulesAug 29, 2021, 6:26 AM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Train­ing My Friend to Cook

lsusrAug 29, 2021, 5:54 AM
71 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gent In­tro­spec­tion: A Counter-ar­gu­ment to the Orthog­o­nal­ity Thesis

DirectedEvolutionAug 29, 2021, 4:53 AM
3 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Death by a Sin­gle Cut

lsusrAug 29, 2021, 3:58 AM
9 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In search for plau­si­ble sce­nar­ios of AI takeover, or the Takeover Argument

OzyrusAug 28, 2021, 10:30 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Brain-Com­puter In­ter­faces and AI Alignment

niplavAug 28, 2021, 7:48 PM
35 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Main­tain­ing Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworthAug 28, 2021, 5:52 PM
458 points
38 comments4 min readLW link3 reviews