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

Henry ProwbellSep 15, 2021, 5:03 PM

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Covid 9/17: Done Biden His Time

ZviSep 17, 2021, 12:00 PM

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Unsolved ML Safety Problems

jsteinhardtSep 29, 2021, 4:00 PM

61 points

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Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil: A Report on the Beguilings of Evil

David GrossSep 20, 2021, 3:19 PM

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

Owain_EvansSep 16, 2021, 10:09 AM

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What I’ve been doing instead of writing

benkuhnSep 12, 2021, 12:40 PM

57 points

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Three enigmas at the heart of our reasoning

Alex FlintSep 21, 2021, 4:52 PM

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Gradient descent is not just more efficient genetic algorithms

leogaoSep 8, 2021, 4:23 PM

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EA Hangout Prisoners’ Dilemma

Jeffrey LadishSep 27, 2021, 11:15 PM

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GPT-Augmented Blogging

lsusrSep 14, 2021, 11:55 AM

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Bayeswatch 7: Wildfire

lsusrSep 8, 2021, 5:35 AM

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Optimizing Multiple Imperfect Filters

johnswentworthSep 15, 2021, 10:57 PM

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You can get feedback on ideas and external drafts too

RubySep 9, 2021, 9:06 PM

50 points

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Film Study for Research

jsteinhardtSep 14, 2021, 6:53 PM

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Bayeswatch 9: Zombies

lsusrSep 11, 2021, 5:57 AM

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Conflict in Kriorus becomes hot today, updated, update 2

avturchinSep 7, 2021, 9:40 PM

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Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

Erich_GrunewaldSep 11, 2021, 1:37 PM

49 points

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Where’s my magic sword?

lsusrSep 27, 2021, 7:26 AM

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Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed

jsteinhardtSep 10, 2021, 7:30 PM

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Countably Factored Spaces

DiffractorSep 9, 2021, 4:24 AM

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Pathways: Google’s AGI

Lê Nguyên HoangSep 25, 2021, 7:02 AM

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Sam Altman Q&A Notes—Aftermath

p.b.Sep 8, 2021, 8:20 AM

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D&D.Sci 4th Edition: League of Defenders of the Storm

aphyerSep 28, 2021, 11:19 PM

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The Blackwell order as a formalization of knowledge

Alex FlintSep 10, 2021, 2:51 AM

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[AN #163]: Using finite factored sets for causal and temporal inference

Rohin ShahSep 8, 2021, 5:20 PM

41 points

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Research speedruns

drossbucketSep 17, 2021, 6:54 AM

40 points

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I read “White Fragility” so you don’t have to (but maybe you should)

David GrossSep 6, 2021, 10:31 PM

40 points

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103 comments7 min readLW link

Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬

Zack_M_DavisSep 28, 2021, 3:21 AM

39 points

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Sex-Positivity is Countercultural

Jacob FalkovichSep 29, 2021, 6:22 PM

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Easily Top 20%

Jacob FalkovichSep 29, 2021, 6:24 PM

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Pleasure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusrSep 9, 2021, 5:10 AM

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Designing Low Upkeep Software

jefftkSep 25, 2021, 6:50 PM

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

aphyerSep 9, 2021, 2:03 PM

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Cartesian Frames and Factored Sets on ArXiv

Scott GarrabrantSep 24, 2021, 4:58 AM

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Updates from Leverage Research: History and Recent Progress

LarissaRoweSep 27, 2021, 5:23 AM

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Nonspecific discomfort

cousin_itSep 4, 2021, 2:15 PM

37 points

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Review: The End Is Always Near

ElizabethSep 27, 2021, 7:40 AM

37 points

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Equal Parenting Advice for Dads

jefftkSep 12, 2021, 11:33 AM

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A lost 80s/90s metaphor: playing the demo

CraigMichaelSep 2, 2021, 8:45 AM

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Book review: Shut Out

PeterMcCluskeySep 3, 2021, 7:07 PM

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Digital People Would Be An Even Bigger Deal

HoldenKarnofskySep 13, 2021, 3:23 PM

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Economic AI Safety

jsteinhardtSep 16, 2021, 8:50 PM

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Childcare III

jefftkSep 12, 2021, 1:30 AM

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Covid 9/9: Passing the Peak

ZviSep 9, 2021, 4:10 PM

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[Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy

lsusrSep 1, 2021, 6:07 AM

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Truth + Reason = The True Religion?

David GrossSep 17, 2021, 10:14 PM

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Bayeswatch 8: Antimatter

lsusrSep 10, 2021, 5:01 AM

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Walkie-Talkies

jefftkSep 24, 2021, 1:10 AM

33 points

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Kids Roaming

jefftkSep 4, 2021, 2:20 PM

33 points

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David Wolpert on Knowledge

Alex FlintSep 21, 2021, 1:54 AM

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