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Paper claims: “Ra­tion­al­ity” fla­vored words rose since 1850, be­gan de­clin­ing ~1980

RaemonJan 12, 2022, 11:11 PM
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(phys.org)

The Un­rea­son­able Fea­si­bil­ity Of Play­ing Chess Un­der The Influence

JanJan 12, 2022, 11:09 PM
29 points
17 comments13 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 2

Pablo RepettoJan 12, 2022, 10:32 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

New year, new re­search agenda post

Charlie SteinerJan 12, 2022, 5:58 PM
29 points
4 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Poli­ti­cal Office for Begin­ners?

AsgårdJan 12, 2022, 5:27 PM
36 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Value ex­trap­o­la­tion par­tially re­solves sym­bol grounding

Stuart_ArmstrongJan 12, 2022, 4:30 PM
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 12, 2022, 6:20 AM
230 points
79 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Mo­ral­ity and con­strained max­i­miza­tion, part 2

Joe CarlsmithJan 12, 2022, 1:42 AM
13 points
0 comments29 min readLW link

Progress, hu­man­ism, agency: An in­tel­lec­tual core for the progress movement

jasoncrawfordJan 12, 2022, 12:06 AM
13 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Un­der­stand­ing the two-head strat­egy for teach­ing ML to an­swer ques­tions honestly

Adam ScherlisJan 11, 2022, 11:24 PM
29 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one had weird ex­pe­riences with Al­cor?

JaevkoJan 11, 2022, 9:47 PM
49 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Fu­ture ML Sys­tems Will Be Qual­i­ta­tively Different

jsteinhardtJan 11, 2022, 7:50 PM
119 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

An Open Philan­thropy grant pro­posal: Causal rep­re­sen­ta­tion learn­ing of hu­man preferences

PabloAMCJan 11, 2022, 11:28 AM
19 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Tem­plate For Effec­tive Action

njvJan 11, 2022, 9:30 AM
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Emails from your Grat­i­tude Journal

karlkeeferJan 11, 2022, 6:05 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion proverbs

MalmesburyJan 11, 2022, 5:11 AM
76 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Holi­day Spe­cial: How the Grinch Pes­simized Christ­mas Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyerJan 11, 2022, 1:29 AM
24 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The “gestalt” operator

Alex PowerJan 10, 2022, 10:10 PM
−6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

No Ab­strac­tion Without a Goal

dkirmaniJan 10, 2022, 8:24 PM
28 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is state a (semi-) ra­tio­nal agent?

BirkeJan 10, 2022, 7:53 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The First Per­son And The Phys­i­cal Person

dadadarrenJan 10, 2022, 7:47 PM
23 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: De­cem­ber 2021

NunoSempereJan 10, 2022, 7:35 PM
30 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Ac­ti­vated Char­coal for Han­gover Preven­tion: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell PetersonJan 10, 2022, 7:26 PM
87 points
31 comments31 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Tips for pro­duc­tively us­ing short (<30min) blocks of time

just_browsingJan 10, 2022, 6:05 PM
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Cri­tiquing Scasper’s Defi­ni­tion of Sub­junc­tive Dependence

HeighnJan 10, 2022, 4:22 PM
1 point
8 comments2 min readLW link

The IHME Report

ZviJan 10, 2022, 3:50 PM
44 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Un­con­tro­ver­sially good legislation

bracesJan 10, 2022, 2:26 AM
32 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

Omicron—How does it change Covid risk and what should we do about it?

jackcJan 9, 2022, 11:13 PM
22 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

Use Nor­mal Predictions

Jan Christian RefsgaardJan 9, 2022, 3:01 PM
149 points
67 comments6 min readLW link

A coun­ter­ar­gu­ment that isn’t

dominicqJan 9, 2022, 9:50 AM
11 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

SONN : What’s Next ?

D𝜋Jan 9, 2022, 8:15 AM
−17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] To­tal com­pute available to evolution

redbirdJan 9, 2022, 3:25 AM
16 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Stop Pre­tend­ing to Be Origi­nal Thinkers

vernamcipherJan 8, 2022, 8:14 PM
21 points
7 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] The best cur­ricu­lum for ev­ery goal

Randomized, ControlledJan 8, 2022, 6:47 PM
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Two om­i­nous charts on the fi­nan­cial mar­kets

aruntoJan 8, 2022, 2:07 PM
25 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness: my baseline beliefs

Morgan_RogersJan 8, 2022, 1:09 PM
21 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Train­ing Ra­tion­al­ity through Deckbuilders

vitaliyaJan 8, 2022, 6:00 AM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Omicron var­i­o­la­tion?

Randomized, ControlledJan 8, 2022, 3:12 AM
15 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Re­duc­tion­ism is not the ul­ti­mate tool for causal inference

tailcalledJan 7, 2022, 9:51 PM
11 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Omicron Post #13: Outlook

ZviJan 7, 2022, 9:20 PM
63 points
24 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Third Time: a bet­ter way to work

bfinnJan 7, 2022, 9:15 PM
133 points
76 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Why max­i­mize hu­man life?

liseJan 7, 2022, 2:11 PM
27 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Believ­ing in magic pyra­mids shows that you think differently

tomdekanJan 7, 2022, 11:06 AM
1 point
12 comments2 min readLW link

AMA: I was un­schooled for most of my child­hood, then vol­un­tar­ily chose to leave to go to a large pub­lic high school.

iceplantJan 7, 2022, 7:48 AM
53 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing isn’t about sig­nal­ing, it’s about Goodhart

ValentineJan 6, 2022, 6:49 PM
59 points
31 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 1/​6/​22: The Blip

ZviJan 6, 2022, 6:30 PM
68 points
21 comments25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Prob­lem of the Cri­te­rion is NOT an Open Problem

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJan 6, 2022, 4:31 PM
9 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Im­por­tance of fore­sight eval­u­a­tions within ELK

Jonathan UesatoJan 6, 2022, 3:34 PM
25 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] How rea­son­able are con­cerns about ask­ing for patents to be lifted for COVID-19 vac­cines?

ChristianKlJan 6, 2022, 1:09 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A com­mon mis­con­cep­tion about the evolu­tion of viruses

mukashiJan 6, 2022, 10:00 AM
7 points
15 comments1 min readLW link