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Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit
Elizabeth
Jan 15, 2022, 11:40 PM
42
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Personal blogging as self-imposed oppression
xarkn
Jan 15, 2022, 2:51 PM
37
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Review of the Literature, such as It Is
Erich_Grunewald
Jan 15, 2022, 12:07 PM
61
points
12
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
OpenPrinciples Fellowship: Collect and Learn Rationality Life Principles
ti_guo
Jan 15, 2022, 2:06 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“A Harmful Idea”
philosophytorres
Jan 14, 2022, 10:09 PM
−42
points
7
comments
25
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] [Fun] CDC To Send Pamphlet On Probabilistic Thinking
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 14, 2022, 9:44 PM
37
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Look For Principles Which Will Carry Over To The Next Paradigm
johnswentworth
Jan 14, 2022, 8:22 PM
182
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
Survey supports ‘long covid is bad’ hypothesis (very tentative)
KatjaGrace
Jan 14, 2022, 2:50 PM
76
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
School Daze
Zvi
Jan 14, 2022, 1:50 PM
50
points
6
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Greedy Doctor Problem… turns out to be relevant to the ELK problem?
Jan
Jan 14, 2022, 11:58 AM
36
points
10
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
[Question]
Storing own covid saliva for use as a “booster”?
kuudes
Jan 14, 2022, 8:02 AM
8
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2020 Review Article
Vaniver
Jan 14, 2022, 4:58 AM
74
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to tradeoff utility and agency?
A Ray
Jan 14, 2022, 1:33 AM
14
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Singapore—Small casual dinner meetup
Joe Rocca
Jan 13, 2022, 10:33 PM
2
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
I have COVID, for how long should I isolate?
iceplant
Jan 13, 2022, 8:44 PM
17
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do you want quadratic voting in the Final Voting Phase?
Raemon
Jan 13, 2022, 8:20 PM
22
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Doing “good”
pchvykov
Jan 13, 2022, 7:52 PM
9
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 1/13/22: Endgame
Zvi
Jan 13, 2022, 6:10 PM
75
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Omicron Post #14
Zvi
Jan 13, 2022, 6:00 PM
53
points
21
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
On the Impossibility of Interaction with Simulated Agents
Walkabout
Jan 13, 2022, 5:50 PM
−3
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
On Virtue
Midnight_Analyst
Jan 13, 2022, 4:36 PM
12
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Plan B in AI Safety approach
avturchin
Jan 13, 2022, 12:03 PM
33
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Understanding as hierarchical model building
invertedpassion
Jan 13, 2022, 9:28 AM
5
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Question Gravity
Isaac King
Jan 13, 2022, 6:30 AM
50
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Paper claims: “Rationality” flavored words rose since 1850, began declining ~1980
Raemon
Jan 12, 2022, 11:11 PM
15
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(phys.org)
The Unreasonable Feasibility Of Playing Chess Under The Influence
Jan
Jan 12, 2022, 11:09 PM
29
points
17
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
Working through D&D.Sci, problem 2
Pablo Repetto
Jan 12, 2022, 10:32 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
New year, new research agenda post
Charlie Steiner
Jan 12, 2022, 5:58 PM
29
points
4
comments
16
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Political Office for Beginners?
Asgård
Jan 12, 2022, 5:27 PM
36
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Value extrapolation partially resolves symbol grounding
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 12, 2022, 4:30 PM
24
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jan 12, 2022, 6:20 AM
230
points
79
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
Morality and constrained maximization, part 2
Joe Carlsmith
Jan 12, 2022, 1:42 AM
13
points
0
comments
29
min read
LW
link
Progress, humanism, agency: An intellectual core for the progress movement
jasoncrawford
Jan 12, 2022, 12:06 AM
13
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Understanding the two-head strategy for teaching ML to answer questions honestly
Adam Scherlis
Jan 11, 2022, 11:24 PM
29
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Has anyone had weird experiences with Alcor?
Jaevko
Jan 11, 2022, 9:47 PM
49
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different
jsteinhardt
Jan 11, 2022, 7:50 PM
119
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)
An Open Philanthropy grant proposal: Causal representation learning of human preferences
PabloAMC
Jan 11, 2022, 11:28 AM
19
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Template For Effective Action
njv
Jan 11, 2022, 9:30 AM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Emails from your Gratitude Journal
karlkeefer
Jan 11, 2022, 6:05 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Calibration proverbs
Malmesbury
Jan 11, 2022, 5:11 AM
76
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci Holiday Special: How the Grinch Pessimized Christmas Evaluation & Ruleset
aphyer
Jan 11, 2022, 1:29 AM
24
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The “gestalt” operator
Alex Power
Jan 10, 2022, 10:10 PM
−6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No Abstraction Without a Goal
dkirmani
Jan 10, 2022, 8:24 PM
28
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is state a (semi-) rational agent?
Birke
Jan 10, 2022, 7:53 PM
2
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The First Person And The Physical Person
dadadarren
Jan 10, 2022, 7:47 PM
23
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Forecasting Newsletter: December 2021
NunoSempere
Jan 10, 2022, 7:35 PM
30
points
5
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know
Maxwell Peterson
Jan 10, 2022, 7:26 PM
87
points
31
comments
31
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Tips for productively using short (<30min) blocks of time
just_browsing
10 Jan 2022 18:05 UTC
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Critiquing Scasper’s Definition of Subjunctive Dependence
Heighn
10 Jan 2022 16:22 UTC
1
point
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The IHME Report
Zvi
10 Jan 2022 15:50 UTC
44
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
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