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Book notes: “The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life”

juliawise28 Jan 2022 20:00 UTC

30 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Advertising as a Parasite on the Semantic Commons

ThomasMore28 Jan 2022 17:38 UTC

34 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Newcomb’s Grandfather

Yair Halberstadt28 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

2020 Review: Final Voting

Raemon28 Jan 2022 3:39 UTC

34 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

How A Highly Sensitive Person Sees Words

LightStar28 Jan 2022 3:16 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Skill of Writing Facetiously

lhc27 Jan 2022 22:44 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A little game theory on discursive conflict

David Hugh-Jones27 Jan 2022 21:19 UTC

9 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

What happened when I applied metrics to my piano practice (a five-part essay about the process of learning)

Nicole Dieker27 Jan 2022 20:45 UTC

50 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: Looking back at 2021

NunoSempere27 Jan 2022 20:08 UTC

57 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(forecasting.substack.com)

Covid 1/27/22: Let My People Go

Zvi27 Jan 2022 17:00 UTC

49 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Newcomb’s Lottery Problem

Heighn27 Jan 2022 16:28 UTC

1 point

9 comments1 min readLW link

Causality, Transformative AI and alignment—part I

Marius Hobbhahn27 Jan 2022 16:18 UTC

14 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Arguments about Highly Reliable Agent Designs as a Useful Path to Artificial Intelligence Safety

riceissa and Davidmanheim

27 Jan 2022 13:13 UTC

27 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Coping with Undecidability

Morpheus27 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC

6 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ranking Cultures by Rationality

Gadersd27 Jan 2022 2:25 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

Vavilov Day Discussion Post

Elizabeth27 Jan 2022 0:26 UTC

29 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Working through D&D.Sci, problem 3 (solution)

Pablo Repetto26 Jan 2022 22:18 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Event: Moral Foundations of Progress Studies, March 4–6 at UT Austin

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2022 21:57 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Freudianism among the 17th century Wendat

David Gross26 Jan 2022 18:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’

Sam Enright26 Jan 2022 16:50 UTC

24 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the problem & Why work on it now?

Steven Byrnes26 Jan 2022 15:23 UTC

163 points

19 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] Ideas for avoiding optimizing the wrong things day-to-day?

Jack R26 Jan 2022 10:46 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Aligned AI Needs Slack

Shmi26 Jan 2022 9:29 UTC

25 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Patron Saint Holidays

Raemon26 Jan 2022 9:26 UTC

56 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

ELK First Round Contest Winners

Mark Xu and paulfchristiano

26 Jan 2022 2:56 UTC

65 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardt26 Jan 2022 1:40 UTC

57 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Search Is All You Need

blake808625 Jan 2022 23:13 UTC

33 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What should a student who is already a decent programmer do over the summer?

shuffled-cantaloupe25 Jan 2022 21:25 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How feasible/costly would it be to train a very large AI model on distributed clusters of GPUs?

Anonymous25 Jan 2022 19:20 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating 2021 ACX Predictions

Zvi25 Jan 2022 18:30 UTC

34 points

11 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vavilov Day Starts Tomorrow

Elizabeth25 Jan 2022 18:00 UTC

34 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC

75 points

26 comments8 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Long Term Charities: Apply for SFF Funding

Zvi25 Jan 2022 17:00 UTC

62 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses

Owain_Evans25 Jan 2022 4:45 UTC

108 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

Quest for Holy Grail of Hedging in Retail Portfolios!

milo25 Jan 2022 4:09 UTC

0 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Wireless Outlet Switching

jefftk25 Jan 2022 2:50 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Iterating fast: voice dictation as a form of babble

Gytis Daujotas25 Jan 2022 0:21 UTC

22 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Time until graduation as a proxy for picking between (German) universities

Morpheus24 Jan 2022 18:27 UTC

10 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Nuanced and Extreme Countersignaling

DirectedEvolution24 Jan 2022 6:47 UTC

29 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Words are Imprecise Telepathy

LightStar24 Jan 2022 1:45 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

NFTs, Coin Collecting, and Expensive Paintings

leogao24 Jan 2022 1:01 UTC

29 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

You have to create your own personal finance system

Nicole Dieker23 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Why rationalists should care (more) about free software

RichardJActon23 Jan 2022 17:31 UTC

66 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Excessive Nuance and Derailing Conversations

Alexander23 Jan 2022 10:42 UTC

43 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is AI Alignment a pseudoscience?

mocny-chlapik23 Jan 2022 10:32 UTC

21 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

CICO is a weird reference class

Chad Nauseam23 Jan 2022 7:00 UTC

42 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Hyperpalatable Food Hypothesis: A LessWrong Study?

BDay23 Jan 2022 5:43 UTC

23 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

Working through D&D.Sci, problem 3

Pablo Repetto23 Jan 2022 2:49 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

5x5 Go Board

jefftk23 Jan 2022 2:20 UTC

27 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

List of Probability Calibration Exercises

Isaac King23 Jan 2022 2:12 UTC

76 points

12 comments1 min readLW link