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[Question] How would you learn absolute pitch?

Thomas SepulchreJan 29, 2022, 11:26 PM

5 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Deconfusing Deception

J BostockJan 29, 2022, 4:43 PM

28 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The Map of the Map

LightStarJan 29, 2022, 10:03 AM

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Crypto low risk profits

ikeJan 29, 2022, 4:52 AM

−6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(deepfivalue.substack.com)

Mildly Photochromic Lenses?

jefftkJan 29, 2022, 2:30 AM

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

juliawiseJan 28, 2022, 8:00 PM

30 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Advertising as a Parasite on the Semantic Commons

ThomasMoreJan 28, 2022, 5:38 PM

34 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Newcomb’s Grandfather

Yair HalberstadtJan 28, 2022, 8:56 AM

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

2020 Review: Final Voting

RaemonJan 28, 2022, 3:39 AM

34 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

How A Highly Sensitive Person Sees Words

LightStarJan 28, 2022, 3:16 AM

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Skill of Writing Facetiously

lhcJan 27, 2022, 10:44 PM

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

A little game theory on discursive conflict

David Hugh-JonesJan 27, 2022, 9:19 PM

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 DiekerJan 27, 2022, 8:45 PM

50 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: Looking back at 2021

NunoSempereJan 27, 2022, 8:08 PM

57 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(forecasting.substack.com)

Covid 1/27/22: Let My People Go

ZviJan 27, 2022, 5:00 PM

49 points

24 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Newcomb’s Lottery Problem

HeighnJan 27, 2022, 4:28 PM

1 point

9 comments1 min readLW link

Causality, Transformative AI and alignment—part I

Marius HobbhahnJan 27, 2022, 4:18 PM

14 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

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

riceissa and Davidmanheim

Jan 27, 2022, 1:13 PM

27 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Coping with Undecidability

MorpheusJan 27, 2022, 10:31 AM

6 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ranking Cultures by Rationality

GadersdJan 27, 2022, 2:25 AM

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

Vavilov Day Discussion Post

ElizabethJan 27, 2022, 12:26 AM

29 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

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

Pablo RepettoJan 26, 2022, 10:18 PM

12 points

2 comments LW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

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

jasoncrawfordJan 26, 2022, 9:57 PM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Freudianism among the 17th century Wendat

David GrossJan 26, 2022, 6:15 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Disambiguating the ‘Observable Universe’

Sam EnrightJan 26, 2022, 4:50 PM

24 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

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

Steven ByrnesJan 26, 2022, 3:23 PM

159 points

19 comments26 min readLW link

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

Jack RJan 26, 2022, 10:46 AM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Aligned AI Needs Slack

ShmiJan 26, 2022, 9:29 AM

25 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Patron Saint Holidays

RaemonJan 26, 2022, 9:26 AM

56 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

ELK First Round Contest Winners

Mark Xu and paulfchristiano

Jan 26, 2022, 2:56 AM

65 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardtJan 26, 2022, 1:40 AM

57 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Search Is All You Need

blake8086Jan 25, 2022, 11:13 PM

33 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

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

shuffled-cantaloupeJan 25, 2022, 9:25 PM

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?

AnonymousJan 25, 2022, 7:20 PM

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating 2021 ACX Predictions

ZviJan 25, 2022, 6:30 PM

34 points

11 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vavilov Day Starts Tomorrow

ElizabethJan 25, 2022, 6:00 PM

34 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?

jasoncrawfordJan 25, 2022, 5:28 PM

75 points

26 comments8 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Long Term Charities: Apply for SFF Funding

ZviJan 25, 2022, 5:00 PM

62 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses

Owain_EvansJan 25, 2022, 4:45 AM

108 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

Quest for Holy Grail of Hedging in Retail Portfolios!

miloJan 25, 2022, 4:09 AM

0 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Wireless Outlet Switching

jefftkJan 25, 2022, 2:50 AM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Iterating fast: voice dictation as a form of babble

Gytis DaujotasJan 25, 2022, 12:21 AM

22 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

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

MorpheusJan 24, 2022, 6:27 PM

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