Ca­reer Day: A Short Story

vernamcipher30 Jan 2022 22:22 UTC
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(mflood.substack.com)

Can we grow cars in­stead of build­ing them?

pchvykov30 Jan 2022 21:05 UTC
10 points
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In­fant Talk boxes?

jefftk30 Jan 2022 18:20 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Ret­ro­spec­tive forecasting

Ege Erdil30 Jan 2022 16:38 UTC
22 points
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[Question] Where can I read about the Roko’s Basilisk drama?

theflowerpot30 Jan 2022 16:29 UTC
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I Am a Di­men­sional Trav­el­ler from a World of Highly Sen­si­tive Rationalists

LightStar30 Jan 2022 13:00 UTC
34 points
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Knowl­edge Lo­cal­iza­tion: Ten­ta­tively Pos­i­tive Re­sults on OCR

J Bostock30 Jan 2022 11:57 UTC
7 points
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Cheer­ful Har­berger Day

hamnox30 Jan 2022 7:17 UTC
29 points
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[Question] How would you learn ab­solute pitch?

Thomas Sepulchre29 Jan 2022 23:26 UTC
5 points
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De­con­fus­ing Deception

J Bostock29 Jan 2022 16:43 UTC
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The Map of the Map

LightStar29 Jan 2022 10:03 UTC
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Crypto low risk prof­its

ike29 Jan 2022 4:52 UTC
−6 points
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(deepfivalue.substack.com)

Mildly Pho­tochromic Lenses?

jefftk29 Jan 2022 2:30 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

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

juliawise28 Jan 2022 20:00 UTC
30 points
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Ad­ver­tis­ing as a Par­a­site on the Se­man­tic Commons

ThomasMore28 Jan 2022 17:38 UTC
34 points
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[Question] New­comb’s Grandfather

Yair Halberstadt28 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC
5 points
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2020 Re­view: Fi­nal Voting

Raemon28 Jan 2022 3:39 UTC
34 points
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How A Highly Sen­si­tive Per­son Sees Words

LightStar28 Jan 2022 3:16 UTC
8 points
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The Skill of Writ­ing Facetiously

lhc27 Jan 2022 22:44 UTC
4 points
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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
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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
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New­comb’s Lot­tery Problem

Heighn27 Jan 2022 16:28 UTC
1 point
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Causal­ity, Trans­for­ma­tive AI and al­ign­ment—part I

Marius Hobbhahn27 Jan 2022 16:18 UTC
14 points
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Ar­gu­ments about Highly Reli­able Agent De­signs as a Use­ful Path to Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

27 Jan 2022 13:13 UTC
27 points
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(arxiv.org)

Cop­ing with Undecidability

Morpheus27 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC
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[Question] Rank­ing Cul­tures by Rationality

Gadersd27 Jan 2022 2:25 UTC
1 point
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Vav­ilov Day Dis­cus­sion Post

Elizabeth27 Jan 2022 0:26 UTC
28 points
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Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 3 (solu­tion)

Pablo Repetto26 Jan 2022 22:18 UTC
12 points
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(pabloernesto.github.io)

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

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2022 21:57 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Fidelius Curse—Part 3

lsusr26 Jan 2022 20:56 UTC
37 points
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Freudi­anism among the 17th cen­tury Wendat

David Gross26 Jan 2022 18:15 UTC
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Disam­biguat­ing the ‘Ob­serv­able Uni­verse’

Sam Enright26 Jan 2022 16:50 UTC
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the prob­lem & Why work on it now?

Steven Byrnes26 Jan 2022 15:23 UTC
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[Question] Ideas for avoid­ing op­ti­miz­ing the wrong things day-to-day?

Jack R26 Jan 2022 10:46 UTC
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Aligned AI Needs Slack

shminux26 Jan 2022 9:29 UTC
25 points
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Pa­tron Saint Holidays

Raemon26 Jan 2022 9:26 UTC
56 points
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ELK First Round Con­test Winners

26 Jan 2022 2:56 UTC
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ML Sys­tems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardt26 Jan 2022 1:40 UTC
57 points
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(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Search Is All You Need

blake808625 Jan 2022 23:13 UTC
33 points
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[Question] What should a stu­dent who is already a de­cent pro­gram­mer do over the sum­mer?

shuffled-cantaloupe25 Jan 2022 21:25 UTC
16 points
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[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
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Eval­u­at­ing 2021 ACX Predictions

Zvi25 Jan 2022 18:30 UTC
34 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vav­ilov Day Starts Tomorrow

Elizabeth25 Jan 2022 18:00 UTC
34 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

Why do we need a NEW philos­o­phy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC
75 points
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(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
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Quest for Holy Grail of Hedg­ing in Re­tail Port­fo­lios!

milo25 Jan 2022 4:09 UTC
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Wire­less Out­let Switching

jefftk25 Jan 2022 2:50 UTC
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