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Movie review: Don’t Look Up

Sam Marks4 Jan 2022 20:16 UTC

38 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

More Is Different for AI

jsteinhardt4 Jan 2022 19:30 UTC

140 points

24 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

[Question] How do you turn an idea into a reality? (warning: involves politics)

Nicole Dieker4 Jan 2022 19:29 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Speed of Rumor

NancyLebovitz4 Jan 2022 19:27 UTC

5 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Omicron Post #12

Zvi4 Jan 2022 15:50 UTC

75 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Jan 2022 15:49 UTC

25 points

50 comments4 min readLW link

Promising posts on AF that have fallen through the cracks

Evan R. Murphy4 Jan 2022 15:39 UTC

34 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[New Feature] Support for Footnotes!

Ruby4 Jan 2022 7:35 UTC

134 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Counterfactuals from ensembles of peers

David Johnston4 Jan 2022 7:01 UTC

3 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Some thoughts about an estimator by Taleb

paladim4 Jan 2022 5:37 UTC

4 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Flinches

ship_shlap3 Jan 2022 23:51 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

An Observation of Vavilov Day

Elizabeth3 Jan 2022 21:10 UTC

242 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Apply for research internships at ARC!

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC

61 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How to End a Pandemic

MikkW3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC

2 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

Prizes for ELK proposals

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC

150 points

152 comments7 min readLW link

Causality and determinism in social science—An investigation using Pearl’s causal ladder

tailcalled3 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC

13 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Shadows Of The Coming Race (1879)

Capybasilisk3 Jan 2022 15:55 UTC

92 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

The possibility of no good amazing forecasters

Johannes C. Mayer3 Jan 2022 12:57 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How an alien theory of mind might be unlearnable

Stuart_Armstrong3 Jan 2022 11:16 UTC

29 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Reader-generated Essays

Henrik Karlsson3 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC

25 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Open Thread—Jan 2022 [Vote Experiment!]

jimrandomh3 Jan 2022 1:07 UTC

47 points

88 comments1 min readLW link

Lateral Thinking (AI safety HPMOR fanfic)

SlytherinsMonster2 Jan 2022 23:50 UTC

77 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Rockville Dinner Meetup

rocurley2 Jan 2022 20:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Can you learn (music) efficiently by grinding?

Nicole Dieker2 Jan 2022 19:07 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Tag for AI alignment?

Alex_Altair2 Jan 2022 18:55 UTC

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Each reference class has its own end

avturchin2 Jan 2022 15:59 UTC

8 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Scott Alexander 2021 Predictions: Market Prices—Resolution

SimonM2 Jan 2022 11:55 UTC

56 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What explains the excess mortality?

ChristianKl2 Jan 2022 10:13 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Covid risk of staying at a hotel

NormanPerlmutter2 Jan 2022 6:47 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Predictions for 2022

ike2 Jan 2022 6:34 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(misinfounderload.substack.com)

Fun with bitstrings and bijections

Adam Scherlis2 Jan 2022 5:07 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(adam.scherlis.com)

What is a Counterfactual: An Elementary Introduction to the Causal Hierarchy

Darmani2 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Regularization Causes Modularity Causes Generalization

dkirmani1 Jan 2022 23:34 UTC

50 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Organised Neural Networks: A simple, natural and efficient way to intelligence

D𝜋1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC

40 points

51 comments44 min readLW link

2021/2022 Principle-driven Reflection/Planning Workshop

ti_guo1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why don’t we just, like, try and build safe AGI?

Sun1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC

0 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC

283 points

17 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

New Year’s Prediction Thread (2022)

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jan 2022 19:49 UTC

13 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are sane reasons that Covid data is treated as reliable?

Valentine1 Jan 2022 18:47 UTC

41 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

How does one learn (music) more efficiently?

Nicole Dieker1 Jan 2022 17:55 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Working through D&D.Sci, problem 2 (preface)

Pablo Repetto1 Jan 2022 17:40 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

[Question] Can each event in the world be attributed conditions under which it occurs?

Maciej Jałocha1 Jan 2022 16:02 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

Careful With Trailing Averages

jefftk1 Jan 2022 16:00 UTC

31 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Genetics: It sometimes skips a generation is a terrible explanation!

Jan Christian Refsgaard1 Jan 2022 15:12 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

$1000 USD prize—Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals

Chris_Leong1 Jan 2022 9:43 UTC

37 points

102 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Mailing Binax kits

NormanPerlmutter1 Jan 2022 6:17 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

This Year I Tried To Teach Myself Math. How Did It Go?

Borasko31 Dec 2021 17:55 UTC

67 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

Exegesis

rogersbacon31 Dec 2021 17:48 UTC

9 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

(rogersbacon.substack.com)

Counterexamples to some ELK proposals

paulfchristiano31 Dec 2021 17:05 UTC

53 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

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

aphyer31 Dec 2021 16:23 UTC

38 points

10 comments2 min readLW link