Movie re­view: Don’t Look Up

Sam Marks4 Jan 2022 20:16 UTC
38 points
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More Is Differ­ent for AI

jsteinhardt4 Jan 2022 19:30 UTC
140 points
24 comments3 min readLW link1 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
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The Speed of Rumor

NancyLebovitz4 Jan 2022 19:27 UTC
5 points
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Omicron Post #12

Zvi4 Jan 2022 15:50 UTC
75 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Map-Ter­ri­tory Distinc­tion Creates Confusion

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Jan 2022 15:49 UTC
25 points
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Promis­ing posts on AF that have fallen through the cracks

Evan R. Murphy4 Jan 2022 15:39 UTC
34 points
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[New Fea­ture] Sup­port for Foot­notes!

Ruby4 Jan 2022 7:35 UTC
134 points
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Coun­ter­fac­tu­als from en­sem­bles of peers

David Johnston4 Jan 2022 7:01 UTC
3 points
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Some thoughts about an es­ti­ma­tor by Taleb

paladim4 Jan 2022 5:37 UTC
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Flinches

ship_shlap3 Jan 2022 23:51 UTC
6 points
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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
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How to End a Pandemic

MikkW3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC
2 points
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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
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Shad­ows Of The Com­ing Race (1879)

Capybasilisk3 Jan 2022 15:55 UTC
92 points
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The pos­si­bil­ity of no good amaz­ing forecasters

Johannes C. Mayer3 Jan 2022 12:57 UTC
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How an alien the­ory of mind might be unlearnable

Stuart_Armstrong3 Jan 2022 11:16 UTC
29 points
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Reader-gen­er­ated Essays

Henrik Karlsson3 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC
25 points
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(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Open Thread—Jan 2022 [Vote Ex­per­i­ment!]

jimrandomh3 Jan 2022 1:07 UTC
47 points
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Lat­eral Think­ing (AI safety HPMOR fan­fic)

SlytherinsMonster2 Jan 2022 23:50 UTC
77 points
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Rockville Din­ner Meetup

rocurley2 Jan 2022 20:05 UTC
5 points
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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
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Each refer­ence class has its own end

avturchin2 Jan 2022 15:59 UTC
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Scott Alexan­der 2021 Pre­dic­tions: Mar­ket Prices—Resolution

SimonM2 Jan 2022 11:55 UTC
56 points
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[Question] What ex­plains the ex­cess mor­tal­ity?

ChristianKl2 Jan 2022 10:13 UTC
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[Question] Covid risk of stay­ing at a hotel

NormanPerlmutter2 Jan 2022 6:47 UTC
4 points
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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
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Reg­u­lariza­tion Causes Mo­du­lar­ity Causes Generalization

dkirmani1 Jan 2022 23:34 UTC
50 points
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Self-Or­ganised Neu­ral Net­works: A sim­ple, nat­u­ral and effi­cient way to intelligence

D𝜋1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC
40 points
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2021/​2022 Prin­ci­ple-driven Reflec­tion/​Plan­ning Workshop

ti_guo1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC
1 point
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Why don’t we just, like, try and build safe AGI?

Sun1 Jan 2022 23:24 UTC
0 points
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We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC
283 points
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New Year’s Pre­dic­tion Thread (2022)

Daniel Kokotajlo1 Jan 2022 19:49 UTC
13 points
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[Question] What are sane rea­sons that Covid data is treated as re­li­able?

Valentine1 Jan 2022 18:47 UTC
41 points
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How does one learn (mu­sic) more effi­ciently?

Nicole Dieker1 Jan 2022 17:55 UTC
3 points
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Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 2 (pref­ace)

Pablo Repetto1 Jan 2022 17:40 UTC
3 points
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(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
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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
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$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
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This Year I Tried To Teach My­self Math. How Did It Go?

Borasko31 Dec 2021 17:55 UTC
67 points
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Exegesis

rogersbacon31 Dec 2021 17:48 UTC
9 points
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(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
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