New­comb’s Prob­lem as an Iter­ated Pri­soner’s Dilemma

Jerdle5 Jan 2022 22:48 UTC
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[Book Re­view]: The Bonobo and the Athe­ist by Frans De Waal

J Bostock5 Jan 2022 22:29 UTC
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P(C) vs. NP(C)

Nicole Dieker5 Jan 2022 21:34 UTC
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[Question] How much, and on what mar­gins, should we be re­think­ing quaran­tine pro­to­cols?

jmh5 Jan 2022 20:29 UTC
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An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

Rob Bensinger5 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
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[Question] Your Preferences

PeterL5 Jan 2022 18:49 UTC
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Selfless Dating

Jacob Falkovich5 Jan 2022 17:44 UTC
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10 Rea­sons You’re Lazy About Dating

Jacob Falkovich5 Jan 2022 17:43 UTC
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Con­sen­sual Hostility

Jacob Falkovich5 Jan 2022 17:40 UTC
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Sex Versus

Jacob Falkovich5 Jan 2022 17:38 UTC
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[Question] How would you ex­plain Bayesian think­ing to a ten year old?

lumenwrites5 Jan 2022 17:25 UTC
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Thank you, Queensland

mukashi5 Jan 2022 14:21 UTC
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[Question] How the re­sponse to a pan­demic af­fect­ing mainly chil­dren would look like?

mukashi5 Jan 2022 10:15 UTC
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A Re­ac­tion to Wolf­gang Sch­warz’s “On Func­tional De­ci­sion The­ory”

Heighn5 Jan 2022 9:00 UTC
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Omicron in Biobot

jefftk5 Jan 2022 2:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

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
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(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

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

Nicole Dieker4 Jan 2022 19:29 UTC
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The Speed of Rumor

NancyLebovitz4 Jan 2022 19:27 UTC
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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
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Promis­ing posts on AF that have fallen through the cracks

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

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

David Johnston4 Jan 2022 7:01 UTC
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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
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An Ob­ser­va­tion of Vav­ilov Day

Elizabeth3 Jan 2022 21:10 UTC
242 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

Ap­ply for re­search in­tern­ships at ARC!

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC
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How to End a Pandemic

MikkW3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC
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Prizes for ELK proposals

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC
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Causal­ity and de­ter­minism in so­cial sci­ence—An in­ves­ti­ga­tion us­ing Pearl’s causal ladder

tailcalled3 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC
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Shad­ows Of The Com­ing Race (1879)

Capybasilisk3 Jan 2022 15:55 UTC
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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
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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
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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
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Can you learn (mu­sic) effi­ciently by grind­ing?

Nicole Dieker2 Jan 2022 19:07 UTC
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[Question] Tag for AI al­ign­ment?

Alex_Altair2 Jan 2022 18:55 UTC
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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
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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
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Pre­dic­tions for 2022

ike2 Jan 2022 6:34 UTC
13 points
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(misinfounderload.substack.com)

Fun with bit­strings and bijections

Adam Scherlis2 Jan 2022 5:07 UTC
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(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
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