Let’s Stop Pre­tend­ing to Be Origi­nal Thinkers

vernamcipher8 Jan 2022 20:14 UTC
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[Question] The best cur­ricu­lum for ev­ery goal

Randomized, Controlled8 Jan 2022 18:47 UTC
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Two om­i­nous charts on the fi­nan­cial mar­kets

arunto8 Jan 2022 14:07 UTC
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Goal-di­rect­ed­ness: my baseline beliefs

Morgan_Rogers8 Jan 2022 13:09 UTC
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Train­ing Ra­tion­al­ity through Deckbuilders

vitaliya8 Jan 2022 6:00 UTC
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[Question] Omicron var­i­o­la­tion?

Randomized, Controlled8 Jan 2022 3:12 UTC
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Re­duc­tion­ism is not the ul­ti­mate tool for causal inference

tailcalled7 Jan 2022 21:51 UTC
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Omicron Post #13: Outlook

Zvi7 Jan 2022 21:20 UTC
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Third Time: a bet­ter way to work

bfinn7 Jan 2022 21:15 UTC
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[Question] Why max­i­mize hu­man life?

lise7 Jan 2022 14:11 UTC
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Believ­ing in magic pyra­mids shows that you think differently

tomdekan7 Jan 2022 11:06 UTC
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AMA: I was un­schooled for most of my child­hood, then vol­un­tar­ily chose to leave to go to a large pub­lic high school.

iceplant7 Jan 2022 7:48 UTC
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Sig­nal­ing isn’t about sig­nal­ing, it’s about Goodhart

Valentine6 Jan 2022 18:49 UTC
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Covid 1/​6/​22: The Blip

Zvi6 Jan 2022 18:30 UTC
68 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Prob­lem of the Cri­te­rion is NOT an Open Problem

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Jan 2022 16:31 UTC
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Im­por­tance of fore­sight eval­u­a­tions within ELK

Jonathan Uesato6 Jan 2022 15:34 UTC
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[Question] How rea­son­able are con­cerns about ask­ing for patents to be lifted for COVID-19 vac­cines?

ChristianKl6 Jan 2022 13:09 UTC
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A com­mon mis­con­cep­tion about the evolu­tion of viruses

mukashi6 Jan 2022 10:00 UTC
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What I’m about

Flaglandbase6 Jan 2022 9:20 UTC
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You can’t un­der­stand hu­man agency with­out un­der­stand­ing amoeba agency

Shmi6 Jan 2022 4:42 UTC
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Brain Effi­ciency: Much More than You Wanted to Know

jacob_cannell6 Jan 2022 3:38 UTC
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Satisf-AI: A Route to Re­duc­ing Risks From AI

harsimony6 Jan 2022 2:34 UTC
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How To Raise Others’ Aspira­tions in 17 Easy Steps

chanamessinger6 Jan 2022 0:14 UTC
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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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Movie re­view: Don’t Look Up

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

jsteinhardt4 Jan 2022 19:30 UTC
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[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
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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
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