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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.
iceplant
Jan 7, 2022, 7:48 AM
53
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Omicron Post #15
Zvi
Jan 19, 2022, 2:40 PM
52
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
What happened when I applied metrics to my piano practice (a five-part essay about the process of learning)
Nicole Dieker
Jan 27, 2022, 8:45 PM
50
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
School Daze
Zvi
Jan 14, 2022, 1:50 PM
50
points
6
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Question Gravity
Isaac King
Jan 13, 2022, 6:30 AM
50
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Regularization Causes Modularity Causes Generalization
dkirmani
Jan 1, 2022, 11:34 PM
50
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Has anyone had weird experiences with Alcor?
Jaevko
Jan 11, 2022, 9:47 PM
49
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 1/27/22: Let My People Go
Zvi
Jan 27, 2022, 5:00 PM
49
points
24
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Open Thread—Jan 2022 [Vote Experiment!]
jimrandomh
Jan 3, 2022, 1:07 AM
47
points
88
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thought Experiments Provide a Third Anchor
jsteinhardt
Jan 18, 2022, 4:00 PM
46
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)
There is a line in the sand, just not where you think it is
Wuschel Schulz
Jan 22, 2022, 10:33 AM
46
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The IHME Report
Zvi
Jan 10, 2022, 3:50 PM
44
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The ignorance of normative realism bot
Joe Carlsmith
Jan 18, 2022, 5:26 AM
43
points
6
comments
35
min read
LW
link
1
review
Excessive Nuance and Derailing Conversations
Alexander
Jan 23, 2022, 10:42 AM
43
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Grandpa Has Different Rules
jefftk
Jan 22, 2022, 3:30 AM
43
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Nudging My Way Out Of The Intellectual Mosh Pit
Elizabeth
Jan 15, 2022, 11:40 PM
42
points
20
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
CICO is a weird reference class
Chad Nauseam
Jan 23, 2022, 7:00 AM
42
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Structure of the Guild of the Rose
moridinamael
Jan 21, 2022, 7:40 PM
41
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
[Question]
What are sane reasons that Covid data is treated as reliable?
Valentine
Jan 1, 2022, 6:47 PM
41
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Self-Organised Neural Networks: A simple, natural and efficient way to intelligence
D𝜋
Jan 1, 2022, 11:24 PM
40
points
51
comments
44
min read
LW
link
Movie review: Don’t Look Up
Sam Marks
Jan 4, 2022, 8:16 PM
38
points
6
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Teaching Street Crossing
jefftk
Jan 16, 2022, 8:20 PM
38
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Polymarket Covid-19 1/17/2022
Zvi
Jan 17, 2022, 4:10 PM
38
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Animal welfare EA and personal dietary options
Rob Bensinger
Jan 5, 2022, 6:53 PM
38
points
32
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Personal blogging as self-imposed oppression
xarkn
Jan 15, 2022, 2:51 PM
37
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Estimating training compute of Deep Learning models
lennart
,
Jsevillamol
,
Marius Hobbhahn
,
Tamay Besiroglu
and
anson.ho
Jan 20, 2022, 4:12 PM
37
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
$1000 USD prize—Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals
Chris_Leong
Jan 1, 2022, 9:43 AM
37
points
102
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] [Fun] CDC To Send Pamphlet On Probabilistic Thinking
Gunnar_Zarncke
Jan 14, 2022, 9:44 PM
37
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Entropy isn’t sufficient to measure password strength
benwr
Jan 17, 2022, 6:41 AM
36
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.benwr.net)
The Greedy Doctor Problem… turns out to be relevant to the ELK problem?
Jan
Jan 14, 2022, 11:58 AM
36
points
10
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
[Question]
Political Office for Beginners?
Asgård
Jan 12, 2022, 5:27 PM
36
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Instrumental Convergence For Realistic Agent Objectives
TurnTrout
Jan 22, 2022, 12:41 AM
35
points
9
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Guidelines for cold messaging people
Severin T. Seehrich
Jan 17, 2022, 12:07 PM
35
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Advertising as a Parasite on the Semantic Commons
ThomasMore
Jan 28, 2022, 5:38 PM
34
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Promising posts on AF that have fallen through the cracks
Evan R. Murphy
Jan 4, 2022, 3:39 PM
34
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Evaluating 2021 ACX Predictions
Zvi
Jan 25, 2022, 6:30 PM
34
points
11
comments
22
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
2020 Review: Final Voting
Raemon
Jan 28, 2022, 3:39 AM
34
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
I Am a Dimensional Traveller from a World of Highly Sensitive Rationalists
LightStar
Jan 30, 2022, 1:00 PM
34
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Vavilov Day Starts Tomorrow
Elizabeth
Jan 25, 2022, 6:00 PM
34
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Plan B in AI Safety approach
avturchin
Jan 13, 2022, 12:03 PM
33
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Search Is All You Need
blake8086
Jan 25, 2022, 11:13 PM
33
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Uncontroversially good legislation
braces
Jan 10, 2022, 2:26 AM
32
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #171]: Disagreements between alignment “optimists” and “pessimists”
Rohin Shah
Jan 21, 2022, 6:30 PM
32
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Careful With Trailing Averages
jefftk
Jan 1, 2022, 4:00 PM
31
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Positly covid survey: long covid
KatjaGrace
Jan 18, 2022, 10:40 AM
31
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Forecasting Newsletter: December 2021
NunoSempere
Jan 10, 2022, 7:35 PM
30
points
5
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Book notes: “The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life”
juliawise
Jan 28, 2022, 8:00 PM
30
points
8
comments
8
min read
LW
link
New year, new research agenda post
Charlie Steiner
Jan 12, 2022, 5:58 PM
29
points
4
comments
16
min read
LW
link
NFTs, Coin Collecting, and Expensive Paintings
leogao
Jan 24, 2022, 1:01 AM
29
points
35
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Vavilov Day Discussion Post
Elizabeth
Jan 27, 2022, 12:26 AM
29
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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