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Why do people avoid vaccination?

KatjaGraceFeb 10, 2022, 9:10 PM

53 points

58 comments6 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

If you say “don’t lose focus,” what does that actually tell you to focus on?

Nicole DiekerFeb 10, 2022, 9:04 PM

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity

Matthew BarnettFeb 10, 2022, 7:16 PM

88 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

A summary of aligning narrowly superhuman models

guguFeb 10, 2022, 6:26 PM

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Covid 2/10/22: Happy Birthday

ZviFeb 10, 2022, 5:50 PM

44 points

9 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Question 1: Predicted architecture of AGI learning algorithm(s)

Cameron BergFeb 10, 2022, 5:22 PM

13 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Rituals and symbolism

TsviBTFeb 10, 2022, 4:00 PM

34 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

The Long Long Covid Post

ZviFeb 10, 2022, 1:10 PM

103 points

29 comments52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Your Enemies Can Use Your Prediction Markets Against You

lsusrFeb 10, 2022, 10:37 AM

42 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences

JanFeb 10, 2022, 10:33 AM

33 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

EleutherAI’s GPT-NeoX-20B release

leogaoFeb 10, 2022, 6:56 AM

30 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(eaidata.bmk.sh)

Singapore—Small casual dinner meetup #2

Joe RoccaFeb 10, 2022, 6:19 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

To Change the World

lsusrFeb 10, 2022, 6:08 AM

104 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

EA Picnic on UC Berkeley Campus

Raj ThimmiahFeb 10, 2022, 5:47 AM

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Defeat of Reason?

M. Y. ZuoFeb 10, 2022, 4:29 AM

4 points

49 comments6 min readLW link

SSC Meetup San Diego

CitizenTenFeb 10, 2022, 12:46 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bet on Rare Undesirable Outcomes when Seeding a Prediction Market

lsusrFeb 10, 2022, 12:20 AM

33 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why rationalists are not much concerned about mortality?

SurvivalBiasFeb 10, 2022, 12:11 AM

18 points

92 comments1 min readLW link

Bernal Heights: acquisition of a bicycle

KatjaGraceFeb 9, 2022, 9:00 PM

36 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

My investment protects you. Your investment protects me.

Nicole DiekerFeb 9, 2022, 8:12 PM

−7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Legibility

ElizabethFeb 9, 2022, 6:10 PM

309 points

30 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Create a prediction market in two minutes on Manifold Markets

Austin Chen and James Grugett

Feb 9, 2022, 5:36 PM

58 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Mailing Lists for Event Announcements

jefftkFeb 9, 2022, 5:30 PM

12 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Paradigm-building: The hierarchical question framework

Cameron BergFeb 9, 2022, 4:47 PM

11 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 3. Two subsystems: Learning & Steering

Steven ByrnesFeb 9, 2022, 1:09 PM

95 points

3 comments25 min readLW link

Prediction Markets are for Outcomes Beyond Our Control

lsusrFeb 9, 2022, 9:54 AM

59 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to Legally Conduct “Rationalist Bets” in California?

Davis_KingsleyFeb 9, 2022, 8:16 AM

9 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities

paulfchristianoFeb 9, 2022, 6:10 AM

33 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Interest in a digital LW “book” club?

DirectedEvolutionFeb 9, 2022, 5:59 AM

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

An extension of Aumann’s approach for reducing game theory to bayesian decision theory to include EDT and UDT like agents

Karl BriseboisFeb 9, 2022, 4:17 AM

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Everyone’s mired in the deepest confusion, some of the time?

M. Y. ZuoFeb 9, 2022, 2:53 AM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

“Moral progress” vs. the simple passage of time

HoldenKarnofskyFeb 9, 2022, 2:50 AM

33 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Hypothesis: gradient descent prefers general circuits

Quintin PopeFeb 8, 2022, 9:12 PM

46 points

26 comments11 min readLW link

Paradigm-building from first principles: Effective altruism, AGI, and alignment

Cameron BergFeb 8, 2022, 4:12 PM

29 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

Metaculus launches contest for essays with quantitative predictions about AI

Tamay Besiroglu and Metaculus

Feb 8, 2022, 4:07 PM

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Appendix: More Is Different In Other Domains

jsteinhardtFeb 8, 2022, 4:00 PM

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Defending Functional Decision Theory

HeighnFeb 8, 2022, 2:58 PM

6 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

How complex are myopic imitators?

Vivek HebbarFeb 8, 2022, 12:00 PM

26 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

The ’Why’s of an International Auxiliary Language (IAL part 1)

Long tryFeb 8, 2022, 4:39 AM

−1 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

Capability Phase Transition Examples

gwernFeb 8, 2022, 3:32 AM

39 points

1 comment LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Meditation and Neuroscience, some odds and ends

MarkLFeb 8, 2022, 1:47 AM

28 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

Paradigm-building: Introduction

Cameron BergFeb 8, 2022, 12:06 AM

28 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Reverse engineering of the simulation

Jan BetleyFeb 7, 2022, 9:36 PM

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

A Solution to the Desire-Action Conundrum

ship_shlapFeb 7, 2022, 6:00 PM

3 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Building cars we don’t understand

pchvykovFeb 7, 2022, 4:55 PM

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

The case for “mental strength”

VipulNaikFeb 7, 2022, 3:43 PM

39 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Decreasing Isolation Further

jefftkFeb 7, 2022, 2:00 PM

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Soup design: Everyone likes it, but few know how

tomdekan7 Feb 2022 11:32 UTC

2 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[untitled post]

superads916 Feb 2022 20:39 UTC

−5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Predictions for 2050?

FinalFormal26 Feb 2022 20:33 UTC

−2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link