12 in­ter­est­ing things I learned study­ing the dis­cov­ery of na­ture’s laws

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What The Foucault

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[Question] Is ve­g­anism morally cor­rect?

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Observation

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Align­ment re­searchers, how use­ful is ex­tra com­pute for you?

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[Question] Mechanism de­sign /​ queue­ing the­ory for gov­ern­ment to sell visas

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Thoughts on Danger­ous Learned Optimization

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SPARC Ap­pli­ca­tions Are Now Live!

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Dal­las Fe­bru­ary LessWrong/​ACX Meetup

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HCH and Ad­ver­sar­ial Questions

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En­courage­ment to In­still Con­fi­dence?

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Misc the­matic links

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Abun­dance and scarcity; work­ing for­wards and work­ing backwards

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Non-Fun­gible Costs

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Why you are psy­cholog­i­cally screwed up

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Si­mu­la­tion arguments

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Monks of Magnitude

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[Question] [un­ti­tled post]

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Im­pli­ca­tions of au­to­mated on­tol­ogy identification

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A scheme for sam­pling durable goods first-hand be­fore mak­ing a purchase

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[Question] Is the com­pe­ti­tion/​co­op­er­a­tion be­tween sym­bolic AI and statis­ti­cal AI (ML) about his­tor­i­cal ap­proach to re­search /​ en­g­ineer­ing, or is it more fun­da­men­tally about what in­tel­li­gent agents “are”?

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The Kind­ness Project

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In­ter­lude: On Realness

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Covid 2/​17/​22: Coast­ing Downwards

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Twit­ter thread on postrationalists

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REPL’s and ELK

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An anal­ogy as the mid­wife of thermodynamics

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[Link] Eric Sch­midt’s new AI2050 Fund

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Con­voy Continued

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Com­pute Trends Across Three eras of Ma­chine Learning

Feb 16, 2022, 2:18 PM
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 4. The “short-term pre­dic­tor”

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Why Doesn’t Health­care Im­prove Health?

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[Question] How do you think about mildly tech­ni­cal peo­ple try­ing to ad­vance sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy?

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Acous­tic vs Elec­tric Mandolin

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REPL’s: a type sig­na­ture for agents

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The Three Lit­tle Pig­gies of Rationality

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Bazant: An al­ter­nate covid calculator

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The Territory

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How harm­ful are im­prove­ments in AI? + Poll

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Defend­ing One-Di­men­sional Ethics

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Paradigm-build­ing: Con­clu­sion and prac­ti­cal takeaways

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Pro­duc­tivity Notes I

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Be­com­ing Stronger as Episte­mol­o­gist: Introduction

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ACX Mon­treal Meetup Feb 27 2022 **Venue Changed**

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Does Impedance Mat­ter?

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Ep­silon is not a prob­a­bil­ity, it’s a cop-out

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Is ELK enough? Di­a­mond, Ma­trix and Child AI

adamShimiFeb 15, 2022, 2:29 AM
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Some Hacky ELK Ideas

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What Does The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Frame­work Say About ELK?

johnswentworthFeb 15, 2022, 2:27 AM
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Ob­ser­va­tions about writ­ing and com­ment­ing on the internet

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