Bay Area Ra­tion­al­ists Field Day

SurvivalBiasFeb 1, 2022, 2:45 AM
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2+2: On­tolog­i­cal Framework

LyrialtusFeb 1, 2022, 1:07 AM
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Im­mune, In a Nutshell

JsevillamolJan 31, 2022, 11:07 PM
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Mean­ing of Words—An Ex­er­cise for Ac­tive Thinking

aysajanJan 31, 2022, 8:18 PM
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On in­finite ethics

Joe CarlsmithJan 31, 2022, 7:04 AM
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De­sign policy to be testable

Yair HalberstadtJan 31, 2022, 6:04 AM
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Reflec­tions on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawfordJan 31, 2022, 5:28 AM
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[Question] How do I find Like­li­hoods and Prior prob­a­bil­ities for Com­plete blood count (CBC) val­ues for cats?

ATheCoderJan 31, 2022, 5:11 AM
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What do we mean when we say the brain com­putes?

Adam ShaiJan 31, 2022, 3:33 AM
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South Bay ACX/​LW Meetup

ISJan 31, 2022, 12:57 AM
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Ca­reer Day: A Short Story

vernamcipherJan 30, 2022, 10:22 PM
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Can we grow cars in­stead of build­ing them?

pchvykovJan 30, 2022, 9:05 PM
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In­fant Talk boxes?

jefftkJan 30, 2022, 6:20 PM
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Ret­ro­spec­tive forecasting

Ege ErdilJan 30, 2022, 4:38 PM
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[Question] Where can I read about the Roko’s Basilisk drama?

theflowerpotJan 30, 2022, 4:29 PM
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I Am a Di­men­sional Trav­el­ler from a World of Highly Sen­si­tive Rationalists

LightStarJan 30, 2022, 1:00 PM
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Knowl­edge Lo­cal­iza­tion: Ten­ta­tively Pos­i­tive Re­sults on OCR

J BostockJan 30, 2022, 11:57 AM
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Cheer­ful Har­berger Day

hamnoxJan 30, 2022, 7:17 AM
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[Question] How would you learn ab­solute pitch?

Thomas SepulchreJan 29, 2022, 11:26 PM
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De­con­fus­ing Deception

J BostockJan 29, 2022, 4:43 PM
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The Map of the Map

LightStarJan 29, 2022, 10:03 AM
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Crypto low risk prof­its

ikeJan 29, 2022, 4:52 AM
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Mildly Pho­tochromic Lenses?

jefftkJan 29, 2022, 2:30 AM
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Book notes: “The Ori­gins of You: How Child­hood Shapes Later Life”

juliawiseJan 28, 2022, 8:00 PM
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Ad­ver­tis­ing as a Par­a­site on the Se­man­tic Commons

ThomasMoreJan 28, 2022, 5:38 PM
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[Question] New­comb’s Grandfather

Yair HalberstadtJan 28, 2022, 8:56 AM
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2020 Re­view: Fi­nal Voting

RaemonJan 28, 2022, 3:39 AM
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How A Highly Sen­si­tive Per­son Sees Words

LightStarJan 28, 2022, 3:16 AM
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The Skill of Writ­ing Facetiously

lhcJan 27, 2022, 10:44 PM
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A lit­tle game the­ory on dis­cur­sive conflict

David Hugh-JonesJan 27, 2022, 9:19 PM
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What hap­pened when I ap­plied met­rics to my pi­ano prac­tice (a five-part es­say about the pro­cess of learn­ing)

Nicole DiekerJan 27, 2022, 8:45 PM
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Look­ing back at 2021

NunoSempereJan 27, 2022, 8:08 PM
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Covid 1/​27/​22: Let My Peo­ple Go

ZviJan 27, 2022, 5:00 PM
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New­comb’s Lot­tery Problem

HeighnJan 27, 2022, 4:28 PM
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Causal­ity, Trans­for­ma­tive AI and al­ign­ment—part I

Marius HobbhahnJan 27, 2022, 4:18 PM
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Ar­gu­ments about Highly Reli­able Agent De­signs as a Use­ful Path to Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Jan 27, 2022, 1:13 PM
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Cop­ing with Undecidability

MorpheusJan 27, 2022, 10:31 AM
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[Question] Rank­ing Cul­tures by Rationality

GadersdJan 27, 2022, 2:25 AM
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Vav­ilov Day Dis­cus­sion Post

ElizabethJan 27, 2022, 12:26 AM
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Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 3 (solu­tion)

Pablo RepettoJan 26, 2022, 10:18 PM
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Event: Mo­ral Foun­da­tions of Progress Stud­ies, March 4–6 at UT Austin

jasoncrawfordJan 26, 2022, 9:57 PM
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Freudi­anism among the 17th cen­tury Wendat

David GrossJan 26, 2022, 6:15 PM
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Disam­biguat­ing the ‘Ob­serv­able Uni­verse’

Sam EnrightJan 26, 2022, 4:50 PM
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the prob­lem & Why work on it now?

Steven ByrnesJan 26, 2022, 3:23 PM
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[Question] Ideas for avoid­ing op­ti­miz­ing the wrong things day-to-day?

Jack RJan 26, 2022, 10:46 AM
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Aligned AI Needs Slack

ShmiJan 26, 2022, 9:29 AM
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Pa­tron Saint Holidays

RaemonJan 26, 2022, 9:26 AM
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ELK First Round Con­test Winners

Jan 26, 2022, 2:56 AM
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ML Sys­tems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardtJan 26, 2022, 1:40 AM
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Search Is All You Need

blake8086Jan 25, 2022, 11:13 PM
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