May I Speak?

Raythen14 Mar 2022 22:57 UTC
−8 points
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ELK con­test sub­mis­sion: route un­der­stand­ing through the hu­man ontology

14 Mar 2022 21:42 UTC
21 points
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[Question] MicroCOVID risk lev­els in­ac­cu­rate due to un­der­count­ing in data sources vs wastew­a­ter data?

Sameerishere14 Mar 2022 20:04 UTC
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One pos­si­ble ap­proach to de­velop the best pos­si­ble gen­eral learn­ing algorithm

martillopart14 Mar 2022 19:24 UTC
3 points
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The Mean­ingless­ness of it all

foxacc14 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
−9 points
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Eth­i­cal­ity Be­hind Break­ing the Glass Ceiling

foxacc14 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
31 points
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Tech­nolog­i­cal Re­s­ur­rec­tion: Two Pos­si­ble Approaches

Alex Polischuk14 Mar 2022 17:53 UTC
−3 points
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Omicron #16: Danger in China

Zvi14 Mar 2022 15:50 UTC
58 points
10 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ukraine #3: De­ci­sion The­ory, Mad­man The­ory and the Mafioso Nature

Zvi14 Mar 2022 14:50 UTC
35 points
25 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Linkpost] Growth in FLOPS used to train ML models

Derek M. Jones14 Mar 2022 11:28 UTC
3 points
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Shot­gun Book Re­views: Against Method, The Knowl­edge Ma­chine and Un­der­stand­ing Nature

adamShimi14 Mar 2022 8:13 UTC
28 points
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Alex Tabar­rok ad­vo­cates for crowd­fund­ing sys­tems with *Re­fund Bonuses*. I think this might be a nat­u­ral oc­cur­rence of a money pump against Causal De­ci­sion The­ory pledgers

mako yass14 Mar 2022 7:27 UTC
17 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(marginalrevolution.com)

Challenges to Yud­kowsky’s Pro­noun Re­form Proposal

Zack_M_Davis13 Mar 2022 20:38 UTC
52 points
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(unremediatedgender.space)

War-prompted Disaster Planning

jefftk13 Mar 2022 20:10 UTC
20 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Whence the de­ter­mi­nant?

Ege Erdil13 Mar 2022 19:38 UTC
28 points
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Food man­u­fac­tur­ers are out to get you

jwray13 Mar 2022 19:36 UTC
27 points
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Game the­ory, sanc­tions, and Ukraine

Dumbledore's Army13 Mar 2022 17:45 UTC
27 points
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How to Lu­me­nate (UK Edi­tion)

chanamessinger13 Mar 2022 13:43 UTC
47 points
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New GPT3 Im­pres­sive Ca­pa­bil­ities—In­struc­tGPT3 [1/​2]

simeon_c13 Mar 2022 10:58 UTC
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Anec­dotes Can Be Strong Ev­i­dence and Bayes The­o­rem Proves It

FCCC13 Mar 2022 4:06 UTC
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Com­pute Trends — Com­par­i­son to OpenAI’s AI and Compute

12 Mar 2022 18:09 UTC
23 points
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Ex­pe­rience Res­tart­ing Contra

jefftk12 Mar 2022 15:00 UTC
16 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is there a good dataset for the mo­ments of the in­come dis­tri­bu­tion through­out his­tory?

Ege Erdil12 Mar 2022 13:26 UTC
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Why Rome?

Erich_Grunewald12 Mar 2022 11:29 UTC
19 points
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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Bear Sur­prise Free­dom Network

CraigMichael12 Mar 2022 10:15 UTC
26 points
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Book re­view of “Mengzi”

Anonymous12 Mar 2022 4:54 UTC
32 points
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[Question] If some­one with suffi­cient ca­pa­bil­ities de­cides to de­liber­ately cre­ate an Unal­igned AGI, is there any­thing any­one can ac­tu­ally DO, to stop them?

nx205912 Mar 2022 0:01 UTC
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Your Fu­ture Self’s Cre­dences Should Be Un­pre­dictable to You

David Udell11 Mar 2022 23:33 UTC
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Ar­gu­ments are good for helping peo­ple rea­son about things

AprilSR11 Mar 2022 23:02 UTC
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Is There a Valley of Bad Civ­i­liza­tional Ad­e­quacy?

lbThingrb11 Mar 2022 19:49 UTC
13 points
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Rhythm Stage Setup v4

jefftk11 Mar 2022 19:40 UTC
9 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Deep Dives: My Ad­vice for Pur­su­ing Work in Re­search

scasper11 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
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If your solu­tion doesn’t work, make it work

Ege Erdil11 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
17 points
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[Question] Ways to in­vest your wealth if you be­lieve in a high-var­i­ance fu­ture?

Alex_Altair11 Mar 2022 16:07 UTC
51 points
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A Longlist of The­o­ries of Im­pact for Interpretability

Neel Nanda11 Mar 2022 14:55 UTC
127 points
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Beyond micromarriages

Richard_Ngo11 Mar 2022 3:40 UTC
91 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

On con­tin­u­ous de­ci­sion boundaries

eeegnu11 Mar 2022 3:36 UTC
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Book re­view: The Dawn of Everything

PeterMcCluskey11 Mar 2022 1:56 UTC
24 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

[Question] Are there any im­pos­si­bil­ity the­o­rems for strong and safe AI?

David Johnston11 Mar 2022 1:41 UTC
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Al­gorith­mic Mea­sure of Emer­gence v2.0

interstice10 Mar 2022 20:26 UTC
15 points
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I left Rus­sia on March 8

avturchin10 Mar 2022 20:05 UTC
127 points
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What’s the chance a smart Lon­don res­i­dent dies of a Rus­sian nuke in the next month?

DanielFilan10 Mar 2022 19:20 UTC
40 points
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(danielfilan.com)

[Question] What’s the best ra­tio for Afri­cans to starve com­pared to Ukraini­ans not dy­ing in the war?

ChristianKl10 Mar 2022 18:52 UTC
9 points
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[Question] In­fo­haz­ards, hack­ing, and Brick­ing—how to for­mal­ize these con­cepts?

Yitz10 Mar 2022 16:42 UTC
6 points
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Ukraine Post #2: Options

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
84 points
55 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 3/​10/​22: We Have a Plan

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
37 points
3 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Treat Ex­am­ples as World-Building

adamShimi10 Mar 2022 15:09 UTC
19 points
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[Question] Best LessWrong posts for un­der­stand­ing sci­en­tific stud­ies.

Sean McAneny10 Mar 2022 13:13 UTC
10 points
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Dona­tions, The First Year

jenn10 Mar 2022 3:57 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

Pro­gram­ming note

HoldenKarnofsky9 Mar 2022 21:20 UTC
8 points
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(www.cold-takes.com)