On Con­text And People

Jan19 Mar 2022 23:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] When will kids stop wear­ing masks at school?

Daniel Kokotajlo19 Mar 2022 22:13 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Finite Fac­tored Sets with some toy examples

Thomas Kehrenberg19 Mar 2022 22:08 UTC
49 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(tm.kehrenberg.net)

Ra­tion­al­ists Should Learn Lock Picking

brook19 Mar 2022 18:00 UTC
21 points
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Wargam­ing AGI Development

ryan_b19 Mar 2022 17:59 UTC
37 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Can you be Not Even Wrong in AI Align­ment?

throwaway823819 Mar 2022 17:41 UTC
22 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness: im­perfect rea­son­ing, limited knowl­edge and in­ac­cu­rate beliefs

Morgan_Rogers19 Mar 2022 17:28 UTC
4 points
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[Question] Thoughts on the SPIES Fore­cast­ing Method?

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz19 Mar 2022 15:22 UTC
19 points
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Ret­ro­spec­tive: Con­text and Communication

The Guild of the Rose19 Mar 2022 14:45 UTC
19 points
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(guildoftherose.org)

Notes on So­cial Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC
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[Linkpost] 7 Swedish Words to Import

mike_hawke19 Mar 2022 2:36 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

[Question] What to do af­ter in­vent­ing AGI?

elephantcrew18 Mar 2022 22:30 UTC
9 points
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Cold Takes reader sur­vey—let me know what you want more and less of!

HoldenKarnofsky18 Mar 2022 19:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] What Should I Do To­day?

Cui18 Mar 2022 16:36 UTC
10 points
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Only needs a fly­ing saucer

Mary Chernyshenko18 Mar 2022 15:11 UTC
76 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Learned Blank­ness and Ex­pec­ta­tions of Solubility

brook18 Mar 2022 12:42 UTC
8 points
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On ex­pected util­ity, part 2: Why it can be OK to pre­dictably lose

Joe Carlsmith18 Mar 2022 8:38 UTC
13 points
4 comments16 min readLW link

Nu­clear Deter­rence 101 (and why the US can’t even hint at in­ter­ven­ing in Ukraine)

Darmani18 Mar 2022 7:25 UTC
36 points
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[Question] Our time in his­tory as ev­i­dence for simu­la­tion the­ory?

Garrett Garzonie18 Mar 2022 3:35 UTC
3 points
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Ve­gas ACX/​SSC/​LW meetup

jwray18 Mar 2022 2:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Defect­ing On Yourself

David Udell18 Mar 2022 2:21 UTC
35 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Phase tran­si­tions and AGI

17 Mar 2022 17:22 UTC
45 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Covid 3/​17/​22: The Rise of BA.2

Zvi17 Mar 2022 16:20 UTC
44 points
23 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is Grabby Aliens built on good an­thropic rea­son­ing?

Steven Byrnes17 Mar 2022 14:12 UTC
38 points
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[Question] Max­i­mize in a limited do­main. Hope for the fu­ture.

Dacyn17 Mar 2022 14:05 UTC
4 points
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Is there a link be­tween Im­mi­gra­tion Policy and In­fla­tion?

hawkebia17 Mar 2022 11:26 UTC
9 points
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Us­ing GPT-3 for pre­vent­ing con­flict dur­ing mes­sag­ing — a pitch for an app

Eli_17 Mar 2022 11:02 UTC
22 points
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[Question] What is the equiv­a­lent of the “do” op­er­a­tor for finite fac­tored sets?

Chris van Merwijk17 Mar 2022 8:05 UTC
8 points
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EA Ca­reer Work­shop (Berkeley, 3/​19)

Raj Thimmiah17 Mar 2022 6:50 UTC
3 points
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The One Who Says, “Enough”

Sable17 Mar 2022 6:17 UTC
5 points
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Why a No-Fly-Zone would be the biggest gift to Putin, and why Ze­len­skyy keeps ask­ing for it [Linkpost and com­men­tary]

Dojan17 Mar 2022 3:13 UTC
48 points
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[Question] For­mal epistemiol­ogy for ex­tract­ing truth from news sources

Enigma17 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC
18 points
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Luna Love­g­ood and the Fidelius Curse—Part 11

lsusr17 Mar 2022 0:19 UTC
24 points
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On ex­pected util­ity, part 1: Skyscrap­ers and madmen

Joe Carlsmith16 Mar 2022 21:58 UTC
24 points
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What do paradigm shifts look like?

leogao16 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC
18 points
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Thoughts on Crowd­fund­ing with Re­fund Bonuses

Yoav Ravid16 Mar 2022 16:29 UTC
37 points
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[Question] Can you only re­al­ize ob­jects in your mind af­ter they ap­pear?

Cui16 Mar 2022 16:12 UTC
3 points
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 8. Take­aways from neuro 1/​2: On AGI development

Steven Byrnes16 Mar 2022 13:59 UTC
57 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Re­plac­ing Nat­u­ral Interpretations

adamShimi16 Mar 2022 13:05 UTC
16 points
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Some (po­ten­tially) fund­able AI Safety Ideas

Logan Riggs16 Mar 2022 12:48 UTC
21 points
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[Quote] Why does i show up in Quan­tum Me­chan­ics and other Beau­tiful Math Mysteries

Gunnar_Zarncke16 Mar 2022 11:58 UTC
9 points
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War Mode vs. Peace Mode

konstell16 Mar 2022 3:36 UTC
10 points
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[Question] Danger(s) of the­o­rem-prov­ing AI?

Yitz16 Mar 2022 2:47 UTC
8 points
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Ukraine #4: Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Move­ment Modeling

Zvi15 Mar 2022 22:20 UTC
28 points
2 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do small stud­ies add up?

one_forward15 Mar 2022 22:00 UTC
14 points
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I read Ein­stein’s bi­og­ra­phy. Here are 15 quotes that re­veal his philos­o­phy on life.

dmabery15 Mar 2022 18:14 UTC
−7 points
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AI re­searchers from Rus­sia look­ing for a new home

AnonResearch15 Mar 2022 18:13 UTC
36 points
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My cur­rent thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC
128 points
27 comments10 min readLW link

Smok­ing cigarettes in air­planes made the air­planes safer?

CraigMichael15 Mar 2022 17:03 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­is­tic Negotiation

Robert Kennedy15 Mar 2022 14:39 UTC
20 points
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