Why Agent Foun­da­tions? An Overly Ab­stract Explanation

johnswentworth25 Mar 2022 23:17 UTC
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My mis­take about the war in Ukraine

Ege Erdil25 Mar 2022 23:04 UTC
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An out­line of an ironic LessWrong post

Yitz25 Mar 2022 22:51 UTC
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Sum­mary: “How to write a the­sis” by Um­berto Eco

Pablo Repetto25 Mar 2022 21:40 UTC
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Is Me­tac­u­lus Slow to Up­date?

SimonM25 Mar 2022 19:44 UTC
75 points
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Ukraine Post #6: More Data and Peace Terms

Zvi25 Mar 2022 18:20 UTC
59 points
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Duels & D.Sci March 2022: It’s time for D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-data!

aphyer25 Mar 2022 16:55 UTC
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Con­tex­tual Self

ACrackedPot25 Mar 2022 15:39 UTC
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Fake Jour­nal Club proposal

gwern25 Mar 2022 14:23 UTC
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Ch­ester­ton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish

Joel Burget24 Mar 2022 21:20 UTC
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Covid 3/​24/​22: Respite

Zvi24 Mar 2022 15:00 UTC
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The On­tics and The Decouplers

hawkebia24 Mar 2022 14:04 UTC
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[Question] What if fiat money was cre­ated at a fixed rate and given to gov­ern­ment?

MrThink24 Mar 2022 13:02 UTC
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Christo­pher Alexan­der’s ar­chi­tec­ture for learning

Henrik Karlsson24 Mar 2022 9:11 UTC
44 points
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(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On ex­pected util­ity, part 4: Dutch books, Cox, and Com­plete Class

Joe Carlsmith24 Mar 2022 7:51 UTC
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Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup

Raj Thimmiah24 Mar 2022 7:40 UTC
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In the very near fu­ture the in­ter­net will an­swer all of our ques­tions and that makes me sad

David Gross24 Mar 2022 3:55 UTC
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A sur­vey of tool use and work­flows in al­ign­ment research

23 Mar 2022 23:44 UTC
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Ra­tional and ir­ra­tional in­finite integers

Viliam23 Mar 2022 23:12 UTC
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[Question] Re­search on how pat­tern-find­ing con­tributes to mem­o­riza­tion?

DirectedEvolution23 Mar 2022 21:42 UTC
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Why Mir­a­cles Should Not Be Used as a Rea­son to Believe in a Religion

Yitz23 Mar 2022 20:53 UTC
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An­nounc­ing research

Pablo Repetto23 Mar 2022 20:43 UTC
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(pabloernesto.github.io)

Fly­wheels of progress

jasoncrawford23 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

[Closed] Job Offer­ing: Help Com­mu­ni­cate Infrabayesianism

23 Mar 2022 18:35 UTC
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Wanted: Ex­ec­u­tive As­sis­tant to help build the progress movement

jasoncrawford23 Mar 2022 18:19 UTC
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Cir­cu­lar Coun­ter­fac­tu­als “Only that which Hap­pens is Pos­si­ble”

JohnBuridan23 Mar 2022 14:40 UTC
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 9. Take­aways from neuro 2/​2: On AGI motivation

Steven Byrnes23 Mar 2022 12:48 UTC
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Cy­ber­war escalation

ChristianKl23 Mar 2022 11:29 UTC
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Albert Hirschman on liber­al­ism and nationalism

David Hugh-Jones23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC
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(wyclif.substack.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Fidelius Curse—Part 12

lsusr23 Mar 2022 10:03 UTC
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Differ­ent Is The Gen­er­a­tor, Not A Side Effect

George3d623 Mar 2022 9:31 UTC
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(www.epistem.ink)

Les­sons After a Cou­ple Months of Try­ing to Do ML Research

KevinRoWang22 Mar 2022 23:45 UTC
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Progress Re­port 1: in­ter­pretabil­ity ex­per­i­ments & learn­ing, test­ing com­pres­sion hypotheses

Nathan Helm-Burger22 Mar 2022 20:12 UTC
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Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
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[Question] Search­ing for post on Com­mu­nity Takeover

Søren Elverlin22 Mar 2022 9:42 UTC
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On ex­pected util­ity, part 3: VNM, sep­a­ra­bil­ity, and more

Joe Carlsmith22 Mar 2022 3:05 UTC
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Re­spon­si­ble AI com­mu­ni­ca­tion survey

Anca G. Rusu22 Mar 2022 0:19 UTC
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Re­search Ham­ming Questions

johnswentworth22 Mar 2022 0:16 UTC
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Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
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Counter-the­ses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC
441 points
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Jet­lag, Nausea, and Diar­rhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC
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We can­not di­rectly choose an AGI’s util­ity function

azsantosk21 Mar 2022 22:08 UTC
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Why will an AGI be ra­tio­nal?

azsantosk21 Mar 2022 21:54 UTC
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Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information

Zvi21 Mar 2022 14:00 UTC
71 points
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The Dawn of Every­thing: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC
32 points
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(wyclif.substack.com)

[CANCELLED] ACX meetup [April]

sallatik21 Mar 2022 9:49 UTC
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Search­ing for outliers

benkuhn21 Mar 2022 2:40 UTC
169 points
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How to ventilate

jefftk21 Mar 2022 1:20 UTC
16 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Civ­i­liza­tion as Self-Restraint

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Mar 2022 0:31 UTC
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