Why “progress stud­ies” is interdisciplinary

jasoncrawford22 Apr 2022 21:58 UTC
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On Suc­cess­ful Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Across a Wide In­fer­en­tial Distance

Mahdi Complex22 Apr 2022 20:08 UTC
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China Covid #2

Zvi22 Apr 2022 19:00 UTC
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The Fetishiza­tion of Dystopia

john yardsale22 Apr 2022 16:39 UTC
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April was weird

lsusr22 Apr 2022 16:07 UTC
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Should I buy roofies from the dark­net?

Malmesbury22 Apr 2022 15:40 UTC
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[Question] (When) do high-di­men­sional spaces have lin­ear paths down to lo­cal min­ima?

Thomas Kwa22 Apr 2022 15:35 UTC
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All I Know is that I Know Nothing

lsusr22 Apr 2022 15:33 UTC
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Unity of Doc­trine vs Unity of Method in Philosophy

JonathanErhardt22 Apr 2022 13:16 UTC
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Hu­man­ity as an en­tity: An al­ter­na­tive to Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

ZT522 Apr 2022 12:48 UTC
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[Question] Will/​Has the Rus­sia-Ukraine war been a tip­ping point for the shift from oil en­ergy?

jmh22 Apr 2022 11:07 UTC
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AI Will Multiply

harsimony22 Apr 2022 4:33 UTC
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In­fra-Topology

Diffractor22 Apr 2022 2:10 UTC
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In­fra-Miscellanea

Diffractor22 Apr 2022 2:09 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence To Offer Hope?

michael_mjd22 Apr 2022 1:56 UTC
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[Question] Does ra­tio­nal­ity ac­tu­ally help?

castor0722 Apr 2022 0:49 UTC
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Early 2022 Paper Round-up (Part 2)

jsteinhardt21 Apr 2022 23:40 UTC
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[Question] What are the num­bers in mind for the su­per-short AGI timelines so many long-ter­mists are alarmed about?

Evan_Gaensbauer21 Apr 2022 23:32 UTC
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Distributed blind re­view site for papers

Jonas Kgomo21 Apr 2022 22:51 UTC
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Fu­ture of Progress Stud­ies – a meetup with Adam Thierer

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2022 21:34 UTC
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Northamp­ton, MA As­tral Codex Ten Meetup: April 24, 2022, ft. Mingyuan

a_lieb21 Apr 2022 20:41 UTC
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Pr­ereg­is­tra­tion: Air Con­di­tioner Test

johnswentworth21 Apr 2022 19:48 UTC
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I Caught Covid And All I Got Was This Lousy Am­bigu­ous Data

Elizabeth21 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC
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Are smart peo­ple’s per­sonal ex­pe­riences bi­ased against gen­eral in­tel­li­gence?

tailcalled21 Apr 2022 19:25 UTC
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My Ter­rible Ex­pe­rience with Terror

monkymind21 Apr 2022 17:58 UTC
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THE GOLDEN RULE; What can we learn from it?

Rami Rustom21 Apr 2022 16:38 UTC
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[Question] Choice := An­throp­ics un­cer­tainty? And po­ten­tial im­pli­ca­tions for agency

Antoine de Scorraille21 Apr 2022 16:38 UTC
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Reflec­tions on My Own Miss­ing Mood

Lone Pine21 Apr 2022 16:19 UTC
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Covid 4/​21/​22: Var­i­ants Work­ing Overtime

Zvi21 Apr 2022 15:10 UTC
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Un­der­stand­ing the Merg­ing of Opinions with In­creas­ing In­for­ma­tion theorem

ViktoriaMalyasova21 Apr 2022 14:13 UTC
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When Can You Use a Travel Adapter?

jefftk21 Apr 2022 14:00 UTC
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Madrid ACX Schel­ling Meetup

Pablo Villalobos21 Apr 2022 12:29 UTC
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For ev­ery choice of AGI difficulty, con­di­tion­ing on grad­ual take-off im­plies shorter timelines.

Francis Rhys Ward21 Apr 2022 7:44 UTC
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[Question] When is pos­i­tive self-talk not worth it due to self-delu­sion?

Jack R21 Apr 2022 3:11 UTC
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Is growth lin­ear, not ex­po­nen­tial?

jasoncrawford20 Apr 2022 18:46 UTC
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How to place a bet on the end of the world

DirectedEvolution20 Apr 2022 18:24 UTC
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If ev­ery­thing is ge­netic, then noth­ing is ge­netic—Un­der­stand­ing the phe­no­typic null hypothesis

tailcalled20 Apr 2022 16:25 UTC
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Judge Over­turns Trans­porta­tion Mask Mandate

Zvi20 Apr 2022 13:50 UTC
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Axis ori­ented programming

Donald Hobson20 Apr 2022 13:22 UTC
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 12. Two paths for­ward: “Con­trol­led AGI” and “So­cial-in­stinct AGI”

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2022 12:58 UTC
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GPT-3 and con­cept extrapolation

Stuart_Armstrong20 Apr 2022 10:39 UTC
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AI Fore­cast­ing Meetup

20 Apr 2022 5:41 UTC
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A very quick anal­ogy re­gard­ing “opinions”

Magnus20 Apr 2022 2:28 UTC
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Why No *In­ter­est­ing* Unal­igned Sin­gu­lar­ity?

David Udell20 Apr 2022 0:34 UTC
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Another ar­gu­ment that you will let the AI out of the box

Garrett Baker19 Apr 2022 21:54 UTC
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“Pivotal Act” In­ten­tions: Nega­tive Con­se­quences and Fal­la­cious Arguments

Andrew_Critch19 Apr 2022 20:25 UTC
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De­cep­tive Agents are a Good Way to Do Things

David Udell19 Apr 2022 18:04 UTC
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The Scale Prob­lem in AI

tailcalled19 Apr 2022 17:46 UTC
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Fixed points and free will

Ege Erdil19 Apr 2022 17:18 UTC
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[Question] The two miss­ing core rea­sons why al­ign­ing at-least-par­tially su­per­hu­man AGI is hard

Joel Burget19 Apr 2022 17:15 UTC
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