Why pes­simism sounds smart

jasoncrawford25 Apr 2022 20:10 UTC
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[Question] What is be­ing im­proved in re­cur­sive self im­prove­ment?

Lone Pine25 Apr 2022 18:30 UTC
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21 on 21

Amir Bolous25 Apr 2022 18:22 UTC
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[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist In­spired Com­ing-of-age Rituals

iceplant25 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
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[Re­quest for Distil­la­tion] Co­her­ence of Distributed De­ci­sions With Differ­ent In­puts Im­plies Conditioning

johnswentworth25 Apr 2022 17:01 UTC
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[Question] Quadratic vot­ing with au­to­matic col­lu­sion?

GuySrinivasan25 Apr 2022 16:15 UTC
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In­tu­itions about solv­ing hard problems

Richard_Ngo25 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC
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Ukraine Post #11: Longer Term Predictions

Zvi25 Apr 2022 14:10 UTC
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Key ques­tions about ar­tifi­cial sen­tience: an opinionated guide

Robbo25 Apr 2022 12:09 UTC
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On Tables and Happiness

Alexander25 Apr 2022 9:51 UTC
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Why I’m Not a Utili­tar­ian in Modern America

DanB24 Apr 2022 21:43 UTC
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Ex­am­in­ing Evolu­tion as an Up­per Bound for AGI Timelines

meanderingmoose24 Apr 2022 19:08 UTC
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Athens, Greece – ACX Spring Mee­tups 2022

Elias24 Apr 2022 18:06 UTC
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AI safety rais­ing aware­ness re­sources bleg

iivonen24 Apr 2022 17:13 UTC
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I Think There­fore Some­one Is Or Was?

UtilityMonster24 Apr 2022 17:09 UTC
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[Question] Any­one Fa­mil­iar with Ground News?

jmh24 Apr 2022 12:46 UTC
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[Question] Where can I pub­lish an ar­ti­cle con­tain­ing a list of in­tel­lec­tu­als who pub­li­cly ad­mit­ted their mis­takes once proven wrong?

Hashem ElAssad24 Apr 2022 9:00 UTC
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What Is a Ma­jor Chord?

jefftk24 Apr 2022 7:20 UTC
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Slack gives you space to no­tice/​re­flect on sub­tle things

Raemon24 Apr 2022 2:30 UTC
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Cal­ling for Stu­dent Sub­mis­sions: AI Safety Distil­la­tion Contest

Aris24 Apr 2022 1:53 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo

lsusr24 Apr 2022 0:53 UTC
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[Question] Deletion

011eNigma23523 Apr 2022 23:01 UTC
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Cape Town ACX meetup

Jordan Pieters23 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC
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Re: So You Want to Be a Dharma Teacher

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:31 UTC
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Ineffec­tive Altruism

lsusr23 Apr 2022 22:07 UTC
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[Question] Has any­one writ­ten a re­duc­tion­ist the­ory of cre­ativity?

Grant Demaree23 Apr 2022 22:05 UTC
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Progress Re­port 5: ty­ing it together

Nathan Helm-Burger23 Apr 2022 21:07 UTC
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The New Right ap­pears to be on the rise for bet­ter or worse

Chris_Leong23 Apr 2022 19:36 UTC
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[ASoT] Con­se­quen­tial­ist mod­els as a su­per­set of mesaoptimizers

leogao23 Apr 2022 17:57 UTC
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Re­port like­li­hood ratios

Ege Erdil23 Apr 2022 17:10 UTC
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ACX Schel­ling Meetup

VesterDe23 Apr 2022 16:16 UTC
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Skil­ling-up in ML Eng­ineer­ing for Align­ment: re­quest for comments

23 Apr 2022 15:11 UTC
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Long Re­view: Eco­nomic Hierarchies

JohnBuridan23 Apr 2022 12:43 UTC
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PD-al­ikes in two dimensions

philh23 Apr 2022 9:52 UTC
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The Con­sis­tency Mystery

Flaglandbase23 Apr 2022 8:05 UTC
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[Question] Want­ing to change what you want

Mithrandir23 Apr 2022 4:23 UTC
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Repli­cat­ing and ex­tend­ing the grabby aliens model

Tristan Cook23 Apr 2022 0:38 UTC
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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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