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Self-Blinded Caf­feine RCT

niplavJun 27, 2023, 12:38 PM
45 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

[Part 1] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – Models of im­pact and challenges

Bird Concept, ozziegooen, Elizabeth, NunoSempere and Ben Goldhaber
Dec 19, 2019, 3:50 PM
55 points
29 comments17 min readLW link

Scien­tific Wrestling: Beyond Pas­sive Hy­poth­e­sis-Testing

adamShimiMar 7, 2022, 12:01 PM
44 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Ran­dom­ized Zet­telkas­ten Test

JosephineJul 21, 2021, 5:21 PM
32 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Self-Blinded L-Thea­nine RCT

niplavOct 31, 2023, 3:24 PM
53 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Michael Dick­ens’ Caf­feine Tol­er­ance Research

niplavSep 4, 2024, 3:41 PM
46 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(mdickens.me)

Should I buy roofies from the dark­net?

MalmesburyApr 22, 2022, 3:40 PM
14 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­trap­o­lat­ing from Five Words

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 15, 2023, 11:21 PM
40 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[April Fools’] Defini­tive con­fir­ma­tion of shard theory

TurnTroutApr 1, 2023, 7:27 AM
170 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

No­tifi­ca­tions Re­ceived in 30 Minutes of Class

tanagrabeastMay 26, 2024, 5:02 PM
356 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Long Covid In­for­mal Study Results

ElizabethOct 16, 2021, 7:10 AM
43 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

In­fer­ence-Only De­bate Ex­per­i­ments Us­ing Math Problems

Arjun Panickssery, Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir and JacksonKaunismaa
Aug 6, 2024, 5:44 PM
31 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Positly covid sur­vey 2: con­trol­led pro­duc­tivity data

KatjaGraceFeb 4, 2022, 7:30 AM
15 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Self-Ex­per­i­ment: Does Work­ing More Hours In­crease My Out­put?

lynettebyeApr 3, 2020, 9:36 PM
53 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Please Bet On My Quan­tified Self De­ci­sion Markets

niplavDec 1, 2023, 8:07 PM
36 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Po­modoro Method Ran­dom­ized Self Experiment

niplavSep 29, 2024, 9:55 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Loose thoughts on AGI risk

YitzJun 23, 2022, 1:02 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

My hour of mem­o­ryless lucidity

Eric NeymanMay 4, 2024, 1:40 AM
371 points
35 comments5 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

In­creas­ing IQ by 10 Points is Possible

George3d6Mar 19, 2024, 8:48 PM
23 points
51 comments5 min readLW link
(morelucid.substack.com)

Ra­tion­al­ity Mar­ket Research

RaemonJul 14, 2011, 7:41 PM
79 points
86 comments7 min readLW link

Hyper­palat­able Food Hy­poth­e­sis: A LessWrong Study?

BDayJan 23, 2022, 5:43 AM
23 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity and playfulness

DirectedEvolutionSep 12, 2020, 5:14 AM
42 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

Fried­man’s “Pre­dic­tion vs. Ex­pla­na­tion”

Eliezer YudkowskySep 29, 2008, 6:15 AM
9 points
79 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment: a good re­searcher is hard to find

gwernApr 30, 2012, 5:13 PM
53 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Par­ti­ci­pat­ing in a Covid-19 Vac­cine Trial

ejacobFeb 11, 2021, 8:35 PM
37 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

[Paper] Hid­den in Plain Text: Emer­gence and Miti­ga­tion of Stegano­graphic Col­lu­sion in LLMs

Yohan Mathew, joanv, robert mccarthy, ollie, Nandi and Dylan Cope
Sep 25, 2024, 2:52 PM
37 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Claude wants to be conscious

Joe KwonApr 13, 2024, 1:40 AM
2 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

A Block-Based Reg­u­lariza­tion Pro­posal for Neu­ral Networks

Otto.DevApr 19, 2025, 6:56 PM
−8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bet­ter think­ing through ex­pe­ri­en­tial games

MorendilOct 23, 2009, 12:59 PM
39 points
36 comments3 min readLW link

Does GPT-4 ex­hibit agency when sum­ma­riz­ing ar­ti­cles?

Christopher KingMar 24, 2023, 3:49 PM
16 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Solv­ing Math Prob­lems by Relay

Ben Goldhaber and Owain_Evans
Jul 17, 2020, 3:32 PM
103 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

Par­ti­ci­pat­ing in a Covid-19 Vac­cine Trial #3: I Hope I feel Worse Tomorrow

ejacobMar 5, 2021, 12:02 AM
8 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[link]Mass repli­ca­tion of Psy­chol­ogy ar­ti­cles planed.

beoShafferApr 18, 2012, 4:13 PM
41 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Split Per­son­al­ity Train­ing: Re­veal­ing La­tent Knowl­edge Through Per­son­al­ity-Shift Tokens

Florian_DietzMar 10, 2025, 4:07 PM
35 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Do You Have an In­ter­nal Monologue?

belkarxDec 9, 2022, 3:04 AM
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Me­moriz­ing a Deck of Cards

ToflySep 16, 2020, 1:31 AM
27 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

Jan_Kulveit and technicalities
Mar 24, 2022, 8:23 AM
52 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Go flash blink­ing lights at printed text right now

lemonhopeNov 5, 2023, 7:29 AM
15 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

More ex­per­i­ments in GPT-4 agency: writ­ing memos

Christopher KingMar 24, 2023, 5:51 PM
5 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing OpenAI’s La­tent Direc­tions: Tests, Ob­ser­va­tions, and Pok­ing Around

Johnny LinJan 31, 2024, 6:01 AM
26 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

Air Con­di­tioner Test Re­sults & Discussion

johnswentworthJun 22, 2022, 10:26 PM
82 points
42 comments6 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent Anatomy’s—Hal­lu­ci­na­tion Ro­bust­ness in Med­i­cal Q&A

DieSabFeb 12, 2025, 7:16 PM
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Notes on an Ex­per­i­ment with Markets

Jeffrey HeningerNov 23, 2022, 4:10 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

Ex­per­i­ment Idea Thread - Spring 2011

PsychohistorianMay 6, 2011, 6:10 PM
35 points
54 comments1 min readLW link

Who Feels More Alone?

marvinscheffoldSep 22, 2024, 11:54 AM
−8 points
2 comments39 min readLW link

Why I’m Pour­ing Cold Water in My Left Ear, and You Should Too

MaloewJan 24, 2025, 11:13 PM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Early Ex­per­i­ments in Hu­man Au­dit­ing for AI Control

Joey Yudelson and Buck
Jan 23, 2025, 1:34 AM
27 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ments and Consent

jefftkNov 10, 2019, 2:50 PM
30 points
45 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sim­ple ex­per­i­ments with de­cep­tive alignment

Andreas_MoeMay 15, 2023, 5:41 PM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Some nega­tive steganog­ra­phy results

Fabien RogerDec 9, 2023, 8:22 PM
60 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Ten ex­per­i­ments in mod­u­lar­ity, which we’d like you to run!

CallumMcDougall, Lucius Bushnaq and Avery
Jun 16, 2022, 9:17 AM
62 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tially rele­vant thought ex­per­i­ment: To kill or not to kill, a sniper, a man and a but­ton.

AlexFromSafeTransitionAug 14, 2023, 10:53 AM
−18 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

The need for multi-agent experiments

Martín SotoAug 1, 2024, 5:14 PM
43 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Smoke with­out fire is scary

Adam JermynOct 4, 2022, 9:08 PM
52 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Has Some­one Checked The Cold-Water-In-Left-Ear Thing?

MaloewDec 28, 2024, 8:15 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pr­ereg­is­tra­tion: Air Con­di­tioner Test

johnswentworthApr 21, 2022, 7:48 PM
112 points
59 comments9 min readLW link

Self-ex­per­i­ment Pro­to­col: Effect of Cho­co­late on Sleep

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 22, 2019, 3:32 AM
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
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