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Shmi

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Learn­ing is (Asymp­tot­i­cally) Com­pu­ta­tion­ally Ineffi­cient, Choose Your Ex­po­nents Wisely

ShmiOct 22, 2020, 5:30 AM
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Mask wear­ing: do the op­po­site of what the CDC/​WHO has been say­ing?

ShmiApr 2, 2020, 10:10 PM
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Good News: the Con­tain­ment Mea­sures are Working

ShmiMar 17, 2020, 5:49 AM
25 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

(Dou­ble-)In­verse Embed­ded Agency Problem

ShmiJan 8, 2020, 4:30 AM
27 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Since figur­ing out hu­man val­ues is hard, what about, say, mon­key val­ues?

ShmiJan 1, 2020, 9:56 PM
37 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] A ba­sic prob­a­bil­ity question

ShmiAug 23, 2019, 7:13 AM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

In­spec­tion Para­dox as a Driver of Group Separation

ShmiAug 17, 2019, 9:47 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Reli­gion as Goodhart

ShmiJul 8, 2019, 12:38 AM
21 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Does the Higgs-bo­son ex­ist?

ShmiMay 23, 2019, 1:53 AM
7 points
48 comments1 min readLW link
(backreaction.blogspot.com)

A Numer­i­cal Model of View Clusters: Results

ShmiApr 14, 2019, 4:21 AM
17 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(quantitativephilosophy.wordpress.com)

Quan­ti­ta­tive Philos­o­phy: Why Si­mu­late Ideas Numer­i­cally?

ShmiApr 14, 2019, 3:53 AM
22 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(quantitativephilosophy.wordpress.com)

Boe­ing 737 MAX MCAS as an agent cor­rigi­bil­ity failure

ShmiMar 16, 2019, 1:46 AM
60 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

To un­der­stand, study edge cases

ShmiMar 2, 2019, 9:18 PM
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How to no­tice be­ing mind-hacked

ShmiFeb 2, 2019, 11:13 PM
18 points
22 comments2 min readLW link

Elec­trons don’t think (or suffer)

ShmiJan 2, 2019, 4:27 PM
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(backreaction.blogspot.com)

Sabine “Bee” Hossen­felder (and Robin Han­son) on How to fix Academia with Pre­dic­tion Markets

ShmiDec 16, 2018, 6:37 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(backreaction.blogspot.com)

Aligned AI, The Scientist

ShmiNov 12, 2018, 6:36 AM
12 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als are low-res

Shmi15 Oct 2018 3:36 UTC
23 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(donerkebabphilosophy.wordpress.com)

De­ci­sions are not about chang­ing the world, they are about learn­ing what world you live in

Shmi28 Jul 2018 8:41 UTC
39 points
71 comments11 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity is a model, fre­quency is an ob­ser­va­tion: Why both halfers and thirders are cor­rect in the Sleep­ing Beauty prob­lem.

Shmi12 Jul 2018 6:52 UTC
26 points
34 comments2 min readLW link