Cli­mate tech­nol­ogy primer (1/​3): basics

amarbles25 Oct 2019 23:18 UTC
38 points
5 comments59 min readLW link

Two ex­pla­na­tions for vari­a­tion in hu­man abilities

Matthew Barnett25 Oct 2019 22:06 UTC
87 points
28 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Effect het­ero­gene­ity and ex­ter­nal val­idity in medicine

Anders_H25 Oct 2019 20:53 UTC
49 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

Door Ideas

jefftk25 Oct 2019 12:40 UTC
8 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Min­neapo­lis/​Twin Cities SSC meetup: 10/​26/​19

Drake Thomas25 Oct 2019 3:56 UTC
1 point
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Iron: From myth­i­cal to mundane

jasoncrawford24 Oct 2019 22:43 UTC
19 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Na­ture’s Hid­den Pro­cesses and Struc­tures (Novum Or­ganum Book 2: 1-9)

Francis Bacon24 Oct 2019 20:27 UTC
10 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Jester’s Court—Mini Group Exercises

hamnox24 Oct 2019 19:49 UTC
5 points
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Jester’s Court—Mini Group Exercises

hamnox24 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] De­ci­sions with Non-Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als: re­quest for input

reavowed24 Oct 2019 17:23 UTC
3 points
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Multi-bel­led Brass

jefftk24 Oct 2019 14:20 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Who cap­tures eco­nomic gains from life ex­ten­sion treat­ments?

Orborde24 Oct 2019 5:17 UTC
1 point
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[Question] What eco­nomic gains are there in life ex­ten­sion treat­ments?

Orborde24 Oct 2019 5:12 UTC
15 points
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CPH meetup 11/​04/​19

Sønderjye23 Oct 2019 21:28 UTC
4 points
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[Question] What video games are more fa­mous in our com­mu­nity than in the gen­eral pub­lic?

Rudi C23 Oct 2019 19:07 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial gen­eral in­tel­li­gence is here, and it’s useless

George3d623 Oct 2019 19:01 UTC
−8 points
22 comments10 min readLW link
(blog.cerebralab.com)

[AN #70]: Agents that help hu­mans who are still learn­ing about their own preferences

Rohin Shah23 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC
16 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why “Referer”?

jefftk23 Oct 2019 13:40 UTC
27 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cur­rent Law Pro­posed to al­low com­pe­ti­tion in So­cial Media

jmh23 Oct 2019 13:13 UTC
2 points
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defilippis22 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
1 point
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What Comes After Epistemic Spot Checks?

Elizabeth22 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC
121 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

De­liber­a­tion as a method to find the “ac­tual prefer­ences” of humans

riceissa22 Oct 2019 9:23 UTC
23 points
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Hu­man-AI Collaboration

Rohin Shah22 Oct 2019 6:32 UTC
42 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

[Question] 2 small prob­lems with the site...

Long try22 Oct 2019 4:31 UTC
2 points
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Test­ing the Effi­cacy of Disagree­ment Re­s­olu­tion Tech­niques (and a Pro­posal for Test­ing Dou­ble Crux)

Ronny Fernandez21 Oct 2019 22:57 UTC
35 points
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Let Peo­ple Move to Jobs

jefftk21 Oct 2019 18:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Turn­ing air into bread

jasoncrawford21 Oct 2019 17:50 UTC
103 points
12 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Link: An ex­er­cise: meta-ra­tio­nal phe­nom­ena | Meaningness

Kenny21 Oct 2019 16:56 UTC
9 points
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Why Are So Many Ra­tion­al­ists Polyamorous?

Wes F21 Oct 2019 16:12 UTC
7 points
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[Question] What does “meta-ex­e­cu­tion with­out in­di­rec­tion” look like?

Liam_Donovan21 Oct 2019 12:59 UTC
8 points
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All I know is Goodhart

Stuart_Armstrong21 Oct 2019 12:12 UTC
28 points
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[Question] Where to ab­solutely start?

Long try21 Oct 2019 2:45 UTC
17 points
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Healthy Competition

Raemon20 Oct 2019 20:55 UTC
56 points
13 comments2 min readLW link1 review

We tend to for­get com­pli­cated things

Rafael Harth20 Oct 2019 20:05 UTC
49 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

The Effect pat­tern: Trans­par­ent up­dates in Elm

philh20 Oct 2019 20:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

En­doge­nous Epinephrine for Ana­phy­laxis?

jefftk20 Oct 2019 12:10 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The prob­lem/​solu­tion ma­trix: Calcu­lat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity of AI safety “on the back of an en­velope”

John_Maxwell20 Oct 2019 8:03 UTC
22 points
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Mediums Over­power Messages

lsusr20 Oct 2019 5:46 UTC
54 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

In­visi­ble Choices, Made by Default

lsusr20 Oct 2019 2:09 UTC
56 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Anti-coun­terfeit­ing Ink—an al­ter­na­tive way of com­bat­ing oil theft?

maximkazhenkov19 Oct 2019 23:04 UTC
1 point
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Defin­ing Myopia

abramdemski19 Oct 2019 21:32 UTC
32 points
18 comments8 min readLW link

Al­gorithms of De­cep­tion!

Zack_M_Davis19 Oct 2019 18:04 UTC
23 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Billion-scale semi-su­per­vised learn­ing for state-of-the-art image and video classification

NaiveTortoise19 Oct 2019 15:10 UTC
5 points
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(ai.facebook.com)

Why Ranked Choice Vot­ing Isn’t Great

jefftk19 Oct 2019 11:10 UTC
21 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does the body have an al­most in­finite num­ber of po­ten­tial po­si­tions?

leggi19 Oct 2019 5:39 UTC
2 points
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[AN #69] Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on why we need to re­place the stan­dard model of AI

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC
60 points
12 comments15 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Why does the mind wan­der?

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Oct 2019 21:34 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

Polyamory is Ra­tional(ist)

Jacob Falkovich18 Oct 2019 16:48 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

[Question] What’s your big idea?

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Oct 2019 15:47 UTC
30 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­ni­cal AGI safety re­search out­side AI

Richard_Ngo18 Oct 2019 15:00 UTC
43 points
3 comments3 min readLW link