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Examples of Causal Abstraction

johnswentworth12 Dec 2019 22:54 UTC

24 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Two-headed Go

jefftk12 Dec 2019 3:30 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Cybersecurity Dilemma in a Nutshell

Gentzel12 Dec 2019 3:20 UTC

35 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Causal Abstraction Toy Model: Medical Sensor

johnswentworth11 Dec 2019 21:12 UTC

34 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

[Link] (EA Podcast) Social Status: The Key to the Matrix Part III

Daniel_Gambacorta11 Dec 2019 20:59 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms

Carlos_Cinelli11 Dec 2019 20:39 UTC

50 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

ToL: Methods and Success

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:17 UTC

8 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

ToL: This ONE WEIRD Trick to make you a GENIUS at Topology!

Hazard10 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

10 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s an important (new) idea you haven’t had time to argue for yet?

Mati_Roy10 Dec 2019 20:36 UTC

8 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

ToL: The Topological Connection

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:29 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

ToL: Introduction

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:19 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

ToL: Foundations

Hazard10 Dec 2019 20:15 UTC

10 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Applications of Economic Models to Physiology?

johnswentworth10 Dec 2019 18:09 UTC

38 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Many Turing Machines

Logan Zoellner10 Dec 2019 17:36 UTC

−5 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Predictive coding = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC

Steven Byrnes10 Dec 2019 11:45 UTC

56 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] About BOINC

Teerth Aloke10 Dec 2019 9:22 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Review] Meta-Honesty (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben Pace10 Dec 2019 0:37 UTC

29 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

[Review] On the Chatham House Rule (Ben Pace, Dec 2019)

Ben Pace10 Dec 2019 0:24 UTC

40 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?

jasoncrawford10 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC

12 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Bayesian examination

Lê Nguyên Hoang9 Dec 2019 19:50 UTC

86 points

56 comments5 min readLW link

Is Rationalist Self-Improvement Real?

Jacob Falkovich9 Dec 2019 17:11 UTC

259 points

78 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

[Question] Who are some people you met that were the most extreme on some axis?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:49 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some things you would do (more) if you were less averse to being/looking weird?

Mati_Roy9 Dec 2019 16:10 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Long Bets by Confidence Level

jefftk9 Dec 2019 14:20 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Dublin SSC Meetup—Death and Self

Dan Valentine9 Dec 2019 7:50 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best arguments and/or plans for doing work in “AI policy”?

Eli Tyre9 Dec 2019 7:04 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Review Phase

Ben Pace9 Dec 2019 0:54 UTC

53 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Books on the zeitgeist of science during Lord Kelvin’s time.

Hazard9 Dec 2019 0:17 UTC

30 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What determines the balance between intelligence signaling and virtue signaling?

Wei Dai9 Dec 2019 0:11 UTC

70 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

Counterfactuals: Smoking Lesion vs. Newcomb’s

Chris_Leong8 Dec 2019 21:02 UTC

9 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

Progress and preservation in IDA

cole_haus8 Dec 2019 19:39 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.col-ex.org)

Confabulation

lsusr8 Dec 2019 10:18 UTC

62 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Chakras & Qi—Old Stories for the Base-Line Experience. Improve your physical & mental health by connecting body and mind.

leggi8 Dec 2019 4:22 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What do the Charter Cities Institute likely mean when they refer to long term problems with the use of eminent domain?

mako yass8 Dec 2019 0:53 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Lesson To Unlearn

Ben Pace8 Dec 2019 0:50 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

Ungendered Spanish

jefftk7 Dec 2019 16:20 UTC

20 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The ‘5 Main Muscles of Movement’ Made Easy.

leggi7 Dec 2019 9:17 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is a reasonably complete set of the different meanings of “hard work”?

Pee Doom7 Dec 2019 4:54 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

The New Age of Social Engineering

VivaLaPanda7 Dec 2019 0:23 UTC

22 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What subfields of mathematics are most useful for what subfields of AI?

Rudi C6 Dec 2019 20:45 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What is Abstraction?

johnswentworth6 Dec 2019 20:30 UTC

35 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Rationalist solstice Lund

Laural6 Dec 2019 11:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Comment on Coherence arguments do not imply goal directed behavior

Ronny Fernandez6 Dec 2019 9:30 UTC

30 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a website for tracking fads?

romeostevensit6 Dec 2019 4:48 UTC

8 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

The Actionable Version of “Keep Your Identity Small”

Hazard6 Dec 2019 1:34 UTC

81 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Understanding “Deep Double Descent”

evhub6 Dec 2019 0:00 UTC

150 points

51 comments5 min readLW link 4 reviews

Tapping Out In Two

philh5 Dec 2019 23:10 UTC

16 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Values, Valence, and Alignment

Gordon Seidoh Worley5 Dec 2019 21:06 UTC

12 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—December 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sydney Rationality Dojo—November 2020

Next5 Dec 2019 20:50 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link