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Why Subagents?

johnswentworth1 Aug 2019 22:17 UTC
174 points
48 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Sleep­ing Beauty: Is Disagree­ment While Shar­ing All In­for­ma­tion Pos­si­ble in An­thropic Prob­lems?

dadadarren1 Aug 2019 20:10 UTC
7 points
32 comments10 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing Batch Normalization

Matthew Barnett1 Aug 2019 17:56 UTC
19 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Would re­fin­ing the ques­tion a bit be bet­ter in terms of get­ting to an­swers?

jmh1 Aug 2019 16:25 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

July 2019 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Aug 2019 16:19 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

The In­ter­net: Burn­ing Questions

Hazard1 Aug 2019 14:46 UTC
13 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor: In need of sharp­en­ing?

Jimdrix_Hendri1 Aug 2019 13:36 UTC
2 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Mis­take Ver­sus Con­flict The­ory of Against Billion­aire Philanthropy

Zvi1 Aug 2019 13:10 UTC
36 points
34 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much time do you spend on twit­ter?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:41 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best and worst af­for­dances of twit­ter as a tech­nol­ogy and as a so­cial ecosys­tem?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:38 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you use twit­ter for in­tel­lec­tual en­gage­ment? Do you like it?

Hazard1 Aug 2019 12:35 UTC
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_Kingsley31 Jul 2019 23:33 UTC
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Gather­ing thoughts on Distillation

Raemon31 Jul 2019 19:48 UTC
33 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Con­test: $1,000 for good ques­tions to ask to an Or­a­cle AI

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2019 18:48 UTC
59 points
154 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Another case of “com­mon sense” not be­ing com­mon?

jmh31 Jul 2019 17:15 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 2/​2]

Matthew Barnett31 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC
13 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

How to Ig­nore Your Emo­tions (while also think­ing you’re awe­some at emo­tions)

Hazard31 Jul 2019 13:34 UTC
362 points
77 comments4 min readLW link4 reviews

Drive-By Low-Effort Criticism

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jul 2019 11:51 UTC
32 points
61 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Will au­tonomous cars be more eco­nom­i­cal/​effi­cient as shared ur­ban tran­sit than busses or trains, and by how much? What’s some good re­search on this?

mako yass31 Jul 2019 0:16 UTC
9 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Western Mas­sachusetts SSC meetup

a_lieb30 Jul 2019 18:43 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Fo­rum par­ti­ci­pa­tion as a re­search strategy

Wei Dai30 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC
151 points
45 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Walk­through: The Trans­former Ar­chi­tec­ture [Part 1/​2]

Matthew Barnett30 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC
35 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion on fore­cast­ing with Vaniver and Ozzie Gooen

jacobjacob, Vaniver and ozziegooen
30 Jul 2019 11:16 UTC
41 points
18 comments32 min readLW link

[Question] Does im­proved in­tro­spec­tion cause ra­tio­nal­i­sa­tion to be­come less no­tice­able?

jacobjacob30 Jul 2019 10:03 UTC
37 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

When Hav­ing Friends is More Allur­ing than Be­ing Right (by Fer­rett Stein­metz)

CronoDAS30 Jul 2019 9:58 UTC
19 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.theferrett.com)

On Fram­ing Poli­ti­cal Opinions to Quickly Assess the Crux of Disagreement

Tuk30 Jul 2019 3:07 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

In­for­ma­tion empathy

Sunny from QAD30 Jul 2019 1:32 UTC
13 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does it be­come eas­ier, or harder, for the world to co­or­di­nate around not build­ing AGI as time goes on?

Eli Tyre29 Jul 2019 22:59 UTC
86 points
31 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Toy model piece #1: Par­tial prefer­ences revisited

Stuart_Armstrong29 Jul 2019 16:35 UTC
12 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Map­ping of en­nea­gram to MTG per­son­al­ity types

Alexei29 Jul 2019 15:20 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What woo to read?

calebo29 Jul 2019 15:19 UTC
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there neu­ro­science re­search on cog­ni­tive bi­ases?

Yoav Ravid29 Jul 2019 7:45 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Com­pilers/​PLs book recom­men­da­tion?

johnswentworth28 Jul 2019 15:49 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ments for the ex­is­tence of qualia

Chris_Leong28 Jul 2019 10:52 UTC
3 points
63 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing Overop­ti­miza­tion to Selec­tion vs. Con­trol (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 3)

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2019 9:32 UTC
18 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

What does Op­ti­miza­tion Mean, Again? (Op­ti­miz­ing and Good­hart Effects—Clar­ify­ing Thoughts, Part 2)

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2019 9:30 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Keep Your Beliefs Cruxy

Raemon28 Jul 2019 1:18 UTC
53 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

The wis­dom of the Crowd

Jason Geringer27 Jul 2019 23:14 UTC
−2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is this info on zinc lozenges ac­cu­rate?

philh27 Jul 2019 22:05 UTC
37 points
24 comments5 min readLW link

Short­form Beta Launch

Raemon27 Jul 2019 20:09 UTC
67 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

The Ar­tifi­cial In­ten­tional Stance

Charlie Steiner27 Jul 2019 7:00 UTC
12 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Re­sults of LW Tech­ni­cal Back­ground Survey

johnswentworth26 Jul 2019 17:33 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How many re­searchers does a new pa­per reach?

Slider26 Jul 2019 4:14 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Old Man Jevons Can’t Save You Now (Part 2/​2)

Closed Limelike Curves26 Jul 2019 3:51 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(thelimelike.wordpress.com)

[Question] Can you sum­ma­rize high­lights from Ver­non’s Creativity?

Raemon26 Jul 2019 1:12 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How of­ten are new ideas dis­cov­ered in old pa­pers?

TurnTrout26 Jul 2019 1:00 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ought: why it mat­ters and ways to help

paulfchristiano25 Jul 2019 18:00 UTC
89 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

On the pur­poses of de­ci­sion the­ory research

Wei Dai25 Jul 2019 7:18 UTC
64 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Me­taphor­i­cal ex­ten­sions and con­cep­tual figure-ground inversions

jessicata24 Jul 2019 6:21 UTC
38 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

AI Safety De­bate and Its Applications

VojtaKovarik23 Jul 2019 22:31 UTC
38 points
5 comments11 min readLW link