Liv­ing the Berkeley idealism

Yuxi_Liu4 Sep 2019 22:20 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Sto­ries About Education

Ben Pace4 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC
38 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Kansas City SSC meetup

Bae's Theorem4 Sep 2019 15:27 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Power to Judge Startup Ideas

Liron4 Sep 2019 15:07 UTC
94 points
28 comments8 min readLW link

SSC Paris meetup

fbreton4 Sep 2019 9:33 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Cach­ing on Suc­cess

pcm504 Sep 2019 6:34 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als are an An­swer, Not a Question

Chris_Leong3 Sep 2019 15:36 UTC
14 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

How to write good AI fore­cast­ing ques­tions + Ques­tion Database (Fore­cast­ing in­fras­truc­ture, part 3)

3 Sep 2019 14:50 UTC
29 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

How Speci­fic­ity Works

Liron3 Sep 2019 12:11 UTC
89 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

[Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam] Quan­tum Walk, Or­a­cles and Sunk Meaning

silentbob3 Sep 2019 11:59 UTC
22 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

AIXSU—AI and X-risk Strat­egy Unconference

David_Kristoffersson3 Sep 2019 11:35 UTC
24 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Ages Of Discord

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2019 6:30 UTC
36 points
1 comment21 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Open & Wel­come Thread—Septem­ber 2019

Ruby3 Sep 2019 2:53 UTC
9 points
37 comments1 min readLW link

The Trans­par­ent So­ciety: A rad­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion that we should prob­a­bly undergo

mako yass3 Sep 2019 2:27 UTC
14 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

One Way to Think About ML Transparency

Matthew Barnett2 Sep 2019 23:27 UTC
26 points
28 comments5 min readLW link

Joy in Dis­cov­ery: Galois theory

Eigil Rischel2 Sep 2019 19:16 UTC
30 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Sto­ries About Academia

Ben Pace2 Sep 2019 18:40 UTC
34 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Best util­ity nor­mal­i­sa­tion method to date?

Stuart_Armstrong2 Sep 2019 18:24 UTC
19 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup, San Jose, CA

DavidFriedman2 Sep 2019 18:23 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What hap­pened to Lev­er­age Re­search?

ChristianKl2 Sep 2019 17:45 UTC
19 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Power to De­mol­ish Bad Arguments

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:57 UTC
100 points
84 comments11 min readLW link6 reviews

Speci­fic­ity: Your Brain’s Superpower

Liron2 Sep 2019 12:53 UTC
84 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

How Much is Your Time Worth?

lynettebye2 Sep 2019 6:19 UTC
77 points
22 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Kate Stil­lwell Talk—Berkeley Effec­tive Altru­ism Meetup at REACH

hamnox1 Sep 2019 20:12 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup at REACH (Grat­i­tudes)

hamnox1 Sep 2019 20:07 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

REACH Read­ing Group: Soviet Bioweapons Program

hamnox1 Sep 2019 19:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the biggest “moon­shots” cur­rently in progress?

Liron1 Sep 2019 19:41 UTC
14 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ist Group De­bug­ging at REACH

hamnox1 Sep 2019 19:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity as Min­i­mal Map

johnswentworth1 Sep 2019 19:19 UTC
48 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Tiddly­wiki for or­ga­niz­ing notes and research

eukaryote1 Sep 2019 18:44 UTC
42 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Au­gust 2019 gw­ern.net newslet­ter (pop­ups.js demo)

gwern1 Sep 2019 17:52 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

[Question] Ques­tion about a past donor to MIRI.

Teerth Aloke1 Sep 2019 15:39 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Five Main Mus­cles for a Full Range of Nat­u­ral Move­ment, Dy­namic Align­ment & Balance.

leggi1 Sep 2019 3:22 UTC
15 points
10 comments10 min readLW link

Ar­gu­ing Ab­solute Velocities

Closed Limelike Curves1 Sep 2019 2:11 UTC
13 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice Volunteering

Chelsea Voss1 Sep 2019 2:05 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Propo­si­tion graphs, Part 2

Donald Hobson31 Aug 2019 20:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise31 Aug 2019 17:10 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Thiel/​Eric We­in­stein Tran­script on Growth, Violence, and Stories

Ben Pace31 Aug 2019 2:44 UTC
70 points
20 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] What does so­cial psy­chol­ogy tell us about get­ting con­sis­tent eval­u­a­tions out of groups?

Elizabeth31 Aug 2019 1:11 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How good a proxy for ac­cu­racy is pre­ci­sion?

Elizabeth31 Aug 2019 1:01 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can this model grade a test with­out know­ing the an­swers?

Elizabeth31 Aug 2019 0:53 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Look at the Shape of Your Utility Distribution

zulupineapple30 Aug 2019 23:27 UTC
15 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one know of a good overview of what hu­mans know about de­pres­sion?

Eli Tyre30 Aug 2019 23:22 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Septem­ber Brag­ging Thread

Raemon30 Aug 2019 21:58 UTC
47 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

2-D Robustness

Vlad Mikulik30 Aug 2019 20:27 UTC
85 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

How to Make Billions of Dol­lars Re­duc­ing Loneliness

John_Maxwell30 Aug 2019 17:30 UTC
60 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

A Game of Gi­ants [Wait But Why]

kilotaras30 Aug 2019 5:48 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(waitbutwhy.com)

The Cri­sis of Ev­i­dence Use

Ian David Moss30 Aug 2019 4:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

AI Align­ment Writ­ing Day Roundup #1

Ben Pace30 Aug 2019 1:26 UTC
32 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Min­neapo­lis SSC meetup Septem­ber 2019

Drake Thomas29 Aug 2019 23:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link