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Is NYC Building Much Housing?
jefftk
Jan 18, 2020, 8:50 PM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The Road to Mazedom
Zvi
Jan 18, 2020, 2:10 PM
97
points
26
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What types of compute/processing could we distinguish?
MoritzG
Jan 18, 2020, 10:04 AM
2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Political Roko’s basilisk
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Jan 18, 2020, 9:34 AM
10
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Risk and uncertainty: A false dichotomy?
MichaelA
Jan 18, 2020, 3:09 AM
6
points
9
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Remote AI alignment writing group seeking new members
rmoehn
Jan 18, 2020, 2:10 AM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“How quickly can you get this done?” (estimating workload)
kerspoon
Jan 18, 2020, 12:10 AM
15
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Studying Early Stage Science: Research Program Introduction
habryka
Jan 17, 2020, 10:12 PM
32
points
1
comment
15
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
Fiddle Effects Tech
jefftk
Jan 17, 2020, 5:00 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How does a Living Being solve the problem of Subsystem Alignment?
Alan Givré
Jan 17, 2020, 9:32 AM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Can we always assign, and make sense of, subjective probabilities?
MichaelA
Jan 17, 2020, 3:05 AM
11
points
15
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Against Rationalization II: Sequence Recap
dspeyer
Jan 16, 2020, 10:51 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Using Expert Disagreement
dspeyer
Jan 16, 2020, 10:42 PM
13
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Bay Solstice 2019 Retrospective
mingyuan
Jan 16, 2020, 5:15 PM
75
points
36
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Reality-Revealing and Reality-Masking Puzzles
AnnaSalamon
Jan 16, 2020, 4:15 PM
264
points
57
comments
13
min read
LW
link
1
review
How to Escape From Immoral Mazes
Zvi
Jan 16, 2020, 1:10 PM
79
points
21
comments
19
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Testing for Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 16, 2020, 8:12 AM
19
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How useful do you think participating to the Human Microbiome Project would be?
Mati_Roy
Jan 15, 2020, 11:51 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs
Gentzel
Jan 15, 2020, 11:10 PM
30
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
In Defense of the Arms Races… that End Arms Races
Gentzel
Jan 15, 2020, 9:30 PM
38
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)
Fire Alarm for AGI
user134723
Jan 15, 2020, 8:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.acolyer.org)
Go F*** Someone
Jacob Falkovich
Jan 15, 2020, 6:39 PM
19
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five distributed their training computation
Rohin Shah
Jan 15, 2020, 6:20 PM
19
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
ACDT: a hack-y acausal decision theory
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 15, 2020, 5:22 PM
50
points
16
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Nashville January 2020 SSC Meetup
friedelcraftiness
Jan 15, 2020, 5:02 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In defense of deviousness
Juan Andrés Hurtado Baeza
Jan 15, 2020, 11:56 AM
12
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
[Question]
What plausible beliefs do you think could likely get someone diagnosed with a mental illness by a psychiatrist?
Mati_Roy
Jan 15, 2020, 11:13 AM
4
points
6
comments
LW
link
Avoiding Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 15, 2020, 10:55 AM
15
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
SSC Dublin Meetup
Dan Valentine
Jan 15, 2020, 8:26 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are beliefs you wouldn’t want (or would feel apprehensive about being) public if you had (or have) them?
Mati_Roy
Jan 15, 2020, 5:30 AM
6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reno SSC: Visitors from Out of Town
RenoSSC
Jan 15, 2020, 4:35 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences (Why Big Data is not enough to capture biological systems?)
HansNauj
Jan 15, 2020, 1:59 AM
6
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
SSC HIKE—BLACK MOUNTAIN
crewman 51
Jan 15, 2020, 12:18 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Clarifying The Malignity of the Universal Prior: The Lexical Update
interstice
Jan 15, 2020, 12:00 AM
20
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Tips on how to promote effective altruism effectively? Less talk, more action.
culturechange
Jan 14, 2020, 11:17 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A rant against robots
Lê Nguyên Hoang
Jan 14, 2020, 10:03 PM
65
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Is backwards causation necessarily absurd?
Chris_Leong
Jan 14, 2020, 7:25 PM
22
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predictors exist: CDT going bonkers… forever
Stuart_Armstrong
Jan 14, 2020, 4:19 PM
46
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Austin LW/SSC Far-comers Meetup: Feb. 8, 1:30pm
jchan
Jan 14, 2020, 2:46 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Red Flags for Rationalization
dspeyer
Jan 14, 2020, 7:34 AM
25
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Advanced Anki (Memorization Software)
Arthur Milchior
Jan 14, 2020, 2:25 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anki (Memorization Software) for Beginners
Arthur Milchior
Jan 14, 2020, 1:55 AM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Repossessing Degrees
jefftk
Jan 13, 2020, 9:40 PM
10
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What is the relationship between Preference Learning and Value Learning?
Riccardo Volpato
Jan 13, 2020, 9:08 PM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moral uncertainty: What kind of ‘should’ is involved?
MichaelA
Jan 13, 2020, 12:13 PM
14
points
11
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Why a New Rationalization Sequence?
dspeyer
Jan 13, 2020, 6:46 AM
30
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Drawing Toward Power
hiblick
Jan 13, 2020, 4:24 AM
14
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you do hyperparameter searches in ML?
lsusr
Jan 13, 2020, 3:45 AM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How has the cost of clothing insulation changed since 1970 in the USA?
DanielFilan
Jan 12, 2020, 11:31 PM
14
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
UML VI: Stochastic Gradient Descent
Rafael Harth
Jan 12, 2020, 9:59 PM
13
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
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