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Stupidity and Dishonesty Explain Each Other Away
Zack_M_Davis
Dec 28, 2019, 7:21 PM
38
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Measuring Epistemic Rationality
edoarad
Dec 28, 2019, 6:46 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists
bice
Dec 28, 2019, 6:02 PM
9
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How was your decade?
namespace
Dec 28, 2019, 5:14 PM
26
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Moloch Hasn’t Won
Zvi
Dec 28, 2019, 4:30 PM
187
points
40
comments
7
min read
LW
link
1
review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Has there been a “memetic collapse”?
Eli Tyre
Dec 28, 2019, 5:36 AM
32
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Out in the Great Northwest
jefftk
Dec 28, 2019, 3:40 AM
6
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Cambridge LW/SC Meetup
NoSignalNoNoise
Dec 28, 2019, 3:07 AM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Meditation Retreat: Immoral Mazes Sequence Introduction
Zvi
Dec 28, 2019, 12:50 AM
89
points
16
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Critiquing “What failure looks like”
Grue_Slinky
Dec 27, 2019, 11:59 PM
35
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
More on polio and randomized clinical trials
jasoncrawford
Dec 27, 2019, 9:07 PM
18
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Vaccine… Help? Deprogramming? Something?
Golden Delicious
Dec 27, 2019, 8:27 PM
4
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Expected utility and repeated choices
Marco Discendenti
Dec 27, 2019, 8:26 PM
9
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
We need to revisit AI rewriting its source code
ryan_b
Dec 27, 2019, 6:27 PM
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Firming Up Not-Lying Around Its Edge-Cases Is Less Broadly Useful Than One Might Initially Think
Zack_M_Davis
Dec 27, 2019, 5:09 AM
128
points
43
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
[Question]
What spiritual experiences have you had?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Dec 27, 2019, 3:41 AM
22
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Naming Rooms
jefftk
Dec 27, 2019, 2:40 AM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Link: Does the following seem like a reasonable brief summary of the key disagreements regarding AI risk?
Davidmanheim
Dec 26, 2019, 8:14 PM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
New paper: (When) is Truth-telling Favored in AI debate?
VojtaKovarik
Dec 26, 2019, 7:59 PM
32
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
[Question]
Finding a quote: “proof by contradiction is the closest math comes to irony”
Hazard
Dec 26, 2019, 5:40 PM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Talking Through A Fear of Death
jesseduffield
Dec 26, 2019, 5:23 AM
6
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Gortha Ick
jefftk
Dec 26, 2019, 3:20 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[AN #78] Formalizing power and instrumental convergence, and the end-of-year AI safety charity comparison
Rohin Shah
Dec 26, 2019, 1:10 AM
26
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Get a Life
Stanislav Kozlovski
Dec 26, 2019, 12:51 AM
0
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Values Assimilation Premortem
wolverdude
Dec 26, 2019, 12:30 AM
16
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Understanding Machine Learning (III)
Rafael Harth
Dec 25, 2019, 6:55 PM
16
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
12020: a fine future for these holidays
Stuart_Armstrong
Dec 25, 2019, 3:01 PM
41
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Absolutely Winning Bridge Hands
jefftk
Dec 25, 2019, 2:50 AM
9
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Another AI Winter?
PeterMcCluskey
Dec 25, 2019, 12:58 AM
47
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
Some Comments on “Goodhart Taxonomy”
Grue_Slinky
Dec 24, 2019, 11:59 PM
9
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
ESC Process Notes: Claim Evaluation vs. Syntheses
Elizabeth
Dec 24, 2019, 5:00 PM
19
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
[Question]
Should I floss?
willbradshaw
Dec 24, 2019, 4:06 PM
24
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Funk-tunul’s Legacy; Or, The Legend of the Extortion War
Zack_M_Davis
Dec 24, 2019, 9:29 AM
13
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What are you reading?
eigen
Dec 24, 2019, 12:11 AM
7
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Might humans not be the most intelligent animals?
Matthew Barnett
Dec 23, 2019, 9:50 PM
56
points
41
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Offset Norms
jefftk
Dec 23, 2019, 9:30 PM
15
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Humans Are Embedded Agents Too
johnswentworth
Dec 23, 2019, 7:21 PM
82
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Autoexperiments
Ideopunk
Dec 23, 2019, 4:53 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yet another Simpson’s Paradox Post
NaiveTortoise
Dec 23, 2019, 2:20 PM
7
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(an1lam.github.io)
Conversation about whether LW Moderators should express individual opinions about mod policy − 2019/12/22
Ruby
Dec 23, 2019, 3:46 AM
17
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Freezer Contents
jefftk
Dec 23, 2019, 2:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Can fear of the dark bias us more generally?
TurnTrout
Dec 22, 2019, 10:09 PM
21
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Decission Theory and Quantum Self-Measurement
Alan Givré
Dec 22, 2019, 7:16 PM
2
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Understanding Machine Learning (II)
Rafael Harth
22 Dec 2019 18:28 UTC
24
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The Towel Census: A Methodology for Identifying Orphaned Objects in Your Home
mingyuan
22 Dec 2019 6:04 UTC
29
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What could a World Unification Index track to measure how unified the world is, was, and is becoming?
Mati_Roy
22 Dec 2019 4:56 UTC
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If Antarctic became hospitable to humans, and consequently received a mass migration, what are likely ways the Antarctic legal system could evolve?
Mati_Roy
22 Dec 2019 4:31 UTC
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Pixel 3a Review
jefftk
22 Dec 2019 3:00 UTC
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Section 7: Foundations of Rational Agency
JesseClifton
22 Dec 2019 2:05 UTC
14
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Templates and videos for doing annual and daily reviews
peterslattery
22 Dec 2019 0:48 UTC
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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