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Credit Cards for Giving
jefftk
Jan 4, 2020, 11:00 PM
13
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Less Wrong Poetry Corner: Walter Raleigh’s “The Lie”
Zack_M_Davis
Jan 4, 2020, 10:22 PM
22
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dec 2019 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
Jan 4, 2020, 8:48 PM
17
points
2
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Underappreciated points about utility functions (of both sorts)
Sniffnoy
Jan 4, 2020, 7:27 AM
47
points
61
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Running and Optimizing
jefftk
Jan 4, 2020, 2:40 AM
10
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Meta-discussion from “Circling as Cousin to Rationality”
Raemon
Jan 3, 2020, 9:38 PM
11
points
165
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Illness anxiety disorder: how to become more rational?
completely_irrational
Jan 3, 2020, 9:05 PM
10
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is cardio enough for longevity benefits of exercise?
Rudi C
Jan 3, 2020, 7:57 PM
4
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the best self-help book summaries you’ve read?
willbradshaw
Jan 3, 2020, 5:45 PM
5
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
CFAR Participant Handbook now available to all
Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)
Jan 3, 2020, 3:43 PM
254
points
40
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
What cognitive biases feel like from the inside
chaosmage
Jan 3, 2020, 2:24 PM
256
points
32
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Excitement vs childishness
Rafael Harth
Jan 3, 2020, 1:47 PM
17
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSCNYC: More Dakka with Zvi Mowshowitz
Shrikantr
Jan 3, 2020, 7:17 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predictive coding & depression
Steven Byrnes
Jan 3, 2020, 2:38 AM
27
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Becoming Unusually Truth-Oriented
abramdemski
Jan 3, 2020, 1:27 AM
94
points
20
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Dominic Cummings: “we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos”
ESRogs
Jan 3, 2020, 12:33 AM
80
points
57
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(dominiccummings.com)
Normalization of Deviance
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Jan 2, 2020, 10:58 PM
65
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Has anyone used TAPs to combat BFRBs?
Fauna M.
Jan 2, 2020, 9:28 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #80]: Why AI risk might be solved without additional intervention from longtermists
Rohin Shah
Jan 2, 2020, 6:20 PM
36
points
95
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
A reductio ad absurdum for naive Functional/Computational Theory-of-Mind (FCToM).
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Jan 2, 2020, 5:16 PM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does GPT-2 Understand Anything?
Douglas Summers-Stay
Jan 2, 2020, 5:09 PM
37
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
PlanAlyzer: assessing threats to the validity of online experiments
Three-Monkey Mind
Jan 2, 2020, 7:42 AM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.acolyer.org)
Making decisions when both morally and empirically uncertain
MichaelA
Jan 2, 2020, 7:20 AM
13
points
14
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Theories That Can Explain Everything
Chris_Leong
Jan 2, 2020, 2:12 AM
15
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Characterising utopia
Richard_Ngo
Jan 2, 2020, 12:00 AM
40
points
5
comments
22
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
[Question]
Since figuring out human values is hard, what about, say, monkey values?
Shmi
Jan 1, 2020, 9:56 PM
37
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC NYC Meetup: Staying Classy & Yoda Timers
Shrikantr
Jan 1, 2020, 8:44 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What will quantum computers be used for?
maximkazhenkov
Jan 1, 2020, 7:33 PM
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Toy Organ
jefftk
Jan 1, 2020, 7:30 PM
5
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Don’t Double-Crux With Suicide Rock
Zack_M_Davis
Jan 1, 2020, 7:02 PM
91
points
30
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[AN #79]: Recursive reward modeling as an alignment technique integrated with deep RL
Rohin Shah
Jan 1, 2020, 6:00 PM
13
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Circling as Cousin to Rationality
Vaniver
Jan 1, 2020, 1:16 AM
73
points
98
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
ESC Process Notes: Detail-Focused Books
Elizabeth
Dec 31, 2019, 10:00 PM
27
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture (V2)
Ruby
Dec 31, 2019, 8:23 PM
143
points
92
comments
9
min read
LW
link
5
reviews
100 Ways To Live Better
Jacob Falkovich
Dec 31, 2019, 8:23 PM
71
points
8
comments
13
min read
LW
link
BIDA Musician Booking
jefftk
Dec 31, 2019, 8:10 PM
10
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What is a Rationality Meetup?
SebastianG
Dec 31, 2019, 4:15 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Lisbon SSC Meetup #4
tamkin&popkin
Dec 31, 2019, 2:33 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AI Alignment, Constraints, Control, Incentives or Partnership?
jmh
Dec 31, 2019, 1:42 PM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Does Big Business Hate Your Family?
Zvi
Dec 31, 2019, 12:50 PM
60
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Voting Phase UI: Aggregating common comments?
Raemon
Dec 31, 2019, 3:48 AM
9
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Folding Couch Monitor
jefftk
Dec 31, 2019, 3:40 AM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Slate Star Codex Meetup
Robi Rahman
Dec 31, 2019, 2:51 AM
2
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slate Star Codex New Year’s Eve Party
Robi Rahman
Dec 31, 2019, 2:14 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
human psycholinguists: a critical appraisal
nostalgebraist
Dec 31, 2019, 12:20 AM
182
points
59
comments
16
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
2020′s Prediction Thread
Ben Goldhaber
Dec 30, 2019, 11:18 PM
48
points
77
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2010s Predictions Review
Tofly
Dec 30, 2019, 9:47 PM
47
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Looking for non-AI people to work on AGI risks
otto.barten
Dec 30, 2019, 8:41 PM
10
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A humane solution was never intended.
Kolya
Dec 30, 2019, 8:41 PM
−17
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Austin LW: Survey for far-traveling attendees Jan-Feb 2020
jchan
Dec 30, 2019, 3:40 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
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