Bab­ble and Prune : 5 new ideas

Teja Prabhu23 Oct 2020 23:42 UTC
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[Question] What is our true life ex­pec­tancy?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 23:17 UTC
15 points
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Just For Fun

proshowersinger23 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
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No Cau­sa­tion with­out Reification

Gordon Seidoh Worley23 Oct 2020 20:28 UTC
21 points
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[Question] Des­per­ately look­ing for the right per­son to dis­cuss an al­ign­ment re­lated idea with. (and some gen­eral thoughts for oth­ers with similar prob­lems)

Rasmus Eide23 Oct 2020 19:42 UTC
5 points
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Lo­cal So­lar Time

jefftk23 Oct 2020 19:40 UTC
16 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Ad­just­ing prob­a­bil­ities for the pas­sage of time, us­ing Squiggle

NunoSempere23 Oct 2020 18:55 UTC
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Hu­mans are stun­ningly ra­tio­nal and stun­ningly irrational

Stuart_Armstrong23 Oct 2020 14:13 UTC
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Pow­er­less Mo­ral Evaluation

SocratesDissatisfied23 Oct 2020 10:44 UTC
5 points
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The bads of ads

KatjaGrace23 Oct 2020 5:50 UTC
108 points
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(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Should we use qual­ifiers in speech?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
35 points
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[Question] What is the cur­rent bot­tle­neck on ge­netic en­g­ineer­ing of hu­man em­bryos for im­proved IQ

Eli Tyre23 Oct 2020 2:36 UTC
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Find­ing Lev­er­age: Sys­tem Think­ing & Change Management

JASmithy22 Oct 2020 23:31 UTC
4 points
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The Trou­ble With Babbles

DirectedEvolution22 Oct 2020 21:31 UTC
15 points
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Chang­ing the size of Congress

jefftk22 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
4 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should I pre­fer to get a tax re­fund, or not to?

MichaelDickens22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
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An Open Let­ter On Love

nroman22 Oct 2020 20:21 UTC
11 points
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Effec­tive Epidemiology

Mike Harris22 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
26 points
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My case for start­ing blogging

Neel Nanda22 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC
36 points
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(www.neelnanda.io)

Covid 10/​22: Europe in Crisis

Zvi22 Oct 2020 15:40 UTC
80 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

GPT-X, Paper­clip Max­i­mizer? An­a­lyz­ing AGI and Fi­nal Goals

meanderingmoose22 Oct 2020 14:33 UTC
8 points
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In­tro­duc­tion to Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant22 Oct 2020 13:00 UTC
155 points
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“Lit­tle glimpses of em­pa­thy” as the foun­da­tion for so­cial emotions

Steven Byrnes22 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
33 points
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The date of AI Takeover is not the day the AI takes over

Daniel Kokotajlo22 Oct 2020 10:41 UTC
150 points
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Syd­ney Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo—De­cem­ber 2021

Next22 Oct 2020 8:45 UTC
1 point
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Learn­ing is (Asymp­tot­i­cally) Com­pu­ta­tion­ally Ineffi­cient, Choose Your Ex­po­nents Wisely

Shmi22 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways of solv­ing a prob­lem in your life

jacobjacob22 Oct 2020 4:49 UTC
34 points
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Virtue ethics and why the ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity might care about it.

David Gross22 Oct 2020 3:53 UTC
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[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: Pan­demic Edition

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 23:54 UTC
50 points
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[Question] Mal­i­cious link!

bmeacham21 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
6 points
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[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween GAI and a gov­ern­ment?

DirectedEvolution21 Oct 2020 23:04 UTC
11 points
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[Question] When was the term “AI al­ign­ment” coined?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
11 points
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The Uncer­tainty of Death and Taxes

Zvi21 Oct 2020 18:10 UTC
25 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #122]: Ar­gu­ing for AGI-driven ex­is­ten­tial risk from first principles

Rohin Shah21 Oct 2020 17:10 UTC
28 points
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(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Re­ward large con­tri­bu­tions?

SarahNibs21 Oct 2020 16:26 UTC
10 points
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Stupid Ques­tions Oc­to­ber 2020

ChristianKl21 Oct 2020 11:41 UTC
48 points
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Sun­day Oc­to­ber 25, 12:00PM (PT) — Scott Garrabrant on “Carte­sian Frames”

Ben Pace21 Oct 2020 3:27 UTC
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[Question] Has any­one re­searched speci­fi­ca­tion gam­ing with biolog­i­cal an­i­mals?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)21 Oct 2020 0:20 UTC
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[Question] Could we use recom­mender sys­tems to figure out hu­man val­ues?

Olga Babeeva20 Oct 2020 21:35 UTC
7 points
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Book Re­view: Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing by Sut­ton and Barto

billmei20 Oct 2020 19:40 UTC
52 points
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[Question] Pro­ject Objects

Hans van der Burg20 Oct 2020 17:11 UTC
1 point
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[Question] Prob­lems In­volv­ing Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworth20 Oct 2020 16:49 UTC
30 points
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Box in­ver­sion hypothesis

Jan Kulveit20 Oct 2020 16:20 UTC
59 points
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Launch­ing Fore­cast, a com­mu­nity for crowd­sourced pre­dic­tions from Facebook

Rebecca Kossnick20 Oct 2020 6:20 UTC
111 points
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Mes­sage Length

Zack_M_Davis20 Oct 2020 5:52 UTC
134 points
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Bet­ting Thread

Amandango20 Oct 2020 2:17 UTC
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[Question] As a Washed Up Former Data Scien­tist and Ma­chine Learn­ing Re­searcher What Direc­tion Should I Go In Now?

Darklight19 Oct 2020 20:13 UTC
13 points
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It’s hard to use util­ity max­i­miza­tion to jus­tify cre­at­ing new sen­tient beings

dynomight19 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
10 points
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(dynomight.net)

Group de­bug­ging guidelines & thoughts

Kaj_Sotala19 Oct 2020 11:02 UTC
65 points
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[Question] What colour were the shad­ows?

Mary Chernyshenko19 Oct 2020 9:11 UTC
3 points
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