A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchy30 Oct 2020 23:24 UTC
3 points
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[Question] Why does His­tory as­sume equal na­tional in­tel­li­gence?

HumaneAutomation30 Oct 2020 23:11 UTC
1 point
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/​r/​MLS­cal­ing: new sub­red­dit for NN scal­ing re­search/​discussion

gwern30 Oct 2020 20:50 UTC
21 points
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(www.reddit.com)

Func­tors and Coarse Worlds

Scott Garrabrant30 Oct 2020 15:19 UTC
52 points
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[Question] Re­sponses to Chris­ti­ano on take­off speeds?

Richard_Ngo30 Oct 2020 15:16 UTC
29 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find the Fron­tiers of Knowledge

Samo Burja30 Oct 2020 10:50 UTC
60 points
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(medium.com)

The Dar­win Game—Round 1

lsusr29 Oct 2020 21:56 UTC
58 points
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Con­trol­lables and Ob­serv­ables, Revisited

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 16:38 UTC
35 points
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Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/​29: All We Ever Talk About

Zvi29 Oct 2020 15:10 UTC
61 points
50 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI risk hub in Sin­ga­pore?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Oct 2020 11:45 UTC
58 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Bab­ble challenge: 50 con­se­quences of in­tel­li­gent ant colonies

jacobjacob29 Oct 2020 7:21 UTC
23 points
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[Question] What are good elec­tion bet­ting op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Scott Garrabrant29 Oct 2020 7:19 UTC
32 points
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[Question] How should one deal with life threat­en­ing in­fec­tions or air planes?

Nacruno9629 Oct 2020 3:35 UTC
1 point
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“Scal­ing Laws for Au­tore­gres­sive Gen­er­a­tive Model­ing”, Henighan et al 2020 {OA}

gwern29 Oct 2020 1:45 UTC
27 points
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(arxiv.org)

Sec­u­lar Sols­tice On­line (Amer­i­cas)

Raemon28 Oct 2020 23:28 UTC
28 points
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[Question] What’s hold­ing back out­sourc­ing to cloud labs?

ChristianKl28 Oct 2020 23:07 UTC
25 points
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Rea­sons that dis­cus­sions might feel hopeless

gogishvilli28 Oct 2020 19:59 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What risks con­cern you which don’t seem to have been se­ri­ously con­sid­ered by the com­mu­nity?

plex28 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
17 points
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[AN #123]: In­fer­ring what is valuable in or­der to al­ign recom­mender systems

Rohin Shah28 Oct 2020 17:00 UTC
20 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Draft pa­pers for REALab and De­cou­pled Ap­proval on tampering

28 Oct 2020 16:01 UTC
47 points
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Biex­ten­sional Equivalence

Scott Garrabrant28 Oct 2020 14:07 UTC
43 points
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“Carte­sian Frames” Talk #2 this Sun­day at 2pm (PT)

Rob Bensinger28 Oct 2020 13:59 UTC
30 points
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In­te­gers as Compression

Chris_Leong28 Oct 2020 7:36 UTC
9 points
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Why in­door light­ing is hard to get right and how to fix it

Richard Korzekwa 28 Oct 2020 4:46 UTC
209 points
54 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Des­per­a­tion ham­ster wheels

Nicole Ross28 Oct 2020 2:32 UTC
97 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

Notes on Honesty

David Gross28 Oct 2020 0:54 UTC
46 points
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How can I rec­on­cile these COVID test false-nega­tive num­bers?

Optimization Process27 Oct 2020 23:56 UTC
15 points
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Bab­ble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture

seed27 Oct 2020 19:38 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view and then Semi-Walk­through: Star Traders: Frontiers

Zvi27 Oct 2020 18:50 UTC
11 points
1 comment24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Me­mory re­con­soli­da­tion for self-affection

Kaj_Sotala27 Oct 2020 10:10 UTC
52 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Whence the symp­toms of so­cial me­dia?

KatjaGrace27 Oct 2020 7:30 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Look­ing for Room­mate in California

xiaolongbao27 Oct 2020 5:18 UTC
1 point
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Dutch-Book­ing CDT: Re­vised Argument

abramdemski27 Oct 2020 4:31 UTC
51 points
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An­nounc­ing Data Se­crets Lox: An Alter­na­tive to Slate Star Codex Open Threads

quanticle27 Oct 2020 4:24 UTC
26 points
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Book re­view: Age Later

PeterMcCluskey27 Oct 2020 4:21 UTC
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

On the Dangers of Time Travel

lsusr27 Oct 2020 3:57 UTC
21 points
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Se­cu­rity Mind­set and Take­off Speeds

DanielFilan27 Oct 2020 3:20 UTC
55 points
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(danielfilan.com)

A Cor­re­spon­dence Theorem

johnswentworth26 Oct 2020 23:28 UTC
30 points
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[Question] Top Time Travel In­ter­ven­tions?

abramdemski26 Oct 2020 23:25 UTC
44 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Is Suc­cess the Enemy of Free­dom? (Full)

alkjash26 Oct 2020 20:25 UTC
293 points
69 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Does play­ing hard to get work? AB test­ing for romance

amplemaple26 Oct 2020 15:29 UTC
17 points
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Ad­di­tive Oper­a­tions on Carte­sian Frames

Scott Garrabrant26 Oct 2020 15:12 UTC
62 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Su­per­vised learn­ing of out­puts in the brain

Steven Byrnes26 Oct 2020 14:32 UTC
28 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Septem­ber 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern26 Oct 2020 13:38 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Defen­si­ble positions

Chris_Leong26 Oct 2020 10:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Alt­man at SlateS­tarCodex On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox26 Oct 2020 10:26 UTC
24 points
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But what kinds of pup­pets are we?

KatjaGrace26 Oct 2020 8:40 UTC
13 points
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(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] Models pre­dict­ing sig­nifi­cant vi­o­lence in the US?

kdbscott25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
54 points
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Some crit­i­cisms of polling

Jimdrix_Hendri25 Oct 2020 18:45 UTC
4 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Re­ply to Je­bari and Lund­borg on Ar­tifi­cial Superintelligence

Richard_Ngo25 Oct 2020 13:50 UTC
31 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)