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Sunday November 15th, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Abram Demski, Daniel Kokotajlo and (maybe) more!
habryka
Nov 13, 2020, 12:53 AM
14
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Notes on Respect-for-Others
David Gross
Nov 12, 2020, 11:33 PM
13
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What risks from vaccines?
Bucky
Nov 12, 2020, 11:32 PM
9
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Final Babble Challenge (for now): 100 ways to light a candle
Bird Concept
Nov 12, 2020, 11:17 PM
45
points
31
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Communication Prior as Alignment Strategy
johnswentworth
Nov 12, 2020, 10:06 PM
46
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Socratic Grilling
SilasBarta
Nov 12, 2020, 9:16 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tips on organizing online meetups
JoshuaFox
Nov 12, 2020, 8:02 PM
27
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 11/12: The Winds of Winter
Zvi
Nov 12, 2020, 2:30 PM
100
points
64
comments
19
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
What are Examples of Great Distillers?
adamShimi
Nov 12, 2020, 2:09 PM
35
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Any work on honeypots (to detect treacherous turn attempts)?
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Nov 12, 2020, 5:41 AM
17
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does there exist a detailed Bayesian COVID tracker?
Optimization Process
Nov 12, 2020, 5:06 AM
8
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Correspondence Theorem in the Maximum Entropy Framework
johnswentworth
Nov 11, 2020, 10:46 PM
33
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Link] Digital Democracy Is Within Reach
Alexei
Nov 11, 2020, 10:12 PM
20
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(your-undivided-attention.simplecast.com)
Learning Normativity: A Research Agenda
abramdemski
Nov 11, 2020, 9:59 PM
82
points
18
comments
19
min read
LW
link
CHAI Internship Application
martinfukui
Nov 11, 2020, 9:10 PM
31
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How can we lobby to get a vaccine distributed faster?
Tim Liptrot
Nov 11, 2020, 9:01 PM
7
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Time in Cartesian Frames
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 11, 2020, 8:25 PM
48
points
16
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[AN #125]: Neural network scaling laws across multiple modalities
Rohin Shah
Nov 11, 2020, 6:20 PM
25
points
7
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Think in Terms of Actions, not Attributes
Collisteru
Nov 11, 2020, 3:57 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why those who care about catastrophic and existential risk should care about autonomous weapons
aaguirre
Nov 11, 2020, 3:22 PM
60
points
20
comments
19
min read
LW
link
The (Unofficial) Less Wrong Comment Challenge
adamShimi
Nov 11, 2020, 2:18 PM
82
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What could one do with truly unlimited computational power?
Yitz
Nov 11, 2020, 10:03 AM
30
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Michael Vassar at the SlateStarCodex Online Meetup
JoshuaFox
Nov 11, 2020, 7:03 AM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ongoing free money at PredictIt
knite
Nov 11, 2020, 4:06 AM
12
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Yes to Feature Requests, No to Entitlement
jefftk
Nov 11, 2020, 3:50 AM
18
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The Darwin Game—Rounds 1 to 2
lsusr
Nov 11, 2020, 1:53 AM
48
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Eight Definitions of Observability
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 10, 2020, 11:37 PM
34
points
26
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Probability vs Likelihood
abramdemski
Nov 10, 2020, 9:28 PM
110
points
10
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Would Advanced Social Technology Look Like?
johnswentworth
Nov 10, 2020, 5:55 PM
44
points
44
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Did anybody calculate the Briers score for per-state election forecasts?
ChristianKl
Nov 10, 2020, 5:51 PM
11
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Writing A Book
Samo Burja
Nov 10, 2020, 4:50 PM
33
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
[Question]
Does BioNtech’s vaccine result of 90% disease prevention mean that 90% of the vaccinated can’t pass the virus to other people?
ChristianKl
Nov 10, 2020, 3:27 PM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tweet markets for impersonal truth tracking?
KatjaGrace
Nov 10, 2020, 7:10 AM
24
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.com)
Are the social sciences challenging because of fundamental difficulties or because of imposed ones?
ozziegooen
Nov 10, 2020, 4:56 AM
56
points
12
comments
11
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Please steelman the accusations of election fraud
Tim Liptrot
Nov 10, 2020, 4:39 AM
2
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Modeling humans: what’s the point?
Charlie Steiner
Nov 10, 2020, 1:30 AM
10
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
My default frame: some fundamentals and background beliefs
Pontor
Nov 10, 2020, 12:04 AM
6
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Sleeping Beauty, Cloning Beauty, and Frequentist Arguments In Anthropic Paradoxes
dadadarren
Nov 9, 2020, 11:17 PM
5
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine
jasoncrawford
Nov 9, 2020, 11:06 PM
123
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)
Automating reasoning about the future at Ought
jungofthewon
Nov 9, 2020, 9:51 PM
17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ought.org)
Notes on Self-Control
David Gross
Nov 9, 2020, 9:27 PM
9
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Clarifying inner alignment terminology
evhub
Nov 9, 2020, 8:40 PM
109
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
What fraction of Dan Ariely’s Irrational Game hasn’t replicated?
Mati_Roy
Nov 9, 2020, 8:25 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Open Problems Create Paradigms
johnswentworth
Nov 9, 2020, 8:04 PM
50
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Committing, Assuming, Externalizing, and Internalizing
Scott Garrabrant
Nov 9, 2020, 4:59 PM
31
points
25
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Time Travel Markets for Intellectual Accounting
abramdemski
Nov 9, 2020, 4:58 PM
45
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Building AGI Using Language Models
leogao
Nov 9, 2020, 4:33 PM
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(leogao.dev)
Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.
NunoSempere
and
Alex Lawsen
Nov 9, 2020, 4:20 PM
44
points
21
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Costs and benefits of metaphysics
George3d6
Nov 9, 2020, 2:31 PM
11
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Why You Should Care About Goal-Directedness
adamShimi
Nov 9, 2020, 12:48 PM
38
points
15
comments
9
min read
LW
link
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