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[Question] Where do (did?) stable, cooperative institutions come from?

AnnaSalamonNov 3, 2020, 10:14 PM

151 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread – November 2020

habrykaNov 3, 2020, 8:46 PM

14 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

Multiplicative Operations on Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantNov 3, 2020, 7:27 PM

34 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworthNov 3, 2020, 5:34 PM

344 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Three more stories about causation

cousin_itNov 3, 2020, 3:51 PM

15 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bucket Brigade Singing

jefftkNov 3, 2020, 3:40 PM

41 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

One could be forgiven for getting the feeling...

HumaneAutomationNov 3, 2020, 4:53 AM

−2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

SubOnlyStackFans

Jacob FalkovichNov 3, 2020, 2:33 AM

18 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Industriousness

David GrossNov 3, 2020, 1:55 AM

12 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Sleeping Julia: Empirical support for thirder argument in the Sleeping Beauty Problem

Alex VNov 3, 2020, 12:21 AM

4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Subagents of Cartesian Frames

Scott GarrabrantNov 2, 2020, 10:02 PM

53 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Confucianism in AI Alignment

johnswentworthNov 2, 2020, 9:16 PM

33 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Location Discussion Takeaways

mingyuanNov 2, 2020, 9:14 PM

77 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

Kelly Bet or Update?

abramdemskiNov 2, 2020, 8:26 PM

50 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What Belongs in my Glossary?

ZviNov 2, 2020, 7:52 PM

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Generalize Kelly to Account for # Iterations?

abramdemskiNov 2, 2020, 4:36 PM

24 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Waffle Crepes

jefftkNov 2, 2020, 3:30 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Non Polemic: How do you personally deal with “irrational” people?

EmiyaNov 2, 2020, 1:44 PM

12 points

54 comments4 min readLW link

Surface Thoughts Suck

DachNov 2, 2020, 1:24 PM

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Worldwide “Portland” SSC Meetup 11/15/20

Noah WaltonNov 2, 2020, 5:39 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Should students be allowed to give good teachers a bonus?

DirectedEvolutionNov 2, 2020, 12:19 AM

25 points

28 comments2 min readLW link

Zeno’s Paradoxes

Chris_LeongNov 1, 2020, 11:39 PM

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Automated intelligence is not AI

KatjaGraceNov 1, 2020, 11:30 PM

54 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

The Born Rule is Time-Symmetric

lsusrNov 1, 2020, 11:24 PM

1 point

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are deaths not increasing with infections in the US?

Tim LiptrotNov 1, 2020, 10:43 PM

3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

October 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwernNov 1, 2020, 9:38 PM

24 points

0 comments LW link

(www.gwern.net)

Cowering To Genocide: Uighur Persecution And The World’s Last Hope

willbobagginsNov 1, 2020, 9:01 PM

9 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the right phrase for “theoretical evidence”?

Adam ZernerNov 1, 2020, 8:43 PM

23 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Compassion

David GrossNov 1, 2020, 7:10 PM

23 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

A summary review on The Age of Em

ogeNov 1, 2020, 4:18 PM

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(carboncopies.org)

Forecasting Newsletter: October 2020.

NunoSempereNov 1, 2020, 1:09 PM

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Why I Prefer the Copenhagen Interpretation(s)

dadadarrenOct 31, 2020, 9:06 PM

5 points

44 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

“Inner Alignment Failures” Which Are Actually Outer Alignment Failures

johnswentworthOct 31, 2020, 8:18 PM

66 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Aim to explain, not persuade

lsusrOct 31, 2020, 4:35 PM

26 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Containing the AI… Inside a Simulated Reality

HumaneAutomationOct 31, 2020, 4:16 PM

1 point

9 comments2 min readLW link

Taking Ideas Seriously is Hard

neilkakkarOct 31, 2020, 1:47 PM

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(neilkakkar.com)

How do you read the news critically?

ChristianKlOct 31, 2020, 11:48 AM

39 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Trick-or-treating in Covid Times

jefftkOct 31, 2020, 12:30 AM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Parable of Four Riders

matejsuchyOct 30, 2020, 11:24 PM

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does History assume equal national intelligence?

HumaneAutomationOct 30, 2020, 11:11 PM

1 point

38 comments1 min readLW link

/r/MLScaling: new subreddit for NN scaling research/discussion

gwernOct 30, 2020, 8:50 PM

21 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Functors and Coarse Worlds

Scott GarrabrantOct 30, 2020, 3:19 PM

52 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Responses to Christiano on takeoff speeds?

Richard_NgoOct 30, 2020, 3:16 PM

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge

Samo BurjaOct 30, 2020, 10:50 AM

60 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(medium.com)

The Darwin Game—Round 1

lsusrOct 29, 2020, 9:56 PM

58 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Controllables and Observables, Revisited

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 4:38 PM

35 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/29: All We Ever Talk About

ZviOct 29, 2020, 3:10 PM

61 points

50 comments22 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI risk hub in Singapore?

Daniel KokotajloOct 29, 2020, 11:45 AM

58 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

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

Bird ConceptOct 29, 2020, 7:21 AM

23 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are good election betting opportunities?

Scott GarrabrantOct 29, 2020, 7:19 AM

32 points

17 comments1 min readLW link