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Frequentist practice incorporates prior information all the time

Maxwell Peterson7 Nov 2020 20:43 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Three Open Problems in Aging

johnswentworth7 Nov 2020 19:39 UTC

48 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Can we prime people to take risk?

tonyoconnor7 Nov 2020 17:17 UTC

5 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Somerville Mask Usage II

jefftk7 Nov 2020 17:00 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How can I bet on short timelines?

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Nov 2020 12:44 UTC

43 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Why philosophy of science?

Richard_Ngo7 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC

54 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

the scaling “inconsistency”: openAI’s new insight

nostalgebraist7 Nov 2020 7:40 UTC

148 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction

Jeffrey Ladish7 Nov 2020 5:42 UTC

133 points

48 comments11 min readLW link 3 reviews

Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment?

Mark Xu6 Nov 2020 23:48 UTC

96 points

9 comments16 min readLW link

Ethics in Many Worlds

fin6 Nov 2020 23:21 UTC

8 points

24 comments9 min readLW link

The Power & Tragedy of Names

SocratesDissatisfied6 Nov 2020 22:50 UTC

12 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Observe, babble, and prune

DirectedEvolution6 Nov 2020 21:45 UTC

8 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC

103 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid ‘Mink variant’

henryaj6 Nov 2020 17:50 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine II: Thermodynamic Efficiency Limit

johnswentworth6 Nov 2020 17:30 UTC

69 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Teach People to Recognize the Sound of Covid?

jefftk6 Nov 2020 14:30 UTC

21 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Additive and Multiplicative Subagents

Scott Garrabrant6 Nov 2020 14:26 UTC

20 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

“model scores” is a questionable concept

Maxwell Peterson6 Nov 2020 3:19 UTC

26 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Sunday, Nov 8: Tuning Your Cognitive Algorithms

Raemon6 Nov 2020 0:57 UTC

16 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Justice (as a virtue)

David Gross5 Nov 2020 20:27 UTC

6 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Impostor Syndrome as skill/dominance mismatch

Viliam5 Nov 2020 20:05 UTC

94 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What considerations influence whether I have more influence over short or long timelines?

Daniel Kokotajlo5 Nov 2020 19:56 UTC

28 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

Generalized Heat Engine

johnswentworth5 Nov 2020 19:01 UTC

186 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Sub-Sums and Sub-Tensors

Scott Garrabrant5 Nov 2020 18:06 UTC

34 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Defining capability and alignment in gradient descent

Edouard Harris5 Nov 2020 14:36 UTC

22 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 11/5: Don’t Mention the War

Zvi5 Nov 2020 14:20 UTC

64 points

16 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Babble Challenge: 50 thoughts on stable, cooperative institutions

jacobjacob5 Nov 2020 6:38 UTC

29 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC

96 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Covid-19 IFR from a Bayesian point of view

mwacksen4 Nov 2020 23:55 UTC

12 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Multiple Worlds, One Universal Wave Function

evhub4 Nov 2020 22:28 UTC

60 points

76 comments61 min readLW link

Gifts Which Money Cannot Buy

johnswentworth4 Nov 2020 19:37 UTC

93 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #124]: Provably safe exploration through shielding

Rohin Shah4 Nov 2020 18:20 UTC

14 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Don’t read news

Eli_4 Nov 2020 18:14 UTC

27 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Share your personal stories of prediction markets

Tim Liptrot4 Nov 2020 16:09 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Reverence

David Gross4 Nov 2020 1:35 UTC

8 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

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

AnnaSalamon3 Nov 2020 22:14 UTC

151 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread – November 2020

habryka3 Nov 2020 20:46 UTC

14 points

61 comments1 min readLW link

Multiplicative Operations on Cartesian Frames

Scott Garrabrant3 Nov 2020 19:27 UTC

34 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is The Real Wealth

johnswentworth3 Nov 2020 17:34 UTC

337 points

61 comments5 min readLW link 3 reviews

Three more stories about causation

cousin_it3 Nov 2020 15:51 UTC

15 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bucket Brigade Singing

jefftk3 Nov 2020 15:40 UTC

41 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

One could be forgiven for getting the feeling...

HumaneAutomation3 Nov 2020 4:53 UTC

−2 points

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SubOnlyStackFans

Jacob Falkovich3 Nov 2020 2:33 UTC

18 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Notes on Industriousness

David Gross3 Nov 2020 1:55 UTC

12 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

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

Alex V3 Nov 2020 0:21 UTC

4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Subagents of Cartesian Frames

Scott Garrabrant2 Nov 2020 22:02 UTC

53 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Confucianism in AI Alignment

johnswentworth2 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

33 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Location Discussion Takeaways

mingyuan2 Nov 2020 21:14 UTC

77 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

Kelly Bet or Update?

abramdemski2 Nov 2020 20:26 UTC

50 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What Belongs in my Glossary?

Zvi2 Nov 2020 19:52 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link