The Fermi Para­dox has not been dis­solved—James Fodor

mako yass12 Dec 2020 23:18 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why quan­ti­ta­tive meth­ods are heartwarming

KatjaGrace12 Dec 2020 21:50 UTC
110 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] An ar­gu­ment for per­sonal iden­tity trans­fer.

Gadersd12 Dec 2020 21:03 UTC
6 points
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D&D.Sci Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic12 Dec 2020 15:00 UTC
51 points
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The in­sti­tu­tion of email

KatjaGrace12 Dec 2020 10:50 UTC
10 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Flynn Effect Clarified

PeterMcCluskey12 Dec 2020 5:18 UTC
34 points
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(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

On the stag­na­tion of en­ergy tech­nol­ogy and the Ca­bal of Scientists

df fd12 Dec 2020 4:24 UTC
5 points
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Avoid­ing Side Effects in Com­plex Environments

12 Dec 2020 0:34 UTC
62 points
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(avoiding-side-effects.github.io)

Notes on Chastity

David Gross11 Dec 2020 22:01 UTC
26 points
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[Ex­pired] 20,000 Free $50 Char­ity Gift Cards

WilliamKiely11 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC
62 points
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Death Pos­i­tive Movement

lejuletre11 Dec 2020 18:29 UTC
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The Good Life Quantified

Jacob Falkovich11 Dec 2020 17:52 UTC
38 points
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Flights of wonder

KatjaGrace11 Dec 2020 10:50 UTC
17 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 7

lsusr11 Dec 2020 5:54 UTC
63 points
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Epistemic Warfare

Gentzel11 Dec 2020 3:50 UTC
56 points
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(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Heel-and-toe drumming

jefftk11 Dec 2020 2:20 UTC
8 points
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The im­pact of you is de­ter­mined by them.

Munkh-Ochir Soyol-Erdene10 Dec 2020 22:01 UTC
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Men­tal Blin­ders from Work­ing Within Systems

abramdemski10 Dec 2020 19:09 UTC
53 points
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[Question] What tech­nolo­gies could cause world GDP dou­bling times to be <8 years?

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Dec 2020 15:34 UTC
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[Question] Coun­ter­ing Self-De­cep­tion: When De­cou­pling, When De­con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing?

a gently pricked vein10 Dec 2020 15:28 UTC
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Covid 12/​10: Vac­cine Ap­proval Day in America

Zvi10 Dec 2020 14:20 UTC
58 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Con­tain­ment Thread on the Mo­ti­va­tion and Poli­ti­cal Con­text for My Philos­o­phy of Lan­guage Agenda

Zack_M_Davis10 Dec 2020 8:30 UTC
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Un­ex­plored modes of language

KatjaGrace10 Dec 2020 7:00 UTC
28 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Parable of the Dammed

johnswentworth10 Dec 2020 0:08 UTC
118 points
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Fi­nal Day to Order LW Books by Christ­mas for US

Ben Pace9 Dec 2020 23:30 UTC
13 points
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Sum­mary of AI Re­search Con­sid­er­a­tions for Hu­man Ex­is­ten­tial Safety (ARCHES)

peterbarnett9 Dec 2020 23:28 UTC
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Sun­day De­cem­ber 13th, 12:00PM (PT) – Puz­zle Hunt

Ruby9 Dec 2020 23:28 UTC
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[Question] Where does this com­mu­nity lean poli­ti­cally ?

Madeven13359 Dec 2020 21:08 UTC
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[Question] How do we know that the things we want have cred­i­bil­ity ?

Madeven13359 Dec 2020 21:08 UTC
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Switch­ing to Google Calendar

jefftk9 Dec 2020 20:10 UTC
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[AN #128]: Pri­ori­tiz­ing re­search on AI ex­is­ten­tial safety based on its ap­pli­ca­tion to gov­er­nance demands

Rohin Shah9 Dec 2020 18:20 UTC
16 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Notes on Know-how

David Gross9 Dec 2020 17:21 UTC
10 points
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Walk to a San Fran­cisco FedEx

KatjaGrace9 Dec 2020 8:50 UTC
27 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 6

lsusr9 Dec 2020 8:14 UTC
87 points
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Quick Thoughts on Im­moral Mazes

abramdemski9 Dec 2020 1:21 UTC
86 points
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Chance that “AI safety ba­si­cally [doesn’t need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by de­fault un­less we’re com­pletely com­pletely care­less”

8 Dec 2020 21:08 UTC
27 points
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Ve­loc­ity-sen­si­tive elec­tronic drum pedals

jefftk8 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC
4 points
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Con­ser­vatism in neo­cor­tex-like AGIs

Steven Byrnes8 Dec 2020 16:37 UTC
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Sig­nal­ing importance

Mati_Roy8 Dec 2020 9:14 UTC
6 points
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How long does it take to be­come Gaus­sian?

Maxwell Peterson8 Dec 2020 7:23 UTC
140 points
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Why are deli­cious bis­cuits ob­scure?

KatjaGrace8 Dec 2020 6:10 UTC
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(meteuphoric.com)

White Sphere Hypothesis

James S. Eriee8 Dec 2020 5:56 UTC
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An el­e­gant proof of Laplace’s rule of succession

Eric Neyman7 Dec 2020 22:43 UTC
33 points
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(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Please Take the 2020 Effec­tive Altru­ism Survey

Peter Wildeford7 Dec 2020 22:18 UTC
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Notes on Fairness

David Gross7 Dec 2020 18:52 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the Tech­ni­cal AI Safety Podcast

Quinn7 Dec 2020 18:51 UTC
42 points
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(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)

Travers­ing a Cog­ni­tion Space

Rafael Harth7 Dec 2020 18:32 UTC
17 points
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[Question] Num­ber-guess­ing pro­to­col?

abramdemski7 Dec 2020 15:07 UTC
19 points
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Launch­ing the Fore­cast­ing AI Progress Tournament

Tamay7 Dec 2020 14:08 UTC
20 points
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(www.metaculus.com)

[Question] Recom­men­da­tion for a good in­ter­na­tional event bet­ting site like pre­dic­tit.org

df fd7 Dec 2020 9:09 UTC
6 points
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