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Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 8

lsusr17 Dec 2020 22:29 UTC

72 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected

MikkW17 Dec 2020 20:03 UTC

23 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How long till Inverse AlphaFold?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Dec 2020 19:56 UTC

41 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Dignity

David Gross17 Dec 2020 15:46 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Covid 12/17: The First Dose

Zvi17 Dec 2020 14:20 UTC

76 points

29 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some things I’m looking forward to in 2021: probable post-pandemic edition

KatjaGrace17 Dec 2020 8:20 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

It turns out that group meetings are mostly a terrible way to make decisions

Ian David Moss17 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC

61 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC

12 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(oldmanrahul.com)

[Question] Are there any systematic ways to choose evaluation criteria?

Aman Patel17 Dec 2020 1:03 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Explorations

alkjash16 Dec 2020 21:27 UTC

63 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

FHI paper published in Science: interventions against COVID-19

SoerenMind16 Dec 2020 21:19 UTC

119 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #129]: Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance

Rohin Shah16 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

14 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Beta test GPT-3 based research assistant

jungofthewon16 Dec 2020 13:42 UTC

34 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable

George3d616 Dec 2020 13:32 UTC

26 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(cerebralab.com)

Incentivizing forecasting via social media

David Althaus and Daniel Kokotajlo

16 Dec 2020 12:15 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why I love stand up comedy

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 9:34 UTC

20 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

What is it good for? But actually?

KatjaGrace16 Dec 2020 9:20 UTC

44 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Bad reductionism

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC

12 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Debugging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC

46 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC

11 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Less Basic Inframeasure Theory

Diffractor16 Dec 2020 3:52 UTC

22 points

1 comment61 min readLW link

[Question] Which sources do you trust the most on nutrition advice for exercise?

jacobjacob16 Dec 2020 3:22 UTC

29 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Homogeneity vs. heterogeneity in AI takeoff scenarios

evhub16 Dec 2020 1:37 UTC

97 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

Motive Ambiguity

Zvi15 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

175 points

58 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The wild

KatjaGrace15 Dec 2020 10:50 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Risk Map of AI Systems

VojtaKovarik and Jan_Kulveit

15 Dec 2020 9:16 UTC

28 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Updating the Roadmap to Whole Brain Emulation Part 6: NEURAL MODELING—Patient Specific Selection, Fitting and Validation

oge15 Dec 2020 1:26 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(carboncopies.org)

[Question] What are the best precedents for industries failing to invest in valuable AI research?

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Dec 2020 23:57 UTC

18 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Decision-Making and Accountability

Ian David Moss14 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC

11 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(medium.com)

[Question] What confusions do people have about simulacrum levels?

johnswentworth14 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC

28 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

[link] The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men

Kaj_Sotala14 Dec 2020 20:18 UTC

34 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.sixthtone.com)

On Reflection

Neel Nanda14 Dec 2020 16:14 UTC

27 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Blog plant

KatjaGrace14 Dec 2020 11:30 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Power of Annealing

meanderingmoose14 Dec 2020 11:02 UTC

25 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Hermione Granger and Newcomb’s Paradox

lsusr14 Dec 2020 5:27 UTC

48 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

All GPT skills are translation

p.b.13 Dec 2020 20:06 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying Factored Cognition

Rafael Harth13 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC

23 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Writing tools for tabooing?

abramdemski13 Dec 2020 19:50 UTC

15 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Pseudorandomness contest, Round 1

Eric Neyman13 Dec 2020 3:42 UTC

28 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

To listen well, get curious

benkuhn13 Dec 2020 0:20 UTC

363 points

37 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved—James Fodor

mako yass12 Dec 2020 23:18 UTC

30 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why quantitative methods are heartwarming

KatjaGrace12 Dec 2020 21:50 UTC

110 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

[Question] An argument for personal identity transfer.

Gadersd12 Dec 2020 21:03 UTC

6 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplic12 Dec 2020 15:00 UTC

51 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The institution of email

KatjaGrace12 Dec 2020 10:50 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Flynn Effect Clarified

PeterMcCluskey12 Dec 2020 5:18 UTC

34 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

On the stagnation of energy technology and the Cabal of Scientists

df fd12 Dec 2020 4:24 UTC

5 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Avoiding Side Effects in Complex Environments

TurnTrout and nealeratzlaff

12 Dec 2020 0:34 UTC

62 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(avoiding-side-effects.github.io)

Notes on Chastity

David Gross11 Dec 2020 22:01 UTC

26 points

1 comment8 min readLW link