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[Ex­pired] 20,000 Free $50 Char­ity Gift Cards

WilliamKielyDec 11, 2020, 8:02 PM
62 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Death Pos­i­tive Movement

lejuletreDec 11, 2020, 6:29 PM
23 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

The Good Life Quantified

Jacob FalkovichDec 11, 2020, 5:52 PM
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Flights of wonder

KatjaGraceDec 11, 2020, 10:50 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 7

lsusrDec 11, 2020, 5:54 AM
67 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemic Warfare

GentzelDec 11, 2020, 3:50 AM
56 points
22 comments2 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Heel-and-toe drumming

jefftkDec 11, 2020, 2:20 AM
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The im­pact of you is de­ter­mined by them.

Munkh-Ochir Soyol-ErdeneDec 10, 2020, 10:01 PM
−1 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Men­tal Blin­ders from Work­ing Within Systems

abramdemskiDec 10, 2020, 7:09 PM
53 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What tech­nolo­gies could cause world GDP dou­bling times to be <8 years?

Daniel KokotajloDec 10, 2020, 3:34 PM
43 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Coun­ter­ing Self-De­cep­tion: When De­cou­pling, When De­con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing?

a gently pricked veinDec 10, 2020, 3:28 PM
2 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 12/​10: Vac­cine Ap­proval Day in America

ZviDec 10, 2020, 2:20 PM
58 points
31 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Zack_M_DavisDec 10, 2020, 8:30 AM
29 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Un­ex­plored modes of language

KatjaGraceDec 10, 2020, 7:00 AM
28 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Parable of the Dammed

johnswentworthDec 10, 2020, 12:08 AM
118 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

Fi­nal Day to Order LW Books by Christ­mas for US

Ben PaceDec 9, 2020, 11:30 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Sum­mary of AI Re­search Con­sid­er­a­tions for Hu­man Ex­is­ten­tial Safety (ARCHES)

peterbarnettDec 9, 2020, 11:28 PM
11 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Sun­day De­cem­ber 13th, 12:00PM (PT) – Puz­zle Hunt

RubyDec 9, 2020, 11:28 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where does this com­mu­nity lean poli­ti­cally ?

Madeven1335Dec 9, 2020, 9:08 PM
−10 points
2 commentsLW link

[Question] How do we know that the things we want have cred­i­bil­ity ?

Madeven1335Dec 9, 2020, 9:08 PM
−10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Switch­ing to Google Calendar

jefftkDec 9, 2020, 8:10 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #128]: Pri­ori­tiz­ing re­search on AI ex­is­ten­tial safety based on its ap­pli­ca­tion to gov­er­nance demands

Rohin ShahDec 9, 2020, 6:20 PM
16 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Notes on Know-how

David GrossDec 9, 2020, 5:21 PM
10 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Walk to a San Fran­cisco FedEx

KatjaGraceDec 9, 2020, 8:50 AM
27 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 6

lsusrDec 9, 2020, 8:14 AM
97 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Quick Thoughts on Im­moral Mazes

abramdemskiDec 9, 2020, 1:21 AM
86 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

Chance that “AI safety ba­si­cally [doesn’t need] to be solved, we’ll just solve it by de­fault un­less we’re com­pletely com­pletely care­less”

Quinn, Aidan_Kierans, Morpheus and Nicholas Turner
Dec 8, 2020, 9:08 PM
27 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Ve­loc­ity-sen­si­tive elec­tronic drum pedals

jefftkDec 8, 2020, 8:20 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Con­ser­vatism in neo­cor­tex-like AGIs

Steven ByrnesDec 8, 2020, 4:37 PM
22 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing importance

Mati_RoyDec 8, 2020, 9:14 AM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How long does it take to be­come Gaus­sian?

Maxwell PetersonDec 8, 2020, 7:23 AM
141 points
40 comments4 min readLW link

Why are deli­cious bis­cuits ob­scure?

KatjaGraceDec 8, 2020, 6:10 AM
17 points
18 comments2 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

White Sphere Hypothesis

James S. ErieeDec 8, 2020, 5:56 AM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

An el­e­gant proof of Laplace’s rule of succession

Eric NeymanDec 7, 2020, 10:43 PM
39 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Please Take the 2020 Effec­tive Altru­ism Survey

Peter WildefordDec 7, 2020, 10:18 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Fairness

David GrossDec 7, 2020, 6:52 PM
20 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Tech­ni­cal AI Safety Podcast

QuinnDec 7, 2020, 6:51 PM
42 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(technical-ai-safety.libsyn.com)

Travers­ing a Cog­ni­tion Space

Rafael HarthDec 7, 2020, 6:32 PM
17 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Num­ber-guess­ing pro­to­col?

abramdemskiDec 7, 2020, 3:07 PM
19 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Launch­ing the Fore­cast­ing AI Progress Tournament

TamayDec 7, 2020, 2:08 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

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

df fdDec 7, 2020, 9:09 AM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Toward A Cul­ture of Persuasion

DirectedEvolutionDec 7, 2020, 2:42 AM
17 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

The In­com­pre­hen­si­bil­ity Bluff

SocratesDissatisfiedDec 6, 2020, 6:26 PM
45 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Pre-Hind­sight Prompt: Why did 2021 NOT bring a re­turn to nor­malcy?

mike_hawke6 Dec 2020 17:35 UTC
22 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Cul­tural accumulation

KatjaGrace6 Dec 2020 6:20 UTC
93 points
53 comments3 min readLW link
(meteuphoric.com)

Values Form a Shift­ing Land­scape (and why you might care)

VojtaKovarik5 Dec 2020 23:56 UTC
29 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci

abstractapplic5 Dec 2020 23:26 UTC
82 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

AI Prob­lems Shared by Non-AI Systems

VojtaKovarik5 Dec 2020 22:15 UTC
7 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Hu­man Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: In­creas­ing Intelligence

GeneSmith5 Dec 2020 22:06 UTC
37 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Fi­nance—ac­cessibil­ity (ask­ing for text­book recom­men­da­tions)

max he5 Dec 2020 21:14 UTC
3 points
8 comments1 min readLW link