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[Productivity] How not to use “Important // Not Urgent”
aaq
Feb 17, 2020, 11:42 PM
22
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 3: Tips and Tricks
Mark Xu
Feb 17, 2020, 6:53 PM
24
points
5
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Cambridge (UK) SSC meetup
rlms
Feb 17, 2020, 6:41 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Jan Bloch’s Impossible War
Slimepriestess
Feb 17, 2020, 4:14 PM
112
points
30
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Subagents and impact measures: summary tables
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 2:09 PM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Appendix: mathematics of indexical impact measures
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 1:22 PM
12
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Stepwise inaction and non-indexical impact measures
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 17, 2020, 10:32 AM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Lurk Less (and benefit others while benefiting yourself)
romeostevensit
Feb 17, 2020, 6:18 AM
95
points
17
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Attainable Utility Preservation: Concepts
TurnTrout
Feb 17, 2020, 5:20 AM
38
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On the falsifiability of hypercomputation, part 2: finite input streams
jessicata
Feb 17, 2020, 3:51 AM
26
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(unstableontology.com)
[Question]
Wanting More Intellectual Stamina
mr.magpie
Feb 17, 2020, 2:58 AM
6
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Memetic Mediator Manifesto
Chris_Leong
Feb 17, 2020, 2:14 AM
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(docs.google.com)
UML XI: Nearest Neighbor Schemes
Rafael Harth
Feb 16, 2020, 8:30 PM
15
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Link and commentary] The Offense-Defense Balance of Scientific Knowledge: Does Publishing AI Research Reduce Misuse?
MichaelA
Feb 16, 2020, 7:56 PM
24
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 2: Searching for bugs
Mark Xu
Feb 16, 2020, 5:16 PM
31
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Taking the Outgroup Seriously
Davis_Kingsley
Feb 16, 2020, 1:23 PM
21
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On characterizing heavy-tailedness
Jsevillamol
Feb 16, 2020, 12:14 AM
38
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Training Regime Day 1: What is applied rationality?
Mark Xu
Feb 15, 2020, 9:03 PM
33
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
It “wanted” …
jmh
Feb 15, 2020, 8:52 PM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why Science is slowing down, Universities and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
George3d6
Feb 15, 2020, 8:39 PM
16
points
25
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Exercises in Comprehensive Information Gathering
johnswentworth
Feb 15, 2020, 5:27 PM
141
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
Reference Post: Trivial Decision Theory Problem
Chris_Leong
Feb 15, 2020, 5:13 PM
16
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the difference between robustness and inner alignment?
JanB
Feb 15, 2020, 1:28 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does iterated amplification tackle the inner alignment problem?
JanB
Feb 15, 2020, 12:58 PM
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bayesian Evolving-to-Extinction
abramdemski
Feb 14, 2020, 11:55 PM
40
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
A ‘Practice of Rationality’ Sequence?
abramdemski
Feb 14, 2020, 10:56 PM
78
points
25
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Catastrophic Convergence Conjecture
TurnTrout
Feb 14, 2020, 9:16 PM
45
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics or: AI vs sandwiches
Vanessa Kosoy
Feb 14, 2020, 6:46 PM
34
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
Perceptrons Explained
lifelonglearner
Feb 14, 2020, 5:34 PM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(owenshen24.github.io)
Please Help Metaculus Forecast COVID-19
AABoyles
Feb 14, 2020, 5:31 PM
34
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
Training Regime Day 0: Introduction
Mark Xu
Feb 14, 2020, 8:22 AM
41
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Distinguishing definitions of takeoff
Matthew Barnett
Feb 14, 2020, 12:16 AM
79
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism 80,000 hours workshop materials & outline (and Feb 10 ’19 KC meetup notes)
samstowers
Feb 13, 2020, 9:48 PM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How do you use face masks?
ChristianKl
Feb 13, 2020, 2:18 PM
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
In theory: does building the subagent have an “impact”?
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 13, 2020, 2:17 PM
17
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What fraction of work time in the world is done at a computer?
Mati_Roy
Feb 13, 2020, 9:53 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Variance Indifferent Maximizer Alternative
Nevan Wichers
Feb 13, 2020, 9:06 AM
7
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Confirmation Bias As Misfire Of Normal Bayesian Reasoning
Scott Alexander
Feb 13, 2020, 7:20 AM
43
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(slatestarcodex.com)
Building and using the subagent
Stuart_Armstrong
Feb 12, 2020, 7:28 PM
17
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[AN #86]: Improving debate and factored cognition through human experiments
Rohin Shah
Feb 12, 2020, 6:10 PM
15
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Suspiciously balanced evidence
gjm
Feb 12, 2020, 5:04 PM
50
points
24
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the risks of having your genome publicly available?
Mati_Roy
Feb 11, 2020, 9:54 PM
16
points
13
comments
LW
link
Demons in Imperfect Search
johnswentworth
Feb 11, 2020, 8:25 PM
110
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Will COVID-19 survivors suffer lasting disability at a high rate?
jimrandomh
Feb 11, 2020, 8:23 PM
134
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Relational Stance
Raemon
Feb 11, 2020, 5:16 AM
48
points
11
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Intelligence without causality
Donald Hobson
Feb 11, 2020, 12:34 AM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
South Bay Meetup
DavidFriedman
Feb 10, 2020, 10:36 PM
4
points
0
comments
LW
link
Simulation of technological progress (work in progress)
Daniel Kokotajlo
Feb 10, 2020, 8:39 PM
21
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do we refuse to take action claiming our impact would be too small?
hookdump
Feb 10, 2020, 7:33 PM
5
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gricean communication and meta-preferences
Charlie Steiner
Feb 10, 2020, 5:05 AM
24
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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