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Assessing Kurzweil predictions about 2019: the results

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 1:36 PM

146 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How should potential AI alignment researchers gauge whether the field is right for them?

TurnTroutMay 6, 2020, 12:24 PM

20 points

5 comments LW link

[Question] How to quantify uncertainty about a probability estimate?

micMay 6, 2020, 12:06 PM

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Maths writer/cowritter needed: how you can’t distinguish early exponential from early sigmoid

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 6, 2020, 9:41 AM

41 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model?

jasoncrawfordMay 6, 2020, 1:15 AM

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Modeling naturalized decision problems in linear logic

jessicataMay 6, 2020, 12:15 AM

14 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

The ways of knowing

aelwoodMay 5, 2020, 8:35 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(pursuingreality.com)

A non-mystical explanation of insight meditation and the three characteristics of existence: introduction and preamble

Kaj_SotalaMay 5, 2020, 7:09 PM

134 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Competitive safety via gradated curricula

Richard_NgoMay 5, 2020, 6:11 PM

38 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Writing Causal Models Like We Write Programs

johnswentworthMay 5, 2020, 6:05 PM

90 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

“AI and Efficiency”, OA (44✕ improvement in CNNs since 2012)

gwernMay 5, 2020, 4:32 PM

48 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

[Question] I’d Like To Maximizing Profit and Happiness but My Happiness conflicts a lot with making profit...

Master MintZMay 5, 2020, 5:54 AM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Direct work vs. earn-to-give?

warrenjordanMay 5, 2020, 5:52 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much money would you pay to get access to video footage of your surroundings for a year of your choice (in the past)?

Mati_RoyMay 5, 2020, 5:50 AM

8 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Constructive Definitions

Chris_LeongMay 4, 2020, 11:50 PM

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus

Akshat MahajanMay 4, 2020, 10:53 PM

42 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

[Link] Rationalist Games—Facebook Group

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 10:13 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

COVID-19 from a different angle

jmhMay 4, 2020, 5:58 PM

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Insights from Euclid’s ‘Elements’

TurnTroutMay 4, 2020, 3:45 PM

126 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What information on (or relevant to) modal immortality do you recommend?

Mati_RoyMay 4, 2020, 11:30 AM

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Consistent Glomarization should be feasible

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 4, 2020, 10:06 AM

17 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Scott Garrabrant’s problem on recovering Brouwer as a corollary of Lawvere

RupertMay 4, 2020, 10:01 AM

26 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Named Distributions as Artifacts

George3d6May 4, 2020, 8:54 AM

22 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

How uniform is the neocortex?

zhukeepaMay 4, 2020, 2:16 AM

80 points

23 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Hate Crime Statistics

jefftkMay 3, 2020, 10:30 PM

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Biological evolution as an analogy for the market economy

SnorkelfarsanMay 3, 2020, 6:51 PM

6 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

On Negative Feedback and Simulacra

ZviMay 3, 2020, 5:00 PM

47 points

7 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

TFW No Incels

Jacob FalkovichMay 3, 2020, 4:56 PM

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

What is a “Good” Prediction?

eapacheMay 3, 2020, 4:51 PM

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: Narconomics

ketchupduckMay 3, 2020, 1:19 AM

77 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How does iterated amplification exceed human abilities?

riceissaMay 2, 2020, 11:44 PM

19 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

What Is The Cost of Your Attention?

Ari LewisMay 2, 2020, 8:50 PM

18 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Rationality vs. Taleb’s Antifragilism

MellivoraMay 2, 2020, 2:07 PM

18 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you whittle path-dependent (probabilistic) questions?

Mary ChernyshenkoMay 2, 2020, 8:53 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

“Don’t even think about hell”

emmabMay 2, 2020, 8:06 AM

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on AI ethics and superintelligence

Kaj_SotalaMay 2, 2020, 7:35 AM

43 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

(plato.stanford.edu)

Meditation: the screen-and-watcher model of the human mind, and how to use it

femtogrammarMay 1, 2020, 10:36 PM

32 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Pueyo: How to Do Testing and Contact Tracing [Summary]

DerekFMay 1, 2020, 10:29 PM

7 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

April 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwernMay 1, 2020, 8:47 PM

11 points

0 comments LW link

(www.gwern.net)

2020 predictions

BuckyMay 1, 2020, 8:11 PM

11 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Nicotinamide riboside and SARS-CoV-2

William WalkerMay 1, 2020, 4:10 PM

8 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

SlateStarCodex 2020 Predictions: Buy, Sell, Hold

ZviMay 1, 2020, 2:30 PM

53 points

15 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open & Welcome Thread—May 2020

rolandMay 1, 2020, 12:01 PM

17 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Interview with Aubrey de Grey, chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation

emanuele ascaniMay 1, 2020, 9:04 AM

12 points

6 comments14 min readLW link

Prolonging life is about the optionality, not about the immortality

George3d6May 1, 2020, 7:41 AM

7 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

[U.S. Specific] Criminal Justice Reform in the Time of Covid-19

KiranChokshiMay 1, 2020, 5:29 AM

3 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Value of building an online “knowledge web”

Joe Kwon1 May 2020 4:31 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Topological metaphysics: relating point-set topology and locale theory

jessicata1 May 2020 3:57 UTC

14 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Reopen Protest Sign Survey

jefftk1 May 2020 3:40 UTC

34 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville

Palus Astra30 Apr 2020 23:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments52 min readLW link