Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect

DirectedEvolutionJun 17, 2020, 9:44 PM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

YitzJun 17, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworthJun 17, 2020, 6:09 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2020, 5:44 PM
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyoticJun 17, 2020, 4:43 PM
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

Set image di­men­sions us­ing markdown

Alex FlintJun 17, 2020, 12:37 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Our take on CHAI’s re­search agenda in un­der 1500 words

Alex FlintJun 17, 2020, 12:24 PM
113 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_LeongJun 17, 2020, 2:20 AM
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemskiJun 16, 2020, 10:08 PM
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

ElizabethJun 16, 2020, 6:10 PM
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What are the high-level ap­proaches to AI al­ign­ment?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 16, 2020, 5:10 PM
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi CJun 16, 2020, 3:17 PM
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkocJun 16, 2020, 1:29 PM
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How does one au­then­ti­cate with the less­wrong API?

Alex FlintJun 15, 2020, 11:46 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben PaceJun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawfordJun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­search snap-shot: ques­tion about Global Workspace Theory

HazardJun 15, 2020, 9:00 PM
21 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] By what met­ric do you judge a refer­ence class?

B JacobsJun 15, 2020, 6:34 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworthJun 15, 2020, 5:19 PM
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What do drafts look like?

SarahNibsJun 15, 2020, 4:02 PM
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If the re­pro­duc­tion num­ber is so­cially “con­trol­led” to its in­flec­tion point 1, what are the eth­i­cal and pre­dic­tive im­pli­ca­tions?

Tim LiptrotJun 15, 2020, 4:01 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels and their Interactions

ZviJun 15, 2020, 1:10 PM
202 points
51 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achiev­ing AI al­ign­ment through de­liber­ate un­cer­tainty in mul­ti­a­gent systems

Florian DietzJun 15, 2020, 12:19 PM
3 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

The Eco­nomic Con­se­quences of Noise Traders

FactorialCodeJun 14, 2020, 5:14 PM
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nber.org)

How alienated should you be?

VaniverJun 14, 2020, 3:55 PM
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] List of pub­lic pre­dic­tions of what GPT-X can or can’t do?

Daniel KokotajloJun 14, 2020, 2:25 PM
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond Wave?

jefftkJun 14, 2020, 2:00 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli TyreJun 14, 2020, 1:38 AM
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

TetraspaceJun 14, 2020, 12:16 AM
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

JoshuaFoxJun 13, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapacheJun 13, 2020, 3:08 PM
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you find good con­tent on Youtube?

Rudi CJun 13, 2020, 12:29 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 10:28 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

lsusrJun 13, 2020, 9:19 AM
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas KwaJun 13, 2020, 12:03 AM
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Short es­says on var­i­ous things I’ve watched

philhJun 12, 2020, 10:50 PM
9 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book re­view (Scott Aaron­son)

ioannesJun 12, 2020, 10:16 PM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lcJun 12, 2020, 8:33 PM
44 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] For mod­er­ately well-re­sourced peo­ple in the US, how quickly will things go from “un­com­fortable” to “too late to exit”?

DagonJun 12, 2020, 4:59 PM
76 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Prag­ma­tism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 12, 2020, 4:34 PM
16 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff In­duc­tion, up with the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Charlie SteinerJun 12, 2020, 9:44 AM
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

An on­line pre­dic­tion mar­ket with rep­u­ta­tion points

kickboxerJun 12, 2020, 9:29 AM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What gripes do you have with Mus­tachi­anism?

Adam ZernerJun 11, 2020, 11:42 PM
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out In­ter­rup­tions Are Bad, Who Knew?

ElizabethJun 11, 2020, 11:10 PM
74 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Covid-19 6/​11: Brac­ing For a Se­cond Wave

ZviJun 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
61 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Survey

B JacobsJun 11, 2020, 8:05 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Carte­sian Boundary as Ab­strac­tion Boundary

johnswentworthJun 11, 2020, 5:38 PM
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Mis­take Theorists

DirectedEvolutionJun 11, 2020, 2:49 PM
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link