Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect

DirectedEvolution17 Jun 2020 21:44 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

Yitz17 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
21 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworth17 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyotic17 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

Set image di­men­sions us­ing markdown

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:37 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:24 UTC
113 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_Leong17 Jun 2020 2:20 UTC
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemski16 Jun 2020 22:08 UTC
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

Elizabeth16 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

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

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi C16 Jun 2020 15:17 UTC
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkoc16 Jun 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How does one au­then­ti­cate with the less­wrong API?

Alex Flint15 Jun 2020 23:46 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben Pace15 Jun 2020 21:49 UTC
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­search snap-shot: ques­tion about Global Workspace Theory

Hazard15 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
21 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

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

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworth15 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What do drafts look like?

SarahNibs15 Jun 2020 16:02 UTC
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 Liptrot15 Jun 2020 16:01 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels and their Interactions

Zvi15 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC
199 points
51 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achiev­ing AI al­ign­ment through de­liber­ate un­cer­tainty in mul­ti­a­gent systems

Florian Dietz15 Jun 2020 12:19 UTC
3 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

The Eco­nomic Con­se­quences of Noise Traders

FactorialCode14 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nber.org)

How alienated should you be?

Vaniver14 Jun 2020 15:55 UTC
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

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

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Jun 2020 14:25 UTC
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond Wave?

jefftk14 Jun 2020 14:00 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli Tyre14 Jun 2020 1:38 UTC
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

Tetraspace14 Jun 2020 0:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

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

JoshuaFox13 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapache13 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

Rudi C13 Jun 2020 12:29 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

lsusr13 Jun 2020 9:19 UTC
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas Kwa13 Jun 2020 0:03 UTC
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Short es­says on var­i­ous things I’ve watched

philh12 Jun 2020 22:50 UTC
9 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

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

ioannes12 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lc12 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC
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”?

Dagon12 Jun 2020 16:59 UTC
76 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Prag­ma­tism and Completeness

Gordon Seidoh Worley12 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC
15 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Down with Solomonoff In­duc­tion, up with the Pre­sump­tu­ous Philosopher

Charlie Steiner12 Jun 2020 9:44 UTC
13 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

An on­line pre­dic­tion mar­ket with rep­u­ta­tion points

kickboxer12 Jun 2020 9:29 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

What gripes do you have with Mus­tachi­anism?

Adam Zerner11 Jun 2020 23:42 UTC
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out In­ter­rup­tions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC
73 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

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

Zvi11 Jun 2020 21:30 UTC
61 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Survey

B Jacobs11 Jun 2020 20:05 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Carte­sian Boundary as Ab­strac­tion Boundary

johnswentworth11 Jun 2020 17:38 UTC
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Two Kinds of Mis­take Theorists

DirectedEvolution11 Jun 2020 14:49 UTC
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link