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Industry and workers
smaslennikov
Jun 25, 2020, 8:03 PM
−3
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(smaslennikov.com)
Covid 6/25: The Dam Breaks
Zvi
Jun 25, 2020, 6:30 PM
116
points
21
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
An agile approach to pre-research
DirectedEvolution
Jun 25, 2020, 6:29 PM
15
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem
Davidmanheim
Jun 25, 2020, 6:10 PM
163
points
41
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
GPT-3 Fiction Samples
gwern
Jun 25, 2020, 4:12 PM
63
points
15
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
There’s an Awesome AI Ethics List and it’s a little thin
AABoyles
Jun 25, 2020, 1:43 PM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
DontDoxScottAlexander.com—A Petition
Ben Pace
,
Bird Concept
and
Rob Bensinger
Jun 25, 2020, 5:44 AM
120
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(DontDoxScottAlexander.com)
Preview On Hover
jefftk
Jun 24, 2020, 10:20 PM
20
points
22
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Don’t punish yourself for bad luck
Sherrinford
Jun 24, 2020, 9:52 PM
16
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Betting with Mandatory Post-Mortem
abramdemski
Jun 24, 2020, 8:04 PM
105
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quick Look #1 Diophantus of Alexandria
SebastianG
Jun 24, 2020, 7:12 PM
19
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s the name for that plausible deniability thing?
eapache
Jun 24, 2020, 6:42 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can I archive content from lesswrong.com on the wayback machine (internet archive, archive.org) ?
nick lacombe
Jun 24, 2020, 6:15 PM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Abstraction, Evolution and Gears
johnswentworth
Jun 24, 2020, 5:39 PM
29
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[AN #105]: The economic trajectory of humanity, and what we might mean by optimization
Rohin Shah
Jun 24, 2020, 5:30 PM
24
points
3
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Linkpost: M21 Review: We Have Normality
Zvi
Jun 24, 2020, 4:10 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Models, myths, dreams, and Cheshire cat grins
Stuart_Armstrong
Jun 24, 2020, 10:50 AM
21
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does NYT have policies?
Douglas_Knight
Jun 24, 2020, 4:06 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Dark Miracle of Optics
Suspended Reason
Jun 24, 2020, 3:09 AM
27
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Half-Baked Products and Idea Kernels
Liron
Jun 24, 2020, 1:00 AM
64
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Has anyone explored deliberate infection with milder coronavirus strains for cross-immunity?
polyamorousRobot
Jun 23, 2020, 10:23 PM
2
points
2
comments
LW
link
[Question]
How do you Murphyjitsu essentially risky activities?
9eB1
Jun 23, 2020, 9:09 PM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is “Instrumental Corrigibility”?
joebernstein
Jun 23, 2020, 8:24 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Modelling Continuous Progress
Sammy Martin
Jun 23, 2020, 6:06 PM
30
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Requesting feedback/advice: what Type Theory to study for AI safety?
rvnnt
Jun 23, 2020, 5:03 PM
7
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[META] Building a rationalist communication system to avoid censorship
Donald Hobson
Jun 23, 2020, 2:12 PM
36
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Old-world Politics Fallacy
Rudi C
Jun 23, 2020, 12:32 PM
7
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
New York Times, Please Do Not Threaten The Safety of Scott Alexander By Revealing His True Name
Zvi
Jun 23, 2020, 12:20 PM
153
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Personal experience of coffee as nootropic
ryan wong
Jun 23, 2020, 12:00 PM
21
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
SlateStarCodex deleted because NYT wants to dox Scott
Rudi C
Jun 23, 2020, 7:51 AM
89
points
93
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Slate Star Codex Deleted
Jeremy_Nixon
Jun 23, 2020, 7:21 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prediction = Compression [Transcript]
alkjash
and
Ben Pace
Jun 22, 2020, 11:54 PM
69
points
13
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Locality of goals
adamShimi
Jun 22, 2020, 9:56 PM
16
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Question on GPT-3 Excel Demo
Zhitao Hou
Jun 22, 2020, 8:31 PM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
News ⊂ Advertising
lsusr
Jun 22, 2020, 7:19 PM
40
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Indexing Problem
johnswentworth
Jun 22, 2020, 7:11 PM
36
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
AI Benefits Post 1: Introducing “AI Benefits”
Cullen
Jun 22, 2020, 4:59 PM
11
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Queen of the Damned
Slimepriestess
Jun 22, 2020, 4:50 AM
4
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory
Hazard
Jun 22, 2020, 4:19 AM
31
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Fight the Power
Jacob Falkovich
Jun 22, 2020, 2:19 AM
23
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Do Women Like Assholes?
Jacob Falkovich
Jun 22, 2020, 2:14 AM
30
points
10
comments
17
min read
LW
link
You have become the supreme dictator of the United States.
Nyarlathotep
Jun 22, 2020, 1:45 AM
−11
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Plausible cases for HRAD work, and locating the crux in the “realism about rationality” debate
riceissa
Jun 22, 2020, 1:10 AM
85
points
15
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Training our humans on the wrong dataset
George3d6
Jun 21, 2020, 5:17 PM
4
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(blog.cerebralab.com)
The Bright Side of rationalization
Alexey Smirnov
Jun 21, 2020, 4:30 PM
0
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are Humans Fundamentally Good?
Nyarlathotep
Jun 21, 2020, 4:29 PM
1
point
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My weekly review habit
benkuhn
Jun 21, 2020, 2:40 PM
71
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.benkuhn.net)
The affect heuristic and studying autocracies
Tim Liptrot
Jun 21, 2020, 4:07 AM
13
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to make a predicted AI alignment event/meeting calendar
rmoehn
Jun 20, 2020, 10:43 PM
6
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Insights Over Frameworks
lifelonglearner
Jun 20, 2020, 7:52 PM
14
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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