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[Question]
What are the best tools for recording predictions?
Raemon
May 24, 2020, 7:15 PM
15
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Meta] Finding free energy in karma
eapache
May 24, 2020, 2:47 PM
13
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Plague in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Zvi
May 24, 2020, 12:00 PM
41
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Why We Age, Part 1: What ageing is and is not
willbradshaw
May 24, 2020, 9:06 AM
55
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(apomorphic.com)
LessWrong v2.0 Anti-Kibitzer (hides comment authors and vote counts)
Marcello
May 23, 2020, 11:44 PM
59
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Opposing a hierarchy does not imply egalitarianism
Viliam
May 23, 2020, 8:51 PM
7
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is your internet search methodology ?
George3d6
May 23, 2020, 8:33 PM
16
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Notes about psychopharmacology
ksenia
May 23, 2020, 7:31 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(n2t.net)
Mazes Sequence Summary
Zvi
May 23, 2020, 4:40 PM
81
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Evolution is sampling error
willbradshaw
May 23, 2020, 4:21 PM
37
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(apomorphic.com)
How can Interpretability help Alignment?
RobertKirk
and
Tomáš Gavenčiak
May 23, 2020, 4:16 PM
37
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
In Search of Slack
Martin Sustrik
May 23, 2020, 11:20 AM
47
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
[Question]
Is taking bacopa good for life extension?
Mati_Roy
May 23, 2020, 8:54 AM
8
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
AGIs as collectives
Richard_Ngo
May 22, 2020, 8:36 PM
24
points
23
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Highlights of Comparative and Evolutionary Aging
johnswentworth
May 22, 2020, 5:01 PM
56
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Oil Crisis of 1973
Elizabeth
May 22, 2020, 3:50 PM
79
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
(acesounderglass.com)
Post-crash market efficiency 1696-2020
bfinn
May 22, 2020, 2:13 PM
22
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Help wanted: Improving COVID-19 contact-tracing by estimating respiratory droplets
Steven Byrnes
May 22, 2020, 2:05 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
Get It Done Now
Zvi
May 22, 2020, 12:20 PM
57
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
From self to craving (three characteristics series)
Kaj_Sotala
May 22, 2020, 12:16 PM
63
points
21
comments
11
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Predictions/questions about conquistadors?
Daniel Kokotajlo
May 22, 2020, 11:43 AM
7
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wikipedia Edit War Update
jefftk
May 22, 2020, 11:30 AM
55
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What aspects of the world emotionally bothers you on an immediate personal level on a daily basis?
Mati_Roy
May 22, 2020, 6:27 AM
8
points
16
comments
LW
link
The Devil You Know
Slimepriestess
May 21, 2020, 9:50 PM
5
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
(hivewired.wordpress.com)
Reflective Complaints
Raemon
May 21, 2020, 9:11 PM
37
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are objects that have made your life better?
Mark Xu
May 21, 2020, 8:59 PM
30
points
54
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Wrapping and Centering
jefftk
May 21, 2020, 2:30 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How does publishing a paper work?
Liron
May 21, 2020, 12:14 PM
42
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comparing reward learning/reward tampering formalisms
Stuart_Armstrong
May 21, 2020, 12:03 PM
9
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Orthogonality
lsusr
May 21, 2020, 3:17 AM
21
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What was your reasoning for deciding to have ‘your own’/ natural-birthed children?
R L
May 21, 2020, 1:30 AM
2
points
3
comments
LW
link
[Question]
If bacteria gave us a tool for bio engineering, have viruses given us a delivery mechanism?
jmh
May 20, 2020, 10:31 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a way to replicate photosynthesis artificially?
basu_enterprise
May 20, 2020, 7:45 PM
−2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Comment on “Endogenous Epistemic Factionalization”
Zack_M_Davis
May 20, 2020, 6:04 PM
158
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting
Rohin Shah
May 20, 2020, 5:30 PM
33
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Probabilities, weights, sums: pretty much the same for reward functions
Stuart_Armstrong
May 20, 2020, 3:19 PM
11
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Race for the Galaxy: 9 Choose 6
jefftk
May 20, 2020, 12:10 PM
12
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Meta] Three small suggestions for the LW-website
B Jacobs
May 20, 2020, 11:18 AM
9
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Source code size vs learned model size in ML and in humans?
riceissa
May 20, 2020, 8:47 AM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to learn from a stronger rationalist in daily life?
Thomas Kwa
May 20, 2020, 4:55 AM
16
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Signaling: Why People Have Conversations
liam_hinzman
May 20, 2020, 3:18 AM
15
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(liamhinzman.com)
Announcing Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online summer program in the history of technology
jasoncrawford
May 20, 2020, 12:52 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
How to convince Y that X has committed a murder with >0.999999 probability?
Colin Tang
19 May 2020 22:55 UTC
1
point
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Haskenthetical
philh
19 May 2020 22:00 UTC
18
points
9
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
A Problem With Patternism
B Jacobs
19 May 2020 20:16 UTC
5
points
52
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bag-Drying Clips
jefftk
19 May 2020 14:00 UTC
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Learning and manipulating learning
Stuart_Armstrong
19 May 2020 13:02 UTC
39
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Pointing to a Flower
johnswentworth
18 May 2020 18:54 UTC
61
points
18
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Why Artists Study Anatomy
Sisi Cheng
18 May 2020 18:44 UTC
98
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria
eapache
18 May 2020 17:25 UTC
51
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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