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[Question]
Effective children education
kotrfa
Jun 3, 2020, 8:35 PM
49
points
31
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Radical Probabilism [Transcript]
abramdemski
and
Ben Pace
Jun 26, 2020, 10:14 PM
48
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
FHI paper on COVID-19 government countermeasures
Bird Concept
Jun 4, 2020, 9:06 PM
47
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(doi.org)
Visual Babble and Prune
DirectedEvolution
Jun 4, 2020, 6:49 PM
46
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders
FactorialCode
Jun 14, 2020, 5:14 PM
45
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nber.org)
Gödel’s Legacy: A game without end
Hazard
Jun 28, 2020, 6:50 PM
45
points
11
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Why do all out attacks actually work?
lc
Jun 12, 2020, 8:33 PM
44
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?
eapache
Jun 20, 2020, 6:23 PM
44
points
19
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Superexponential Historic Growth, by David Roodman
Ben Pace
Jun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM
43
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
Status-Regulating Emotions
lsusr
Jun 3, 2020, 10:32 PM
42
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit
jasoncrawford
Jun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM
42
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Sparsity and interpretability?
Ada Böhm
,
RobertKirk
and
Tomáš Gavenčiak
Jun 1, 2020, 1:25 PM
41
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
News ⊂ Advertising
lsusr
Jun 22, 2020, 7:19 PM
40
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[AN #102]: Meta learning by GPT-3, and a list of full proposals for AI alignment
Rohin Shah
Jun 3, 2020, 5:20 PM
38
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Relevant pre-AGI possibilities
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jun 20, 2020, 10:52 AM
38
points
7
comments
19
min read
LW
link
(aiimpacts.org)
Quarantine Bubbles Require Directness, and Tolerance of Rudeness
Raemon
Jun 7, 2020, 7:52 PM
37
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Most reliable news sources?
Eli Tyre
Jun 6, 2020, 8:24 PM
37
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Your best future self
Raemon
Jun 6, 2020, 7:10 PM
37
points
24
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
The Indexing Problem
johnswentworth
Jun 22, 2020, 7:11 PM
36
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Pasteur’s quadrant
jasoncrawford
Jun 5, 2020, 5:47 PM
36
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Cartesian Boundary as Abstraction Boundary
johnswentworth
Jun 11, 2020, 5:38 PM
35
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How alienated should you be?
Vaniver
Jun 14, 2020, 3:55 PM
35
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are some Civilizational Sanity Interventions?
Eli Tyre
Jun 14, 2020, 1:38 AM
34
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Blog Post Day III
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jun 1, 2020, 1:56 PM
33
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Covid-19 6/4: The Eye of the Storm
Zvi
Jun 4, 2020, 8:50 PM
33
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
COVID-19: The Illusion of Stability
PeterMcCluskey
Jun 8, 2020, 6:46 PM
32
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
May Gwern.net newsletter (w/GPT-3 commentary)
gwern
Jun 2, 2020, 3:40 PM
32
points
7
comments
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Neural Basis for Global Workspace Theory
Hazard
Jun 22, 2020, 4:19 AM
31
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Modelling Continuous Progress
Sammy Martin
Jun 23, 2020, 6:06 PM
30
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Stopped Clock Problem
eapache
Jun 4, 2020, 12:07 PM
30
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Practical Guide to Conflict Resolution: Comprehension
eapache
Jun 13, 2020, 3:08 PM
30
points
0
comments
4
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
Abstraction, Evolution and Gears
johnswentworth
Jun 24, 2020, 5:39 PM
29
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Feedback is central to agency
Alex Flint
Jun 1, 2020, 12:56 PM
29
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Map Errors: The Good, The Bad, and The Territory
orthonormal
Jun 27, 2020, 5:22 AM
29
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Image GPT
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jun 18, 2020, 11:41 AM
29
points
27
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
[AN #103]: ARCHES: an agenda for existential safety, and combining natural language with deep RL
Rohin Shah
Jun 10, 2020, 5:20 PM
29
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Overcorrecting As Deliberate Practice
lifelonglearner
Jun 1, 2020, 6:26 AM
29
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Testing Hanson’s hypothesis about the uselessness of health care.
JoshuaFox
Jun 13, 2020, 6:34 PM
28
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Sunday June 28 – talks by johnswentworth, Daniel kokotajlo, Charlie Steiner, TurnTrout
Bird Concept
and
Ben Pace
Jun 26, 2020, 7:13 PM
28
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Negotiating With Yourself
orthonormal
Jun 26, 2020, 11:55 PM
28
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The point of a memory palace
DirectedEvolution
Jun 20, 2020, 1:00 AM
28
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
God and Moses have a chat
Yitz
Jun 17, 2020, 6:34 PM
28
points
17
comments
6
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
Missing dog reasoning
eukaryote
and
Bird Concept
Jun 26, 2020, 9:30 PM
27
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Institutional Senescence
Martin Sustrik
Jun 26, 2020, 4:40 AM
27
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(250bpm.com)
Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
lsusr
Jun 13, 2020, 9:19 AM
27
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.lsusr.com)
[Question]
Why are all these domains called from Less Wrong?
Viliam
Jun 27, 2020, 1:46 PM
26
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dietary Debates among the Fruit Gnomes
Sherrinford
Jun 3, 2020, 2:09 PM
26
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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