Covid-19: Anal­y­sis of Mor­tal­ity Data

Zvi11 Jul 2020 21:30 UTC
32 points
12 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How well can the GPT ar­chi­tec­ture solve the par­ity task?

FactorialCode11 Jul 2020 19:02 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Canon­i­cal forms

sen11 Jul 2020 18:53 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.fimfiction.net)

Lurk­ing More Be­fore Join­ing Com­plex Conversations

Raemon11 Jul 2020 17:11 UTC
42 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Meta Pro­gram­ming GPT: A route to Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

dmtea11 Jul 2020 14:51 UTC
10 points
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Hier­ar­chy of Evidence

B Jacobs11 Jul 2020 12:54 UTC
7 points
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Max­i­mal Ventilation

jefftk11 Jul 2020 1:20 UTC
31 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Mod Note: Tag­ging Ac­tivity is Not Private

Ruby11 Jul 2020 0:56 UTC
31 points
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Cost/​Benefit anal­y­sis of School Clo­sures in the US

anna.becca.g@gmail.com10 Jul 2020 23:35 UTC
9 points
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Your Pri­ori­ti­za­tion is Underspecified

romeostevensit10 Jul 2020 20:48 UTC
85 points
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Was a PhD nec­es­sary to solve out­stand­ing math prob­lems?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 18:43 UTC
22 points
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Talk: Key Is­sues In Near-Term AI Safety Research

Aryeh Englander10 Jul 2020 18:36 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] When is evolu­tion­ary psy­chol­ogy use­ful?

snog toddgrass10 Jul 2020 18:22 UTC
3 points
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A space of pro­pos­als for build­ing safe ad­vanced AI

Richard_Ngo10 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
55 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Should I take an IQ test, why or why not?

snog toddgrass10 Jul 2020 16:52 UTC
2 points
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Mesa-Op­ti­miz­ers vs “Steered Op­ti­miz­ers”

Steven Byrnes10 Jul 2020 16:49 UTC
45 points
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Born as the sev­enth month dies …

Rudi C10 Jul 2020 15:07 UTC
6 points
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Franken­stein De­lenda Est

eapache10 Jul 2020 14:38 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

De­coloniz­ing Ev­i­dence-Based De­ci­sion-Making

Ian David Moss10 Jul 2020 14:30 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Was a ter­mi­nal de­gree nec­es­sary for in­vent­ing Boyle’s desider­ata?

DirectedEvolution10 Jul 2020 4:47 UTC
35 points
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As Few As Possible

Decius10 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
1 point
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Kelly Bet on Everything

Jacob Falkovich10 Jul 2020 2:48 UTC
101 points
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[Question] How far along are you on the Less­wrong Path?

AiresJL9 Jul 2020 21:41 UTC
10 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

Slate Star Codex and Sili­con Valley’s War Against the Media

PointlessOne9 Jul 2020 19:20 UTC
6 points
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(www.newyorker.com)

Why is the im­pact penalty time-in­con­sis­tent?

Stuart_Armstrong9 Jul 2020 17:26 UTC
16 points
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Fea­tured Tags: July 2020

Ruby9 Jul 2020 17:00 UTC
16 points
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Ar­gu­ments against my­opic training

Richard_Ngo9 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
62 points
39 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 7/​9: Lies, Damn Lies and Death Rates

Zvi9 Jul 2020 13:40 UTC
56 points
16 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] [Re­source Re­quest] What are good re­sources for best prac­tice for cre­at­ing bu­reau­cracy?

ChristianKl9 Jul 2020 12:05 UTC
11 points
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[Question] Why does “deep ab­strac­tion” lose it’s use­ful­ness in the far past and fu­ture?

Garrett Baker9 Jul 2020 7:12 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

The New Front­page De­sign & Open­ing Tag Creation!

habryka9 Jul 2020 4:37 UTC
52 points
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AI Re­search Con­sid­er­a­tions for Hu­man Ex­is­ten­tial Safety (ARCHES)

habryka9 Jul 2020 2:49 UTC
60 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Sur­vival in the im­moral maze of college

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2020 21:27 UTC
40 points
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What does it mean to ap­ply de­ci­sion the­ory?

abramdemski8 Jul 2020 20:31 UTC
54 points
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Ni­coti­namide ri­boside vs. SARS-coV-2 update

William Walker8 Jul 2020 19:50 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] How “hon­est” is GPT-3?

abramdemski8 Jul 2020 19:38 UTC
72 points
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UML IV: Lin­ear Predictors

Rafael Harth8 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC
15 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Some­thing about the Pinker Can­cel­la­tion seems Suspicious

Virgil Kurkjian8 Jul 2020 18:08 UTC
9 points
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Anti-episte­mol­ogy: an explanation

Basil Marte8 Jul 2020 16:34 UTC
3 points
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Par­tially Step­ping Down Isolation

jefftk8 Jul 2020 11:40 UTC
18 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Learn­ing flirt­ing with an act­ing coach—thoughts?

snog toddgrass8 Jul 2020 4:34 UTC
−1 points
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[Question] What prob­lem would you like to see Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing ap­plied to?

Julian Schrittwieser8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
43 points
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Sun­day July 12 — talks by Scott Garrabrant, Alexflint, alexei, Stu­art_Armstrong

8 Jul 2020 0:27 UTC
19 points
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Was SARS-CoV-2 ac­tu­ally pre­sent in March 2019 wastew­a­ter sam­ples?

Jeffrey Ladish7 Jul 2020 23:08 UTC
4 points
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[Question] Does 3-2-1 Vot­ing work us­ing a six point scale?

TGetschman7 Jul 2020 21:06 UTC
1 point
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An­titrust-Com­pli­ant AI In­dus­try Self-Regulation

Cullen7 Jul 2020 20:53 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(cullenokeefe.com)

Models of Value of Learning

johnswentworth7 Jul 2020 19:08 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Break­ing Ques­tions Down

Elizabeth7 Jul 2020 18:10 UTC
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What are the risks of per­ma­nent in­jury from COVID?

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Jul 2020 16:30 UTC
41 points
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The Equa­tion of Knowledge

Lê Nguyên Hoang7 Jul 2020 16:09 UTC
58 points
3 comments7 min readLW link