The Law of Least Effort Con­tributes to the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC
7 points
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So­cial Interfaces

thoughtfulmadison9 Aug 2020 18:13 UTC
14 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risk is a sin­gle category

Rafael Harth9 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC
31 points
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[Question] Can we ex­pect more value from AI al­ign­ment than from an ASI with the goal of run­ning al­ter­nate tra­jec­to­ries of our uni­verse?

Maxime Riché9 Aug 2020 17:17 UTC
2 points
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[Question] 10/​50/​90% chance of GPT-N Trans­for­ma­tive AI?

human_generated_text9 Aug 2020 0:10 UTC
24 points
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Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

Bunthut8 Aug 2020 22:14 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The Fu­sion Power Gen­er­a­tor Scenario

johnswentworth8 Aug 2020 18:31 UTC
142 points
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Eval­u­at­ing Opus

jefftk8 Aug 2020 16:40 UTC
20 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How much is known about the “in­fer­ence rules” of log­i­cal in­duc­tion?

Eigil Rischel8 Aug 2020 10:45 UTC
11 points
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The Man­ual Economy

eapache7 Aug 2020 22:29 UTC
14 points
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[Question] Is Wire­cut­ter still good?

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC
46 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Are Amer­i­cans Be­com­ing More De­pressed?

calebo7 Aug 2020 15:57 UTC
26 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] I’m look­ing for re­search look­ing at the in­fluence of fic­tion on chang­ing elite/​pub­lic be­hav­iors and opinions

Timothy Underwood7 Aug 2020 13:49 UTC
6 points
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[Question] What are some low-in­for­ma­tion pri­ors that you find prac­ti­cally use­ful for think­ing about the world?

Linch7 Aug 2020 4:37 UTC
27 points
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The Quan­ti­ta­tive Rea­son­ing Deficit

proshowersinger7 Aug 2020 3:05 UTC
10 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Why is ag­ing re­search our pri­mary at­tempt at im­mor­tal­ity?

sd16 Aug 2020 23:47 UTC
1 point
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Sun­day Au­gust 9, 1pm (PDT) — talks by eli­tyre, ja­cob­ja­cob, Ruby

6 Aug 2020 22:50 UTC
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing the Prob­lem GPT-3 is Try­ing to Solve

adamShimi6 Aug 2020 21:58 UTC
16 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Covid 8/​6: The Case of the Miss­ing Data

Zvi6 Aug 2020 21:40 UTC
43 points
3 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Para­doxes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

scasper6 Aug 2020 19:47 UTC
21 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Mar­ket norms and So­cial norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you or­ganise your read­ing?

brook6 Aug 2020 14:54 UTC
20 points
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Open & Wel­come Thread—Au­gust 2020

habryka6 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
13 points
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Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Don’t Know Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Aug 2020 4:33 UTC
25 points
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The Iso­la­tion As­sump­tion of Ex­pected Utility Maximization

Pedro Oliboni6 Aug 2020 4:05 UTC
7 points
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[Question] Ti­tan (the Wealth­front of ac­tive stock pick­ing) - What’s the catch?

Liron6 Aug 2020 1:06 UTC
10 points
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[Question] What should an Ein­stein-like figure in Ma­chine Learn­ing do?

Razied5 Aug 2020 23:52 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Di­a­gram­ming “Re­plac­ing Guilt,” Part 1

armatures5 Aug 2020 23:36 UTC
34 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing hard­ware overhang

hippke5 Aug 2020 19:59 UTC
115 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Which COVID-19 serol­ogy (an­ti­body) test is best?

knite5 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #111]: The Cir­cuits hy­pothe­ses for deep learning

Rohin Shah5 Aug 2020 17:40 UTC
23 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Can So­cial Dy­nam­ics Ex­plain Con­junc­tion Fal­lacy Ex­per­i­men­tal Re­sults?

curi5 Aug 2020 8:50 UTC
8 points
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Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC
129 points
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(www.benkuhn.net)

The Golden Age of Data

Collisteru4 Aug 2020 21:35 UTC
5 points
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My pa­per was sig­nal­ling the whole time—Robin Han­son wins again

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2020 21:13 UTC
49 points
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Bos­ton/​Cam­bridge LW Han­gout, Sun­day 8/​16/​20

ItsGiusto4 Aug 2020 20:43 UTC
1 point
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In­finite Data/​Com­pute Ar­gu­ments in Alignment

johnswentworth4 Aug 2020 20:21 UTC
50 points
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Prop­erty as Co­or­di­na­tion Minimization

Vaniver4 Aug 2020 19:24 UTC
38 points
35 comments4 min readLW link

In­ter­pretabil­ity in ML: A Broad Overview

lifelonglearner4 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC
53 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Bu­dapest Meetup on Mar­git Sziget

Timothy Underwood4 Aug 2020 12:29 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

RT-LAMP is the right way to scale di­ag­nos­tic test­ing for the coronavirus

Kevin4 Aug 2020 10:05 UTC
35 points
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A sketch of ‘Si­mu­lacra Levels and their In­ter­ac­tions’

Yoav Ravid4 Aug 2020 9:13 UTC
44 points
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What is filling the hole left by re­li­gion?

Philosophistry4 Aug 2020 6:48 UTC
13 points
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[Question] RFC: COVID-19 Statis­ti­cal Guilt

Erhannis4 Aug 2020 6:46 UTC
3 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

filozof3377@gmial.com3 Aug 2020 20:57 UTC
3 points
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is gpt-3 few-shot ready for real ap­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraist3 Aug 2020 19:50 UTC
31 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

Solv­ing Key Align­ment Prob­lems Group

Logan Riggs3 Aug 2020 19:30 UTC
19 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
46 points
8 comments32 min readLW link