Imag­ine a World Where Govern­ments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargo12 Aug 2020 22:52 UTC
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In­vest­ment idea: bas­ket of tech stocks weighted to­wards AI

ioannes12 Aug 2020 21:30 UTC
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Blog post: A tale of two re­search communities

Aryeh Englander12 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
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Ra­tion­ally End­ing Discussions

curi12 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
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[Question] Money cre­ation and debt

AnthonyC12 Aug 2020 20:30 UTC
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How GPT-N will es­cape from its AI-box

hippke12 Aug 2020 19:34 UTC
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Strong im­pli­ca­tion of prefer­ence uncertainty

Stuart_Armstrong12 Aug 2020 19:02 UTC
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Align­ment By Default

johnswentworth12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC
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Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC
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You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC
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Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Aug 2020 20:23 UTC
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[Question] Will OpenAI’s work un­in­ten­tion­ally in­crease ex­is­ten­tial risks re­lated to AI?

adamShimi11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC
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Book re­view: Ar­chi­tects of In­tel­li­gence by Martin Ford (2018)

Ofer11 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
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[Question] Utility func­tions with­out a maximum

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir11 Aug 2020 12:58 UTC
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Moloch and multi-level selection

thoughtfulmadison11 Aug 2020 7:08 UTC
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Swiss Poli­ti­cal Sys­tem: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin Sustrik11 Aug 2020 5:09 UTC
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Writ­ing Pi­ano Songs: A Journey

Logan Riggs10 Aug 2020 21:50 UTC
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So­cial Dynamics

curi10 Aug 2020 19:29 UTC
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[Question] UK Pre­dicted Grades

cwg1g1610 Aug 2020 17:36 UTC
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[Question] What’s the ev­i­dence on fal­ling testos­teron and sperm counts in men?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel10 Aug 2020 8:58 UTC
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Fore­cast­ing AI Progress: A Re­search Agenda

10 Aug 2020 1:04 UTC
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Effect of Numpy

jefftk10 Aug 2020 1:00 UTC
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Fan­tasy-For­bid­ding Ex­pert Opinion

yamabiko10 Aug 2020 0:01 UTC
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The Law of Least Effort Con­tributes to the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi9 Aug 2020 19:38 UTC
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So­cial Interfaces

thoughtfulmadison9 Aug 2020 18:13 UTC
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Ex­is­ten­tial Risk is a sin­gle category

Rafael Harth9 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC
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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
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[Question] 10/​50/​90% chance of GPT-N Trans­for­ma­tive AI?

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

Bunthut8 Aug 2020 22:14 UTC
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The Fu­sion Power Gen­er­a­tor Scenario

johnswentworth8 Aug 2020 18:31 UTC
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Eval­u­at­ing Opus

jefftk8 Aug 2020 16:40 UTC
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[Question] How much is known about the “in­fer­ence rules” of log­i­cal in­duc­tion?

Eigil Rischel8 Aug 2020 10:45 UTC
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The Man­ual Economy

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

Ben Pace7 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC
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Are Amer­i­cans Be­com­ing More De­pressed?

calebo7 Aug 2020 15:57 UTC
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[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
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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
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The Quan­ti­ta­tive Rea­son­ing Deficit

proshowersinger7 Aug 2020 3:05 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing Two-Level Vi­sual Mnemonic Compression

armatures6 Aug 2020 23:58 UTC
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[Question] Why is ag­ing re­search our pri­mary at­tempt at im­mor­tal­ity?

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

6 Aug 2020 22:50 UTC
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An­a­lyz­ing the Prob­lem GPT-3 is Try­ing to Solve

adamShimi6 Aug 2020 21:58 UTC
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Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
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Covid 8/​6: The Case of the Miss­ing Data

Zvi6 Aug 2020 21:40 UTC
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Pro­cras­ti­na­tion Para­doxes: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

scasper6 Aug 2020 19:47 UTC
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Mar­ket norms and So­cial norms

TruetoThis6 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
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[Question] How do you or­ganise your read­ing?

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

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

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

Pedro Oliboni6 Aug 2020 4:05 UTC
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