An­nounc­ing: Progress Stud­ies Read­ing Group.

Sami_beanzAug 30, 2020, 10:39 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

microCOVID.org: A tool to es­ti­mate COVID risk from com­mon activities

catherioAug 29, 2020, 11:01 PM
176 points
36 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(microcovid.org)

[Question] Thoughts on Neu­ral­ink up­date?

NoUsernameSelectedAug 29, 2020, 10:59 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pong from pix­els with­out read­ing “Pong from Pix­els”

Ian McKenzieAug 29, 2020, 5:26 PM
17 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel NandaAug 29, 2020, 3:50 PM
75 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Safe Scram­bling?

HoagyAug 29, 2020, 2:31 PM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Death and Taxes

ZviAug 29, 2020, 1:10 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Please take a sur­vey on the qual­ity/​im­pact of things I’ve written

MichaelAAug 29, 2020, 10:39 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Up­dates and ad­di­tions to “Embed­ded Agency”

Aug 29, 2020, 4:22 AM
82 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: The Ir­ish Wolfhound

CallmesalticidaeAug 29, 2020, 4:01 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: An In­tro­duc­tion & Explanation

CallmesalticidaeAug 29, 2020, 3:54 AM
20 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmithAug 28, 2020, 10:21 PM
51 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

My guide to lifelogging

Matthew BarnettAug 28, 2020, 9:34 PM
28 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

How to teach things well

Neel NandaAug 28, 2020, 4:44 PM
110 points
17 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] How hard would it be to change GPT-3 in a way that al­lows au­dio?

ChristianKlAug 28, 2020, 2:42 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Zib­bal­done With It All

RandominiAug 28, 2020, 11:37 AM
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseAug 28, 2020, 2:45 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“On Bul­lshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

CallmesalticidaeAug 28, 2020, 12:44 AM
20 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on eco­nomic growth

Matthew BarnettAug 27, 2020, 8:29 PM
51 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on “The An­thro­pol­ogy of Child­hood”

juliawiseAug 27, 2020, 5:11 PM
185 points
10 comments45 min readLW link

Covid 8/​27: The Fall of the CDC

ZviAug 27, 2020, 2:10 PM
85 points
16 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tech­ni­cal model re­fine­ment formalism

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2020, 11:54 AM
19 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Model splin­ter­ing: mov­ing from one im­perfect model to another

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 27, 2020, 11:53 AM
79 points
10 comments33 min readLW link

Are We Right about How Effec­tive Mock­ery Is?

Ronny FernandezAug 27, 2020, 10:48 AM
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Ba­sic In­framea­sure Theory

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 8:02 AM
39 points
19 comments25 min readLW link

Belief Func­tions And De­ci­sion Theory

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 8:00 AM
20 points
7 comments39 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 1.1 (Ini­tial re­sults to LF-du­al­ity)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:59 AM
8 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 1.2 (Mix­tures, Up­dates, Push­for­wards)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:57 AM
8 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 2.1 (The­o­rem 1, Lem­mas)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:54 AM
8 points
0 comments36 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 2.2 (Iso­mor­phism to Ex­pec­ta­tions)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:52 AM
8 points
0 comments46 min readLW link

Proofs Sec­tion 2.3 (Up­dates, De­ci­sion The­ory)

DiffractorAug 27, 2020, 7:49 AM
8 points
0 comments31 min readLW link

19th-cen­tury progress studies

jasoncrawfordAug 27, 2020, 2:28 AM
30 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What is the in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the do() op­er­a­tor?

BunthutAug 26, 2020, 9:54 PM
10 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion To The In­fra-Bayesi­anism Sequence

Aug 26, 2020, 8:31 PM
110 points
62 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

We­bBun­dles and URL Randomization

jefftkAug 26, 2020, 5:50 PM
10 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[AN #114]: The­ory-in­spired safety solu­tions for pow­er­ful Bayesian RL agents

Rohin ShahAug 26, 2020, 5:20 PM
21 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Ex­cus­ing a Failure to Adjust

Ronny FernandezAug 26, 2020, 1:51 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

nos­talge­braist: Re­cur­sive Good­hart’s Law

Kaj_SotalaAug 26, 2020, 11:07 AM
53 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

On Sud­denly Not Be­ing Able to Work

Jacob FalkovichAug 25, 2020, 10:14 PM
35 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

I Started a Sports and Gam­bling Substack

ZviAug 25, 2020, 9:30 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Re­fu­ta­tion of (Global) “Hap­piness Max­i­miza­tion”

fareAug 25, 2020, 8:33 PM
−1 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

Sun­day, 20/​8/​30, 12pm PDT – Tag­ging Cel­e­bra­tion: Habryka/​Crawford + Party

RubyAug 25, 2020, 8:21 PM
49 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal In­con­sis­tency in Solomonoff In­duc­tion?

curiAug 25, 2020, 5:09 PM
7 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

The Best Toy In The Park

jefftkAug 25, 2020, 2:30 PM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why hasn’t there been re­search on the effec­tive­ness of zinc for Covid-19?

Rudi CAug 24, 2020, 8:58 PM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

So­cially-dis­tanced out­door Petrov Day cer­e­mo­nial manual

jchanAug 24, 2020, 2:11 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

When can Fic­tion Change the World?

Timothy UnderwoodAug 24, 2020, 1:47 PM
79 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Do you vote based on what you think to­tal karma should be?

Rafael HarthAug 24, 2020, 1:37 PM
44 points
57 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is ‘sat­ific­ing’ op­ti­mi­sa­tion?

Riccardo VolpatoAug 24, 2020, 11:51 AM
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing hu­man prefer­ences: black-box, white-box, and struc­tured white-box access

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 24, 2020, 11:42 AM
26 points
9 comments6 min readLW link