Public selves

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC
40 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Short sum­mary of mAIry’s room

Stuart_Armstrong18 Jan 2021 18:11 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Ap­peals to the Com­plex­ity/​Mys­te­ri­ous­ness/​Effi­ciency of the Brain

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jan 2021 12:08 UTC
194 points
86 comments13 min readLW link1 review

Liter­a­ture Re­view on Goal-Directedness

18 Jan 2021 11:15 UTC
80 points
21 comments31 min readLW link

(USA) N95 masks are available on Amazon

Wei Dai18 Jan 2021 10:37 UTC
53 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
87 points
7 comments13 min readLW link

Are the con­se­quences of groups usu­ally highly con­tin­gent on their de­tails?

KatjaGrace18 Jan 2021 1:30 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Ecolog­i­cal Perspective

Chris_Leong18 Jan 2021 1:19 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

DALL-E does sym­bol grounding

p.b.17 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci II Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic17 Jan 2021 16:58 UTC
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Why do stocks go up?

tryactions17 Jan 2021 16:36 UTC
27 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

Col­lAc­tion his­tory and les­sons learned

Ron17 Jan 2021 15:01 UTC
35 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] How can I find trust­wor­thy dietary ad­vice?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Jan 2021 13:11 UTC
30 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

What is go­ing on in the world?

KatjaGrace17 Jan 2021 11:30 UTC
90 points
48 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Wuwei

lsusr17 Jan 2021 8:28 UTC
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Use con­di­tional prob­a­bil­ities to clear up er­ror rate confusion

Maxwell Peterson17 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­cerpt from Ar­bital Solomonoff in­duc­tion dialogue

Richard_Ngo17 Jan 2021 3:49 UTC
36 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(arbital.com)

[Question] How do I im­prove at be­ing strate­gic?

Conor17 Jan 2021 1:36 UTC
11 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Sta­tus as a Ser­vice (Done Quick)

SarahSrinivasan16 Jan 2021 23:25 UTC
44 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Why Pro­duc­tivity Sys­tems Don’t Stick

Matt Goldenberg16 Jan 2021 17:45 UTC
59 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is it the case that when hu­mans ap­prox­i­mate back­ward in­duc­tion they vi­o­late the markov prop­erty?

Quinn16 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tive thinking

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2021 2:30 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Ci­ti­zen­ship in a Republic

Theodore Roosevelt16 Jan 2021 1:33 UTC
12 points
3 comments29 min readLW link
(theodoreroosevelt.org)

AR Glasses: Much more than you wanted to know

frcassarino16 Jan 2021 0:31 UTC
12 points
6 comments17 min readLW link
(federicorcassarino.substack.com)

Why I’m ex­cited about Debate

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 23:37 UTC
75 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

Med­i­ta­tions on faith

Richard_Ngo15 Jan 2021 22:20 UTC
30 points
9 comments6 min readLW link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

The Fu­ture of Biolog­i­cal Warfare

lsusr15 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Are there ex­am­ples of ra­tio­nal­ists get­ting cen­sored for COVID-19 re­lated com­mu­ni­ca­tion?

ChristianKl15 Jan 2021 18:46 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco outing

KatjaGrace15 Jan 2021 11:40 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

De­con­di­tion­ing Aver­sion to Dislike

lsusr15 Jan 2021 7:57 UTC
14 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Alie­na­tion and meta-ethics (or: is it pos­si­ble you should max­i­mize he­lium?)

Joe Carlsmith15 Jan 2021 7:07 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Pseu­do­ran­dom­ness con­test: prizes, re­sults, and analysis

Eric Neyman15 Jan 2021 6:24 UTC
158 points
22 comments20 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

How to solve the ar­gu­ment about what the al­gorithm should do

Yoav Ravid15 Jan 2021 6:08 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Great Karma Reckoning

habryka15 Jan 2021 5:19 UTC
50 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Grey Goo Re­quires AI

harsimony15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC
8 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

[Question] What char­i­ties can I donate to for pre­vent­ing an­other pan­demic?

calsem15 Jan 2021 4:45 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ra­tion­alWiki on face masks

Viliam15 Jan 2021 1:55 UTC
92 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Any ra­tio­nal­ist judges?

kjz14 Jan 2021 23:31 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Thun­der­dome and Re­view Co-Vot­ing (Meetup Sun­day 12pm PT)

Raemon14 Jan 2021 23:04 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/​14: To Launch a Thou­sand Shipments

Zvi14 Jan 2021 17:30 UTC
108 points
35 comments22 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Thoughts on Ia­son Gabriel’s Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Values, and Alignment

Alex Flint14 Jan 2021 12:58 UTC
35 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Ge­netic Eng­ineer­ing: How would you change your DNA?

Felix Karg14 Jan 2021 11:43 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion on the choice of concepts

KatjaGrace14 Jan 2021 4:00 UTC
41 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Some re­cent sur­vey pa­pers on (mostly near-term) AI safety, se­cu­rity, and assurance

Aryeh Englander13 Jan 2021 21:50 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What is the cur­rency of the fu­ture? 5 sug­ges­tions.

MrThink13 Jan 2021 21:10 UTC
18 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to iden­tify “pivotal chap­ters” in HtRaB?

habitmelon13 Jan 2021 20:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Gratitude

David Gross13 Jan 2021 20:37 UTC
11 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

An Ex­plo­ra­tory Toy AI Take­off Model

niplav13 Jan 2021 18:13 UTC
10 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

[AN #133]: Build­ing ma­chines that can co­op­er­ate (with hu­mans, in­sti­tu­tions, or other ma­chines)

Rohin Shah13 Jan 2021 18:10 UTC
14 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] Any ex­am­ples of peo­ple an­a­lyz­ing/​cri­tiquing sci­en­tific stud­ies or pa­pers?

warrenjordan13 Jan 2021 18:00 UTC
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link