What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworthOct 7, 2021, 9:58 PM
222 points
64 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Book sum­mary: Selfish Rea­sons to Have More Kids

Optimization ProcessOct 7, 2021, 8:19 PM
23 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Safety-ca­pa­bil­ities trade­off di­als are in­evitable in AGI

Steven ByrnesOct 7, 2021, 7:03 PM
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Blog Post Day IV (Im­promptu)

Daniel KokotajloOct 7, 2021, 5:17 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/​7: Steady as She Goes

ZviOct 7, 2021, 12:10 PM
58 points
26 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Vir­tual Pro­grams Nov-Dec 2021

Yi-YangOct 7, 2021, 10:37 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Is Le­gal Rea­son­ing Fun­da­men­tally Ir­ra­tional?

ThomasMoreOct 7, 2021, 8:22 AM
3 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a Bayesian model for Em­piri­cal Science

Yair HalberstadtOct 7, 2021, 5:38 AM
11 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes co­op­er­a­tive ethics

lsusrOct 7, 2021, 1:52 AM
71 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Au­to­mated Fact Check­ing: A Look at the Field

HoagyOct 6, 2021, 11:52 PM
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions on Compensation

RobertMOct 6, 2021, 11:37 PM
50 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What to read in­stead of news?

ekritoseOct 6, 2021, 10:59 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do bounded util­ity func­tions work if you are un­cer­tain how close to the bound your util­ity is?

GhatanathoahOct 6, 2021, 9:31 PM
13 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Every­where Else

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 8:39 PM
48 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup: De­bug­ging Misconceptions

SilasBartaOct 6, 2021, 7:28 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is GPT-3 already sam­ple-effi­cient?

Daniel KokotajloOct 6, 2021, 1:38 PM
36 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

The­ory: The Poli­ti­cal In­cen­tives for Pro­gres­sive Policy Pro­mote Policy Failure

BDayOct 6, 2021, 12:10 PM
−2 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Prefer­ences from (real and hy­po­thet­i­cal) psy­chol­ogy papers

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 6, 2021, 9:06 AM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—River

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 7:29 AM
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Hu­man Garbage Dump

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 6:31 AM
36 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

We’re Red­wood Re­search, we do ap­plied al­ign­ment re­search, AMA

Nate ThomasOct 6, 2021, 5:51 AM
56 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Me­tac­u­lus is seek­ing An­a­lyt­i­cal Sto­ry­tel­lers to write es­says for­tified with testable predictions

ChristianWilliamsOct 6, 2021, 4:44 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Benthic

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 4:39 AM
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Ocean

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 1:59 AM
27 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Ap­pro­pri­ately Gray Products

Adam ZernerOct 6, 2021, 12:56 AM
20 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

An In­ves­ti­ga­tion into the Pas­sage of Time

hivemindsingularityOct 6, 2021, 12:31 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Desert

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 12:24 AM
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can one iden­tify the ab­solute safest car in prac­tice rather than the­ory?

rockwellOct 5, 2021, 9:19 PM
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should an in­ter­viewer eval­u­ate man­age­ment skills in a can­di­date?

Maxwell PetersonOct 5, 2021, 6:25 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyerOct 5, 2021, 5:30 PM
40 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Covid Home Test Experiment

SebastianG Oct 5, 2021, 3:24 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ling and Un­der­stand­ing SGD

J BostockOct 5, 2021, 1:41 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Force neu­ral nets to use mod­els, then de­tect these

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 5, 2021, 11:31 AM
17 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

State Pro­jec­tion Bias

nomiddlenameOct 5, 2021, 6:28 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts

mike_hawkeOct 5, 2021, 5:04 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021 Dar­win Game—Tundra

lsusrOct 5, 2021, 5:03 AM
48 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

What can we learn from tra­di­tional so­cieties?

mukashiOct 5, 2021, 12:24 AM
18 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Nu­clear Es­pi­onage and AI Governance

GuiveOct 4, 2021, 11:04 PM
32 points
5 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] How good is se­cu­rity for LessWrong and the Align­ment Fo­rum?

Quintin PopeOct 4, 2021, 10:27 PM
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much mem­ory is re­served for cute kit­ten pic­tures?

BezziOct 4, 2021, 9:30 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread Oc­to­ber 2021

qazzquimbyOct 4, 2021, 7:52 PM
21 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “I Con­tain Mul­ti­tudes” by Ed Yong

J BostockOct 4, 2021, 7:29 PM
12 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

An­drew Yang on “The Priests of the De­cline”

Timothy JohnsonOct 4, 2021, 7:24 PM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.andrewyang.com)

To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair HalberstadtOct 4, 2021, 6:42 PM
32 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Candy Innovation

jefftkOct 4, 2021, 1:50 PM
13 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What role should LW play in AI Safety?

Chris_LeongOct 4, 2021, 2:21 AM
28 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Trust and The Small World Fallacy

DPiepgrassOct 4, 2021, 12:38 AM
26 points
14 comments14 min readLW link

An anal­y­sis of the Less Wrong D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion game

Maxwell PetersonOct 4, 2021, 12:03 AM
18 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Blink: The Power of Think­ing Without Think­ing (book re­view)

Andrew VlahosOct 3, 2021, 11:21 PM
17 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Vax pass­ports—the­ory and practice

tkpwaeubOct 3, 2021, 10:35 PM
17 points
18 comments6 min readLW link