[AN #166]: Is it crazy to claim we’re in the most im­por­tant cen­tury?

Rohin Shah8 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC
52 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Ques­tions about YIMBY

Sam Enright8 Oct 2021 12:48 UTC
18 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

“Eat­ing Dirt Benefits Kids” is Ba­si­cally Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC
66 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Glen Weyl: “Why I Was Wrong to De­mo­nize Ra­tion­al­ism”

Zack_M_Davis8 Oct 2021 5:36 UTC
46 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.radicalxchange.org)

Noragami

lsusr8 Oct 2021 5:11 UTC
25 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

How much slower is re­mote work?

jsteinhardt8 Oct 2021 2:00 UTC
108 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Per­cep­tual dex­ter­ity: a case study

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)7 Oct 2021 22:25 UTC
66 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

(Book Re­view) The Ge­netic Lot­tery: Why DNA Mat­ters for So­cial Equality

Xylitol7 Oct 2021 22:21 UTC
25 points
11 comments17 min readLW link

No Really, There Are No Rules!

J Bostock7 Oct 2021 22:08 UTC
57 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

What Do GDP Growth Curves Really Mean?

johnswentworth7 Oct 2021 21:58 UTC
222 points
64 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

Book sum­mary: Selfish Rea­sons to Have More Kids

Optimization Process7 Oct 2021 20:19 UTC
22 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Safety-ca­pa­bil­ities trade­off di­als are in­evitable in AGI

Steven Byrnes7 Oct 2021 19:03 UTC
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Blog Post Day IV (Im­promptu)

Daniel Kokotajlo7 Oct 2021 17:17 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 10/​7: Steady as She Goes

Zvi7 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC
58 points
26 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Vir­tual Pro­grams Nov-Dec 2021

Yi-Yang7 Oct 2021 10:37 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Is Le­gal Rea­son­ing Fun­da­men­tally Ir­ra­tional?

ThomasMore7 Oct 2021 8:22 UTC
3 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a Bayesian model for Em­piri­cal Science

Yair Halberstadt7 Oct 2021 5:38 UTC
11 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Cheap food causes co­op­er­a­tive ethics

lsusr7 Oct 2021 1:52 UTC
71 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Au­to­mated Fact Check­ing: A Look at the Field

Hoagy6 Oct 2021 23:52 UTC
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Con­sid­er­a­tions on Compensation

RobertM6 Oct 2021 23:37 UTC
50 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What to read in­stead of news?

ekritose6 Oct 2021 22:59 UTC
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?

Ghatanathoah6 Oct 2021 21:31 UTC
13 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Every­where Else

lsusr6 Oct 2021 20:39 UTC
48 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup: De­bug­ging Misconceptions

SilasBarta6 Oct 2021 19:28 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Oct 2021 13:38 UTC
36 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

The­ory: The Poli­ti­cal In­cen­tives for Pro­gres­sive Policy Pro­mote Policy Failure

BDay6 Oct 2021 12:10 UTC
−2 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Prefer­ences from (real and hy­po­thet­i­cal) psy­chol­ogy papers

Stuart_Armstrong6 Oct 2021 9:06 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—River

lsusr6 Oct 2021 7:29 UTC
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Hu­man Garbage Dump

lsusr6 Oct 2021 6:31 UTC
36 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

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

Nate Thomas6 Oct 2021 5:51 UTC
56 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

ChristianWilliams6 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Benthic

lsusr6 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Ocean

lsusr6 Oct 2021 1:59 UTC
27 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Ap­pro­pri­ately Gray Products

Adam Zerner6 Oct 2021 0:56 UTC
20 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

An In­ves­ti­ga­tion into the Pas­sage of Time

hivemindsingularity6 Oct 2021 0:31 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Desert

lsusr6 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

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

rockwell5 Oct 2021 21:19 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Maxwell Peterson5 Oct 2021 18:25 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

aphyer5 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC
40 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Covid Home Test Experiment

SebastianG 5 Oct 2021 15:24 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ling and Un­der­stand­ing SGD

J Bostock5 Oct 2021 13:41 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Force neu­ral nets to use mod­els, then de­tect these

Stuart_Armstrong5 Oct 2021 11:31 UTC
17 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

State Pro­jec­tion Bias

nomiddlename5 Oct 2021 6:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

mike_hawke5 Oct 2021 5:04 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

2021 Dar­win Game—Tundra

lsusr5 Oct 2021 5:03 UTC
48 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

What can we learn from tra­di­tional so­cieties?

mukashi5 Oct 2021 0:24 UTC
18 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

Nu­clear Es­pi­onage and AI Governance

Guive4 Oct 2021 23:04 UTC
32 points
5 comments24 min readLW link

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

Quintin Pope4 Oct 2021 22:27 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bezzi4 Oct 2021 21:30 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread Oc­to­ber 2021

qazzquimby4 Oct 2021 19:52 UTC
21 points
49 comments1 min readLW link