Omicron Post #8

ZviDec 20, 2021, 11:10 PM
96 points
33 comments16 min readLW link
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[Question] Good com­plete views on motivation

ValdesDec 20, 2021, 10:10 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Prizes for last year’s 2019 Review

RaemonDec 20, 2021, 9:58 PM
40 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Paths

jefftkDec 20, 2021, 6:30 PM
14 points
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[Question] Is there a term /​ bet­ter way of phras­ing the gen­eral case where an in­ter­ven­tion helps cer­tain in­di­vi­d­u­als do bet­ter at zero-sum games but doesn’t provide any ex­ter­nal value?

freedomandutilityDec 20, 2021, 5:35 PM
4 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Dharani, Great Dharani for Con­serv­ing Evidence

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are “non-com­putable func­tions” always hard to solve in prac­tice?

MorpheusDec 20, 2021, 4:32 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Short Note on My Value Notion

aysajanDec 20, 2021, 2:35 PM
11 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Par­ent­ing: “Try harder next time” is bad ad­vice for kids too

Steven ByrnesDec 20, 2021, 2:18 PM
60 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Law of No Evidence

ZviDec 20, 2021, 1:50 PM
122 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review
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Buck­ets & Bayes

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Dec 20, 2021, 5:54 AM
34 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #2

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:06 AM
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #1

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:02 AM
65 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Tree of Wor­lds (Sols­tice speech)

jchanDec 20, 2021, 4:39 AM
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

SGD Un­der­stood through Prob­a­bil­ity Current

J BostockDec 19, 2021, 11:26 PM
24 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald HobsonDec 19, 2021, 4:52 PM
38 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Quis can­cel­lat ip­sos can­cel­lores?

ChristianKlDec 19, 2021, 11:58 AM
2 points
31 comments1 min readLW link
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Don’t In­fluence the In­fluencers!

lhcDec 19, 2021, 9:02 AM
14 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Should I de­lay hav­ing chil­dren to take ad­van­tage of poly­genic screen­ing?

Mati_RoyDec 19, 2021, 6:39 AM
54 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

Falsify­ing Eth­i­cal Values

lsusrDec 19, 2021, 1:44 AM
5 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Ele­vated Air Puri­fier Cubes

jefftkDec 19, 2021, 12:50 AM
13 points
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Ex­plor­ing De­ci­sion The­o­ries With Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Dy­namic Agent Self-Pointers

JoshuaOSHickmanDec 18, 2021, 9:50 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicataDec 18, 2021, 8:56 PM
38 points
134 comments47 min readLW link

Lau­rie An­der­son talks

DagonDec 18, 2021, 8:47 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
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Disen­tan­gling Per­spec­tives On Strat­egy-Steal­ing in AI Safety

shawnghuDec 18, 2021, 8:13 PM
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

The end of Vic­to­rian cul­ture, part II: peo­ple and history

David Hugh-JonesDec 18, 2021, 6:55 PM
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
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How I be­came a per­son who wakes up early

Alex_AltairDec 18, 2021, 6:41 PM
70 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[Ex­tended Dead­line: Jan 23rd] An­nounc­ing the PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Nora_AmmannDec 18, 2021, 4:56 PM
6 points
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Univer­sal coun­ter­ar­gu­ment against “bad­ness of death” is wrong

avturchinDec 18, 2021, 4:02 PM
27 points
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In­tro­duc­ing the Prin­ci­ples of In­tel­li­gent Be­havi­our in Biolog­i­cal and So­cial Sys­tems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimiDec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM
56 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Im­por­tant ML sys­tems from be­fore 2012?

JsevillamolDec 18, 2021, 12:12 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How the Equiv­a­lent Bet Test Ac­tu­ally Works

Erich_GrunewaldDec 18, 2021, 11:17 AM
4 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
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Per­ish­able Knowledge

lsusrDec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM
103 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Dis­tract­ing­ness of Var­i­ous Parts of Facebook

emily.fanDec 18, 2021, 3:35 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

DL to­wards the un­al­igned Re­cur­sive Self-Op­ti­miza­tion attractor

jacob_cannellDec 18, 2021, 2:15 AM
32 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

A Tree of Light

Jarred FilmerDec 18, 2021, 12:36 AM
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115 points
43 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
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[Question] Get­ting di­ag­nosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on tak­ing meds?

vroomerifyDec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ven­ture Gran­ters, The VCs of pub­lic goods, in­cen­tiviz­ing good dreams

mako yassDec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM
12 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Un­der­stand the ex­po­nen­tial func­tion: R0 of the COVID

Yandong ZhangDec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM
−6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Some mo­ti­va­tions to gra­di­ent hack

peterbarnettDec 17, 2021, 3:06 AM
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Blog Respectably

lsusrDec 17, 2021, 1:23 AM
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Rad­i­cal Op­ti­mism about Interpretability

Quintin PopeDec 16, 2021, 11:38 PM
66 points
16 comments8 min readLW link1 review

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Alice KDec 16, 2021, 11:03 PM
2 points
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Ev­i­dence Sets: Towards In­duc­tive-Bi­ases based Anal­y­sis of Pro­saic AGI

bayesian_kittenDec 16, 2021, 10:41 PM
22 points
10 comments21 min readLW link

Hous­ing Mar­kets, Satis­ficers, and One-Track Goodhart

J BostockDec 16, 2021, 9:38 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 12/​16: On Your Marks

ZviDec 16, 2021, 9:00 PM
53 points
36 comments9 min readLW link
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Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM
80 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The “Other” Option

jsteinhardtDec 16, 2021, 8:20 PM
24 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

What Ca­plan’s “Miss­ing Mood” Heuris­tic Is Really For

DirectedEvolutionDec 16, 2021, 7:47 PM
32 points
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