John Went­worth on “Ta­boo­ing ‘Should’ Ex­er­cise” [Sun­day Meetup 1pm]

Raemon11 Feb 2021 22:40 UTC
14 points
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In­sti­tute for As­sured Au­ton­omy (IAA) newsletter

Aryeh Englander11 Feb 2021 21:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Par­ti­ci­pat­ing in a Covid-19 Vac­cine Trial

ejacob11 Feb 2021 20:35 UTC
37 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

The dan­gers of digi­tal vaccines

canaveroe11 Feb 2021 18:39 UTC
−8 points
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Covid 2/​11: As Expected

Zvi11 Feb 2021 18:30 UTC
101 points
79 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Has at­tempt been made to iden­tify all mechanisms which al­lowed hu­man species to come this in terms of value al­ign­ment?

Thomas Brown11 Feb 2021 18:16 UTC
1 point
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Speedrun­ning my Morn­ing Makes the Coffee Taste Weird

kithpendragon11 Feb 2021 17:06 UTC
13 points
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In bal­ance and flux

KatjaGrace11 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Un­wit­ting cult leaders

Kaj_Sotala11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
119 points
9 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(kajsotala.fi)

[AN #137]: Quan­tify­ing the benefits of pre­train­ing on down­stream task performance

Rohin Shah10 Feb 2021 18:10 UTC
18 points
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(mailchi.mp)

We got what’s needed for COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion com­pletely wrong

ChristianKl10 Feb 2021 7:59 UTC
61 points
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A great hard day

KatjaGrace10 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
54 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA10 Feb 2021 2:48 UTC
25 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Fix­ing The Good Reg­u­la­tor Theorem

johnswentworth9 Feb 2021 20:30 UTC
139 points
39 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Book re­view: The Geog­ra­phy of Thought

PeterMcCluskey9 Feb 2021 18:47 UTC
73 points
37 comments5 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Still Not in Charge

Zvi9 Feb 2021 16:00 UTC
46 points
24 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We Need Browsers as Platforms

jefftk9 Feb 2021 15:40 UTC
15 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Episte­mol­ogy of HCH

adamShimi9 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC
17 points
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How would free pre­dic­tion mar­kets have al­tered the pan­demic?

mike_hawke9 Feb 2021 10:55 UTC
10 points
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Against but­terfly effect

ForensicOceanography9 Feb 2021 7:46 UTC
5 points
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(forensicoceanography.wordpress.com)

Evolu­tion from dis­tinc­tion difference

KatjaGrace9 Feb 2021 5:20 UTC
9 points
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Pro­mot­ing Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets With Mean­ingless In­ter­net-Point Badges

1a3orn8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
59 points
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Micro­morts vs. Life Expectancy

Young Buck8 Feb 2021 19:03 UTC
5 points
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[Question] What met­rics should I track when ex­per­i­ment­ing with sleep?

CheerfulWarrior8 Feb 2021 17:22 UTC
10 points
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Were the Great Tragedies of His­tory “Mere Rip­ples”?

philosophytorres8 Feb 2021 15:35 UTC
−24 points
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The dis­tinc­tion distance

KatjaGrace8 Feb 2021 7:40 UTC
24 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Quadratic, not logarithmic

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 3:42 UTC
84 points
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Sin­gu­lar­ity&phase tran­si­tion-2. A pri­ori prob­a­bil­ity and ways to check.

Valentin20268 Feb 2021 2:21 UTC
1 point
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Met­ric se­lec­tion bias: why Moore’s law is less im­por­tant than you think

Aaron Bergman8 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
18 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Killing the ants

Joe Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:17 UTC
76 points
27 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Mak­ing Ex­per­tise Leg­ible: Be­ing right should make you re­spected, not the other way around

ejacob7 Feb 2021 23:15 UTC
6 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Timeline of AI safety

riceissa7 Feb 2021 22:29 UTC
73 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(timelines.issarice.com)

His­tory of the Public Suffix List

jefftk7 Feb 2021 22:20 UTC
11 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Book re­view: Sleight of Mind (Matt Cook)

Bob Baker7 Feb 2021 21:44 UTC
4 points
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[Question] How do you op­ti­mize pro­duc­tivity with re­spect to your men­strual cy­cle?

just_browsing7 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC
97 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Why I Am Not in Charge

Zvi7 Feb 2021 18:20 UTC
145 points
23 comments25 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

#un­clogth­eFDA: a twit­ter storm to ap­prove vaccines

Tim Liptrot7 Feb 2021 14:39 UTC
45 points
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Short, Ex­treme, For­got­ten Tor­ture vs Death

burrito7 Feb 2021 9:31 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Democ­racy, Bureau­cracy, Cen­tral Banking

Martin Sustrik7 Feb 2021 8:54 UTC
19 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Mas­sive consequences

KatjaGrace7 Feb 2021 5:30 UTC
23 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Bring Back Free-Flow Valves

jefftk7 Feb 2021 3:50 UTC
12 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

O2 Curve Re­view: Well Worth the Money

eapache6 Feb 2021 22:35 UTC
14 points
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What it means to be lucky

Amir Bolous6 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
7 points
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[Question] How could nat­u­ral lan­guage look like if it hadn’t evolved from speech?

newroscientist6 Feb 2021 16:31 UTC
5 points
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Fake Frame­works for Zen Med­i­ta­tion (Sum­mary of Sek­ida’s Zen Train­ing)

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
54 points
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Cur­rent cry­on­ics impressions

KatjaGrace6 Feb 2021 10:00 UTC
63 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Is the world be­com­ing bet­ter?

invertedpassion6 Feb 2021 9:28 UTC
34 points
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In­tu­itions about utilities

mingyuan6 Feb 2021 0:12 UTC
32 points
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The Fear Experiments

Tim Lyons5 Feb 2021 22:57 UTC
10 points
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Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
14 points
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