The Ul­ti­ma­tum Game

thetwelve18 Feb 2021 18:36 UTC
13 points
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Utility Max­i­miza­tion = De­scrip­tion Length Minimization

johnswentworth18 Feb 2021 18:04 UTC
213 points
44 comments5 min readLW link

For­mal Solu­tion to the In­ner Align­ment Problem

michaelcohen18 Feb 2021 14:51 UTC
49 points
123 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 2/​18: Vac­cines Still Work

Zvi18 Feb 2021 12:30 UTC
76 points
29 comments30 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Neck abacus

KatjaGrace18 Feb 2021 7:40 UTC
18 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Short­cuts With Chained Probabilities

jefftk18 Feb 2021 2:00 UTC
15 points
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AXRP Epi­sode 4 - Risks from Learned Op­ti­miza­tion with Evan Hubinger

DanielFilan18 Feb 2021 0:03 UTC
43 points
10 comments87 min readLW link

The Prob­lem with Giv­ing Advice

Rossin17 Feb 2021 21:52 UTC
13 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Covid: CDC Is­sues New Guidance on Open­ing Schools

Zvi17 Feb 2021 20:00 UTC
52 points
11 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Prepar­ing to land on Jezero Crater, Mars: Notes from NASEM livestream

Yitz17 Feb 2021 19:35 UTC
3 points
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[AN #138]: Why AI gov­er­nance should find prob­lems rather than just solv­ing them

Rohin Shah17 Feb 2021 18:50 UTC
12 points
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2021-03-01 Na­tional Library of Medicine Pre­sen­ta­tion: “At­las of AI: Map­ping the so­cial and eco­nomic forces be­hind AI”

IrenicTruth17 Feb 2021 18:23 UTC
1 point
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[Question] Are we pre­pared for So­lar Storms?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel17 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Safely con­trol­ling the AGI agent re­ward function

Koen.Holtman17 Feb 2021 14:47 UTC
8 points
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Graph­i­cal World Models, Coun­ter­fac­tu­als, and Ma­chine Learn­ing Agents

Koen.Holtman17 Feb 2021 11:07 UTC
6 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Over­con­fi­dence is Deceit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)17 Feb 2021 10:45 UTC
78 points
29 comments11 min readLW link

Train­ing sweetness

KatjaGrace17 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The feel­ing of break­ing an Over­ton window

AnnaSalamon17 Feb 2021 5:31 UTC
131 points
29 comments1 min readLW link1 review

How poor is US vac­cine re­sponse by com­par­i­son to other coun­tries?

aphyer17 Feb 2021 2:57 UTC
24 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

How Strong is Our Con­nec­tion to Truth?

anorangicc17 Feb 2021 0:10 UTC
1 point
5 comments3 min readLW link

Weirdly Long DNS Switchover?

jefftk16 Feb 2021 20:00 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Rea­son­able ways for an av­er­age LW re­tail in­vestor to get up­side risk?

Randomized, Controlled16 Feb 2021 19:44 UTC
21 points
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Se­cond Ci­ti­zen­ships, Res­i­den­cies, and/​or Tem­po­rary Relocation

Josh Jacobson16 Feb 2021 19:24 UTC
72 points
30 comments39 min readLW link

Disen­tan­gling Cor­rigi­bil­ity: 2015-2021

Koen.Holtman16 Feb 2021 18:01 UTC
22 points
20 comments9 min readLW link

Carte­sian frames as gen­er­al­ised models

Stuart_Armstrong16 Feb 2021 16:09 UTC
20 points
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Gen­er­al­ised mod­els as a category

Stuart_Armstrong16 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC
25 points
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[Question] Sugges­tions of posts on the AF to review

adamShimi16 Feb 2021 12:40 UTC
56 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

He­lio­cen­trism in the an­cient era

ForensicOceanography16 Feb 2021 8:34 UTC
17 points
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Re­mem­ber that to value some­thing in­finitely is usu­ally to give it a finite dol­lar value

KatjaGrace16 Feb 2021 6:40 UTC
24 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Don’t en­courage pris­on­ers dilemmas

Yair Halberstadt16 Feb 2021 6:33 UTC
8 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal Models of Progress?

abramdemski16 Feb 2021 0:21 UTC
28 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive truth?

pchvykov15 Feb 2021 21:47 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Heuris­tic: Re­place “No Ev­i­dence” with “No Rea­son”

Yair Halberstadt15 Feb 2021 21:25 UTC
44 points
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Bit­coin and ESG Investing

Annapurna15 Feb 2021 21:01 UTC
3 points
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KAnon

jefftk15 Feb 2021 20:50 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
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Notes on Amiability

David Gross15 Feb 2021 19:34 UTC
16 points
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Other utopias or search­ing the refer­ence class for the ra­tio­nal­ity hub project

gogishvilli15 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
3 points
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Semaglu­tide is cool, but no one wants to talk about b. an­i­malis ssp. lac­tis?

CraigMichael15 Feb 2021 9:50 UTC
21 points
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Con­tact with reality

Joe Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC
28 points
3 comments21 min readLW link

What didn’t happen

KatjaGrace15 Feb 2021 4:30 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Not Yet the Dawn

Slimepriestess15 Feb 2021 4:00 UTC
6 points
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(hivewired.wordpress.com)

The Me­dian is Less than the Average

lsusr15 Feb 2021 2:28 UTC
22 points
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[Question] How is ra­tio­nal­ism differ­ent from util­i­tar­i­anism?

Wang Street Journal15 Feb 2021 2:04 UTC
1 point
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The Fu­ture of Nu­clear Arms Con­trol?

Gentzel15 Feb 2021 1:50 UTC
28 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
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Re­mem­ber­ing peo­ple’s name with Anki

Arthur Milchior14 Feb 2021 16:34 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Most kinds of noise stress me out a lot, and I have a strong prefer­ence for silence. I tend to quickly no­tice quiet en­vi­ron­ments. Does this oc­cur to any­one else? Any idea why?

Space L Clottey14 Feb 2021 11:37 UTC
4 points
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Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA14 Feb 2021 8:40 UTC
19 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

“PR” is cor­ro­sive; “rep­u­ta­tion” is not.

AnnaSalamon14 Feb 2021 3:32 UTC
318 points
95 comments2 min readLW link3 reviews

Bucket Bri­gade Updates

jefftk14 Feb 2021 3:30 UTC
10 points
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This is my 100ᵗʰ post on Less Wrong

lsusr14 Feb 2021 3:11 UTC
87 points
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