O2 Curve Re­view: Well Worth the Money

eapache6 Feb 2021 22:35 UTC
14 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

What it means to be lucky

Amir Bolous6 Feb 2021 17:40 UTC
7 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How could nat­u­ral lan­guage look like if it hadn’t evolved from speech?

newroscientist6 Feb 2021 16:31 UTC
5 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Fake Frame­works for Zen Med­i­ta­tion (Sum­mary of Sek­ida’s Zen Train­ing)

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2021 15:38 UTC
54 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

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
7 comments5 min readLW link

In­tu­itions about utilities

mingyuan6 Feb 2021 0:12 UTC
32 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

The Fear Experiments

Tim Lyons5 Feb 2021 22:57 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Learn­ing Nor­ma­tivity: Language

Bunthut5 Feb 2021 22:26 UTC
14 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread – Fe­bru­ary 2021

mingyuan5 Feb 2021 21:38 UTC
13 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacob5 Feb 2021 19:51 UTC
25 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Evolu­tions Build­ing Evolu­tions: Lay­ers of Gen­er­ate and Test

plex5 Feb 2021 18:21 UTC
12 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Notes on Frugality

David Gross5 Feb 2021 16:54 UTC
15 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

[Link] Sarah Con­stantin on RaDVaC

Orborde5 Feb 2021 16:08 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

[Question] What does flow feel like for “men­tal ac­tivi­ties”?

Hazard5 Feb 2021 14:33 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing AGI Safety Interlocks

Koen.Holtman5 Feb 2021 12:01 UTC
7 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Meetup: Daniel Koko­taljo on Com­mit­ment Races (Sun­day Feb 7th, 12pm PT)

Raemon5 Feb 2021 9:34 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Any layper­son-ac­cessible refer­ence posts on how to op­er­a­tional­ize be­liefs ?

Optimization Process5 Feb 2021 7:26 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ways of be­ing with you

KatjaGrace5 Feb 2021 7:00 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Story of the Reichstag

Martin Sustrik5 Feb 2021 5:51 UTC
95 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Net­work­ing and Ex­pert Con­sult­ing As Ra­tion­al­ity Bottlenecks

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2021 5:41 UTC
33 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Look­ing at RSS User-Agents

jefftk5 Feb 2021 2:10 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why are clini­cal tri­als so ex­pen­sive?

ChristianKl5 Feb 2021 0:10 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Jan­uary 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern4 Feb 2021 20:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Covid 2/​4: Safe and Effec­tive Vac­cines Aplenty

Zvi4 Feb 2021 14:50 UTC
90 points
25 comments25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Early ca­reer choices to max­imise learn­ing?

Evzen4 Feb 2021 13:37 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI: “Scal­ing Laws for Trans­fer”, Her­nan­dez et al.

Lukas Finnveden4 Feb 2021 12:49 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] A silly question

Leafcraft4 Feb 2021 10:22 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion on How to Use Anki to Im­prove Your Memory

simbyotic4 Feb 2021 9:59 UTC
18 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Heel-Toe Drumming

jefftk4 Feb 2021 2:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Mak­ing Vaccine

johnswentworth3 Feb 2021 20:24 UTC
579 points
249 comments6 min readLW link3 reviews

[AN #136]: How well will GPT-N perform on down­stream tasks?

Rohin Shah3 Feb 2021 18:10 UTC
21 points
2 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Speak­ing of the effi­ciency of utopia

KatjaGrace3 Feb 2021 17:10 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Late-talk­ing kids and “Ein­stein syn­drome”

Steven Byrnes3 Feb 2021 15:16 UTC
35 points
30 comments6 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Plan­ning in AGI Systems

Koen.Holtman3 Feb 2021 13:54 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one else some­times “run out of gas” when try­ing to think?

Sunny from QAD3 Feb 2021 12:57 UTC
7 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing claims about train­ing vs deployment

Richard_Ngo3 Feb 2021 11:30 UTC
68 points
29 comments9 min readLW link

A Cri­tique of Non-Obstruction

Joe Collman3 Feb 2021 8:45 UTC
13 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Covid cafes

KatjaGrace3 Feb 2021 8:20 UTC
24 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Browser Au­dio Latency

jefftk3 Feb 2021 2:40 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Reflec­tions on the cry­on­ics sequence

mingyuan3 Feb 2021 1:17 UTC
100 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has there been any work done on the ethics of chang­ing peo­ple’s minds?

mcorvin3 Feb 2021 1:03 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Bayesian in­fer­ence on 1st or­der logic

Daniel Abolafia3 Feb 2021 1:03 UTC
11 points
6 comments18 min readLW link

#6: Op­tional ad­di­tional steps

mingyuan2 Feb 2021 23:57 UTC
43 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

#5: Mak­ing your cry­on­ics ar­range­ments official

mingyuan2 Feb 2021 23:54 UTC
37 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Is the in­fluence of money per­va­sive, even on LessWrong?

shanen2 Feb 2021 20:22 UTC
−1 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

The World is Full of Wasted Motion

Neel Nanda2 Feb 2021 19:02 UTC
33 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] Has any­body used quan­tifi­ca­tion over util­ity func­tions to define “how good a model is”?

Eigil Rischel2 Feb 2021 15:14 UTC
5 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Elephant seal 2

KatjaGrace2 Feb 2021 9:40 UTC
58 points
5 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Vac­ci­nated Socializing

jefftk2 Feb 2021 3:20 UTC
29 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)