“Med­i­ta­tion for skep­tics” – a re­view of two books, and some thoughts

Sherrinford20 Mar 2021 23:35 UTC
16 points
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Con­spicu­ous saving

Matthew Barnett20 Mar 2021 20:59 UTC
50 points
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(matthewbarnett.substack.com)

Trust sta­tus sigmoidally

DirectedEvolution20 Mar 2021 19:50 UTC
15 points
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Un­nec­es­sary Bore­dom Bias

Mathisco20 Mar 2021 19:29 UTC
8 points
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On LessWrong/​Ra­tion­al­ity and Poli­ti­cal Debates

sophia_xu20 Mar 2021 18:26 UTC
22 points
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Vows & Declaration

Ruby20 Mar 2021 17:21 UTC
24 points
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Open, Free, Safe: Choose Two

jaspax20 Mar 2021 16:42 UTC
108 points
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Fish­e­rian Ru­n­away as a de­ci­sion-the­o­retic problem

Bunthut20 Mar 2021 16:34 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What are the best re­sources to point peo­ple who are skep­ti­cal of get­ting vac­ci­nated for COVID-19 to?

ChristianKl20 Mar 2021 11:18 UTC
13 points
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Jean Mon­net: The Guerilla Bureaucrat

Martin Sustrik20 Mar 2021 10:37 UTC
177 points
25 comments18 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Is Jan­uary AI a real thing?

Ericf20 Mar 2021 0:10 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Bab­ble Challenge: 50 Ways to Over­come Im­pos­tor Syndrome

Tim Liptrot19 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
15 points
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Feel­ings of Ad­mira­tion, Ruby ⇔ Miranda

Ruby19 Mar 2021 16:12 UTC
26 points
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Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

Remmelt19 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
37 points
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Ads are ev­ery­where, and it’s not okay

damiensnyder19 Mar 2021 5:43 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Ask­ing ques­tions to fulfill expectations

erkenbrand19 Mar 2021 2:27 UTC
3 points
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“You and Your Re­search” – Ham­ming Watch/​Dis­cuss Party

Ben Pace19 Mar 2021 0:16 UTC
45 points
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[Question] Vot­ing-like mechanisms which ad­dress size of prefer­ences?

abramdemski18 Mar 2021 23:23 UTC
36 points
29 comments8 min readLW link

Chaos In­duces Abstractions

johnswentworth18 Mar 2021 20:08 UTC
100 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

The EMH is False—Spe­cific Strong Evidence

sapphire18 Mar 2021 18:38 UTC
62 points
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Why sig­moids are so hard to predict

Stuart_Armstrong18 Mar 2021 18:21 UTC
56 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Book Club: Soft­ware De­sign for Flexibility

stuhlmueller18 Mar 2021 15:42 UTC
43 points
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Acetyl­choline = Learn­ing rate (aka plas­tic­ity)

Steven Byrnes18 Mar 2021 13:57 UTC
38 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Is RL in­volved in sen­sory pro­cess­ing?

Steven Byrnes18 Mar 2021 13:57 UTC
21 points
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Learn and prac­tice us­ing the Cir­cle of Com­pe­tence with exercises

icompetetowin18 Mar 2021 13:56 UTC
1 point
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(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

Covid 3/​18: An Ex­pected Quan­tity of Blood Clots

Zvi18 Mar 2021 13:50 UTC
74 points
25 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spirits vs Terms as Ar­bi­tra­tion Norms

nonveumann18 Mar 2021 5:07 UTC
12 points
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[Question] What are fun lit­tle puz­zles /​ games /​ ex­er­cises to learn in­ter­est­ing con­cepts?

Mati_Roy18 Mar 2021 3:26 UTC
18 points
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The best things are of­ten free or cheap

Adam Zerner18 Mar 2021 2:57 UTC
25 points
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Product orientation

DirectedEvolution18 Mar 2021 0:41 UTC
14 points
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The Age of Imag­i­na­tive Machines

Yuli_Ban18 Mar 2021 0:35 UTC
10 points
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“Ob­jec­tive vs So­cial Real­ity” vs “Si­mu­lacra 1/​3″

Raemon17 Mar 2021 22:15 UTC
27 points
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As­traZeneca vac­cine shows no pro­tec­tion against Covid-19 var­i­ant from Africa

Gytis Daujotas17 Mar 2021 18:45 UTC
13 points
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[AN #142]: The quest to un­der­stand a net­work well enough to reim­ple­ment it by hand

Rohin Shah17 Mar 2021 17:10 UTC
36 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Shar­ing a Car

jefftk17 Mar 2021 13:30 UTC
12 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

HCH Spec­u­la­tion Post #2A

Charlie Steiner17 Mar 2021 13:26 UTC
43 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

On At­tempts to Tran­scend our Models of Numbers

Chris_Leong17 Mar 2021 8:37 UTC
9 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Poli­tics is way too meta

Rob Bensinger17 Mar 2021 7:04 UTC
288 points
46 comments11 min readLW link1 review

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #1

Mark Xu17 Mar 2021 5:15 UTC
25 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] Nutri­tion for brain.

Valentin202617 Mar 2021 5:00 UTC
5 points
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Com­ments on “The Sin­gu­lar­ity is Nowhere Near”

Steven Byrnes16 Mar 2021 23:59 UTC
51 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Me­taPrompt: a tool for tel­ling your­self what to do.

abramdemski16 Mar 2021 20:49 UTC
66 points
12 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Par­tial-Con­scious­ness as se­man­tic/​sym­bolic rep­re­sen­ta­tional lan­guage model trained on NN

Joe Kwon16 Mar 2021 18:51 UTC
2 points
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An An­tropic Ar­gu­ment for Post-sin­gu­lar­ity Antinatalism

monkaap16 Mar 2021 17:40 UTC
1 point
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[Question] Why is rhetoric taboo among ra­tio­nal­ists?

TOoHNA16 Mar 2021 17:38 UTC
−5 points
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Can an econ­omy keep on grow­ing?

invertedpassion16 Mar 2021 9:55 UTC
1 point
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Con­ver­sa­tion Ex­change Statistics

lsusr16 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC
23 points
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Link: How to Star-Man

Chris_Leong16 Mar 2021 3:12 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(centerforinquiry.org)

Bay and/​or Global Sols­tice* Job Search (2021 − 2022)

16 Mar 2021 0:21 UTC
37 points
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What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Math­e­mat­i­cal Defi­ni­tions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC
200 points
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