What Mul­tipo­lar Failure Looks Like, and Ro­bust Agent-Ag­nos­tic Pro­cesses (RAAPs)

Andrew_Critch31 Mar 2021 23:50 UTC
280 points
65 comments22 min readLW link1 review

What Do We Know About The Con­scious­ness, Any­way?

SurvivalBias31 Mar 2021 23:30 UTC
13 points
49 comments24 min readLW link

Could billions spa­cially dis­con­nected “Boltz­mann neu­rons” give rise to con­scious­ness?

Szymon Kucharski31 Mar 2021 19:58 UTC
5 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Unifi­ca­tion seems to be a way to avoid in­fini­tar­ian paral­y­sis in con­se­quen­tial­ist ag­grega­tive ethics.

Szymon Kucharski31 Mar 2021 19:04 UTC
1 point
2 comments4 min readLW link

[April – weekly] Fo­cus­mate: biosta­sis, lifel­og­ging, death-fo­cus ethics

Mati_Roy31 Mar 2021 16:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Men­strual cy­cle effects—Clue study sum­mary and commentary

just_browsing31 Mar 2021 16:28 UTC
79 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Should I ad­vo­cate for peo­ple to not buy Iver­mectin as a treat­ment for COVID-19 in the Philip­pines for now?

BrianTan31 Mar 2021 13:59 UTC
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Jaan Tal­linn at the Slate Star Codex On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox31 Mar 2021 8:04 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions Con­cern­ing the First Free-ish Pre­dic­tion Market

mike_hawke31 Mar 2021 3:20 UTC
29 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

A use for Clas­si­cal AI—Ex­pert Systems

Glpusna31 Mar 2021 2:37 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readLW link

Gold­fish Reading

DirectedEvolution31 Mar 2021 1:04 UTC
19 points
8 comments12 min readLW link

Hard­ware is already ready for the sin­gu­lar­ity. Al­gorithm knowl­edge is the only bar­rier.

Andrew Vlahos30 Mar 2021 22:48 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion, spec­u­la­tions on the X and only X prob­lem.

Donald Hobson30 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

A com­mand-line gram­mar of graphics

philh30 Mar 2021 20:30 UTC
21 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] How many micro­morts do you get per UV-in­dex-hour?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)30 Mar 2021 17:23 UTC
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Many meth­ods of causal in­fer­ence try to iden­tify a “safe” sub­set of variation

tailcalled30 Mar 2021 14:36 UTC
13 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ism be­fore the Sequences

Eric Raymond30 Mar 2021 14:04 UTC
594 points
83 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] TAI?

Logan Zoellner30 Mar 2021 12:41 UTC
10 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

In­fo­haz­ard Dis­cus­sion with An­ders Sandberg

Linda Linsefors30 Mar 2021 10:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do we pre­pare for fi­nal crunch time?

Eli Tyre30 Mar 2021 5:47 UTC
118 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Lo­gan Strohl on ex­er­cise norms

Rob Bensinger30 Mar 2021 4:28 UTC
64 points
30 comments3 min readLW link

Ju­lia Galef and Matt Ygle­sias on bioethics and “ethics ex­per­tise”

Rob Bensinger30 Mar 2021 3:06 UTC
45 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­gres­sive High­light­ing: Pick­ing What To Make Into Flashcards

DirectedEvolution29 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC
50 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Some Com­plaint-Ac­tion Gaps

mike_hawke29 Mar 2021 21:15 UTC
40 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atiz­ing Epistemics: Prin­ci­ples for Re­solv­ing Forecasts

Davidmanheim29 Mar 2021 20:46 UTC
33 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

Bureau­cracy is a world of magic

dominicq29 Mar 2021 12:41 UTC
73 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

The im­por­tance of how you weigh it

Joe Carlsmith29 Mar 2021 4:59 UTC
35 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

Agree­ing to Disagree: to­wards a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of agreeableness

Aaron Bergman29 Mar 2021 3:14 UTC
11 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Sce­nar­ios and Warn­ing Signs for Ajeya’s Ag­gres­sive, Con­ser­va­tive, and Best Guess AI Timelines

Kevin Liu29 Mar 2021 1:38 UTC
25 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(kliu.io)

Notes on effec­tive-al­tru­ism-re­lated re­search, writ­ing, test­ing fit, learn­ing, and the EA Forum

MichaelA28 Mar 2021 23:43 UTC
14 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Trans­parency Trichotomy

Mark Xu28 Mar 2021 20:26 UTC
25 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Im­prove­ment for pun­dit pre­dic­tion comparisons

orthonormal28 Mar 2021 18:50 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Point of Easy Progress

silentbob28 Mar 2021 16:38 UTC
59 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Re­view of “Fun with +12 OOMs of Com­pute”

28 Mar 2021 14:55 UTC
65 points
21 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Buy­ing a house and mak­ing friends in un­ex­pected places

dominicq28 Mar 2021 14:35 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The (not so) para­dox­i­cal asym­me­try be­tween po­si­tion and momentum

Erik Jenner28 Mar 2021 13:31 UTC
21 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

In­framea­sures and Do­main Theory

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:19 UTC
28 points
3 comments33 min readLW link

In­fra-Do­main proofs 1

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:16 UTC
13 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

In­fra-Do­main Proofs 2

Diffractor28 Mar 2021 9:15 UTC
13 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

Vio­lat­ing the EMH—Pre­dic­tion Markets

sapphire28 Mar 2021 4:05 UTC
40 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Core Path­ways of Aging

johnswentworth28 Mar 2021 0:31 UTC
266 points
128 comments22 min readLW link1 review

Nash Equil­ibria in Liti­ga­tion Set­tle­ment Ne­go­ti­a­tion in the U.S.A.

supposedlyfun27 Mar 2021 23:26 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mak­ing a Cheer­ful Bid

DirectedEvolution27 Mar 2021 19:37 UTC
10 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Think like an ed­u­ca­tor about code quality

Adam Zerner27 Mar 2021 5:43 UTC
44 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Cal­ibrat­ing Ad­e­quate Food Consumption

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Mar 2021 0:00 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Guild of Ser­vants Bac­cha­na­lia (March 27, 2021)

moridinamael26 Mar 2021 16:35 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Co­her­ence ar­gu­ments im­ply a force for goal-di­rected behavior

KatjaGrace26 Mar 2021 16:10 UTC
91 points
25 comments11 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

Where did the idea of x-risk come from?

fowlertm26 Mar 2021 15:39 UTC
−8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Learn and prac­tice us­ing Han­lon’s Ra­zor with ex­er­cises.

icompetetowin26 Mar 2021 14:20 UTC
−7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(newsletter.decisionschool.org)

CFAR rEUnion (Septem­ber 24-27, 2021)

Jiří Nádvorník26 Mar 2021 10:51 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readLW link