Be­ware over-use of the agent model

Alex Flint25 Apr 2021 22:19 UTC
28 points
10 comments5 min readLW link1 review

“Who I am” is an ax­iom.

dadadarren25 Apr 2021 21:59 UTC
7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Would robots care about Mean­ing and Re­lat­ing?

Raemon25 Apr 2021 21:17 UTC
32 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] For mRNA vac­cines, is (short-term) effi­cacy re­ally higher af­ter the sec­ond dose?

Sam Marks25 Apr 2021 20:21 UTC
27 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a good soft­ware solu­tion for math­e­mat­i­cal ques­tions?

ChristianKl25 Apr 2021 18:03 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[May – weekly] Fo­cus­mate: iden­tity preservation

Mati_Roy25 Apr 2021 17:58 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Fall of Rome, III: Progress Did Not Exist

LukeOnline25 Apr 2021 5:54 UTC
29 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Best em­piri­cal ev­i­dence on bet­ter than SP500 in­vest­ment re­turns?

bluefalcon25 Apr 2021 5:13 UTC
12 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Mal­i­cious non-state ac­tors and AI safety

keti25 Apr 2021 3:21 UTC
2 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Es­ti­mat­ing COVID cases & deaths in In­dia over the com­ing months

GeneSmith24 Apr 2021 21:35 UTC
33 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Iden­tity in What You Are Not

Gordon Seidoh Worley24 Apr 2021 20:11 UTC
11 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral­ism and AI alignment

Michele Campolo24 Apr 2021 16:16 UTC
5 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

Paper re­view: A Cryp­to­graphic Solu­tion to a Game The­o­retic Problem

victorsintnicolaas24 Apr 2021 11:54 UTC
23 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Elec­tion re­sults in Cen­tral Europe match some pre-WW1 borders

ForensicOceanography24 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to test tiny skills?

Nicholas / Heather Kross24 Apr 2021 5:02 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Apps /​ tools for com­bat­ting sleep pro­cras­ti­na­tion?

emily.fan24 Apr 2021 1:40 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Vac­ci­na­tion and House Rules

jefftk24 Apr 2021 1:00 UTC
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Let’s Re­name Our­selves The “Me­tacog­ni­tive Move­ment”

DirectedEvolution23 Apr 2021 21:06 UTC
52 points
47 comments7 min readLW link

How to Play a Sup­port Role in Re­search Conversations

johnswentworth23 Apr 2021 20:57 UTC
105 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Fall of Rome, II: En­ergy Prob­lems?

LukeOnline23 Apr 2021 17:58 UTC
29 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

The Fall of Rome: Why It’s Rele­vant, And Why We’re Mistaken

LukeOnline23 Apr 2021 12:15 UTC
39 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity the­ory and log­i­cal in­duc­tion as lenses

Alex Flint23 Apr 2021 2:41 UTC
43 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any­thing that can stop AGI de­vel­op­ment in the near term?

Wulky Wilkinsen22 Apr 2021 20:37 UTC
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prin­ci­plesYou—Seems to be a new per­son­al­ity as­sess­ment tool

jmh22 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Have an idea for an in­ter­ac­tive learn­ing mod­ule? Con­sider ap­ply­ing for a Clear­erThink­ing.org micro grant!

spencerg22 Apr 2021 18:13 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Designs

SatvikBeri22 Apr 2021 16:32 UTC
31 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 4/​22: Cri­sis in India

Zvi22 Apr 2021 13:40 UTC
100 points
25 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Löb’s the­o­rem sim­ply shows that Peano ar­ith­metic can­not prove its own soundness

Adrià Garriga-alonso22 Apr 2021 9:17 UTC
5 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Faerie Ring: A Small Gather.Town Call

hamnox22 Apr 2021 6:02 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

NTK/​GP Models of Neu­ral Nets Can’t Learn Features

interstice22 Apr 2021 3:01 UTC
33 points
33 comments3 min readLW link

What books are for: a re­sponse to “Why books don’t work.”

Aaron Bergman21 Apr 2021 23:18 UTC
35 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Faerie Rings

hamnox21 Apr 2021 21:47 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In Defence of Spock

Zac Hatfield-Dodds21 Apr 2021 21:34 UTC
37 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Crack­pot Physics: Time, Spe­cial Rel­a­tivity, and Why Bother?

ACrackedPot21 Apr 2021 20:17 UTC
−3 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

[AN #147]: An overview of the in­ter­pretabil­ity landscape

Rohin Shah21 Apr 2021 17:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Where are in­ten­tions to be found?

Alex Flint21 Apr 2021 0:51 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we vac­ci­nate peo­ple against smal­l­pox any more?

maximkazhenkov21 Apr 2021 0:08 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What am I fight­ing for?

Quinn20 Apr 2021 23:27 UTC
12 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Gra­da­tions of In­ner Align­ment Obstacles

abramdemski20 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC
81 points
22 comments9 min readLW link

Thiel on se­crets and indefiniteness

Rob Bensinger20 Apr 2021 21:59 UTC
58 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Why “put down your phone and go out­side” is Bad Ad­vice.

madilynHex20 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Hard vs Soft in fields as at­ti­tudes to­wards model collision

J Bostock20 Apr 2021 18:57 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Young kids catch­ing COVID: how much to worry?

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2021 18:03 UTC
55 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

SMBC about Eliezer

IrenicTruth20 Apr 2021 17:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Crack­pot Physics: Issues

ACrackedPot20 Apr 2021 17:07 UTC
−1 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Types of generalism

Nora_Ammann20 Apr 2021 8:22 UTC
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Does an app/​group for per­sonal fore­cast­ing ex­ist?

DirectedEvolution20 Apr 2021 5:04 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Ad­vice for High School #1

lsusr20 Apr 2021 4:09 UTC
93 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Iter­ated Trust Kickstarters

Raemon20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
74 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

Quick ex­am­i­na­tion of miles per micro­mort for US drivers, with ad­just­ments for safety-in­creas­ing behavior

Josh Jacobson19 Apr 2021 23:19 UTC
44 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)