Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2021 22:38 UTC
20 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg90056 Apr 2021 21:28 UTC
−1 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworth6 Apr 2021 21:24 UTC
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

AI or­a­cles on blockchain

Caravaggio6 Apr 2021 20:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will GPT-4 be in­ca­pable of?

Michaël Trazzi6 Apr 2021 19:57 UTC
34 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemski6 Apr 2021 19:48 UTC
62 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:02 UTC
65 points
43 comments9 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

There Is No Con­trol Sys­tem For COVID

Mike Harris6 Apr 2021 17:16 UTC
35 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

The Accord

Timothy Underwood6 Apr 2021 15:44 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

March 2021 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern6 Apr 2021 14:06 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Prevent­ing over­charg­ing by prosecutors

ChristianKl6 Apr 2021 11:13 UTC
29 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

Our com­pressed perception

pchvykov6 Apr 2021 11:01 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Many Faces of In­fra-Beliefs

Diffractor6 Apr 2021 10:43 UTC
30 points
6 comments63 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a mu-like term that means some­thing like “why is this any of my busi­ness?”

CraigMichael6 Apr 2021 7:47 UTC
5 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to A Crack­pot Physics

ACrackedPot5 Apr 2021 23:59 UTC
−4 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

I’m from a par­allel Earth with much higher co­or­di­na­tion: AMA

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC
172 points
35 comments61 min readLW link1 review

Risk Bud­gets vs. Ba­sic De­ci­sion Theory

Vlad Firoiu5 Apr 2021 21:55 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal Ex­am­ples of Op­po­si­tion to Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
18 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Noise Pol­lu­tion and Cognition

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Avert­ing suffer­ing with sen­tience throt­tlers (pro­posal)

Quinn5 Apr 2021 10:54 UTC
8 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Ranked Choice Vot­ing is Ar­bi­trar­ily Bad

AppliedDivinityStudies5 Apr 2021 6:44 UTC
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The in­no­cent gene

Joe Carlsmith5 Apr 2021 3:31 UTC
39 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread – April 2021

niplav4 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do you think would be the best in­vest­ment policy for a cry­on­ics trust?

Mati_Roy4 Apr 2021 19:20 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

About Me: Back­ground and Biases

tkpwaeub4 Apr 2021 14:19 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What if we could use the the­ory of Mechanism De­sign from Game The­ory as a medium achieve AI Align­ment?

farari74 Apr 2021 12:56 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do scal­ing laws work for fine-tun­ing?

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Apr 2021 12:18 UTC
24 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] By which mechanism does im­mu­nity fa­vor new Covid var­i­ants?

anorangicc4 Apr 2021 10:24 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

A Cru­civer­bal­ist’s In­tro­duc­tion to Bayesian reasoning

Davidmanheim4 Apr 2021 8:50 UTC
11 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Tales from Pre­dic­tion Markets

ike3 Apr 2021 23:38 UTC
128 points
15 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(misinfounderload.substack.com)

An ex­plo­ra­tion of ex­ploita­tion bias

Eric Neyman3 Apr 2021 23:03 UTC
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

dominicq3 Apr 2021 20:16 UTC
83 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

The Holy Algorithm

Malmesbury3 Apr 2021 18:09 UTC
7 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.telescopic-turnip.net)

[Question] Would a post about op­ti­miz­ing phys­i­cal at­trac­tive­ness be fit­ting for this fo­rum?

TemporaryPseudonym3 Apr 2021 16:19 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Forc­ing your­self to keep your iden­tity small is self-harm

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 Apr 2021 14:03 UTC
40 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral Golems

Erich_Grunewald3 Apr 2021 10:12 UTC
8 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] Peo­ple are gath­er­ing 2 mil­lion USD to save a kid with a rare dis­ease. I feel weird about it. Why?

hookdump2 Apr 2021 23:00 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tive Cod­ing has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusr2 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
176 points
51 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In plain English—in what ways are Bayes’ Rule and Pop­pe­rian falsifi­ca­tion­ism con­flict­ing episte­molo­gies?

Sandro P.2 Apr 2021 21:21 UTC
2 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Phy­lac­tery De­ci­sion Theory

Bunthut2 Apr 2021 20:55 UTC
14 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Affordances

abramdemski2 Apr 2021 20:53 UTC
58 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

My take on Michael Littman on “The HCI of HAI”

Alex Flint2 Apr 2021 19:51 UTC
59 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

An­a­lyz­ing Mul­ti­player Games us­ing IMPACT

midco2 Apr 2021 19:10 UTC
10 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

Learn­ing Rus­sian Roulette

Bunthut2 Apr 2021 18:56 UTC
24 points
38 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #144]: How lan­guage mod­els can also be fine­tuned for non-lan­guage tasks

Rohin Shah2 Apr 2021 17:20 UTC
19 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
252 points
13 comments12 min readLW link1 review

2012 Robin Han­son com­ment on “In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion: Ev­i­dence and Im­port”

Rob Bensinger2 Apr 2021 16:26 UTC
28 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

On In­for­ma­tion Pre­sented by Authorities

adaminoue2 Apr 2021 15:40 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.inoue.today)

The Mean­ing Crisis

Raemon2 Apr 2021 1:04 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readLW link