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Social Calibration

SimulatedCrow20 May 2021 23:22 UTC

3 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Did the Industrial Revolution decrease costs or increase quality?

jasoncrawford20 May 2021 21:10 UTC

73 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

It’s like poetry, they rhyme: Lanier and Yudkowsky, Glen and Scott

CraigMichael20 May 2021 18:48 UTC

23 points

5 comments18 min readLW link

Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob Bensinger20 May 2021 18:33 UTC

57 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Response to “What does the universal prior actually look like?”

michaelcohen20 May 2021 16:12 UTC

37 points

33 comments18 min readLW link

Time & Memory

abramdemski20 May 2021 15:16 UTC

23 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love MUM

Waddington20 May 2021 7:57 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Abstractions and translation

Amir Bolous20 May 2021 2:45 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Solar Production Data

jefftk20 May 2021 1:30 UTC

10 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is Ray Kurzweil’s prediction accuracy still being tracked?

CraigMichael20 May 2021 0:06 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How refined is your art of note-taking?

DirectedEvolution19 May 2021 22:12 UTC

22 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Re: Fierce Nerds

lsusr19 May 2021 20:18 UTC

36 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(paulgraham.com)

[AN #151]: How sparsity in the final layer makes a neural net debuggable

Rohin Shah19 May 2021 17:20 UTC

19 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What should we expect from ARPA-H?

ChristianKl19 May 2021 12:21 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 4: Mousetrap

lsusr19 May 2021 3:17 UTC

46 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

There is no No Evidence

MalcolmOcean19 May 2021 2:44 UTC

49 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

This Sunday, 12PM PT: Scott Garrabrant on “Finite Factored Sets”

Raemon19 May 2021 1:48 UTC

33 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Functional Trade-offs

weathersystems19 May 2021 1:06 UTC

5 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

SGD’s Bias

johnswentworth18 May 2021 23:19 UTC

61 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Seriously?

ejacob18 May 2021 21:36 UTC

5 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any methods for NNs or other ML systems to get information from knockout-like or assay-like experiments?

J Bostock18 May 2021 21:33 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Saving Time

Scott Garrabrant18 May 2021 20:11 UTC

160 points

20 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Are PS5 scalpers actually bad?

willbradshaw18 May 2021 12:27 UTC

23 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Neurons in Pretrained Transformers

evhub17 May 2021 22:54 UTC

100 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

What Would You Store to Maximize Value in 100 Years? A Thought Experiment

JohnGreer17 May 2021 20:46 UTC

10 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

Love on Cartesian Planes

bksilv3r17 May 2021 19:19 UTC

36 points

6 comments23 min readLW link

Announcing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge

nikos17 May 2021 17:29 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

Zvi17 May 2021 16:40 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A.D&D.Sci May 2021: Interdimensional Monster Carcass Auction

abstractapplic17 May 2021 15:54 UTC

29 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS proxies with Starlink

ChristianKl17 May 2021 15:05 UTC

11 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to determine the value of optionality?

sphericaltree17 May 2021 2:19 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How concerned are you about LW reputation management?

DirectedEvolution17 May 2021 2:11 UTC

42 points

48 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity?

Daniel Kokotajlo16 May 2021 22:10 UTC

121 points

86 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Optimizers: To Define or not to Define

J Bostock16 May 2021 19:55 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan Zoellner16 May 2021 18:19 UTC

5 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

ChristianKl16 May 2021 18:01 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Power Outage Chances

jefftk16 May 2021 16:40 UTC

8 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Christenson’s “Epistemology of Disagreement: The Good News”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 3:58 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Thinking About Generators

jefftk16 May 2021 2:40 UTC

16 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

On “Epistemic Trespassing” and Intellectual Modesty

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:40 UTC

9 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Research Motivations and “The Division of Cognitive Labor”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:00 UTC

4 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Suppose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent?

hunterglenn15 May 2021 23:24 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/17)

adamShimi15 May 2021 22:07 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Purpose of Purpose

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 May 2021 21:00 UTC

17 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

How Can One Tell What Is Beautiful?

Erich_Grunewald15 May 2021 12:55 UTC

5 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Technocratic Plimsoll Line

Martin Sustrik15 May 2021 8:34 UTC

53 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Intermittent Distillations #3

Mark Xu15 May 2021 7:13 UTC

21 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

How to compute the probability you are flipping a trick coin

lsusr15 May 2021 0:02 UTC

18 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Under Pressure

Alex Hollow14 May 2021 22:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

[Question] Who has argued in detail that a current AI system is phenomenally conscious?

Robbo14 May 2021 22:03 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link