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The Homunculus Problem

abramdemski27 May 2021 20:25 UTC

50 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

99% shorter

philh27 May 2021 19:50 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Data on forecasting accuracy across different time horizons and levels of forecaster experience

CharlesD27 May 2021 18:53 UTC

25 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your visual experience when reading technical material?

DirectedEvolution27 May 2021 18:34 UTC

23 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum

reviewer27 May 2021 18:22 UTC

55 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] How likely is our view of the cosmos?

Yitz27 May 2021 16:35 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Freaking blockchains: How do they work?

norswap27 May 2021 16:22 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(norswap.com)

Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown

Zvi27 May 2021 12:30 UTC

72 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?

Siddhartha Gautama27 May 2021 8:20 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichael26 May 2021 23:26 UTC

8 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon Gilbert26 May 2021 22:56 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is (“Chemical Imbalance” ⇒ Depression) an example of fake causality?

const LIZARDMAN26 May 2021 22:55 UTC

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] List of good AI safety project ideas?

Aryeh Englander26 May 2021 22:36 UTC

24 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Dallas SSC Meetup #11

Dacyn26 May 2021 22:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Antifragility in Games of Chance, Research, and Debate

DirectedEvolution26 May 2021 17:51 UTC

13 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050

lsusr26 May 2021 6:24 UTC

76 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

The Practice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooen26 May 2021 0:34 UTC

41 points

11 comments11 min readLW link

MDP models are determined by the agent architecture and the environmental dynamics

TurnTrout26 May 2021 0:14 UTC

23 points

34 comments3 min readLW link

The BTC equilibriumating and the ETH one-eightening

Randomized, Controlled25 May 2021 21:32 UTC

22 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a term for ‘the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead’?

freedomandutility25 May 2021 19:18 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Decoupling deliberation from competition

paulfchristiano25 May 2021 18:50 UTC

84 points

17 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(ai-alignment.com)

Knowledge is not just map/territory resemblance

Alex Flint25 May 2021 17:58 UTC

28 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Abstraction Talk

johnswentworth25 May 2021 16:45 UTC

38 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Starting a Rationalist Meetup during Lockdown

Felix Karg25 May 2021 15:43 UTC

29 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Oracles, Informers, and Controllers

ozziegooen25 May 2021 14:16 UTC

15 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

We should probably buy ADA?

mako yass24 May 2021 23:58 UTC

15 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

Books on Infant and Early Childhood Development?

moderock24 May 2021 23:44 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Questions are tools to help answerers optimize utility

ozziegooen24 May 2021 19:30 UTC

33 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

A.D&D.Sci May 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplic24 May 2021 16:25 UTC

19 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

Problems facing a correspondence theory of knowledge

Alex Flint24 May 2021 16:02 UTC

30 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Controlling Intelligent Agents The Only Way We Know How: Ideal Bureaucratic Structure (IBS)

Justin Bullock24 May 2021 12:53 UTC

14 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] If individual performance is Pareto distributed, how should we reform education?

yhoiseth24 May 2021 12:22 UTC

27 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Signalling lack of familiarity with outsiders or outside knowledge, to raise status among your in-group peers?

orthogenesis24 May 2021 3:42 UTC

11 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not knowing basic things

Adam Zerner24 May 2021 1:49 UTC

89 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Is nuclear war indeed unlikely?

Valentin202623 May 2021 23:14 UTC

2 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Burmese Days #4 Targeted costs

Tim Liptrot23 May 2021 20:54 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets

Scott Garrabrant23 May 2021 20:52 UTC

148 points

95 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

Book review: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

Aaron Bergman23 May 2021 20:21 UTC

27 points

3 comments22 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[Question] What’s your probability that the concept of probability makes sense?

Mati_Roy22 May 2021 21:53 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphire22 May 2021 20:09 UTC

138 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Kids NCurses Messenger

jefftk22 May 2021 17:50 UTC

40 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What is the biggest crypto news of the past year?

mike_hawke22 May 2021 2:01 UTC

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Triangle SSC (Virtual) Meetup-May 27th

willbobaggins21 May 2021 23:40 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Web is Turning into Cable TV

matto21 May 2021 23:06 UTC

17 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time (05/24)

adamShimi21 May 2021 17:45 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Reebok effect

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 17:11 UTC

13 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

AI Safety Research Project Ideas

Owain_Evans21 May 2021 13:39 UTC

58 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Get your gun license

Alex Hollow21 May 2021 12:44 UTC

5 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

The Argument For Spoilers

abramdemski21 May 2021 12:23 UTC

21 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Book Review of 5 Applied Bayesian Statistics Books

Jan Christian Refsgaard21 May 2021 10:23 UTC

66 points

8 comments4 min readLW link