[Question] Is any­one else frus­trated with ‘un-in­for­ma­tive’ post ti­tles?

KennyMay 28, 2021, 8:11 PM
18 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing ML to an­swer ques­tions hon­estly in­stead of pre­dict­ing hu­man answers

paulfchristianoMay 28, 2021, 5:30 PM
53 points
18 comments16 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

The blue-min­imis­ing robot and model splintering

Stuart_ArmstrongMay 28, 2021, 3:09 PM
13 points
5 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencergMay 28, 2021, 2:23 PM
154 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

(Try­ing To) Study Text­books Effec­tively: A Year of Experimentation

DirectedEvolutionMay 28, 2021, 5:51 AM
68 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Why Prefetch Is Broken

jefftkMay 28, 2021, 2:20 AM
13 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Aphantasia

CrackatookMay 28, 2021, 1:55 AM
7 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­dict re­sponses to the “ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” survey

Rob BensingerMay 28, 2021, 1:32 AM
44 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 7.5 - Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI from Biolog­i­cal An­chors with Ajeya Cotra

DanielFilanMay 28, 2021, 12:20 AM
24 points
1 comment67 min readLW link

The Ho­muncu­lus Problem

abramdemskiMay 27, 2021, 8:25 PM
50 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

99% shorter

philhMay 27, 2021, 7:50 PM
16 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

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

CharlesDMay 27, 2021, 6:53 PM
25 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolutionMay 27, 2021, 6:34 PM
23 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

A Re­view and Sum­mary of the Land­mark Forum

reviewerMay 27, 2021, 6:22 PM
55 points
11 comments14 min readLW link

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

YitzMay 27, 2021, 4:35 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Freak­ing blockchains: How do they work?

norswapMay 27, 2021, 4:22 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(norswap.com)

Covid 5/​27: The Fi­nal Countdown

ZviMay 27, 2021, 12:30 PM
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 GautamaMay 27, 2021, 8:20 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

What’s your peace plan?

CraigMichaelMay 26, 2021, 11:26 PM
8 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

The Anti-Carter Basilisk

Jon GilbertMay 26, 2021, 10:56 PM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

const LIZARDMANMay 26, 2021, 10:55 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] List of good AI safety pro­ject ideas?

Aryeh EnglanderMay 26, 2021, 10:36 PM
24 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Dal­las SSC Meetup #11

DacynMay 26, 2021, 10:19 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­tifrag­ility in Games of Chance, Re­search, and Debate

DirectedEvolutionMay 26, 2021, 5:51 PM
13 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

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

lsusrMay 26, 2021, 6:24 AM
76 points
55 comments8 min readLW link

The Prac­tice & Virtue of Discernment

ozziegooenMay 26, 2021, 12:34 AM
41 points
11 comments11 min readLW link

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

TurnTroutMay 26, 2021, 12:14 AM
23 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

The BTC equil­ibriu­mat­ing and the ETH one-eightening

Randomized, ControlledMay 25, 2021, 9:32 PM
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’?

freedomandutilityMay 25, 2021, 7:18 PM
6 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

De­cou­pling de­liber­a­tion from competition

paulfchristianoMay 25, 2021, 6:50 PM
84 points
17 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(ai-alignment.com)

Knowl­edge is not just map/​ter­ri­tory resemblance

Alex FlintMay 25, 2021, 5:58 PM
28 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Ab­strac­tion Talk

johnswentworthMay 25, 2021, 4:45 PM
38 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Start­ing a Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup dur­ing Lockdown

Felix KargMay 25, 2021, 3:43 PM
29 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Or­a­cles, In­form­ers, and Controllers

ozziegooenMay 25, 2021, 2:16 PM
15 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

We should prob­a­bly buy ADA?

mako yassMay 24, 2021, 11:58 PM
15 points
41 comments9 min readLW link

Books on In­fant and Early Child­hood Devel­op­ment?

moderockMay 24, 2021, 11:44 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ques­tions are tools to help an­swer­ers op­ti­mize utility

ozziegooenMay 24, 2021, 7:30 PM
33 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

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

abstractapplicMay 24, 2021, 4:25 PM
19 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Prob­lems fac­ing a cor­re­spon­dence the­ory of knowledge

Alex FlintMay 24, 2021, 4:02 PM
30 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

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

Justin BullockMay 24, 2021, 12:53 PM
14 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

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

yhoisethMay 24, 2021, 12:22 PM
27 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

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

orthogenesisMay 24, 2021, 3:42 AM
11 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Don’t feel bad about not know­ing ba­sic things

Adam ZernerMay 24, 2021, 1:49 AM
89 points
33 comments4 min readLW link

Is nu­clear war in­deed un­likely?

Valentin2026May 23, 2021, 11:14 PM
2 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Burmese Days #4 Tar­geted costs

Tim LiptrotMay 23, 2021, 8:54 PM
13 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets

Scott GarrabrantMay 23, 2021, 8:52 PM
148 points
95 comments24 min readLW link1 review

Book re­view: Sub­tract: The Un­tapped Science of Less

Aaron BergmanMay 23, 2021, 8:21 PM
27 points
3 comments22 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

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

Mati_RoyMay 22, 2021, 9:53 PM
3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

I’m Sorry Fluttershy

sapphireMay 22, 2021, 8:09 PM
138 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Kids NCurses Messenger

jefftkMay 22, 2021, 5:50 PM
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)