De­con­tex­tu­al­iz­ing Morality

ACrackedPot5 May 2021 20:25 UTC
0 points
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[Question] What are your fa­vorite ex­am­ples of adults in and around this com­mu­nity pub­li­cly chang­ing their minds?

nim5 May 2021 19:26 UTC
13 points
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[AN #149]: The newslet­ter’s ed­i­to­rial policy

Rohin Shah5 May 2021 17:10 UTC
19 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Frac­tal Con­ver­sa­tions vs Holis­tic Response

abramdemski5 May 2021 15:04 UTC
43 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[link] If some­thing seems un­usu­ally hard for you, see if you’re miss­ing a minor insight

Kaj_Sotala5 May 2021 10:23 UTC
48 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(drmaciver.substack.com)

Bayeswatch 2: Puppy Muffins

lsusr5 May 2021 5:42 UTC
78 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What are the great­est near-fu­ture risks or dan­gers to you as an in­di­vi­d­ual?

nim5 May 2021 4:02 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tion the­ol­ogy: prac­ti­cal as­pect.

Valentin20265 May 2021 2:20 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What do the re­ported lev­els of pro­tec­tion offered by var­i­ous vac­cines mean?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)4 May 2021 22:06 UTC
10 points
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[Question] Did they use serolog­i­cal test­ing for COVID vac­cine tri­als?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)4 May 2021 21:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

April 15, 2040

Nisan4 May 2021 21:18 UTC
97 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Loud Voices as Ac­cessible Anecdotes

ACrackedPot4 May 2021 21:13 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] [time­boxed ex­er­cise] write me your model of AI hu­man-ex­is­ten­tial safety and the al­ign­ment prob­lems in 15 minutes

Quinn4 May 2021 19:10 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mun­dane solu­tions to ex­otic problems

paulfchristiano4 May 2021 18:20 UTC
56 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(ai-alignment.com)

Pars­ing Abram on Gra­da­tions of In­ner Align­ment Obstacles

Alex Flint4 May 2021 17:44 UTC
22 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Linkpost] If You Can Be Bad, You Can Also Be Good

MaxG4 May 2021 6:26 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Why I Work on Ads

jefftk3 May 2021 21:00 UTC
83 points
93 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Bayeswatch 1: Jewish Space Laser

lsusr3 May 2021 20:15 UTC
89 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Con­sis­ten­cies as (meta-)preferences

Stuart_Armstrong3 May 2021 15:10 UTC
17 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Alzheimer’s, Hunt­ing­ton’s and Mi­to­chon­dria Part 3: Pre­dic­tions and Retrospective

J Bostock3 May 2021 14:47 UTC
10 points
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Alzheimer’s, Hunt­ing­ton’s and Mi­to­chon­dria Part 2: Glu­cose Metabolism

J Bostock3 May 2021 14:47 UTC
9 points
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Alzheimer’s, Hunt­ing­ton’s and Mi­to­chon­dria Part 1: Turnover Rates

J Bostock3 May 2021 14:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Schel­ling Game (a.k.a. the Co­or­di­na­tion Game)

jchan3 May 2021 14:31 UTC
31 points
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Maps of Maps, and Empty Expectations

Nora_Ammann3 May 2021 9:59 UTC
29 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Open and Wel­come Thread—May 2021

habryka3 May 2021 7:58 UTC
25 points
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Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 4:55 UTC
162 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Sex­ual Di­mor­phism in Yud­kowsky’s Se­quences, in Re­la­tion to My Gen­der Problems

Zack_M_Davis3 May 2021 4:31 UTC
54 points
29 comments1 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

There’s no such thing as a tree (phy­lo­ge­net­i­cally)

eukaryote3 May 2021 3:47 UTC
337 points
59 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Thoughts on Re-read­ing Brave New World

chemslug3 May 2021 3:28 UTC
10 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

The Neu­ral­ink Mon­key Demo

XelaP3 May 2021 2:29 UTC
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Weekly Event] Align­ment Re­searcher Coffee Time (in Walled Gar­den)

adamShimi2 May 2021 12:59 UTC
37 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Teach­ing Para­dox, Europa Univer­alis IV, Part I: State of Play

adamShimi2 May 2021 9:02 UTC
17 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(acoup.blog)

Car Seats Three Across

jefftk2 May 2021 2:00 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ar­gu­ing from a Gap of Perspective

ideenrun1 May 2021 22:42 UTC
6 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Fol­low-up to Ju­lia Wise on “Don’t Shoot The Dog”

Alex Flint1 May 2021 19:07 UTC
19 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Death by Red Tape

abramdemski1 May 2021 18:03 UTC
38 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2021

NunoSempere1 May 2021 16:07 UTC
9 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

April 2021 Deep Dive: Trans­form­ers and GPT-3

adamShimi1 May 2021 11:18 UTC
31 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Your Dog is Even Smarter Than You Think

StyleOfDog1 May 2021 5:16 UTC
254 points
108 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews

[ACX Linkpost] A Modest Pro­posal for Republicans

mike_hawke30 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

Re­view of “Why AI is Harder Than We Think”

electroswing30 Apr 2021 18:14 UTC
40 points
10 comments8 min readLW link

Mind­ful­ness as debugging

pchvykov30 Apr 2021 16:59 UTC
21 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral Privilege

ACrackedPot30 Apr 2021 14:54 UTC
13 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[Let­ter] Ad­vice for High School #2

lsusr30 Apr 2021 8:42 UTC
38 points
16 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] When’s the best time to get the 2nd dose of Pfizer Vac­cine?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)30 Apr 2021 5:11 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

On silence

Aaron Bergman30 Apr 2021 3:15 UTC
48 points
16 comments9 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

[Question] How do you so­licit feed­back effec­tively?

Raj Thimmiah30 Apr 2021 0:16 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Low-stakes alignment

paulfchristiano30 Apr 2021 0:10 UTC
86 points
11 comments7 min readLW link1 review
(ai-alignment.com)

Why “is ev­i­dence for” is a sym­met­ric relation

alex_hhr29 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(raginrayguns.tumblr.com)

[Question] Where do LessWrong ra­tio­nal­ists de­bate?

Viliam29 Apr 2021 21:23 UTC
44 points
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