Uncer­tainty can De­fuse Log­i­cal Explosions

J Bostock30 Jul 2021 12:36 UTC
13 points
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Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What weird treat­ments should peo­ple who lost their taste from COVID try?

Maxwell Peterson30 Jul 2021 2:51 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What’s your per­sonal TAP setup?

Raj Thimmiah29 Jul 2021 22:38 UTC
3 points
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Brief thoughts on in­effi­cient writ­ing systems

Srdjan Miletic29 Jul 2021 20:20 UTC
22 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #158]: Should we be op­ti­mistic about gen­er­al­iza­tion?

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Covid 7/​29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC
97 points
25 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slack Has Pos­i­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC
96 points
11 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Gam­ing Incentives

Jozdien29 Jul 2021 13:51 UTC
10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Did they or didn’t they learn tool use?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 13:26 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to bayesian up­date on mul­ti­ple covid tests?

rchplg29 Jul 2021 13:15 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Im­por­tance of Ideas and Peo­ple We Disagree With

Olitness29 Jul 2021 11:50 UTC
−1 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much com­pute was used to train Deep­Mind’s gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 11:34 UTC
32 points
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Violent Un­rav­el­ing: Suici­dal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Do we have a term for the is­sue with quan­tify­ing policy effect Scott Alexan­der stum­bled on mul­ti­ple times?

yhoiseth29 Jul 2021 8:45 UTC
11 points
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An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 2

29 Jul 2021 7:39 UTC
30 points
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Ev­i­dence that adds up

TekhneMakre29 Jul 2021 3:27 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Premiums vs Pre­dic­tion Markets

SimonM28 Jul 2021 23:03 UTC
35 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC
119 points
60 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] How much do vari­a­tions in diet qual­ity de­ter­mine in­di­vi­d­ual pro­duc­tivity?

Natália28 Jul 2021 3:05 UTC
37 points
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A rea­son­able de­bate about Ivermectin

CraigMichael27 Jul 2021 22:31 UTC
7 points
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Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC
51 points
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Deep­Mind: Gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC
247 points
53 comments2 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC
−8 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

More Use­ful Way of An­swer­ing “Mind vs. Body” Problem

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

A con­ver­sa­tion about cook­ing, sci­ence, and creativity

DirectedEvolution27 Jul 2021 5:00 UTC
16 points
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Neu­ro­science things that con­fuse me right now

Steven Byrnes26 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
16 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

Re­fac­tor­ing Align­ment (at­tempt #2)

abramdemski26 Jul 2021 20:12 UTC
46 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

Wanted: Foom-scared al­ign­ment re­search partner

Icarus Gallagher26 Jul 2021 19:23 UTC
42 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What does know­ing the her­i­ta­bil­ity of a trait tell me in prac­tice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC
58 points
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[Question] Is there a the­o­ret­i­cal up­per limit on the R0 of Covid var­i­ants?

CraigMichael26 Jul 2021 6:53 UTC
11 points
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When writ­ing trig­gers mem­ory reconsolidation

Adam Zerner25 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC
34 points
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Can I teach my­self sci­en­tific cre­ativity?

DirectedEvolution25 Jul 2021 20:15 UTC
13 points
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When Ar­gu­ing Defi­ni­tions is Ar­gu­ing Decisions

Hazard25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Come Build Afford­able Hous­ing!

jefftk25 Jul 2021 14:10 UTC
24 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Aca­demic Ra­tion­al­ity Research

ChristianKl25 Jul 2021 13:59 UTC
63 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The biolog­i­cal in­tel­li­gence explosion

Rob Lucas25 Jul 2021 13:08 UTC
8 points
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My Pro­duc­tivity Tips and Systems

Jack R25 Jul 2021 12:52 UTC
16 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What are some trig­gers that prompt you to do a Fermi es­ti­mate, or to pull up a spread­sheet and make a sim­ple/​rough quan­ti­ta­tive model?

Eli Tyre25 Jul 2021 6:47 UTC
38 points
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Failing safely is the anomaly

Andrew Vlahos25 Jul 2021 4:56 UTC
12 points
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A Con­tam­i­na­tion The­ory of the Obe­sity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC
99 points
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So­cial me­dia: de­signed to be bad for you & for society

matto24 Jul 2021 18:59 UTC
29 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Believ­ing vs understanding

Adam Zerner24 Jul 2021 3:39 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Hous­ing Without Street Park­ing: Implemented

jefftk24 Jul 2021 2:40 UTC
12 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

AXRP Epi­sode 10 - AI’s Fu­ture and Im­pacts with Katja Grace

DanielFilan23 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC
34 points
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Delta var­i­ant: we should prob­a­bly be re-masking

Aaron Bergman23 Jul 2021 21:13 UTC
34 points
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(aaronbergman.substack.com)

How is low-la­tency pha­sic dopamine so fast?

Steven Byrnes23 Jul 2021 17:43 UTC
41 points
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[AN #157]: Mea­sur­ing mis­al­ign­ment in the tech­nol­ogy un­der­ly­ing Copilot

Rohin Shah23 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC
28 points
18 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Hyper­games 101

Josephine23 Jul 2021 13:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Duels

Josephine23 Jul 2021 9:22 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link