Book Re­view: The Begin­ning of Infinity

Sam EnrightAug 9, 2021, 9:53 PM
39 points
16 comments32 min readLW link

Eight Hun­dred Slightly Poi­soned Word Games

Scott AlexanderAug 9, 2021, 8:17 PM
111 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Fermi Fingers

Optimization ProcessAug 9, 2021, 7:56 PM
28 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­ture Conflation

abramdemskiAug 9, 2021, 7:48 PM
54 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Calcu­lated Clairvoyance

Space L ClotteyAug 9, 2021, 7:46 PM
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Com­bin­ing two posts: Blank­face (Scott Aa) and Is Science Slow­ing Down? (Scott Al)

William GasarchAug 9, 2021, 5:37 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Stable Equilibrium

johnswentworthAug 9, 2021, 5:28 PM
57 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

When Most VNM-Co­her­ent Prefer­ence Order­ings Have Con­ver­gent In­stru­men­tal Incentives

TurnTroutAug 9, 2021, 5:22 PM
53 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Ques­tion about Test-sets and Bayesian ma­chine learn­ing

Haziq MuhammadAug 9, 2021, 5:16 PM
2 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Re­duc­tion­ist Trap

J BostockAug 9, 2021, 5:00 PM
11 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Goal-Direct­ed­ness and Be­hav­ior, Redux

adamShimiAug 9, 2021, 2:26 PM
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

A new defi­ni­tion of “op­ti­mizer”

ChantielAug 9, 2021, 1:42 PM
5 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Great Ne­go­ti­a­tion MOOC on Coursera

egAug 9, 2021, 12:23 PM
16 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What should ra­tio­nal­ists call them­selves?

Nathan YoungAug 9, 2021, 8:50 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Against “blank­faces”

philhAug 8, 2021, 11:00 PM
102 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

There are trans­par­ent mon­sters in the world—part 1

WriterAug 8, 2021, 7:47 PM
7 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

The Fu­ture: Where are the Colors and the Sports?

rogersbaconAug 8, 2021, 6:55 PM
82 points
37 comments8 min readLW link

Dal­las SSC/​ACX Au­gust 2021 Meetup

ethanmorseAug 8, 2021, 5:55 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Knowl­edge and De­ci­sions by Thomas Sowell

victorsintnicolaasAug 8, 2021, 5:05 PM
16 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tions about the state of crypto in ten years

mike_hawkeAug 8, 2021, 4:18 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions for De­con­fus­ing Goal-Directedness

adamShimiAug 8, 2021, 1:05 PM
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Seek­ing Power is Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in a Broad Class of Environments

TurnTroutAug 8, 2021, 2:02 AM
44 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Delta, Deaths, and Vaccinations

jefftkAug 7, 2021, 7:10 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Rage Against The MOOChine

BoraskoAug 7, 2021, 5:57 PM
20 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

A map: “Global Catas­trophic Risks of Scien­tific Ex­per­i­ments”

avturchinAug 7, 2021, 3:35 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search agenda update

Steven ByrnesAug 6, 2021, 7:24 PM
55 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel KokotajloAug 6, 2021, 4:14 PM
528 points
158 comments16 min readLW link1 review

Thoughts on the Re­cent Haitian Assassination

Tim LiptrotAug 6, 2021, 3:00 PM
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Scor­ing My As­traZeneca Predictions

Erich_GrunewaldAug 6, 2021, 11:52 AM
7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Mov­ing Away From The GPL

jefftkAug 6, 2021, 11:50 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How many pa­ram­e­ters do self-driv­ing-car neu­ral nets have?

Daniel KokotajloAug 6, 2021, 11:24 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good pieces on civ­i­liza­tional de­cay /​ civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse /​ weak­en­ing of so­cietal fabric?

Eli TyreAug 6, 2021, 7:18 AM
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist sounds?

DirectedEvolutionAug 6, 2021, 1:22 AM
31 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Traps of For­mal­iza­tion in Deconfusion

adamShimiAug 5, 2021, 10:40 PM
28 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 8/​5: Much Ado About Nothing

ZviAug 5, 2021, 2:00 PM
63 points
34 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two AI-risk-re­lated game de­sign ideas

Daniel KokotajloAug 5, 2021, 1:36 PM
48 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why not more small, in­tense re­search teams?

egAug 5, 2021, 11:57 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Train­ing Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ists?

Davis_KingsleyAug 5, 2021, 11:13 AM
42 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Potential

lsusrAug 5, 2021, 5:29 AM
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to get mRNA af­ter J&J

jefftkAug 5, 2021, 1:50 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do we know about vac­ci­nat­ing chil­dren?

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 4, 2021, 11:57 PM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Art Meet

AlicornAug 4, 2021, 11:40 PM
37 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Should doc­tors be neu­tral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 4, 2021, 8:37 PM
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Value load­ing in the hu­man brain: a worked example

Steven ByrnesAug 4, 2021, 5:20 PM
45 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

[AN #159]: Build­ing agents that know how to ex­per­i­ment, by train­ing on pro­ce­du­rally gen­er­ated games

Rohin ShahAug 4, 2021, 5:10 PM
18 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Con­tri­bu­tion-Ad­justed Utility Max­i­miza­tion Funds: An Early Proposal

ozziegooenAug 4, 2021, 5:09 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Anal­y­sis of World Records in Speedrun­ning [LINKPOST]

JsevillamolAug 4, 2021, 3:26 PM
65 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Train­ing for Soft­ware Engineering

Alex HollowAug 4, 2021, 10:36 AM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Garrabrant and Shah on hu­man mod­el­ing in AGI

Rob BensingerAug 4, 2021, 4:35 AM
60 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

[Question] What psy­chol­ogy stud­ies are most im­por­tant to the ra­tio­nal­ist wor­ld­view?

cogitoprimeAug 4, 2021, 3:53 AM
16 points
21 comments1 min readLW link