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Book Review: The Beginning of Infinity

Sam Enright9 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC

38 points

16 comments32 min readLW link

Eight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games

Scott Alexander9 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC

110 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Fermi Fingers

Optimization Process9 Aug 2021 19:56 UTC

28 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Implicature Conflation

abramdemski9 Aug 2021 19:48 UTC

54 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Calculated Clairvoyance

Space L Clottey9 Aug 2021 19:46 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

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

William Gasarch9 Aug 2021 17:37 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Stable Equilibrium

johnswentworth9 Aug 2021 17:28 UTC

57 points

42 comments4 min readLW link

When Most VNM-Coherent Preference Orderings Have Convergent Instrumental Incentives

TurnTrout9 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC

53 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

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

Haziq Muhammad9 Aug 2021 17:16 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

The Reductionist Trap

J Bostock9 Aug 2021 17:00 UTC

11 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Goal-Directedness and Behavior, Redux

adamShimi9 Aug 2021 14:26 UTC

16 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

A new definition of “optimizer”

Chantiel9 Aug 2021 13:42 UTC

5 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Great Negotiation MOOC on Coursera

eg9 Aug 2021 12:23 UTC

16 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What should rationalists call themselves?

Nathan Young9 Aug 2021 8:50 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Against “blankfaces”

philh8 Aug 2021 23:00 UTC

102 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

There are transparent monsters in the world—part 1

Writer8 Aug 2021 19:47 UTC

7 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

The Future: Where are the Colors and the Sports?

rogersbacon8 Aug 2021 18:55 UTC

82 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

Dallas SSC/ACX August 2021 Meetup

ethanmorse8 Aug 2021 17:55 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell

victorsintnicolaas8 Aug 2021 17:05 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Predictions about the state of crypto in ten years

mike_hawke8 Aug 2021 16:18 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Applications for Deconfusing Goal-Directedness

adamShimi8 Aug 2021 13:05 UTC

38 points

3 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Seeking Power is Convergently Instrumental in a Broad Class of Environments

TurnTrout8 Aug 2021 2:02 UTC

44 points

15 comments9 min readLW link

Delta, Deaths, and Vaccinations

jefftk7 Aug 2021 19:10 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Rage Against The MOOChine

Borasko7 Aug 2021 17:57 UTC

20 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

A map: “Global Catastrophic Risks of Scientific Experiments”

avturchin7 Aug 2021 15:35 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Research agenda update

Steven Byrnes6 Aug 2021 19:24 UTC

55 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

523 points

156 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Thoughts on the Recent Haitian Assassination

Tim Liptrot6 Aug 2021 15:00 UTC

31 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Scoring My AstraZeneca Predictions

Erich_Grunewald6 Aug 2021 11:52 UTC

7 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Moving Away From The GPL

jefftk6 Aug 2021 11:50 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 11:24 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Eli Tyre6 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

What are some beautiful, rationalist sounds?

DirectedEvolution6 Aug 2021 1:22 UTC

31 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Traps of Formalization in Deconfusion

adamShimi5 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC

28 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 8/5: Much Ado About Nothing

Zvi5 Aug 2021 14:00 UTC

63 points

34 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two AI-risk-related game design ideas

Daniel Kokotajlo5 Aug 2021 13:36 UTC

48 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

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

eg5 Aug 2021 11:57 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Training Better Rationalists?

Davis_Kingsley5 Aug 2021 11:13 UTC

42 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- Potential

lsusr5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How to get mRNA after J&J

jefftk5 Aug 2021 1:50 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do we know about vaccinating children?

Gunnar_Zarncke4 Aug 2021 23:57 UTC

17 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Art Meet

Alicorn4 Aug 2021 23:40 UTC

36 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Should doctors be neutral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

31 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Value loading in the human brain: a worked example

Steven Byrnes4 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC

45 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

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

Rohin Shah4 Aug 2021 17:10 UTC

18 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Contribution-Adjusted Utility Maximization Funds: An Early Proposal

ozziegooen4 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST]

Jsevillamol4 Aug 2021 15:26 UTC

65 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Decision-Making Training for Software Engineering

Alex Hollow4 Aug 2021 10:36 UTC

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Garrabrant and Shah on human modeling in AGI

Rob Bensinger4 Aug 2021 4:35 UTC

60 points

10 comments47 min readLW link

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

cogitoprime4 Aug 2021 3:53 UTC

16 points

21 comments1 min readLW link