For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron Bergman10 Aug 2021 23:52 UTC
19 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Free course re­view — Reli­able and In­ter­pretable Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence (ETH Zurich)

Jan Czechowski10 Aug 2021 16:36 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Dopamine-su­per­vised learn­ing in mam­mals & fruit flies

Steven Byrnes10 Aug 2021 16:13 UTC
18 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

The two-headed bacterium

Malmesbury10 Aug 2021 15:28 UTC
66 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup 2021 August

Laszlo_Treszkai10 Aug 2021 7:45 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Qual­i­ta­tive and In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Ex­pected Value

Adam Zerner10 Aug 2021 3:31 UTC
11 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

Rob Bensinger10 Aug 2021 0:16 UTC
163 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

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 link1 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 link1 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