What is the prob­lem?

Carlos RamirezAug 11, 2021, 10:33 PM
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Au­tomat­ing Au­dit­ing: An am­bi­tious con­crete tech­ni­cal re­search proposal

evhubAug 11, 2021, 8:32 PM
88 points
13 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Don’t walk through the fire! Walk through the fire!

Icarus GallagherAug 11, 2021, 7:38 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Found­ing a ra­tio­nal­ist group at the Univer­sity of Michigan

DirectedEvolutionAug 11, 2021, 7:07 PM
30 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Danger­ous Vir­tual Worlds

Davis_KingsleyAug 11, 2021, 12:53 PM
10 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Pur­ple Lipstick

lsusrAug 11, 2021, 9:36 AM
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Halpern’s pa­per—A re­fu­ta­tion of Cox’s the­o­rem?

Haziq MuhammadAug 11, 2021, 9:25 AM
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the name of this fal­lacy?

mukashiAug 11, 2021, 2:10 AM
6 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­ter­est in Biosta­sis: Much More Than You Wanted to Know. (Re­sults from the ACX 2021 Biosta­sis/​Cry­on­ics Sur­vey)

SynapticAug 11, 2021, 12:43 AM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(synopticz.github.io)

For God’s sake, Google it.

Aaron BergmanAug 10, 2021, 11:52 PM
19 points
16 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

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

Jan CzechowskiAug 10, 2021, 4:36 PM
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Dopamine-su­per­vised learn­ing in mam­mals & fruit flies

Steven ByrnesAug 10, 2021, 4:13 PM
18 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

The two-headed bacterium

MalmesburyAug 10, 2021, 3:28 PM
66 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Vienna Meetup 2021 August

Laszlo_TreszkaiAug 10, 2021, 7:45 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Qual­i­ta­tive and In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Ex­pected Value

Adam ZernerAug 10, 2021, 3:31 AM
11 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

Rob BensingerAug 10, 2021, 12:16 AM
163 points
17 comments14 min readLW link

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