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Power-seeking for successive choices

adamShimi12 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

11 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Obesity Epidemic Explained in 0.9 Subway Cookies

tinyanon12 Aug 2021 15:45 UTC

8 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Jaynes-Cox Probability: Are plausibilities objective?

Haziq Muhammad12 Aug 2021 14:23 UTC

9 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 8/12: The Worst Is Over

Zvi12 Aug 2021 13:30 UTC

79 points

66 comments26 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New GPT-3 competitor

Quintin Pope12 Aug 2021 7:05 UTC

32 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SL4 in more legible format

Richard_Ngo12 Aug 2021 6:36 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Combining the best of Georgian and Harberger taxes

Yair Halberstadt12 Aug 2021 5:55 UTC

23 points

30 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Bistability

johnswentworth12 Aug 2021 4:51 UTC

37 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Erratum for “From AI to Zombies”

Valentin202612 Aug 2021 4:39 UTC

12 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

A Response to A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

skot52312 Aug 2021 4:23 UTC

82 points

36 comments10 min readLW link

(goodtosell.substack.com)

Some criteria for sandwiching projects

dmz12 Aug 2021 3:40 UTC

18 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Request for comment on a novel reference work of understanding

ender12 Aug 2021 0:06 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Might intelligence decrease among humanity?

throwawayaccount11112 Aug 2021 0:05 UTC

−3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

What is the problem?

Carlos Ramirez11 Aug 2021 22:33 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Automating Auditing: An ambitious concrete technical research proposal

evhub11 Aug 2021 20:32 UTC

88 points

13 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

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

Icarus Gallagher11 Aug 2021 19:38 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Founding a rationalist group at the University of Michigan

DirectedEvolution11 Aug 2021 19:07 UTC

30 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Dangerous Virtual Worlds

Davis_Kingsley11 Aug 2021 12:53 UTC

10 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Purple Lipstick

lsusr11 Aug 2021 9:36 UTC

16 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

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

Haziq Muhammad11 Aug 2021 9:25 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the name of this fallacy?

mukashi11 Aug 2021 2:10 UTC

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)

Synaptic11 Aug 2021 0:43 UTC

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(synopticz.github.io)

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 link 1 review