[Question] Is iter­ated am­plifi­ca­tion re­ally more pow­er­ful than imi­ta­tion?

Chantiel2 Aug 2021 23:20 UTC
5 points
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The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

rogersbacon2 Aug 2021 20:55 UTC
53 points
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How Many Afford­able Units?

jefftk2 Aug 2021 16:20 UTC
12 points
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[Question] What made the UK COVID-19 case count drop?

ChristianKl2 Aug 2021 13:01 UTC
38 points
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[Question] Do Bayesi­ans like Bayesian model Aver­ag­ing?

Haziq Muhammad2 Aug 2021 12:24 UTC
4 points
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Refer­en­tial Information

Jack R1 Aug 2021 21:07 UTC
4 points
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Who de­cides what should be worked on?

Aglaya Ivanovna1 Aug 2021 17:26 UTC
39 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: July 2021

NunoSempere1 Aug 2021 17:00 UTC
21 points
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De­stroy­ing Inse­cu­rity and Boost­ing Con­fi­dence Through Your In­ter­ests and Values

Olitness1 Aug 2021 14:34 UTC
21 points
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[Question] Tor­ture vs Specks: Sadist version

andrew sauer31 Jul 2021 23:33 UTC
11 points
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Cog­ni­tive Im­pacts of Co­caine Use

Xodarap31 Jul 2021 21:53 UTC
25 points
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[Question] Very Un­nat­u­ral Tasks?

Orfeas31 Jul 2021 21:22 UTC
4 points
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Cherry Pit Storage

jefftk31 Jul 2021 17:30 UTC
11 points
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The World is Con­tin­u­ous, Not Discrete

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 2:26 UTC
5 points
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A Frame­work for Disagreements

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 1:51 UTC
1 point
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Uncer­tainty can De­fuse Log­i­cal Explosions

J Bostock30 Jul 2021 12:36 UTC
13 points
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Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What weird treat­ments should peo­ple who lost their taste from COVID try?

Maxwell Peterson30 Jul 2021 2:51 UTC
11 points
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[Question] What’s your per­sonal TAP setup?

Raj Thimmiah29 Jul 2021 22:38 UTC
3 points
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Brief thoughts on in­effi­cient writ­ing systems

Srdjan Miletic29 Jul 2021 20:20 UTC
22 points
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[AN #158]: Should we be op­ti­mistic about gen­er­al­iza­tion?

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC
20 points
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Covid 7/​29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC
97 points
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Slack Has Pos­i­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC
97 points
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Gam­ing Incentives

Jozdien29 Jul 2021 13:51 UTC
10 points
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[Question] Did they or didn’t they learn tool use?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 13:26 UTC
16 points
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[Question] How to bayesian up­date on mul­ti­ple covid tests?

rchplg29 Jul 2021 13:15 UTC
13 points
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Im­por­tance of Ideas and Peo­ple We Disagree With

Olitness29 Jul 2021 11:50 UTC
−1 points
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[Question] How much com­pute was used to train Deep­Mind’s gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents?

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2021 11:34 UTC
32 points
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Violent Un­rav­el­ing: Suici­dal Majoritarianism

mako yass29 Jul 2021 9:29 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Do we have a term for the is­sue with quan­tify­ing policy effect Scott Alexan­der stum­bled on mul­ti­ple times?

yhoiseth29 Jul 2021 8:45 UTC
11 points
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An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 2

29 Jul 2021 7:39 UTC
30 points
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Ev­i­dence that adds up

TekhneMakre29 Jul 2021 3:27 UTC
6 points
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Risk Premiums vs Pre­dic­tion Markets

SimonM28 Jul 2021 23:03 UTC
35 points
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Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC
119 points
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[Question] How much do vari­a­tions in diet qual­ity de­ter­mine in­di­vi­d­ual pro­duc­tivity?

Natália28 Jul 2021 3:05 UTC
37 points
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A rea­son­able de­bate about Ivermectin

CraigMichael27 Jul 2021 22:31 UTC
7 points
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Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC
51 points
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Deep­Mind: Gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC
247 points
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In Praise (and Defence) of The People

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC
−8 points
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More Use­ful Way of An­swer­ing “Mind vs. Body” Problem

Olitness27 Jul 2021 7:13 UTC
9 points
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A con­ver­sa­tion about cook­ing, sci­ence, and creativity

DirectedEvolution27 Jul 2021 5:00 UTC
16 points
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Neu­ro­science things that con­fuse me right now

Steven Byrnes26 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
16 points
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Re­fac­tor­ing Align­ment (at­tempt #2)

abramdemski26 Jul 2021 20:12 UTC
46 points
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Wanted: Foom-scared al­ign­ment re­search partner

Icarus Gallagher26 Jul 2021 19:23 UTC
42 points
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[Question] What does know­ing the her­i­ta­bil­ity of a trait tell me in prac­tice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC
58 points
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[Question] Is there a the­o­ret­i­cal up­per limit on the R0 of Covid var­i­ants?

CraigMichael26 Jul 2021 6:53 UTC
11 points
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When writ­ing trig­gers mem­ory reconsolidation

Adam Zerner25 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC
34 points
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Can I teach my­self sci­en­tific cre­ativity?

DirectedEvolution25 Jul 2021 20:15 UTC
13 points
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When Ar­gu­ing Defi­ni­tions is Ar­gu­ing Decisions

Hazard25 Jul 2021 16:45 UTC
28 points
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Come Build Afford­able Hous­ing!

jefftk25 Jul 2021 14:10 UTC
24 points
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