[Question] What do we know about vac­ci­nat­ing chil­dren?

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 4, 2021, 11:57 PM
17 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Art Meet

AlicornAug 4, 2021, 11:40 PM
37 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Should doc­tors be neu­tral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 4, 2021, 8:37 PM
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Value load­ing in the hu­man brain: a worked example

Steven ByrnesAug 4, 2021, 5:20 PM
45 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahAug 4, 2021, 5:10 PM
18 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Con­tri­bu­tion-Ad­justed Utility Max­i­miza­tion Funds: An Early Proposal

ozziegooenAug 4, 2021, 5:09 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Anal­y­sis of World Records in Speedrun­ning [LINKPOST]

JsevillamolAug 4, 2021, 3:26 PM
65 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Train­ing for Soft­ware Engineering

Alex HollowAug 4, 2021, 10:36 AM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Garrabrant and Shah on hu­man mod­el­ing in AGI

Rob BensingerAug 4, 2021, 4:35 AM
60 points
10 comments47 min readLW link

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

cogitoprimeAug 4, 2021, 3:53 AM
16 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Cur­ing in­san­ity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) Aug 4, 2021, 2:28 AM
159 points
8 comments4 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What’s the sta­tus of third vac­cine doses?

Alex_AltairAug 4, 2021, 2:22 AM
30 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Scien­tific Free­dom by Don Braben

willbobagginsAug 4, 2021, 1:38 AM
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

LCDT, A My­opic De­ci­sion Theory

Aug 3, 2021, 10:41 PM
57 points
50 comments15 min readLW link

What does GPT-3 un­der­stand? Sym­bol ground­ing and Chi­nese rooms

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 3, 2021, 1:14 PM
40 points
15 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How should my timelines in­fluence my ca­reer choice?

Tom LieberumAug 3, 2021, 10:14 AM
13 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What was my mis­take eval­u­at­ing risk in this situ­a­tion?

Andrew VlahosAug 3, 2021, 2:54 AM
33 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

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

ChantielAug 2, 2021, 11:20 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

rogersbaconAug 2, 2021, 8:55 PM
53 points
24 comments9 min readLW link

How Many Afford­able Units?

jefftkAug 2, 2021, 4:20 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What made the UK COVID-19 case count drop?

ChristianKlAug 2, 2021, 1:01 PM
38 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do Bayesi­ans like Bayesian model Aver­ag­ing?

Haziq MuhammadAug 2, 2021, 12:24 PM
4 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Refer­en­tial Information

Jack RAug 1, 2021, 9:07 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Who de­cides what should be worked on?

Aglaya IvanovnaAug 1, 2021, 5:26 PM
39 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: July 2021

NunoSempereAug 1, 2021, 5:00 PM
21 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

De­stroy­ing Inse­cu­rity and Boost­ing Con­fi­dence Through Your In­ter­ests and Values

OlitnessAug 1, 2021, 2:34 PM
21 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

[Question] Tor­ture vs Specks: Sadist version

andrew sauerJul 31, 2021, 11:33 PM
11 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Im­pacts of Co­caine Use

XodarapJul 31, 2021, 9:53 PM
25 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Very Un­nat­u­ral Tasks?

OrfeasJul 31, 2021, 9:22 PM
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Cherry Pit Storage

jefftkJul 31, 2021, 5:30 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The World is Con­tin­u­ous, Not Discrete

Anshul JainJul 31, 2021, 2:26 AM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anshuljain.me)

A Frame­work for Disagreements

Anshul JainJul 31, 2021, 1:51 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.anshuljain.me)

Uncer­tainty can De­fuse Log­i­cal Explosions

J BostockJul 30, 2021, 12:36 PM
13 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tion-based-Medicine in­stead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Author­ity-based-Medicine

ChristianKlJul 30, 2021, 10:42 AM
11 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What weird treat­ments should peo­ple who lost their taste from COVID try?

Maxwell PetersonJul 30, 2021, 2:51 AM
11 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your per­sonal TAP setup?

Raj ThimmiahJul 29, 2021, 10:38 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Brief thoughts on in­effi­cient writ­ing systems

Srdjan MileticJul 29, 2021, 8:20 PM
22 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #158]: Should we be op­ti­mistic about gen­er­al­iza­tion?

Rohin ShahJul 29, 2021, 5:20 PM
20 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Covid 7/​29: You Play to Win the Game

ZviJul 29, 2021, 4:10 PM
97 points
25 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slack Has Pos­i­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities For Groups

johnswentworthJul 29, 2021, 3:03 PM
97 points
11 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Gam­ing Incentives

JozdienJul 29, 2021, 1:51 PM
10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Did they or didn’t they learn tool use?

Daniel KokotajloJul 29, 2021, 1:26 PM
16 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to bayesian up­date on mul­ti­ple covid tests?

rchplgJul 29, 2021, 1:15 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Im­por­tance of Ideas and Peo­ple We Disagree With

OlitnessJul 29, 2021, 11:50 AM
−1 points
4 comments7 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much com­pute was used to train Deep­Mind’s gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents?

Daniel KokotajloJul 29, 2021, 11:34 AM
32 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Violent Un­rav­el­ing: Suici­dal Majoritarianism

mako yassJul 29, 2021, 9:29 AM
6 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Do we have a term for the is­sue with quan­tify­ing policy effect Scott Alexan­der stum­bled on mul­ti­ple times?

yhoisethJul 29, 2021, 8:45 AM
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 2

Jul 29, 2021, 7:39 AM
30 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence that adds up

TekhneMakreJul 29, 2021, 3:27 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Premiums vs Pre­dic­tion Markets

SimonMJul 28, 2021, 11:03 PM
35 points
6 comments6 min readLW link