[Question] What do we know about vac­ci­nat­ing chil­dren?

Gunnar_Zarncke4 Aug 2021 23:57 UTC
17 points
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Art Meet

Alicorn4 Aug 2021 23:40 UTC
36 points
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Should doc­tors be neu­tral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC
31 points
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Value load­ing in the hu­man brain: a worked example

Steven Byrnes4 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC
45 points
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[AN #159]: Build­ing agents that know how to ex­per­i­ment, by train­ing on pro­ce­du­rally gen­er­ated games

Rohin Shah4 Aug 2021 17:10 UTC
18 points
4 comments14 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Con­tri­bu­tion-Ad­justed Utility Max­i­miza­tion Funds: An Early Proposal

ozziegooen4 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC
18 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Anal­y­sis of World Records in Speedrun­ning [LINKPOST]

Jsevillamol4 Aug 2021 15:26 UTC
65 points
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De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Train­ing for Soft­ware Engineering

Alex Hollow4 Aug 2021 10:36 UTC
12 points
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(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Garrabrant and Shah on hu­man mod­el­ing in AGI

Rob Bensinger4 Aug 2021 4:35 UTC
60 points
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[Question] What psy­chol­ogy stud­ies are most im­por­tant to the ra­tio­nal­ist wor­ld­view?

cogitoprime4 Aug 2021 3:53 UTC
16 points
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Cur­ing in­san­ity with malaria

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

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

Alex_Altair4 Aug 2021 2:22 UTC
30 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Scien­tific Free­dom by Don Braben

willbobaggins4 Aug 2021 1:38 UTC
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

LCDT, A My­opic De­ci­sion Theory

3 Aug 2021 22:41 UTC
57 points
50 comments15 min readLW link

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

Stuart_Armstrong3 Aug 2021 13:14 UTC
40 points
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[Question] How should my timelines in­fluence my ca­reer choice?

Tom Lieberum3 Aug 2021 10:14 UTC
13 points
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[Question] What was my mis­take eval­u­at­ing risk in this situ­a­tion?

Andrew Vlahos3 Aug 2021 2:54 UTC
33 points
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[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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(www.jefftk.com)

[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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(olitness.wordpress.com)

[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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(www.jefftk.com)

The World is Con­tin­u­ous, Not Discrete

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 2:26 UTC
5 points
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(www.anshuljain.me)

A Frame­work for Disagreements

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 1:51 UTC
1 point
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(www.anshuljain.me)

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
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Covid 7/​29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC
97 points
25 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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
4 comments7 min readLW link
(olitness.wordpress.com)

[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
0 comments2 min readLW link

Risk Premiums vs Pre­dic­tion Markets

SimonM28 Jul 2021 23:03 UTC
35 points
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