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Research agenda update

Steven Byrnes6 Aug 2021 19:24 UTC

55 points

40 comments7 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 16:14 UTC

523 points

156 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Thoughts on the Recent Haitian Assassination

Tim Liptrot6 Aug 2021 15:00 UTC

31 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Scoring My AstraZeneca Predictions

Erich_Grunewald6 Aug 2021 11:52 UTC

7 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Moving Away From The GPL

jefftk6 Aug 2021 11:50 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How many parameters do self-driving-car neural nets have?

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Aug 2021 11:24 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good pieces on civilizational decay / civilizational collapse / weakening of societal fabric?

Eli Tyre6 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

What are some beautiful, rationalist sounds?

DirectedEvolution6 Aug 2021 1:22 UTC

31 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Traps of Formalization in Deconfusion

adamShimi5 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC

28 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 8/5: Much Ado About Nothing

Zvi5 Aug 2021 14:00 UTC

63 points

34 comments31 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two AI-risk-related game design ideas

Daniel Kokotajlo5 Aug 2021 13:36 UTC

48 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why not more small, intense research teams?

eg5 Aug 2021 11:57 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Training Better Rationalists?

Davis_Kingsley5 Aug 2021 11:13 UTC

42 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Methods of War》- Potential

lsusr5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

How to get mRNA after J&J

jefftk5 Aug 2021 1:50 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What do we know about vaccinating children?

Gunnar_Zarncke4 Aug 2021 23:57 UTC

17 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Art Meet

Alicorn4 Aug 2021 23:40 UTC

36 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Should doctors be neutral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

31 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Value loading in the human brain: a worked example

Steven Byrnes4 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC

45 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

[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

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST]

Jsevillamol4 Aug 2021 15:26 UTC

65 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Decision-Making Training for Software Engineering

Alex Hollow4 Aug 2021 10:36 UTC

12 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Garrabrant and Shah on human modeling in AGI

Rob Bensinger4 Aug 2021 4:35 UTC

60 points

10 comments47 min readLW link

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

cogitoprime4 Aug 2021 3:53 UTC

16 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Curing insanity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 2:28 UTC

159 points

8 comments4 min readLW link 1 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

adamShimi and evhub

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

15 comments12 min readLW link

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

Tom Lieberum3 Aug 2021 10:14 UTC

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

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

Andrew Vlahos3 Aug 2021 2:54 UTC

33 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

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

Chantiel2 Aug 2021 23:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius

rogersbacon2 Aug 2021 20:55 UTC

53 points

24 comments9 min readLW link

How Many Affordable Units?

jefftk2 Aug 2021 16:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

ChristianKl2 Aug 2021 13:01 UTC

38 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do Bayesians like Bayesian model Averaging?

Haziq Muhammad2 Aug 2021 12:24 UTC

4 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Referential Information

Jack R1 Aug 2021 21:07 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Who decides what should be worked on?

Aglaya Ivanovna1 Aug 2021 17:26 UTC

39 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: July 2021

NunoSempere1 Aug 2021 17:00 UTC

21 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Destroying Insecurity and Boosting Confidence Through Your Interests and Values

Olitness1 Aug 2021 14:34 UTC

21 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(olitness.wordpress.com)

[Question] Torture vs Specks: Sadist version

andrew sauer31 Jul 2021 23:33 UTC

11 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Cognitive Impacts of Cocaine Use

Xodarap31 Jul 2021 21:53 UTC

25 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Very Unnatural Tasks?

Orfeas31 Jul 2021 21:22 UTC

4 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Cherry Pit Storage

jefftk31 Jul 2021 17:30 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The World is Continuous, Not Discrete

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 2:26 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anshuljain.me)

A Framework for Disagreements

Anshul Jain31 Jul 2021 1:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.anshuljain.me)

Uncertainty can Defuse Logical Explosions

J Bostock30 Jul 2021 12:36 UTC

13 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

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

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC

11 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

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

Maxwell Peterson30 Jul 2021 2:51 UTC

11 points

14 comments1 min readLW link