Re­search agenda update

Steven ByrnesAug 6, 2021, 7:24 PM
55 points
40 comments7 min readLW link

What 2026 looks like

Daniel KokotajloAug 6, 2021, 4:14 PM
528 points
158 comments16 min readLW link1 review

Thoughts on the Re­cent Haitian Assassination

Tim LiptrotAug 6, 2021, 3:00 PM
31 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Scor­ing My As­traZeneca Predictions

Erich_GrunewaldAug 6, 2021, 11:52 AM
7 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Mov­ing Away From The GPL

jefftkAug 6, 2021, 11:50 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

Daniel KokotajloAug 6, 2021, 11:24 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Eli TyreAug 6, 2021, 7:18 AM
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

What are some beau­tiful, ra­tio­nal­ist sounds?

DirectedEvolutionAug 6, 2021, 1:22 AM
31 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Traps of For­mal­iza­tion in Deconfusion

adamShimiAug 5, 2021, 10:40 PM
28 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Covid 8/​5: Much Ado About Nothing

ZviAug 5, 2021, 2:00 PM
63 points
34 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Two AI-risk-re­lated game de­sign ideas

Daniel KokotajloAug 5, 2021, 1:36 PM
48 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

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

egAug 5, 2021, 11:57 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Train­ing Bet­ter Ra­tion­al­ists?

Davis_KingsleyAug 5, 2021, 11:13 AM
42 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Sunzi’s《Meth­ods of War》- Potential

lsusrAug 5, 2021, 5:29 AM
28 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How to get mRNA af­ter J&J

jefftkAug 5, 2021, 1:50 AM
19 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[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