Against “blank­faces”

philh8 Aug 2021 23:00 UTC
102 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

There are trans­par­ent mon­sters in the world—part 1

Writer8 Aug 2021 19:47 UTC
7 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

The Fu­ture: Where are the Colors and the Sports?

rogersbacon8 Aug 2021 18:55 UTC
82 points
37 comments8 min readLW link

Dal­las SSC/​ACX Au­gust 2021 Meetup

ethanmorse8 Aug 2021 17:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Knowl­edge and De­ci­sions by Thomas Sowell

victorsintnicolaas8 Aug 2021 17:05 UTC
16 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tions about the state of crypto in ten years

mike_hawke8 Aug 2021 16:18 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions for De­con­fus­ing Goal-Directedness

adamShimi8 Aug 2021 13:05 UTC
38 points
3 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Seek­ing Power is Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal in a Broad Class of Environments

TurnTrout8 Aug 2021 2:02 UTC
44 points
15 comments9 min readLW link

Delta, Deaths, and Vaccinations

jefftk7 Aug 2021 19:10 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Rage Against The MOOChine

Borasko7 Aug 2021 17:57 UTC
20 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

A map: “Global Catas­trophic Risks of Scien­tific Ex­per­i­ments”

avturchin7 Aug 2021 15:35 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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 link1 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 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
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