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ACX/SSC/Rationalist Meetup Madison 10/22
svfritz
Oct 17, 2022, 4:06 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Balsa FAQ
Zvi
Oct 17, 2022, 12:40 PM
19
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Maximal Lotteries
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 17, 2022, 8:54 AM
77
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Voting Theory Introduction
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
80
points
8
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Space
Jarred Filmer
Oct 17, 2022, 6:34 AM
53
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
GD’s Implicit Bias on Separable Data
Xander Davies
Oct 17, 2022, 4:13 AM
25
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Calling my First Family Dance
jefftk
Oct 17, 2022, 2:40 AM
6
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
The harms you don’t see
ViktoriaMalyasova
Oct 16, 2022, 11:45 PM
63
points
54
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Maximal lotteries for value learning
ViktoriaMalyasova
Oct 16, 2022, 11:44 PM
17
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors (James Choi, NBER)
BrownHairedEevee
Oct 16, 2022, 10:21 PM
17
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com)
Life, Death, and Finance in the Cosmic Multiverse
peterb
Oct 16, 2022, 6:57 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Significance of the Language of Thought Hypothesis?
DrFlaggstaff
Oct 16, 2022, 6:09 PM
2
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle
Elizabeth
Oct 16, 2022, 5:40 PM
489
points
121
comments
12
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
(acesounderglass.com)
Age changes what you care about
Dentin
Oct 16, 2022, 3:36 PM
141
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Halifax, NS – Monthly Rationalist, EA, and ACX Meetup Kick-Off
Ideopunk
Oct 16, 2022, 1:17 PM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cruxes in Katja Grace’s Counterarguments
azsantosk
Oct 16, 2022, 8:44 AM
16
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Building the Loft Beds
jefftk
Oct 16, 2022, 1:10 AM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Best resource to go from “typical smart tech-savvy person” to “person who gets AGI risk urgency”?
Liron
Oct 15, 2022, 10:26 PM
16
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?
M. Y. Zuo
Oct 15, 2022, 4:41 PM
2
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
I learn better when I frame learning as Vengeance for losses incurred through ignorance, and you might too
chaosmage
Oct 15, 2022, 12:41 PM
84
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
James Norris from Upgradable on “What is Beyond Living a Principled Life”—OpenPrinciples Speaker Session
ti_guo
Oct 15, 2022, 3:27 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quick Mock Brownie
jefftk
Oct 15, 2022, 3:00 AM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
A common failure for foxes
Rob Bensinger
Oct 14, 2022, 10:50 PM
47
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
“AGI soon, but Narrow works Better”
AnthonyRepetto
Oct 14, 2022, 9:35 PM
1
point
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Job]: AI Standards Development Research Assistant
Tony Barrett
Oct 14, 2022, 8:27 PM
2
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Metaculus Launches the ‘Forecasting Our World In Data’ Project to Probe the Long-Term Future
ChristianWilliams
Oct 14, 2022, 5:00 PM
15
points
0
comments
LW
link
Instrumental convergence: scale and physical interactions
Edouard Harris
and
simonsdsuo
Oct 14, 2022, 3:50 PM
22
points
0
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(www.gladstone.ai)
Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case
KatjaGrace
Oct 14, 2022, 1:00 PM
371
points
124
comments
34
min read
LW
link
1
review
(aiimpacts.org)
Another problem with AI confinement: ordinary CPUs can work as radio transmitters
RomanS
Oct 14, 2022, 8:28 AM
36
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(news.softpedia.com)
[Question]
How much of China’s Zero COVID policy is actually about COVID?
jmh
Oct 14, 2022, 7:23 AM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Maximally Simple Belt Sander Stand
jefftk
Oct 14, 2022, 12:30 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Contra shard theory, in the context of the diamond maximizer problem
So8res
Oct 13, 2022, 11:51 PM
105
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Greed Is the Root of This Evil
Thane Ruthenis
Oct 13, 2022, 8:40 PM
21
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Vehicle Platooning—a real world examination of the difficulties in coordination
M. Y. Zuo
Oct 13, 2022, 7:33 PM
24
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Vitalik Buterin Fellowship in AI Existential Safety is open for applications!
Xin Chen, Cynthia
Oct 13, 2022, 6:32 PM
21
points
0
comments
LW
link
Feelings
Eris Discordia
Oct 13, 2022, 5:48 PM
9
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Against the normative realist’s wager
Joe Carlsmith
Oct 13, 2022, 4:35 PM
16
points
9
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)
Zvi
Oct 13, 2022, 3:40 PM
52
points
16
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Misalignment-by-default in multi-agent systems
Edouard Harris
and
simonsdsuo
Oct 13, 2022, 3:38 PM
21
points
8
comments
20
min read
LW
link
(www.gladstone.ai)
A stubborn unbeliever finally gets the depth of the AI alignment problem
aelwood
Oct 13, 2022, 3:16 PM
17
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)
Covid 10/13/22: Just the Facts
Zvi
Oct 13, 2022, 2:40 PM
28
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic (Crosspost from EA forum)
Noosphere89
Oct 13, 2022, 2:14 PM
9
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Cataloguing Priors in Theory and Practice
Paul Bricman
13 Oct 2022 12:36 UTC
13
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon
jimrandomh
13 Oct 2022 6:25 UTC
90
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cambridge LW Meetup: See the Invisible
Tony Wang
13 Oct 2022 5:44 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Glossary Dance Game
jefftk
13 Oct 2022 2:20 UTC
10
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Niceness is unnatural
So8res
13 Oct 2022 1:30 UTC
134
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
A strange twist on the road to AGI
cveres
12 Oct 2022 23:27 UTC
−8
points
0
comments
LW
link
Help out Redwood Research’s interpretability team by finding heuristics implemented by GPT-2 small
Haoxing Du
and
Buck
12 Oct 2022 21:25 UTC
50
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Towards a comprehensive study of potential psychological causes of the ordinary range of variation of affective gender identity in males
tailcalled
12 Oct 2022 21:10 UTC
52
points
4
comments
37
min read
LW
link
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