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If you want to live longer, become President
Bezzi
Feb 11, 2022, 11:14 PM
8
points
11
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Question 2: Predicted bad outcomes of AGI learning architecture
Cameron Berg
Feb 11, 2022, 10:23 PM
5
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Does needle anxiety drive vaccine hesitancy?
Matthew Barnett
Feb 11, 2022, 7:35 PM
50
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
To Match the Greats, Don’t Follow In Their Footsteps
HoldenKarnofsky
Feb 11, 2022, 7:20 PM
47
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Our philosophical thought experiments aren’t good enough and we can do better
Dead Hour Canoe
Feb 11, 2022, 4:48 PM
8
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Online Privacy: Should you Care?
brook
Feb 11, 2022, 1:20 PM
11
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
Theses on Sleep
guzey
Feb 11, 2022, 12:58 PM
111
points
104
comments
34
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
No, human life was not a misery until the 1950s
David Hugh-Jones
Feb 11, 2022, 10:39 AM
19
points
32
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(wyclif.substack.com)
Escaping Locality
L3moncak3
Feb 11, 2022, 4:08 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Simplify EA Pitches to “Holy Shit, X-Risk”
Neel Nanda
Feb 11, 2022, 1:59 AM
55
points
22
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
[Linkpost] TrojanNet: Embedding Hidden Trojan Horse Models in Neural Networks
Gunnar_Zarncke
Feb 11, 2022, 1:17 AM
13
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Why do people avoid vaccination?
KatjaGrace
Feb 10, 2022, 9:10 PM
53
points
58
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
If you say “don’t lose focus,” what does that actually tell you to focus on?
Nicole Dieker
Feb 10, 2022, 9:04 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Clarifying the palatability theory of obesity
Matthew Barnett
Feb 10, 2022, 7:16 PM
88
points
19
comments
10
min read
LW
link
A summary of aligning narrowly superhuman models
gugu
Feb 10, 2022, 6:26 PM
8
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Covid 2/10/22: Happy Birthday
Zvi
Feb 10, 2022, 5:50 PM
44
points
9
comments
20
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Question 1: Predicted architecture of AGI learning algorithm(s)
Cameron Berg
Feb 10, 2022, 5:22 PM
13
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Rituals and symbolism
TsviBT
Feb 10, 2022, 4:00 PM
34
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Long Long Covid Post
Zvi
Feb 10, 2022, 1:10 PM
103
points
29
comments
52
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Your Enemies Can Use Your Prediction Markets Against You
lsusr
Feb 10, 2022, 10:37 AM
42
points
20
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Inferring utility functions from locally non-transitive preferences
Jan
Feb 10, 2022, 10:33 AM
33
points
15
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
EleutherAI’s GPT-NeoX-20B release
leogao
Feb 10, 2022, 6:56 AM
30
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(eaidata.bmk.sh)
Singapore—Small casual dinner meetup #2
Joe Rocca
Feb 10, 2022, 6:19 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
To Change the World
lsusr
Feb 10, 2022, 6:08 AM
104
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
EA Picnic on UC Berkeley Campus
Raj Thimmiah
Feb 10, 2022, 5:47 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Defeat of Reason?
M. Y. Zuo
Feb 10, 2022, 4:29 AM
4
points
49
comments
6
min read
LW
link
SSC Meetup San Diego
CitizenTen
Feb 10, 2022, 12:46 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bet on Rare Undesirable Outcomes when Seeding a Prediction Market
lsusr
Feb 10, 2022, 12:20 AM
33
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why rationalists are not much concerned about mortality?
SurvivalBias
Feb 10, 2022, 12:11 AM
18
points
92
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bernal Heights: acquisition of a bicycle
KatjaGrace
Feb 9, 2022, 9:00 PM
36
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
My investment protects you. Your investment protects me.
Nicole Dieker
Feb 9, 2022, 8:12 PM
−7
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Legibility
Elizabeth
Feb 9, 2022, 6:10 PM
309
points
30
comments
20
min read
LW
link
1
review
(acesounderglass.com)
Create a prediction market in two minutes on Manifold Markets
Austin Chen
and
James Grugett
Feb 9, 2022, 5:36 PM
58
points
19
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Mailing Lists for Event Announcements
jefftk
Feb 9, 2022, 5:30 PM
12
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Paradigm-building: The hierarchical question framework
Cameron Berg
Feb 9, 2022, 4:47 PM
11
points
15
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 3. Two subsystems: Learning & Steering
Steven Byrnes
Feb 9, 2022, 1:09 PM
95
points
3
comments
25
min read
LW
link
Prediction Markets are for Outcomes Beyond Our Control
lsusr
Feb 9, 2022, 9:54 AM
59
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How to Legally Conduct “Rationalist Bets” in California?
Davis_Kingsley
Feb 9, 2022, 8:16 AM
9
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Better impossibility result for unbounded utilities
paulfchristiano
Feb 9, 2022, 6:10 AM
33
points
22
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Interest in a digital LW “book” club?
DirectedEvolution
Feb 9, 2022, 5:59 AM
19
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An extension of Aumann’s approach for reducing game theory to bayesian decision theory to include EDT and UDT like agents
Karl Brisebois
Feb 9, 2022, 4:17 AM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Everyone’s mired in the deepest confusion, some of the time?
M. Y. Zuo
Feb 9, 2022, 2:53 AM
1
point
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Moral progress” vs. the simple passage of time
HoldenKarnofsky
Feb 9, 2022, 2:50 AM
33
points
30
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Hypothesis: gradient descent prefers general circuits
Quintin Pope
Feb 8, 2022, 9:12 PM
46
points
26
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Paradigm-building from first principles: Effective altruism, AGI, and alignment
Cameron Berg
Feb 8, 2022, 4:12 PM
29
points
5
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Metaculus launches contest for essays with quantitative predictions about AI
Tamay Besiroglu
and
Metaculus
Feb 8, 2022, 4:07 PM
25
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
Appendix: More Is Different In Other Domains
jsteinhardt
Feb 8, 2022, 4:00 PM
12
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)
Defending Functional Decision Theory
Heighn
Feb 8, 2022, 2:58 PM
6
points
10
comments
11
min read
LW
link
How complex are myopic imitators?
Vivek Hebbar
Feb 8, 2022, 12:00 PM
26
points
1
comment
15
min read
LW
link
The ’Why’s of an International Auxiliary Language (IAL part 1)
Long try
Feb 8, 2022, 4:39 AM
−1
points
29
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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