Em­piri­cal Find­ings Gen­er­al­ize Sur­pris­ingly Far

jsteinhardt1 Feb 2022 22:30 UTC
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(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Is there a bet­ter choice than “Stop After Win” (or does dou­ble-check­ing lead to failure loops)?

Nicole Dieker1 Feb 2022 20:33 UTC
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2022 ACX Pre­dic­tions: Buy/​Sell/​Hold

Zvi1 Feb 2022 20:30 UTC
30 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­vis­it­ing Brave New World Re­vis­ited (Chap­ter 3)

Justin Bullock1 Feb 2022 17:17 UTC
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Be­fore Colour TV, Peo­ple Dreamed in Black and White

Sam Enright1 Feb 2022 12:50 UTC
59 points
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SIA be­comes SSA in the multiverse

avturchin1 Feb 2022 11:31 UTC
7 points
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Bay Area Ra­tion­al­ists Field Day

SurvivalBias1 Feb 2022 2:45 UTC
4 points
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2+2: On­tolog­i­cal Framework

Lyrialtus1 Feb 2022 1:07 UTC
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Im­mune, In a Nutshell

Jsevillamol31 Jan 2022 23:07 UTC
51 points
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Mean­ing of Words—An Ex­er­cise for Ac­tive Thinking

aysajan31 Jan 2022 20:18 UTC
13 points
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On in­finite ethics

Joe Carlsmith31 Jan 2022 7:04 UTC
126 points
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De­sign policy to be testable

Yair Halberstadt31 Jan 2022 6:04 UTC
42 points
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Reflec­tions on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC
387 points
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(jasoncrawford.org)

[Question] How do I find Like­li­hoods and Prior prob­a­bil­ities for Com­plete blood count (CBC) val­ues for cats?

ATheCoder31 Jan 2022 5:11 UTC
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What do we mean when we say the brain com­putes?

Adam Shai31 Jan 2022 3:33 UTC
3 points
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South Bay ACX/​LW Meetup

IS31 Jan 2022 0:57 UTC
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Ca­reer Day: A Short Story

vernamcipher30 Jan 2022 22:22 UTC
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(mflood.substack.com)

Can we grow cars in­stead of build­ing them?

pchvykov30 Jan 2022 21:05 UTC
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In­fant Talk boxes?

jefftk30 Jan 2022 18:20 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Ret­ro­spec­tive forecasting

Ege Erdil30 Jan 2022 16:38 UTC
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[Question] Where can I read about the Roko’s Basilisk drama?

theflowerpot30 Jan 2022 16:29 UTC
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I Am a Di­men­sional Trav­el­ler from a World of Highly Sen­si­tive Rationalists

LightStar30 Jan 2022 13:00 UTC
34 points
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Knowl­edge Lo­cal­iza­tion: Ten­ta­tively Pos­i­tive Re­sults on OCR

J Bostock30 Jan 2022 11:57 UTC
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Cheer­ful Har­berger Day

hamnox30 Jan 2022 7:17 UTC
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[Question] How would you learn ab­solute pitch?

Thomas Sepulchre29 Jan 2022 23:26 UTC
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De­con­fus­ing Deception

J Bostock29 Jan 2022 16:43 UTC
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The Map of the Map

LightStar29 Jan 2022 10:03 UTC
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Crypto low risk prof­its

ike29 Jan 2022 4:52 UTC
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(deepfivalue.substack.com)

Mildly Pho­tochromic Lenses?

jefftk29 Jan 2022 2:30 UTC
10 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Book notes: “The Ori­gins of You: How Child­hood Shapes Later Life”

juliawise28 Jan 2022 20:00 UTC
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Ad­ver­tis­ing as a Par­a­site on the Se­man­tic Commons

ThomasMore28 Jan 2022 17:38 UTC
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[Question] New­comb’s Grandfather

Yair Halberstadt28 Jan 2022 8:56 UTC
5 points
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2020 Re­view: Fi­nal Voting

Raemon28 Jan 2022 3:39 UTC
34 points
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How A Highly Sen­si­tive Per­son Sees Words

LightStar28 Jan 2022 3:16 UTC
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The Skill of Writ­ing Facetiously

lhc27 Jan 2022 22:44 UTC
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A lit­tle game the­ory on dis­cur­sive conflict

David Hugh-Jones27 Jan 2022 21:19 UTC
9 points
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(wyclif.substack.com)

What hap­pened when I ap­plied met­rics to my pi­ano prac­tice (a five-part es­say about the pro­cess of learn­ing)

Nicole Dieker27 Jan 2022 20:45 UTC
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Look­ing back at 2021

NunoSempere27 Jan 2022 20:08 UTC
57 points
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(forecasting.substack.com)

Covid 1/​27/​22: Let My Peo­ple Go

Zvi27 Jan 2022 17:00 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New­comb’s Lot­tery Problem

Heighn27 Jan 2022 16:28 UTC
1 point
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Causal­ity, Trans­for­ma­tive AI and al­ign­ment—part I

Marius Hobbhahn27 Jan 2022 16:18 UTC
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Ar­gu­ments about Highly Reli­able Agent De­signs as a Use­ful Path to Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

27 Jan 2022 13:13 UTC
27 points
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(arxiv.org)

Cop­ing with Undecidability

Morpheus27 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC
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[Question] Rank­ing Cul­tures by Rationality

Gadersd27 Jan 2022 2:25 UTC
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Vav­ilov Day Dis­cus­sion Post

Elizabeth27 Jan 2022 0:26 UTC
29 points
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Work­ing through D&D.Sci, prob­lem 3 (solu­tion)

Pablo Repetto26 Jan 2022 22:18 UTC
12 points
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(pabloernesto.github.io)

Event: Mo­ral Foun­da­tions of Progress Stud­ies, March 4–6 at UT Austin

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2022 21:57 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Freudi­anism among the 17th cen­tury Wendat

David Gross26 Jan 2022 18:15 UTC
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Disam­biguat­ing the ‘Ob­serv­able Uni­verse’

Sam Enright26 Jan 2022 16:50 UTC
24 points
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the prob­lem & Why work on it now?

Steven Byrnes26 Jan 2022 15:23 UTC
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