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Powerpoint joy—How I got 1.7 million views on Unsplash by nourishing the souls of office workers
tomdekan
Mar 7, 2022, 3:29 PM
5
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing
adamShimi
Mar 7, 2022, 12:01 PM
44
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
You can tell a drawing from a painting
alkexr
Mar 7, 2022, 11:45 AM
79
points
23
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Personal imitation software
Flaglandbase
Mar 7, 2022, 7:55 AM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
America’s Invisible Graveyard: Understanding the Moral Implications of Western sanctions
ebrodey
Mar 7, 2022, 3:58 AM
−14
points
44
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad
mako yass
Mar 7, 2022, 1:24 AM
28
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Sabotage challenge
ViktoriaMalyasova
Mar 6, 2022, 10:51 PM
11
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why work at AI Impacts?
Katja
Mar 6, 2022, 10:10 PM
50
points
7
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(aiimpacts.org)
Ukraine update 06/03/2022
ViktoriaMalyasova
Mar 6, 2022, 9:49 PM
22
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Balancing Audio in Software
jefftk
Mar 6, 2022, 7:40 PM
11
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Preserving and continuing alignment research through a severe global catastrophe
A_donor
Mar 6, 2022, 6:43 PM
48
points
11
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Patricia Hall & The Warlock Curse
Jsevillamol
Mar 6, 2022, 4:32 PM
16
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Via productiva—my writing and productivity framework
Jan
Mar 6, 2022, 4:06 PM
29
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
[Question]
Why is the war in Ukraine particularly dangerous for the world?
mikbp
Mar 6, 2022, 1:38 PM
28
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Accelerated [Honors] Calculus
lsusr
Mar 6, 2022, 10:34 AM
32
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Budapest Meetup
Richard Horvath
Mar 6, 2022, 9:22 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lower Risk of Nuclear war?
arunto
Mar 6, 2022, 6:59 AM
9
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
2022 ACX predictions: market prices
Sam Marks
Mar 6, 2022, 6:24 AM
21
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Don’t Let Personal Domains Expire
jefftk
Mar 6, 2022, 2:50 AM
39
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
What we know about machine learning’s replication crisis
Younes Kamel
Mar 5, 2022, 11:55 PM
36
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(youneskamel.substack.com)
Forecasting Newsletter: February 2022
NunoSempere
Mar 5, 2022, 7:30 PM
36
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Retrospective: Quantified Self Assessment
The Guild of the Rose
Mar 5, 2022, 3:11 PM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
[Letter] Russians are Welcome in America
lsusr
Mar 5, 2022, 10:15 AM
68
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/04
lsusr
Mar 5, 2022, 6:44 AM
71
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Deterministic Strategies Can Be Suboptimal
Robert Kennedy
Mar 4, 2022, 9:09 PM
4
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sacrifice for the Big Crunch
Cerdon
Mar 4, 2022, 9:05 PM
1
point
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Higher Risk of Nuclear War
jefftk
Mar 4, 2022, 6:10 PM
21
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
When should you relocate to mitigate the risk of dying in a nuclear war?
Adam Zerner
Mar 4, 2022, 10:34 AM
55
points
27
comments
14
min read
LW
link
You’d Want The Right Answer
ship_shlap
Mar 4, 2022, 2:33 AM
4
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing myself: Henry Lieberman, MIT CSAIL, whycantwe.org
Henry A Lieberman
Mar 3, 2022, 11:42 PM
−2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Recognizing and Dealing with Negative Automatic Thoughts
Shmi
Mar 3, 2022, 8:41 PM
28
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
AI Performance on Human Tasks
Asher Ellis
Mar 3, 2022, 8:13 PM
58
points
3
comments
21
min read
LW
link
PSA: if you are in Russia, probably move out ASAP
yagudin
Mar 3, 2022, 8:01 PM
90
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Warm Up Problem for Yudkowsky’s New Fiction
Robert Kennedy
Mar 3, 2022, 3:25 PM
14
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 3/3/2022: Move Along
Zvi
Mar 3, 2022, 12:00 PM
35
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Geometric Series of 1/(d+1) is a Fraction in Base-d
lsusr
Mar 3, 2022, 5:06 AM
14
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Understanding Eliezer’s “Any Fact Would Move Me in the Same Direction”
lhc
Mar 3, 2022, 4:30 AM
7
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would (myopic) general public good producers significantly accelerate the development of AGI?
mako yass
Mar 2, 2022, 11:47 PM
25
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Agent
Ideopunk
Mar 2, 2022, 10:43 PM
17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
March 2022 Welcome & Open Thread
Ruby
Mar 2, 2022, 7:00 PM
15
points
57
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Wicked Problem Experience
HoldenKarnofsky
Mar 2, 2022, 5:50 PM
125
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.cold-takes.com)
The Limits Of Medicine—Part 2 - Homogeneity Assumptions
George3d6
Mar 2, 2022, 4:45 PM
15
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big picture of motivation, decision-making, and RL
Steven Byrnes
Mar 2, 2022, 3:26 PM
69
points
17
comments
16
min read
LW
link
The Round Table Manifesto
Jonathan Moregård
Mar 2, 2022, 11:42 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(honestliving.substack.com)
Ordinary and unordinary decision theory
JonasMoss
Mar 2, 2022, 11:39 AM
3
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Summit-Seeking as Distinct From Mountaineering
Sable
Mar 2, 2022, 10:40 AM
16
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can you help me find this book?
mukashi
Mar 2, 2022, 10:19 AM
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/01
lsusr
Mar 2, 2022, 5:07 AM
121
points
59
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Musings on the Speed Prior
evhub
Mar 2, 2022, 4:04 AM
33
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are our community grouphouses typically rented, or owned?
mako yass
Mar 2, 2022, 3:36 AM
12
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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