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[Question]
What Should I Do Today?
Cui
Mar 18, 2022, 4:36 PM
10
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Only needs a flying saucer
Mary Chernyshenko
Mar 18, 2022, 3:11 PM
76
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Learned Blankness and Expectations of Solubility
brook
Mar 18, 2022, 12:42 PM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On expected utility, part 2: Why it can be OK to predictably lose
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 18, 2022, 8:38 AM
13
points
4
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Nuclear Deterrence 101 (and why the US can’t even hint at intervening in Ukraine)
Darmani
Mar 18, 2022, 7:25 AM
36
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Our time in history as evidence for simulation theory?
Garrett Garzonie
Mar 18, 2022, 3:35 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Vegas ACX/SSC/LW meetup
jwray
Mar 18, 2022, 2:33 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On Defecting On Yourself
David Udell
Mar 18, 2022, 2:21 AM
37
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Phase transitions and AGI
Ege Erdil
and
Metaculus
Mar 17, 2022, 5:22 PM
45
points
19
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
Covid 3/17/22: The Rise of BA.2
Zvi
Mar 17, 2022, 4:20 PM
44
points
23
comments
23
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
Mar 17, 2022, 2:12 PM
40
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Maximize in a limited domain. Hope for the future.
Dacyn
Mar 17, 2022, 2:05 PM
4
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Is there a link between Immigration Policy and Inflation?
hawkebia
Mar 17, 2022, 11:26 AM
9
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Using GPT-3 for preventing conflict during messaging — a pitch for an app
Eli_
Mar 17, 2022, 11:02 AM
22
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the equivalent of the “do” operator for finite factored sets?
Chris van Merwijk
Mar 17, 2022, 8:05 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA Career Workshop (Berkeley, 3/19)
Raj Thimmiah
Mar 17, 2022, 6:50 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The One Who Says, “Enough”
Sable
Mar 17, 2022, 6:17 AM
5
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Why a No-Fly-Zone would be the biggest gift to Putin, and why Zelenskyy keeps asking for it [Linkpost and commentary]
Dojan
Mar 17, 2022, 3:13 AM
48
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Formal epistemiology for extracting truth from news sources
Enigma
Mar 17, 2022, 2:06 AM
18
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On expected utility, part 1: Skyscrapers and madmen
Joe Carlsmith
Mar 16, 2022, 9:58 PM
24
points
16
comments
12
min read
LW
link
What do paradigm shifts look like?
leogao
Mar 16, 2022, 7:17 PM
18
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on Crowdfunding with Refund Bonuses
Yoav Ravid
Mar 16, 2022, 4:29 PM
38
points
19
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can you only realize objects in your mind after they appear?
Cui
Mar 16, 2022, 4:12 PM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 8. Takeaways from neuro 1/2: On AGI development
Steven Byrnes
Mar 16, 2022, 1:59 PM
57
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Replacing Natural Interpretations
adamShimi
Mar 16, 2022, 1:05 PM
19
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Some (potentially) fundable AI Safety Ideas
Logan Riggs
Mar 16, 2022, 12:48 PM
22
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Quote] Why does i show up in Quantum Mechanics and other Beautiful Math Mysteries
Gunnar_Zarncke
Mar 16, 2022, 11:58 AM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
War Mode vs. Peace Mode
konstell
Mar 16, 2022, 3:36 AM
10
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Danger(s) of theorem-proving AI?
Yitz
Mar 16, 2022, 2:47 AM
8
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ukraine #4: Prediction Market Movement Modeling
Zvi
Mar 15, 2022, 10:20 PM
28
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Do small studies add up?
one_forward
Mar 15, 2022, 10:00 PM
14
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
I read Einstein’s biography. Here are 15 quotes that reveal his philosophy on life.
dmabery
Mar 15, 2022, 6:14 PM
−7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI researchers from Russia looking for a new home
AnonResearch
Mar 15, 2022, 6:13 PM
36
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
Mar 15, 2022, 5:18 PM
132
points
27
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Smoking cigarettes in airplanes made the airplanes safer?
CraigMichael
Mar 15, 2022, 5:03 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Probabilistic Negotiation
Robert Kennedy
Mar 15, 2022, 2:39 PM
20
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Who is doing Cryonics-relevant research?
Wuschel Schulz
Mar 15, 2022, 10:26 AM
32
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery
Vaniver
Mar 15, 2022, 2:52 AM
93
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nature.com)
May I Speak?
Raythen
Mar 14, 2022, 10:57 PM
−8
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ELK contest submission: route understanding through the human ontology
Vika
,
Ramana Kumar
and
Vikrant Varma
Mar 14, 2022, 9:42 PM
21
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
MicroCOVID risk levels inaccurate due to undercounting in data sources vs wastewater data?
Sameerishere
Mar 14, 2022, 8:04 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
One possible approach to develop the best possible general learning algorithm
martillopart
Mar 14, 2022, 7:24 PM
3
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Meaninglessness of it all
foxacc
Mar 14, 2022, 5:56 PM
−9
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ethicality Behind Breaking the Glass Ceiling
foxacc
Mar 14, 2022, 5:56 PM
31
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Technological Resurrection: Two Possible Approaches
Alex Polischuk
Mar 14, 2022, 5:53 PM
−3
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Omicron #16: Danger in China
Zvi
Mar 14, 2022, 3:50 PM
58
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Ukraine #3: Decision Theory, Madman Theory and the Mafioso Nature
Zvi
Mar 14, 2022, 2:50 PM
35
points
25
comments
19
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Linkpost] Growth in FLOPS used to train ML models
Derek M. Jones
Mar 14, 2022, 11:28 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature
adamShimi
Mar 14, 2022, 8:13 AM
28
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Alex Tabarrok advocates for crowdfunding systems with *Refund Bonuses*. I think this might be a natural occurrence of a money pump against Causal Decision Theory pledgers
mako yass
Mar 14, 2022, 7:27 AM
17
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(marginalrevolution.com)
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