Case Study

TagLast edit: 2 Aug 2020 14:06 UTC by Matt Goldenberg

A post looking at a particular idea through a real-world example or examples.

What Cost for Irrationality?

Kaj_Sotala1 Jul 2010 18:25 UTC

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Swimming Upstream: A Case Study in Instrumental Rationality

TurnTrout3 Jun 2018 3:16 UTC

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When Giving People Money Doesn’t Help

Zvi7 Jul 2022 13:00 UTC

58 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An akrasia case study

[deleted]10 Dec 2011 20:46 UTC

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When scientists consider whether their research will end the world

Harlan19 Dec 2023 3:47 UTC

30 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Raw Post: Talking With My Brother

DirectedEvolution13 Jul 2019 2:57 UTC

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Rationality Case Study—Ad-36

Perplexed22 Sep 2010 18:32 UTC

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Nonmindkilling open questions

Scott Alexander23 Mar 2012 16:23 UTC

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Open loops in fiction

Kaj_Sotala14 Mar 2021 8:50 UTC

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13 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Case Study: the Death Note Script and Bayes

gwern4 Jan 2013 4:33 UTC

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I’m creating a deep dive podcast episode about the original Leverage Research—would you like to take part?

spencerg22 Sep 2024 14:03 UTC

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Inner Optimization Mechanisms in Neural Nets

ProgramCrafter12 May 2024 17:52 UTC

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