Practice & Philosophy of Science

TagLast edit: 10 Jul 2020 13:00 UTC by Kaj_Sotala

Practice and Philosophy of Science is for posts that discuss how science is done or should be done; examples include Building Intuitions on Non-Empirical Arguments in Science and the Science and Rationality sequence. (It is not for posts that simply report on a new scientific result.)

Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature

adamShimi14 Mar 2022 8:13 UTC

28 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

On Solving Problems Before They Appear: The Weird Epistemologies of Alignment

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC

110 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

Epistemological Framing for AI Alignment Research

adamShimi8 Mar 2021 22:05 UTC

58 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Science in a High-Dimensional World

johnswentworth8 Jan 2021 17:52 UTC

290 points

53 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC

267 points

40 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

Intuitions about solving hard problems

Richard_Ngo25 Apr 2022 15:29 UTC

105 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

Scientific Wrestling: Beyond Passive Hypothesis-Testing

adamShimi7 Mar 2022 12:01 UTC

43 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Science Isn’t Strict Enough

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 May 2008 6:51 UTC

60 points

64 comments5 min readLW link

Beware The Man Of One Study

Scott Alexander12 Dec 2014 9:04 UTC

63 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring

johnswentworth20 Sep 2022 20:04 UTC

378 points

44 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Is Science Slowing Down?

Scott Alexander27 Nov 2018 3:30 UTC

127 points

77 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

Towards a Bayesian model for Empirical Science

Yair Halberstadt7 Oct 2021 5:38 UTC

11 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

The Scientific Approach To Anything and Everything

Rami Rustom9 Mar 2023 11:27 UTC

5 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

Honest science is spirituality

pchvykov1 Jul 2024 20:33 UTC

−1 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

Requirements for a STEM-capable AGI Value Learner (my Case for Less Doom)

RogerDearnaley25 May 2023 9:26 UTC

33 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Ed Boyden on the State of Science

Ben Pace13 May 2019 1:54 UTC

62 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Paper reading as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosig7 Aug 2022 7:50 UTC

70 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

This is why we can’t have social science

Costanza13 Jul 2014 21:04 UTC

51 points

83 comments1 min readLW link

Quick look: applications of chaos theory

Elizabeth and Alex_Altair

18 Aug 2024 15:00 UTC

79 points

51 comments8 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

“Successful language model evals” by Jason Wei

Arjun Panickssery25 May 2024 9:34 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jasonwei.net)

[Question] Come and daydream with me about science reform

TeaTieAndHat15 Jan 2024 11:09 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Institutional economics through the lens of scale-free regulative development, morphogenesis, and cognitive science

Roman Leventov23 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC

8 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Leading The Parade

johnswentworth31 Jan 2024 22:39 UTC

147 points

31 comments9 min readLW link

Tips for Empirical Alignment Research

Ethan Perez29 Feb 2024 6:04 UTC

152 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

How I select alignment research projects

Ethan Perez, Henry Sleight and Mikita Balesni

10 Apr 2024 4:33 UTC

35 points

4 comments24 min readLW link

On what research policymakers actually need

MondSemmel23 Apr 2024 19:50 UTC

38 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.slowboring.com)

“What the hell is a representation, anyway?” | Clarifying AI interpretability with tools from philosophy of cognitive science | Part 1: Vehicles vs. contents

IwanWilliams9 Jun 2024 14:19 UTC

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Simon DeDeo on Explore vs Exploit in Science

Elizabeth10 Sep 2024 3:40 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

My Number 1 Epistemology Book Recommendation: Inventing Temperature

adamShimi8 Sep 2024 14:30 UTC

116 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

When the Scientific Method Doesn’t Really Help...

casualphysicsenjoyer27 Nov 2024 19:52 UTC

3 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

Dissolving the Problem of Induction

Liron27 Dec 2020 17:58 UTC

40 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

“The Need for Long-term Research”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon11 Apr 2023 15:37 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Linkpost: A Post Mortem on the Gino Case

Linch24 Oct 2023 6:50 UTC

89 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.theorgplumber.com)

Building Intuitions On Non-Empirical Arguments In Science

Scott Alexander7 Nov 2019 6:50 UTC

56 points

27 comments11 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Book Review: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions

Scott Alexander9 Jan 2019 7:10 UTC

104 points

30 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(slatestarcodex.com)

The Failures of Eld Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2008 10:32 UTC

106 points

56 comments9 min readLW link

The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 May 2008 8:16 UTC

57 points

189 comments5 min readLW link

Science Doesn’t Trust Your Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2008 2:13 UTC

68 points

136 comments3 min readLW link

When Science Can’t Help

Eliezer Yudkowsky15 May 2008 7:24 UTC

72 points

90 comments4 min readLW link

Does blind review slow down science?

Kaj_Sotala6 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC

25 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Do Scientists Already Know This Stuff?

Eliezer Yudkowsky17 May 2008 2:25 UTC

65 points

57 comments5 min readLW link

No Safe Defense, Not Even Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2008 5:19 UTC

118 points

75 comments6 min readLW link

Changing the Definition of Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2008 18:07 UTC

31 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

Faster Than Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 May 2008 0:19 UTC

73 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

How to Fix Science

lukeprog7 Mar 2012 2:51 UTC

70 points

144 comments5 min readLW link

Follow-up on ESP study: “We don’t publish replications”

CarlShulman12 Jul 2011 20:48 UTC

112 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

Assessment of AI safety agendas: think about the downside risk

Roman Leventov19 Dec 2023 9:00 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

13 Causes of Bad Science (Novum Organum Book 1: 69-92)

Francis Bacon4 Oct 2019 19:52 UTC

33 points

1 comment30 min readLW link

Shuttling between science and invention

jasoncrawford27 May 2020 21:25 UTC

61 points

1 comment6 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Studying Early Stage Science: Research Program Introduction

habryka17 Jan 2020 22:12 UTC

32 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Fixing science via a basic income

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC

30 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The promise of connected science

lukeprog12 Nov 2011 18:22 UTC

33 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Karnofsky on forecasting and what science does

Rob Bensinger28 Mar 2018 1:55 UTC

14 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(80000hours.org)

Is Molecular Nanotechnology “Scientific”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Aug 2007 4:11 UTC

39 points

49 comments2 min readLW link

Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Aug 2007 5:36 UTC

129 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

A brief history of ethically concerned scientists

Kaj_Sotala9 Feb 2013 5:50 UTC

103 points

143 comments14 min readLW link

Studying The Alien Mind

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI and NicholasKees

5 Dec 2023 17:27 UTC

80 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

Problems in evolutionary psychology

Kaj_Sotala13 Aug 2010 18:57 UTC

85 points

102 comments8 min readLW link

Alignment Research Field Guide

abramdemski8 Mar 2019 19:57 UTC

268 points

9 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

Outside the Laboratory

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Jan 2007 3:46 UTC

150 points

351 comments7 min readLW link

The Dogma of Evidence-based Medicine

ChristianKl25 Jan 2018 21:15 UTC

11 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

Science like a chef

Adam Zerner8 Feb 2018 21:23 UTC

32 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Non-communicable Evidence

Adam Zerner17 Nov 2015 3:46 UTC

16 points

49 comments2 min readLW link

Diseased disciplines: the strange case of the inverted chart

Morendil7 Feb 2012 9:45 UTC

62 points

150 comments4 min readLW link

Hedge drift and advanced motte-and-bailey

Stefan_Schubert1 May 2016 14:45 UTC

54 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Knowledge value = knowledge quality × domain importance

John_Maxwell16 Apr 2012 8:40 UTC

14 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Where Philosophy Meets Science

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Apr 2008 21:21 UTC

61 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

To Spread Science, Keep It Secret

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Mar 2008 5:47 UTC

82 points

51 comments4 min readLW link

Why no archive of refuted research?

Kaj_Sotala26 Aug 2011 8:14 UTC

37 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Problems with Academia and the Rising Sea

JonahS23 May 2013 19:17 UTC

46 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Idols of the Mind Pt. 2 (Novum Organum Book 1: 53-68)

Francis Bacon26 Sep 2019 22:24 UTC

28 points

3 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] What is science?

Adam Zerner11 Aug 2023 0:00 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

A Social History of Truth

Vaniver31 Jul 2023 22:49 UTC

64 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] How good are our mouse models (psychology, biology, medicine, etc.), ignoring translation into humans, just in terms of understanding mice? (Same question for drosophila.)

Ruby22 Jan 2021 20:45 UTC

60 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Epistemology of HCH

adamShimi9 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC

17 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] If my previous research is wrong, what are my options ?

BB67 Apr 2021 16:44 UTC

50 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Intermittent Distillations #4: Semiconductors, Economics, Intelligence, and Technological Progress.

Mark Xu8 Jul 2021 22:14 UTC

81 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Addendum to “Amyloid Plaques: Medical Goodhart, Chemical Streetlight”

J Bostock2 Sep 2021 17:42 UTC

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

A Taxonomy of Research

J Bostock8 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed

jsteinhardt10 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC

48 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Born Again: Disconnected Psychology, Martian Science, and the Order of the Phoenix

rogersbacon17 Sep 2021 14:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] Search for replication experiments

Andrew Vlahos20 Sep 2021 22:28 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Explanations as Hard to Vary Assertions

Alexander24 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC

17 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]

Elizabeth9 Nov 2021 7:14 UTC

108 points

8 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.wired.com)

Sci-Hub sued in India

Connor_Flexman13 Nov 2021 23:12 UTC

131 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

Streaming Science on Twitch

A Ray15 Nov 2021 22:24 UTC

21 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Understanding as hierarchical model building

invertedpassion13 Jan 2022 9:28 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How would you go about testing a political theory like Neofeudalism?

FinalFormal22 Feb 2022 17:09 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Strevens on scientific explanation

Richard_Ngo14 Feb 2022 8:10 UTC

17 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

An analogy as the midwife of thermodynamics

adamShimi16 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC

30 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Becoming Stronger as Epistemologist: Introduction

adamShimi15 Feb 2022 6:15 UTC

30 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Monks of Magnitude

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)18 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC

113 points

50 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC

39 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

The Art and Science of Intuition Pumping

adamShimi22 Feb 2022 0:18 UTC

26 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 2 - Homogeneity Assumptions

George3d62 Mar 2022 16:45 UTC

15 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

Replacing Natural Interpretations

adamShimi16 Mar 2022 13:05 UTC

19 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Christopher Alexander’s architecture for learning

Henrik Karlsson24 Mar 2022 9:11 UTC

44 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers

adamShimi7 Apr 2022 16:41 UTC

100 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

I only believe in the paranormal

Malmesbury24 May 2022 12:15 UTC

94 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Levels of Pluralism

adamShimi27 Jul 2022 9:35 UTC

37 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Shapes of Mind and Pluralism in Alignment

adamShimi13 Aug 2022 10:01 UTC

33 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

No One-Size-Fit-All Epistemic Strategy

adamShimi20 Aug 2022 12:56 UTC

24 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

AI alignment as “navigating the space of intelligent behaviour”

Nora_Ammann23 Aug 2022 13:28 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

[Exploratory] What does it mean that an experiment is high bit?

Johannes C. Mayer5 Sep 2022 3:13 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Twitter Polls: Evidence is Evidence

Zvi20 Sep 2022 12:30 UTC

34 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Unit Test Everything

DirectedEvolution29 Sep 2022 18:12 UTC

30 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development

Elizabeth9 Oct 2022 18:30 UTC

69 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Telic intuitions across the sciences

mrcbarbier22 Oct 2022 21:31 UTC

4 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] Dumb and ill-posed question: Is conceptual research like this MIRI paper on the shutdown problem/Corrigibility “real”

joraine24 Nov 2022 5:08 UTC

25 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Science and Math

lsusr27 Nov 2022 4:05 UTC

19 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Proof as mere strong evidence

adamShimi14 Dec 2022 8:56 UTC

28 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Prediction Markets for Science

Vaniver2 Jan 2023 17:55 UTC

27 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

What should a telic science look like?

mrcbarbier7 Jan 2023 16:13 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

The special nature of special relativity

adamShimi9 Jan 2023 17:30 UTC

37 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Remarks 1–18 on GPT (compressed)

Cleo Nardo20 Mar 2023 22:27 UTC

148 points

35 comments31 min readLW link

What’s wrong with psychology, anyway?

Anatoly_Vorobey28 Apr 2012 23:36 UTC

43 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Hard to find factors messing up experiments: Examples?

Hazard15 Nov 2019 17:46 UTC

32 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Lone Genius Bias and Returns on Additional Researchers

ChrisHallquist1 Nov 2013 0:38 UTC

37 points

64 comments6 min readLW link

A hundred Shakespeares

Stuart_Armstrong11 Dec 2018 23:11 UTC

29 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05”

lifelonglearner19 Apr 2019 23:09 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.tandfonline.com)

Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum

alyssavance20 Jun 2012 18:15 UTC

44 points

53 comments6 min readLW link

Breaking the Optimizer’s Curse, and Consequences for Existential Risks and Value Learning

Roger Dearnaley21 Feb 2023 9:05 UTC

10 points

1 comment23 min readLW link

Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules

pragmatist8 Aug 2012 4:27 UTC

33 points

237 comments9 min readLW link

Simple proofs of the age of the universe (or other things)

Astynax13 Sep 2022 18:20 UTC

16 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Frugality and working from finite data

Snowyowl3 Sep 2010 9:37 UTC

35 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Experiments and Consent

jefftk10 Nov 2019 14:50 UTC

30 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“Concepts of Agency in Biology” (Okasha, 2023) - Brief Paper Summary

Nora_Ammann8 Jul 2023 18:22 UTC

40 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Time Binders

Slimepriestess24 Feb 2020 9:55 UTC

24 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

There is no royal road to alignment

Eleni Angelou18 Sep 2022 3:33 UTC

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Separating the roles of theory and direct empirical evidence in belief formation: the examples of minimum wage and anthropogenic global warming

VipulNaik25 Jun 2014 21:47 UTC

38 points

66 comments4 min readLW link

“Dirty concepts” in AI alignment discourses, and some guesses for how to deal with them

Nora_Ammann and peckzy

20 Aug 2023 9:13 UTC

65 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Contaminated by Optimism

Eliezer Yudkowsky6 Aug 2008 0:26 UTC

22 points

78 comments7 min readLW link

Paradigms and Theory Choice in AI: Adaptivity, Economy and Control

particlemania28 Aug 2023 22:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

Friedman’s “Prediction vs. Explanation”

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2008 6:15 UTC

9 points

79 comments1 min readLW link

If Van der Waals was a neural network

George3d628 Jan 2020 18:38 UTC

18 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.cerebralab.com)

A Correspondence Theorem

johnswentworth26 Oct 2020 23:28 UTC

30 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Science vs. art

PhilGoetz16 Mar 2009 15:48 UTC

7 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Are the social sciences challenging because of fundamental difficulties or because of imposed ones?

ozziegooen10 Nov 2020 4:56 UTC

56 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

Science to Be Done Internationally Using Blockchain

Victor Porton7 Sep 2023 23:29 UTC

−18 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(science-dao.org)

Don’t Think About the Thing Behind the Curtain.

keltan19 Sep 2023 2:07 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Scientism vs. people

Roman Leventov18 Apr 2023 17:28 UTC

4 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

The Quantum Wave Function is Related to a Philosophy Concept

Richard Aragon20 Apr 2023 3:16 UTC

−11 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

An open letter to SERI MATS program organisers

Roman Leventov20 Apr 2023 16:34 UTC

26 points

26 comments4 min readLW link

For alignment, we should simultaneously use multiple theories of cognition and value

Roman Leventov24 Apr 2023 10:37 UTC

23 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Automating Intelligence: A Cursory Glance at How AutoML Brings Precision to AI Development

RoscoHunter25 Sep 2023 9:39 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Many Stories of Science

amayhew29 Apr 2023 16:49 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

Metascience of the Vesuvius Challenge

Maxwell Tabarrok30 Mar 2024 12:02 UTC

46 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Over-encapsulation

PhilGoetz25 Mar 2010 17:58 UTC

29 points

56 comments3 min readLW link

~100 Interesting Questions

RohanS30 Mar 2023 13:57 UTC

53 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Write Good Enough Code, Quickly

Oliver Daniels15 Dec 2024 4:45 UTC

11 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Scientific Method

Andrij “Androniq” Ghorbunov18 Feb 2024 21:06 UTC

24 points

4 comments30 min readLW link

Einstein’s Speed

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 May 2008 2:48 UTC

69 points

35 comments8 min readLW link

Missing forecasting tools: from catalogs to a new kind of prediction market

MichaelLatowicki29 Mar 2023 9:55 UTC

14 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Quantum Darwinism, social constructs, and the scientific method

pchvykov7 Feb 2024 7:04 UTC

6 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Objective truth?

pchvykov15 Feb 2021 21:47 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

We Should Try to Directly Measure the Value of Scientific Papers

ohmurphy5 Sep 2024 9:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

(ohmurphy.substack.com)

A reply to Byrnes on the Free Energy Principle

Roman Leventov3 Mar 2023 13:03 UTC

28 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

Hard vs Soft in fields as attitudes towards model collision

J Bostock20 Apr 2021 18:57 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

James Stephen Brown23 Nov 2024 18:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

A Defense of Peer Review

Niko_McCarty and delton137

22 Oct 2024 16:16 UTC

23 points

1 comment22 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

Research Motivations and “The Division of Cognitive Labor”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:00 UTC

4 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

On “Epistemic Trespassing” and Intellectual Modesty

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:40 UTC

9 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Social Science in its epistemological context

Arturo Macias5 Dec 2024 16:12 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

One Study, Many Results (Matt Clancy)

aarongertler18 Jul 2021 23:10 UTC

84 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(mattsclancy.substack.com)

Book Review: A PhD is Not Enough

ljh27 Apr 2022 5:15 UTC

22 points

4 comments23 min readLW link

Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen

Pablo Repetto8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

[Question] Time Fuse in Head

Martin Rychlitzki25 Dec 2023 9:46 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The case for more ambitious language model evals

Jozdien30 Jan 2024 0:01 UTC

110 points

30 comments5 min readLW link

But What’s Your New Alignment Insight, out of a Future-Textbook Paragraph?

David Udell7 May 2022 3:10 UTC

26 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

[Book Review] Altered Traits

lsusr23 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC

67 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Progress and research disruptiveness

Eleni Angelou12 Jan 2023 3:51 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

The Dark Side of Cognition Hypothesis

Cameron Berg3 Oct 2021 20:10 UTC

19 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

AI x Human Flourishing: Introducing the Cosmos Institute

Brendan McCord5 Sep 2024 18:23 UTC

14 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(cosmosinstitute.substack.com)

Sparsify: A mechanistic interpretability research agenda

Lee Sharkey3 Apr 2024 12:34 UTC

94 points

22 comments22 min readLW link

Mosaic and Palimpsests: Two Shapes of Research

adamShimi12 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC

39 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Experiments are in the territory, results are in the map

Tahp6 Dec 2024 15:44 UTC

5 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Critique of some recent philosophy of LLMs’ minds

Roman Leventov20 Jan 2023 12:53 UTC

52 points

8 comments20 min readLW link

On exact mathematical formulae

daozaich22 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC

63 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How did academia ensure papers were correct in the early 20th Century?

Ben Pace29 Dec 2018 23:37 UTC

99 points

17 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same

PhilGoetz29 Mar 2010 18:09 UTC

150 points

126 comments6 min readLW link

Tal Yarkoni: No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you

Zack_M_Davis11 Jun 2019 7:09 UTC

89 points

119 comments1 min readLW link 4 reviews

(www.talyarkoni.org)

Rule Thinkers In, Not Out

Scott Alexander27 Feb 2019 2:40 UTC

227 points

67 comments4 min readLW link 4 reviews

(slatestarcodex.com)

Science as Attire

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Aug 2007 5:10 UTC

162 points

88 comments2 min readLW link

The Skeptic’s Trilemma

Scott Alexander15 Mar 2009 0:12 UTC

84 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields

Vladimir_M15 Feb 2011 9:17 UTC

100 points

274 comments9 min readLW link

Parapsychology: the control group for science

AllanCrossman5 Dec 2009 22:50 UTC

96 points

188 comments2 min readLW link

Privileging the Hypothesis

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Sep 2009 0:40 UTC

125 points

130 comments5 min readLW link

Were atoms real?

AnnaSalamon8 Dec 2010 17:30 UTC

93 points

157 comments4 min readLW link

Science: Do It Yourself

alyssavance13 Feb 2011 4:47 UTC

91 points

206 comments6 min readLW link

Gears vs Behavior

johnswentworth19 Sep 2019 6:50 UTC

116 points

14 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Einstein’s Arrogance

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Sep 2007 1:29 UTC

168 points

90 comments3 min readLW link

I Defy the Data!

Eliezer Yudkowsky11 Aug 2007 21:33 UTC

99 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Why epidemiology will not correct itself

gwern11 Aug 2011 0:54 UTC

70 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Danger of motivatiogenesis in interdisciplinary work

particlemania25 Nov 2021 0:13 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Exegesis

rogersbacon31 Dec 2021 17:48 UTC

9 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

(rogersbacon.substack.com)

The Scent of Bad Psychology

Jacob Falkovich10 Sep 2018 18:42 UTC

42 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

No One Knows What Science Doesn’t Know

Eliezer Yudkowsky25 Oct 2007 23:47 UTC

91 points

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Scientific misconduct misdiagnosed because of scientific misconduct

GLaDOS10 Jun 2011 14:49 UTC

64 points

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Alignment’s phlogiston

Eleni Angelou18 Aug 2022 22:27 UTC

10 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality?

Val15 Feb 2015 20:52 UTC

48 points

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Novum Organum: Preface

Francis Bacon19 Sep 2019 22:51 UTC

54 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Which scientific discovery was most ahead of its time?

Richard_Ngo16 May 2019 12:58 UTC

38 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Is the rate of scientific progress slowing down? (by Tyler Cowen and Ben Southwood)

Ben Pace2 Dec 2019 3:45 UTC

49 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research

Nora_Ammann and particlemania

19 Aug 2022 17:18 UTC

31 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Kevin Simler’s “Going Critical”

habryka16 May 2019 4:36 UTC

56 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.meltingasphalt.com)

The Inadequacy of Current Science (Novum Organum Book 1: 1-37)

Francis Bacon23 Sep 2019 2:53 UTC

38 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Fixing science via a basic income

Kaj_Sotala8 Dec 2017 14:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Conjunction Controversy (Or, How They Nail It Down)

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Sep 2007 2:41 UTC

59 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

Feed the spinoff heuristic!

CarlShulman9 Feb 2012 7:41 UTC

82 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

On alien science

Richard_Ngo2 Jun 2019 14:50 UTC

44 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

My IRB Nightmare

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2017 16:47 UTC

56 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

A multi-disciplinary view on AI safety research

Roman Leventov8 Feb 2023 16:50 UTC

43 points

4 comments26 min readLW link

Error detection bias in research

neq122 Sep 2010 3:00 UTC

73 points

37 comments2 min readLW link

 How Should We Critique Research? A Decision Perspective

gwern14 Jul 2019 22:51 UTC

46 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Current Trends in Economics and their Shortcoming

joshlevent28 Nov 2022 19:36 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Who ordered alignment’s apple?

Eleni Angelou28 Aug 2022 4:05 UTC

6 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Books on the zeitgeist of science during Lord Kelvin’s time.

Hazard9 Dec 2019 0:17 UTC

30 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

What science needs

PhilGoetz2 Dec 2012 22:31 UTC

58 points

84 comments7 min readLW link

Alignment is hard. Communicating that, might be harder

Eleni Angelou1 Sep 2022 16:57 UTC

7 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Sex, Lies, and Dexamethasone

Jacob Falkovich20 Feb 2018 19:56 UTC

15 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Counterfactual outcome state transition parameters

Anders_H27 Jul 2018 21:13 UTC

37 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

[Link] The Greek Heliocentric Theory

[deleted]12 Jun 2012 17:18 UTC

52 points

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Standard SAEs Might Be Incoherent: A Choosing Problem & A “Concise” Solution

Kola Ayonrinde30 Oct 2024 22:50 UTC

27 points

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