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[Question] When does introspection avoid the pitfalls of rumination?

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[Question] Is there an assurance-contract website in work?

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[Question] Why didn't Agoric Computing become popular?

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[Question] How does OpenAI's language model affect our AI timeline estimates?

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[Question] A Strange Situation

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Flange Finnegan

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[Question] Who owns OpenAI's new language model?

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[Question] When should we expect the education bubble to pop? How can we short it?

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[Question] Is there a way to hire academics hourly?

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[Question] How does Gradient Descent Interact with Goodhart?

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Scott Garrabrant

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[Question] Individual profit-sharing?

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[Question] How important is it that LW has an unlimited supply of karma?

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[Question] Why do you reject negative utilitarianism?

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[Question] Are there documentaries on rationality?

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[Question] If Rationality can be likened to a 'Martial Art', what would be the Forms?

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[Question] What are some of bizarre theories based on anthropic reasoning?

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[Question] Why is so much discussion happening in private Google Docs?

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1moShow Highlight

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[Question] What are the open problems in Human Rationality?

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[Question] What is learning?

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[Question] Which textbook would you recommend to learn decision theory?

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supermartingale

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[Question] What makes people intellectually active?

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

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[Question] Does anti-malaria charity destroy the local anti-malaria industry?

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[Question] Why is this utilitarian calculus wrong? Or is it?

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20dShow Highlight

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[Question] Greatest Lower Bound for AGI

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Michaël Trazzi

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[Question] Is Agent Simulates Predictor a "fair" problem?

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1moΩ 5Show Highlight

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[Question] What are the components of intellectual honesty?

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[Question] Applied Rationality podcast - feedback?

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[Question] What are questions?

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[Question] Is intellectual work better construed as exploration or performance?

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[Question] For what do we need Superintelligent AI?

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[Question] When is CDT Dutch-Bookable?

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[Question] Why not tool AI?

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[Question] What is a reasonable outside view for the fate of social movements?

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[Question] Is there a.. more exact.. way of scoring a predictor's calibration?

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[Question] Why Don't Creators Switch to their Own Platforms?

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[Question] What exercises go best with 3 blue 1 brown's Linear Algebra videos?

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[Question] What math do i need for data analysis?

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[Question] How do we identify bottlenecks to scientific and technological progress?

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[Question] Does freeze-dried mussel powder have good stuff that vegan diets don't?

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[Question] What self-help has helped you?

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G Gordon Worley III

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[Question] What shape has mindspace?

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[Question] Can dying people "hold on" for something they are waiting for?

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[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

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[Question] Should questions be called "questions" or "confusions" (or "other")?

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[Question] What are good ML/AI related prediction / calibration questions for 2019?

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[Question] In what ways are holidays good?

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[Question] What kind of information would serve as the best evidence for resolving the debate of whether a centrist or leftist Democratic nominee is likelier to take the White House in 2020?

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Evan_Gaensbauer

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[Question] What do you do when you find out you have inconsistent probabilities?

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[Question] What are some concrete problems about logical counterfactuals?

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[Question] What precisely do we mean by AI alignment?

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G Gordon Worley III

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