EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams10 Oct 2022 23:58 UTC
24 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

AMF net use may be over­es­ti­mated by about 10 per­centage points

brb24310 Oct 2022 23:05 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Don’t ex­pect AGI any­time soon

cveres10 Oct 2022 22:38 UTC
0 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Some Carl Sa­gan quotations

finm10 Oct 2022 22:18 UTC
77 points
6 comments11 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Apollo

Jarred Filmer10 Oct 2022 21:30 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion mar­ket does not im­ply causation

Lizka10 Oct 2022 20:37 UTC
29 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

On ab­sur­dity

OllieBase10 Oct 2022 20:24 UTC
170 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Idea: Ex­change Pro­gram for Uni Groups

Nick Corvino10 Oct 2022 19:22 UTC
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ber­lin Stu­dent Meetup—Semester Kickoff

Toni_Hoffmann10 Oct 2022 19:19 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On­shore al­gae farms could feed the world

Tyner10 Oct 2022 17:44 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(tos.org)

Coun­ter­pro­duc­tive EA men­tal health ad­vice (and what to say in­stead)

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen10 Oct 2022 16:20 UTC
56 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

This World Men­tal Health Day, let’s back up words with in­vest­ment.

StrongMinds10 Oct 2022 15:47 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Shel­ter­ing hu­man­ity against x-risk: re­port from the SHELTER weekend

Janne M. Korhonen10 Oct 2022 15:09 UTC
76 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Five slightly more hard­core Squig­gle mod­els.

NunoSempere10 Oct 2022 14:42 UTC
33 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

When re­port­ing AI timelines, be clear who you’re defer­ring to

Sam Clarke10 Oct 2022 14:24 UTC
120 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons learned from talk­ing to >100 aca­demics about AI safety

mariushobbhahn10 Oct 2022 13:16 UTC
138 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Epistemics-Im­prov­ing Ac­tivi­ties for Groups and Friends

ChanaMessinger10 Oct 2022 13:11 UTC
46 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

LW4EA: Fact Posts: How and Why

ChanaMessinger10 Oct 2022 12:08 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

We can do bet­ter than argmax

Jan_Kulveit10 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC
113 points
36 comments10 min readEA link

Vege­tar­i­anism and depression

Margarita Sharipova10 Oct 2022 9:23 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Is there any gen­eral ad­vice you have?

lynettebye10 Oct 2022 8:44 UTC
36 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Re­sults from the lan­guage model hackathon

Esben Kran10 Oct 2022 8:29 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA al­igned lawyers in Texas?

Solomon Sia10 Oct 2022 8:06 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

AMC’s an­i­mated se­ries “Pan­theon” is rele­vant to our interests

ben.smith10 Oct 2022 5:59 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Joey Savoie from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and His Prin­ci­ples—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

Ti Guo9 Oct 2022 23:53 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] AI Risk Micro­dy­nam­ics Survey

Froolow9 Oct 2022 20:00 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble miracles

Akash9 Oct 2022 18:17 UTC
38 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ore­bro LW meetup!

Marina9 Oct 2022 16:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

What should MIT an­a­lyt­ics pro­fes­sors know about biose­cu­rity?

wesg9 Oct 2022 15:58 UTC
34 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ity of ex­tinc­tion for var­i­ous types of catastrophes

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Oct 2022 15:30 UTC
16 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Idea: Provide Keen EAGx’ers with Fol­low-Up Programming

Chris Leong9 Oct 2022 15:17 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best ways to en­courage de-es­ca­la­tion in re­gards to Ukraine?

oh543219 Oct 2022 11:15 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Un­con­trol­lable AI as an Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:37 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s talk about un­con­trol­lable AI

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:37 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

My favourite mo­ti­va­tor for longtermism

JackM9 Oct 2022 9:30 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ba­sic Post-scarcity Map

postscarcitymap9 Oct 2022 6:53 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Embed­ding AI into AR goggles

aixar9 Oct 2022 6:46 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Could the drop in child vac­ci­na­tion and the lat­est news on po­liomyelitis be a new cause area?

Ramiro9 Oct 2022 1:09 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

Emrik8 Oct 2022 23:38 UTC
76 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an im­mi­nent global nu­clear war

Tegmark8 Oct 2022 23:25 UTC
53 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Con­fi­dence in the premises of the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion—re­sults from a small survey

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Good Gover­nance Project

Grayden 🔸8 Oct 2022 19:42 UTC
114 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

SERI MATS Pro­gram—Win­ter 2022 Cohort

Ryan Kidd8 Oct 2022 19:09 UTC
50 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Pen­tathlon: join a whole­some team com­pe­ti­tion with other EAs/​Rationalists

Caro8 Oct 2022 18:51 UTC
22 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does EA have an al­ter­na­tive to ra­tio­nal, writ­ten de­bate method­ol­ogy?

Elliot Temple8 Oct 2022 17:27 UTC
−5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EAG Lon­don 22: EA Is­rael’s ap­proach to com­mu­nity building

Gidi Kadosh8 Oct 2022 11:56 UTC
34 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Up­date on pes­ter­ing em­bassies to re­duce non-policy bar­ri­ers to movement

Luke Eure8 Oct 2022 11:17 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Mu­tual As­sured Destruc­tion used against AGI

Leopard8 Oct 2022 9:35 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Grow your Men­tal Re­silience to Grow your Im­pact HERE—In­tro­duc­ing Effec­tive Peer Support

Inga8 Oct 2022 7:53 UTC
144 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

A peek at pair­wise prefer­ence es­ti­ma­tion in eco­nomics, mar­ket­ing, and statistics

Jonas Moss8 Oct 2022 4:56 UTC
31 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(blog.jonasmoss.com)