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Contra Pace on When to Apologize " Less Wrong
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (431+ words) Financial transactions necessarily have two parties. I can borrow money from you on mutually agreed terms, but I can't unilaterally borrow money from you on whatever terms I choose: that would be theft, not a loan. Apologies also involve two…...
Lock-In Risk Needs More Researchers; Here's Where to Start " Less Wrong
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (1286+ words) Lock-in risk research is neglected and potentially very high impact. I've done some thinking about the threat models for lock-in over the last year w...
Parkinson's Heuristic: The Only Time To Do Anything " Less Wrong
1+ week, 4+ day ago (775+ words) (I, myself, am a special case of "people".) This is common knowledge, and the implied practical advice can be found in its dual: To reduce the work spent on completing a task, reduce the time allowed for it. A related…...
Exponential Solitude " Less Wrong
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1245+ words) Why the Fermi paradox is anything but. You and me and the kid next door. We all were lied to. By the ones we truly trusted: James T. Kirk, Spock, Yoda, and even E. T. All the Star Trek episodes are big fat…...
Your Left Brain Doesn't Trade With Your Right " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 10+ hour ago (568+ words) [see also Four Ways Learning Economics makes you people dumber future AI] "...
Low Expectancy is Not a Confidence Problem " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (836+ words) Lukeprog's How to Beat Procrastination includes in its framework a term for expectancy or how likely/accomplishable a successful outcome feels internally. One of the levers to combat procrastination is thus to increase the perceived odds of getting a reward....
Who Got Breasts First and How We Got Them " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (839+ words) It really is Sydney Sweeney's world, and we're all just living in it. "...
A Field Guide To Learning " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (441+ words) Let's say you're someone who wants to learn about an academic discipline. Perhaps advanced Physics, Sociology, Early-Modern History, or Cognition Sci...
There is no evidence you should reapply sunscreen every 2 hours. " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1740+ words) It's incredible how many consensus guidelines dissolve when you look closely at them." If you listen to any authority on the subject of sunscreen, you will hear it endlessly repeated that you absolutely must reapply sunscreen every 2 hours while you…...
Verbalized Eval Awareness Inflates Measured Safety " Less Wrong
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1315+ words) We provide the most comprehensive evidence'to date that verbalized eval awareness is present across models and benchmarks, finding that it correlates...