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[Question] If GPT-6 is human-level AGI but costs $200 per page of output, what would happen?

Daniel KokotajloOct 9, 2020, 12:00 PM

29 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

The Colliding Exponentials of AI

VermillionOct 14, 2020, 11:31 PM

28 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Secular Solstice Online (Americas)

RaemonOct 28, 2020, 11:28 PM

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #122]: Arguing for AGI-driven existential risk from first principles

Rohin ShahOct 21, 2020, 5:10 PM

28 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Supervised learning of outputs in the brain

Steven ByrnesOct 26, 2020, 2:32 PM

28 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

[AN #121]: Forecasting transformative AI timelines using biological anchors

Rohin ShahOct 14, 2020, 5:20 PM

28 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Book review: Age Later

PeterMcCluskeyOct 27, 2020, 4:21 AM

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

“Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling”, Henighan et al 2020 {OA}

gwernOct 29, 2020, 1:45 AM

27 points

11 comments LW link

(arxiv.org)

Sunday Meetup: Workshop on Online Surveys with Spencer Greenberg

RaemonOct 2, 2020, 12:34 AM

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Reviews of TV show NeXt (about AI safety)

Mati_RoyOct 11, 2020, 4:31 AM

26 points

4 comments LW link

[Question] One hub, or many?

abramdemskiOct 4, 2020, 4:58 PM

26 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Your Standards are Too High

Neel NandaOct 1, 2020, 5:03 PM

26 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

(neelnanda.io)

Effective Epidemiology

Mike HarrisOct 22, 2020, 7:45 PM

26 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Announcing Data Secrets Lox: An Alternative to Slate Star Codex Open Threads

quanticleOct 27, 2020, 4:24 AM

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Uncertainty of Death and Taxes

ZviOct 21, 2020, 6:10 PM

25 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What’s holding back outsourcing to cloud labs?

ChristianKlOct 28, 2020, 11:07 PM

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Altman at SlateStarCodex Online Meetup

JoshuaFoxOct 26, 2020, 10:26 AM

24 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Large Effects Can’t Prove Small Causes

BuckyOct 6, 2020, 5:34 PM

24 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Humans are stunningly rational and stunningly irrational

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 23, 2020, 2:13 PM

23 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Sunday October 11th, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Zhu, Martin Sustrik and Steve Byrnes

habrykaOct 7, 2020, 11:22 PM

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much to worry about the US election unrest?

NoSignalNoNoiseOct 12, 2020, 3:39 AM

23 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Fermi Challenge: Trains and Air Cargo

Ben PaceOct 5, 2020, 9:51 PM

23 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Babble challenge: 50 consequences of intelligent ant colonies

Bird ConceptOct 29, 2020, 7:21 AM

23 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

All Lesswrong Posts by Yudkowsky in one .epub

sone3dOct 11, 2020, 1:17 PM

23 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Inaccessible finely tuned RNG in humans?

SandiOct 7, 2020, 5:04 PM

23 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

How to Price a Futures Contract

lsusrOct 9, 2020, 7:37 AM

22 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

A study on depression

vlad.proexOct 13, 2020, 3:43 PM

21 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: September 2020.

NunoSempereOct 1, 2020, 11:00 AM

21 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

On the Dangers of Time Travel

lsusrOct 27, 2020, 3:57 AM

21 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

No Causation without Reification

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 23, 2020, 8:28 PM

21 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

/r/MLScaling: new subreddit for NN scaling research/discussion

gwernOct 30, 2020, 8:50 PM

21 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Open Communication in the Days of Malicious Online Actors

ozziegooenOct 7, 2020, 4:30 PM

20 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Achilles Heel Hypothesis for AI

scasperOct 13, 2020, 2:35 PM

20 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Whence the symptoms of social media?

KatjaGraceOct 27, 2020, 7:30 AM

20 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(meteuphoric.com)

[AN #123]: Inferring what is valuable in order to align recommender systems

Rohin ShahOct 28, 2020, 5:00 PM

20 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The Sun Room

Jarred FilmerOct 12, 2020, 9:08 PM

20 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

On Slack—Having room to be excited

Neel NandaOct 10, 2020, 7:02 PM

19 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Universal Eudaimonia

hg00Oct 5, 2020, 1:45 PM

19 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Adjusting probabilities for the passage of time, using Squiggle

NunoSempereOct 23, 2020, 6:55 PM

19 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Election Preparation

jefftkOct 15, 2020, 8:30 PM

18 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Shouldn’t there be a Chinese translation of Human Compatible?

mako yassOct 9, 2020, 8:47 AM

18 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is your electronic drawing set up?

ElizabethOct 14, 2020, 5:42 AM

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What reacts would you like to be able to give on posts? (emoticons, cognicons, and more)

Mati_RoyOct 4, 2020, 6:31 PM

18 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Three car seats?

jefftk1 Oct 2020 14:30 UTC

18 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why Huntington-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Technology and its side effects

jasoncrawford13 Oct 2020 20:07 UTC

17 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

September 2020 gwern.net newsletter

gwern26 Oct 2020 13:38 UTC

17 points

1 comment LW link

(www.gwern.net)

Does playing hard to get work? AB testing for romance

amplemaple26 Oct 2020 15:29 UTC

17 points

26 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What risks concern you which don’t seem to have been seriously considered by the community?

plex28 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC

17 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

Learning is (Asymptotically) Computationally Inefficient, Choose Your Exponents Wisely

Shmi22 Oct 2020 5:30 UTC

16 points

3 comments4 min readLW link