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[Question] Prize: Interesting Examples of Evaluations

Elizabeth and ozziegooen

Nov 28, 2020, 9:11 PM

43 points

17 votes

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[Question] Does a site exist for keeping track of casual wagers with others?

LifaceNov 28, 2020, 4:22 PM

2 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can we get people to shut up on public transportation?

ChristianKlNov 28, 2020, 3:30 PM

9 points

6 votes

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[Question] Is this a good way to bet on short timelines?

Daniel KokotajloNov 28, 2020, 12:51 PM

18 points

9 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Theory Of Change As A Hypothesis: Choosing A High-Impact Path When You’re Uncertain

lynettebyeNov 28, 2020, 4:38 AM

19 points

10 votes

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Overcoming Paradox of Choice Through Random Selection

vernamcipherNov 28, 2020, 4:27 AM

13 points

5 votes

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The Mutant Game—Rounds 31 to 90

lsusrNov 27, 2020, 9:05 PM

18 points

7 votes

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Notes on Good Temper

David GrossNov 27, 2020, 4:21 PM

33 points

13 votes

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7 comments11 min readLW link

Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm

willbradshawNov 27, 2020, 10:43 AM

103 points

53 votes

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34 comments7 min readLW link

[AN #126]: Avoiding wireheading by decoupling action feedback from action effects

Rohin ShahNov 26, 2020, 11:20 PM

24 points

8 votes

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1 comment10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Sunday November 29th, 12:00PM (PT) — Andreas Stuhlmüller on Combining GPT-3 and Forecasting

habrykaNov 26, 2020, 10:14 PM

22 points

4 votes

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Nash Score for Voting Techniques

abramdemskiNov 26, 2020, 7:29 PM

20 points

6 votes

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12 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on Endurance

David GrossNov 26, 2020, 6:44 PM

13 points

7 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Small Habits Shape Identity: How I became someone who exercises

adamShimiNov 26, 2020, 2:55 PM

47 points

35 votes

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20 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 11/26: Thanksgiving

ZviNov 26, 2020, 2:50 PM

114 points

42 votes

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14 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Delegated agents in practice: How companies might end up selling AI services that act on behalf of consumers and coalitions, and what this implies for safety research

RemmeltNov 26, 2020, 11:17 AM

7 points

4 votes

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Matryoshka Faraday Box

lsusrNov 26, 2020, 9:42 AM

51 points

32 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Deconstructing 321 Voting

abramdemskiNov 26, 2020, 3:35 AM

40 points

14 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 1

lsusrNov 26, 2020, 3:02 AM

154 points

98 votes

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31 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Notes on Benevolence

David GrossNov 26, 2020, 2:43 AM

25 points

7 votes

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2 comments8 min readLW link

The Exploitability/Explainability Frontier

ikeNov 26, 2020, 12:59 AM

24 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Learning from counterfactuals

GyrodiotNov 25, 2020, 11:07 PM

11 points

3 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Squiggle: Technical Overview

ozziegooenNov 25, 2020, 8:51 PM

18 points

8 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

Success Buys Freedom

lsusrNov 25, 2020, 1:53 PM

63 points

33 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Convolution as smoothing

Maxwell PetersonNov 25, 2020, 6:00 AM

29 points

12 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Evading Mind Control

lsusrNov 25, 2020, 5:01 AM

62 points

39 votes

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18 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What to put in my time capsule?

justinsludNov 25, 2020, 4:21 AM

1 point

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Transparent Technologies

lsusrNov 25, 2020, 2:19 AM

26 points

15 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

Latest & Greatest Wiki-Tag Updates: Import, Dashboard, and Feed

RubyNov 24, 2020, 9:35 PM

45 points

16 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjashNov 24, 2020, 8:00 PM

581 points

378 votes

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94 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

The next AI winter will be due to energy costs

hippkeNov 24, 2020, 4:53 PM

70 points

34 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Critiques of the Agent Foundations agenda?

JsevillamolNov 24, 2020, 4:11 PM

16 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare

Kaj_SotalaNov 24, 2020, 10:36 AM

83 points

34 votes

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20 comments2 min readLW link

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[Question] How should OpenAI communicate about the commercial performances of the GPT-3 API?

Maxime RichéNov 24, 2020, 8:34 AM

2 points

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Manifesto of the Silent Minority

lsusrNov 24, 2020, 5:30 AM

64 points

52 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

Squiggle: An Overview

ozziegooenNov 24, 2020, 3:00 AM

61 points

25 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Commentary on AGI Safety from First Principles

Richard_NgoNov 23, 2020, 9:37 PM

81 points

29 votes

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4 comments54 min readLW link

Straight-edge Warning Against Physical Intimacy

RaphaëllNov 23, 2020, 9:35 PM

18 points

31 votes

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[Question] Using false but instrumentally rational beliefs for your career?

Tim LiptrotNov 23, 2020, 7:18 PM

7 points

4 votes

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29 comments1 min readLW link

Syntax, semantics, and symbol grounding, simplified

Stuart_ArmstrongNov 23, 2020, 4:12 PM

30 points

14 votes

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4 comments9 min readLW link

Continuing the takeoffs debate

Richard_NgoNov 23, 2020, 3:58 PM

67 points

17 votes

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11 comments9 min readLW link

Retrospective: November 10-day virtual meditation retreat

Kaj_SotalaNov 23, 2020, 3:00 PM

50 points

21 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The Mutant Game—Rounds 11 to 30

lsusrNov 23, 2020, 9:20 AM

5 points

4 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Mark Manson and Evidence-Based Personal Development

Chris_LeongNov 23, 2020, 5:13 AM

31 points

18 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Changing the AI race payoff matrix

GurkenglasNov 22, 2020, 10:25 PM

7 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Ambition

David GrossNov 22, 2020, 7:53 PM

19 points

9 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] (Pseudo) Mathematical Realism Bad?

Logan ZoellnerNov 22, 2020, 6:21 PM

0 points

4 votes

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My intellectual influences

Richard_NgoNov 22, 2020, 6:00 PM

95 points

43 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

[Question] Ways to run multiple form-incompatible mentalities?

Self_OptimizationNov 22, 2020, 5:57 PM

2 points

2 votes

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It’s not economically inefficient for a UBI to reduce recipient’s employment

paulfchristianoNov 22, 2020, 4:40 PM

93 points

48 votes

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60 comments4 min readLW link

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