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Optimizing arbitrary expressions with a linear number of queries to a Logical Induction Oracle (Cartoon Guide)

Donald HobsonJul 23, 2020, 9:37 PM

4 points

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Bottleneck Examples

Elliot TempleJul 23, 2020, 6:23 PM

11 points

4 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Aggregating forecasts

JsevillamolJul 23, 2020, 6:04 PM

17 points

6 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

Can you get AGI from a Transformer?

Steven ByrnesJul 23, 2020, 3:27 PM

117 points

53 votes

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40 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 7/23: The Second Summit

ZviJul 23, 2020, 2:40 PM

59 points

24 votes

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6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Are parasitic worms an effective weapon against MS?

DemeterJul 23, 2020, 1:59 PM

31 points

12 votes

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11 comments9 min readLW link

Restocking

jefftkJul 23, 2020, 1:40 PM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Cambridge Virtual LW/SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 23, 2020, 3:25 AM

6 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3 Gems

TurnTroutJul 23, 2020, 12:46 AM

33 points

20 votes

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10 comments48 min readLW link

Weak HCH accesses EXP

evhubJul 22, 2020, 10:36 PM

16 points

5 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Replicating the replication crisis with GPT-3?

skybrianJul 22, 2020, 9:20 PM

29 points

18 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

A New Way to Visualize Biases

dtmJul 22, 2020, 5:57 PM

6 points

9 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #109]: Teaching neural nets to generalize the way humans would

Rohin ShahJul 22, 2020, 5:10 PM

17 points

4 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Online Meetup: Balaji Srinivasan on “Nation of Emigrants”

JoshuaFoxJul 22, 2020, 2:35 PM

14 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)

Martin SustrikJul 22, 2020, 1:50 PM

92 points

50 votes

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24 comments12 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

[Question] If you are signed up for cryonics with life insurance, how much life insurance did you get and over what term?

Eli TyreJul 22, 2020, 8:13 AM

26 points

12 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

The Basic Double Crux pattern

Eli TyreJul 22, 2020, 6:41 AM

71 points

30 votes

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21 comments4 min readLW link

Research agenda for AI safety and a better civilization

agilecavemanJul 22, 2020, 6:35 AM

12 points

6 votes

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2 comments16 min readLW link

More Right

Adam ZernerJul 22, 2020, 3:36 AM

23 points

18 votes

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29 comments4 min readLW link

[not ongoing] Thoughts on Proportional voting methods

Jameson QuinnJul 22, 2020, 2:46 AM

32 points

11 votes

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53 comments46 min readLW link

[Preprint] The Computational Limits of Deep Learning

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 21, 2020, 9:25 PM

9 points

3 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Fresh Bread

ZviJul 21, 2020, 8:40 PM

22 points

6 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Competition: Amplify Rohin’s Prediction on AGI researchers & Safety Concerns

stuhlmuellerJul 21, 2020, 8:06 PM

83 points

29 votes

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41 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3

johnswentworthJul 21, 2020, 8:02 PM

111 points

54 votes

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57 comments3 min readLW link

How good is humanity at coordination?

BuckJul 21, 2020, 8:01 PM

83 points

38 votes

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44 comments3 min readLW link

$1000 bounty for OpenAI to show whether GPT3 was “deliberately” pretending to be stupider than it is

Bird ConceptJul 21, 2020, 6:42 PM

56 points

32 votes

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39 comments2 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

[Question] What are the limits of self-education?

nitropieJul 21, 2020, 6:01 PM

3 points

2 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] anonymous merit or public status

[anonymous]Jul 21, 2020, 6:01 PM

6 points

5 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Benefits Post 5: Outstanding Questions on Governing Benefits

CullenJul 21, 2020, 4:46 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

The “AI Dungeons” Dragon Model is heavily path dependent (testing GPT-3 on ethics)

Rafael HarthJul 21, 2020, 12:14 PM

44 points

17 votes

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9 comments6 min readLW link

Uncalibrated quantum experiments act clasically

justinpombrioJul 21, 2020, 5:31 AM

18 points

10 votes

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12 comments8 min readLW link

The Rediscovery of Interiority in Machine Learning

DanBJul 21, 2020, 5:02 AM

5 points

3 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(danburfoot.net)

Chains, Bottlenecks and Optimization

Elliot TempleJul 21, 2020, 2:07 AM

14 points

10 votes

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12 comments4 min readLW link

“Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?”

RaemonJul 21, 2020, 12:33 AM

168 points

85 votes

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43 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Parallels Between AI Safety by Debate and Evidence Law

CullenJul 20, 2020, 10:52 PM

10 points

5 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(cullenokeefe.com)

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_NgoJul 20, 2020, 8:27 PM

173 points

89 votes

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32 comments11 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Learning Values in Practice

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 20, 2020, 6:38 PM

24 points

7 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Inefficient doesn’t mean indifferent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolutionJul 20, 2020, 6:27 PM

14 points

5 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] To what extent is GPT-3 capable of reasoning?

TurnTroutJul 20, 2020, 5:10 PM

70 points

41 votes

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73 comments16 min readLW link

Selling real estate: should you overprice or underprice?

Steven ByrnesJul 20, 2020, 3:54 PM

19 points

6 votes

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5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] “Do Nothing” utility function, 3½ years later?

niplavJul 20, 2020, 11:09 AM

5 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Operationalizing Interpretability

lifelonglearnerJul 20, 2020, 5:22 AM

20 points

5 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty

habrykaJul 20, 2020, 5:08 AM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What Would I Do? Self-prediction in Simple Algorithms

Scott GarrabrantJul 20, 2020, 4:27 AM

65 points

19 votes

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12 comments5 min readLW link

“Should Blackmail Be Legal” Hanson/Zvi Debate (Sun July 26th, 3pm PDT)

Ben PaceJul 20, 2020, 4:06 AM

36 points

11 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

The 8 Techniques to Tolerify the Dark World

adamShimiJul 20, 2020, 12:58 AM

2 points

12 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Praise of some popular LW articles

DirectedEvolutionJul 20, 2020, 12:32 AM

40 points

14 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

Types Of Online Meetups

Dan BJul 19, 2020, 11:51 PM

4 points

3 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Musical Outgroups

eapacheJul 19, 2020, 10:55 PM

9 points

4 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Forum Assisted Discussion

Dan BJul 19, 2020, 10:38 PM

9 points

6 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

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