Learn­ing the prior and generalization

evhub29 Jul 2020 22:49 UTC
34 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

What Failure Looks Like: Distill­ing the Discussion

Ben Pace29 Jul 2020 21:49 UTC
81 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

New Paper on Herd Im­mu­nity Thresholds

Zvi29 Jul 2020 20:50 UTC
41 points
16 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What a 20-year-lead in mil­i­tary tech might look like

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2020 20:10 UTC
75 points
47 comments16 min readLW link

En­gag­ing Se­ri­ously with Short Timelines

sapphire29 Jul 2020 19:21 UTC
43 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #110]: Learn­ing fea­tures from hu­man feed­back to en­able re­ward learning

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC
13 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

The “best pre­dic­tor is mal­i­cious op­ti­miser” problem

Donald Hobson29 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
14 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing lo­cal gov­er­nance in frag­ile states—prac­ti­cal les­sons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC
16 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Pa­ram­e­ters of Privacy

Raemon29 Jul 2020 1:18 UTC
31 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tions for GPT-N

hippke29 Jul 2020 1:16 UTC
36 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Tag­ging Open Call /​ Dis­cus­sion Thread

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:58 UTC
65 points
118 comments4 min readLW link

Wiki-Tag FAQ

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:57 UTC
39 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Tags Dis­cus­sion/​Talk Thread

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:57 UTC
30 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What hap­pens to var­i­ance as neu­ral net­work train­ing is scaled? What does it im­ply about “lot­tery tick­ets”?

abramdemski28 Jul 2020 20:22 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How will in­ter­net fo­rums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?

ChristianKl28 Jul 2020 20:12 UTC
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] To what ex­tent are the scal­ing prop­er­ties of Trans­former net­works ex­cep­tional?

abramdemski28 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Con­ceited Folly of Certainty

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
7 points
3 comments20 min readLW link

The Curse of Cur­sory Idealism

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC
9 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does the lot­tery ticket hy­poth­e­sis sug­gest the scal­ing hy­poth­e­sis?

Daniel Kokotajlo28 Jul 2020 19:52 UTC
14 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­a­bil­ity that other ar­chi­tec­tures will scale as well as Trans­form­ers?

Daniel Kokotajlo28 Jul 2020 19:36 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should I back up and redo, in a pub­li­cly-ed­ited ar­ti­cle?

Jameson Quinn28 Jul 2020 19:07 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC
160 points
36 comments13 min readLW link1 review

FHI Re­port: How Will Na­tional Se­cu­rity Con­sid­er­a­tions Affect An­titrust De­ci­sions in AI? An Ex­am­i­na­tion of His­tor­i­cal Precedents

Cullen28 Jul 2020 18:34 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Del­e­gate a Forecast

Amandango28 Jul 2020 17:43 UTC
44 points
25 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

As­set Prices Con­sis­tently Vio­late Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

Liron28 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(lt3000.blogspot.com)

A com­mu­nity-cu­rated repos­i­tory of in­ter­est­ing GPT-3 stuff

Rudi C28 Jul 2020 14:16 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil Kurkjian28 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC
22 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What spe­cific dan­gers arise when ask­ing GPT-N to write an Align­ment Fo­rum post?

Matthew Barnett28 Jul 2020 2:56 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Science

Richard_Ngo28 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC
21 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Ba­sic Con­ver­sa­tional Co­or­di­na­tion: Micro-co­or­di­na­tion of In­ten­tion

Eli Tyre27 Jul 2020 22:41 UTC
40 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[up­dated] how does gpt2′s train­ing cor­pus cap­ture in­ter­net dis­cus­sion? not well

nostalgebraist27 Jul 2020 22:30 UTC
25 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

AI and Efficiency

DragonGod27 Jul 2020 20:58 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

The Rise of Com­mon­sense Reasoning

DragonGod27 Jul 2020 19:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.reddit.com)

Why You Might Want a New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtm27 Jul 2020 17:30 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Are we in an AI over­hang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC
263 points
106 comments4 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing the Power-Seek­ing Theorems

TurnTrout27 Jul 2020 0:28 UTC
41 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Change the world a lit­tle bit

DirectedEvolution26 Jul 2020 22:35 UTC
22 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Devel­op­men­tal Stages of GPTs

orthonormal26 Jul 2020 22:03 UTC
140 points
71 comments7 min readLW link1 review

The prob­lem of Pop Analogy

thesilvermen26 Jul 2020 21:44 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where do peo­ple dis­cuss do­ing things with GPT-3?

skybrian26 Jul 2020 14:31 UTC
2 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Jam is obsolete

jefftk26 Jul 2020 14:00 UTC
25 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How I use Google Forms in my Workflow

Harri Besceli26 Jul 2020 12:17 UTC
34 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Godel in sec­ond-or­der logic?

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir26 Jul 2020 7:16 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Nat­u­ral Ex­pla­na­tion of Nash Equilibria

Dr. Birdbrain25 Jul 2020 23:40 UTC
3 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

A Scal­able Ur­ban De­sign and the Sin­gle Build­ing City

Edward Swernofsky25 Jul 2020 19:06 UTC
22 points
21 comments17 min readLW link

Con­straints from nat­u­ral­ized ethics.

Charlie Steiner25 Jul 2020 14:54 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

What it means to optimise

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Ac­cess to AI: a hu­man right?

dmtea25 Jul 2020 9:38 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

How to learn from conversations

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:36 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Tak­ing the first step

Neel Nanda25 Jul 2020 9:33 UTC
10 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)