The Ant Farm

JimBaler21 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
3 points
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Thoughts on the Fea­si­bil­ity of Pro­saic AGI Align­ment?

iamthouthouarti21 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
8 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s a De­com­pos­able Align­ment Topic?

Logan Riggs21 Aug 2020 22:57 UTC
26 points
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Epistemic Com­par­i­son: First Prin­ci­ples Land vs. Mime­sis Land

ozziegooen21 Aug 2020 22:28 UTC
33 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Live a life you feel ex­cited about

Neel Nanda21 Aug 2020 19:16 UTC
18 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Univer­sal­ity Unwrapped

adamShimi21 Aug 2020 18:53 UTC
29 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] How much can sur­gi­cal masks help with wild­fire smoke?

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Aug 2020 15:46 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What am I miss­ing? (quan­tum physics)

kithpendragon21 Aug 2020 12:39 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Coron­avirus and Rents II

jefftk21 Aug 2020 2:30 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­a­lyz­ing Black­mail Be­ing Ille­gal (Han­son and Mow­show­itz re­lated)

curi20 Aug 2020 18:56 UTC
0 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

July 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern20 Aug 2020 16:39 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

How More Knowl­edge is Mak­ing Us Dumber

jdcampolargo20 Aug 2020 15:08 UTC
1 point
4 comments3 min readLW link

“Tech­nol­ogy and the Fu­ture of Per­sons”, by Lynne Rud­der Baker (2013)

Callmesalticidae20 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 8/​20: A Lit­tle Progress

Zvi20 Aug 2020 14:30 UTC
47 points
6 comments15 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mar­ket Misconceptions

gilch20 Aug 2020 4:46 UTC
27 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

High­lights from the Black­mail De­bate (Robin Han­son vs Zvi Mow­show­itz)

Ben Pace20 Aug 2020 0:49 UTC
48 points
37 comments9 min readLW link

The Bayesian Tyrant

abramdemski20 Aug 2020 0:08 UTC
141 points
21 comments6 min readLW link1 review

[Question] Should we write more about so­cial life?

DirectedEvolution19 Aug 2020 20:07 UTC
13 points
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[AN #113]: Check­ing the eth­i­cal in­tu­itions of large lan­guage models

Rohin Shah19 Aug 2020 17:10 UTC
23 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Alex Ir­pan: “My AI Timelines Have Sped Up”

Vaniver19 Aug 2020 16:23 UTC
43 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(www.alexirpan.com)

The US Already Has A Wealth Tax

jefftk19 Aug 2020 14:50 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Which way should we up­date about un­cer­tain events, over time?

Milton19 Aug 2020 12:18 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AI safety as feather­less bipeds *with broad flat nails*

Stuart_Armstrong19 Aug 2020 10:22 UTC
37 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sur­vey Re­sults: 10 Fun Ques­tions for LWers

Ben Pace19 Aug 2020 6:10 UTC
42 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

On Defin­ing your Terms

Chris_Leong19 Aug 2020 3:30 UTC
13 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Look­ing for ad­ver­sar­ial col­lab­o­ra­tors to test our De­bate protocol

Beth Barnes19 Aug 2020 3:15 UTC
52 points
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Sta­tus for sta­tus sake is a fact of poli­ti­cal life

Tim Liptrot18 Aug 2020 22:06 UTC
10 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Rad­i­cal Probabilism

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 21:14 UTC
176 points
47 comments35 min readLW link1 review

Mesa-Search vs Mesa-Control

abramdemski18 Aug 2020 18:51 UTC
54 points
45 comments7 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing My LW Com­ment­ing Policy

curi18 Aug 2020 16:48 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Bayesi­ance (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh Worley18 Aug 2020 16:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

WordPress De­stroys Edit­ing Pro­cess, Seek­ing Alternatives

Zvi18 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
25 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Learn­ing hu­man prefer­ences: op­ti­mistic and pes­simistic scenarios

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2020 13:05 UTC
27 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

On Creativity—The joys of 5 minute timers

Neel Nanda18 Aug 2020 6:26 UTC
17 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Mul­ti­tudi­nous out­side views

Davidmanheim18 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
55 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

10 Fun Ques­tions for LessWrongers

Ben Pace18 Aug 2020 3:28 UTC
47 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Spend­ing Up­date 2020

jefftk18 Aug 2020 1:40 UTC
12 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why haven’t we cel­e­brated any ma­jor achieve­ments lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC
194 points
69 comments12 min readLW link2 reviews
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] A way to beat su­per­ra­tional/​EDT agents?

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir17 Aug 2020 14:33 UTC
5 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3, be­lief, and consistency

skybrian16 Aug 2020 23:12 UTC
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-Direct­ed­ness: What Suc­cess Looks Like

adamShimi16 Aug 2020 18:33 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Search ver­sus design

Alex Flint16 Aug 2020 16:53 UTC
101 points
40 comments36 min readLW link1 review

On Sys­tems—Liv­ing a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
41 points
9 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Par­tially En­light­ened AMA

grumpyfreyr16 Aug 2020 9:36 UTC
−10 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Be­com­ing an EA-in­fluencer on YouTube etc.

culturechange16 Aug 2020 8:09 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Hu­man Condition

Martin Sustrik16 Aug 2020 5:23 UTC
25 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Wrong Side of Risk

gilch16 Aug 2020 3:50 UTC
22 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

My Un­der­stand­ing of Paul Chris­ti­ano’s Iter­ated Am­plifi­ca­tion AI Safety Re­search Agenda

Chi Nguyen15 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC
120 points
20 comments39 min readLW link

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link