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Sun­day Au­gust 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jim­ran­domh, john­swen­th­worth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

Bird Concept and Ben Pace
Jul 30, 2020, 11:55 PM
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Deal­ing with Cu­ri­os­ity-Stoppers

adamShimiJul 30, 2020, 10:05 PM
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[Question] What if memes are com­mon in highly ca­pa­ble minds?

Daniel KokotajloJul 30, 2020, 8:45 PM
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PSA: Tag­ging is Awesome

abramdemskiJul 30, 2020, 5:52 PM
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Covid 7/​30: Whack a Mole

ZviJul 30, 2020, 3:50 PM
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[Question] Is the work on AI al­ign­ment rele­vant to GPT?

Richard_KennawayJul 30, 2020, 12:23 PM
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[Question] Would a halfway copied brain em­u­la­tion be at risk of hav­ing differ­ent val­ues/​iden­tity?

GhatanathoahJul 30, 2020, 5:43 AM
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Ra­tion­al­ist Read­ing Group (On­line)

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 30, 2020, 2:14 AM
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At­ten­tion is your scarcest resource

benkuhnJul 30, 2020, 1:00 AM
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Learn­ing the prior and generalization

evhubJul 29, 2020, 10:49 PM
34 points

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What Failure Looks Like: Distill­ing the Discussion

Ben PaceJul 29, 2020, 9:49 PM
82 points

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New Paper on Herd Im­mu­nity Thresholds

ZviJul 29, 2020, 8:50 PM
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What a 20-year-lead in mil­i­tary tech might look like

Daniel KokotajloJul 29, 2020, 8:10 PM
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En­gag­ing Se­ri­ously with Short Timelines

sapphireJul 29, 2020, 7:21 PM
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[AN #110]: Learn­ing fea­tures from hu­man feed­back to en­able re­ward learning

Rohin ShahJul 29, 2020, 5:20 PM
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(mailchi.mp)

The “best pre­dic­tor is mal­i­cious op­ti­miser” problem

Donald HobsonJul 29, 2020, 11:49 AM
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Im­prov­ing lo­cal gov­er­nance in frag­ile states—prac­ti­cal les­sons from the field

Tim LiptrotJul 29, 2020, 1:54 AM
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Pa­ram­e­ters of Privacy

RaemonJul 29, 2020, 1:18 AM
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Pre­dic­tions for GPT-N

hippkeJul 29, 2020, 1:16 AM
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Tag­ging Open Call /​ Dis­cus­sion Thread

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:58 PM
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Wiki-Tag FAQ

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
39 points

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Tags Dis­cus­sion/​Talk Thread

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
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[Question] What hap­pens to var­i­ance as neu­ral net­work train­ing is scaled? What does it im­ply about “lot­tery tick­ets”?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:22 PM
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[Question] How will in­ter­net fo­rums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?

ChristianKlJul 28, 2020, 8:12 PM
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[Question] To what ex­tent are the scal­ing prop­er­ties of Trans­former net­works ex­cep­tional?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:06 PM
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The Con­ceited Folly of Certainty

Noah BlaffJul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
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The Curse of Cur­sory Idealism

Noah BlaffJul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
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[Question] Does the lot­tery ticket hy­poth­e­sis sug­gest the scal­ing hy­poth­e­sis?

Daniel KokotajloJul 28, 2020, 7:52 PM
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[Question] Prob­a­bil­ity that other ar­chi­tec­tures will scale as well as Trans­form­ers?

Daniel KokotajloJul 28, 2020, 7:36 PM
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[Question] How should I back up and redo, in a pub­li­cly-ed­ited ar­ti­cle?

Jameson QuinnJul 28, 2020, 7:07 PM
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Reread­ing At­las Shrugged

VaniverJul 28, 2020, 6:54 PM
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FHI Re­port: How Will Na­tional Se­cu­rity Con­sid­er­a­tions Affect An­titrust De­ci­sions in AI? An Ex­am­i­na­tion of His­tor­i­cal Precedents

CullenJul 28, 2020, 6:34 PM
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Del­e­gate a Forecast

AmandangoJul 28, 2020, 5:43 PM
44 points

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As­set Prices Con­sis­tently Vio­late Effi­cient Mar­ket Hypothesis

LironJul 28, 2020, 2:21 PM
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A com­mu­nity-cu­rated repos­i­tory of in­ter­est­ing GPT-3 stuff

Rudi CJul 28, 2020, 2:16 PM
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[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil KurkjianJul 28, 2020, 3:01 AM
22 points

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

Matthew BarnettJul 28, 2020, 2:56 AM
46 points

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The Fu­ture of Science

Richard_NgoJul 28, 2020, 2:43 AM
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Ba­sic Con­ver­sa­tional Co­or­di­na­tion: Micro-co­or­di­na­tion of In­ten­tion

Eli TyreJul 27, 2020, 10:41 PM
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[up­dated] how does gpt2′s train­ing cor­pus cap­ture in­ter­net dis­cus­sion? not well

nostalgebraistJul 27, 2020, 10:30 PM
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AI and Efficiency

DragonGodJul 27, 2020, 8:58 PM
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The Rise of Com­mon­sense Reasoning

DragonGodJul 27, 2020, 7:01 PM
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Why You Might Want a New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtmJul 27, 2020, 5:30 PM
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Are we in an AI over­hang?

Andy JonesJul 27, 2020, 12:48 PM
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Gen­er­al­iz­ing the Power-Seek­ing Theorems

TurnTroutJul 27, 2020, 12:28 AM
41 points

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Change the world a lit­tle bit

DirectedEvolutionJul 26, 2020, 10:35 PM
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Devel­op­men­tal Stages of GPTs

orthonormalJul 26, 2020, 10:03 PM
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The prob­lem of Pop Analogy

thesilvermenJul 26, 2020, 9:44 PM
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[Question] Where do peo­ple dis­cuss do­ing things with GPT-3?

skybrianJul 26, 2020, 2:31 PM
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Jam is obsolete

jefftkJul 26, 2020, 2:00 PM
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