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[Question] What do we really expect from a well-aligned AI?

jan betley4 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Utopianism

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz4 Jan 2021 18:40 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

Embarrassment and Instinct

damiensnyder4 Jan 2021 18:16 UTC

6 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.damiensnyder.com)

You are Dissociating (probably)

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Jan 2021 14:37 UTC

34 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread—January 2021

jsalvatier4 Jan 2021 7:39 UTC

21 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Review: The Gioconda Smile

KatjaGrace4 Jan 2021 7:00 UTC

8 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Sense-Making Web

Chris_Leong4 Jan 2021 6:17 UTC

41 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What the rational decision process for deciding for or against cryonics when there’s a possibility the future might be “bad”?

prolyx4 Jan 2021 5:08 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

Akrasia is Hypocrisy.

Lev Protter4 Jan 2021 5:07 UTC

−10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Multi-dimensional rewards for AGI interpretability and control

Steven Byrnes4 Jan 2021 3:08 UTC

19 points

8 comments10 min readLW link

The despair of normative realism bot

Joe Carlsmith3 Jan 2021 23:07 UTC

30 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

Notes on Attention

David Gross3 Jan 2021 21:52 UTC

32 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners

jefftk3 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

415 points

35 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What technical-ish books do you recommend that are readable on Kindle?

Rudi C3 Jan 2021 20:54 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Rational Ottawa Predictions for 2021

eapache3 Jan 2021 20:53 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(grandunifiedempty.com)

Mental subagent implications for AI Safety

moridinamael3 Jan 2021 18:59 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Retrospective on Teaching Rationality Workshops

Neel Nanda3 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC

59 points

2 comments31 min readLW link

On writing like a butterfly

KatjaGrace3 Jan 2021 7:30 UTC

24 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Don’t Use Your Favorite Weapon

Aaron Bergman3 Jan 2021 4:01 UTC

33 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Bucket Brigade: Video

jefftk3 Jan 2021 2:50 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Are we all misaligned?

Mateusz Mazurkiewicz3 Jan 2021 2:42 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] If the fundamental problem that economics addresses is the scarcity of resources, then what are the basic questions other subjects attempt to solve?

Kaveh-Sedghi3 Jan 2021 2:36 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

More predictions

Tim Liptrot2 Jan 2021 15:53 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Feature request: personal notes about other users

CheerfulWarrior2 Jan 2021 14:54 UTC

23 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Data about the new coronavirus variant (B.1.1.7) from Denmark

Oskar Mathiasen2 Jan 2021 11:38 UTC

26 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

KatjaGrace2 Jan 2021 1:30 UTC

32 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Overall numbers won’t show the English strain coming

Eric Neyman1 Jan 2021 23:00 UTC

60 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Reflections on Larks’ 2020 AI alignment literature review

Alex Flint1 Jan 2021 22:53 UTC

79 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

Is Free Will A Myth?

Precious Oluwatobi Emmanuel1 Jan 2021 20:56 UTC

0 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Thoughts on being mortal

Joe Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:17 UTC

78 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

List of things I think are worth reading (last updated 3/1/2021)

just_browsing1 Jan 2021 17:05 UTC

3 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Empiricism in NLP : Test Operate Text Exit (TOTE)

ChristianKl1 Jan 2021 16:09 UTC

11 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: December 2020

NunoSempere1 Jan 2021 16:07 UTC

13 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 13

lsusr1 Jan 2021 8:01 UTC

75 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

Mistakes to want

KatjaGrace1 Jan 2021 4:10 UTC

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

AI Alignment, Philosophical Pluralism, and the Relevance of Non-Western Philosophy

xuan1 Jan 2021 0:08 UTC

30 points

21 comments20 min readLW link

A Healthy News Diet

mpr31 Dec 2020 22:19 UTC

8 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(matthewroll.com)

Predictions for 2021

Eric Neyman31 Dec 2020 21:12 UTC

8 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Some end-of-year media recommendations

mingyuan31 Dec 2020 20:10 UTC

77 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Luna Lovegood and the Chamber of Secrets—Part 12

lsusr31 Dec 2020 20:02 UTC

68 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Crowd-Forecasting Covid-19

nikos31 Dec 2020 19:30 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-Aging: State of the Art

JackH31 Dec 2020 19:07 UTC

371 points

176 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

A Simplified Version of Perspective Solution to the Sleeping Beauty Problem

dadadarren31 Dec 2020 18:27 UTC

9 points

39 comments5 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

[AN #131]: Formalizing the argument of ignored attributes in a utility function

Rohin Shah31 Dec 2020 18:20 UTC

13 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Covid 12/31: Meet the New Year

Zvi31 Dec 2020 17:20 UTC

112 points

32 comments29 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do You Want the Complexity in the Tools or in Their Usage?

mxshn31 Dec 2020 10:58 UTC

7 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

2021 New Year Optimization Puzzles

Scott Garrabrant31 Dec 2020 8:22 UTC

19 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

And You Take Me the Way I Am

Zack_M_Davis31 Dec 2020 5:45 UTC

13 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(zackmdavis.net)

One Year of Pomodoros

Alex_Altair31 Dec 2020 4:42 UTC

56 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Seeing the edge of the world

KatjaGrace31 Dec 2020 3:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)