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In the shadow of the Great War

jasoncrawfordOct 18, 2021, 11:08 PM

32 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Prioritization Research for Advancing Wisdom and Intelligence

ozziegooenOct 18, 2021, 10:28 PM

49 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Beyond the human training distribution: would the AI CEO create almost-illegal teddies?

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 18, 2021, 9:10 PM

36 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

On The Risks of Emergent Behavior in Foundation Models

jsteinhardtOct 18, 2021, 8:00 PM

30 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Truthful AI: Developing and governing AI that does not lie

Owain_Evans, owencb and Lukas Finnveden

Oct 18, 2021, 6:37 PM

82 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Rationalism for New EAs

Zach Stein-PerlmanOct 18, 2021, 4:00 PM

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup

Dan HOct 18, 2021, 3:19 PM

59 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Causal vs Predictive Models, and the Causal Taboo

HazardOct 18, 2021, 3:05 PM

22 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Predictive Categories Make Bad Causal Variables

HazardOct 18, 2021, 3:02 PM

27 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Epistemic Strategies of Selection Theorems

adamShimiOct 18, 2021, 8:57 AM

33 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

Humans are the universal economic bottleneck

DachOct 18, 2021, 8:32 AM

24 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Book Review: The Ethics of What We Eat

Jonah_OOct 18, 2021, 8:16 AM

20 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Quick Look: Altitude and Child Development

ElizabethOct 18, 2021, 1:20 AM

58 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think

Mark XuOct 18, 2021, 12:55 AM

57 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

Applied Mathematical Logic For The Practicing Researcher

JanOct 17, 2021, 8:28 PM

9 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

How much should you update on a COVID test result?

mayleafOct 17, 2021, 7:49 PM

114 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Feature Suggestion: one way anonymity

Yair HalberstadtOct 17, 2021, 5:54 PM

14 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

[Prediction] We are in an Algorithmic Overhang, Part 2

lsusrOct 17, 2021, 7:48 AM

21 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Lies, Damn Lies, and Fabricated Options

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Oct 17, 2021, 2:47 AM

302 points

132 comments14 min readLW link 2 reviews

Explaining Capitalism Harder

jefftkOct 17, 2021, 2:40 AM

111 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“Redundant” AI Alignment

Mckay JensenOct 16, 2021, 9:32 PM

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(quevivasbien.github.io)

My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR (inspired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of experiences at Leverage)

jessicataOct 16, 2021, 9:28 PM

95 points

949 comments22 min readLW link

Optimization Concepts in the Game of Life

Vika and Ramana Kumar

Oct 16, 2021, 8:51 PM

75 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

What if we should use more energy, not less?

SnorkelfarsanOct 16, 2021, 7:51 PM

7 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

The AGI needs to be honest

rokosbasiliskOct 16, 2021, 7:24 PM

2 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is moral duty/blame irrational because a person does only what they must?

benn@4efix.comOct 16, 2021, 5:00 PM

12 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Memetic hazards of AGI architecture posts

OzyrusOct 16, 2021, 4:10 PM

9 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Write Surprisingly About Reality

lsusrOct 16, 2021, 7:30 AM

40 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid Informal Study Results

ElizabethOct 16, 2021, 7:10 AM

43 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

NLP Position Paper: When Combatting Hype, Proceed with Caution

Sam BowmanOct 15, 2021, 8:57 PM

46 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you think you are a Boltzmann brain? If not, why not?

Jack ROct 15, 2021, 6:02 AM

2 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Intelligence, epistemics, and sanity, in three short parts

ozziegooenOct 15, 2021, 4:01 AM

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review Review (end of the bounty program)

RubyOct 15, 2021, 3:23 AM

85 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Interpreting Diagnostic Tests

TornusOct 15, 2021, 2:58 AM

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander

lincolnquirkOct 15, 2021, 1:11 AM

57 points

8 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Paying people to vote for good policies.

MatteodimaioOct 15, 2021, 1:00 AM

1 point

2 comments3 min readLW link

Framing Practicum: Semistable Equilibrium

DirectedEvolutionOct 14, 2021, 11:31 PM

26 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to respond to a series of defiantly persistent evidence-free claims?

ThurstonBTOct 14, 2021, 11:01 PM

−18 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Classical symbol grounding and causal graphs

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 14, 2021, 6:04 PM

22 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Consciousness, Free Will and Scientific Objectivity in Perspective-Based Reasoning

dadadarrenOct 14, 2021, 6:00 PM

7 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

Book Analysis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandiasOct 14, 2021, 5:49 PM

64 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Is anchoring a reliable cognitive bias?

justindomkeOct 14, 2021, 3:15 PM

22 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(justindomke.wordpress.com)

Commentary on “AGI Safety From First Principles by Richard Ngo, September 2020”

Robert Kralisch14 Oct 2021 15:11 UTC

3 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 10/14: Less Long Cvoid

Zvi14 Oct 2021 14:20 UTC

57 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is nuking women and children cheaper than firebombing them?

lsusr14 Oct 2021 8:25 UTC

28 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Compute Governance and Conclusions—Transformative AI and Compute [3/4]

lennart14 Oct 2021 8:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen

weft14 Oct 2021 6:56 UTC

76 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Creating a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC

132 points

59 comments23 min readLW link 1 review

Book Review: Denial of Death

PatrickDFarley14 Oct 2021 4:28 UTC

14 points

5 comments37 min readLW link

Book Review: The End of Average

Vanilla_cabs14 Oct 2021 1:49 UTC

17 points

3 comments8 min readLW link