28 Oct 2021 20:40 UTC

62 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

[AN #168]: Four technical topics for which Open Phil is soliciting grant proposals

Rohin Shah28 Oct 2021 17:20 UTC

15 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Better and Worse Ways of Stating SIA

dadadarren28 Oct 2021 16:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Recommending Understand, a Game about Discerning the Rules

MondSemmel28 Oct 2021 14:53 UTC

96 points

53 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 10/28: An Unexpected Victory

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:50 UTC

29 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Unexpected Victory: Container Stacking at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC

299 points

41 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Save the kid, ruin the suit; Acceptable utility exchange rates; Distributed utility calculations; Civic duties matter

spkoc28 Oct 2021 11:51 UTC

2 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Voting for people harms people

CraigMichael28 Oct 2021 8:29 UTC

13 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Selfishness, preference falsification, and AI alignment

jessicata28 Oct 2021 0:16 UTC

52 points

28 comments13 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Ruling Out Everything Else

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien27 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC

190 points

51 comments21 min readLW link 2 reviews

They don’t make ’em like they used to

jasoncrawford27 Oct 2021 19:44 UTC

39 points

84 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Hegel vs. GPT-3

Bezzi27 Oct 2021 5:55 UTC

9 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

Everything Studies on Cynical Theories

DanielFilan27 Oct 2021 1:31 UTC

25 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(everythingstudies.com)

Harry Potter and the Methods of Psychomagic | Chapter 2: The Global Neuronal Workspace

Henry Prowbell26 Oct 2021 18:54 UTC

52 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

X-Risk, Anthropics, & Peter Thiel’s Investment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:50 UTC

21 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

[Question] Would the world be a better place if we all agreed to form a world government next Monday?

idontwanttodie26 Oct 2021 18:14 UTC

−3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Use the “God’s-Eye View” in Anthropic Problems.

dadadarren26 Oct 2021 13:47 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Impressive vs honest signaling

Adam Zerner26 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC

31 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Effectiveness of Moderna booster shot and mix-and-match?

warrenjordan26 Oct 2021 6:18 UTC

9 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth

Alexander26 Oct 2021 5:44 UTC

34 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] No, really, can “dead” time be salvaged?

NicholasKross26 Oct 2021 0:02 UTC

17 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

117 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Child Walksheds

jefftk25 Oct 2021 21:00 UTC

25 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Roots of Progress events in Austin, November 4–6

jasoncrawford25 Oct 2021 16:12 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Feature request: templates

Randomized, Controlled25 Oct 2021 15:04 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Postmodern Warfare

lsusr25 Oct 2021 9:02 UTC

64 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Orthogonality and the increased overlap of actions with the set of all events that comes with increased intelligence

Jay9525 Oct 2021 5:17 UTC

−8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Dating profiles from first principles: heterosexual male profile design

Xodarap25 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC

97 points

32 comments15 min readLW link

Walking and Navigating

qazzquimby25 Oct 2021 1:54 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Self-Integrity and the Drowning Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC

329 points

85 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Phil Trammell on Economic Growth Under Transformative AI

Michaël Trazzi24 Oct 2021 18:11 UTC

14 points

3 comments54 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better

Ramana Kumar and Daniel Kokotajlo

24 Oct 2021 15:21 UTC

38 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

Deleted comments archive?

Said Achmiz24 Oct 2021 11:19 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Nanosystems are Poorly Abstracted

J Bostock24 Oct 2021 10:44 UTC

25 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Frankfurt Declaration on the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC

9 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Deliberate Play

jsteinhardt24 Oct 2021 2:50 UTC

88 points

4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Towards Deconfusing Gradient Hacking

leogao24 Oct 2021 0:43 UTC

39 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Grading scheme from Valentine Smith

Just Learning23 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

T-Mobile: Spurious Account Takeover Warning

jefftk23 Oct 2021 15:30 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My ML Scaling bibliography

gwern23 Oct 2021 14:41 UTC

35 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Scout Mindset and Latter-Day Saint Apostasy

Erich_Grunewald23 Oct 2021 14:18 UTC

21 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Naive self-supervised approaches to truthful AI

ryan_greenblatt23 Oct 2021 13:03 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Inference cost limits the impact of ever larger models

SoerenMind23 Oct 2021 10:51 UTC

42 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What health-related tips do you have for buying meat?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2021 7:09 UTC

17 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Where are the quick, easy wins?

Barry_Cotter23 Oct 2021 0:27 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

How to estimate my probability of getting a (competitive) job in Academia

Tim Liptrot22 Oct 2021 23:58 UTC

8 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

Elizabeth22 Oct 2021 22:00 UTC

102 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

30-ish focusing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC

21 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Young Scientists

A Ray22 Oct 2021 18:01 UTC

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

AMA on Truthful AI: Owen Cotton-Barratt, Owain Evans & co-authors

Owain_Evans22 Oct 2021 16:23 UTC

31 points

15 comments1 min readLW link