Nu­clear Es­pi­onage and AI Governance

GAA4 Oct 2021 23:04 UTC
32 points
5 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] How good is se­cu­rity for LessWrong and the Align­ment Fo­rum?

Quintin Pope4 Oct 2021 22:27 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much mem­ory is re­served for cute kit­ten pic­tures?

Bezzi4 Oct 2021 21:30 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread Oc­to­ber 2021

qazzquimby4 Oct 2021 19:52 UTC
21 points
49 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “I Con­tain Mul­ti­tudes” by Ed Yong

J Bostock4 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

An­drew Yang on “The Priests of the De­cline”

Timothy Johnson4 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.andrewyang.com)

To ev­ery peo­ple ac­cord­ing to their language

Yair Halberstadt4 Oct 2021 18:42 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Candy Innovation

jefftk4 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC
13 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What role should LW play in AI Safety?

Chris_Leong4 Oct 2021 2:21 UTC
28 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Trust and The Small World Fallacy

DPiepgrass4 Oct 2021 0:38 UTC
26 points
14 comments14 min readLW link

An anal­y­sis of the Less Wrong D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion game

Maxwell Peterson4 Oct 2021 0:03 UTC
18 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Blink: The Power of Think­ing Without Think­ing (book re­view)

Andrew Vlahos3 Oct 2021 23:21 UTC
17 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Vax pass­ports—the­ory and practice

tkpwaeub3 Oct 2021 22:35 UTC
17 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

How to build a mind—neu­ro­science edition

Jan3 Oct 2021 21:45 UTC
20 points
7 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] What LCC call num­bers would you give “Ra­tion­al­ity: AI to Zom­bie”?

Stirling_Westrup23 Oct 2021 21:01 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The Dark Side of Cog­ni­tion Hypothesis

Cameron Berg3 Oct 2021 20:10 UTC
19 points
1 comment16 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] Evolu­tion of Sex

Alex Hollow3 Oct 2021 18:54 UTC
36 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Dis­solv­ing the Ex­pe­rience Ma­chine Objection

leogao3 Oct 2021 16:56 UTC
16 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Porch­fest 2021

jefftk3 Oct 2021 14:20 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Frame­work of Pre­dic­tion Technologies

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC
8 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

AI Pre­dic­tion Ser­vices and Risks of War

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC
3 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble Wor­lds af­ter Pre­dic­tion Take-off

isaduan3 Oct 2021 10:26 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What makes us happy and de­pressed?

Marius Hobbhahn3 Oct 2021 6:25 UTC
16 points
6 comments19 min readLW link

En­gag­ing with hy­po­thet­i­cals as they are defined

damiensnyder3 Oct 2021 5:22 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Contestants

lsusr3 Oct 2021 5:09 UTC
70 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Oc­cam’s Ra­zor and the Univer­sal Prior

Peter Chatain3 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
28 points
5 comments21 min readLW link

Do­minic Cum­mings : Regime Change #2: A plea to Sili­con Valley

ChristianKl2 Oct 2021 19:35 UTC
68 points
73 comments1 min readLW link
(dominiccummings.substack.com)

[linkpost] Vi­talik Bu­terin on Nathan Sch­nei­der on the limits of cryp­toe­co­nomics

mike_hawke2 Oct 2021 19:11 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(vitalik.ca)

From The Great Man to The Great Founder The­ory: Be­zos, Musk, and Systrom

hivemindsingularity2 Oct 2021 17:07 UTC
−3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Proso­cial Capitalism

scafaria2 Oct 2021 17:06 UTC
3 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(prosocialcapitalism.com)

The un­der­ap­pre­ci­ated value of origi­nal think­ing be­low the frontier

Emrik2 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
36 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Com­pute—Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [2/​4]

lennart2 Oct 2021 15:54 UTC
17 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Why We Should Always Distrust Our Certainties

Ted Reynolds2 Oct 2021 6:05 UTC
0 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Event] A Me­tac­u­lus Open Panel Dis­cus­sion: How Fore­casts In­form COVID-19 Policy

ChristianWilliams2 Oct 2021 0:37 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Spark! How ex­er­cise will im­prove the perfor­mance of your brain

Caridorc Tergilti1 Oct 2021 22:43 UTC
16 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

The Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis Un­der­cuts the SIA/​Great Filter Dooms­day Argument

1 Oct 2021 22:23 UTC
43 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconi1 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
222 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Pro­posal: Scal­ing laws for RL generalization

axioman1 Oct 2021 21:32 UTC
14 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Meta learn­ing to gra­di­ent hack

Quintin Pope1 Oct 2021 19:25 UTC
55 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

How does fore­cast quan­tity im­pact fore­cast qual­ity on Me­tac­u­lus?

CharlesD1 Oct 2021 19:09 UTC
8 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2021.

NunoSempere1 Oct 2021 17:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

What Selec­tion The­o­rems Do We Ex­pect/​Want?

johnswentworth1 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
65 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Con­tra Paul Chris­ti­ano on Sex

George3d61 Oct 2021 11:17 UTC
22 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

How does The Cir­cle grow, ex­actly?

Raemon1 Oct 2021 7:53 UTC
59 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:59 UTC
13 points
20 comments22 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 3: An aside on bet­ting in anthropics

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:52 UTC
17 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 2: Telekine­sis, refer­ence classes, and other scandals

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:49 UTC
21 points
2 comments35 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 1: Learn­ing from the fact that you exist

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC
45 points
16 comments16 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing ter­mi­nal values

kiwi0fruit1 Oct 2021 4:54 UTC
−4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sider Tak­ing Zinc Every Time You Travel

Elizabeth1 Oct 2021 3:50 UTC
47 points
44 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)