Tell the Truth

lsusrOct 30, 2021, 10:27 AM
62 points
40 comments2 min readLW link1 review

How does The Cir­cle grow, ex­actly?

RaemonOct 1, 2021, 7:53 AM
60 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

Interpretability

Oct 29, 2021, 7:28 AM
60 points
13 comments12 min readLW link

Safety-ca­pa­bil­ities trade­off di­als are in­evitable in AGI

Steven ByrnesOct 7, 2021, 7:03 PM
59 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup

Dan HOct 18, 2021, 3:19 PM
59 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Quick Look: Alti­tude and Child Development

ElizabethOct 18, 2021, 1:20 AM
58 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Covid 10/​7: Steady as She Goes

ZviOct 7, 2021, 12:10 PM
58 points
26 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Re­view: A Pat­tern Lan­guage by Christo­pher Alexander

lincolnquirkOct 15, 2021, 1:11 AM
57 points
8 comments2 min readLW link1 review

No Really, There Are No Rules!

J BostockOct 7, 2021, 10:08 PM
57 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 10/​14: Less Long Cvoid

ZviOct 14, 2021, 2:20 PM
57 points
22 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.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)

We’re Red­wood Re­search, we do ap­plied al­ign­ment re­search, AMA

Nate ThomasOct 6, 2021, 5:51 AM
56 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

EDT with up­dat­ing dou­ble counts

paulfchristianoOct 12, 2021, 4:40 AM
56 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship

lsusrOct 12, 2021, 9:35 PM
56 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Meta learn­ing to gra­di­ent hack

Quintin PopeOct 1, 2021, 7:25 PM
55 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence or Evolu­tion?

Ramana KumarOct 9, 2021, 5:14 PM
54 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Selfish­ness, prefer­ence falsifi­ca­tion, and AI alignment

jessicataOct 28, 2021, 12:16 AM
52 points
28 comments13 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[AN #166]: Is it crazy to claim we’re in the most im­por­tant cen­tury?

Rohin ShahOct 8, 2021, 5:30 PM
52 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

We Live in a Post-Scarcity Society

lsusrOct 30, 2021, 12:05 PM
52 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

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

Henry ProwbellOct 26, 2021, 6:54 PM
52 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik KarlssonOct 9, 2021, 1:50 PM
52 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

NVIDIA and Microsoft re­leases 530B pa­ram­e­ter trans­former model, Me­ga­tron-Tur­ing NLG

OzyrusOct 11, 2021, 3:28 PM
51 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(developer.nvidia.com)

Con­sid­er­a­tions on Compensation

RobertMOct 6, 2021, 11:37 PM
50 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

Con­sider Tak­ing Zinc Every Time You Travel

ElizabethOct 1, 2021, 3:50 AM
50 points
44 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Gen­eral al­ign­ment plus hu­man val­ues, or al­ign­ment via hu­man val­ues?

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 22, 2021, 10:11 AM
50 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Re­search for Ad­vanc­ing Wis­dom and Intelligence

ozziegooenOct 18, 2021, 10:28 PM
49 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

2021 Dar­win Game—Every­where Else

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 8:39 PM
48 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Tundra

lsusrOct 5, 2021, 5:03 AM
48 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy MartinOct 9, 2021, 7:01 PM
47 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

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

Joe CarlsmithOct 1, 2021, 5:43 AM
46 points
17 comments16 min readLW link

NLP Po­si­tion Paper: When Com­bat­ting Hype, Pro­ceed with Caution

Sam BowmanOct 15, 2021, 8:57 PM
46 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Glen Weyl: “Why I Was Wrong to De­mo­nize Ra­tion­al­ism”

Zack_M_DavisOct 8, 2021, 5:36 AM
46 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(www.radicalxchange.org)

Model­ing Risks From Learned Optimization

Ben CottierOct 12, 2021, 8:54 PM
45 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

They don’t make ’em like they used to

jasoncrawfordOct 27, 2021, 7:44 PM
44 points
84 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

An Idea for a More Com­mu­nal Petrov Day in 2022

Ben PaceOct 21, 2021, 9:51 PM
44 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Long Covid In­for­mal Study Results

ElizabethOct 16, 2021, 7:10 AM
43 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

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

Oct 1, 2021, 10:23 PM
43 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

In­fer­ence cost limits the im­pact of ever larger models

SoerenMindOct 23, 2021, 10:51 AM
42 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Truth­ful and hon­est AI

Oct 29, 2021, 7:28 AM
42 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

What’s Stop­ping You?

Neel NandaOct 21, 2021, 4:20 PM
40 points
2 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Write Sur­pris­ingly About Reality

lsusrOct 16, 2021, 7:30 AM
40 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyerOct 5, 2021, 5:30 PM
40 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

Towards De­con­fus­ing Gra­di­ent Hacking

leogaoOct 24, 2021, 12:43 AM
39 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

Quick gen­eral thoughts on suffer­ing and consciousness

Rob BensingerOct 30, 2021, 6:05 PM
38 points
50 comments21 min readLW link

Fea­ture idea: No­tifi­ca­tion when a par­ent com­ment is modified

ViliamOct 21, 2021, 6:15 PM
38 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Lost Con­nec­tions by Jo­hann Hari

maiaOct 20, 2021, 2:40 AM
38 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better

Oct 24, 2021, 3:21 PM
38 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum

lsusrOct 9, 2021, 7:08 AM
38 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 12: The Sin­gu­lar­ity War

lsusrOct 10, 2021, 1:04 AM
37 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

2021 Dar­win Game—Desert

lsusrOct 6, 2021, 12:24 AM
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link