Am­bi­tious Altru­is­tic Soft­ware Eng­ineer­ing Efforts: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Benefits

ozziegooenNov 19, 2021, 5:55 PM
42 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Which booster shot to get and when?

NormanPerlmutterNov 19, 2021, 8:52 AM
22 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

Good­hart: Endgame

Charlie SteinerNov 19, 2021, 1:26 AM
25 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Re­ac­tion and Re­ply to Sasha Chapin on Bad In-group Norms

Nicholas / Heather KrossNov 19, 2021, 1:13 AM
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

[Question] Does any­one know what Marvin Min­sky is talk­ing about here?

delton137Nov 19, 2021, 12:56 AM
1 point
6 comments3 min readLW link

How To Get Into In­de­pen­dent Re­search On Align­ment/​Agency

johnswentworthNov 19, 2021, 12:00 AM
356 points
38 comments13 min readLW link2 reviews

“Ac­qui­si­tion of Chess Knowl­edge in AlphaZero”: prob­ing AZ over time

jsdNov 18, 2021, 11:24 PM
11 points
9 commentsLW link
(arxiv.org)

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on AI ca­pa­bil­ity gains

Nov 18, 2021, 10:19 PM
131 points
61 comments39 min readLW link1 review

Covid 11/​18: Paxlovid Re­mains Illegal

ZviNov 18, 2021, 3:50 PM
55 points
36 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Satis­ficers Tend To Seek Power: In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence Via Retargetability

TurnTroutNov 18, 2021, 1:54 AM
85 points
8 comments17 min readLW link
(www.overleaf.com)

Fore­cast­ing: Zeroth and First Order

jsteinhardtNov 18, 2021, 1:30 AM
33 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Ex­pe­rience on Methotrexate

jefftkNov 17, 2021, 10:40 PM
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ap­pli­ca­tions for AI Safety Camp 2022 Now Open!

adamShimiNov 17, 2021, 9:42 PM
47 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Did EcoHealth cre­ate SARS-CoV-2?

jamalNov 17, 2021, 8:42 PM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

On Rais­ing Awareness

Tomás B.Nov 17, 2021, 5:12 PM
21 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in ra­tio­nal­ity/​EA

Kaj_SotalaNov 17, 2021, 9:43 AM
51 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(sashachapin.substack.com)

[Question] What are the mu­tual benefits of AGI-hu­man col­lab­o­ra­tion that would oth­er­wise be un­ob­tain­able?

M. Y. ZuoNov 17, 2021, 3:09 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

Quadratic Vot­ing and Collusion

leogaoNov 17, 2021, 12:19 AM
41 points
24 comments2 min readLW link

Tak­ing a sim­plified model

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 10:21 PM
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The Greedy Doc­tor Problem

JanNov 16, 2021, 10:06 PM
6 points
10 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Equity pre­mium puzzles

Nov 16, 2021, 8:50 PM
20 points
4 comments12 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Why I am no longer driven

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 8:43 PM
71 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Su­per in­tel­li­gent AIs that don’t re­quire alignment

Yair HalberstadtNov 16, 2021, 7:55 PM
10 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Why Save The Drown­ing Child: Ethics Vs Theory

Raymond DouglasNov 16, 2021, 7:07 PM
17 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Two Stupid AI Align­ment Ideas

aphyerNov 16, 2021, 4:13 PM
27 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[linkpost] Pro­ject Blueprint: ‘Mea­sur­ing and then max­i­mally re­vers­ing the quan­tified biolog­i­cal age of my or­gans’

matteodimaioNov 16, 2021, 2:48 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A pos­i­tive case for how we might suc­ceed at pro­saic AI alignment

evhubNov 16, 2021, 1:49 AM
81 points
46 comments6 min readLW link

Quan­tilizer ≡ Op­ti­mizer with a Bounded Amount of Output

itaibn0Nov 16, 2021, 1:03 AM
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Dun­geon­crawl­ing: The Crown of Com­mand Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyerNov 16, 2021, 12:29 AM
29 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Stream­ing Science on Twitch

A RayNov 15, 2021, 10:24 PM
21 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on al­ign­ment difficulty

Nov 15, 2021, 8:31 PM
259 points
151 comments99 min readLW link1 review

Dan Luu on Per­sis­tent Bad De­ci­sion Mak­ing (but maybe it’s no­ble?)

ElizabethNov 15, 2021, 8:05 PM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(danluu.com)

The po­etry of progress

jasoncrawfordNov 15, 2021, 7:24 PM
51 points
6 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Worst Com­mon­sense Con­cepts?

abramdemskiNov 15, 2021, 6:22 PM
75 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

My un­der­stand­ing of the al­ign­ment problem

danieldeweyNov 15, 2021, 6:13 PM
43 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

“Sum­ma­riz­ing Books with Hu­man Feed­back” (re­cur­sive GPT-3)

gwernNov 15, 2021, 5:41 PM
24 points
4 commentsLW link
(openai.com)

How Hu­man­ity Lost Con­trol and Hu­mans Lost Liberty: From Our Brave New World to Analo­gia (Se­quence In­tro­duc­tion)

Justin BullockNov 15, 2021, 2:22 PM
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Re: At­tempted Gears Anal­y­sis of AGI In­ter­ven­tion Dis­cus­sion With Eliezer

lsusrNov 15, 2021, 10:02 AM
20 points
8 comments15 min readLW link

What the fu­ture will look like

avantika.mehraNov 15, 2021, 5:14 AM
7 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

At­tempted Gears Anal­y­sis of AGI In­ter­ven­tion Dis­cus­sion With Eliezer

ZviNov 15, 2021, 3:50 AM
197 points
49 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altru­ists (sec­ond ver­sion)

biceNov 14, 2021, 6:28 PM
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Tele­vised sports ex­ist to gam­ble with testos­terone lev­els us­ing pre­dic­tion skill

LucentNov 14, 2021, 6:24 PM
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing on the Karma System

RaelifinNov 14, 2021, 6:01 PM
106 points
36 comments19 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Paul Gra­ham 101

Gunnar_ZarnckeNov 14, 2021, 4:52 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

My cur­rent un­cer­tain­ties re­gard­ing AI, al­ign­ment, and the end of the world

dominicqNov 14, 2021, 2:08 PM
2 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Ed­u­ca­tion on My Homeworld

lsusrNov 14, 2021, 10:16 AM
37 points
19 comments5 min readLW link

What would we do if al­ign­ment were fu­tile?

Grant DemareeNov 14, 2021, 8:09 AM
75 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

A phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal stock pric­ing mystery

DirectedEvolutionNov 14, 2021, 1:19 AM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

You are prob­a­bly un­der­es­ti­mat­ing how good self-love can be

Charlie Rogers-SmithNov 14, 2021, 12:41 AM
169 points
19 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Co­or­di­na­tion Skills I Wish I Had For the Pandemic

RaemonNov 13, 2021, 11:32 PM
96 points
9 comments6 min readLW link1 review