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Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review

VipulNaikNov 20, 2021, 10:39 PM

70 points

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15 comments33 min readLW link

ACX Montreal Meetup Dec 4 2021

ENov 20, 2021, 5:49 PM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maker of MIND

Tomás B.Nov 20, 2021, 4:28 PM

153 points

68 votes

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19 comments11 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Meetup—CHANGED LOCATION

ISNov 20, 2021, 2:42 PM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Emperor’s New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity

David Hugh-JonesNov 20, 2021, 1:24 PM

10 points

6 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

[Book Review] “Sorceror’s Apprentice” by Tahir Shah

lsusrNov 20, 2021, 11:29 AM

93 points

48 votes

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11 comments7 min readLW link

Competence/Confidence

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Nov 20, 2021, 8:59 AM

60 points

36 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

Awesome-github Post-Scarcity List

lorepieriNov 20, 2021, 8:47 AM

3 points

4 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

A Certain Formalization of Corrigibility Is VNM-Incoherent

TurnTroutNov 20, 2021, 12:30 AM

68 points

25 votes

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24 comments8 min readLW link

More detailed proposal for measuring alignment of current models

Beth BarnesNov 20, 2021, 12:03 AM

31 points

11 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Ambitious Altruistic Software Engineering Efforts: Opportunities and Benefits

ozziegooenNov 19, 2021, 5:55 PM

42 points

17 votes

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1 comment9 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Which booster shot to get and when?

NormanPerlmutterNov 19, 2021, 8:52 AM

22 points

9 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

Goodhart: Endgame

Charlie SteinerNov 19, 2021, 1:26 AM

25 points

9 votes

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3 comments8 min readLW link

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

Nicholas KrossNov 19, 2021, 1:13 AM

6 points

3 votes

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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

1 vote

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6 comments3 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworthNov 19, 2021, 12:00 AM

362 points

194 votes

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38 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

jsdNov 18, 2021, 11:24 PM

11 points

5 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

Nov 18, 2021, 10:19 PM

131 points

43 votes

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61 comments38 min readLW link 1 review

Covid 11/18: Paxlovid Remains Illegal

ZviNov 18, 2021, 3:50 PM

55 points

33 votes

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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

28 votes

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8 comments17 min readLW link

(www.overleaf.com)

Forecasting: Zeroth and First Order

jsteinhardtNov 18, 2021, 1:30 AM

33 points

10 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Experience on Methotrexate

jefftkNov 17, 2021, 10:40 PM

13 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Applications for AI Safety Camp 2022 Now Open!

adamShimiNov 17, 2021, 9:42 PM

47 points

20 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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

jamalNov 17, 2021, 8:42 PM

3 points

5 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Sasha Chapin on bad social norms in rationality/EA

Kaj_SotalaNov 17, 2021, 9:43 AM

52 points

52 votes

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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

2 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Quadratic Voting and Collusion

leogaoNov 17, 2021, 12:19 AM

41 points

20 votes

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24 comments2 min readLW link

Taking a simplified model

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 10:21 PM

9 points

4 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

The Greedy Doctor Problem

JanNov 16, 2021, 10:06 PM

6 points

6 votes

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10 comments12 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Equity premium puzzles

Ege Erdil and Metaculus

Nov 16, 2021, 8:50 PM

20 points

10 votes

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4 comments12 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Why I am no longer driven

dominicqNov 16, 2021, 8:43 PM

71 points

50 votes

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16 comments4 min readLW link

Super intelligent AIs that don’t require alignment

Yair HalberstadtNov 16, 2021, 7:55 PM

10 points

10 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

Why Save The Drowning Child: Ethics Vs Theory

Raymond DouglasNov 16, 2021, 7:07 PM

17 points

9 votes

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12 comments4 min readLW link

Two Stupid AI Alignment Ideas

aphyerNov 16, 2021, 4:13 PM

27 points

19 votes

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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

2 votes

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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

35 votes

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46 comments6 min readLW link

Quantilizer ≡ Optimizer with a Bounded Amount of Output

itaibn0Nov 16, 2021, 1:03 AM

11 points

5 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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

aphyerNov 16, 2021, 12:29 AM

29 points

16 votes

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12 comments9 min readLW link

Streaming Science on Twitch

A RayNov 15, 2021, 10:24 PM

21 points

12 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

Nov 15, 2021, 8:31 PM

261 points

107 votes

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152 comments99 min readLW link 1 review

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

ElizabethNov 15, 2021, 8:05 PM

17 points

8 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(danluu.com)

The poetry of progress

jasoncrawfordNov 15, 2021, 7:24 PM

51 points

18 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Worst Commonsense Concepts?

abramdemskiNov 15, 2021, 6:22 PM

75 points

43 votes

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34 comments3 min readLW link

My understanding of the alignment problem

danieldeweyNov 15, 2021, 6:13 PM

43 points

17 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

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

gwernNov 15, 2021, 5:41 PM

24 points

10 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW 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

5 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

Re: Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer

lsusrNov 15, 2021, 10:02 AM

20 points

13 votes

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8 comments15 min readLW link

What the future will look like

avantika.mehraNov 15, 2021, 5:14 AM

7 points

8 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer

ZviNov 15, 2021, 3:50 AM

200 points

78 votes

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49 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists (second version)

biceNov 14, 2021, 6:28 PM

12 points

10 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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