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Mystery Hunt 2022

Scott GarrabrantDec 13, 2021, 9:57 PM

30 points

13 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Enabling More Feedback for AI Safety Researchers

frances_lorenzDec 13, 2021, 8:10 PM

17 points

9 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Language Model Alignment Research Internships

Ethan PerezDec 13, 2021, 7:53 PM

74 points

36 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Omicron Post #6

ZviDec 13, 2021, 6:00 PM

89 points

38 votes

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30 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Analysis of Bird Box (2018)

TekhneMakreDec 13, 2021, 5:30 PM

11 points

8 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Solving Interpretability Week

Logan RiggsDec 13, 2021, 5:09 PM

11 points

5 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding and controlling auto-induced distributional shift

L Rudolf LDec 13, 2021, 2:59 PM

33 points

12 votes

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4 comments16 min readLW link

A fate worse than death?

RomanSDec 13, 2021, 11:05 AM

−25 points

45 votes

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26 comments2 min readLW link

What’s the backward-forward FLOP ratio for Neural Networks?

Marius Hobbhahn and Jsevillamol

Dec 13, 2021, 8:54 AM

20 points

11 votes

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12 comments10 min readLW link

Summary of the Acausal Attack Issue for AIXI

DiffractorDec 13, 2021, 8:16 AM

12 points

10 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

Hard-Coding Neural Computation

MadHatterDec 13, 2021, 4:35 AM

34 points

16 votes

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8 comments27 min readLW link

[Question] Is “gears-level” just a synonym for “mechanistic”?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Dec 13, 2021, 4:11 AM

48 points

25 votes

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29 comments1 min readLW link

Baby Nicknames

jefftkDec 13, 2021, 2:20 AM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why do governments refer to existential risks primarily in terms of national security?

Evan_GaensbauerDec 13, 2021, 1:05 AM

3 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] [Resolved] Who else prefers “AI alignment” to “AI safety?”

Evan_GaensbauerDec 13, 2021, 12:35 AM

5 points

4 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Working through D&D.Sci, problem 1

Pablo RepettoDec 12, 2021, 11:10 PM

8 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Teaser: Hard-coding Transformer Models

MadHatterDec 12, 2021, 10:04 PM

74 points

34 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

The Three Mutations of Dark Rationality

DarkRationalistDec 12, 2021, 10:01 PM

−15 points

7 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Redwood’s Technique-Focused Epistemic Strategy

adamShimiDec 12, 2021, 4:36 PM

48 points

21 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

For and Against Lotteries in Elite University Admissions

Sam EnrightDec 12, 2021, 1:41 PM

10 points

7 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Nuclear war anthropics

smountjoyDec 12, 2021, 4:54 AM

11 points

7 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Some abstract, non-technical reasons to be non-maximally-pessimistic about AI alignment

Rob BensingerDec 12, 2021, 2:08 AM

70 points

38 votes

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35 comments7 min readLW link

Magna Alta Doctrina

jacob_cannellDec 11, 2021, 9:54 PM

60 points

26 votes

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7 comments28 min readLW link

EA Dinner Covid Logistics

jefftkDec 11, 2021, 9:50 PM

17 points

8 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Transforming myopic optimization to ordinary optimization—Do we want to seek convergence for myopic optimization problems?

tailcalledDec 11, 2021, 8:38 PM

12 points

2 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

What on Earth is a Series I savings bond?

rossryDec 11, 2021, 12:18 PM

11 points

4 votes

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7 comments7 min readLW link

D&D.Sci GURPS Dec 2021: Hunters of Monsters

J BostockDec 11, 2021, 12:13 PM

20 points

11 votes

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21 comments2 min readLW link

Anxiety and computer architecture

Adam ZernerDec 11, 2021, 10:37 AM

13 points

5 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Reasons to act according to the free will paradigm?

Maciej JałochaDec 11, 2021, 8:44 AM

−3 points

5 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Moral Frameworks

lsusrDec 11, 2021, 5:28 AM

14 points

12 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Moore’s Law, AI, and the pace of progress

VeedracDec 11, 2021, 3:02 AM

128 points

56 votes

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38 comments24 min readLW link

What role should evolutionary analogies play in understanding AI takeoff speeds?

anson.hoDec 11, 2021, 1:19 AM

14 points

8 votes

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0 comments42 min readLW link

[Question] Nonverbal thinkers: how do you experience your inner critic?

Phoenix EliotDec 11, 2021, 12:40 AM

9 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

The Plan

johnswentworthDec 10, 2021, 11:41 PM

261 points

124 votes

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78 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

[Linkpost] Chinese government’s guidelines on AI

RomanSDec 10, 2021, 9:10 PM

61 points

29 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding Gradient Hacking

peterbarnettDec 10, 2021, 3:58 PM

41 points

16 votes

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5 comments30 min readLW link

There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.

abramdemskiDec 10, 2021, 3:51 PM

89 points

42 votes

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33 comments3 min readLW link

The Promise and Peril of Finite Sets

davidadDec 10, 2021, 12:29 PM

42 points

19 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

Are big brains for processing sensory input?

lsusrDec 10, 2021, 7:08 AM

42 points

19 votes

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20 comments3 min readLW link

Combining Forecasts

jsteinhardtDec 10, 2021, 2:10 AM

10 points

3 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Covid 12/9: Counting Down the Days

ZviDec 9, 2021, 9:40 PM

59 points

23 votes

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12 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Conversation on technology forecasting and gradualism

Richard_Ngo, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rohin Shah and Rob Bensinger

Dec 9, 2021, 9:23 PM

108 points

33 votes

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30 comments31 min readLW link

Omicron Post #5

ZviDec 9, 2021, 9:10 PM

102 points

46 votes

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18 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LessWrong discussed in New Ideas in Psychology article

rogersbaconDec 9, 2021, 9:01 PM

76 points

32 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What alignment-related concepts should be better known in the broader ML community?

Lauro LangoscoDec 9, 2021, 8:44 PM

6 points

4 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

The end of Victorian culture, part I: structural forces

David Hugh-JonesDec 9, 2021, 7:25 PM

24 points

12 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

[MLSN #2]: Adversarial Training

Dan HDec 9, 2021, 5:16 PM

26 points

10 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Supervised learning and self-modeling: What’s “superhuman?”

Charlie SteinerDec 9, 2021, 12:44 PM

13 points

6 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

Austin Winter Solstice

SilasBartaDec 9, 2021, 5:01 AM

9 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Stop arbitrarily limiting yourself

unoptimalDec 9, 2021, 2:42 AM

31 points

17 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

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