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In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM

115 points

36 votes

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42 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

[Question] Getting diagnosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on taking meds?

vroomerifyDec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM

6 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Venture Granters, The VCs of public goods, incentivizing good dreams

mako yassDec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM

12 points

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9 comments12 min readLW link

Understand the exponential function: R0 of the COVID

Yandong ZhangDec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM

−6 points

5 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Some motivations to gradient hack

peterbarnettDec 17, 2021, 3:06 AM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Blog Respectably

lsusrDec 17, 2021, 1:23 AM

14 points

30 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Radical Optimism about Interpretability

Quintin PopeDec 16, 2021, 11:38 PM

66 points

27 votes

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16 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

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Alice KDec 16, 2021, 11:03 PM

2 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Evidence Sets: Towards Inductive-Biases based Analysis of Prosaic AGI

bayesian_kittenDec 16, 2021, 10:41 PM

22 points

10 votes

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10 comments21 min readLW link

Housing Markets, Satisficers, and One-Track Goodhart

J BostockDec 16, 2021, 9:38 PM

2 points

5 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 12/16: On Your Marks

ZviDec 16, 2021, 9:00 PM

53 points

26 votes

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36 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reviews of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

Joe CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM

80 points

25 votes

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20 comments1 min readLW link

The “Other” Option

jsteinhardtDec 16, 2021, 8:20 PM

24 points

13 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

What Caplan’s “Missing Mood” Heuristic Is Really For

DirectedEvolutionDec 16, 2021, 7:47 PM

32 points

8 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

Subway Slides

jefftkDec 16, 2021, 7:30 PM

11 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Virulence Management

harsimonyDec 16, 2021, 7:25 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #7

ZviDec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM

155 points

73 votes

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41 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Where can one learn deep intuitions about information theory?

ValentineDec 16, 2021, 3:47 PM

72 points

42 votes

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27 comments2 min readLW link

Elicitation for Modeling Transformative AI Risks

DavidmanheimDec 16, 2021, 3:24 PM

30 points

10 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

An Open Letter to the Monastic Academy and community members

HS2021Dec 16, 2021, 9:04 AM

45 points

30 votes

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46 comments1 min readLW link

Five Missing Moods

mike_hawkeDec 16, 2021, 1:25 AM

14 points

14 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Motivations, Natural Selection, and Curriculum Engineering

Oliver SourbutDec 16, 2021, 1:07 AM

16 points

5 votes

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0 comments42 min readLW link

Universality and the “Filter”

maggiehayesDec 16, 2021, 12:47 AM

10 points

9 votes

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2 comments11 min readLW link

More power to you

jasoncrawfordDec 15, 2021, 11:50 PM

16 points

11 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

My Overview of the AI Alignment Landscape: A Bird’s Eye View

Neel NandaDec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM

127 points

74 votes

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9 comments15 min readLW link

SmartPoop 1.0: An AI Safety Science-Fiction

Lê Nguyên HoangDec 15, 2021, 10:28 PM

7 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Bay Area Rationalist Field Day

Raj ThimmiahDec 15, 2021, 7:57 PM

7 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Framing approaches to alignment and the hard problem of AI cognition

ryan_greenblattDec 15, 2021, 7:06 PM

16 points

4 votes

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15 comments27 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Pre-Holiday Get-Together

ISDec 15, 2021, 4:58 PM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Leverage

lsusrDec 15, 2021, 5:20 AM

23 points

15 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

We’ll Always Have Crazy

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Dec 15, 2021, 2:55 AM

36 points

35 votes

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22 comments13 min readLW link

2020 Review: The Discussion Phase

VaniverDec 15, 2021, 1:12 AM

55 points

11 votes

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14 comments2 min readLW link

The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Implications and Evidence

CallumMcDougallDec 14, 2021, 11:14 PM

40 points

20 votes

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9 comments19 min readLW link

Robin Hanson’s “Humans are Early”

RaemonDec 14, 2021, 10:07 PM

11 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Ngo’s view on alignment difficulty

Richard_Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Dec 14, 2021, 9:34 PM

73 points

25 votes

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7 comments17 min readLW link

A proposed system for ideas jumpstart

Valentin2026Dec 14, 2021, 9:01 PM

4 points

2 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Should we rely on the speed prior for safety?

Marc CarauleanuDec 14, 2021, 8:45 PM

14 points

8 votes

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5 comments5 min readLW link

ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra

Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM

228 points

73 votes

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90 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

(docs.google.com)

ARC is hiring!

paulfchristiano and Mark Xu

Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM

64 points

23 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Interlude: Agents as Automobiles

Daniel KokotajloDec 14, 2021, 6:49 PM

26 points

10 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF)

ZviDec 14, 2021, 2:30 PM

193 points

75 votes

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65 comments64 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Consequentialism & corrigibility

Steven ByrnesDec 14, 2021, 1:23 PM

72 points

30 votes

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35 comments7 min readLW link

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

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