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Exploring Decision Theories With Counterfactuals and Dynamic Agent Self-Pointers
JoshuaOSHickman
Dec 18, 2021, 9:50 PM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Occupational Infohazards
jessicata
Dec 18, 2021, 8:56 PM
39
points
134
comments
47
min read
LW
link
Laurie Anderson talks
Dagon
Dec 18, 2021, 8:47 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Disentangling Perspectives On Strategy-Stealing in AI Safety
shawnghu
Dec 18, 2021, 8:13 PM
20
points
1
comment
11
min read
LW
link
The end of Victorian culture, part II: people and history
David Hugh-Jones
Dec 18, 2021, 6:55 PM
9
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(wyclif.substack.com)
How I became a person who wakes up early
Alex_Altair
Dec 18, 2021, 6:41 PM
71
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Extended Deadline: Jan 23rd] Announcing the PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship
Nora_Ammann
Dec 18, 2021, 4:56 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Universal counterargument against “badness of death” is wrong
avturchin
Dec 18, 2021, 4:02 PM
27
points
42
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing the Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems (PIBBSS) Fellowship
adamShimi
Dec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM
61
points
5
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Important ML systems from before 2012?
Jsevillamol
Dec 18, 2021, 12:12 PM
12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How the Equivalent Bet Test Actually Works
Erich_Grunewald
Dec 18, 2021, 11:17 AM
4
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
Perishable Knowledge
lsusr
Dec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM
104
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Distractingness of Various Parts of Facebook
emily.fan
Dec 18, 2021, 3:35 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
DL towards the unaligned Recursive Self-Optimization attractor
jacob_cannell
Dec 18, 2021, 2:15 AM
32
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Tree of Light
Jarred Filmer
Dec 18, 2021, 12:36 AM
7
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
In Defense of Attempting Hard Things, and my story of the Leverage ecosystem
Cathleen
Dec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115
points
43
comments
LW
link
2
reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)
[Question]
Getting diagnosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on taking meds?
vroomerify
Dec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM
6
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Venture Granters, The VCs of public goods, incentivizing good dreams
mako yass
Dec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM
12
points
9
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Understand the exponential function: R0 of the COVID
Yandong Zhang
Dec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM
−6
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some motivations to gradient hack
peterbarnett
Dec 17, 2021, 3:06 AM
8
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Blog Respectably
lsusr
Dec 17, 2021, 1:23 AM
14
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Case for Radical Optimism about Interpretability
Quintin Pope
Dec 16, 2021, 11:38 PM
66
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
-
Alice K
Dec 16, 2021, 11:03 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Evidence Sets: Towards Inductive-Biases based Analysis of Prosaic AGI
bayesian_kitten
Dec 16, 2021, 10:41 PM
22
points
10
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Housing Markets, Satisficers, and One-Track Goodhart
J Bostock
Dec 16, 2021, 9:38 PM
2
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 12/16: On Your Marks
Zvi
Dec 16, 2021, 9:00 PM
53
points
36
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Reviews of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”
Joe Carlsmith
Dec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM
80
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The “Other” Option
jsteinhardt
Dec 16, 2021, 8:20 PM
24
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)
What Caplan’s “Missing Mood” Heuristic Is Really For
DirectedEvolution
Dec 16, 2021, 7:47 PM
32
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Subway Slides
jefftk
Dec 16, 2021, 7:30 PM
11
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Virulence Management
harsimony
Dec 16, 2021, 7:25 PM
4
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)
Omicron Post #7
Zvi
Dec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM
155
points
41
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Where can one learn deep intuitions about information theory?
Valentine
Dec 16, 2021, 3:47 PM
72
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Elicitation for Modeling Transformative AI Risks
Davidmanheim
Dec 16, 2021, 3:24 PM
30
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
An Open Letter to the Monastic Academy and community members
HS2021
Dec 16, 2021, 9:04 AM
44
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Five Missing Moods
mike_hawke
Dec 16, 2021, 1:25 AM
14
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Motivations, Natural Selection, and Curriculum Engineering
Oliver Sourbut
Dec 16, 2021, 1:07 AM
16
points
0
comments
42
min read
LW
link
Universality and the “Filter”
maggiehayes
Dec 16, 2021, 12:47 AM
10
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
More power to you
jasoncrawford
Dec 15, 2021, 11:50 PM
16
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
My Overview of the AI Alignment Landscape: A Bird’s Eye View
Neel Nanda
Dec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM
127
points
9
comments
15
min read
LW
link
SmartPoop 1.0: An AI Safety Science-Fiction
Lê Nguyên Hoang
Dec 15, 2021, 10:28 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Bay Area Rationalist Field Day
Raj Thimmiah
Dec 15, 2021, 7:57 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Framing approaches to alignment and the hard problem of AI cognition
ryan_greenblatt
Dec 15, 2021, 7:06 PM
16
points
15
comments
27
min read
LW
link
South Bay ACX/LW Pre-Holiday Get-Together
IS
Dec 15, 2021, 4:58 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Leverage
lsusr
Dec 15, 2021, 5:20 AM
23
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
We’ll Always Have Crazy
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
15 Dec 2021 2:55 UTC
36
points
22
comments
13
min read
LW
link
2020 Review: The Discussion Phase
Vaniver
15 Dec 2021 1:12 UTC
55
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Implications and Evidence
CallumMcDougall
14 Dec 2021 23:14 UTC
39
points
9
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Robin Hanson’s “Humans are Early”
Raemon
14 Dec 2021 22:07 UTC
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.overcomingbias.com)
Ngo’s view on alignment difficulty
Richard_Ngo
and
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14 Dec 2021 21:34 UTC
63
points
7
comments
17
min read
LW
link
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