Covid Christmas

jefftk4 Dec 2021 22:00 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Gen­er­al­iza­tion of ROC AUC for Bi­nary Classifiers

Adam Scherlis4 Dec 2021 21:47 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(adam.scherlis.com)

Agents as P₂B Chain Reactions

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Dec 2021 21:35 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Agency: What it is and why it matters

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Dec 2021 21:32 UTC
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ad­vanc­ing Math­e­mat­ics By Guid­ing Hu­man In­tu­ition With AI

interstice4 Dec 2021 20:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

[Question] Misc. ques­tions about EfficientZero

Daniel Kokotajlo4 Dec 2021 19:45 UTC
51 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Lars Doucet’s Ge­or­gism se­ries on As­tral Codex Ten

Sune4 Dec 2021 19:43 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What are the limi­ta­tions on poli­ti­cally mo­ti­vated re­lo­ca­tion?

Asgård4 Dec 2021 15:16 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we post­pone get­ting a booster due to Omicron, till there are Omicron-spe­cific boost­ers?

ChristianKl4 Dec 2021 12:46 UTC
33 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Can solip­sism be dis­proven?

nx20594 Dec 2021 8:24 UTC
−2 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Shul­man and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

3 Dec 2021 20:05 UTC
90 points
16 comments20 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A Gen­eral Lan­guage As­sis­tant as a Lab­o­ra­tory for Alignment

Quintin Pope3 Dec 2021 19:42 UTC
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftk3 Dec 2021 19:30 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Learn­ing System

Henrik Karlsson3 Dec 2021 19:08 UTC
18 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

[Question] Does the Struc­ture of an al­gorithm mat­ter for AI Risk and/​or con­scious­ness?

Logan Zoellner3 Dec 2021 18:31 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Med­i­ta­tive Experience

Yonatan Cale3 Dec 2021 17:58 UTC
4 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

$100/​$50 re­wards for good references

Stuart_Armstrong3 Dec 2021 16:55 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where in the world will a UBI de­velop first?

Asgård3 Dec 2021 15:54 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter fall 2021

avturchin3 Dec 2021 13:06 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond-or­der se­lec­tion against the immortal

Malmesbury3 Dec 2021 5:01 UTC
44 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

For­mal­iz­ing Policy-Mod­ifi­ca­tion Corrigibility

TurnTrout3 Dec 2021 1:31 UTC
25 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Novem­ber 2021

NunoSempere2 Dec 2021 21:44 UTC
18 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

“In­fo­haz­ard” is a pre­dom­i­nantly con­flict-the­o­retic concept

jessicata2 Dec 2021 17:54 UTC
45 points
17 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Covid 12/​2: But Aside From That

Zvi2 Dec 2021 16:20 UTC
36 points
11 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #3

Zvi2 Dec 2021 15:10 UTC
57 points
15 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Built-in Mea­sur­ing Spoons

jefftk2 Dec 2021 13:20 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets at Polymarket

Zvi2 Dec 2021 12:50 UTC
39 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Syd­ney AI Safety Fellowship

Chris_Leong2 Dec 2021 7:34 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei Dai2 Dec 2021 6:35 UTC
193 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

AXRP Epi­sode 12 - AI Ex­is­ten­tial Risk with Paul Christiano

DanielFilan2 Dec 2021 2:20 UTC
38 points
0 comments126 min readLW link

Com­mon Prob­a­bil­ity Distributions

jsteinhardt2 Dec 2021 1:50 UTC
44 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

The 2020 Review

Raemon2 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC
112 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Biol­ogy-In­spired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Dec 2021 22:35 UTC
165 points
142 comments65 min readLW link1 review

Open & Wel­come Thread De­cem­ber 2021

Pattern1 Dec 2021 19:57 UTC
15 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Viral Mu­ta­tion, Pan­demics and So­cial Response

jmh1 Dec 2021 18:36 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are ex­pla­na­tions that ex­plain more phe­nom­ena always more un­likely than nar­rower ver­sions?

FinalFormal21 Dec 2021 18:34 UTC
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Clones Seriously

Raymond D1 Dec 2021 17:29 UTC
58 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Hy­pothe­ses about Find­ing Knowl­edge and One-Shot Causal Entanglements

J Bostock1 Dec 2021 17:01 UTC
16 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 1 - Small Molecules

George3d61 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC
26 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

FDA Votes on Molunpiravir

Zvi1 Dec 2021 15:00 UTC
59 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do you write origi­nal ra­tio­nal­ist es­says?

lumenwrites1 Dec 2021 8:08 UTC
24 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pe­rience with Cue Covid Testing

jefftk1 Dec 2021 2:50 UTC
19 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Most /​Im­por­tant/​ Cen­tury? UPDATE: lo­ca­tion change

Thewal1 Dec 2021 1:52 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­fra-Bayesian phys­i­cal­ism: proofs part II

Vanessa Kosoy30 Nov 2021 22:27 UTC
9 points
0 comments25 min readLW link

In­fra-Bayesian phys­i­cal­ism: proofs part I

Vanessa Kosoy30 Nov 2021 22:26 UTC
9 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

In­fra-Bayesian phys­i­cal­ism: a for­mal the­ory of nat­u­ral­ized induction

Vanessa Kosoy30 Nov 2021 22:25 UTC
108 points
23 comments41 min readLW link1 review

DC Win­ter Solstice

maia30 Nov 2021 21:29 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Rely­ing on Fu­ture Creativity

J Bostock30 Nov 2021 20:12 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Reneg­ing Prosocially

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien30 Nov 2021 19:01 UTC
172 points
15 comments17 min readLW link1 review

Tears Must Flow

sapphire30 Nov 2021 18:37 UTC
21 points
26 comments1 min readLW link