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[Question] Are limited-horizon agents a good heuristic for the off-switch problem?

Yonadav Shavit5 Dec 2021 19:27 UTC

14 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Explicit model visualizations

Dorian Stern vukotic5 Dec 2021 18:37 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the pros and cons of a government-backed, property-based cryptocurrency?

Asgård5 Dec 2021 17:57 UTC

−3 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Interpreting Yudkowsky on Deep vs Shallow Knowledge

adamShimi5 Dec 2021 17:32 UTC

102 points

31 comments24 min readLW link

Scott Alexander’s “Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”

Raemon5 Dec 2021 5:43 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What have your romantic experiences with non-EAs/non-Rationalists been like?

Randomized, Controlled5 Dec 2021 4:41 UTC

47 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated

leogao5 Dec 2021 1:36 UTC

77 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Privacy and Manipulation

Raemon5 Dec 2021 0:39 UTC

80 points

41 comments8 min readLW link

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

Lars Doucet4 Dec 2021 19:43 UTC

21 points

2 comments37 min readLW link 1 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

Eliezer Yudkowsky and CarlShulman

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

24 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

45 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

234 points

116 comments4 min readLW link 1 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

156 points

144 comments65 min readLW link 1 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 Douglas1 Dec 2021 17:29 UTC

56 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

25 points

18 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)