For­mal Solu­tion to the In­ner Align­ment Problem

michaelcohenFeb 18, 2021, 2:51 PM
49 points
123 comments2 min readLW link

Deep­mind has made a gen­eral in­duc­tor (“Mak­ing sense of sen­sory in­put”)

mako yassFeb 2, 2021, 2:54 AM
49 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Science Fiction

lsusrFeb 22, 2021, 9:35 AM
48 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Watch­ing themselves

jefftkFeb 12, 2021, 10:20 PM
48 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The slopes to com­mon sense

George3d6Feb 22, 2021, 7:22 PM
48 points
19 comments8 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

The Kelly Cri­te­rion in 3D

lsusrFeb 20, 2021, 8:21 AM
47 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Still Not in Charge

ZviFeb 9, 2021, 4:00 PM
46 points
24 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

#un­clogth­eFDA: a twit­ter storm to ap­prove vaccines

Tim LiptrotFeb 7, 2021, 2:39 PM
45 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

When you already know the an­swer—Us­ing your In­ner Simulator

Neel NandaFeb 23, 2021, 5:58 PM
44 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Heuris­tic: Re­place “No Ev­i­dence” with “No Rea­son”

Yair HalberstadtFeb 15, 2021, 9:25 PM
44 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The art of car­ing what peo­ple think

KatjaGraceFeb 12, 2021, 5:40 AM
43 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

AXRP Epi­sode 4 - Risks from Learned Op­ti­miza­tion with Evan Hubinger

DanielFilanFeb 18, 2021, 12:03 AM
43 points
10 comments87 min readLW link

#6: Op­tional ad­di­tional steps

mingyuanFeb 2, 2021, 11:57 PM
43 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Five examples

Adam ZernerFeb 14, 2021, 2:47 AM
42 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

some ran­dom par­ent­ing ideas

mike_hawkeFeb 13, 2021, 3:53 PM
39 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

[Link] Sarah Con­stantin on RaDVaC

OrbordeFeb 5, 2021, 4:08 PM
38 points
4 commentsLW link
(twitter.com)

Fore­cast­ing Prize Results

Feb 19, 2021, 7:07 PM
37 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

I’m a 19-year-old Ter­mi­nal Pa­tient. Med­i­cal Brain Preser­va­tion Should not be Difficult to Dis­cuss or Adopt

ogeFeb 23, 2021, 12:42 AM
37 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.brainpreservation.org)

Sur­vey on cor­ti­cal unifor­mity—an ex­pert am­plifi­ca­tion exercise

Feb 23, 2021, 10:13 PM
37 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Par­ti­ci­pat­ing in a Covid-19 Vac­cine Trial

ejacobFeb 11, 2021, 8:35 PM
37 points
14 comments7 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

#5: Mak­ing your cry­on­ics ar­range­ments official

mingyuanFeb 2, 2021, 11:54 PM
37 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Calcu­lat­ing Kelly

abramdemskiFeb 22, 2021, 5:32 PM
36 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Tour­ne­sol, YouTube and AI Risk

adamShimiFeb 12, 2021, 6:56 PM
36 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Kelly isn’t (just) about log­a­r­ith­mic utility

SimonMFeb 23, 2021, 12:12 PM
35 points
41 comments4 min readLW link

Late-talk­ing kids and “Ein­stein syn­drome”

Steven ByrnesFeb 3, 2021, 3:16 PM
35 points
30 comments6 min readLW link

Me­dia Bias

lsusrFeb 22, 2021, 9:14 PM
35 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

The Com­pre­hen­sion Curve

DirectedEvolutionFeb 22, 2021, 10:51 PM
35 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Is the world be­com­ing bet­ter?

invertedpassionFeb 6, 2021, 9:28 AM
34 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Differ­ent kinds of lan­guage proficiency

Kaj_SotalaFeb 26, 2021, 6:20 PM
34 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

The World is Full of Wasted Motion

Neel NandaFeb 2, 2021, 7:02 PM
33 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Net­work­ing and Ex­pert Con­sult­ing As Ra­tion­al­ity Bottlenecks

DirectedEvolutionFeb 5, 2021, 5:41 AM
33 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

The Gran­d­est Vi­sion for Hu­man­ity (Light)

RubyFeb 24, 2021, 7:15 AM
32 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(hackernoon.com)

In­tu­itions about utilities

mingyuanFeb 6, 2021, 12:12 AM
32 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Coin­ci­dences are Improbable

Mark XuFeb 24, 2021, 9:14 AM
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

The ecol­ogy of conviction

KatjaGraceFeb 14, 2021, 1:30 AM
29 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Sup­port vs Ad­vice & Hold­ing Off Solutions

abramdemskiFeb 23, 2021, 1:12 AM
29 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Vac­ci­nated Socializing

jefftkFeb 2, 2021, 3:20 AM
29 points
12 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What does the FDA ac­tu­ally do be­tween get­ting the trial re­sults and hav­ing their meet­ing?

ChristianKlFeb 12, 2021, 1:08 PM
28 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal Models of Progress?

abramdemskiFeb 16, 2021, 12:21 AM
28 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tact with reality

Joe CarlsmithFeb 15, 2021, 4:53 AM
28 points
3 comments21 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Nu­clear Arms Con­trol?

GentzelFeb 15, 2021, 1:50 AM
28 points
13 comments6 min readLW link
(theconsequentialist.wordpress.com)

Ex­po­nen­tial growth is the baseline

jasoncrawfordFeb 22, 2021, 2:08 AM
27 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Cer­e­mony In­tro + ] Darkness

RubyFeb 21, 2021, 6:06 PM
26 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(mindingourway.com)

Ap­ply to Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds now

Jonas VFeb 13, 2021, 1:36 PM
26 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[AN #139]: How the sim­plic­ity of re­al­ity ex­plains the suc­cess of neu­ral nets

Rohin ShahFeb 24, 2021, 6:30 PM
26 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Gen­er­al­ised mod­els as a category

Stuart_ArmstrongFeb 16, 2021, 4:08 PM
25 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your best al­ter­nate his­tory utopia?

Kaj_SotalaFeb 22, 2021, 8:17 AM
25 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelAFeb 10, 2021, 2:48 AM
25 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

Three Sto­ries about not Think­ing too Hard

ejacobFeb 5, 2021, 7:51 PM
25 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(eidan.substack.com)

Re­mem­ber that to value some­thing in­finitely is usu­ally to give it a finite dol­lar value

KatjaGraceFeb 16, 2021, 6:40 AM
24 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)