SGD’s Bias

johnswentworthMay 18, 2021, 11:19 PM
63 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Se­ri­ously?

ejacobMay 18, 2021, 9:36 PM
5 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any meth­ods for NNs or other ML sys­tems to get in­for­ma­tion from knock­out-like or as­say-like ex­per­i­ments?

J BostockMay 18, 2021, 9:33 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sav­ing Time

Scott GarrabrantMay 18, 2021, 8:11 PM
162 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Are PS5 scalpers ac­tu­ally bad?

willbradshawMay 18, 2021, 12:27 PM
23 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Knowl­edge Neu­rons in Pre­trained Transformers

evhubMay 17, 2021, 10:54 PM
100 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

What Would You Store to Max­i­mize Value in 100 Years? A Thought Experiment

JohnGreerMay 17, 2021, 8:46 PM
10 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Love on Carte­sian Planes

bksilv3rMay 17, 2021, 7:19 PM
36 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikosMay 17, 2021, 5:29 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

ZviMay 17, 2021, 4:40 PM
23 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A.D&D.Sci May 2021: In­ter­di­men­sional Mon­ster Car­cass Auction

abstractapplicMay 17, 2021, 3:54 PM
29 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS prox­ies with Starlink

ChristianKlMay 17, 2021, 3:05 PM
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to de­ter­mine the value of op­tion­al­ity?

sphericaltreeMay 17, 2021, 2:19 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How con­cerned are you about LW rep­u­ta­tion man­age­ment?

DirectedEvolutionMay 17, 2021, 2:11 AM
42 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What will 2040 prob­a­bly look like as­sum­ing no sin­gu­lar­ity?

Daniel KokotajloMay 16, 2021, 10:10 PM
122 points
86 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Op­ti­miz­ers: To Define or not to Define

J BostockMay 16, 2021, 7:55 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan ZoellnerMay 16, 2021, 6:19 PM
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

ChristianKlMay 16, 2021, 6:01 PM
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Power Ou­tage Chances

jefftkMay 16, 2021, 4:40 PM
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Christen­son’s “Episte­mol­ogy of Disagree­ment: The Good News”

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 3:58 AM
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

Think­ing About Generators

jefftkMay 16, 2021, 2:40 AM
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On “Epistemic Tres­pass­ing” and In­tel­lec­tual Modesty

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 12:40 AM
9 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Re­search Mo­ti­va­tions and “The Divi­sion of Cog­ni­tive La­bor”

Aidan_KieransMay 16, 2021, 12:00 AM
4 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Sup­pose $1 billion is given to AI Safety. How should it be spent?

hunterglennMay 15, 2021, 11:24 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Event] Weekly Align­ment Re­search Coffee Time (05/​17)

adamShimiMay 15, 2021, 10:07 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Pur­pose of Purpose

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMay 15, 2021, 9:00 PM
17 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

How Can One Tell What Is Beau­tiful?

Erich_GrunewaldMay 15, 2021, 12:55 PM
5 points
3 comments15 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Tech­no­cratic Plim­soll Line

Martin SustrikMay 15, 2021, 8:34 AM
53 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #3

Mark XuMay 15, 2021, 7:13 AM
21 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

How to com­pute the prob­a­bil­ity you are flip­ping a trick coin

lsusrMay 15, 2021, 12:02 AM
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der Pressure

Alex HollowMay 14, 2021, 10:04 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

[Question] Who has ar­gued in de­tail that a cur­rent AI sys­tem is phe­nom­e­nally con­scious?

RobboMay 14, 2021, 10:03 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Utopic Nightmares

JozdienMay 14, 2021, 9:24 PM
10 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

DC Sum­mer Sols­tice Picnic

maiaMay 14, 2021, 7:49 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cern­ing not get­ting lost

Alex FlintMay 14, 2021, 7:38 PM
50 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci May 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplicMay 14, 2021, 11:37 AM
18 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Why Democ­racy?

sxaeMay 14, 2021, 11:02 AM
14 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

De­liber­ately Vague Lan­guage is Bullshit

lsusrMay 14, 2021, 9:17 AM
35 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Zvi’s Law of No Evidence

lsusrMay 14, 2021, 7:27 AM
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­poth­e­sis Space Entropy

lsusrMay 14, 2021, 7:21 AM
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Does but­terfly af­fect?

pchvykovMay 14, 2021, 4:20 AM
14 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 7 - Side Effects with Vic­to­ria Krakovna

DanielFilanMay 14, 2021, 3:50 AM
34 points
6 comments43 min readLW link

[Question] Can Bit­coin tran­si­tion from PoW to PoS?

mukashiMay 14, 2021, 3:43 AM
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing the Lot­tery Ticket Hy­poth­e­sis

Alex FlintMay 14, 2021, 12:25 AM
50 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Vac­cine Rol­lout as Wheeled-Lug­gage Problem

DirectedEvolutionMay 13, 2021, 9:04 PM
28 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 5/​13: Mov­ing On

ZviMay 13, 2021, 2:30 PM
69 points
13 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We can un­der­stand value only through end­less self-reflection

Riccardo VolpatoMay 13, 2021, 10:22 AM
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link
(volpato.io)

The case for hypocrisy

Aaron BergmanMay 13, 2021, 3:36 AM
37 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Restricted Anti­na­tal­ism on Subagents

JosephineMay 13, 2021, 1:48 AM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Agency in Con­way’s Game of Life

Alex FlintMay 13, 2021, 1:07 AM
112 points
93 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews