SGD’s Bias

johnswentworth18 May 2021 23:19 UTC
61 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Does NASA Take Alien Life Se­ri­ously?

ejacob18 May 2021 21:36 UTC
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 Bostock18 May 2021 21:33 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sav­ing Time

Scott Garrabrant18 May 2021 20:11 UTC
156 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Are PS5 scalpers ac­tu­ally bad?

willbradshaw18 May 2021 12:27 UTC
23 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

Knowl­edge Neu­rons in Pre­trained Transformers

evhub17 May 2021 22:54 UTC
100 points
7 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

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

JohnGreer17 May 2021 20:46 UTC
10 points
26 comments4 min readLW link

Love on Carte­sian Planes

bksilv3r17 May 2021 19:19 UTC
36 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikos17 May 2021 17:29 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

New Magic Post: The Pro Tour Was Magic

Zvi17 May 2021 16:40 UTC
23 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

abstractapplic17 May 2021 15:54 UTC
29 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

SpaceX should provide IPFS prox­ies with Starlink

ChristianKl17 May 2021 15:05 UTC
11 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to de­ter­mine the value of op­tion­al­ity?

sphericaltree17 May 2021 2:19 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolution17 May 2021 2:11 UTC
42 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

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

Daniel Kokotajlo16 May 2021 22:10 UTC
121 points
86 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Op­ti­miz­ers: To Define or not to Define

J Bostock16 May 2021 19:55 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Against Against Boredom

Logan Zoellner16 May 2021 18:19 UTC
5 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Why Glen Weyl is a technocrat

ChristianKl16 May 2021 18:01 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Power Ou­tage Chances

jefftk16 May 2021 16:40 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 3:58 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

Think­ing About Generators

jefftk16 May 2021 2:40 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On “Epistemic Tres­pass­ing” and In­tel­lec­tual Modesty

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:40 UTC
9 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Re­search Mo­ti­va­tions and “The Divi­sion of Cog­ni­tive La­bor”

Aidan_Kierans16 May 2021 0:00 UTC
4 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

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

hunterglenn15 May 2021 23:24 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

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

adamShimi15 May 2021 22:07 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Pur­pose of Purpose

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 May 2021 21:00 UTC
17 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

How Can One Tell What Is Beau­tiful?

Erich_Grunewald15 May 2021 12:55 UTC
5 points
3 comments15 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Tech­no­cratic Plim­soll Line

Martin Sustrik15 May 2021 8:34 UTC
53 points
16 comments5 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #3

Mark Xu15 May 2021 7:13 UTC
21 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

How to com­pute the prob­a­bil­ity you are flip­ping a trick coin

lsusr15 May 2021 0:02 UTC
18 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der Pressure

Alex Hollow14 May 2021 22:04 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

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

Robbo14 May 2021 22:03 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Utopic Nightmares

Jozdien14 May 2021 21:24 UTC
10 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

DC Sum­mer Sols­tice Picnic

maia14 May 2021 19:49 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­cern­ing not get­ting lost

Alex Flint14 May 2021 19:38 UTC
50 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

D&D.Sci May 2021 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplic14 May 2021 11:37 UTC
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Why Democ­racy?

sxae14 May 2021 11:02 UTC
14 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

De­liber­ately Vague Lan­guage is Bullshit

lsusr14 May 2021 9:17 UTC
35 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Zvi’s Law of No Evidence

lsusr14 May 2021 7:27 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Hy­poth­e­sis Space Entropy

lsusr14 May 2021 7:21 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Does but­terfly af­fect?

pchvykov14 May 2021 4:20 UTC
14 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 7 - Side Effects with Vic­to­ria Krakovna

DanielFilan14 May 2021 3:50 UTC
34 points
6 comments43 min readLW link

[Question] Can Bit­coin tran­si­tion from PoW to PoS?

mukashi14 May 2021 3:43 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing the Lot­tery Ticket Hy­poth­e­sis

Alex Flint14 May 2021 0:25 UTC
50 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Vac­cine Rol­lout as Wheeled-Lug­gage Problem

DirectedEvolution13 May 2021 21:04 UTC
28 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 5/​13: Mov­ing On

Zvi13 May 2021 14:30 UTC
69 points
13 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We can un­der­stand value only through end­less self-reflection

Riccardo Volpato13 May 2021 10:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readLW link
(volpato.io)

The case for hypocrisy

Aaron Bergman13 May 2021 3:36 UTC
37 points
12 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Restricted Anti­na­tal­ism on Subagents

Josephine13 May 2021 1:48 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Agency in Con­way’s Game of Life

Alex Flint13 May 2021 1:07 UTC
110 points
93 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews