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[Question]
Use of GPT-3 for identifying Phishing and other email based attacks?
jmh
May 29, 2021, 5:11 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time
adamShimi
May 29, 2021, 1:26 PM
12
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy—A Short Summary
Jsevillamol
May 29, 2021, 11:47 AM
26
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Two Definitions of Generalization
ozziegooen
May 29, 2021, 4:20 AM
34
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Sanity Waterline Bulges at the Middle
matejsuchy
May 29, 2021, 3:15 AM
−7
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(matejsuchy.substack.com)
Against Being Against Growth
Alex Hollow
May 29, 2021, 2:18 AM
−1
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)
Wrist Update
jefftk
May 29, 2021, 1:30 AM
12
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How one uses set theory for alignment problem?
Valentin2026
May 29, 2021, 12:28 AM
8
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is anyone else frustrated with ‘un-informative’ post titles?
Kenny
May 28, 2021, 8:11 PM
18
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Teaching ML to answer questions honestly instead of predicting human answers
paulfchristiano
May 28, 2021, 5:30 PM
53
points
18
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(ai-alignment.com)
The blue-minimising robot and model splintering
Stuart_Armstrong
May 28, 2021, 3:09 PM
13
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
1
review
Curated conversations with brilliant rationalists
spencerg
May 28, 2021, 2:23 PM
154
points
18
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation
DirectedEvolution
May 28, 2021, 5:51 AM
70
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why Prefetch Is Broken
jefftk
May 28, 2021, 2:20 AM
13
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Aphantasia
Crackatook
May 28, 2021, 1:55 AM
7
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predict responses to the “existential risk from AI” survey
Rob Bensinger
May 28, 2021, 1:32 AM
44
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 7.5 - Forecasting Transformative AI from Biological Anchors with Ajeya Cotra
DanielFilan
May 28, 2021, 12:20 AM
24
points
1
comment
67
min read
LW
link
The Homunculus Problem
abramdemski
May 27, 2021, 8:25 PM
50
points
38
comments
5
min read
LW
link
99% shorter
philh
May 27, 2021, 7:50 PM
16
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(reasonableapproximation.net)
Data on forecasting accuracy across different time horizons and levels of forecaster experience
CharlesD
May 27, 2021, 6:53 PM
25
points
0
comments
23
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s your visual experience when reading technical material?
DirectedEvolution
May 27, 2021, 6:34 PM
24
points
22
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Review and Summary of the Landmark Forum
reviewer
May 27, 2021, 6:22 PM
55
points
11
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How likely is our view of the cosmos?
Yitz
May 27, 2021, 4:35 PM
8
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Freaking blockchains: How do they work?
norswap
May 27, 2021, 4:22 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(norswap.com)
Covid 5/27: The Final Countdown
Zvi
May 27, 2021, 12:30 PM
72
points
19
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Donating Bitcoin to Crisis Zones—Is there a platform collating and verifying public key address for individuals in conflict zones which allows donors to send Bitcoin directly to them?
Siddhartha Gautama
May 27, 2021, 8:20 AM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What’s your peace plan?
CraigMichael
May 26, 2021, 11:26 PM
8
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Anti-Carter Basilisk
Jon Gilbert
May 26, 2021, 10:56 PM
0
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is (“Chemical Imbalance” ⇒ Depression) an example of fake causality?
const LIZARDMAN
May 26, 2021, 10:55 PM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
List of good AI safety project ideas?
Aryeh Englander
May 26, 2021, 10:36 PM
24
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Dallas SSC Meetup #11
Dacyn
May 26, 2021, 10:19 PM
4
points
0
comments
LW
link
Antifragility in Games of Chance, Research, and Debate
DirectedEvolution
May 26, 2021, 5:51 PM
13
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Prediction] What war between the USA and China would look like in 2050
lsusr
May 26, 2021, 6:24 AM
76
points
55
comments
8
min read
LW
link
The Practice & Virtue of Discernment
ozziegooen
May 26, 2021, 12:34 AM
41
points
11
comments
11
min read
LW
link
MDP models are determined by the agent architecture and the environmental dynamics
TurnTrout
May 26, 2021, 12:14 AM
23
points
34
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The BTC equilibriumating and the ETH one-eightening
Randomized, Controlled
May 25, 2021, 9:32 PM
22
points
7
comments
13
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a term for ‘the mistake of making a decision based on averages when you could cherry picked instead’?
freedomandutility
May 25, 2021, 7:18 PM
6
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Decoupling deliberation from competition
paulfchristiano
May 25, 2021, 6:50 PM
84
points
17
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
(ai-alignment.com)
Knowledge is not just map/territory resemblance
Alex Flint
May 25, 2021, 5:58 PM
28
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Abstraction Talk
johnswentworth
May 25, 2021, 4:45 PM
38
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Starting a Rationalist Meetup during Lockdown
Felix Karg
May 25, 2021, 3:43 PM
29
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Oracles, Informers, and Controllers
ozziegooen
May 25, 2021, 2:16 PM
15
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
We should probably buy ADA?
mako yass
May 24, 2021, 11:58 PM
15
points
41
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Books on Infant and Early Childhood Development?
moderock
24 May 2021 23:44 UTC
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Questions are tools to help answerers optimize utility
ozziegooen
24 May 2021 19:30 UTC
33
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A.D&D.Sci May 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset
abstractapplic
24 May 2021 16:25 UTC
19
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Problems facing a correspondence theory of knowledge
Alex Flint
24 May 2021 16:02 UTC
30
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Controlling Intelligent Agents The Only Way We Know How: Ideal Bureaucratic Structure (IBS)
Justin Bullock
24 May 2021 12:53 UTC
14
points
15
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If individual performance is Pareto distributed, how should we reform education?
yhoiseth
24 May 2021 12:22 UTC
27
points
26
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Signalling lack of familiarity with outsiders or outside knowledge, to raise status among your in-group peers?
orthogenesis
24 May 2021 3:42 UTC
11
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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