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Covid 6/3: No News is Good News

ZviJun 3, 2021, 4:50 PM

50 points

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10 comments5 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Vignettes Workshop (AI Impacts)

Daniel KokotajloJun 15, 2021, 12:05 PM

48 points

16 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Reply to Nate Soares on Dolphins

Zack_M_DavisJun 10, 2021, 4:53 AM

48 points

41 votes

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49 comments5 min readLW link

Parameter counts in Machine Learning

Jsevillamol and Pablo Villalobos

Jun 19, 2021, 4:04 PM

47 points

26 votes

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18 comments7 min readLW link

The Language of Bird

johnswentworthJun 27, 2021, 4:44 AM

45 points

22 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] ML is now automating parts of chip R&D. How big a deal is this?

Daniel KokotajloJun 10, 2021, 9:51 AM

45 points

19 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Covid vaccine safety: how correct are these allegations?

DPiepgrassJun 13, 2021, 3:08 AM

45 points

34 votes

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93 comments19 min readLW link

Internal Information Cascades

JenniferRMJun 25, 2021, 4:35 PM

45 points

19 votes

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8 comments10 min readLW link

A naive alignment strategy and optimism about generalization

paulfchristianoJun 10, 2021, 12:10 AM

44 points

15 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Covid 6/24: The Spanish Prisoner

ZviJun 24, 2021, 2:40 PM

43 points

19 votes

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30 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

PeterMcCluskeyJun 14, 2021, 8:54 PM

42 points

24 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Oh No My AI (Filk)

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 11, 2021, 3:05 PM

42 points

24 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Variables Don’t Represent The Physical World (And That’s OK)

johnswentworthJun 16, 2021, 7:05 PM

42 points

14 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

I’m no longer sure that I buy dutch book arguments and this makes me skeptical of the “utility function” abstraction

Eli TyreJun 22, 2021, 3:53 AM

42 points

27 votes

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29 comments4 min readLW link

Changing my life in 2021, halfway through

BoraskoJun 10, 2021, 1:36 AM

42 points

28 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Why do patients in mental institutions get so little attention in the public discourse?

ChristianKlJun 12, 2021, 5:37 PM

41 points

15 votes

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29 comments1 min readLW link

You can now apply to EA Funds anytime! (LTFF & EAIF only)

Jonas VJun 18, 2021, 1:40 PM

41 points

12 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Coronavirus crash vs history

bfinnJun 14, 2021, 10:55 AM

39 points

16 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do the ivermectin meta-reviews come to so different conclusions?

ChristianKlJun 29, 2021, 10:34 PM

39 points

17 votes

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24 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Altman and Ezra Klein on the AI Revolution

Zack_M_DavisJun 27, 2021, 4:53 AM

38 points

17 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Review of “Learning Normativity: A Research Agenda”

Gyrodiot, adamShimi and Joe Collman

Jun 6, 2021, 1:33 PM

37 points

9 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

“Decision Transformer” (Tool AIs are secret Agent AIs)

gwernJun 9, 2021, 1:06 AM

37 points

16 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(sites.google.com)

Walking to School

jefftkJun 14, 2021, 3:30 PM

36 points

20 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Finite Factored Sets: Introduction and Factorizations

Scott GarrabrantJun 4, 2021, 5:41 PM

36 points

10 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Dangerous optimisation includes variance minimisation

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 8, 2021, 11:34 AM

36 points

14 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

War on Cancer II

ChristianKlJun 24, 2021, 2:59 PM

36 points

18 votes

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12 comments14 min readLW link

The Generalized Product Rule

aysajanJun 8, 2021, 4:39 PM

34 points

13 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Orthogonality and Time

Scott GarrabrantJun 10, 2021, 1:22 AM

34 points

7 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Answering questions honestly given world-model mismatches

paulfchristianoJun 13, 2021, 6:00 PM

34 points

10 votes

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2 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

To the Robobassinet and Progress

jefftkJun 21, 2021, 6:20 PM

33 points

15 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What precautions should fully-vaccinated people still be taking?

SameerishereJun 27, 2021, 7:10 PM

32 points

12 votes

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48 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Up-to-date advice about what to do upon getting COVID?

DanielFilanJun 19, 2021, 2:37 AM

31 points

12 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Speculations against GPT-n writing alignment papers

Donald HobsonJun 7, 2021, 9:13 PM

31 points

12 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Avoiding the instrumental policy by hiding information about humans

paulfchristianoJun 13, 2021, 8:00 PM

31 points

10 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Insufficient Values

Jozdien, Jacob Abraham and Abraham Francis

Jun 16, 2021, 2:33 PM

31 points

16 votes

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16 comments6 min readLW link

May 2021 Gwern.net newsletter

gwernJun 11, 2021, 2:13 PM

31 points

12 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Conservative Agency with Multiple Stakeholders

TurnTroutJun 8, 2021, 12:30 AM

31 points

9 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplicJun 29, 2021, 9:02 PM

30 points

13 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Shall we count the living or the dead?

Anders_HJun 14, 2021, 12:38 AM

30 points

9 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: LW transcript with running commentary

Rob Bensinger and Scott Garrabrant

Jun 27, 2021, 4:02 PM

30 points

7 votes

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0 comments51 min readLW link

[Question] Why did the UK switch to a 12 week dosing schedule for COVID-19 vaccines?

Eli TyreJun 20, 2021, 9:57 PM

30 points

8 votes

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22 comments3 min readLW link

Idea: Give the Nobel peace prize to institution designers

Tim LiptrotJun 21, 2021, 5:22 PM

29 points

16 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Some AI Governance Research Ideas

apc and markusanderljung

Jun 7, 2021, 2:40 PM

29 points

9 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Knowledge is not just mutual information

Alex FlintJun 10, 2021, 1:01 AM

28 points

8 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

Evan Hubinger on Homogeneity in Takeoff Speeds, Learned Optimization and Interpretability

Michaël TrazziJun 8, 2021, 7:20 PM

28 points

7 votes

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0 comments55 min readLW link

[Book Review] Blueprint for Revolution

lsusrJun 7, 2021, 6:14 PM

28 points

17 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Non-poisonous cake: anthropic updates are normal

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 18, 2021, 2:51 PM

28 points

15 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Burst work or steady work?

Nicholas KrossJun 22, 2021, 5:36 AM

27 points

12 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax

abstractapplicJun 22, 2021, 11:48 AM

26 points

12 votes

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28 comments3 min readLW link

SIA is basically just Bayesian updating on existence

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 4, 2021, 1:17 PM

26 points

9 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

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