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DeepMind: Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC

247 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.com)

Working With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC

239 points

54 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Going Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC

193 points

25 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

The topic is not the content

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC

178 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Potential Bottlenecks to Taking Over The World

johnswentworth6 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC

152 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC

119 points

60 comments16 min readLW link

How much chess engine progress is about adapting to bigger computers?

paulfchristiano7 Jul 2021 22:35 UTC

114 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] ($1000 bounty) How effective are marginal vaccine doses against the covid delta variant?

jacobjacob22 Jul 2021 1:26 UTC

105 points

73 comments2 min readLW link

Experimentally evaluating whether honesty generalizes

paulfchristiano1 Jul 2021 17:47 UTC

103 points

24 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC

99 points

50 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 7/29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC

97 points

25 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We have some evidence that masks work

technicalities11 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC

95 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Relentlessness

Alicorn6 Jul 2021 20:27 UTC

93 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

The shoot-the-moon strategy

jchan21 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC

90 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Slack Has Positive Externalities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC

90 points

11 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Funds are available to support LessWrong groups, among others

Buck and ClaireZabel

21 Jul 2021 1:11 UTC

88 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

One Study, Many Results (Matt Clancy)

aarongertler18 Jul 2021 23:10 UTC

84 points

19 comments9 min readLW link

(mattsclancy.substack.com)

My Marriage Vows

Vanessa Kosoy21 Jul 2021 10:48 UTC

83 points

53 comments3 min readLW link

Intermittent Distillations #4: Semiconductors, Economics, Intelligence, and Technological Progress.

Mark Xu8 Jul 2021 22:14 UTC

81 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

Covid 7/8: Delta Takes Over

Zvi8 Jul 2021 13:00 UTC

72 points

16 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Benchmarking an old chess engine on new hardware

hippke16 Jul 2021 7:58 UTC

71 points

4 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Link] Musk’s non-missing mood

jimrandomh12 Jul 2021 22:09 UTC

70 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(lukemuehlhauser.com)

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming

konstell and gilch

4 Jul 2021 3:29 UTC

67 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Winston Churchill, futurist and EA

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2021 2:07 UTC

66 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 7/22: Error Correction

Zvi22 Jul 2021 14:20 UTC

66 points

45 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC

64 points

5 comments49 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Covid 7/15: Rates of Change

Zvi15 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC

64 points

63 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Academic Rationality Research

ChristianKl25 Jul 2021 13:59 UTC

63 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Answering questions honestly instead of predicting human answers: lots of problems and some solutions

evhub13 Jul 2021 18:49 UTC

62 points

24 comments31 min readLW link

(Brainstem, Neocortex) ≠ (Base Motivations, Honorable Motivations)

Steven Byrnes12 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC

62 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects

abergal and ClaireZabel

16 Jul 2021 21:19 UTC

61 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Improving capital gains taxes

paulfchristiano9 Jul 2021 5:20 UTC

60 points

38 comments3 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Generalizing Koopman-Pitman-Darmois

johnswentworth15 Jul 2021 22:33 UTC

59 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot

Josh Jacobson10 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC

58 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What does knowing the heritability of a trait tell me in practice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC

58 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

BASALT: A Benchmark for Learning from Human Feedback

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2021 17:40 UTC

56 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(bair.berkeley.edu)

Chess and cheap ways to check day to day variance in cognition

KPier7 Jul 2021 0:08 UTC

56 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Fractional progress estimates for AI timelines and implied resource requirements

Mark Xu and CarlShulman

15 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC

55 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near?

Tomás B.12 Jul 2021 15:22 UTC

55 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Research Facilitation Invitation

LoganStrohl10 Jul 2021 1:04 UTC

53 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Online LessWrong Community Weekend

EGI1 Jul 2021 19:28 UTC

53 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/1: Don’t Panic

Zvi1 Jul 2021 12:30 UTC

53 points

35 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A (somewhat beta) site for embedding betting odds in your writing

Optimization Process2 Jul 2021 1:10 UTC

51 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(biatob.com)

Typology of blog posts that don’t always add anything clear and insightful

KatjaGrace13 Jul 2021 1:40 UTC

50 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC

50 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

A closer look at chess scalings (into the past)

hippke15 Jul 2021 8:13 UTC

49 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

New Dementia Trial Results

PeterMcCluskey2 Jul 2021 23:04 UTC

49 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Re: Competent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC

49 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC

48 points

49 comments15 min readLW link

The SIA population update can be surprisingly small

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 10:45 UTC

47 points

11 comments10 min readLW link