So­cial me­dia: de­signed to be bad for you & for society

mattoJul 24, 2021, 6:59 PM
29 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

Believ­ing vs understanding

Adam ZernerJul 24, 2021, 3:39 AM
15 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Hous­ing Without Street Park­ing: Implemented

jefftkJul 24, 2021, 2:40 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AXRP Epi­sode 10 - AI’s Fu­ture and Im­pacts with Katja Grace

DanielFilanJul 23, 2021, 10:10 PM
34 points
2 comments77 min readLW link

Delta var­i­ant: we should prob­a­bly be re-masking

Aaron BergmanJul 23, 2021, 9:13 PM
34 points
34 comments4 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

How is low-la­tency pha­sic dopamine so fast?

Steven ByrnesJul 23, 2021, 5:43 PM
41 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[AN #157]: Mea­sur­ing mis­al­ign­ment in the tech­nol­ogy un­der­ly­ing Copilot

Rohin ShahJul 23, 2021, 5:20 PM
28 points
18 comments7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Hyper­games 101

JosephineJul 23, 2021, 1:19 PM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

De­ci­sion Duels

JosephineJul 23, 2021, 9:22 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­am­ples of hu­man-level AI run­ning un­al­igned.

df fdJul 23, 2021, 8:49 AM
−3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(sortale.substack.com)

A Guide for Productivity

Marius HobbhahnJul 23, 2021, 7:03 AM
39 points
8 comments41 min readLW link

[Question] What is the net effect of memes that call out the huge im­pact of big play­ers in cli­mate change?

hookdumpJul 23, 2021, 2:46 AM
7 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Re-Define In­tent Align­ment?

abramdemskiJul 22, 2021, 7:00 PM
32 points
32 comments4 min readLW link

Learn­ing in lay­ers of mus­cle memory

Anshul JainJul 22, 2021, 6:57 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.anshuljain.me)

Progress, Stag­na­tion, & Collapse

abramdemskiJul 22, 2021, 4:51 PM
38 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

The Walk­ing Dead

Logan ZoellnerJul 22, 2021, 4:19 PM
22 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/​22: Er­ror Correction

ZviJul 22, 2021, 2:20 PM
66 points
45 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Hob­bies and the curse of Spontaneity

J BostockJul 22, 2021, 1:25 PM
4 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Fire Law Incentives

jefftkJul 22, 2021, 12:30 PM
32 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Handi­cap­ping com­pet­i­tive games

DanielFilanJul 22, 2021, 3:00 AM
15 points
19 comments4 min readLW link
(danielfilan.com)

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

Bird ConceptJul 22, 2021, 1:26 AM
105 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Jay­ne­sian in­ter­pre­ta­tion—How does “es­ti­mat­ing prob­a­bil­ities” make sense?

Haziq MuhammadJul 21, 2021, 9:36 PM
4 points
40 comments1 min readLW link

Ask Not “How Are You Do­ing?”

CollisteruJul 21, 2021, 5:53 PM
15 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Ran­dom­ized Zet­telkas­ten Test

JosephineJul 21, 2021, 5:21 PM
32 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

The shoot-the-moon strategy

jchanJul 21, 2021, 4:19 PM
90 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Re­ward splin­ter­ing for AI design

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 21, 2021, 4:13 PM
30 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Why is Kleros val­ued so low?

ChristianKlJul 21, 2021, 1:50 PM
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

My Mar­riage Vows

Vanessa KosoyJul 21, 2021, 10:48 AM
84 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a rea­son­able read­ing ac­cord­ing to which Baric, Shi et al 2015 isn’t gain-of-func­tion re­search?

ChristianKlJul 21, 2021, 8:19 AM
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Utility Func­tion of a Prepper

Alex HollowJul 21, 2021, 2:26 AM
4 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)

Funds are available to sup­port LessWrong groups, among others

Jul 21, 2021, 1:11 AM
88 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pu­n­ish­ing the good

KatjaGraceJul 20, 2021, 11:30 PM
28 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

En­tropic bound­ary con­di­tions to­wards safe ar­tifi­cial superintelligence

Santiago Nunez-CorralesJul 20, 2021, 10:15 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.tandfonline.com)

Work­ing With Monsters

johnswentworthJul 20, 2021, 3:23 PM
251 points
54 comments5 min readLW link1 review

An ex­am­i­na­tion of Me­tac­u­lus’ re­solved AI pre­dic­tions and their im­pli­ca­tions for AI timelines

CharlesDJul 20, 2021, 9:08 AM
28 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Pi Sound Box

jefftkJul 20, 2021, 4:10 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book re­view: The Ex­pla­na­tion of Ideology

PeterMcCluskeyJul 20, 2021, 3:42 AM
43 points
10 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

In search of benev­olence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christ­mas?)

Joe CarlsmithJul 20, 2021, 1:12 AM
26 points
0 comments33 min readLW link

Fu­ture Of Work

specbugJul 19, 2021, 11:16 PM
−1 points
6 comments6 min readLW link
(sixeleven.in)

Some thoughts on David Rood­man’s GWP model and its re­la­tion to AI timelines

Tom DavidsonJul 19, 2021, 10:59 PM
32 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Work on Bayesian fit­ting of AI trends of perfor­mance?

JsevillamolJul 19, 2021, 6:45 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is the ar­gu­ment that AI is an xrisk valid?

MACannonJul 19, 2021, 1:20 PM
5 points
61 comments1 min readLW link
(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

Prepar­ing for ambition

Adam ZernerJul 19, 2021, 6:13 AM
19 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Com­po­si­tion­al­ity: SQL and Subways

DanBJul 19, 2021, 5:37 AM
30 points
4 comments7 min readLW link

Happy paths and the plan­ning fallacy

Adam ZernerJul 18, 2021, 11:26 PM
38 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

One Study, Many Re­sults (Matt Clancy)

aarongertlerJul 18, 2021, 11:10 PM
84 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(mattsclancy.substack.com)

Book Re­view: The Sig­nal and the Noise

Sam EnrightJul 18, 2021, 10:05 PM
16 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Mu­nich SSC/​ACX (+LW) (on­line) meetup Au­gust 2021

vi21maobk9vpJul 18, 2021, 8:39 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any tax­onomies of con­scious ex­pe­rience?

JohnDavidBustardJul 18, 2021, 6:28 PM
7 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

A model of de­ci­sion-mak­ing in the brain (the short ver­sion)

Steven ByrnesJul 18, 2021, 2:39 PM
20 points
0 comments3 min readLW link