Mea­sure­ment, Op­ti­miza­tion, and Take-off Speed

jsteinhardt10 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC
48 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Paths To High-Level Ma­chine Intelligence

Daniel_Eth10 Sep 2021 13:21 UTC
68 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

Han­dling Iden­ti­cal USB Sound Cards

jefftk10 Sep 2021 12:30 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do you de­cide when to change N95/​FFP-2 masks?

ChristianKl10 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[linkpost] Poli­ti­cal Cap­i­tal Flow Man­age­ment and the Im­por­tance of Yutting

mike_hawke10 Sep 2021 7:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Bayeswatch 8: Antimatter

lsusr10 Sep 2021 5:01 UTC
31 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

The Black­well or­der as a for­mal­iza­tion of knowledge

Alex Flint10 Sep 2021 2:51 UTC
41 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

The Best Soft­ware For Every Need

Tomás B.10 Sep 2021 2:40 UTC
174 points
220 comments1 min readLW link

Fram­ing Practicum: Com­par­a­tive Advantage

johnswentworth9 Sep 2021 23:59 UTC
13 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

GPT-X, DALL-E, and our Mul­ti­modal Fu­ture [video se­ries]

bakztfuture9 Sep 2021 23:05 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(youtube.com)

You can get feed­back on ideas and ex­ter­nal drafts too

Ruby9 Sep 2021 21:06 UTC
50 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The al­ign­ment prob­lem in differ­ent ca­pa­bil­ity regimes

Buck9 Sep 2021 19:46 UTC
88 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

Think­ing About Col­lege Funding

jefftk9 Sep 2021 19:20 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Does blockchain tech­nol­ogy offer po­ten­tial solu­tions to some AI al­ign­ment prob­lems?

pilord9 Sep 2021 16:51 UTC
−4 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 9/​9: Pass­ing the Peak

Zvi9 Sep 2021 16:10 UTC
35 points
21 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

D&D.Sci Path­fin­der: Re­turn of the Gray Swan Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyer9 Sep 2021 14:03 UTC
38 points
13 comments14 min readLW link

Plea­sure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusr9 Sep 2021 5:10 UTC
38 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Countably Fac­tored Spaces

Diffractor9 Sep 2021 4:24 UTC
47 points
3 comments18 min readLW link

Select­ing the De­fault Browser in Face­book on Android

jefftk9 Sep 2021 0:50 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Irv­ine, CA – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

Nick8 Sep 2021 23:35 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How to Find a Problem

J Bostock8 Sep 2021 20:05 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

A Tax­on­omy of Research

J Bostock8 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #163]: Us­ing finite fac­tored sets for causal and tem­po­ral inference

Rohin Shah8 Sep 2021 17:20 UTC
41 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Jonathan Blow at the As­tralCodexTen On­line Meetup

JoshuaFox8 Sep 2021 16:50 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Ex­ter­nal Event] 2022 IEEE Con­fer­ence on As­sured Au­ton­omy (ICAA)

Aryeh Englander8 Sep 2021 16:31 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(iaa.jhu.edu)

Gra­di­ent de­scent is not just more effi­cient ge­netic algorithms

leogao8 Sep 2021 16:23 UTC
55 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Dist­in­guish­ing AI takeover scenarios

8 Sep 2021 16:19 UTC
72 points
11 comments14 min readLW link

Sam Alt­man Q&A Notes—Aftermath

p.b.8 Sep 2021 8:20 UTC
45 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 7: Wildfire

lsusr8 Sep 2021 5:35 UTC
48 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

As­sign­ing prob­a­bil­ities to meta­phys­i­cal ideas

Jotto9998 Sep 2021 0:15 UTC
14 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

The Du­pli­ca­tor: In­stant Clon­ing Would Make the World Econ­omy Explode

HoldenKarnofsky8 Sep 2021 0:06 UTC
61 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

Con­flict in Kri­orus be­comes hot to­day, up­dated, up­date 2

avturchin7 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
49 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment via man­u­ally im­ple­ment­ing the util­ity function

Chantiel7 Sep 2021 20:20 UTC
1 point
6 comments2 min readLW link

Bay Area Win­ter Sols­tice 2021

mingyuan7 Sep 2021 20:11 UTC
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Wanted: Chief of Staff for The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford7 Sep 2021 17:26 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Multi-Agent In­verse Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: Subop­ti­mal De­mon­stra­tions and Alter­na­tive Solu­tion Concepts

sage_bergerson7 Sep 2021 16:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Tasks apps w/​ time es­ti­mates to gauge how much you’ll over­shoot?

emily.fan7 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong is pro­vid­ing feed­back and proofread­ing on drafts as a service

Ruby7 Sep 2021 1:33 UTC
294 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

Co­or­di­na­tion Schemes Are Cap­i­tal Investments

Raemon6 Sep 2021 23:27 UTC
139 points
31 comments7 min readLW link1 review

I read “White Frag­ility” so you don’t have to (but maybe you should)

David Gross6 Sep 2021 22:31 UTC
39 points
103 comments7 min readLW link

How much should we value life?

Adam Zerner6 Sep 2021 22:30 UTC
30 points
25 comments38 min readLW link

Mex­ico City, Mex­ico – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

Econometric Structuralist6 Sep 2021 21:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Three Prin­ci­ples to Writ­ing Origi­nal Nonfiction

lsusr6 Sep 2021 20:08 UTC
32 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Lots of Hooks

jefftk6 Sep 2021 18:50 UTC
12 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Con­di­tional on the first AGI be­ing al­igned cor­rectly, is a good out­come even still likely?

iamthouthouarti6 Sep 2021 17:30 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What Motte and Baileys are ra­tio­nal­ists most likely to en­gage in?

Chris_Leong6 Sep 2021 15:58 UTC
28 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

A Primer on the Sym­me­try The­ory of Valence

Michael Edward Johnson6 Sep 2021 11:39 UTC
21 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How does your data backup solu­tion setup work?

ChristianKl6 Sep 2021 9:10 UTC
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Sols­tice look­ing for volunteers

mingyuan6 Sep 2021 6:45 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Link post] When pool­ing fore­casts, use the ge­o­met­ric mean of odds

Jsevillamol6 Sep 2021 6:45 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)