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[Question] Is there a name for the theory that “There will be fast takeoff in real-world capabilities because almost everything is AGI-complete”?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Sep 2, 2021, 11:00 PM

31 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Is Expertise With Reality

Horatio Von BeckerSep 2, 2021, 8:45 PM

−14 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Selection Incentive

aysajanSep 2, 2021, 8:26 PM

13 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Podcast Club: Martin Gurri on the Revolt of the Public & Crisis of Authority

Aditya KediaSep 2, 2021, 8:09 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Review: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels

L Rudolf LSep 2, 2021, 5:59 PM

28 points

7 comments25 min readLW link

(strataoftheworld.blogspot.com)

Addendum to “Amyloid Plaques: Medical Goodhart, Chemical Streetlight”

J BostockSep 2, 2021, 5:42 PM

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Lakshmi’s Magic Rope: An Intuitive Explanation of Ramanujan Primes

DirectedEvolutionSep 2, 2021, 4:36 PM

16 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Formalizing Objections against Surrogate Goals

VojtaKovarikSep 2, 2021, 4:24 PM

16 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/2: Long Covid Analysis

ZviSep 2, 2021, 2:50 PM

70 points

15 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Competent Preferences

Charlie SteinerSep 2, 2021, 2:26 PM

30 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Good software to draw and manipulate causal networks?

J BostockSep 2, 2021, 2:05 PM

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Growth of prediction markets over time?

Daniel KokotajloSep 2, 2021, 1:43 PM

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

We are failing to see how much better off humanity could be (transparent monsters part 2)

WriterSep 2, 2021, 10:52 AM

7 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

A lost 80s/90s metaphor: playing the demo

CraigMichaelSep 2, 2021, 8:45 AM

35 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

Blind Spots in Science and Culture

rogersbaconSep 2, 2021, 12:02 AM

7 points

3 comments15 min readLW link

Intelligence, Fast and Slow

Mateusz MazurkiewiczSep 1, 2021, 7:52 PM

−3 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

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

aphyerSep 1, 2021, 5:43 PM

31 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: August 2021

NunoSempereSep 1, 2021, 5:01 PM

20 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Tasker actions which save me time and sanity

just_browsingSep 1, 2021, 2:49 PM

30 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

US Military Global Information Dominance Experiments

NunoSempereSep 1, 2021, 1:34 PM

25 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.defense.gov)

Guide to Warwick, New York

ZviSep 1, 2021, 1:30 PM

21 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Open & Welcome Thread September 2021

Horatio Von BeckerSep 1, 2021, 8:58 AM

16 points

65 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem

ElizabethSep 1, 2021, 7:20 AM

201 points

40 comments10 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Petition To Make Inarticulate Downvoting More Difficult

Horatio Von BeckerSep 1, 2021, 6:23 AM

−2 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Sponsored] Job Hunting in the Modern Economy

lsusrSep 1, 2021, 6:07 AM

35 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

NIST AI Risk Management Framework request for information (RFI)

Aryeh EnglanderSep 1, 2021, 12:15 AM

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Call for research on evaluating alignment (funding + advice available)

Beth BarnesAug 31, 2021, 11:28 PM

105 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos

Sam EnrightAug 31, 2021, 11:11 PM

33 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Reward splintering as reverse of interpretability

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2021, 10:27 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Applications

Scott GarrabrantAug 31, 2021, 9:19 PM

34 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Inferring Time

Scott GarrabrantAug 31, 2021, 9:18 PM

23 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

What are biases, anyway? Multiple type signatures

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 31, 2021, 9:16 PM

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

From Branes to Brains. How mathematical physics can be used in life sciences.

From_Branes_to_BrainsAug 31, 2021, 7:40 PM

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Crosspost] On Hreha On Behavioral Economics

Scott AlexanderAug 31, 2021, 6:14 PM

104 points

7 comments22 min readLW link

The Telephone Theorem: Information At A Distance Is Mediated By Deterministic Constraints

johnswentworthAug 31, 2021, 4:50 PM

96 points

26 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] What could small scale disasters from AI look like?

CharlesDAug 31, 2021, 3:52 PM

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Grokking the Intentional Stance

jbkjrAug 31, 2021, 3:49 PM

47 points

22 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 4

gilch and konstell

Aug 31, 2021, 7:56 AM

14 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

World War Zero

lsusrAug 31, 2021, 7:22 AM

54 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Exercise Trade Offs

ElizabethAug 31, 2021, 2:40 AM

32 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How much COVID protection is gained from protecting your eyes?

Davis_KingsleyAug 31, 2021, 1:18 AM

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Ljubljana—ACX Meetups Everywhere 2021

VesterDeAug 31, 2021, 12:50 AM

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Quote Quiz

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 30, 2021, 11:30 PM

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

We Live in an Era of Unprecedented World Peace

lsusrAug 30, 2021, 10:25 PM

27 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Research = Conceptual Alignment Research + Applied Alignment Research

adamShimiAug 30, 2021, 9:13 PM

37 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Antidotes to Number Numbness

CollisteruAug 30, 2021, 8:17 PM

12 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Causal without correlation, how?

MoritzGAug 30, 2021, 4:43 PM

2 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A short introduction to machine learning

Richard_NgoAug 30, 2021, 2:31 PM

95 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Beware of small world puzzles

mukashiAug 30, 2021, 6:00 AM

59 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Infectious Disease

lsusrAug 30, 2021, 1:31 AM

60 points

8 comments2 min readLW link