The Du­pli­ca­tor: In­stant Clon­ing Would Make the World Econ­omy Explode

HoldenKarnofskySep 8, 2021, 12:06 AM
63 points
39 comments7 min readLW link

Covid 9/​17: Done Bi­den His Time

ZviSep 17, 2021, 12:00 PM
63 points
14 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Un­solved ML Safety Problems

jsteinhardtSep 29, 2021, 4:00 PM
61 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Or­di­nary Peo­ple and Ex­traor­di­nary Evil: A Re­port on the Beguil­ings of Evil

David GrossSep 20, 2021, 3:19 PM
58 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

How truth­ful is GPT-3? A bench­mark for lan­guage models

Owain_EvansSep 16, 2021, 10:09 AM
58 points
24 comments6 min readLW link

What I’ve been do­ing in­stead of writing

benkuhnSep 12, 2021, 12:40 PM
57 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Three enig­mas at the heart of our reasoning

Alex FlintSep 21, 2021, 4:52 PM
56 points
66 comments9 min readLW link1 review

EA Han­gout Pri­son­ers’ Dilemma

Jeffrey LadishSep 27, 2021, 11:15 PM
55 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Gra­di­ent de­scent is not just more effi­cient ge­netic algorithms

leogaoSep 8, 2021, 4:23 PM
55 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-Aug­mented Blogging

lsusrSep 14, 2021, 11:55 AM
52 points
18 comments13 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Mul­ti­ple Im­perfect Filters

johnswentworthSep 15, 2021, 10:57 PM
51 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 7: Wildfire

lsusrSep 8, 2021, 5:35 AM
51 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

You can get feed­back on ideas and ex­ter­nal drafts too

RubySep 9, 2021, 9:06 PM
50 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Film Study for Research

jsteinhardtSep 14, 2021, 6:53 PM
50 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Con­flict in Kri­orus be­comes hot to­day, up­dated, up­date 2

avturchinSep 7, 2021, 9:40 PM
49 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Where’s my magic sword?

lsusrSep 27, 2021, 7:26 AM
48 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Mea­sure­ment, Op­ti­miza­tion, and Take-off Speed

jsteinhardtSep 10, 2021, 7:30 PM
48 points
4 comments13 min readLW link

Countably Fac­tored Spaces

DiffractorSep 9, 2021, 4:24 AM
47 points
3 comments18 min readLW link

Path­ways: Google’s AGI

Lê Nguyên HoangSep 25, 2021, 7:02 AM
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­fer the Bri­tish Style of Quo­ta­tion Mark Punc­tu­a­tion over the American

Erich_GrunewaldSep 11, 2021, 1:37 PM
46 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Sam Alt­man Q&A Notes—Aftermath

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

Bayeswatch 9: Zombies

lsusrSep 11, 2021, 5:57 AM
45 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm

aphyerSep 28, 2021, 11:19 PM
44 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

The Black­well or­der as a for­mal­iza­tion of knowledge

Alex FlintSep 10, 2021, 2:51 AM
41 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

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

Rohin ShahSep 8, 2021, 5:20 PM
41 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Re­search speedruns

drossbucketSep 17, 2021, 6:54 AM
40 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

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

David GrossSep 6, 2021, 10:31 PM
40 points
103 comments7 min readLW link

Sex-Pos­i­tivity is Countercultural

Jacob FalkovichSep 29, 2021, 6:22 PM
39 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Easily Top 20%

Jacob FalkovichSep 29, 2021, 6:24 PM
39 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Plea­sure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusrSep 9, 2021, 5:10 AM
38 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

De­sign­ing Low Up­keep Software

jefftkSep 25, 2021, 6:50 PM
38 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

aphyerSep 9, 2021, 2:03 PM
38 points
13 comments14 min readLW link

Carte­sian Frames and Fac­tored Sets on ArXiv

Scott GarrabrantSep 24, 2021, 4:58 AM
38 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Up­dates from Lev­er­age Re­search: His­tory and Re­cent Progress

LarissaRoweSep 27, 2021, 5:23 AM
38 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Blood Is Thicker Than Water 🐬

Zack_M_DavisSep 28, 2021, 3:21 AM
37 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Non­spe­cific discomfort

cousin_itSep 4, 2021, 2:15 PM
37 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Re­view: The End Is Always Near

ElizabethSep 27, 2021, 7:40 AM
37 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Equal Par­ent­ing Ad­vice for Dads

jefftkSep 12, 2021, 11:33 AM
36 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

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

CraigMichaelSep 2, 2021, 8:45 AM
35 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Book re­view: Shut Out

PeterMcCluskeySep 3, 2021, 7:07 PM
35 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Eco­nomic AI Safety

jsteinhardtSep 16, 2021, 8:50 PM
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Child­care III

jefftkSep 12, 2021, 1:30 AM
35 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 9/​9: Pass­ing the Peak

ZviSep 9, 2021, 4:10 PM
35 points
21 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Spon­sored] Job Hunt­ing in the Modern Economy

lsusrSep 1, 2021, 6:07 AM
35 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Digi­tal Peo­ple Would Be An Even Big­ger Deal

HoldenKarnofskySep 13, 2021, 3:23 PM
34 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

Truth + Rea­son = The True Reli­gion?

David GrossSep 17, 2021, 10:14 PM
34 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 8: Antimatter

lsusrSep 10, 2021, 5:01 AM
34 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Walkie-Talkies

jefftkSep 24, 2021, 1:10 AM
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Kids Roaming

jefftkSep 4, 2021, 2:20 PM
33 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

David Wolpert on Knowledge

Alex FlintSep 21, 2021, 1:54 AM
33 points
3 comments13 min readLW link