We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworthJan 1, 2022, 8:06 PM
283 points
16 comments3 min readLW link1 review

An Ob­ser­va­tion of Vav­ilov Day

ElizabethJan 3, 2022, 9:10 PM
236 points
42 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer YudkowskyJan 12, 2022, 6:20 AM
230 points
79 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Brain Effi­ciency: Much More than You Wanted to Know

jacob_cannellJan 6, 2022, 3:38 AM
201 points
103 comments29 min readLW link

Look For Prin­ci­ples Which Will Carry Over To The Next Paradigm

johnswentworthJan 14, 2022, 8:22 PM
182 points
7 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Post­mortem on DIY Re­com­bi­nant Covid Vaccine

caffemacchiavelliJan 22, 2022, 2:12 PM
179 points
27 comments5 min readLW link1 review

What’s Up With Con­fus­ingly Per­va­sive Goal Direct­ed­ness?

RaemonJan 20, 2022, 7:22 PM
172 points
89 comments4 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the prob­lem & Why work on it now?

Steven ByrnesJan 26, 2022, 3:23 PM
159 points
19 comments26 min readLW link

Prizes for ELK proposals

paulfchristianoJan 3, 2022, 8:23 PM
150 points
152 comments7 min readLW link

Use Nor­mal Predictions

Jan Christian RefsgaardJan 9, 2022, 3:01 PM
148 points
67 comments6 min readLW link

More Is Differ­ent for AI

jsteinhardtJan 4, 2022, 7:30 PM
140 points
24 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

[New Fea­ture] Sup­port for Foot­notes!

RubyJan 4, 2022, 7:35 AM
134 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Third Time: a bet­ter way to work

bfinnJan 7, 2022, 9:15 PM
133 points
76 comments8 min readLW link

Long covid: prob­a­bly worth avoid­ing—some considerations

KatjaGraceJan 16, 2022, 11:46 AM
127 points
88 comments14 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Land Ho!

ZviJan 20, 2022, 1:30 PM
120 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Fu­ture ML Sys­tems Will Be Qual­i­ta­tively Different

jsteinhardtJan 11, 2022, 7:50 PM
119 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Lives of the Cam­bridge poly­math geniuses

Owain_EvansJan 25, 2022, 4:45 AM
108 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

The Liar and the Scold

Tomás B.Jan 20, 2022, 8:31 PM
104 points
13 comments12 min readLW link

How To Raise Others’ Aspira­tions in 17 Easy Steps

chanamessingerJan 6, 2022, 12:14 AM
100 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Try­ing to Keep the Gar­den Well

Tobias HJan 16, 2022, 5:42 AM
99 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Im­pli­ca­tions of Civ­i­liza­tional Inad­e­quacy (re­view­ing mazes/​simu­lacra/​etc)

RaemonJan 21, 2022, 1:45 AM
93 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

Ac­ti­vated Char­coal for Han­gover Preven­tion: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell PetersonJan 10, 2022, 7:26 PM
87 points
31 comments31 min readLW link1 review

A one-ques­tion Tur­ing test for GPT-3

Jan 22, 2022, 6:17 PM
85 points
25 comments5 min readLW link

Lat­eral Think­ing (AI safety HPMOR fan­fic)

SlytherinsMonsterJan 2, 2022, 11:50 PM
77 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Sur­vey sup­ports ‘long covid is bad’ hy­poth­e­sis (very ten­ta­tive)

KatjaGraceJan 14, 2022, 2:50 PM
76 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Cal­ibra­tion proverbs

MalmesburyJan 11, 2022, 5:11 AM
76 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/​13/​22: Endgame

ZviJan 13, 2022, 6:10 PM
75 points
2 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Challenges with Break­ing into MIRI-Style Research

Chris_LeongJan 17, 2022, 9:23 AM
75 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Omicron Post #12

ZviJan 4, 2022, 3:50 PM
75 points
21 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why do we need a NEW philos­o­phy of progress?

jasoncrawfordJan 25, 2022, 5:28 PM
75 points
26 comments8 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

2020 Re­view Article

VaniverJan 14, 2022, 4:58 AM
74 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

List of Prob­a­bil­ity Cal­ibra­tion Exercises

Isaac KingJan 23, 2022, 2:12 AM
74 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/​6/​22: The Blip

ZviJan 6, 2022, 6:30 PM
68 points
21 comments25 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why ra­tio­nal­ists should care (more) about free software

RichardJActonJan 23, 2022, 5:31 PM
66 points
42 comments5 min readLW link

ELK First Round Con­test Winners

Jan 26, 2022, 2:56 AM
65 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Truth­ful LMs as a warm-up for al­igned AGI

Jacob_HiltonJan 17, 2022, 4:49 PM
65 points
14 comments13 min readLW link

Omicron Post #13: Outlook

ZviJan 7, 2022, 9:20 PM
63 points
24 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Long Term Char­i­ties: Ap­ply for SFF Funding

ZviJan 25, 2022, 5:00 PM
62 points
0 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Shad­ows Of The Com­ing Race (1879)

CapybasiliskJan 3, 2022, 3:55 PM
61 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Re­view of the Liter­a­ture, such as It Is

Erich_GrunewaldJan 15, 2022, 12:07 PM
61 points
12 comments15 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Ap­ply for re­search in­tern­ships at ARC!

paulfchristianoJan 3, 2022, 8:26 PM
61 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

You Can Get Fluvoxamine

AppliedDivinityStudiesJan 18, 2022, 11:48 PM
60 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing isn’t about sig­nal­ing, it’s about Goodhart

ValentineJan 6, 2022, 6:49 PM
59 points
31 comments9 min readLW link

ML Sys­tems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardtJan 26, 2022, 1:40 AM
57 points
8 comments6 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Look­ing back at 2021

NunoSempereJan 27, 2022, 8:08 PM
57 points
6 comments9 min readLW link
(forecasting.substack.com)

Pa­tron Saint Holidays

RaemonJan 26, 2022, 9:26 AM
56 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 1/​20/​22: Peak Omicron

ZviJan 20, 2022, 4:20 PM
56 points
21 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scott Alexan­der 2021 Pre­dic­tions: Mar­ket Prices—Resolution

SimonMJan 2, 2022, 11:55 AM
56 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

How I’m think­ing about GPT-N

delton137Jan 17, 2022, 5:11 PM
54 points
21 comments18 min readLW link

Omicron Post #14

ZviJan 13, 2022, 6:00 PM
53 points
21 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)