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[Question] Best resource to go from “typical smart tech-savvy person” to “person who gets AGI risk urgency”?

LironOct 15, 2022, 10:26 PM

16 points

8 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Bounded distrust or Bounded trust?

M. Y. ZuoOct 15, 2022, 4:41 PM

2 points

7 votes

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12 comments3 min readLW link

I learn better when I frame learning as Vengeance for losses incurred through ignorance, and you might too

chaosmageOct 15, 2022, 12:41 PM

84 points

44 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

James Norris from Upgradable on “What is Beyond Living a Principled Life”—OpenPrinciples Speaker Session

ti_guoOct 15, 2022, 3:27 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Quick Mock Brownie

jefftkOct 15, 2022, 3:00 AM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A common failure for foxes

Rob BensingerOct 14, 2022, 10:50 PM

48 points

32 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

“AGI soon, but Narrow works Better”

AnthonyRepettoOct 14, 2022, 9:35 PM

1 point

6 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

[Job]: AI Standards Development Research Assistant

Tony BarrettOct 14, 2022, 8:27 PM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Metaculus Launches the ‘Forecasting Our World In Data’ Project to Probe the Long-Term Future

ChristianWilliamsOct 14, 2022, 5:00 PM

15 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Instrumental convergence: scale and physical interactions

Edouard Harris and simonsdsuo

Oct 14, 2022, 3:50 PM

22 points

7 votes

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0 comments17 min readLW link

(www.gladstone.ai)

Counterarguments to the basic AI x-risk case

KatjaGraceOct 14, 2022, 1:00 PM

374 points

189 votes

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125 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

(aiimpacts.org)

Another problem with AI confinement: ordinary CPUs can work as radio transmitters

RomanSOct 14, 2022, 8:28 AM

36 points

23 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(news.softpedia.com)

[Question] How much of China’s Zero COVID policy is actually about COVID?

jmhOct 14, 2022, 7:23 AM

9 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Maximally Simple Belt Sander Stand

jefftkOct 14, 2022, 12:30 AM

9 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Contra shard theory, in the context of the diamond maximizer problem

So8resOct 13, 2022, 11:51 PM

105 points

56 votes

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19 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Greed Is the Root of This Evil

Thane RuthenisOct 13, 2022, 8:40 PM

21 points

10 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

Vehicle Platooning—a real world examination of the difficulties in coordination

M. Y. ZuoOct 13, 2022, 7:33 PM

24 points

13 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

The Vitalik Buterin Fellowship in AI Existential Safety is open for applications!

Xin Chen, CynthiaOct 13, 2022, 6:32 PM

21 points

8 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Feelings

Eris DiscordiaOct 13, 2022, 5:48 PM

9 points

11 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Against the normative realist’s wager

Joe CarlsmithOct 13, 2022, 4:35 PM

16 points

10 votes

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9 comments23 min readLW link

Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)

ZviOct 13, 2022, 3:40 PM

52 points

27 votes

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16 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Misalignment-by-default in multi-agent systems

Edouard Harris and simonsdsuo

Oct 13, 2022, 3:38 PM

21 points

10 votes

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8 comments20 min readLW link

(www.gladstone.ai)

A stubborn unbeliever finally gets the depth of the AI alignment problem

aelwoodOct 13, 2022, 3:16 PM

17 points

12 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Covid 10/13/22: Just the Facts

ZviOct 13, 2022, 2:40 PM

28 points

13 votes

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7 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic (Crosspost from EA forum)

Noosphere89Oct 13, 2022, 2:14 PM

9 points

3 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cataloguing Priors in Theory and Practice

Paul BricmanOct 13, 2022, 12:36 PM

13 points

5 votes

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8 comments7 min readLW link

Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon

jimrandomhOct 13, 2022, 6:25 AM

90 points

73 votes

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47 comments2 min readLW link

Cambridge LW Meetup: See the Invisible

Tony WangOct 13, 2022, 5:44 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Glossary Dance Game

jefftkOct 13, 2022, 2:20 AM

10 points

2 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Niceness is unnatural

So8resOct 13, 2022, 1:30 AM

134 points

55 votes

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20 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

A strange twist on the road to AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 11:27 PM

−8 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Help out Redwood Research’s interpretability team by finding heuristics implemented by GPT-2 small

Haoxing Du and Buck

Oct 12, 2022, 9:25 PM

50 points

26 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a comprehensive study of potential psychological causes of the ordinary range of variation of affective gender identity in males

tailcalledOct 12, 2022, 9:10 PM

56 points

23 votes

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7 comments37 min readLW link

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

CallumMcDougallOct 12, 2022, 9:07 PM

175 points

93 votes

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27 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(www.perfectlynormal.co.uk)

[MLSN #6]: Transparency survey, provable robustness, ML models that predict the future

Dan HOct 12, 2022, 8:56 PM

27 points

10 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Previous Work on Recreating Neural Network Input from Intermediate Layer Activations

bglassOct 12, 2022, 7:28 PM

1 point

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Be more effective by learning important practical knowledge using flashcards

StenemoOct 12, 2022, 6:05 PM

5 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Article Review: Google’s AlphaTensor

Robert_AIZIOct 12, 2022, 6:04 PM

8 points

5 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

Alignment 201 curriculum

Richard_NgoOct 12, 2022, 6:03 PM

102 points

40 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.agisafetyfundamentals.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12

jasoncrawfordOct 12, 2022, 4:59 PM

8 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Building a transformer from scratch—AI safety up-skilling challenge

Marius HobbhahnOct 12, 2022, 3:40 PM

42 points

21 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Instrumental convergence in single-agent systems

Edouard Harris and simonsdsuo

Oct 12, 2022, 12:24 PM

33 points

20 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

(www.gladstone.ai)

Singapore—Small casual dinner in Chinatown #5

Joe RoccaOct 12, 2022, 8:59 AM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

A game of mattering

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM

29 points

16 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Calibration of a thousand predictions

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM

59 points

23 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

My argument against AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 6:33 AM

7 points

8 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Actually, All Nuclear Famine Papers are Bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 5:58 AM

113 points

82 votes

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37 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Contingency is not arbitrary

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 12, 2022, 4:35 AM

13 points

8 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

That one apocalyptic nuclear famine paper is bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 3:33 AM

110 points

60 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

AstralCodexTen and Rationality Meetup Organisers’ Retreat Asia Pacific region

Oct 12, 2022, 3:20 AM

14 points

6 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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