Covid 10/​20/​22: Wait, We Did WHAT?

Zvi20 Oct 2022 21:50 UTC
55 points
16 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When ap­par­ently pos­i­tive ev­i­dence can be nega­tive evidence

cata20 Oct 2022 21:47 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Plans Are Pre­dic­tions, Not Op­ti­miza­tion Targets

johnswentworth20 Oct 2022 21:17 UTC
106 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review

In­tro­duc­tion to ab­stract entropy

Alex_Altair20 Oct 2022 21:03 UTC
229 points
78 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Tra­jec­to­ries to 2036

ukc1001420 Oct 2022 20:23 UTC
3 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

[Question] Rough Sketch for Product to En­hance Ci­ti­zen Par­ti­ci­pa­tion in Politics

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz20 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The her­i­ta­bil­ity of hu­man val­ues: A be­hav­ior ge­netic cri­tique of Shard Theory

geoffreymiller20 Oct 2022 15:51 UTC
80 points
59 comments21 min readLW link

A Longter­mist case against Veganism

Connor Tabarrok20 Oct 2022 14:30 UTC
−3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI Re­search Pro­gram Pre­dic­tion Markets

tailcalled20 Oct 2022 13:42 UTC
38 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the mean­ing of words cho­sen/​in­ter­preted to max­i­mize cor­re­la­tions with other rele­vant queries?

tailcalled20 Oct 2022 10:03 UTC
9 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How to Write Read­able Posts

David Hartsough20 Oct 2022 7:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on “Can you con­trol the past”

So8res20 Oct 2022 3:41 UTC
57 points
41 comments21 min readLW link

Rhyth­mic Baby Toys

jefftk20 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What Does AI Align­ment Suc­cess Look Like?

shminux20 Oct 2022 0:32 UTC
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Scal­ing Laws for Re­ward Model Overoptimization

20 Oct 2022 0:20 UTC
102 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

What is Con­scious­ness?

belkarx19 Oct 2022 21:14 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

What to do if a nu­clear weapon is used in Ukraine?

Just Learning19 Oct 2022 18:43 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If I asked for an ex­pla­na­tion of a perfect Utopia, could you give one?

Akkira19 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we push for re­quiring AI train­ing data to be li­censed?

ChristianKl19 Oct 2022 17:49 UTC
37 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Hacker-AI and Digi­tal Ghosts – Pre-AGI

Erland Wittkotter19 Oct 2022 15:33 UTC
9 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

The re­ward func­tion is already how well you ma­nipu­late humans

Kerry19 Oct 2022 1:52 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sponse to Katja Grace’s AI x-risk counterarguments

19 Oct 2022 1:17 UTC
77 points
18 comments15 min readLW link

An Ex­tremely Opinionated An­no­tated List of My Favourite Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Papers

Neel Nanda18 Oct 2022 21:08 UTC
70 points
5 comments12 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Distil­led Rep­re­sen­ta­tions Re­search Agenda

18 Oct 2022 20:59 UTC
15 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Draft­ing a Covid Survey

jefftk18 Oct 2022 19:30 UTC
15 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How To Make Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Use­ful For Align­ment Work

johnswentworth18 Oct 2022 19:01 UTC
97 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

A con­ver­sa­tion about Katja’s coun­ter­ar­gu­ments to AI risk

18 Oct 2022 18:40 UTC
43 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

ACX Zurich Oc­to­ber Meetup

MB18 Oct 2022 18:24 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Un­tapped Po­ten­tial at 13-18

belkarx18 Oct 2022 18:09 UTC
82 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How easy is it to su­per­vise pro­cesses vs out­comes?

Noosphere8918 Oct 2022 17:48 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is GitHub Copi­lot in le­gal trou­ble?

tcelferact18 Oct 2022 16:19 UTC
35 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus is build­ing a team ded­i­cated to AI forecasting

ChristianWilliams18 Oct 2022 16:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Take Over the Uni­verse (in Three Easy Steps)

Writer18 Oct 2022 15:04 UTC
47 points
17 comments12 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Science of Deep Learn­ing—a tech­ni­cal agenda

Marius Hobbhahn18 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC
36 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

My search for a re­li­able breakfast

tomdekan18 Oct 2022 9:42 UTC
6 points
17 comments3 min readLW link
(www.tomdekan.com)

In­finite Pos­si­bil­ity Space and the Shut­down Problem

magfrump18 Oct 2022 5:37 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.magfrump.net)

Au­di­tion to perform in Bay Sec­u­lar Solstice

mingyuan18 Oct 2022 3:10 UTC
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory does not im­ply that we get to have nice things

So8res18 Oct 2022 3:04 UTC
165 points
58 comments26 min readLW link2 reviews

South Bay ACX/​LW Meetup

IS18 Oct 2022 2:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ver­ti­cal Flutes

jefftk18 Oct 2022 1:40 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why Weren’t Hot Air Bal­loons In­vented Sooner?

Lost Futures18 Oct 2022 0:41 UTC
115 points
52 comments6 min readLW link
(lostfutures.substack.com)

Is GPT-N bounded by hu­man ca­pa­bil­ities? No.

Cleo Nardo17 Oct 2022 23:26 UTC
48 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (10 − 16 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams17 Oct 2022 22:51 UTC
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A prag­matic met­ric for Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral Intelligence

lorepieri17 Oct 2022 22:07 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(lorenzopieri.com)

They gave LLMs ac­cess to physics simulators

ryan_b17 Oct 2022 21:21 UTC
50 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Com­bat­ting perfectionism

tomdekan17 Oct 2022 20:58 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(tomdekan.com)

Open Prob­lem in Vot­ing Theory

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 20:42 UTC
75 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Max­i­mal Lot­tery-Lotteries

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 20:39 UTC
64 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Creat­ing su­per­in­tel­li­gence with­out AGI

Antb17 Oct 2022 19:01 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Ideas: An Open AI Safety Re­search Platform

Esben Kran17 Oct 2022 17:01 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link