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The Village and the River Monsters… Or: Less Fighting, More Brainstorming

ExCephOct 3, 2022, 11:01 PM

7 points

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29 comments8 min readLW link

(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Recall and Regurgitation in GPT2

Megan KinnimentOct 3, 2022, 7:35 PM

43 points

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Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know

George3d6Oct 3, 2022, 3:02 PM

31 points

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(doyourownresearch.substack.com)

If you want to learn technical AI safety, here’s a list of AI safety courses, reading lists, and resources

KatWoodsOct 3, 2022, 12:43 PM

12 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

October Budapest Less Wrong/ACX meetup

Richard HorvathOct 3, 2022, 10:53 AM

2 points

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A review of the Bio-Anchors report

jylin04Oct 3, 2022, 10:27 AM

45 points

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Data for IRL: What is needed to learn human values?

j_weOct 3, 2022, 9:23 AM

18 points

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6 comments12 min readLW link

Statistics for objects with shared identities

Q HomeOct 3, 2022, 9:21 AM

2 points

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7 comments4 min readLW link

Visualizing Learned Representations of Rice Disease

muhia_beeOct 3, 2022, 9:09 AM

7 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(indecisive-sand-24a.notion.site)

[Question] Is there a culture overhang?

Aleksi LiimatainenOct 3, 2022, 7:26 AM

18 points

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Baby Monitor with Delay

jefftkOct 3, 2022, 1:40 AM

12 points

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What makes a probability question “well-defined”? (Part I)

Noah TopperOct 2, 2022, 9:05 PM

14 points

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4 comments7 min readLW link

(naivebayes.substack.com)

Against the weirdness heuristic

Eleni AngelouOct 2, 2022, 7:41 PM

17 points

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Easy fixing Voting

Charbel-RaphaëlOct 2, 2022, 5:03 PM

12 points

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Monthly Shorts 9/22, and An Essay in Defense of Technodeterminism

CelerOct 2, 2022, 4:10 PM

10 points

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1 comment5 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

Open & Welcome Thread—Oct 2022

niplavOct 2, 2022, 11:04 AM

17 points

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62 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any further work on AI Safety Success Stories?

KriegerOct 2, 2022, 9:53 AM

8 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Request for feedback on sample blurbs for the EA fantasy novel I wrote

Timothy UnderwoodOct 2, 2022, 9:01 AM

8 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Paper: Large Language Models Can Self-improve [Linkpost]

Evan R. MurphyOct 2, 2022, 1:29 AM

52 points

30 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

(openreview.net)

Four usages of “loss” in AI

TurnTroutOct 2, 2022, 12:52 AM

46 points

19 votes

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18 comments4 min readLW link

The computational complexity of progress

MalmesburyOct 1, 2022, 9:50 PM

21 points

12 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Company leadership and tactical decisions

DentinOct 1, 2022, 9:21 PM

21 points

5 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying Your Principles

RaemonOct 1, 2022, 9:20 PM

60 points

27 votes

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10 comments9 min readLW link

How I Make Diagrams

jefftkOct 1, 2022, 9:10 PM

14 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Are c-sections underrated?

bracesOct 1, 2022, 8:32 PM

47 points

23 votes

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15 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Do anthropic considerations undercut the evolution anchor from the Bio Anchors report?

Ege ErdilOct 1, 2022, 8:02 PM

22 points

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13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Potential infinite value

[deleted]Oct 1, 2022, 7:45 PM

3 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

AGI by 2050 probability less than 1%

fuminOct 1, 2022, 7:45 PM

−10 points

13 votes

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4 comments9 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

[Question] What sorts of preparations ought I do in case of further escalation in Ukraine?

tailcalledOct 1, 2022, 4:44 PM

47 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Interesting predictions on manifold.markets

jmhOct 1, 2022, 4:09 PM

6 points

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[Question] What’s the actual evidence that AI marketing tools are changing preferences in a way that makes them easier to predict?

EmrikOct 1, 2022, 3:21 PM

11 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Google could build a conscious AI in three months

derek shillerOct 1, 2022, 1:24 PM

10 points

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18 comments7 min readLW link

Announcing the AI Safety Nudge Competition to Help Beat Procrastination

Marc CarauleanuOct 1, 2022, 1:49 AM

10 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

A Few Terrifying Facts About The Russo-Ukrainian War

Pee DoomSep 30, 2022, 9:34 PM

70 points

61 votes

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105 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What Is the Idea Behind (Un-)Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning?

MorpheusSep 30, 2022, 4:48 PM

9 points

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Do insects’ lives matter?

CarnSep 30, 2022, 3:38 PM

0 points

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Another Loft Bed

jefftkSep 30, 2022, 2:50 PM

5 points

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Eli’s review of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

eliflandSep 30, 2022, 12:21 PM

67 points

19 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Truth-Seeking: Reason vs. Intuition

sakrafSep 30, 2022, 12:12 PM

4 points

3 votes

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7 comments4 min readLW link

(Structural) Stability of Coupled Optimizers

Paul BricmanSep 30, 2022, 11:28 AM

25 points

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0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Rank the following based on likelihood to nullify AI-risk

AorouSep 30, 2022, 11:15 AM

3 points

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1 comment4 min readLW link

The Importance-Avoidance Effect

David HartsoughSep 30, 2022, 10:09 AM

19 points

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7 comments10 min readLW link

History of the theory of well-being

David HartsoughSep 30, 2022, 10:08 AM

5 points

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0 comments23 min readLW link

Media Publication Governed by Prediction Markets

joao_abrantesSep 30, 2022, 10:01 AM

1 point

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If it seems intuitive, you’re not building intuition

myutinSep 30, 2022, 7:46 AM

4 points

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linkpost: loss basin visualization

Nathan Helm-BurgerSep 30, 2022, 3:42 AM

14 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

How To Observe Abstract Objects

LoganStrohlSep 30, 2022, 2:11 AM

54 points

18 votes

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12 comments21 min readLW link 1 review

Prioritizing Parental Sleep

jefftkSep 30, 2022, 2:10 AM

77 points

42 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Bruce Wayne and the Cost of Inaction

TurnTrout and DivineMango

Sep 30, 2022, 12:19 AM

89 points

43 votes

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5 comments21 min readLW link

Distribution Shifts and The Importance of AI Safety

Leon LangSep 29, 2022, 10:38 PM

17 points

9 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

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