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[Question]
Do any AI alignment orgs hire remotely?
RobertM
Feb 21, 2022, 10:33 PM
24
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Convoy Crackdown
Zvi
Feb 21, 2022, 10:10 PM
92
points
21
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Ngo and Yudkowsky on scientific reasoning and pivotal acts
Eliezer Yudkowsky
and
Richard_Ngo
Feb 21, 2022, 8:54 PM
67
points
14
comments
35
min read
LW
link
Direct Observation
LoganStrohl
Feb 21, 2022, 8:51 PM
43
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Alignment research exercises
Richard_Ngo
Feb 21, 2022, 8:24 PM
150
points
17
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Summary/Review/Quotes of “The WEIRDest People in the World” by Joseph Henrich
Torello
Feb 21, 2022, 8:03 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeking models of LW’s aversion to religion
Visible_Ignorance
Feb 21, 2022, 6:54 PM
24
points
52
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Contest for outlining rules for this contest.
abramdemski
Feb 21, 2022, 6:44 PM
40
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Favorite / most obscure research on understanding DNNs?
Vivek Hebbar
Feb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Big Picture Of Alignment (Talk Part 1)
johnswentworth
Feb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
104
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Two Challenges for ELK
derek shiller
Feb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
7
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Review: Václav Havel’s “The Power of the Powerless”
David Gross
Feb 21, 2022, 2:18 AM
43
points
1
comment
26
min read
LW
link
Prizes for the 2020 Review
Raemon
Feb 20, 2022, 9:07 PM
94
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Generalization of the Solomonoff Induction to Accuracy—Is it possible? Would it be useful?
PeterL
Feb 20, 2022, 7:29 PM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Practitioner: Novice
The Guild of the Rose
Feb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM
25
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
[Question]
2 (naive?) ideas for alignment
Jonathan Moregård
Feb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Review: G.E.M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy”
David Gross
Feb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM
24
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Russian x-risks newsletter winter 21-22, war risks update.
avturchin
Feb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM
29
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anticorrelated Noise Injection for Improved Generalization
tailcalled
Feb 20, 2022, 10:15 AM
2
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Breaking the SIA with an exponentially-Sleeping Beauty
0naut
Feb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM
8
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Books Worthy of Integration
Roven Skyfal
Feb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM
15
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How Many (Smallish) Organic Compounds Are There?
chemslug
Feb 20, 2022, 4:43 AM
22
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Microcovid Becoming Less Useful
jefftk
Feb 20, 2022, 3:50 AM
59
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How to estimate confidence intervals for fermi estimate?
Sønderjye
Feb 20, 2022, 1:26 AM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
12 interesting things I learned studying the discovery of nature’s laws
Ben Pace
Feb 19, 2022, 11:39 PM
268
points
40
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
What The Foucault
adamShimi
Feb 19, 2022, 10:48 PM
39
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is veganism morally correct?
FinalFormal2
Feb 19, 2022, 9:20 PM
−4
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Observation
LoganStrohl
Feb 19, 2022, 6:47 PM
84
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Alignment researchers, how useful is extra compute for you?
Lauro Langosco
Feb 19, 2022, 3:35 PM
8
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Mechanism design / queueing theory for government to sell visas
RyanCarey
Feb 19, 2022, 12:33 PM
5
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on Dangerous Learned Optimization
peterbarnett
Feb 19, 2022, 10:46 AM
4
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
SPARC Applications Are Now Live!
CitizenTen
Feb 19, 2022, 2:15 AM
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Dallas February LessWrong/ACX Meetup
nomagicpill
Feb 19, 2022, 1:28 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
HCH and Adversarial Questions
David Udell
Feb 19, 2022, 12:52 AM
15
points
7
comments
26
min read
LW
link
Encouragement to Instill Confidence?
Zvi
Feb 18, 2022, 10:30 PM
16
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Misc thematic links
HoldenKarnofsky
Feb 18, 2022, 10:00 PM
12
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Abundance and scarcity; working forwards and working backwards
Quinn
Feb 18, 2022, 7:05 PM
29
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Non-Fungible Costs
hawkebia
Feb 18, 2022, 5:15 PM
13
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Why you are psychologically screwed up
R Bruns
Feb 18, 2022, 5:07 PM
44
points
13
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
Feb 18, 2022, 10:45 AM
44
points
16
comments
65
min read
LW
link
Monks of Magnitude
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Feb 18, 2022, 7:48 AM
114
points
50
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
[untitled post]
dawangy
Feb 18, 2022, 7:06 AM
1
point
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Implications of automated ontology identification
Alex Flint
,
adamShimi
and
Robert Miles
Feb 18, 2022, 3:30 AM
69
points
27
comments
23
min read
LW
link
A scheme for sampling durable goods first-hand before making a purchase
riceissa
Feb 17, 2022, 11:36 PM
29
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is the competition/cooperation between symbolic AI and statistical AI (ML) about historical approach to research / engineering, or is it more fundamentally about what intelligent agents “are”?
Edward Hammond
17 Feb 2022 23:11 UTC
1
point
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
The Kindness Project
soth02
17 Feb 2022 20:24 UTC
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Interlude: On Realness
LoganStrohl
17 Feb 2022 19:02 UTC
63
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Covid 2/17/22: Coasting Downwards
Zvi
17 Feb 2022 15:20 UTC
32
points
10
comments
28
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Twitter thread on postrationalists
Eli Tyre
17 Feb 2022 9:02 UTC
143
points
32
comments
5
min read
LW
link
REPL’s and ELK
scottviteri
17 Feb 2022 1:14 UTC
9
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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