Counter-the­ses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC
441 points
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It Looks Like You’re Try­ing To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC
404 points
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(www.gwern.net)

Why Agent Foun­da­tions? An Overly Ab­stract Explanation

johnswentworth25 Mar 2022 23:17 UTC
294 points
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Do a cost-benefit anal­y­sis of your tech­nol­ogy usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
191 points
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Have You Tried Hiring Peo­ple?

rank-biserial2 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC
185 points
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Search­ing for outliers

benkuhn21 Mar 2022 2:40 UTC
169 points
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(www.benkuhn.net)

Beyond Blame Minimization

physicaleconomics27 Mar 2022 0:03 UTC
137 points
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ELK prize results

9 Mar 2022 0:01 UTC
135 points
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We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
133 points
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Meadow Theory

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien9 Mar 2022 17:13 UTC
132 points
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[Closed] Job Offer­ing: Help Com­mu­ni­cate Infrabayesianism

23 Mar 2022 18:35 UTC
129 points
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My cur­rent thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC
128 points
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I left Rus­sia on March 8

avturchin10 Mar 2022 20:05 UTC
127 points
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A Longlist of The­o­ries of Im­pact for Interpretability

Neel Nanda11 Mar 2022 14:55 UTC
127 points
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The Wicked Prob­lem Experience

HoldenKarnofsky2 Mar 2022 17:50 UTC
124 points
6 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(www.cold-takes.com)

Ukraine Si­tu­a­tion Re­port 2022/​03/​01

lsusr2 Mar 2022 5:07 UTC
121 points
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Dual use of ar­tifi­cial-in­tel­li­gence-pow­ered drug discovery

Vaniver15 Mar 2022 2:52 UTC
93 points
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(www.nature.com)

Beyond micromarriages

Richard_Ngo11 Mar 2022 3:40 UTC
91 points
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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

PSA: if you are in Rus­sia, prob­a­bly move out ASAP

yagudin3 Mar 2022 20:01 UTC
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Jet­lag, Nausea, and Diar­rhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC
89 points
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Ukraine Post #2: Options

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
84 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­search Ham­ming Questions

johnswentworth22 Mar 2022 0:16 UTC
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You can tell a draw­ing from a painting

alkexr7 Mar 2022 11:45 UTC
81 points
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 7. From hard­coded drives to fore­sighted plans: A worked example

Steven Byrnes9 Mar 2022 14:28 UTC
78 points
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Only needs a fly­ing saucer

Mary Chernyshenko18 Mar 2022 15:11 UTC
76 points
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Is Me­tac­u­lus Slow to Up­date?

SimonM25 Mar 2022 19:44 UTC
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New GPT3 Im­pres­sive Ca­pa­bil­ities—In­struc­tGPT3 [1/​2]

simeon_c13 Mar 2022 10:58 UTC
72 points
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Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information

Zvi21 Mar 2022 14:00 UTC
71 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ukraine Si­tu­a­tion Re­port 2022/​03/​04

lsusr5 Mar 2022 6:44 UTC
71 points
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Les­sons After a Cou­ple Months of Try­ing to Do ML Research

KevinRoWang22 Mar 2022 23:45 UTC
70 points
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Gears-Level Men­tal Models of Trans­former Interpretability

KevinRoWang29 Mar 2022 20:09 UTC
70 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big pic­ture of mo­ti­va­tion, de­ci­sion-mak­ing, and RL

Steven Byrnes2 Mar 2022 15:26 UTC
68 points
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[Let­ter] Rus­si­ans are Wel­come in America

lsusr5 Mar 2022 10:15 UTC
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How to Best Use Twitter

Zvi7 Mar 2022 15:40 UTC
61 points
8 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Civ­i­liza­tion as Self-Restraint

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Mar 2022 0:31 UTC
60 points
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Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
59 points
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How to Make Your Ar­ti­cle Change Peo­ple’s Minds or Ac­tions? (Spoiler: Do User Test­ing Like a Startup Would)

Yonatan Cale30 Mar 2022 17:39 UTC
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Ukraine Post #6: More Data and Peace Terms

Zvi25 Mar 2022 18:20 UTC
59 points
21 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Pro­ject­ing com­pute trends in Ma­chine Learning

7 Mar 2022 15:32 UTC
59 points
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Omicron #16: Danger in China

Zvi14 Mar 2022 15:50 UTC
58 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Perfor­mance on Hu­man Tasks

Asher Ellis3 Mar 2022 20:13 UTC
58 points
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[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 8. Take­aways from neuro 1/​2: On AGI development

Steven Byrnes16 Mar 2022 13:59 UTC
57 points
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Re­treat for ra­tio­nal­ity meetup or­ga­niz­ers (ap­ply to at­tend!)

mingyuan29 Mar 2022 18:42 UTC
57 points
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When should you re­lo­cate to miti­gate the risk of dy­ing in a nu­clear war?

Adam Zerner4 Mar 2022 10:34 UTC
55 points
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On pre­sent­ing the case for AI risk

Aryeh Englander9 Mar 2022 1:41 UTC
54 points
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Challenges to Yud­kowsky’s Pro­noun Re­form Proposal

Zack_M_Davis13 Mar 2022 20:38 UTC
52 points
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(unremediatedgender.space)

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC
52 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Ask AI com­pa­nies about what they are do­ing for AI safety?

mic9 Mar 2022 15:14 UTC
51 points
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[Question] Ways to in­vest your wealth if you be­lieve in a high-var­i­ance fu­ture?

Alex_Altair11 Mar 2022 16:07 UTC
51 points
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Why work at AI Im­pacts?

Katja6 Mar 2022 22:10 UTC
50 points
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(aiimpacts.org)