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Compute Trends — Comparison to OpenAI’s AI and Compute
lennart
,
Jsevillamol
,
Pablo Villalobos
,
Marius Hobbhahn
,
Tamay Besiroglu
and
anson.ho
Mar 12, 2022, 6:09 PM
23
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Experience Restarting Contra
jefftk
Mar 12, 2022, 3:00 PM
16
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Is there a good dataset for the moments of the income distribution throughout history?
Ege Erdil
Mar 12, 2022, 1:26 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why Rome?
Erich_Grunewald
Mar 12, 2022, 11:29 AM
19
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
Bear Surprise Freedom Network
CraigMichael
Mar 12, 2022, 10:15 AM
26
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Book review of “Mengzi”
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2022, 4:54 AM
33
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If someone with sufficient capabilities decides to deliberately create an Unaligned AGI, is there anything anyone can actually DO, to stop them?
nx2059
Mar 12, 2022, 12:01 AM
−4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Your Future Self’s Credences Should Be Unpredictable to You
David Udell
Mar 11, 2022, 11:33 PM
6
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Arguments are good for helping people reason about things
AprilSR
Mar 11, 2022, 11:02 PM
28
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is There a Valley of Bad Civilizational Adequacy?
lbThingrb
Mar 11, 2022, 7:49 PM
13
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Rhythm Stage Setup v4
jefftk
Mar 11, 2022, 7:40 PM
9
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Deep Dives: My Advice for Pursuing Work in Research
scasper
Mar 11, 2022, 5:56 PM
33
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
If your solution doesn’t work, make it work
Ege Erdil
Mar 11, 2022, 4:10 PM
17
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Ways to invest your wealth if you believe in a high-variance future?
Alex_Altair
Mar 11, 2022, 4:07 PM
51
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Longlist of Theories of Impact for Interpretability
Neel Nanda
Mar 11, 2022, 2:55 PM
127
points
41
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Beyond micromarriages
Richard_Ngo
Mar 11, 2022, 3:40 AM
92
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
On continuous decision boundaries
eeegnu
Mar 11, 2022, 3:36 AM
2
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Book review: The Dawn of Everything
PeterMcCluskey
Mar 11, 2022, 1:56 AM
24
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
[Question]
Are there any impossibility theorems for strong and safe AI?
David Johnston
Mar 11, 2022, 1:41 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Algorithmic Measure of Emergence v2.0
interstice
Mar 10, 2022, 8:26 PM
15
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
I left Russia on March 8
avturchin
Mar 10, 2022, 8:05 PM
127
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What’s the chance a smart London resident dies of a Russian nuke in the next month?
DanielFilan
Mar 10, 2022, 7:20 PM
40
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
[Question]
What’s the best ratio for Africans to starve compared to Ukrainians not dying in the war?
ChristianKl
Mar 10, 2022, 6:52 PM
9
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Infohazards, hacking, and Bricking—how to formalize these concepts?
Yitz
Mar 10, 2022, 4:42 PM
6
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Post #2: Options
Zvi
Mar 10, 2022, 4:10 PM
84
points
55
comments
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Covid 3/10/22: We Have a Plan
Zvi
Mar 10, 2022, 4:10 PM
37
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Treat Examples as World-Building
adamShimi
Mar 10, 2022, 3:09 PM
19
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Best LessWrong posts for understanding scientific studies.
Sean McAneny
Mar 10, 2022, 1:13 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Donations, The First Year
jenn
Mar 10, 2022, 3:57 AM
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(jenn.site)
Programming note
HoldenKarnofsky
Mar 9, 2022, 9:20 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
The Proof of Doom
johnlawrenceaspden
Mar 9, 2022, 7:37 PM
27
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Survey] Expectations of a Post-ASI Order
Lone Pine
Mar 9, 2022, 7:17 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Rephrasing Of and Footnote To An Embedded Agency Proposal
JoshuaOSHickman
Mar 9, 2022, 6:13 PM
5
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
ELK Sub—Note-taking in internal rollouts
Hoagy
Mar 9, 2022, 5:23 PM
6
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meadow Theory
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Mar 9, 2022, 5:13 PM
133
points
16
comments
16
min read
LW
link
1
review
Being Moral is an end goal.
Yair Halberstadt
Mar 9, 2022, 4:37 PM
10
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World
gwern
Mar 9, 2022, 4:35 PM
409
points
120
comments
1
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.gwern.net)
Effects are correlated, policy outcomes are not, and multi-factor explanations are hard
Thomas Kehrenberg
Mar 9, 2022, 3:30 PM
16
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(tm.kehrenberg.net)
Ask AI companies about what they are doing for AI safety?
mic
Mar 9, 2022, 3:14 PM
51
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 7. From hardcoded drives to foresighted plans: A worked example
Steven Byrnes
Mar 9, 2022, 2:28 PM
79
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Against Thinking About The Unactionable
George3d6
Mar 9, 2022, 11:55 AM
20
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
[Question]
Will Russia default, and if so, will it lead to financial crisis?
sanxiyn
Mar 9, 2022, 6:34 AM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On presenting the case for AI risk
Aryeh Englander
Mar 9, 2022, 1:41 AM
54
points
17
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Deriving Our World From Small Datasets
Capybasilisk
Mar 9, 2022, 12:34 AM
5
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ELK prize results
paulfchristiano
and
Mark Xu
Mar 9, 2022, 12:01 AM
138
points
50
comments
21
min read
LW
link
We’re already in AI takeoff
Valentine
Mar 8, 2022, 11:09 PM
146
points
119
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Value extrapolation, concept extrapolation, model splintering
Stuart_Armstrong
Mar 8, 2022, 10:50 PM
16
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
ACX meetup #5
sallatik
Mar 8, 2022, 10:36 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Prediction Market News/Ticker?
Raelifin
Mar 8, 2022, 9:44 PM
13
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Non-coercive motivation for alignment research?
Jonathan Moregård
Mar 8, 2022, 8:50 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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