Les­sons After a Cou­ple Months of Try­ing to Do ML Research

KevinRoWang22 Mar 2022 23:45 UTC
70 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Progress Re­port 1: in­ter­pretabil­ity ex­per­i­ments & learn­ing, test­ing com­pres­sion hypotheses

Nathan Helm-Burger22 Mar 2022 20:12 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
39 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] Search­ing for post on Com­mu­nity Takeover

Søren Elverlin22 Mar 2022 9:42 UTC
7 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

On ex­pected util­ity, part 3: VNM, sep­a­ra­bil­ity, and more

Joe Carlsmith22 Mar 2022 3:05 UTC
10 points
4 comments28 min readLW link

Re­spon­si­ble AI com­mu­ni­ca­tion survey

Anca G. Rusu22 Mar 2022 0:19 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­search Ham­ming Questions

johnswentworth22 Mar 2022 0:16 UTC
83 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
59 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Counter-the­ses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC
441 points
131 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Jet­lag, Nausea, and Diar­rhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC
89 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

We can­not di­rectly choose an AGI’s util­ity function

azsantosk21 Mar 2022 22:08 UTC
12 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Why will an AGI be ra­tio­nal?

azsantosk21 Mar 2022 21:54 UTC
4 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information

Zvi21 Mar 2022 14:00 UTC
71 points
33 comments27 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Dawn of Every­thing: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC
32 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

[CANCELLED] ACX meetup [April]

sallatik21 Mar 2022 9:49 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Search­ing for outliers

benkuhn21 Mar 2022 2:40 UTC
169 points
16 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(www.benkuhn.net)

How to ventilate

jefftk21 Mar 2022 1:20 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Civ­i­liza­tion as Self-Restraint

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Mar 2022 0:31 UTC
60 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Trust­ing groups over individuals

castor0720 Mar 2022 18:47 UTC
0 points
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[Question] What are the best el­e­men­tary math prob­lems you know?

Ege Erdil20 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC
40 points
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Nat­u­ral Value Learning

Chris van Merwijk20 Mar 2022 12:44 UTC
7 points
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[Question] How to pre­vent au­thor­i­tar­ian re­volts?

lc20 Mar 2022 10:01 UTC
21 points
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How I fixed exercise

GabrielExists20 Mar 2022 4:52 UTC
41 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Know of any ran­domised tri­als teach­ing de­bi­as­ing in schools? Want to help re­view them, or would that re­view help your work?

MNoetel20 Mar 2022 4:52 UTC
29 points
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On Con­text And People

Jan19 Mar 2022 23:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] When will kids stop wear­ing masks at school?

Daniel Kokotajlo19 Mar 2022 22:13 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Finite Fac­tored Sets with some toy examples

Thomas Kehrenberg19 Mar 2022 22:08 UTC
49 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(tm.kehrenberg.net)

Ra­tion­al­ists Should Learn Lock Picking

brook19 Mar 2022 18:00 UTC
21 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Wargam­ing AGI Development

ryan_b19 Mar 2022 17:59 UTC
37 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Can you be Not Even Wrong in AI Align­ment?

throwaway823819 Mar 2022 17:41 UTC
22 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Goal-di­rect­ed­ness: im­perfect rea­son­ing, limited knowl­edge and in­ac­cu­rate beliefs

Morgan_Rogers19 Mar 2022 17:28 UTC
4 points
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[Question] Thoughts on the SPIES Fore­cast­ing Method?

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz19 Mar 2022 15:22 UTC
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ret­ro­spec­tive: Con­text and Communication

The Guild of the Rose19 Mar 2022 14:45 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

Notes on So­cial Responsibility

David Gross19 Mar 2022 14:44 UTC
17 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

[Linkpost] 7 Swedish Words to Import

mike_hawke19 Mar 2022 2:36 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

[Question] What to do af­ter in­vent­ing AGI?

elephantcrew18 Mar 2022 22:30 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Cold Takes reader sur­vey—let me know what you want more and less of!

HoldenKarnofsky18 Mar 2022 19:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

[Question] What Should I Do To­day?

Cui18 Mar 2022 16:36 UTC
10 points
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Only needs a fly­ing saucer

Mary Chernyshenko18 Mar 2022 15:11 UTC
76 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Learned Blank­ness and Ex­pec­ta­tions of Solubility

brook18 Mar 2022 12:42 UTC
8 points
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On ex­pected util­ity, part 2: Why it can be OK to pre­dictably lose

Joe Carlsmith18 Mar 2022 8:38 UTC
13 points
4 comments16 min readLW link

Nu­clear Deter­rence 101 (and why the US can’t even hint at in­ter­ven­ing in Ukraine)

Darmani18 Mar 2022 7:25 UTC
36 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Our time in his­tory as ev­i­dence for simu­la­tion the­ory?

Garrett Garzonie18 Mar 2022 3:35 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ve­gas ACX/​SSC/​LW meetup

jwray18 Mar 2022 2:33 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Defect­ing On Yourself

David Udell18 Mar 2022 2:21 UTC
35 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Phase tran­si­tions and AGI

17 Mar 2022 17:22 UTC
45 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Covid 3/​17/​22: The Rise of BA.2

Zvi17 Mar 2022 16:20 UTC
44 points
23 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is Grabby Aliens built on good an­thropic rea­son­ing?

Steven Byrnes17 Mar 2022 14:12 UTC
38 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Max­i­mize in a limited do­main. Hope for the fu­ture.

Dacyn17 Mar 2022 14:05 UTC
4 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Is there a link be­tween Im­mi­gra­tion Policy and In­fla­tion?

hawkebia17 Mar 2022 11:26 UTC
9 points
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