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Can we simulate human evolution to create a somewhat aligned AGI?
Thomas Kwa
Mar 28, 2022, 10:55 PM
21
points
6
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Mental nonsense: my anti-insomnia trick
DirectedEvolution
Mar 28, 2022, 10:47 PM
34
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Vaniver’s ELK Submission
Vaniver
Mar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM
10
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Some thoughts about deceptive mesaoptimization
leogao
Mar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM
24
points
5
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Post #7: Prediction Market Update
Zvi
Mar 28, 2022, 4:10 PM
45
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Humans pretending to be robots pretending to be human
Richard_Kennaway
Mar 28, 2022, 3:13 PM
25
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Consequentialist veganism
tslarm
Mar 28, 2022, 1:48 AM
8
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Toward a general structure of economic explanation
physicaleconomics
Mar 27, 2022, 11:33 PM
9
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How many generals does Russia have left?
Yitz
Mar 27, 2022, 11:11 PM
14
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage
TurnTrout
Mar 27, 2022, 11:09 PM
198
points
53
comments
13
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Your specific attitudes towards AI safety
Esben Kran
Mar 27, 2022, 10:33 PM
8
points
21
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sums and products
Ege Erdil
and
Metaculus
Mar 27, 2022, 9:57 PM
23
points
11
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
[ASoT] Searching for consequentialist structure
leogao
Mar 27, 2022, 7:09 PM
26
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Opposite Of Autism
Capybasilisk
Mar 27, 2022, 3:30 PM
8
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Practical everyday human strategizing
akaTrickster
Mar 27, 2022, 2:20 PM
6
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Manhattan project for aligned AI
Chris van Merwijk
Mar 27, 2022, 11:41 AM
36
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Some ways ELK could still be solvable in practice
leogao
Mar 27, 2022, 1:15 AM
26
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the top 1-10 posts / sequences / articles / etc. that you’ve found most useful for yourself for becoming “less wrong”?
Aryeh Englander
Mar 27, 2022, 12:37 AM
14
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Beyond Blame Minimization
physicaleconomics
Mar 27, 2022, 12:03 AM
137
points
47
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When people ask for your P(doom), do you give them your inside view or your betting odds?
Vivek Hebbar
Mar 26, 2022, 11:08 PM
11
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History
Mahdi Complex
Mar 26, 2022, 8:07 PM
32
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Agency and Coherence
David Udell
Mar 26, 2022, 7:25 PM
25
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Magic, tricks, and high-dimensional configuration spaces
pchvykov
Mar 26, 2022, 7:14 PM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Compute Governance: The Role of Commodity Hardware
Jan
Mar 26, 2022, 10:08 AM
14
points
7
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
Game that might improve research productivity
Jack R
Mar 26, 2022, 7:00 AM
21
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
You must on average be improving to not guarantee failure.
eeegnu
Mar 26, 2022, 5:28 AM
3
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Your risk of developing long COVID is probably high
Siebe
Mar 26, 2022, 4:10 AM
25
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Primitive Perspectives and Sleeping Beauty
dadadarren
Mar 26, 2022, 1:55 AM
21
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Observations about ELK
leogao
Mar 26, 2022, 12:42 AM
34
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Lesson Plan: Biases in Quantity Estimation
abstractapplic
Mar 26, 2022, 12:23 AM
9
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation
johnswentworth
Mar 25, 2022, 11:17 PM
309
points
58
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
My mistake about the war in Ukraine
Ege Erdil
Mar 25, 2022, 11:04 PM
40
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
An outline of an ironic LessWrong post
Yitz
Mar 25, 2022, 10:51 PM
−6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Summary: “How to write a thesis” by Umberto Eco
Pablo Repetto
Mar 25, 2022, 9:40 PM
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Is Metaculus Slow to Update?
SimonM
Mar 25, 2022, 7:44 PM
75
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Post #6: More Data and Peace Terms
Zvi
Mar 25, 2022, 6:20 PM
59
points
21
comments
21
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Duels & D.Sci March 2022: It’s time for D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-data!
aphyer
Mar 25, 2022, 4:55 PM
51
points
38
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Contextual Self
ACrackedPot
Mar 25, 2022, 3:39 PM
2
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
Fake Journal Club proposal
gwern
Mar 25, 2022, 2:23 PM
25
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Chesterton’s Fence vs The Onion in the Varnish
Joel Burget
Mar 24, 2022, 9:20 PM
7
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 3/24/22: Respite
Zvi
Mar 24, 2022, 3:00 PM
23
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The Ontics and The Decouplers
hawkebia
Mar 24, 2022, 2:04 PM
11
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What if fiat money was created at a fixed rate and given to government?
MrThink
Mar 24, 2022, 1:02 PM
3
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Christopher Alexander’s architecture for learning
Henrik Karlsson
Mar 24, 2022, 9:11 AM
44
points
8
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)
Experimental longtermism: theory needs data
Jan_Kulveit
and
technicalities
24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC
52
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
On expected utility, part 4: Dutch books, Cox, and Complete Class
Joe Carlsmith
24 Mar 2022 7:51 UTC
20
points
2
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Applied Rationality Meetup
Raj Thimmiah
24 Mar 2022 7:40 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
In the very near future the internet will answer all of our questions and that makes me sad
David Gross
24 Mar 2022 3:55 UTC
24
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A survey of tool use and workflows in alignment research
Logan Riggs
,
Jan
,
janus
and
jacquesthibs
23 Mar 2022 23:44 UTC
45
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rational and irrational infinite integers
Viliam
23 Mar 2022 23:12 UTC
36
points
28
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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