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A bicycle for your memory

sortegaMar 30, 2022, 9:41 PM

38 points

13 votes

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8 comments8 min readLW link

ELK Computational Complexity: Three Levels of Difficulty

abramdemskiMar 30, 2022, 8:56 PM

46 points

11 votes

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9 comments7 min readLW link

Abandoned prototype video game teaching elementary circuit theory

Steven ByrnesMar 30, 2022, 8:37 PM

17 points

8 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Meta wants to use AI to write Wikipedia articles; I am Nervous™

YitzMar 30, 2022, 7:05 PM

14 points

8 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

No, EDT Did Not Get It Right All Along: Why the Coin Flip Creation Problem Is Irrelevant

HeighnMar 30, 2022, 6:41 PM

6 points

5 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

How to Make Your Article Change People’s Minds or Actions? (Spoiler: Do User Testing Like a Startup Would)

Yonatan CaleMar 30, 2022, 5:39 PM

59 points

33 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Procedurally evaluating factual accuracy: a request for research

Jacob_HiltonMar 30, 2022, 4:37 PM

25 points

13 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about LM monologue limitations and ELK

leogaoMar 30, 2022, 2:26 PM

10 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 10. The alignment problem

Steven ByrnesMar 30, 2022, 1:24 PM

53 points

19 votes

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7 comments21 min readLW link

Progress Report 2

Nathan Helm-BurgerMar 30, 2022, 2:29 AM

4 points

3 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What would make you confident that AGI has been achieved?

YitzMar 29, 2022, 11:02 PM

17 points

8 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Minimization: Thoughts from the comments

physicaleconomicsMar 29, 2022, 10:28 PM

25 points

13 votes

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8 comments17 min readLW link

Gears-Level Mental Models of Transformer Interpretability

RowanWangMar 29, 2022, 8:09 PM

75 points

40 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Retreat for rationality meetup organizers (apply to attend!)

mingyuanMar 29, 2022, 6:42 PM

57 points

17 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”

HoldenKarnofskyMar 29, 2022, 6:30 PM

34 points

17 votes

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9 comments15 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Hinges and crises

Jan_Kulveit and technicalities

Mar 29, 2022, 11:11 AM

44 points

11 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Strategies for differential divulgation of key ideas in AI capability

azsantoskMar 29, 2022, 3:22 AM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Towards a better circuit prior: Improving on ELK state-of-the-art

evhub and kcwoolverton

Mar 29, 2022, 1:56 AM

23 points

8 votes

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0 comments15 min readLW link

Summary: “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler

Pablo RepettoMar 29, 2022, 12:34 AM

5 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Can we simulate human evolution to create a somewhat aligned AGI?

Thomas KwaMar 28, 2022, 10:55 PM

21 points

13 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Mental nonsense: my anti-insomnia trick

DirectedEvolutionMar 28, 2022, 10:47 PM

34 points

22 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

Vaniver’s ELK Submission

VaniverMar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

10 points

1 vote

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0 comments7 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about deceptive mesaoptimization

leogaoMar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

24 points

8 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #7: Prediction Market Update

ZviMar 28, 2022, 4:10 PM

44 points

26 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Humans pretending to be robots pretending to be human

Richard_KennawayMar 28, 2022, 3:13 PM

25 points

18 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Consequentialist veganism

tslarmMar 28, 2022, 1:48 AM

8 points

8 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Toward a general structure of economic explanation

physicaleconomicsMar 27, 2022, 11:33 PM

9 points

6 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] How many generals does Russia have left?

YitzMar 27, 2022, 11:11 PM

14 points

12 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage

TurnTroutMar 27, 2022, 11:09 PM

201 points

106 votes

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53 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Your specific attitudes towards AI safety

Esben KranMar 27, 2022, 10:33 PM

8 points

6 votes

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21 comments1 min readLW link

Sums and products

Ege Erdil and Metaculus

Mar 27, 2022, 9:57 PM

23 points

9 votes

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11 comments12 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

[ASoT] Searching for consequentialist structure

leogaoMar 27, 2022, 7:09 PM

26 points

13 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

The Opposite Of Autism

CapybasiliskMar 27, 2022, 3:30 PM

8 points

5 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Practical everyday human strategizing

akaTricksterMar 27, 2022, 2:20 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Manhattan project for aligned AI

Chris van MerwijkMar 27, 2022, 11:41 AM

36 points

20 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some ways ELK could still be solvable in practice

leogaoMar 27, 2022, 1:15 AM

26 points

9 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW 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 EnglanderMar 27, 2022, 12:37 AM

14 points

8 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Minimization

physicaleconomicsMar 27, 2022, 12:03 AM

137 points

83 votes

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47 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] When people ask for your P(doom), do you give them your inside view or your betting odds?

Vivek HebbarMar 26, 2022, 11:08 PM

11 points

5 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History

Mahdi ComplexMar 26, 2022, 8:07 PM

32 points

19 votes

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2 comments14 min readLW link

Agency and Coherence

David UdellMar 26, 2022, 7:25 PM

25 points

17 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Magic, tricks, and high-dimensional configuration spaces

pchvykovMar 26, 2022, 7:14 PM

8 points

9 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Compute Governance: The Role of Commodity Hardware

JanMar 26, 2022, 10:08 AM

14 points

8 votes

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7 comments7 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Game that might improve research productivity

Jack RMar 26, 2022, 7:00 AM

21 points

10 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

You must on average be improving to not guarantee failure.

eeegnuMar 26, 2022, 5:28 AM

4 points

4 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Your risk of developing long COVID is probably high

SiebeMar 26, 2022, 4:10 AM

25 points

25 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Primitive Perspectives and Sleeping Beauty

dadadarrenMar 26, 2022, 1:55 AM

22 points

8 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

[ASoT] Observations about ELK

leogaoMar 26, 2022, 12:42 AM

34 points

14 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Lesson Plan: Biases in Quantity Estimation

abstractapplicMar 26, 2022, 12:23 AM

9 points

4 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation

johnswentworthMar 25, 2022, 11:17 PM

312 points

159 votes

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60 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

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