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Intro to hacking with the lambda calculus

L Rudolf LMar 31, 2022, 9:51 PM

11 points

0 comments26 min readLW link

(www.strataoftheworld.com)

The lure of technocracy

jasoncrawfordMar 31, 2022, 7:58 PM

27 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Halting Problem and the Impossible Photocopier

J BostockMar 31, 2022, 6:19 PM

36 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

nostalgebraistMar 31, 2022, 6:01 PM

51 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Newcomb’s problem is just a standard time consistency problem

basil.halperinMar 31, 2022, 5:32 PM

15 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 3/31/2022: More of the Same

ZviMar 31, 2022, 3:50 PM

28 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

They Don’t Know About Second Booster

ZviMar 31, 2022, 3:30 PM

65 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Ways to organize a search for a missing person in LA from abroad?

Dan ReitmanMar 31, 2022, 2:25 PM

15 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 13 - First Principles of AGI Safety with Richard Ngo

DanielFilanMar 31, 2022, 5:20 AM

25 points

1 comment48 min readLW link

[Question] Confidence Levels in Forecasts and Psychological Surveys

T431Mar 31, 2022, 2:54 AM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A bicycle for your memory

sortegaMar 30, 2022, 9:41 PM

38 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

ELK Computational Complexity: Three Levels of Difficulty

abramdemskiMar 30, 2022, 8:56 PM

46 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

Abandoned prototype video game teaching elementary circuit theory

Steven ByrnesMar 30, 2022, 8:37 PM

17 points

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

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

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

8 comments1 min readLW link

Procedurally evaluating factual accuracy: a request for research

Jacob_HiltonMar 30, 2022, 4:37 PM

25 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about LM monologue limitations and ELK

leogaoMar 30, 2022, 2:26 PM

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Steven ByrnesMar 30, 2022, 1:24 PM

52 points

7 comments21 min readLW link

Progress Report 2

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

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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

YitzMar 29, 2022, 11:02 PM

17 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Minimization: Thoughts from the comments

physicaleconomicsMar 29, 2022, 10:28 PM

25 points

8 comments17 min readLW link

Gears-Level Mental Models of Transformer Interpretability

RowanWangMar 29, 2022, 8:09 PM

75 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Retreat for rationality meetup organizers (apply to attend!)

mingyuanMar 29, 2022, 6:42 PM

57 points

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

9 comments15 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Hinges and crises

Jan_Kulveit and technicalities

Mar 29, 2022, 11:11 AM

44 points

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

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

0 comments15 min readLW link

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

Pablo RepettoMar 29, 2022, 12:34 AM

5 points

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

6 comments7 min readLW link

Mental nonsense: my anti-insomnia trick

DirectedEvolutionMar 28, 2022, 10:47 PM

34 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Vaniver’s ELK Submission

VaniverMar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

10 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about deceptive mesaoptimization

leogaoMar 28, 2022, 9:14 PM

24 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #7: Prediction Market Update

ZviMar 28, 2022, 4:10 PM

45 points

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

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Consequentialist veganism

tslarmMar 28, 2022, 1:48 AM

8 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Toward a general structure of economic explanation

physicaleconomicsMar 27, 2022, 11:33 PM

9 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] How many generals does Russia have left?

YitzMar 27, 2022, 11:11 PM

14 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage

TurnTroutMar 27, 2022, 11:09 PM

198 points

53 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Your specific attitudes towards AI safety

Esben KranMar 27, 2022, 10:33 PM

8 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Sums and products

Ege Erdil and Metaculus

Mar 27, 2022, 9:57 PM

23 points

11 comments12 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

[ASoT] Searching for consequentialist structure

leogaoMar 27, 2022, 7:09 PM

26 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

The Opposite Of Autism

Capybasilisk27 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC

8 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Practical everyday human strategizing

akaTrickster27 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Manhattan project for aligned AI

Chris van Merwijk27 Mar 2022 11:41 UTC

36 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

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

leogao27 Mar 2022 1:15 UTC

26 points

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 Englander27 Mar 2022 0:37 UTC

14 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Minimization

physicaleconomics27 Mar 2022 0:03 UTC

137 points

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 Hebbar26 Mar 2022 23:08 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History

Mahdi Complex26 Mar 2022 20:07 UTC

32 points

2 comments14 min readLW link