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Intro to hacking with the lambda calculus
L Rudolf L
Mar 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
11
points
0
comments
26
min read
LW
link
(www.strataoftheworld.com)
The lure of technocracy
jasoncrawford
Mar 31, 2022, 7:58 PM
27
points
13
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
The Halting Problem and the Impossible Photocopier
J Bostock
Mar 31, 2022, 6:19 PM
36
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
nostalgebraist
Mar 31, 2022, 6:01 PM
51
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Newcomb’s problem is just a standard time consistency problem
basil.halperin
Mar 31, 2022, 5:32 PM
15
points
6
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Covid 3/31/2022: More of the Same
Zvi
Mar 31, 2022, 3:50 PM
28
points
10
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
They Don’t Know About Second Booster
Zvi
Mar 31, 2022, 3:30 PM
65
points
17
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
[Question]
Ways to organize a search for a missing person in LA from abroad?
Dan Reitman
Mar 31, 2022, 2:25 PM
15
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 13 - First Principles of AGI Safety with Richard Ngo
DanielFilan
Mar 31, 2022, 5:20 AM
25
points
1
comment
48
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Confidence Levels in Forecasts and Psychological Surveys
T431
Mar 31, 2022, 2:54 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A bicycle for your memory
sortega
Mar 30, 2022, 9:41 PM
38
points
8
comments
8
min read
LW
link
ELK Computational Complexity: Three Levels of Difficulty
abramdemski
Mar 30, 2022, 8:56 PM
46
points
9
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Abandoned prototype video game teaching elementary circuit theory
Steven Byrnes
Mar 30, 2022, 8:37 PM
17
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meta wants to use AI to write Wikipedia articles; I am Nervous™
Yitz
Mar 30, 2022, 7:05 PM
14
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No, EDT Did Not Get It Right All Along: Why the Coin Flip Creation Problem Is Irrelevant
Heighn
Mar 30, 2022, 6:41 PM
6
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to Make Your Article Change People’s Minds or Actions? (Spoiler: Do User Testing Like a Startup Would)
Yonatan Cale
Mar 30, 2022, 5:39 PM
59
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Procedurally evaluating factual accuracy: a request for research
Jacob_Hilton
Mar 30, 2022, 4:37 PM
25
points
2
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Some thoughts about LM monologue limitations and ELK
leogao
Mar 30, 2022, 2:26 PM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 10. The alignment problem
Steven Byrnes
Mar 30, 2022, 1:24 PM
52
points
7
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Progress Report 2
Nathan Helm-Burger
Mar 30, 2022, 2:29 AM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What would make you confident that AGI has been achieved?
Yitz
Mar 29, 2022, 11:02 PM
17
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Beyond Blame Minimization: Thoughts from the comments
physicaleconomics
Mar 29, 2022, 10:28 PM
25
points
8
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Gears-Level Mental Models of Transformer Interpretability
RowanWang
Mar 29, 2022, 8:09 PM
75
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Retreat for rationality meetup organizers (apply to attend!)
mingyuan
Mar 29, 2022, 6:42 PM
57
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”
HoldenKarnofsky
Mar 29, 2022, 6:30 PM
34
points
9
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Hinges and crises
Jan_Kulveit
and
technicalities
Mar 29, 2022, 11:11 AM
44
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Strategies for differential divulgation of key ideas in AI capability
azsantosk
Mar 29, 2022, 3:22 AM
8
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
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
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Summary: “How to read a book” by Mortimer Adler
Pablo Repetto
Mar 29, 2022, 12:34 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
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
27 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC
8
points
16
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Practical everyday human strategizing
akaTrickster
27 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC
6
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Manhattan project for aligned AI
Chris van Merwijk
27 Mar 2022 11:41 UTC
36
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Some ways ELK could still be solvable in practice
leogao
27 Mar 2022 1:15 UTC
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
27 Mar 2022 0:37 UTC
14
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Beyond Blame Minimization
physicaleconomics
27 Mar 2022 0:03 UTC
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
26 Mar 2022 23:08 UTC
11
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Primer on God, Liberalism and the End of History
Mahdi Complex
26 Mar 2022 20:07 UTC
32
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
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