In­tro to hack­ing with the lambda calculus

L Rudolf L31 Mar 2022 21:51 UTC
9 points
0 comments26 min readLW link
(www.strataoftheworld.com)

The lure of technocracy

jasoncrawford31 Mar 2022 19:58 UTC
27 points
13 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

The Halt­ing Prob­lem and the Im­pos­si­ble Photocopier

J Bostock31 Mar 2022 18:19 UTC
36 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Train­ing Com­pute-Op­ti­mal Large Lan­guage Models

nostalgebraist31 Mar 2022 18:01 UTC
51 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

New­comb’s prob­lem is just a stan­dard time con­sis­tency problem

basil.halperin31 Mar 2022 17:32 UTC
15 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 3/​31/​2022: More of the Same

Zvi31 Mar 2022 15:50 UTC
28 points
10 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

They Don’t Know About Se­cond Booster

Zvi31 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC
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 Reitman31 Mar 2022 14:25 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

DanielFilan31 Mar 2022 5:20 UTC
24 points
1 comment48 min readLW link

[Question] Con­fi­dence Levels in Fore­casts and Psy­cholog­i­cal Surveys

Fer32dwt34r3dfsz31 Mar 2022 2:54 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A bi­cy­cle for your memory

sortega30 Mar 2022 21:41 UTC
38 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

ELK Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity: Three Levels of Difficulty

abramdemski30 Mar 2022 20:56 UTC
46 points
9 comments7 min readLW link

Aban­doned pro­to­type video game teach­ing el­e­men­tary cir­cuit theory

Steven Byrnes30 Mar 2022 20:37 UTC
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Yitz30 Mar 2022 19:05 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

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

Heighn30 Mar 2022 18:41 UTC
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 Cale30 Mar 2022 17:39 UTC
59 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­rally eval­u­at­ing fac­tual ac­cu­racy: a re­quest for research

Jacob_Hilton30 Mar 2022 16:37 UTC
25 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about LM monologue limi­ta­tions and ELK

leogao30 Mar 2022 14:26 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Steven Byrnes30 Mar 2022 13:24 UTC
48 points
6 comments19 min readLW link

Progress Re­port 2

Nathan Helm-Burger30 Mar 2022 2:29 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Yitz29 Mar 2022 23:02 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Min­i­miza­tion: Thoughts from the comments

physicaleconomics29 Mar 2022 22:28 UTC
25 points
8 comments17 min readLW link

Gears-Level Men­tal Models of Trans­former Interpretability

KevinRoWang29 Mar 2022 20:09 UTC
70 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Re­treat for ra­tio­nal­ity meetup or­ga­niz­ers (ap­ply to at­tend!)

mingyuan29 Mar 2022 18:42 UTC
57 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

HoldenKarnofsky29 Mar 2022 18:30 UTC
34 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Hinges and crises

29 Mar 2022 11:11 UTC
44 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Strate­gies for differ­en­tial di­vul­ga­tion of key ideas in AI capability

azsantosk29 Mar 2022 3:22 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

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

29 Mar 2022 1:56 UTC
23 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

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

Pablo Repetto29 Mar 2022 0:34 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(pabloernesto.github.io)

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

Thomas Kwa28 Mar 2022 22:55 UTC
21 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Men­tal non­sense: my anti-in­som­nia trick

DirectedEvolution28 Mar 2022 22:47 UTC
34 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Vaniver’s ELK Submission

Vaniver28 Mar 2022 21:14 UTC
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[ASoT] Some thoughts about de­cep­tive mesaoptimization

leogao28 Mar 2022 21:14 UTC
24 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #7: Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Update

Zvi28 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC
45 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Hu­mans pre­tend­ing to be robots pre­tend­ing to be human

Richard_Kennaway28 Mar 2022 15:13 UTC
25 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ist ve­g­anism

tslarm28 Mar 2022 1:48 UTC
8 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Toward a gen­eral struc­ture of eco­nomic explanation

physicaleconomics27 Mar 2022 23:33 UTC
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

[Question] How many gen­er­als does Rus­sia have left?

Yitz27 Mar 2022 23:11 UTC
14 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Do a cost-benefit anal­y­sis of your tech­nol­ogy usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC
191 points
53 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Your spe­cific at­ti­tudes to­wards AI safety

Esben Kran27 Mar 2022 22:33 UTC
8 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Sums and products

27 Mar 2022 21:57 UTC
23 points
11 comments12 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

[ASoT] Search­ing for con­se­quen­tial­ist structure

leogao27 Mar 2022 19:09 UTC
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
33 points
2 comments14 min readLW link