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Why Take Care Of Your Health?
MondSemmel
Apr 6, 2022, 11:11 PM
40
points
21
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are rationalists worst at?
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 6, 2022, 11:00 PM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Control the Density of Novelty in Your Writing
En Kepeig
Apr 6, 2022, 9:33 PM
6
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Elasticity of Wheat Supply?
johnswentworth
Apr 6, 2022, 8:20 PM
26
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Debtors’ Revolt
Benquo
Apr 6, 2022, 7:40 PM
44
points
4
comments
41
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
How to Interpret Vitamin D Dosage Using Numbers
Benquo
Apr 6, 2022, 7:36 PM
12
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Notes on the Autobiography of Malcolm X
Benquo
Apr 6, 2022, 7:34 PM
10
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
Understanding Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem
Rafael Harth
Apr 6, 2022, 7:31 PM
13
points
1
comment
67
min read
LW
link
The Zombie Argument for Empiricists
JonathanErhardt
Apr 6, 2022, 7:10 PM
9
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Twitter fixes should we advocate, now that Elon is on the board?
Jackson Wagner
Apr 6, 2022, 4:54 PM
27
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
LAST MINUTE UPDATE Schelling Meetup with EA Bristol Social April: Video Game Social (take 2)
Nick Lowry
Apr 6, 2022, 4:48 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What I Was Thinking About Before Alignment
johnswentworth
Apr 6, 2022, 4:08 PM
78
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Link] A minimal viable product for alignment
janleike
Apr 6, 2022, 3:38 PM
53
points
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Why I’m excited about AI-assisted human feedback
janleike
Apr 6, 2022, 3:37 PM
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Strategic Considerations Regarding Autistic/Literal AI
Chris_Leong
Apr 6, 2022, 2:57 PM
−1
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
DALL·E 2 by OpenAI
P.
Apr 6, 2022, 2:17 PM
44
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 11. Safety ≠ alignment (but they’re close!)
Steven Byrnes
Apr 6, 2022, 1:39 PM
34
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Research agenda: Can transformers do system 2 thinking?
p.b.
Apr 6, 2022, 1:31 PM
20
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
PaLM in “Extrapolating GPT-N performance”
Lukas Finnveden
Apr 6, 2022, 1:05 PM
85
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Solving the Brazilian Children’s Game of 007
Epirito
Apr 6, 2022, 1:03 PM
4
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Accelerating personal growth: a mashup of models
null
Apr 6, 2022, 12:10 PM
6
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Don’t die with dignity; instead play to your outs
Jeffrey Ladish
Apr 6, 2022, 7:53 AM
281
points
60
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Distilling and approaches to the determinant
AprilSR
Apr 6, 2022, 6:34 AM
6
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Request for beta readers
physicaleconomics
Apr 6, 2022, 5:29 AM
14
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Testing PaLM prompts on GPT3
Yitz
Apr 6, 2022, 5:21 AM
103
points
14
comments
8
min read
LW
link
When to use “meta” vs “self-reference”, “recursive”, etc.
Alex_Altair
Apr 6, 2022, 4:57 AM
21
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Nick Attains Aligntenment
rank-biserial
Apr 6, 2022, 4:24 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My Recollection of How This All Got Started
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 6, 2022, 3:22 AM
82
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Baby Sleep: Multiple Rooms
jefftk
Apr 6, 2022, 2:20 AM
21
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
A heart’s cry
Rose and Thorn
Apr 6, 2022, 1:59 AM
2
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Predictions on when the requirement for pre-flight COVID testing for returning citizen will be dropped?
jmh
Apr 6, 2022, 1:30 AM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s the problem with having an AI align itself?
FinalFormal2
Apr 6, 2022, 12:59 AM
0
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress report 3: clustering transformer neurons
Nathan Helm-Burger
Apr 5, 2022, 11:13 PM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 14 - Infra-Bayesian Physicalism with Vanessa Kosoy
DanielFilan
Apr 5, 2022, 11:10 PM
25
points
10
comments
52
min read
LW
link
What if we stopped making GPUs for a bit?
MrPointy
Apr 5, 2022, 11:02 PM
−3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
5-Minute Advice for EA Global
Logan Riggs
Apr 5, 2022, 10:33 PM
16
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Explaining the Twitter Postrat Scene
Jacob Falkovich
Apr 5, 2022, 10:23 PM
129
points
29
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sorting
Neel Nanda
Apr 5, 2022, 10:20 PM
28
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(neelnanda.io)
Supervise Process, not Outcomes
stuhlmueller
and
jungofthewon
Apr 5, 2022, 10:18 PM
145
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
My agenda for research into transformer capabilities—Introduction
p.b.
Apr 5, 2022, 9:23 PM
11
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Forecasting Newsletter: March 2022
NunoSempere
Apr 5, 2022, 8:23 PM
14
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
What Would A Fight Between Humanity And AGI Look Like?
johnswentworth
Apr 5, 2022, 8:03 PM
111
points
20
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Post #9: Again
Zvi
Apr 5, 2022, 7:40 PM
97
points
37
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Prompt Your Brain
En Kepeig
Apr 5, 2022, 6:42 PM
36
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Optimizing crop planting with mixed integer linear programming in Stardew Valley
hapanin
Apr 5, 2022, 6:42 PM
68
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Save Humanity! Breed Sapient Octopuses!
Yair Halberstadt
Apr 5, 2022, 6:39 PM
55
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cambridge LW Meetup: Bean on Why You Should Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Darmani
and
Tony Wang
Apr 5, 2022, 6:34 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
HoldenKarnofsky
Apr 5, 2022, 6:30 PM
112
points
63
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Non-programmers intro to AI for programmers
Dustin
Apr 5, 2022, 6:12 PM
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The case for Doing Something Else (if Alignment is doomed)
Rafael Harth
Apr 5, 2022, 5:52 PM
94
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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