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DeepMind: The Podcast—Excerpts on AGI
WilliamKiely
Apr 7, 2022, 10:09 PM
99
points
12
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Convincing Your Brain That Humanity is Evil is Easy
Johannes C. Mayer
Apr 7, 2022, 9:39 PM
14
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Playing with DALL·E 2
Dave Orr
Apr 7, 2022, 6:49 PM
166
points
118
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The Explanatory Gap of AI
David Valdman
Apr 7, 2022, 6:28 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Believable near-term AI disaster
Dagon
Apr 7, 2022, 6:20 PM
9
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
List of concrete hypotheticals for AI takeover?
Yitz
Apr 7, 2022, 4:54 PM
7
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What if “friendly/unfriendly” GAI isn’t a thing?
homunq
Apr 7, 2022, 4:54 PM
−1
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Productive Mistakes, Not Perfect Answers
adamShimi
Apr 7, 2022, 4:41 PM
100
points
11
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Covid 4/7/22: Opening Day
Zvi
Apr 7, 2022, 4:10 PM
28
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Duncan Sabien On Writing
lynettebye
Apr 7, 2022, 4:09 PM
36
points
3
comments
16
min read
LW
link
[ASoT] Some thoughts about imperfect world modeling
leogao
Apr 7, 2022, 3:42 PM
7
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How BoMAI Might fail
Donald Hobson
Apr 7, 2022, 3:32 PM
11
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ACX Montreal Meetup Apr 24 2022
E
Apr 7, 2022, 2:14 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is GPT3 a Good Rationalist? - InstructGPT3 [2/2]
simeon_c
Apr 7, 2022, 1:46 PM
11
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
I discovered LessWrong… during Good Heart Week
identity.key
Apr 7, 2022, 1:22 PM
51
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Research agenda—Building a multi-modal chess-language model
p.b.
Apr 7, 2022, 12:25 PM
8
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Predicting a global catastrophe: the Ukrainian model
RomanS
Apr 7, 2022, 12:06 PM
5
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Truthfulness, standards and credibility
Joe Collman
Apr 7, 2022, 10:31 AM
12
points
2
comments
32
min read
LW
link
How to train your transformer
p.b.
Apr 7, 2022, 9:34 AM
6
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Finding Useful Things
Johannes C. Mayer
Apr 7, 2022, 5:57 AM
8
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Book Review: A PhD is Not Enough
ljh2
Apr 7, 2022, 5:15 AM
22
points
4
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Setting the Brains Difficulty-Anchor
Johannes C. Mayer
Apr 7, 2022, 5:04 AM
2
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How I Got So Much GHT
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Apr 7, 2022, 3:59 AM
14
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What Should We Optimize—A Conversation
Johannes C. Mayer
Apr 7, 2022, 3:47 AM
1
point
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Contra: Avoiding Sore Arms
jefftk
Apr 7, 2022, 1:10 AM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
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
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