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Contra Astral Codex Ten’s “On Sexy In-Laws”

Dalton Mabery23 May 2022 22:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Why I’m Worried About AI

peterbarnett23 May 2022 21:13 UTC

22 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance

johnswentworth23 May 2022 18:55 UTC

31 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] [Alignment] Is there a census on who’s working on what?

Cedar23 May 2022 15:33 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[fiction]A Question of Perspective

Elias23 May 2022 15:06 UTC

17 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Finding Your Voice

Evenflair23 May 2022 14:43 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

Science for the Possible World

Zechen Zhang23 May 2022 14:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Monkeypox: explaining the jump to Europe

DirectedEvolution23 May 2022 9:53 UTC

44 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 15 - Natural Abstractions with John Wentworth

DanielFilan23 May 2022 5:40 UTC

34 points

1 comment58 min readLW link

PSA: The Sequences don’t need to be read in sequence

kave23 May 2022 2:53 UTC

87 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Gradations of Agency

Daniel Kokotajlo23 May 2022 1:10 UTC

41 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

How curing aging could help progress

jasoncrawford22 May 2022 22:43 UTC

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Help! What do I say at my wedding?

Jonathan Task22 May 2022 20:08 UTC

7 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Adversarial attacks and optimal control

Jan22 May 2022 18:22 UTC

17 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

What kinds of algorithms do multi-human imitators learn?

Chris van Merwijk and Joar Skalse

22 May 2022 14:27 UTC

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Are human imitators superhuman models with explicit constraints on capabilities?

Chris van Merwijk22 May 2022 12:46 UTC

41 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The value of x-risk reduction

NathanBarnard22 May 2022 7:44 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

On The Spectrum, On The Guest List

party girl22 May 2022 3:31 UTC

24 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

An Agent Based Consciousness Model (unfortunately it’s not computable)

Logan Zoellner21 May 2022 23:00 UTC

6 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Wormy the Worm

River Lewis21 May 2022 15:34 UTC

3 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

(heytraveler.substack.com)

Philosophical considerations of cessation of brain activity

clockwork21 May 2022 15:18 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How Big Are Covid Particles?

jefftk21 May 2022 14:00 UTC

29 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Short version] Information Loss --> Basin flatness

Vivek Hebbar21 May 2022 12:59 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Information Loss --> Basin flatness

Vivek Hebbar21 May 2022 12:58 UTC

62 points

31 comments7 min readLW link

The Future of Nuclear War

avturchin21 May 2022 7:52 UTC

33 points

1 comment34 min readLW link

Clarifying what ELK is trying to achieve

Towards_Keeperhood21 May 2022 7:34 UTC

22 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

[retracted] A really simplistic experiment for LessWrong and /r/SneerClub

Nicholas Kross21 May 2022 5:52 UTC

0 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Who is available for contract work? (A la the Hacker News “Who Wants To Be Hired” threads)

nonzerosum20 May 2022 23:59 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does gradient descent always work on neural networks?

MichaelDickens20 May 2022 21:13 UTC

15 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records

Jotto99920 May 2022 19:20 UTC

339 points

112 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

How RL Agents Behave When Their Actions Are Modified? [Distillation post]

PabloAMC20 May 2022 18:47 UTC

22 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Over-digitalization: A Prelude to Analogia (Chapter 6)

Justin Bullock20 May 2022 16:39 UTC

3 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Podcast: Spencer Greenberg talks to me about dealing with our groupstruckness and boundedness

KatjaGrace20 May 2022 4:20 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Formula for a Shortage

Zvi19 May 2022 19:30 UTC

57 points

9 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Proclamation of game-theoretic emergence

dr_diagoras19 May 2022 18:09 UTC

−4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How has the total amount of gain-of-function research worldwide grown/shrunk over time?

johnswentworth19 May 2022 15:57 UTC

29 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

14 Techniques to Accelerate Your Learning

spencerg and Florence Hinder

19 May 2022 13:59 UTC

70 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

Covid 5/19/22: The Law of Five

Zvi19 May 2022 12:20 UTC

53 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Should you kiss it better?

Yair Halberstadt19 May 2022 3:58 UTC

9 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Looking for AI / Application Engineer @ OpenPrinciples—Help people align actions with principles

ti_guo19 May 2022 3:23 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Feminism and Femininity

NathanBarnard18 May 2022 22:53 UTC

4 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with the recent monkeypox cases?

johnswentworth18 May 2022 22:06 UTC

61 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

We have achieved Noob Gains in AI

phdead18 May 2022 20:56 UTC

118 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

A possible check against motivated reasoning using elicit.org

david reinstein18 May 2022 20:52 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Reading the ethicists: A review of articles on AI in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics

Charlie Steiner18 May 2022 20:52 UTC

50 points

8 comments14 min readLW link

Maxent and Abstractions: Current Best Arguments

johnswentworth18 May 2022 19:54 UTC

33 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Framing Practicum: Dynamic Programming

aysajan18 May 2022 18:16 UTC

10 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

How to get into AI safety research

Stuart_Armstrong18 May 2022 18:05 UTC

48 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A bridge to Dath Ilan? Improved governance on the critical path to AI alignment.

Jackson Wagner18 May 2022 15:51 UTC

24 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Understanding Gato’s Supervised Reinforcement Learning

lorepieri18 May 2022 11:08 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(lorenzopieri.com)