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Testing Air Purifiers
jefftk
May 25, 2022, 11:50 PM
35
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Glass Puppet
lsusr
May 25, 2022, 11:01 PM
70
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to get people to produce more great exposition? Some strategies and their assumptions
riceissa
May 25, 2022, 10:30 PM
26
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Request for small textbook recommendations
Alex_Altair
May 25, 2022, 10:19 PM
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Science-informed normativity
Richard_Ngo
May 25, 2022, 6:30 PM
32
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Reflections on a year of college
unoptimal
May 25, 2022, 4:26 PM
35
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The “Measuring Stick of Utility” Problem
johnswentworth
May 25, 2022, 4:17 PM
74
points
25
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s The Best Place to Look When You Have A Question About x?
Chloe Thompson
May 25, 2022, 1:51 PM
39
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
RL with KL penalties is better seen as Bayesian inference
Tomek Korbak
and
Ethan Perez
May 25, 2022, 9:23 AM
115
points
17
comments
12
min read
LW
link
A Quick Note on AI Scaling Asymptotes
alyssavance
May 25, 2022, 2:55 AM
44
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MERV Filters for Covid?
jefftk
May 25, 2022, 1:50 AM
35
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
May 25, 2022, 1:40 AM
210
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
autonomy: the missing AGI ingredient?
nostalgebraist
May 25, 2022, 12:33 AM
69
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Explaining inner alignment to myself
Jeremy Gillen
May 24, 2022, 11:10 PM
9
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Google’s Imagen uses larger text encoder
Ben Livengood
May 24, 2022, 9:55 PM
27
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Endpoint Specification, or Good Help is Hard to Find
ACrackedPot
May 24, 2022, 9:00 PM
8
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Game Theory and Partner Abuse
arielleplus
May 24, 2022, 8:03 PM
−10
points
5
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Mandatory Post About Monkeypox
Zvi
May 24, 2022, 8:00 PM
54
points
17
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
I only believe in the paranormal
Malmesbury
May 24, 2022, 12:15 PM
94
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why I Define My Experience At the Monastic Academy As Sexual Assault
HS2021
May 24, 2022, 8:17 AM
72
points
24
comments
15
min read
LW
link
The No Free Lunch theorems and their Razor
Adrià Garriga-alonso
May 24, 2022, 6:40 AM
56
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Synthetic Media and The Future of Film
ifalpha
May 24, 2022, 5:54 AM
35
points
14
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Complex Systems for AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #3]
Dan H
and
TW123
May 24, 2022, 12:00 AM
58
points
3
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Contra Astral Codex Ten’s “On Sexy In-Laws”
Dalton Mabery
May 23, 2022, 10:53 PM
1
point
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Worried About AI
peterbarnett
May 23, 2022, 9:13 PM
22
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance
johnswentworth
May 23, 2022, 6:55 PM
31
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
[Alignment] Is there a census on who’s working on what?
Cedar
May 23, 2022, 3:33 PM
23
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[fiction]A Question of Perspective
Elias
May 23, 2022, 3:06 PM
17
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Finding Your Voice
Evenflair
May 23, 2022, 2:43 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
Science for the Possible World
Zechen Zhang
May 23, 2022, 2:01 PM
7
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Monkeypox: explaining the jump to Europe
DirectedEvolution
May 23, 2022, 9:53 AM
44
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 15 - Natural Abstractions with John Wentworth
DanielFilan
May 23, 2022, 5:40 AM
34
points
1
comment
58
min read
LW
link
PSA: The Sequences don’t need to be read in sequence
kave
May 23, 2022, 2:53 AM
87
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Gradations of Agency
Daniel Kokotajlo
May 23, 2022, 1:10 AM
41
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How curing aging could help progress
jasoncrawford
May 22, 2022, 10:43 PM
52
points
19
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
Help! What do I say at my wedding?
Jonathan Task
May 22, 2022, 8:08 PM
7
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Adversarial attacks and optimal control
Jan
May 22, 2022, 6:22 PM
17
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
What kinds of algorithms do multi-human imitators learn?
Chris van Merwijk
and
Joar Skalse
May 22, 2022, 2:27 PM
20
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Are human imitators superhuman models with explicit constraints on capabilities?
Chris van Merwijk
May 22, 2022, 12:46 PM
41
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The value of x-risk reduction
NathanBarnard
May 22, 2022, 7:44 AM
4
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
On The Spectrum, On The Guest List
party girl
May 22, 2022, 3:31 AM
24
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)
An Agent Based Consciousness Model (unfortunately it’s not computable)
Logan Zoellner
May 21, 2022, 11:00 PM
6
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Wormy the Worm
River Lewis
May 21, 2022, 3:34 PM
3
points
23
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(heytraveler.substack.com)
Philosophical considerations of cessation of brain activity
clockwork
May 21, 2022, 3:18 PM
9
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Big Are Covid Particles?
jefftk
May 21, 2022, 2:00 PM
29
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Short version] Information Loss --> Basin flatness
Vivek Hebbar
May 21, 2022, 12:59 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Information Loss --> Basin flatness
Vivek Hebbar
May 21, 2022, 12:58 PM
62
points
31
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The Future of Nuclear War
avturchin
May 21, 2022, 7:52 AM
33
points
1
comment
34
min read
LW
link
Clarifying what ELK is trying to achieve
Towards_Keeperhood
May 21, 2022, 7:34 AM
22
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
[retracted] A really simplistic experiment for LessWrong and /r/SneerClub
Nicholas / Heather Kross
May 21, 2022, 5:52 AM
0
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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