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

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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

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[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

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[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

44 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)

Gato’s Generalisation: Predictions and Experiments I’d Like to See

Oliver Sourbut18 May 2022 7:15 UTC

43 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here’s a succinct summary and commentary + some background

mako yass18 May 2022 4:15 UTC

27 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Denver, CO City Park Meetup

palebone18 May 2022 3:54 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Workday Air Quality Measurements

jefftk18 May 2022 2:10 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Feature request: draft comments

DirectedEvolution17 May 2022 21:21 UTC

9 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik Karlsson17 May 2022 20:07 UTC

119 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

On saving one’s world

Rob Bensinger17 May 2022 19:53 UTC

192 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal: Twitter dislike button

KatjaGrace17 May 2022 19:40 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

BERI is seeking new collaborators (2022)

sawyer17 May 2022 17:33 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Formula for Dying Babies

Zvi17 May 2022 16:50 UTC

88 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Actionable-guidance and roadmap recommendations for the NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Dan H and Tony Barrett

17 May 2022 15:26 UTC

26 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 15. Conclusion: Open problems, how to help, AMA

Steven Byrnes17 May 2022 15:11 UTC

97 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

What are the possible trajectories of an AGI/ASI world?

Jakobovski17 May 2022 13:28 UTC

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

How to invest in expectation of AGI?

Jakobovski17 May 2022 11:03 UTC

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link