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[Question]
What have been the major “triumphs” in the field of AI over the last ten years?
lc
May 28, 2022, 7:49 PM
35
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Utilitarianism
C S SRUTHI
May 28, 2022, 7:35 PM
0
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Bayesian Persuasion?
Karthik Tadepalli
May 28, 2022, 5:52 PM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is Going On With CFAR?
niplav
May 28, 2022, 3:21 PM
95
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An inquiry into the thoughts of twenty-five people in India
KatjaGrace
May 28, 2022, 8:30 AM
21
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Functional Analysis Reading Group
Ulisse Mini
May 28, 2022, 2:40 AM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Understanding Selection Theorems
adamk
May 28, 2022, 1:49 AM
41
points
3
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Infernal Corrigibility, Fiendishly Difficult
David Udell
May 27, 2022, 8:32 PM
24
points
1
comment
13
min read
LW
link
New Water Quality x Obesity Dataset Available
Elizabeth
May 27, 2022, 7:50 PM
74
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Bootstrapping Language Models
harsimony
May 27, 2022, 7:43 PM
7
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Resources For the Redwood Research Triplebyte Test
Aiyen
May 27, 2022, 7:40 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Sneaking Suspicion
benwr
May 27, 2022, 7:17 PM
17
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Range and Forecasting Accuracy
niplav
May 27, 2022, 6:47 PM
48
points
22
comments
41
min read
LW
link
1
review
Croesus, Cerberus, and the magpies: a gentle introduction to Eliciting Latent Knowledge
Alexandre Variengien
May 27, 2022, 5:58 PM
17
points
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Deconfusing Landauer’s Principle
EuanMcLean
May 27, 2022, 5:58 PM
58
points
15
comments
15
min read
LW
link
On The Spectrum, On The Guest List: (ii) LAVO
party girl
May 27, 2022, 4:45 PM
18
points
3
comments
18
min read
LW
link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)
Can growth continue?
jasoncrawford
May 27, 2022, 4:19 PM
28
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
An academic journal is just a Twitter feed
David Hugh-Jones
May 27, 2022, 11:14 AM
13
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(wyclif.substack.com)
Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
May 27, 2022, 9:27 AM
20
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Iterated Distillation-Amplification, Gato, and Proto-AGI [Re-Explained]
Gabe M
May 27, 2022, 5:42 AM
22
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Little Planets
ExCeph
May 27, 2022, 1:24 AM
15
points
0
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)
A Story of AI Risk: InstructGPT-N
peterbarnett
May 26, 2022, 11:22 PM
24
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Infra-Bayesianism Distillation: Realizability and Decision Theory
Thomas Larsen
May 26, 2022, 9:57 PM
40
points
9
comments
18
min read
LW
link
The misguided pursuit of existentialism and absurdism in combatting nihilism
Sundae
May 26, 2022, 9:17 PM
−3
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Experience LessWrong without the Time-Wasting RabbitHole Effect
joraine
May 26, 2022, 7:09 PM
4
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Brass Puppet
abramdemski
May 26, 2022, 5:42 PM
63
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Covid 5/26/22: I Guess I Should Respond To This Week’s Long Covid Study
Zvi
May 26, 2022, 5:30 PM
46
points
4
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A discussion of the paper, “Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners”
HiroSakuraba
May 26, 2022, 3:55 PM
7
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Moral Weights of Six Animals, Considering Viewpoint Uncertainty—Seeds of Science call for reviewers
rogersbacon
May 26, 2022, 1:36 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
CNN feature visualization in 50 lines of code
StefanHex
May 26, 2022, 11:02 AM
17
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much white collar work could be automated using existing ML models?
AM
May 26, 2022, 8:09 AM
25
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Benign Boundary Violations
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
May 26, 2022, 6:48 AM
212
points
84
comments
18
min read
LW
link
1
review
Here’s a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts
lsusr
May 26, 2022, 5:35 AM
48
points
7
comments
30
min read
LW
link
View and bet in Manifold prediction markets on Lesswrong
Sinclair Chen
May 26, 2022, 2:41 AM
21
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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
25 May 2022 2:55 UTC
44
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
MERV Filters for Covid?
jefftk
25 May 2022 1:50 UTC
35
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes
alyssavance
25 May 2022 1:40 UTC
210
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
autonomy: the missing AGI ingredient?
nostalgebraist
25 May 2022 0:33 UTC
69
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Explaining inner alignment to myself
Jeremy Gillen
24 May 2022 23:10 UTC
9
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Google’s Imagen uses larger text encoder
Ben Livengood
24 May 2022 21:55 UTC
27
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Endpoint Specification, or Good Help is Hard to Find
ACrackedPot
24 May 2022 21:00 UTC
8
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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