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Reshaping the AI Industry
Thane Ruthenis
May 29, 2022, 10:54 PM
147
points
35
comments
21
min read
LW
link
The Unbearable Lightness of Web Vulnerabilities
aiiixiii
May 29, 2022, 9:13 PM
29
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.theoreticalstructures.io)
Finding the Right Problem
tobot
May 29, 2022, 5:52 PM
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The impact you might have working on AI safety
Fabien Roger
May 29, 2022, 4:31 PM
5
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
The Problem With The Current State of AGI Definitions
Yitz
May 29, 2022, 1:58 PM
40
points
22
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Request for nice questions to think about while trying to sleep
oh54321
May 29, 2022, 1:47 PM
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Will working here advance AGI? Help us not destroy the world!
Yonatan Cale
May 29, 2022, 11:42 AM
30
points
47
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Passable Puppet
burmesetheater
May 29, 2022, 11:07 AM
6
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Multiple AIs in boxes, evaluating each other’s alignment
Moebius314
May 29, 2022, 8:36 AM
8
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How would you build Dath Ilan on earth?
Yair Halberstadt
May 29, 2022, 7:26 AM
35
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Distributed Decisions
johnswentworth
May 29, 2022, 2:43 AM
66
points
6
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Distilled—AGI Safety from First Principles
Harrison G
May 29, 2022, 12:57 AM
11
points
1
comment
14
min read
LW
link
[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
26 May 2022 17:42 UTC
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
26 May 2022 17:30 UTC
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
26 May 2022 15:55 UTC
7
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Moral Weights of Six Animals, Considering Viewpoint Uncertainty—Seeds of Science call for reviewers
rogersbacon
26 May 2022 13:36 UTC
9
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
CNN feature visualization in 50 lines of code
StefanHex
26 May 2022 11:02 UTC
17
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much white collar work could be automated using existing ML models?
AM
26 May 2022 8:09 UTC
25
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Benign Boundary Violations
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
26 May 2022 6:48 UTC
212
points
84
comments
18
min read
LW
link
1
review
Here’s a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts
lsusr
26 May 2022 5:35 UTC
48
points
7
comments
30
min read
LW
link
View and bet in Manifold prediction markets on Lesswrong
Sinclair Chen
26 May 2022 2:41 UTC
21
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Testing Air Purifiers
jefftk
25 May 2022 23:50 UTC
35
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Glass Puppet
lsusr
25 May 2022 23:01 UTC
70
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to get people to produce more great exposition? Some strategies and their assumptions
riceissa
25 May 2022 22:30 UTC
26
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Request for small textbook recommendations
Alex_Altair
25 May 2022 22:19 UTC
13
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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