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Various Alignment Strategies (and how likely they are to work)
Logan Zoellner
May 3, 2022, 4:54 PM
84
points
34
comments
11
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the “ugh field” phenomenon sometimes occur strongly enough to affect immediate sensory processing?
Rana Dexsin
May 3, 2022, 1:42 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why humans don’t learn to not recognize danger?
Joachim Bartosik
May 3, 2022, 12:53 PM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What would be the impact of cheap energy and storage?
Yair Halberstadt
May 3, 2022, 5:20 AM
5
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Monthly Shorts 4/2022
Celer
May 3, 2022, 4:10 AM
8
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(keller.substack.com)
Notes on Empathy
David Gross
May 3, 2022, 4:06 AM
27
points
2
comments
57
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Looking for someone to run an online seminar on human learning
Isaac King
May 3, 2022, 1:54 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Home Antigen Tests Aren’t Useful For Covid Screening
Elizabeth
May 3, 2022, 1:30 AM
19
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Is evolutionary influence the mesa objective that we’re interested in?
David Johnston
May 3, 2022, 1:18 AM
3
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Open & Welcome Thread—May 2022
Ruby
May 2, 2022, 11:47 PM
19
points
60
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Predicting for charity
Austin Chen
May 2, 2022, 10:59 PM
43
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Information security considerations for AI and the long term future
Jeffrey Ladish
and
lennart
May 2, 2022, 8:54 PM
76
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area
Ben_Snodin
May 2, 2022, 5:57 PM
34
points
0
comments
42
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Would It Cost to Build a World-Class Dredging Vessel in America?
Zvi
May 2, 2022, 5:47 PM
54
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
So has AI conquered Bridge ?
Ponder Stibbons
May 2, 2022, 3:01 PM
21
points
3
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Squires
lsusr
May 2, 2022, 3:36 AM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] A conceptual framework for consciousness
Gunnar_Zarncke
May 2, 2022, 1:05 AM
12
points
24
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do
Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
May 1, 2022, 11:51 PM
353
points
303
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is it desirable for the first AGI to be conscious?
Charbel-Raphaël
May 1, 2022, 9:29 PM
5
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
ELK shaving
Miss Aligned AI
May 1, 2022, 9:05 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] Value extraction via language model abduction
Paul Bricman
May 1, 2022, 7:11 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(paulbricman.com)
Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022, open for application!
UnplannedCauliflower
May 1, 2022, 6:52 PM
32
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Six Months of ROSE
Evenflair
May 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
18
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
Shared Car: One Year In
jefftk
May 1, 2022, 1:00 PM
14
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022
UnplannedCauliflower
May 1, 2022, 11:59 AM
34
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
May 1, 2022, 10:59 AM
60
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to be skeptical about meditation/Buddhism
Viliam
May 1, 2022, 10:30 AM
78
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
My Approach to Non-Literal Communication
Isaac King
May 1, 2022, 2:47 AM
29
points
8
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Narrative Syncing
AnnaSalamon
May 1, 2022, 1:48 AM
119
points
48
comments
7
min read
LW
link
1
review
What is the solution to the Alignment problem?
Algon
Apr 30, 2022, 11:19 PM
24
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why hasn’t deep learning generated significant economic value yet?
Alex_Altair
Apr 30, 2022, 8:27 PM
114
points
89
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Nuclear Energy—Good but not the silver bullet we were hoping for
Marius Hobbhahn
Apr 30, 2022, 3:41 PM
64
points
33
comments
15
min read
LW
link
1
review
Quick Thoughts on A.I. Governance
Nicholas / Heather Kross
Apr 30, 2022, 2:49 PM
70
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)
Discussion on Thomas Philippon’s paper on TFP growth being linear
Arjun Yadav
Apr 30, 2022, 2:25 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
[untitled post]
superads91
Apr 30, 2022, 1:01 PM
0
points
49
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Note-Taking without Hidden Messages
Hoagy
Apr 30, 2022, 11:15 AM
17
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How good is spending?
tryactions
Apr 30, 2022, 7:27 AM
5
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] New multi-modal Deepmind model fusing Chinchilla with images and videos
p.b.
Apr 30, 2022, 3:47 AM
53
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Salvage Epistemology
jimrandomh
Apr 30, 2022, 2:10 AM
102
points
119
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Learning the smooth prior
Geoffrey Irving
,
Rohin Shah
and
evhub
Apr 29, 2022, 9:10 PM
35
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do FDT (or similar) recommend reparations?
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Apr 29, 2022, 5:34 PM
13
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Saying no to the Appleman
Johannes C. Mayer
Apr 29, 2022, 10:39 AM
47
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Prize for Alignment Research Tasks
stuhlmueller
and
William_S
Apr 29, 2022, 8:57 AM
64
points
38
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Increasing Demandingness in EA
jefftk
Apr 29, 2022, 1:20 AM
61
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What is a training “step” vs. “episode” in machine learning?
Evan R. Murphy
Apr 28, 2022, 9:53 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Facts Matter
mrdlm
Apr 28, 2022, 9:19 PM
20
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is alignment possible?
Shay
Apr 28, 2022, 9:18 PM
0
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Two Prosocial Rejection Norms
Emrik
Apr 28, 2022, 8:53 PM
54
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Dath Ilan vs. Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri: Pareto Improvements
David Udell
Apr 28, 2022, 7:26 PM
35
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A Parable Of Explainability
George3d6
Apr 28, 2022, 4:46 PM
10
points
5
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
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