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MERV Filters for Covid?
jefftk
May 25, 2022, 1:50 AM
35
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Testing Air Purifiers
jefftk
May 25, 2022, 11:50 PM
35
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Reflections on a year of college
unoptimal
May 25, 2022, 4:26 PM
35
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
The limits of AI safety via debate
Marius Hobbhahn
May 10, 2022, 1:33 PM
35
points
8
comments
10
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
[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
[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
Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022
UnplannedCauliflower
May 1, 2022, 11:59 AM
34
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
An observation about Hubinger et al.’s framework for learned optimization
carboniferous_umbraculum
May 13, 2022, 4:20 PM
34
points
9
comments
8
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
AXRP Episode 15 - Natural Abstractions with John Wentworth
DanielFilan
May 23, 2022, 5:40 AM
34
points
1
comment
58
min read
LW
link
[Link post] Promising Paths to Alignment—Connor Leahy | Talk
frances_lorenz
May 14, 2022, 4:01 PM
34
points
0
comments
1
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
Maxent and Abstractions: Current Best Arguments
johnswentworth
May 18, 2022, 7:54 PM
33
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on AI Safety Camp
Charlie Steiner
May 13, 2022, 7:16 AM
33
points
8
comments
7
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)
Less Wrong Community Weekend 2022, open for application!
UnplannedCauliflower
May 1, 2022, 6:52 PM
32
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a convenient way to make “sealed” predictions?
Daniel Kokotajlo
May 6, 2022, 11:00 PM
32
points
20
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An Inside View of AI Alignment
Ansh Radhakrishnan
May 11, 2022, 2:16 AM
32
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Clarifying the confusion around inner alignment
Rauno Arike
May 13, 2022, 11:05 PM
31
points
0
comments
11
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
Covid 5/12/22: Other Priorities
Zvi
May 12, 2022, 1:30 PM
31
points
4
comments
15
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
The glorious energy boost I’ve gotten by abstaining from coffee
Sameerishere
May 7, 2022, 8:21 PM
31
points
28
comments
3
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
AI Alignment YouTube Playlists
jacquesthibs
and
remember
May 9, 2022, 9:33 PM
30
points
4
comments
1
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)
[Question]
How has the total amount of gain-of-function research worldwide grown/shrunk over time?
johnswentworth
May 19, 2022, 3:57 PM
29
points
7
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)
My Approach to Non-Literal Communication
Isaac King
May 1, 2022, 2:47 AM
29
points
8
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Surviving Automation In The 21st Century—Part 1
George3d6
May 15, 2022, 7:16 PM
28
points
16
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
Can growth continue?
jasoncrawford
May 27, 2022, 4:19 PM
28
points
22
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Podcast: Spencer Greenberg talks to me about dealing with our groupstruckness and boundedness
KatjaGrace
May 20, 2022, 4:20 AM
28
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here’s a succinct summary and commentary + some background
mako yass
May 18, 2022, 4:15 AM
27
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Notes on Empathy
David Gross
May 3, 2022, 4:06 AM
27
points
2
comments
57
min read
LW
link
D&D.Sci Divination: Nine Black Doves Evaluation & Ruleset
aphyer
May 17, 2022, 12:34 AM
27
points
7
comments
7
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
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
May 4, 2022, 4:21 AM
26
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
But What’s Your *New Alignment Insight,* out of a Future-Textbook Paragraph?
David Udell
May 7, 2022, 3:10 AM
26
points
18
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Actionable-guidance and roadmap recommendations for the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Dan H
and
Tony Barrett
May 17, 2022, 3:26 PM
26
points
0
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
An easy win for hard decisions
Alex Lawsen
May 5, 2022, 7:47 AM
25
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What to do when starting a business in an imminent-AGI world?
ryan_b
May 12, 2022, 9:07 PM
25
points
7
comments
1
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
A Story of AI Risk: InstructGPT-N
peterbarnett
May 26, 2022, 11:22 PM
24
points
0
comments
8
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
Deriving Conditional Expected Utility from Pareto-Efficient Decisions
Thomas Kwa
May 5, 2022, 3:21 AM
24
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
A bridge to Dath Ilan? Improved governance on the critical path to AI alignment.
Jackson Wagner
May 18, 2022, 3:51 PM
24
points
0
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Dath Ilani Rule of Law
David Udell
May 10, 2022, 6:17 AM
24
points
25
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)
Proxy misspecification and the capabilities vs. value learning race
Sam Marks
May 16, 2022, 6:58 PM
23
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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