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[Question]
[Alignment] Is there a census on who’s working on what?
Cedar
May 23, 2022, 3:33 PM
23
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sealed predictions thread
Zach Stein-Perlman
May 7, 2022, 6:00 PM
23
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I’m Worried About AI
peterbarnett
May 23, 2022, 9:13 PM
22
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
How RL Agents Behave When Their Actions Are Modified? [Distillation post]
PabloAMC
May 20, 2022, 6:47 PM
22
points
0
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
Inequality is inseparable from markets
NathanBarnard
May 14, 2022, 1:39 PM
22
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Clarifying what ELK is trying to achieve
Towards_Keeperhood
May 21, 2022, 7:34 AM
22
points
1
comment
5
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
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
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)
scipy.optimize.curve_fit Is Awesome
niplav
May 7, 2022, 10:57 AM
20
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What kinds of algorithms do multi-human imitators learn?
Chris van Merwijk
and
Joar Skalse
May 22, 2022, 2:27 PM
20
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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
Video and Transcript of Presentation on Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI
Joe Carlsmith
May 8, 2022, 3:50 AM
20
points
1
comment
29
min read
LW
link
Positive outcomes under an unaligned AGI takeover
Yitz
May 12, 2022, 7:45 AM
19
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
BIDA Air Quality Measurements
jefftk
May 16, 2022, 2:00 PM
19
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What’s keeping concerned capabilities gain researchers from leaving the field?
sovran
May 12, 2022, 12:16 PM
19
points
4
comments
1
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
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)
[Question]
Long COVID risk: How to maintain an up to date risk assessment so we can go back to normal life?
Sameerishere
May 8, 2022, 7:56 PM
19
points
34
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Workday Air Quality Measurements
jefftk
May 18, 2022, 2:10 AM
18
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
An Alternative Interpretation of Physics
dadadarren
May 9, 2022, 12:52 AM
18
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)
Ceiling Fan Air Filter
jefftk
May 10, 2022, 2:20 PM
18
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Six Months of ROSE
Evenflair
May 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
18
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
RLHF
Ansh Radhakrishnan
May 12, 2022, 9:18 PM
18
points
5
comments
5
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)
Squires
lsusr
May 2, 2022, 3:36 AM
18
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress links and tweets, 2022-05-30
jasoncrawford
May 30, 2022, 11:20 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
The Cuban missile crisis: the strategic context
NathanBarnard
May 16, 2022, 12:12 PM
18
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Deferring
owencb
May 12, 2022, 11:56 PM
18
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Sneaking Suspicion
benwr
May 27, 2022, 7:17 PM
17
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Reverse Basilisk
Dunning K.
May 30, 2022, 11:10 PM
17
points
23
comments
2
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
Adversarial attacks and optimal control
Jan
May 22, 2022, 6:22 PM
17
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
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
[fiction]A Question of Perspective
Elias
May 23, 2022, 3:06 PM
17
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
My SERI MATS Application
Daniel Paleka
May 30, 2022, 2:04 AM
16
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Introduction to the sequence: Interpretability Research for the Most Important Century
Evan R. Murphy
May 12, 2022, 7:59 PM
16
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Microphone on Electric Mandolin
jefftk
May 9, 2022, 2:00 PM
16
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Frame for Take-Off Speeds to inform compute governance & scaling alignment
Logan Riggs
May 13, 2022, 10:23 PM
15
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Starting too many projects, finishing none
Tim Liptrot
May 5, 2022, 3:23 PM
15
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seattle Robot Cult
lsusr
May 7, 2022, 12:25 AM
15
points
1
comment
1
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)
[Question]
Why does gradient descent always work on neural networks?
MichaelDickens
May 20, 2022, 9:13 PM
15
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Moral Illusions
Martin Sustrik
May 6, 2022, 4:00 AM
14
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Examining Armstrong’s category of generalized models
Morgan_Rogers
May 10, 2022, 9:07 AM
14
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Contra Dance Mask Policy
jefftk
May 6, 2022, 3:10 PM
14
points
10
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Shared Car: One Year In
jefftk
May 1, 2022, 1:00 PM
14
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
How would public media outlets need to be governed to cover all political views?
ChristianKl
May 12, 2022, 12:55 PM
13
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How close to nuclear war did we get over Cuba?
NathanBarnard
May 13, 2022, 7:58 PM
13
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
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