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A discussion of the paper, “Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners”

HiroSakurabaMay 26, 2022, 3:55 PM

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An Agent Based Consciousness Model (unfortunately it’s not computable)

Logan ZoellnerMay 21, 2022, 11:00 PM

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2 comments8 min readLW link

ELK shaving

Miss Aligned AIMay 1, 2022, 9:05 PM

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Passable Puppet

burmesetheaterMay 29, 2022, 11:07 AM

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1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] How to balance between process and outcome?

Nathan Helm-BurgerMay 4, 2022, 7:34 PM

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8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is it possible to implement switching between sequences from its pages?

EniScienMay 15, 2022, 9:19 AM

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[Question] Thought experiment: Imagine you were assigned to help a random person in your community become as peaceful and joyful as the most peaceful and joyful person you’d ever met. What would you try?

nonzerosumMay 9, 2022, 1:53 PM

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[Rough notes, BAIS] Human values and cyclical preferences

pranomostro, Jayjay and Lucie Philippon

May 13, 2022, 1:28 PM

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[Book review] The anxiety toolkit

ValdesMay 4, 2022, 12:15 PM

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[Linkpost] Value extraction via language model abduction

Paul BricmanMay 1, 2022, 7:11 PM

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[Question] A terrifying variant of Boltzmann’s brains problem

Zeruel017May 30, 2022, 8:08 PM

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[Question] Is it desirable for the first AGI to be conscious?

Charbel-RaphaëlMay 1, 2022, 9:29 PM

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Resources For the Redwood Research Triplebyte Test

AiyenMay 27, 2022, 7:40 PM

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Notes from a conversation with Ing. Agr. Adriana Balzarini

Pablo RepettoMay 8, 2022, 3:56 PM

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(pabloernesto.github.io)

[Question] What are your recommendations for technical AI alignment podcasts?

Evan_GaensbauerMay 11, 2022, 9:52 PM

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[Question] What would be the impact of cheap energy and storage?

Yair HalberstadtMay 3, 2022, 5:20 AM

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The impact you might have working on AI safety

Fabien RogerMay 29, 2022, 4:31 PM

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Cambridge LW Meetup: Books That Change

Darmani and Tony Wang

May 8, 2022, 5:23 AM

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Ion Implantation: Theory, Equipment, Process, Alternatives

nomagicpillMay 8, 2022, 10:30 PM

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0 comments16 min readLW link

(210ethan.github.io)

[Book review] Atomic habits

ValdesMay 4, 2022, 12:15 PM

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Functional Analysis Reading Group

Ulisse MiniMay 28, 2022, 2:40 AM

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Feminism and Femininity

NathanBarnardMay 18, 2022, 10:53 PM

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8 comments6 min readLW link

[Book review] Getting things done

ValdesMay 4, 2022, 12:15 PM

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A reason behind bad systems, and moral implications of seeing this reason

Edward PascalMay 9, 2022, 3:16 AM

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[Question] What does Functional Decision Theory say to do in imperfect Newcomb situations?

Daniel_EthMay 7, 2022, 10:26 PM

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[Question] Why humans don’t learn to not recognize danger?

Joachim BartosikMay 3, 2022, 12:53 PM

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The value of x-risk reduction

NathanBarnardMay 22, 2022, 7:44 AM

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Berkeley Schelling ACX meetup

Raj Thimmiah and mingyuan

May 4, 2022, 12:50 AM

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A possible check against motivated reasoning using elicit.org

david reinsteinMay 18, 2022, 8:52 PM

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Understanding Gato’s Supervised Reinforcement Learning

lorepieriMay 18, 2022, 11:08 AM

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Over-digitalization: A Prelude to Analogia (Chapter 6)

Justin BullockMay 20, 2022, 4:39 PM

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Is evolutionary influence the mesa objective that we’re interested in?

David JohnstonMay 3, 2022, 1:18 AM

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How to invest in expectation of AGI?

JakobovskiMay 17, 2022, 11:03 AM

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Wormy the Worm

River LewisMay 21, 2022, 3:34 PM

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23 comments5 min readLW link

(heytraveler.substack.com)

When is AI safety research harmful?

NathanBarnardMay 9, 2022, 6:19 PM

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[Question] Steer the Sun?

ShayMay 4, 2022, 3:36 AM

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[Question] The Economics of a New Energy Source

casualphysicsenjoyerMay 13, 2022, 2:08 PM

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AI safety should be made more accessible using non text-based media

MassimogMay 10, 2022, 3:14 AM

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Denver, CO City Park Meetup

paleboneMay 18, 2022, 3:54 AM

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BERI is seeking new collaborators (2022)

sawyerMay 17, 2022, 5:33 PM

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[Linkpost] diffusion magnetizes manifolds (DALL-E 2 intuition building)

Paul BricmanMay 7, 2022, 11:01 AM

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[Question] What Was Your Best / Most Successful DALL-E 2 Prompt?

EvidentialMay 4, 2022, 3:16 AM

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Notion template for personal predictions

Arjun YadavMay 30, 2022, 5:47 PM

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Looking for AI / Application Engineer @ OpenPrinciples—Help people align actions with principles

ti_guoMay 19, 2022, 3:23 AM

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Contra Astral Codex Ten’s “On Sexy In-Laws”

Dalton MaberyMay 23, 2022, 10:53 PM

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Lagos, Nigeria – ACX Meetup [May 2022]

damolaMay 4, 2022, 2:28 AM

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A tentative dialogue with a Friendly-boxed-super-AGI on brain uploads

Ramiro P.May 12, 2022, 7:40 PM

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Utilitarianism

C S SRUTHIMay 28, 2022, 7:35 PM

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[retracted] A really simplistic experiment for LessWrong and /r/SneerClub

Nicholas KrossMay 21, 2022, 5:52 AM

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Predicting the Elections with Deep Learning—Part 1 - Results

Quentin ChenevierMay 14, 2022, 12:54 PM

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