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Machines vs. Memes 2: Memetically-Motivated Model Extensions
naterush
May 31, 2022, 10:03 PM
6
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Machines vs Memes Part 1: AI Alignment and Memetics
Harriet Farlow
May 31, 2022, 10:03 PM
19
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
The Hard Intelligence Hypothesis and Its Bearing on Succession Induced Foom
DragonGod
May 31, 2022, 7:04 PM
10
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Paper: Teaching GPT3 to express uncertainty in words
Owain_Evans
May 31, 2022, 1:27 PM
97
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Jul-Aug 2022
Yve Nichols-Evans
May 31, 2022, 12:56 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is the state of Chinese AI research?
Ratios
May 31, 2022, 10:05 AM
34
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Brain That Builds Itself
Jan
May 31, 2022, 9:42 AM
57
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(universalprior.substack.com)
[Question]
Is there any formal argument that climate change needs to more extreme weather events?
ChristianKl
May 31, 2022, 9:01 AM
8
points
8
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 Reverse Basilisk
Dunning K.
May 30, 2022, 11:10 PM
17
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Deliberate Grieving
Raemon
May 30, 2022, 8:49 PM
188
points
16
comments
9
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Perform Tractable Research While Avoiding Capabilities Externalities [Pragmatic AI Safety #4]
Dan H
and
TW123
May 30, 2022, 8:25 PM
51
points
3
comments
25
min read
LW
link
[Question]
A terrifying variant of Boltzmann’s brains problem
Zeruel017
May 30, 2022, 8:08 PM
5
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Ceiling Air Purifier
jefftk
May 30, 2022, 7:20 PM
87
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Notion template for personal predictions
Arjun Yadav
May 30, 2022, 5:47 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Six Dimensions of Operational Adequacy in AGI Projects
Eliezer Yudkowsky
May 30, 2022, 5:00 PM
310
points
66
comments
13
min read
LW
link
1
review
My SERI MATS Application
Daniel Paleka
May 30, 2022, 2:04 AM
16
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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)
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