Why I don’t be­lieve in doom

mukashi7 Jun 2022 23:49 UTC
6 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

“Pivotal Acts” means some­thing specific

Raemon7 Jun 2022 21:56 UTC
127 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Em­bod­i­ment is Indis­pens­able for AGI

P. G. Keerthana Gopalakrishnan7 Jun 2022 21:31 UTC
6 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(keerthanapg.com)

Stephen Wolfram’s ideas are un­der-appreciated

Kenny7 Jun 2022 20:09 UTC
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Who mod­els the mod­els that model mod­els? An ex­plo­ra­tion of GPT-3′s in-con­text model fit­ting ability

Lovre7 Jun 2022 19:37 UTC
112 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How Does Cog­ni­tive Perfor­mance Trans­late to Real World Ca­pa­bil­ity?

DragonGod7 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (iv) Silencio

party girl7 Jun 2022 15:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

[Question] Con­fused Thoughts on AI After­life (se­ri­ously)

Epirito7 Jun 2022 14:37 UTC
−4 points
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Think­ing about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions

J Bostock7 Jun 2022 14:05 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on For­mal­iz­ing Composition

Tom Lieberum7 Jun 2022 7:51 UTC
13 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AGI Safety FAQ /​ all-dumb-ques­tions-al­lowed thread

Aryeh Englander7 Jun 2022 5:47 UTC
227 points
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Pitch­ing an Align­ment Softball

mu_(negative)7 Jun 2022 4:10 UTC
47 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

We will be around in 30 years

mukashi7 Jun 2022 3:47 UTC
12 points
205 comments2 min readLW link

Where to Live for Happiness

ethanmorse7 Jun 2022 1:09 UTC
19 points
6 comments26 min readLW link
(210ethan.github.io)

A de­scrip­tive, not pre­scrip­tive, overview of cur­rent AI Align­ment Research

6 Jun 2022 21:59 UTC
138 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup—Lyn­gby Den­mark 2022-07-03

Carl Dybdahl6 Jun 2022 20:35 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Micro­phone on Elec­tric Man­dolin II

jefftk6 Jun 2022 20:30 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

We haven’t quit evolu­tion [short]

the gears to ascension6 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Grokking “Fore­cast­ing TAI with biolog­i­cal an­chors”

anson.ho6 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
39 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

DALL-E 2 - Unoffi­cial Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Image Edit­ing, Art Cri­tique Survey

bakztfuture6 Jun 2022 18:27 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(bakztfuture.substack.com)

We Should Break Up Elite Colleges

sahajsharda6 Jun 2022 18:15 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

[Question] What board games would you recom­mend?

Yair Halberstadt6 Jun 2022 16:38 UTC
16 points
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[Question] Health & Lifestyle In­ter­ven­tions With Heavy-Tailed Out­comes?

MondSemmel6 Jun 2022 16:26 UTC
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Read­ing the ethi­cists 2: Hunt­ing for AI al­ign­ment papers

Charlie Steiner6 Jun 2022 15:49 UTC
24 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Tran­script of a Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi6 Jun 2022 13:50 UTC
85 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some ideas for fol­low-up pro­jects to Red­wood Re­search’s re­cent paper

JanB6 Jun 2022 13:29 UTC
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Give the model a model-builder

Adam Jermyn6 Jun 2022 12:21 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What jour­nal­ing prompts do you use?

ChristianKl6 Jun 2022 11:35 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Why do some peo­ple try to make AGI?

TekhneMakre6 Jun 2022 9:14 UTC
14 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Miriam Ye­vick on why both sym­bols and net­works are nec­es­sary for ar­tifi­cial minds

Bill Benzon6 Jun 2022 8:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion and Ad­e­quacy in Five Bullets

james.lucassen6 Jun 2022 5:48 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

Why agents are powerful

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Jun 2022 1:37 UTC
37 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimi6 Jun 2022 0:27 UTC
65 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC
902 points
690 comments30 min readLW link3 reviews

Teach­ing all things to all peo­ple in all ways

Anonymous5 Jun 2022 21:38 UTC
1 point
2 comments10 min readLW link

Noisy en­vi­ron­ment reg­u­late util­ity maximizers

Niclas Kupper5 Jun 2022 18:48 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­pected Value vs. Ex­pected Growth

tom-pollak5 Jun 2022 18:48 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

North­boro Air Qual­ity Measurement

jefftk5 Jun 2022 17:50 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

Filip Sondej5 Jun 2022 13:55 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena 2: New be­ings in time

Bill Benzon5 Jun 2022 13:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter May 2022 + short his­tory of “method­ol­o­gists”

avturchin5 Jun 2022 11:50 UTC
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Some ques­tions I’ve been pon­der­ing...

Dalton Mabery5 Jun 2022 4:21 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Rein­vent­ing the wheel

jasoncrawford4 Jun 2022 22:39 UTC
78 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What do you do to de­liber­ately prac­tice?

hath4 Jun 2022 22:20 UTC
25 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Quick Look: Asymp­tomatic Her­pes Shedding

Elizabeth4 Jun 2022 21:40 UTC
37 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Meetup in SF, June 11: Progress Stud­ies + Effec­tive Altruism

4 Jun 2022 21:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to pur­sue a ca­reer in tech­ni­cal AI alignment

Charlie Rogers-Smith4 Jun 2022 21:11 UTC
68 points
1 comment39 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2022

MondSemmel4 Jun 2022 19:27 UTC
9 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the world these days? We’re mov­ing to a new, a new what?

Bill Benzon4 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Re­turns on Cog­ni­tive Rein­vest­ment (Part 1)

DragonGod4 Jun 2022 18:42 UTC
17 points
11 comments13 min readLW link