Brain­storm of things that could force an AI team to burn their lead

So8res24 Jul 2022 23:58 UTC
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Find­ing Skele­tons on Rashomon Ridge

24 Jul 2022 22:31 UTC
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Gather­ing In­for­ma­tion you won’t use di­rectly is of­ten useful

Johannes C. Mayer24 Jul 2022 21:21 UTC
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[Question] Im­pact of ” ‘Let’s think step by step’ is all you need”?

yrimon24 Jul 2022 20:59 UTC
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The Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury: The Animation

24 Jul 2022 20:58 UTC
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(youtu.be)

Hiring Pro­gram­mers in Academia

jefftk24 Jul 2022 20:20 UTC
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Less Wrong Bu­dapest July 30th Meetup

Richard Horvath24 Jul 2022 19:07 UTC
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Re­la­tion­ship be­tween sub­jec­tive ex­pe­rience and in­tel­li­gence?

Q Home24 Jul 2022 9:10 UTC
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Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!Duncan24 Jul 2022 6:34 UTC
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Ex­am­ple Meetup Description

Julius24 Jul 2022 5:38 UTC
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Eaves­drop­ping on Aliens: A Data De­cod­ing Challenge

anonymousaisafety24 Jul 2022 4:35 UTC
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In­for­ma­tion the­o­retic model anal­y­sis may not lend much in­sight, but we may have been do­ing them wrong!

Garrett Baker24 Jul 2022 0:42 UTC
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What’s next for in­stru­men­tal ra­tio­nal­ity?

Andrew_Critch23 Jul 2022 22:55 UTC
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Easy guide for run­ning a lo­cal Ra­tion­al­ity meetup

Nikita Sokolsky23 Jul 2022 22:52 UTC
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Cu­rat­ing “The Epistemic Se­quences” (list v.0.1)

Andrew_Critch23 Jul 2022 22:17 UTC
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Room Opening

jefftk23 Jul 2022 21:00 UTC
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A Bias Against Altruism

Lone Pine23 Jul 2022 20:44 UTC
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What En­vi­ron­ment Prop­er­ties Select Agents For World-Model­ing?

Thane Ruthenis23 Jul 2022 19:27 UTC
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Which sin­gu­lar­ity schools plus the no sin­gu­lar­ity school was right?

Noosphere8923 Jul 2022 15:16 UTC
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Ba­sic Post Scarcity Q&A

lorepieri23 Jul 2022 13:43 UTC
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(lorenzopieri.com)

Ro­bust­ness to Scal­ing Down: More Im­por­tant Than I Thought

adamShimi23 Jul 2022 11:40 UTC
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Eat­ing Boogers

George3d623 Jul 2022 11:20 UTC
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(www.epistem.ink)

On Akra­sia, Habits and Re­ward Maximization

Aiyen23 Jul 2022 8:34 UTC
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Which val­ues are sta­ble un­der on­tol­ogy shifts?

Richard_Ngo23 Jul 2022 2:40 UTC
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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Try­ing out Prompt Eng­ineer­ing on TruthfulQA

Megan Kinniment23 Jul 2022 2:04 UTC
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Con­nor Leahy on Dy­ing with Dig­nity, EleutherAI and Conjecture

Michaël Trazzi22 Jul 2022 18:44 UTC
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(theinsideview.ai)

Wy­clif’s Dust: the miss­ing chapter

David Hugh-Jones22 Jul 2022 18:27 UTC
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(wyclif.substack.com)

Mak­ing DALL-E Count

DirectedEvolution22 Jul 2022 9:11 UTC
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One-day ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity work­shop in Ber­lin Aug 29 (af­ter LWCW)

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien22 Jul 2022 7:58 UTC
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In­ter­nal Dou­ble Crux

CFAR!Duncan22 Jul 2022 4:34 UTC
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Con­di­tion­ing Gen­er­a­tive Models with Restrictions

Adam Jermyn21 Jul 2022 20:33 UTC
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Our Ex­ist­ing Solu­tions to AGI Align­ment (semi-safe)

Michael Soareverix21 Jul 2022 19:00 UTC
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Chang­ing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:11 UTC
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Which per­son­al­ities do we find in­tol­er­able?

weathersystems21 Jul 2022 15:56 UTC
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YouTubeTV and Spoilers

Zvi21 Jul 2022 13:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/​21/​22: Fea­tur­ing ASPR

Zvi21 Jul 2022 13:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much to op­ti­mize for the short-timelines sce­nario?

SoerenMind21 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC
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Is Gas Green?

ChristianKl21 Jul 2022 10:30 UTC
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Why are poli­ti­ci­ans po­larized?

ErnestScribbler21 Jul 2022 8:17 UTC
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[AN #173] Re­cent lan­guage model re­sults from DeepMind

Rohin Shah21 Jul 2022 2:30 UTC
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(mailchi.mp)

Don’t take the or­ga­ni­za­tional chart literally

lc21 Jul 2022 0:56 UTC
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Per­sonal fore­cast­ing ret­ro­spec­tive: 2020-2022

elifland21 Jul 2022 0:07 UTC
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(www.foxy-scout.com)

Defin­ing Op­ti­miza­tion in a Deeper Way Part 3

J Bostock20 Jul 2022 22:06 UTC
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Cog­ni­tive Risks of Ado­les­cent Binge Drinking

20 Jul 2022 21:10 UTC
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(acesounderglass.com)

Why AGI Timeline Re­search/​Dis­course Might Be Overrated

Noosphere8920 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok20 Jul 2022 19:52 UTC
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(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Coun­ter­ing ar­gu­ments against work­ing on AI safety

Rauno Arike20 Jul 2022 18:23 UTC
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A Short In­tro to Humans

Ben Amitay20 Jul 2022 15:28 UTC
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How to Diver­sify Con­cep­tual Align­ment: the Model Be­hind Refine

adamShimi20 Jul 2022 10:44 UTC
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[Question] What are the sim­plest ques­tions in ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity where you don’t know the an­swer to?

ChristianKl20 Jul 2022 9:53 UTC
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