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SSC Reno Meetup

Steven16 Aug 2022 23:37 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

My thoughts on direct work (and joining LessWrong)

RobertM16 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC

57 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

We can make the future a million years from now go better [video]

Writer16 Aug 2022 13:03 UTC

7 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

The Open Society and Its Enemies: Summary and Thoughts

matto16 Aug 2022 11:44 UTC

10 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

An introduction to signalling theory

Mvolz16 Aug 2022 9:37 UTC

16 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Understanding differences between humans and intelligence-in-general to build safe AGI

Florian_Dietz16 Aug 2022 8:27 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Against population ethics

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2022 5:19 UTC

29 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

Deception as the optimal: mesa-optimizers and inner alignment

Eleni Angelou16 Aug 2022 4:49 UTC

11 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Crowdsourcing Anki Decks

Arden16 Aug 2022 2:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

What Makes an Idea Understandable? On Architecturally and Culturally Natural Ideas.

NickyP, Peter S. Park and Stephen Fowler

16 Aug 2022 2:09 UTC

21 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Dwarves & D.Sci: Data Fortress Evaluation & Ruleset

aphyer16 Aug 2022 0:15 UTC

23 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

I’m mildly skeptical that blindness prevents schizophrenia

Steven Byrnes15 Aug 2022 23:36 UTC

83 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

What’s General-Purpose Search, And Why Might We Expect To See It In Trained ML Systems?

johnswentworth15 Aug 2022 22:48 UTC

140 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

“What Mistakes Are You Making Right Now?”

David Udell15 Aug 2022 21:19 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

On Preference Manipulation in Reward Learning Processes

Felix Hofstätter15 Aug 2022 19:32 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Cambist Booking: Discussing What We Value

Screwtape15 Aug 2022 18:24 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Capital and inequality

NathanBarnard15 Aug 2022 17:23 UTC

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Are there practical exercises for developing the Scout mindset?

ChristianKl15 Aug 2022 17:23 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you get a job as a software developer?

lsusr15 Aug 2022 14:45 UTC

22 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

KatWoods15 Aug 2022 14:33 UTC

139 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

And the Revenues Are So Small

Zvi15 Aug 2022 13:00 UTC

19 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Extreme Security

lc15 Aug 2022 12:11 UTC

39 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

No shortcuts to knowledge: Why AI needs to ease up on scaling and learn how to code

Yldedly15 Aug 2022 8:42 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(deoxyribose.github.io)

Seeking Interns/RAs for Mechanistic Interpretability Projects

Neel Nanda15 Aug 2022 7:11 UTC

61 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking

Neel Nanda and Tom Lieberum

15 Aug 2022 2:41 UTC

370 points

47 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

(colab.research.google.com)

[Question] If a nuke is coming towards SF Bay can people bunker in BART tunnels?

Pee Doom15 Aug 2022 1:56 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the probability that a superintelligent, sentient AGI is actually infeasible?

Nathan112314 Aug 2022 22:41 UTC

−3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Dealing With Delusions

adrusi14 Aug 2022 21:11 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

All the posts I will never write

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel14 Aug 2022 18:29 UTC

53 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Brain-like AGI project “aintelope”

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Aug 2022 16:33 UTC

54 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Transparency: Why it’s critical and how to obtain it.

Zohar Jackson14 Aug 2022 10:31 UTC

6 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

A brief note on Simplicity Bias

Spencer Becker-Kahn14 Aug 2022 2:05 UTC

19 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Evolution is a bad analogy for AGI: inner alignment

Quintin Pope13 Aug 2022 22:15 UTC

78 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

An Uncanny Prison

Nathan112313 Aug 2022 21:40 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Florida Elections

Double13 Aug 2022 20:10 UTC

−3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Cultivating Valiance

Shoshannah Tekofsky13 Aug 2022 18:47 UTC

35 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

An extended rocket alignment analogy

remember13 Aug 2022 18:22 UTC

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] The OpenAI playground for GPT-3 is a terrible interface. Is there any great local (or web) app for exploring/learning with language models?

aviv13 Aug 2022 16:34 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What is an agent in reductionist materialism?

Valentine13 Aug 2022 15:39 UTC

7 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Refine’s First Blog Post Day

adamShimi13 Aug 2022 10:23 UTC

55 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Dumbest Possible Gets There First

Artaxerxes13 Aug 2022 10:20 UTC

44 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

I missed the crux of the alignment problem the whole time

zeshen13 Aug 2022 10:11 UTC

53 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

goal-program bricks

Tamsin Leake13 Aug 2022 10:08 UTC

31 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

Shapes of Mind and Pluralism in Alignment

adamShimi13 Aug 2022 10:01 UTC

33 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

How I think about alignment

Linda Linsefors13 Aug 2022 10:01 UTC

31 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Steelmining via Analogy

Paul Bricman13 Aug 2022 9:59 UTC

24 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(paulbricman.com)

the Insulated Goal-Program idea

Tamsin Leake13 Aug 2022 9:57 UTC

43 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

Appendix: Jargon Dictionary

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:09 UTC

32 points

5 comments21 min readLW link

Appendix: Hamming Questions

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:07 UTC

36 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Building a Bugs List prompts

CFAR!Duncan13 Aug 2022 8:00 UTC

62 points

9 comments2 min readLW link