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Boost your productivity, happiness and health with this one weird trick
ajc586
Oct 19, 2023, 11:30 PM
9
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Good Explanation of Differential Gears
Johannes C. Mayer
Oct 19, 2023, 11:07 PM
48
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
Evening Wiki(pedia) Workout
mcint
Oct 19, 2023, 9:29 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
New roles on my team: come build Open Phil’s technical AI safety program with me!
Ajeya Cotra
Oct 19, 2023, 4:47 PM
83
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Infinite tower of meta-probability
fryolysis
Oct 19, 2023, 4:44 PM
6
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A NotKillEveryoneIsm Argument for Accelerating Deep Learning Research
Logan Zoellner
Oct 19, 2023, 4:28 PM
−6
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(midwitalignment.substack.com)
Knowledge Base 5: Business model
iwis
Oct 19, 2023, 4:06 PM
−4
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI #34: Chipping Away at Chip Exports
Zvi
Oct 19, 2023, 3:00 PM
36
points
19
comments
59
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Is Yann LeCun strawmanning AI x-risks?
Chris_Leong
Oct 19, 2023, 11:35 AM
26
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Video] Too much Empiricism kills you
Johannes C. Mayer
Oct 19, 2023, 5:08 AM
19
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
Are humans misaligned with evolution?
TekhneMakre
and
jacob_cannell
Oct 19, 2023, 3:14 AM
42
points
13
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Brains, Planes, Blimps, and Algorithms
ai dan
Oct 18, 2023, 9:26 PM
1
point
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
The (partial) fallacy of dumb superintelligence
Seth Herd
Oct 18, 2023, 9:25 PM
38
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does AI governance needs a “Federalist papers” debate?
azsantosk
Oct 18, 2023, 9:08 PM
40
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Metaculus Launches Conditional Cup to Explore Linked Forecasts
ChristianWilliams
Oct 18, 2023, 8:41 PM
9
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.metaculus.com)
AI Safety 101 : Reward Misspecification
markov
Oct 18, 2023, 8:39 PM
32
points
4
comments
31
min read
LW
link
2023 East Coast Rationalist Megameetup
Screwtape
Oct 18, 2023, 8:33 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Superforecasting the premises in “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”
Joe Carlsmith
Oct 18, 2023, 8:23 PM
31
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Real Fanfic Is The Friends We Made Along The Way
Eneasz
Oct 18, 2023, 7:21 PM
92
points
1
comment
27
min read
LW
link
1
review
(deathisbad.substack.com)
AISN #24: Kissinger Urges US-China Cooperation on AI, China’s New AI Law, US Export Controls, International Institutions, and Open Source AI
Dan H
and
Corin Katzke
Oct 18, 2023, 5:06 PM
14
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(newsletter.safe.ai)
Back to the Past to the Future
Prometheus
Oct 18, 2023, 4:51 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Eradicate Global Extreme Poverty [RA video with fundraiser!]
aggliu
and
Writer
Oct 18, 2023, 3:51 PM
50
points
5
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
On Interpretability’s Robustness
WCargo
Oct 18, 2023, 1:18 PM
11
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
At 87, Pearl is still able to change his mind
rotatingpaguro
Oct 18, 2023, 4:46 AM
148
points
15
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(Non-deceptive) Suboptimality Alignment
Sodium
Oct 18, 2023, 2:07 AM
5
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
magnetic cryo-FTIR
bhauth
Oct 18, 2023, 1:59 AM
10
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.bhauth.com)
Hints about where values come from
Spiracular
and
TsviBT
Oct 18, 2023, 12:07 AM
24
points
13
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Labs should be explicit about why they are building AGI
peterbarnett
Oct 17, 2023, 9:09 PM
214
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
1
review
Eleuther releases Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics
mako yass
Oct 17, 2023, 8:03 PM
22
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(blog.eleuther.ai)
Investigating the learning coefficient of modular addition: hackathon project
Nina Panickssery
and
Dmitry Vaintrob
Oct 17, 2023, 7:51 PM
94
points
5
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Worldwork for Ethics
False Name
Oct 17, 2023, 6:55 PM
8
points
1
comment
24
min read
LW
link
[Question]
When building an organization, there are lots of ways to prevent financial corruption of personnel. But what are the ways to prevent corruption via social status, political power, etc.?
M. Y. Zuo
Oct 17, 2023, 6:51 PM
19
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Eliezer’s example on Bayesian statistics is wr… oops!
Zane
Oct 17, 2023, 6:38 PM
72
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Trying to deconfuse some core AI x-risk problems
habryka
and
Max H
Oct 17, 2023, 6:36 PM
34
points
13
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Being patient with problems
Henrik Karlsson
Oct 17, 2023, 6:30 PM
36
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.henrikkarlsson.xyz)
Rationality Club at UChicago
Noah Birnbaum
Oct 17, 2023, 5:38 PM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Road to Proto-AGI 2024
Lucas Heinrich
Oct 17, 2023, 5:37 PM
−9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ChatGPT Plays 20 Questions [sometimes needs help]
Bill Benzon
Oct 17, 2023, 5:30 PM
5
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Why am I still alive? (a time capsule)
Spiritus Dei
Oct 17, 2023, 4:19 PM
−6
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
[Cross-post]The theoretical computational limit of the Solar System is 1.47x10^49 bits per second.
William the Kiwi
Oct 17, 2023, 4:06 PM
8
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Fertility Roundup #2
Zvi
Oct 17, 2023, 1:20 PM
25
points
30
comments
33
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
silentbob
Oct 17, 2023, 11:36 AM
16
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Resources to help with life/career decision?
warrenjordan
17 Oct 2023 6:33 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Depth Confusion
Richard Henage
17 Oct 2023 6:06 UTC
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Late-talking kid part 3: gestalt language learning
Steven Byrnes
17 Oct 2023 2:00 UTC
33
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Good Life in the face of the apocalypse
Elizabeth
and
kave
16 Oct 2023 22:40 UTC
82
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
ACX Mérida Meetup
Silvia Fernández
16 Oct 2023 19:39 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
An EPUB of Arbital’s AI Alignment section
mesaoptimizer
16 Oct 2023 19:36 UTC
43
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(git.sr.ht)
How should TurnTrout handle his DeepMind equity situation?
habryka
and
TurnTrout
16 Oct 2023 18:25 UTC
63
points
36
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
Pascal’s Mugging: The Word Wars
johncrox
16 Oct 2023 17:54 UTC
9
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
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