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[S] D&D.Sci: All the D8a. Allllllll of it. Evaluation and Ruleset
aphyer
Feb 27, 2023, 11:15 PM
23
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
The Birth and Death of Sydney — The Bayesian Conspiracy Podcast
moridinamael
Feb 27, 2023, 10:36 PM
23
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.thebayesianconspiracy.com)
A case for capabilities work on AI as net positive
Noosphere89
Feb 27, 2023, 9:12 PM
10
points
37
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Beginning to feel like a conspiracy theorist
Joulebit
Feb 27, 2023, 8:05 PM
12
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Some thoughts pointing to slower AI take-off
Bastiaan
Feb 27, 2023, 7:53 PM
8
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Prediction Thread: Make Predictions About How Different Factors Affect AGI X-Risk.
MrThink
Feb 27, 2023, 7:15 PM
15
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Counting-down vs. counting-up coherence
TsviBT
Feb 27, 2023, 2:59 PM
29
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Eliezer is still ridiculously optimistic about AI risk
johnlawrenceaspden
Feb 27, 2023, 2:21 PM
−10
points
34
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA
jefftk
Feb 27, 2023, 2:00 PM
18
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Normie response to Normie AI Safety Skepticism
Giulio
Feb 27, 2023, 1:54 PM
10
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.giuliostarace.com)
Fertility Rate Roundup #1
Zvi
Feb 27, 2023, 1:30 PM
52
points
20
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Something Unfathomable: Unaligned Humanity and how we’re racing against death with death
Yuli_Ban
Feb 27, 2023, 11:37 AM
13
points
14
comments
19
min read
LW
link
The idea of an “aligned superintelligence” seems misguided
ssadler
Feb 27, 2023, 11:19 AM
6
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(ssadler.substack.com)
EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (20th − 26th Feb 2023)
Zoe Williams
Feb 27, 2023, 3:46 AM
4
points
0
comments
LW
link
[Simulators seminar sequence] #2 Semiotic physics—revamped
Jan
,
Charlie Steiner
,
Logan Riggs
,
janus
,
jacquesthibs
,
metasemi
,
Michael Oesterle
,
Lucas Teixeira
,
peligrietzer
and
remember
Feb 27, 2023, 12:25 AM
24
points
23
comments
13
min read
LW
link
A Somewhat Functional Definition of Philosophy
Richard Henage
Feb 27, 2023, 12:25 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Respect Chesterton-Schelling Fences
Shmi
Feb 27, 2023, 12:09 AM
58
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Curiosity as a Solution to AGI Alignment
Harsha G.
Feb 26, 2023, 11:36 PM
7
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Learning How to Learn (And 20+ Studies)
maxa
Feb 26, 2023, 10:46 PM
63
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(max2c.com)
Bayesian Scenario: Snipers & Soldiers
abstractapplic
Feb 26, 2023, 9:48 PM
23
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(h-b-p.github.io)
NYT: Lab Leak Most Likely Caused Pandemic, Energy Dept. Says
trevor
Feb 26, 2023, 9:21 PM
17
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
[Link Post] Cyber Digital Authoritarianism (National Intelligence Council Report)
Phosphorous
Feb 26, 2023, 8:51 PM
12
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.dni.gov)
Reflections on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
LoganStrohl
Feb 26, 2023, 8:46 PM
33
points
3
comments
23
min read
LW
link
Taboo “human-level intelligence”
Sherrinford
Feb 26, 2023, 8:42 PM
12
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Link] Petition on brain preservation: Allow global access to high-quality brain preservation as an option rapidly after death
Mati_Roy
Feb 26, 2023, 3:56 PM
29
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.change.org)
Some thoughts on the cults LW had
Noosphere89
Feb 26, 2023, 3:46 PM
−4
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A library for safety research in conditioning on RLHF tasks
James Chua
Feb 26, 2023, 2:50 PM
10
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Preference Fulfillment Hypothesis
Kaj_Sotala
Feb 26, 2023, 10:55 AM
66
points
62
comments
11
min read
LW
link
All of my grandparents were prodigies, I am extremely bored at Oxford University. Please let me intern/work for you!
politicalpersuasion
Feb 26, 2023, 7:50 AM
−17
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
“Rationalist Discourse” Is Like “Physicist Motors”
Zack_M_Davis
Feb 26, 2023, 5:58 AM
136
points
153
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Ways to prepare to a vastly new world?
Annapurna
Feb 26, 2023, 4:56 AM
12
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Incentives and Selection: A Missing Frame From AI Threat Discussions?
DragonGod
Feb 26, 2023, 1:18 AM
11
points
16
comments
2
min read
LW
link
A mechanistic explanation for SolidGoldMagikarp-like tokens in GPT2
MadHatter
Feb 26, 2023, 1:10 AM
61
points
14
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Politics is the Fun-Killer
Adam Zerner
Feb 25, 2023, 11:29 PM
28
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Bayes is Out-Dated, and You’re Doing it Wrong
AnthonyRepetto
Feb 25, 2023, 11:18 PM
−45
points
44
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Would more model evals teams be good?
Ryan Kidd
Feb 25, 2023, 10:01 PM
20
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nod posts
Adam Zerner
Feb 25, 2023, 9:53 PM
26
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Prediction market: Will John Wentworth’s Gears of Aging series hold up in 2033?
tailcalled
Feb 25, 2023, 8:15 PM
15
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(manifold.markets)
Making Implied Standards Explicit
Logan Riggs
Feb 25, 2023, 8:02 PM
22
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Two Reasons for no Utilitarianism
False Name
Feb 25, 2023, 7:51 PM
−4
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Cognitive Emulation: A Naive AI Safety Proposal
Connor Leahy
and
Gabriel Alfour
Feb 25, 2023, 7:35 PM
195
points
46
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Prediction] Humanity will survive the next hundred years
lsusr
Feb 25, 2023, 6:59 PM
33
points
44
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Caplan-Yudkowsky End-of-the-World Bet Scheme Doesn’t Actually Work
lsusr
Feb 25, 2023, 6:57 PM
6
points
14
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: the Empiricist Archetype
Evenflair
Feb 25, 2023, 5:05 PM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
[Question]
Pink Shoggoths: What does alignment look like in practice?
Yuli_Ban
Feb 25, 2023, 12:23 PM
25
points
13
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Just How Hard a Problem is Alignment?
Roger Dearnaley
Feb 25, 2023, 9:00 AM
3
points
1
comment
21
min read
LW
link
Buddhist Psychotechnology for Withstanding Apocalypse Stress
romeostevensit
Feb 25, 2023, 3:11 AM
59
points
10
comments
5
min read
LW
link
How to Read Papers Efficiently: Fast-then-Slow Three pass method
the gears to ascension
,
1stuserhere
and
lastuserhere
Feb 25, 2023, 2:56 AM
36
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(ccr.sigcomm.org)
What kind of place is this?
Jim Pivarski
Feb 25, 2023, 2:14 AM
24
points
24
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Agents vs. Predictors: Concrete differentiating factors
evhub
24 Feb 2023 23:50 UTC
37
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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