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Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning & AI risk (June 2023)?

gwern3 Jul 2023 0:48 UTC

427 points

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(www.youtube.com)

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

408 points

120 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.gwern.net)

If you’re not sure how to sort a list or grid—seriate it!

gwern28 May 2025 3:54 UTC

212 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jstatsoft.org)

FHI (Future of Humanity Institute) has shut down (2005–2024)

gwern17 Apr 2024 13:54 UTC

176 points

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(www.futureofhumanityinstitute.org)

EfficientZero: human ALE sample-efficiency w/MuZero+self-supervised

gwern2 Nov 2021 2:32 UTC

137 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

“Can AI Scaling Continue Through 2030?”, Epoch AI (yes)

gwern24 Aug 2024 1:40 UTC

135 points

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(epochai.org)

On the unpopularity of cryonics: life sucks, but at least then you die

gwern29 Jul 2011 21:06 UTC

127 points

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Against NHST

gwern21 Dec 2012 4:45 UTC

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Recent updates to gwern.net (2012-2013)

gwern18 Mar 2013 19:54 UTC

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Value of Information: 8 examples

gwern18 May 2012 23:45 UTC

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Notes on Brainwashing & ‘Cults’

gwern13 Sep 2013 20:49 UTC

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On the Openness personality trait & ‘rationality’

gwern14 Oct 2011 1:07 UTC

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Harper’s Magazine article on LW/MIRI/CFAR and Ethereum

gwern12 Dec 2014 20:34 UTC

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1001 PredictionBook Nights

gwern8 Oct 2011 16:04 UTC

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Prediction is hard, especially of medicine

gwern23 Dec 2011 20:34 UTC

72 points

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[Question] COVID-19 Group Testing Post-mortem?

gwern5 Aug 2022 16:32 UTC

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Hofstadter’s Superrationality

gwern21 Apr 2012 13:33 UTC

71 points

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The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize won

gwern9 Feb 2016 21:02 UTC

71 points

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Why epidemiology will not correct itself

gwern11 Aug 2011 0:54 UTC

70 points

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Funnel plots: the study that didn’t bark, or, visualizing regression to the null

gwern4 Dec 2011 11:05 UTC

69 points

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