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Containing the AI… Inside a Simulated Reality
HumaneAutomation
Oct 31, 2020, 4:16 PM
1
point
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Taking Ideas Seriously is Hard
neilkakkar
Oct 31, 2020, 1:47 PM
14
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(neilkakkar.com)
How do you read the news critically?
ChristianKl
Oct 31, 2020, 11:48 AM
39
points
15
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Trick-or-treating in Covid Times
jefftk
Oct 31, 2020, 12:30 AM
29
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
A Parable of Four Riders
matejsuchy
Oct 30, 2020, 11:24 PM
3
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why does History assume equal national intelligence?
HumaneAutomation
Oct 30, 2020, 11:11 PM
1
point
38
comments
1
min read
LW
link
/r/MLScaling: new subreddit for NN scaling research/discussion
gwern
Oct 30, 2020, 8:50 PM
21
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Functors and Coarse Worlds
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 30, 2020, 3:19 PM
52
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Responses to Christiano on takeoff speeds?
Richard_Ngo
Oct 30, 2020, 3:16 PM
29
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
Samo Burja
Oct 30, 2020, 10:50 AM
60
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
(medium.com)
The Darwin Game—Round 1
lsusr
Oct 29, 2020, 9:56 PM
58
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Controllables and Observables, Revisited
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 29, 2020, 4:38 PM
35
points
5
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Covid Covid Covid Covid Covid 10/29: All We Ever Talk About
Zvi
Oct 29, 2020, 3:10 PM
61
points
50
comments
22
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
AI risk hub in Singapore?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Oct 29, 2020, 11:45 AM
58
points
18
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Babble challenge: 50 consequences of intelligent ant colonies
Bird Concept
Oct 29, 2020, 7:21 AM
23
points
48
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are good election betting opportunities?
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 29, 2020, 7:19 AM
32
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How should one deal with life threatening infections or air planes?
Nacruno96
Oct 29, 2020, 3:35 AM
1
point
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Scaling Laws for Autoregressive Generative Modeling”, Henighan et al 2020 {OA}
gwern
Oct 29, 2020, 1:45 AM
27
points
11
comments
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Secular Solstice Online (Americas)
Raemon
Oct 28, 2020, 11:28 PM
28
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s holding back outsourcing to cloud labs?
ChristianKl
Oct 28, 2020, 11:07 PM
25
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reasons that discussions might feel hopeless
gogishvilli
Oct 28, 2020, 7:59 PM
11
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What risks concern you which don’t seem to have been seriously considered by the community?
plex
Oct 28, 2020, 6:27 PM
17
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[AN #123]: Inferring what is valuable in order to align recommender systems
Rohin Shah
Oct 28, 2020, 5:00 PM
20
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Draft papers for REALab and Decoupled Approval on tampering
Jonathan Uesato
and
Ramana Kumar
Oct 28, 2020, 4:01 PM
47
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Biextensional Equivalence
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 28, 2020, 2:07 PM
43
points
13
comments
10
min read
LW
link
“Cartesian Frames” Talk #2 this Sunday at 2pm (PT)
Rob Bensinger
Oct 28, 2020, 1:59 PM
30
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Integers as Compression
Chris_Leong
Oct 28, 2020, 7:36 AM
9
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why indoor lighting is hard to get right and how to fix it
Richard Korzekwa
Oct 28, 2020, 4:46 AM
212
points
54
comments
15
min read
LW
link
1
review
Desperation hamster wheels
Nicole Ross
Oct 28, 2020, 2:32 AM
97
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)
Notes on Honesty
David Gross
Oct 28, 2020, 12:54 AM
46
points
7
comments
20
min read
LW
link
How can I reconcile these COVID test false-negative numbers?
Optimization Process
Oct 27, 2020, 11:56 PM
15
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Babble challenge: 50 ways to stop torture
seed
Oct 27, 2020, 7:38 PM
8
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Spoiler-Free Review and then Semi-Walkthrough: Star Traders: Frontiers
Zvi
Oct 27, 2020, 6:50 PM
11
points
1
comment
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Memory reconsolidation for self-affection
Kaj_Sotala
Oct 27, 2020, 10:10 AM
52
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Whence the symptoms of social media?
KatjaGrace
Oct 27, 2020, 7:30 AM
20
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(meteuphoric.com)
Looking for Roommate in California
xiaolongbao
Oct 27, 2020, 5:18 AM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Dutch-Booking CDT: Revised Argument
abramdemski
Oct 27, 2020, 4:31 AM
51
points
24
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Announcing Data Secrets Lox: An Alternative to Slate Star Codex Open Threads
quanticle
Oct 27, 2020, 4:24 AM
26
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Book review: Age Later
PeterMcCluskey
Oct 27, 2020, 4:21 AM
28
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
On the Dangers of Time Travel
lsusr
Oct 27, 2020, 3:57 AM
21
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds
DanielFilan
Oct 27, 2020, 3:20 AM
55
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
A Correspondence Theorem
johnswentworth
Oct 26, 2020, 11:28 PM
30
points
6
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Top Time Travel Interventions?
abramdemski
Oct 26, 2020, 11:25 PM
44
points
33
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Is Success the Enemy of Freedom? (Full)
alkjash
Oct 26, 2020, 8:25 PM
303
points
69
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)
Does playing hard to get work? AB testing for romance
amplemaple
Oct 26, 2020, 3:29 PM
17
points
26
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Additive Operations on Cartesian Frames
Scott Garrabrant
Oct 26, 2020, 3:12 PM
62
points
6
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Supervised learning of outputs in the brain
Steven Byrnes
26 Oct 2020 14:32 UTC
28
points
9
comments
10
min read
LW
link
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter
gwern
26 Oct 2020 13:38 UTC
17
points
1
comment
LW
link
(www.gwern.net)
Defensible positions
Chris_Leong
26 Oct 2020 10:37 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Sam Altman at SlateStarCodex Online Meetup
JoshuaFox
26 Oct 2020 10:26 UTC
24
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
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