Op­po­site attractions

KatjaGrace19 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Hier­ar­chi­cal plan­ning: con­text agents

Charlie Steiner19 Dec 2020 11:24 UTC
22 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

We des­per­ately need to talk more about hu­man challenge tri­als.

DirectedEvolution19 Dec 2020 10:00 UTC
29 points
25 comments4 min readLW link

Theasauring

KatjaGrace19 Dec 2020 8:20 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Ex­trap­o­lat­ing GPT-N performance

Lukas Finnveden18 Dec 2020 21:41 UTC
110 points
31 comments22 min readLW link1 review

Notes on Duty

David Gross18 Dec 2020 18:54 UTC
17 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Prob­a­bil­ity the­ory im­plies Oc­cam’s razor

Maxwell Peterson18 Dec 2020 7:48 UTC
8 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Ge­netic magic

KatjaGrace18 Dec 2020 5:20 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Thread for mak­ing 2019 Re­view ac­countabil­ity commitments

jacobjacob18 Dec 2020 5:07 UTC
46 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[LIVE!!] LW/​EA New Year’s Ul­tra Party

Ruby18 Dec 2020 4:49 UTC
67 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Adapt­ing to Means Testing

jefftk18 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC
12 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Do I have to trust past ex­pe­rience be­cause past ex­pe­rience tells me that?

znajd18 Dec 2020 2:43 UTC
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

No, Newspeak Won’t Make You Stupid

MikkW18 Dec 2020 0:56 UTC
21 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

Luna Love­g­ood and the Cham­ber of Se­crets—Part 8

lsusr17 Dec 2020 22:29 UTC
72 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Ideal Chess—drop chess perfected

MikkW17 Dec 2020 20:03 UTC
23 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How long till In­verse AlphaFold?

Daniel Kokotajlo17 Dec 2020 19:56 UTC
41 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Dignity

David Gross17 Dec 2020 15:46 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Covid 12/​17: The First Dose

Zvi17 Dec 2020 14:20 UTC
76 points
29 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some things I’m look­ing for­ward to in 2021: prob­a­ble post-pan­demic edition

KatjaGrace17 Dec 2020 8:20 UTC
23 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

It turns out that group meet­ings are mostly a ter­rible way to make decisions

Ian David Moss17 Dec 2020 3:30 UTC
61 points
14 comments5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
12 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(oldmanrahul.com)

[Question] Are there any sys­tem­atic ways to choose eval­u­a­tion crite­ria?

Aman Patel17 Dec 2020 1:03 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Explorations

alkjash16 Dec 2020 21:27 UTC
63 points
8 comments9 min readLW link
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

FHI pa­per pub­lished in Science: in­ter­ven­tions against COVID-19

SoerenMind16 Dec 2020 21:19 UTC
119 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #129]: Ex­plain­ing dou­ble de­scent by mea­sur­ing bias and variance

Rohin Shah16 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC
14 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Beta test GPT-3 based re­search assistant

jungofthewon16 Dec 2020 13:42 UTC
34 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ma­chine learn­ing could be fun­da­men­tally unexplainable

George3d616 Dec 2020 13:32 UTC
26 points
15 comments15 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

In­cen­tiviz­ing fore­cast­ing via so­cial media

16 Dec 2020 12:15 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why I love stand up comedy

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 9:34 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

What is it good for? But ac­tu­ally?

KatjaGrace16 Dec 2020 9:20 UTC
44 points
17 comments2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to Compliment

less_penguiny16 Dec 2020 8:25 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bad reductionism

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 8:21 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

De­bug­ging the student

Adam Zerner16 Dec 2020 7:07 UTC
46 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on Courtesy

David Gross16 Dec 2020 4:08 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Less Ba­sic In­framea­sure Theory

Diffractor16 Dec 2020 3:52 UTC
22 points
1 comment61 min readLW link

[Question] Which sources do you trust the most on nu­tri­tion ad­vice for ex­er­cise?

jacobjacob16 Dec 2020 3:22 UTC
29 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

Ho­mo­gene­ity vs. het­ero­gene­ity in AI take­off scenarios

evhub16 Dec 2020 1:37 UTC
97 points
48 comments4 min readLW link

Mo­tive Ambiguity

Zvi15 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC
174 points
58 comments4 min readLW link2 reviews
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The wild

KatjaGrace15 Dec 2020 10:50 UTC
17 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Risk Map of AI Systems

15 Dec 2020 9:16 UTC
28 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Up­dat­ing the Roadmap to Whole Brain Emu­la­tion Part 6: NEURAL MODELING—Pa­tient Spe­cific Selec­tion, Fit­ting and Validation

oge15 Dec 2020 1:26 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(carboncopies.org)

[Question] What are the best prece­dents for in­dus­tries failing to in­vest in valuable AI re­search?

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Dec 2020 23:57 UTC
18 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion-Mak­ing and Accountability

Ian David Moss14 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readLW link
(medium.com)

[Question] What con­fu­sions do peo­ple have about simu­lacrum lev­els?

johnswentworth14 Dec 2020 20:20 UTC
28 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[link] The AI Gir­lfriend Se­duc­ing China’s Lonely Men

Kaj_Sotala14 Dec 2020 20:18 UTC
34 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(www.sixthtone.com)

On Reflection

Neel Nanda14 Dec 2020 16:14 UTC
27 points
2 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Blog plant

KatjaGrace14 Dec 2020 11:30 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

The Power of Annealing

meanderingmoose14 Dec 2020 11:02 UTC
25 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Hermione Granger and New­comb’s Paradox

lsusr14 Dec 2020 5:27 UTC
48 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

All GPT skills are translation

p.b.13 Dec 2020 20:06 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link