What’s Your Cog­ni­tive Al­gorithm?

Raemon18 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
74 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] If AI is based on GPT, how to en­sure its safety?

avturchin18 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­day June 21st – talks by Abram Dem­ski, alk­jash, or­thonor­mal, eu­kary­ote, Vaniver

18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC
49 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 6/​18: The Virus Goes South

Zvi18 Jun 2020 20:10 UTC
55 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[AN #104]: The per­ils of in­ac­cessible in­for­ma­tion, and what we can learn about AI al­ign­ment from COVID

Rohin Shah18 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
19 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Per­sonal Ex­per­i­ment] One Year with­out Junk Me­dia: Six-Month Update

lsusr18 Jun 2020 16:34 UTC
69 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Like­li­hood of hy­per­ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe from a bug?

Anirandis18 Jun 2020 16:23 UTC
14 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good pub­lic con­tri­bu­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties? (100$ bounty)

Gurkenglas18 Jun 2020 14:47 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Image GPT

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Jun 2020 11:41 UTC
29 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Taymon Beal18 Jun 2020 1:48 UTC
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect

DirectedEvolution17 Jun 2020 21:44 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

Yitz17 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
21 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworth17 Jun 2020 18:09 UTC
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyotic17 Jun 2020 16:43 UTC
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

Set image di­men­sions us­ing markdown

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:37 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Our take on CHAI’s re­search agenda in un­der 1500 words

Alex Flint17 Jun 2020 12:24 UTC
113 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_Leong17 Jun 2020 2:20 UTC
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemski16 Jun 2020 22:08 UTC
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

Elizabeth16 Jun 2020 18:10 UTC
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What are the high-level ap­proaches to AI al­ign­ment?

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi C16 Jun 2020 15:17 UTC
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkoc16 Jun 2020 13:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How does one au­then­ti­cate with the less­wrong API?

Alex Flint15 Jun 2020 23:46 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben Pace15 Jun 2020 21:49 UTC
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How to an­a­lyze progress, stag­na­tion, and low-hang­ing fruit

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2020 21:02 UTC
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­search snap-shot: ques­tion about Global Workspace Theory

Hazard15 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
21 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] By what met­ric do you judge a refer­ence class?

B Jacobs15 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworth15 Jun 2020 17:19 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What do drafts look like?

SarahSrinivasan15 Jun 2020 16:02 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If the re­pro­duc­tion num­ber is so­cially “con­trol­led” to its in­flec­tion point 1, what are the eth­i­cal and pre­dic­tive im­pli­ca­tions?

Tim Liptrot15 Jun 2020 16:01 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels and their Interactions

Zvi15 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC
198 points
50 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achiev­ing AI al­ign­ment through de­liber­ate un­cer­tainty in mul­ti­a­gent systems

Florian Dietz15 Jun 2020 12:19 UTC
3 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

The Eco­nomic Con­se­quences of Noise Traders

FactorialCode14 Jun 2020 17:14 UTC
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nber.org)

How alienated should you be?

Vaniver14 Jun 2020 15:55 UTC
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] List of pub­lic pre­dic­tions of what GPT-X can or can’t do?

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Jun 2020 14:25 UTC
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond Wave?

jefftk14 Jun 2020 14:00 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli Tyre14 Jun 2020 1:38 UTC
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

Tetraspace14 Jun 2020 0:16 UTC
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 23:01 UTC
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy Martin13 Jun 2020 21:00 UTC
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

JoshuaFox13 Jun 2020 18:34 UTC
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapache13 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you find good con­tent on Youtube?

Rudi C13 Jun 2020 12:29 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Re­minder: Blog Post Day III today

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Jun 2020 10:28 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive La­grangian Mechanics

lsusr13 Jun 2020 9:19 UTC
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lsusr.com)

Thomas Kwa’s Bounty List

Thomas Kwa13 Jun 2020 0:03 UTC
12 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Short es­says on var­i­ous things I’ve watched

philh12 Jun 2020 22:50 UTC
9 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Link] “Will He Go?” book re­view (Scott Aaron­son)

ioannes12 Jun 2020 22:16 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why do all out at­tacks ac­tu­ally work?

lc12 Jun 2020 20:33 UTC
44 points
9 comments4 min readLW link