Are All Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Equiv­a­lent to a Lack of Gen­eral Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence? And is GCI there­fore the Most Im­por­tant Hu­man In­no­va­tion in the His­tory and Im­me­di­ate Fu­ture of Mankind?

williamsaeJun 19, 2020, 8:38 PM
0 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Col­lab­o­ra­tors for Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject wanted

DavidJankuJun 19, 2020, 8:38 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

In­no­va­tion and Dependence

smaslennikovJun 19, 2020, 7:39 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(smaslennikov.com)

Prac­ti­cal Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: A Tax­on­omy of Disagreement

eapacheJun 19, 2020, 2:25 AM
12 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

On­line Cu­rated LessWrong Talks

Ben PaceJun 19, 2020, 2:16 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Us­ing a mem­ory palace to mem­o­rize a text­book.

DirectedEvolutionJun 19, 2020, 2:09 AM
62 points
16 comments6 min readLW link1 review

[Question] What should I teach to my fu­ture daugh­ter?

Anabel RCJun 19, 2020, 12:32 AM
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Your Cog­ni­tive Al­gorithm?

RaemonJun 18, 2020, 10:16 PM
75 points
23 comments13 min readLW link

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

avturchinJun 18, 2020, 8:33 PM
20 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jun 18, 2020, 8:10 PM
49 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Covid-19 6/​18: The Virus Goes South

ZviJun 18, 2020, 8:10 PM
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 ShahJun 18, 2020, 5:10 PM
19 points
5 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

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

lsusrJun 18, 2020, 4:34 PM
69 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Like­li­hood of hy­per­ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe from a bug?

AnirandisJun 18, 2020, 4:23 PM
14 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

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

GurkenglasJun 18, 2020, 2:47 PM
18 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Image GPT

Daniel KokotajloJun 18, 2020, 11:41 AM
29 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Taymon BealJun 18, 2020, 1:48 AM
14 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Bathing Machines and the Lindy Effect

DirectedEvolutionJun 17, 2020, 9:44 PM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

God and Moses have a chat

YitzJun 17, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

High-School Alge­bra for Data Structures

johnswentworthJun 17, 2020, 6:09 PM
21 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sults of $1,000 Or­a­cle con­test!

Stuart_ArmstrongJun 17, 2020, 5:44 PM
60 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­mory is not about the past

simbyoticJun 17, 2020, 4:43 PM
1 point
14 comments15 min readLW link

Set image di­men­sions us­ing markdown

Alex FlintJun 17, 2020, 12:37 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Alex FlintJun 17, 2020, 12:24 PM
113 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What is meant by Si­mul­cra Levels?

Chris_LeongJun 17, 2020, 2:20 AM
21 points
17 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Re­lat­ing HCH and Log­i­cal Induction

abramdemskiJun 16, 2020, 10:08 PM
50 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Where to Start Re­search?

ElizabethJun 16, 2020, 6:10 PM
68 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

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

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJun 16, 2020, 5:10 PM
12 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Creat­ing bet­ter in­fras­truc­ture for con­tro­ver­sial dis­course

Rudi CJun 16, 2020, 3:17 PM
66 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

spkocJun 16, 2020, 1:29 PM
5 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

How does one au­then­ti­cate with the less­wrong API?

Alex FlintJun 15, 2020, 11:46 PM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Su­per­ex­po­nen­tial His­toric Growth, by David Roodman

Ben PaceJun 15, 2020, 9:49 PM
43 points
6 comments5 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

jasoncrawfordJun 15, 2020, 9:02 PM
42 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­search snap-shot: ques­tion about Global Workspace Theory

HazardJun 15, 2020, 9:00 PM
21 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

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

B JacobsJun 15, 2020, 6:34 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Causal­ity Adds Up to Normality

johnswentworthJun 15, 2020, 5:19 PM
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What do drafts look like?

SarahNibsJun 15, 2020, 4:02 PM
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 LiptrotJun 15, 2020, 4:01 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­lacra Levels and their Interactions

ZviJun 15, 2020, 1:10 PM
202 points
51 comments17 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Achiev­ing AI al­ign­ment through de­liber­ate un­cer­tainty in mul­ti­a­gent systems

Florian DietzJun 15, 2020, 12:19 PM
3 points
10 comments7 min readLW link

The Eco­nomic Con­se­quences of Noise Traders

FactorialCodeJun 14, 2020, 5:14 PM
45 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nber.org)

How alienated should you be?

VaniverJun 14, 2020, 3:55 PM
35 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

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

Daniel KokotajloJun 14, 2020, 2:25 PM
20 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond Wave?

jefftkJun 14, 2020, 2:00 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Eli TyreJun 14, 2020, 1:38 AM
34 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

TetraspaceJun 14, 2020, 12:16 AM
60 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Daniel KokotajloJun 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
64 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

Sammy MartinJun 13, 2020, 9:00 PM
71 points
11 comments18 min readLW link

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

JoshuaFoxJun 13, 2020, 6:34 PM
28 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Prac­ti­cal Guide to Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: Comprehension

eapacheJun 13, 2020, 3:08 PM
30 points
0 comments4 min readLW link