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Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy Jones27 Jul 2020 12:48 UTC

266 points

106 comments4 min readLW link

DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?

JohnBuridan6 Jul 2020 23:34 UTC

213 points

22 comments7 min readLW link

Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)

aphyer14 Jul 2020 7:24 UTC

204 points

50 comments7 min readLW link

Six economics misconceptions of mine which I’ve resolved over the last few years

Buck13 Jul 2020 3:01 UTC

196 points

59 comments9 min readLW link

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC

173 points

32 comments11 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.)

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC

172 points

39 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

“Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?”

Raemon21 Jul 2020 0:33 UTC

163 points

43 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

Rereading Atlas Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC

161 points

36 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Developmental Stages of GPTs

orthonormal26 Jul 2020 22:03 UTC

140 points

72 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC

117 points

21 comments19 min readLW link

Can you get AGI from a Transformer?

Steven Byrnes23 Jul 2020 15:27 UTC

116 points

40 comments12 min readLW link

Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3

johnswentworth21 Jul 2020 20:02 UTC

111 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Classifying games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma

philh4 Jul 2020 17:10 UTC

109 points

28 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Solving Math Problems by Relay

bgold and Owain_Evans

17 Jul 2020 15:32 UTC

103 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

Kelly Bet on Everything

Jacob Falkovich10 Jul 2020 2:48 UTC

101 points

20 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Attention is your scarcest resource

benkuhn30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC

97 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Learning the prior

paulfchristiano5 Jul 2020 21:00 UTC

92 points

28 comments8 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Reveal Culture

MalcolmOcean25 Jul 2020 3:36 UTC

91 points

18 comments7 min readLW link 2 reviews

Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.)

Martin Sustrik22 Jul 2020 13:50 UTC

90 points

24 comments12 min readLW link

(250bpm.com)

Collection of GPT-3 results

Kaj_Sotala18 Jul 2020 20:04 UTC

89 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Your Prioritization is Underspecified

romeostevensit10 Jul 2020 20:48 UTC

85 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 7/2: It Could Be Worse

Zvi2 Jul 2020 20:20 UTC

85 points

13 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC

85 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

High Stock Prices Make Sense Right Now

johnswentworth3 Jul 2020 20:16 UTC

83 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Competition: Amplify Rohin’s Prediction on AGI researchers & Safety Concerns

stuhlmueller21 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC

83 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 7/16: Becoming the Mask

Zvi16 Jul 2020 12:40 UTC

82 points

20 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How good is humanity at coordination?

Buck21 Jul 2020 20:01 UTC

82 points

44 comments3 min readLW link

What Failure Looks Like: Distilling the Discussion

Ben Pace29 Jul 2020 21:49 UTC

82 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

What counts as defection?

TurnTrout12 Jul 2020 22:03 UTC

81 points

21 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

The Goldbach conjecture is probably correct; so was Fermat’s last theorem

Stuart_Armstrong14 Jul 2020 19:30 UTC

80 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

PSA: Tagging is Awesome

abramdemski30 Jul 2020 17:52 UTC

76 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

What a 20-year-lead in military tech might look like

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2020 20:10 UTC

74 points

47 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] How “honest” is GPT-3?

abramdemski8 Jul 2020 19:38 UTC

72 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Criticism of some popular LW articles

DirectedEvolution19 Jul 2020 1:16 UTC

71 points

19 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] To what extent is GPT-3 capable of reasoning?

TurnTrout20 Jul 2020 17:10 UTC

70 points

73 comments16 min readLW link

The Basic Double Crux pattern

Eli Tyre22 Jul 2020 6:41 UTC

67 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

Better priors as a safety problem

paulfchristiano5 Jul 2020 21:20 UTC

66 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

What Would I Do? Self-prediction in Simple Algorithms

Scott Garrabrant20 Jul 2020 4:27 UTC

65 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Tagging Open Call / Discussion Thread

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:58 UTC

65 points

118 comments4 min readLW link

Arguments against myopic training

Richard_Ngo9 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC

62 points

39 comments12 min readLW link

Mazes and Duality

johnswentworth and jacobjacob

14 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC

62 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Lessons on AI Takeover from the conquistadors

Daniel Kokotajlo and jacobjacob

17 Jul 2020 22:35 UTC

61 points

31 comments5 min readLW link

AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety (ARCHES)

habryka9 Jul 2020 2:49 UTC

60 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Dremeling

Czynski14 Jul 2020 19:23 UTC

59 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/23: The Second Summit

Zvi23 Jul 2020 14:40 UTC

59 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Equation of Knowledge

Lê Nguyên Hoang7 Jul 2020 16:09 UTC

58 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

$1000 bounty for OpenAI to show whether GPT3 was “deliberately” pretending to be stupider than it is

jacobjacob21 Jul 2020 18:42 UTC

56 points

39 comments2 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Covid 7/9: Lies, Damn Lies and Death Rates

Zvi9 Jul 2020 13:40 UTC

56 points

16 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A space of proposals for building safe advanced AI

Richard_Ngo10 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC

55 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

What does it mean to apply decision theory?

abramdemski8 Jul 2020 20:31 UTC

54 points

5 comments8 min readLW link