[Preprint] The Com­pu­ta­tional Limits of Deep Learning

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Jul 2020 21:25 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Fresh Bread

Zvi21 Jul 2020 20:40 UTC
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

stuhlmueller21 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC
83 points
41 comments3 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

How good is hu­man­ity at co­or­di­na­tion?

Buck21 Jul 2020 20:01 UTC
82 points
44 comments3 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)

[Question] What are the limits of self-ed­u­ca­tion?

nitropie21 Jul 2020 18:01 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Meta] anony­mous merit or pub­lic status

[anonymous]21 Jul 2020 18:01 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Benefits Post 5: Out­stand­ing Ques­tions on Govern­ing Benefits

Cullen21 Jul 2020 16:46 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The “AI Dun­geons” Dragon Model is heav­ily path de­pen­dent (test­ing GPT-3 on ethics)

Rafael Harth21 Jul 2020 12:14 UTC
44 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Un­cal­ibrated quan­tum ex­per­i­ments act cla­si­cally

justinpombrio21 Jul 2020 5:31 UTC
18 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

The Redis­cov­ery of In­te­ri­or­ity in Ma­chine Learning

DanB21 Jul 2020 5:02 UTC
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(danburfoot.net)

Chains, Bot­tle­necks and Optimization

curi21 Jul 2020 2:07 UTC
14 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

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

Raemon21 Jul 2020 0:33 UTC
163 points
43 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Par­allels Between AI Safety by De­bate and Ev­i­dence Law

Cullen20 Jul 2020 22:52 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(cullenokeefe.com)

Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2020 20:27 UTC
173 points
32 comments11 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Learn­ing Values in Practice

Stuart_Armstrong20 Jul 2020 18:38 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Ineffi­cient doesn’t mean in­differ­ent, but it might mean wimpy.

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 18:27 UTC
14 points
3 comments5 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

Sel­ling real es­tate: should you over­price or un­der­price?

Steven Byrnes20 Jul 2020 15:54 UTC
19 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] “Do Noth­ing” util­ity func­tion, 3½ years later?

niplav20 Jul 2020 11:09 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Oper­a­tional­iz­ing Interpretability

lifelonglearner20 Jul 2020 5:22 UTC
20 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Use re­silience, in­stead of im­pre­ci­sion, to com­mu­ni­cate uncertainty

habryka20 Jul 2020 5:08 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What Would I Do? Self-pre­dic­tion in Sim­ple Algorithms

Scott Garrabrant20 Jul 2020 4:27 UTC
65 points
12 comments5 min readLW link

“Should Black­mail Be Le­gal” Han­son/​Zvi De­bate (Sun July 26th, 3pm PDT)

Ben Pace20 Jul 2020 4:06 UTC
36 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

The 8 Tech­niques to Tol­er­ify the Dark World

adamShimi20 Jul 2020 0:58 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Praise of some pop­u­lar LW articles

DirectedEvolution20 Jul 2020 0:32 UTC
40 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Types Of On­line Meetups

Dan B19 Jul 2020 23:51 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Mu­si­cal Outgroups

eapache19 Jul 2020 22:55 UTC
9 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Fo­rum As­sisted Discussion

Dan B19 Jul 2020 22:38 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Pulse and Glide Cycling

jefftk19 Jul 2020 19:02 UTC
11 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Math. proof of the su­pe­ri­or­ity of in­de­pen­dent guesses?

Milton19 Jul 2020 2:38 UTC
−3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Crit­i­cism of some pop­u­lar LW articles

DirectedEvolution19 Jul 2020 1:16 UTC
71 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

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

Martin Sustrik19 Jul 2020 1:11 UTC
172 points
39 comments24 min readLW link2 reviews

[Question] Why is pseudo-al­ign­ment “worse” than other ways ML can fail to gen­er­al­ize?

nostalgebraist18 Jul 2020 22:54 UTC
45 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Against Reopen­ing Ottawa

eapache18 Jul 2020 20:08 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Col­lec­tion of GPT-3 results

Kaj_Sotala18 Jul 2020 20:04 UTC
89 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

[Question] Is there an easy way to turn a LW se­quence into an epub?

ChristianKl18 Jul 2020 18:20 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Cal­ibrate words, not just probabilities

MikkW18 Jul 2020 5:56 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Erv­ing Goff­man’s ‘pa­per’

Saffron18 Jul 2020 1:12 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Les­sons on AI Takeover from the conquistadors

17 Jul 2020 22:35 UTC
61 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Can an agent use in­ter­ac­tive proofs to check the al­ign­ment of suc­ce­sors?

PabloAMC17 Jul 2020 19:07 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

An­thro­po­mor­phiz­ing Humans

johnswentworth17 Jul 2020 17:49 UTC
46 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Tel­ling more ra­tio­nal stories

DirectedEvolution17 Jul 2020 17:47 UTC
26 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Solv­ing Math Prob­lems by Relay

17 Jul 2020 15:32 UTC
103 points
26 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best tools you have seen to keep track of knowl­edge around testable state­ments?

migueltorrescosta17 Jul 2020 15:02 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

En­vi­ron­ments as a bot­tle­neck in AGI development

Richard_Ngo17 Jul 2020 5:02 UTC
41 points
19 comments6 min readLW link

My Dat­ing Plan ala Ge­offrey Miller

snog toddgrass17 Jul 2020 4:52 UTC
2 points
57 comments3 min readLW link

Meta-prefer­ences are weird

16 Jul 2020 23:03 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Sun­day July 19, 1pm (PDT) — talks by Rae­mon, ricraz, mr-hire, Jame­son Quinn

16 Jul 2020 20:04 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readLW link