Covid-19: Anal­y­sis of Mor­tal­ity Data

ZviJul 11, 2020, 9:30 PM
32 points
12 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Noise on the Channel

abramdemskiJul 2, 2020, 1:58 AM
31 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Break­ing Ques­tions Down

ElizabethJul 7, 2020, 6:10 PM
31 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Are par­a­sitic worms an effec­tive weapon against MS?

DemeterJul 23, 2020, 1:59 PM
31 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Pa­ram­e­ters of Privacy

RaemonJul 29, 2020, 1:18 AM
31 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Mod Note: Tag­ging Ac­tivity is Not Private

RubyJul 11, 2020, 12:56 AM
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Max­i­mal Ventilation

jefftkJul 11, 2020, 1:20 AM
31 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Dy­namic in­con­sis­tency of the in­ac­tion and ini­tial state baseline

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 7, 2020, 12:02 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Con­struct a port­fo­lio to profit from AI progress.

sapphireJul 25, 2020, 8:18 AM
30 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Tags Dis­cus­sion/​Talk Thread

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
30 points
81 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] To what ex­tent are the scal­ing prop­er­ties of Trans­former net­works ex­cep­tional?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:06 PM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Repli­cat­ing the repli­ca­tion crisis with GPT-3?

skybrianJul 22, 2020, 9:20 PM
29 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter. June 2020.

NunoSempereJul 1, 2020, 9:46 AM
27 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The silence is deaf­en­ing – Devon Zuegel

Ben PaceJul 4, 2020, 2:30 AM
27 points
12 comments1 min readLW link
(devonzuegel.com)

Invit­ing Cu­rated Authors to Give 5-Min On­line Talks

Ben PaceJul 1, 2020, 1:05 AM
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jul 16, 2020, 8:04 PM
26 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] If you are signed up for cry­on­ics with life in­surance, how much life in­surance did you get and over what term?

Eli TyreJul 22, 2020, 8:13 AM
26 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Tel­ling more ra­tio­nal stories

DirectedEvolutionJul 17, 2020, 5:47 PM
26 points
21 comments3 min readLW link

Jam is obsolete

jefftkJul 26, 2020, 2:00 PM
25 points
24 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[up­dated] how does gpt2′s train­ing cor­pus cap­ture in­ter­net dis­cus­sion? not well

nostalgebraistJul 27, 2020, 10:30 PM
25 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

[Question] What hap­pens to var­i­ance as neu­ral net­work train­ing is scaled? What does it im­ply about “lot­tery tick­ets”?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:22 PM
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Un­safety via Non-Zero-Sum Debate

VojtaKovarikJul 3, 2020, 10:03 PM
25 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Is the work on AI al­ign­ment rele­vant to GPT?

Richard_KennawayJul 30, 2020, 12:23 PM
24 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Models of Value of Learning

johnswentworthJul 7, 2020, 7:08 PM
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Learn­ing Values in Practice

Stuart_ArmstrongJul 20, 2020, 6:38 PM
24 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Change the world a lit­tle bit

DirectedEvolutionJul 26, 2020, 10:35 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Re­search ideas to study hu­mans with AI Safety in mind

Riccardo VolpatoJul 3, 2020, 4:01 PM
23 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Fresh Bread

ZviJul 21, 2020, 8:40 PM
22 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Was a PhD nec­es­sary to solve out­stand­ing math prob­lems?

DirectedEvolutionJul 10, 2020, 6:43 PM
22 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Billion­aire Economics

Virgil KurkjianJul 28, 2020, 3:01 AM
22 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­a­bil­ity that other ar­chi­tec­tures will scale as well as Trans­form­ers?

Daniel KokotajloJul 28, 2020, 7:36 PM
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Scal­able Ur­ban De­sign and the Sin­gle Build­ing City

Edward SwernofskyJul 25, 2020, 7:06 PM
22 points
21 comments17 min readLW link

More Right

Adam ZernerJul 22, 2020, 3:36 AM
22 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

Talk: Key Is­sues In Near-Term AI Safety Research

Aryeh EnglanderJul 10, 2020, 6:36 PM
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

New pa­per: AGI Agent Safety by Iter­a­tively Im­prov­ing the Utility Function

Koen.HoltmanJul 15, 2020, 2:05 PM
21 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

The Fu­ture of Science

Richard_NgoJul 28, 2020, 2:43 AM
21 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Con­straints from nat­u­ral­ized ethics.

Charlie SteinerJul 25, 2020, 2:54 PM
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If some­one you loved was ex­pe­rienc­ing un­remit­ting suffer­ing (re­lated to a con­stel­la­tion of multi-di­men­sional fac­tors and pro­cesses, those of which in­clude anoma­lous states of con­scious­ness and an ia­tro­genic men­tal health sys­tem), what would you think and what would you do?

Sara CJul 3, 2020, 9:02 PM
20 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Oper­a­tional­iz­ing Interpretability

lifelonglearnerJul 20, 2020, 5:22 AM
20 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The “AI De­bate” Debate

michaelcohenJul 2, 2020, 10:16 AM
20 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Au­to­mat­i­cally Turn­ing Off Com­puter at Night

RaemonJul 15, 2020, 8:42 PM
19 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #108]: Why we should scru­ti­nize ar­gu­ments for AI risk

Rohin ShahJul 16, 2020, 6:47 AM
19 points
6 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Sel­ling real es­tate: should you over­price or un­der­price?

Steven ByrnesJul 20, 2020, 3:54 PM
19 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

Sun­day July 12 — talks by Scott Garrabrant, Alexflint, alexei, Stu­art_Armstrong

Jul 8, 2020, 12:27 AM
19 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How well can the GPT ar­chi­tec­ture solve the par­ity task?

FactorialCodeJul 11, 2020, 7:02 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pho­tos Be­fore Drywall

jefftkJul 25, 2020, 1:40 AM
18 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why You Might Want a New Way to Vi­su­al­ize Biases

dtmJul 27, 2020, 5:30 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Par­tially Step­ping Down Isolation

jefftkJul 8, 2020, 11:40 AM
18 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Un­cal­ibrated quan­tum ex­per­i­ments act cla­si­cally

justinpombrioJul 21, 2020, 5:31 AM
18 points
12 comments8 min readLW link

2020 LessWrong De­mo­graph­ics Sur­vey Results

B JacobsJul 13, 2020, 1:53 PM
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link