GPT-3, be­lief, and consistency

skybrianAug 16, 2020, 11:12 PM
18 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-Direct­ed­ness: What Suc­cess Looks Like

adamShimiAug 16, 2020, 6:33 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Search ver­sus design

Alex FlintAug 16, 2020, 4:53 PM
109 points
40 comments36 min readLW link1 review

On Sys­tems—Liv­ing a life of zero willpower

Neel NandaAug 16, 2020, 4:44 PM
42 points
9 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Par­tially En­light­ened AMA

grumpyfreyrAug 16, 2020, 9:36 AM
−10 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

Be­com­ing an EA-in­fluencer on YouTube etc.

culturechangeAug 16, 2020, 8:09 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Hu­man Condition

Martin SustrikAug 16, 2020, 5:23 AM
25 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

The Wrong Side of Risk

gilchAug 16, 2020, 3:50 AM
22 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

MarcelloAug 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
48 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

My Un­der­stand­ing of Paul Chris­ti­ano’s Iter­ated Am­plifi­ca­tion AI Safety Re­search Agenda

Chi NguyenAug 15, 2020, 8:02 PM
120 points
20 comments39 min readLW link

Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

bracesAug 15, 2020, 6:27 PM
60 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn DrescherAug 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Map­ping Out Alignment

Aug 15, 2020, 1:02 AM
43 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Talk and Q&A—Dan Hendrycks—Paper: Align­ing AI With Shared Hu­man Values. On Dis­cord at Aug 28, 2020 8:00-10:00 AM GMT+8.

wassnameAug 14, 2020, 11:57 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Study Group for Progress

jasoncrawfordAug 14, 2020, 8:18 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Set­ting Up a Green Screen

jefftkAug 14, 2020, 8:00 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Do we have up­dated data about the risk of ~ per­ma­nent chronic fa­tigue from COVID-19?

Eli TyreAug 14, 2020, 7:19 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

An In­vi­ta­tion to the Guild of the Rose — Alpha (formerly the Guild of Ser­vants)

moridinamaelAug 14, 2020, 7:03 PM
32 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Lose a Fair Game

gilchAug 14, 2020, 6:41 PM
36 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

Sun­day Au­gust 16, 12pm (PDT) — talks by Ozzie Gooen, habryka, Ben Pace

Aug 14, 2020, 6:32 PM
27 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
24 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Room and Board for Peo­ple Self-Learn­ing ML or Do­ing In­de­pen­dent ML Research

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:19 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Best Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tion in the World

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:18 PM
41 points
13 comments9 min readLW link

How webs of mean­ing grow and change

HazardAug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

misc raw re­sponses to a tract of Crit­i­cal Rationalism

mako yassAug 14, 2020, 11:53 AM
21 points
52 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2020 Vir­tual Celebration

konstellAug 14, 2020, 8:03 AM
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

“The Con­spir­acy against the Hu­man Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

CallmesalticidaeAug 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
19 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Apol­ogy of (a form of) au­thor­i­tar­i­anism and in­equal­ity from an egalitarian

jybyAug 13, 2020, 9:54 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Many-wor­lds ver­sus dis­crete knowledge

jessicataAug 13, 2020, 6:35 PM
20 points
27 comments1 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

[AN #112]: Eng­ineer­ing a Safer World

Rohin ShahAug 13, 2020, 5:20 PM
26 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Covid 8/​13: Same As It Ever Was

ZviAug 13, 2020, 3:40 PM
53 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tomb­stone Men­tal­ity

SuperDaveWhiteAug 13, 2020, 1:46 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Re­peat Un­til Broke

gilchAug 13, 2020, 7:19 AM
14 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Sen­tence by Sen­tence: “Why Most Pub­lished Re­search Find­ings are False”

DirectedEvolutionAug 13, 2020, 6:51 AM
22 points
5 comments47 min readLW link

This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ikeAug 13, 2020, 12:30 AM
7 points
197 comments7 min readLW link

Imag­ine a World Where Govern­ments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargoAug 12, 2020, 10:52 PM
−2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

In­vest­ment idea: bas­ket of tech stocks weighted to­wards AI

ioannesAug 12, 2020, 9:30 PM
19 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Blog post: A tale of two re­search communities

Aryeh EnglanderAug 12, 2020, 8:41 PM
18 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­ally End­ing Discussions

curiAug 12, 2020, 8:34 PM
−7 points
27 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Money cre­ation and debt

AnthonyCAug 12, 2020, 8:30 PM
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

How GPT-N will es­cape from its AI-box

hippkeAug 12, 2020, 7:34 PM
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Strong im­pli­ca­tion of prefer­ence uncertainty

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 12, 2020, 7:02 PM
19 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Align­ment By Default

johnswentworthAug 12, 2020, 6:54 PM
174 points
96 comments11 min readLW link2 reviews

Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam SchollAug 12, 2020, 7:47 AM
154 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilchAug 12, 2020, 6:16 AM
55 points
16 comments7 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 11, 2020, 8:23 PM
25 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will OpenAI’s work un­in­ten­tion­ally in­crease ex­is­ten­tial risks re­lated to AI?

adamShimiAug 11, 2020, 6:16 PM
53 points
55 comments1 min readLW link

Book re­view: Ar­chi­tects of In­tel­li­gence by Martin Ford (2018)

OferAug 11, 2020, 5:30 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Utility func­tions with­out a maximum

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirAug 11, 2020, 12:58 PM
3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Moloch and multi-level selection

thoughtfulmadisonAug 11, 2020, 7:08 AM
19 points
3 comments3 min readLW link