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Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

198 points

69 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] A way to beat superrational/EDT agents?

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir17 Aug 2020 14:33 UTC

5 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3, belief, and consistency

skybrian16 Aug 2020 23:12 UTC

18 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Goal-Directedness: What Success Looks Like

adamShimi16 Aug 2020 18:33 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Search versus design

Alex Flint16 Aug 2020 16:53 UTC

108 points

40 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

On Systems—Living a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC

42 points

9 comments13 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Partially Enlightened AMA

grumpyfreyr16 Aug 2020 9:36 UTC

−10 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Becoming an EA-influencer on YouTube etc.

culturechange16 Aug 2020 8:09 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Human Condition

Martin Sustrik16 Aug 2020 5:23 UTC

25 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The Wrong Side of Risk

gilch16 Aug 2020 3:50 UTC

22 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

On Need-Sets

Marcello15 Aug 2020 23:25 UTC

48 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

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

Chi Nguyen15 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC

120 points

20 comments39 min readLW link

Does crime explain the exceptional US incarceration rate?

braces15 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC

60 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Similarity Experiment

Dawn Drescher15 Aug 2020 13:19 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Mapping Out Alignment

Logan Riggs, adamShimi, Gurkenglas, AlexMennen and Gyrodiot

15 Aug 2020 1:02 UTC

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.

wassname14 Aug 2020 23:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Study Group for Progress

jasoncrawford14 Aug 2020 20:18 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Setting Up a Green Screen

jefftk14 Aug 2020 20:00 UTC

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 Tyre14 Aug 2020 19:19 UTC

60 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

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

moridinamael14 Aug 2020 19:03 UTC

32 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Lose a Fair Game

gilch14 Aug 2020 18:41 UTC

36 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

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

jacobjacob and Ben Pace

14 Aug 2020 18:32 UTC

27 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

24 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

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

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:19 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Best Educational Institution in the World

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:18 UTC

41 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

How webs of meaning grow and change

Hazard14 Aug 2020 13:58 UTC

14 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism

mako yass14 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC

21 points

52 comments3 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2020 Virtual Celebration

konstell14 Aug 2020 8:03 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Callmesalticidae13 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC

19 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

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

jyby13 Aug 2020 21:54 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Many-worlds versus discrete knowledge

jessicata13 Aug 2020 18:35 UTC

20 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[AN #112]: Engineering a Safer World

Rohin Shah13 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

26 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Covid 8/13: Same As It Ever Was

Zvi13 Aug 2020 15:40 UTC

53 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tombstone Mentality

SuperDaveWhite13 Aug 2020 13:46 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Repeat Until Broke

gilch13 Aug 2020 7:19 UTC

14 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolution13 Aug 2020 6:51 UTC

22 points

5 comments47 min readLW link

This Territory Does Not Exist

ike13 Aug 2020 0:30 UTC

7 points

197 comments7 min readLW link

Imagine a World Where Governments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargo12 Aug 2020 22:52 UTC

−2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Investment idea: basket of tech stocks weighted towards AI

ioannes12 Aug 2020 21:30 UTC

19 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Blog post: A tale of two research communities

Aryeh Englander12 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Rationally Ending Discussions

curi12 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

−7 points

27 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Money creation and debt

AnthonyC12 Aug 2020 20:30 UTC

27 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

How GPT-N will escape from its AI-box

hippke12 Aug 2020 19:34 UTC

7 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Strong implication of preference uncertainty

Stuart_Armstrong12 Aug 2020 19:02 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment By Default

johnswentworth12 Aug 2020 18:54 UTC

174 points

96 comments11 min readLW link 2 reviews

Matt Botvinick on the spontaneous emergence of learning algorithms

Adam Scholl12 Aug 2020 7:47 UTC

154 points

87 comments5 min readLW link

You Need More Money

gilch12 Aug 2020 6:16 UTC

55 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

Zen and Rationality: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh Worley11 Aug 2020 20:23 UTC

25 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

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

adamShimi11 Aug 2020 18:16 UTC

53 points

55 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ofer11 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link