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Principles Behind Bottlenecks

curi1 Aug 2020 22:48 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Agentic Language Model Memes

FactorialCode1 Aug 2020 18:03 UTC

16 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What are you looking for in a Less Wrong post?

adamShimi1 Aug 2020 18:00 UTC

27 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Food Spending During Covid

jefftk1 Aug 2020 17:10 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Forecasting Newsletter: July 2020.

NunoSempere1 Aug 2020 17:08 UTC

21 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

Inner Alignment: Explain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael Harth1 Aug 2020 15:24 UTC

181 points

47 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Online LessWrong Community Weekend, September 11th-13th

Linda Linsefors1 Aug 2020 14:55 UTC

48 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

On Procrastination—The art of shaping your future actions

Neel Nanda1 Aug 2020 10:22 UTC

10 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Generalized Efficient Markets in Political Power

johnswentworth1 Aug 2020 4:49 UTC

42 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

The Era Of Unlimited Everything: Unlimited Materials & Unlimited Money

jdcampolargo1 Aug 2020 3:01 UTC

4 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

Power as Easily Exploitable Opportunities

TurnTrout1 Aug 2020 2:14 UTC

32 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Jul 2020 17:54 UTC

46 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Enforcing Type Distinction

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jul 2020 11:39 UTC

25 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

“Go west, young man!”—Preferences in (imperfect) maps

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2020 7:50 UTC

25 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Can you gain weirdness points?

Nicholas / Heather Kross31 Jul 2020 3:41 UTC

20 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Free Educational and Research Resources

Rachel Shu31 Jul 2020 0:24 UTC

54 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jimrandomh, johnswenthworth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

jacobjacob and Ben Pace

30 Jul 2020 23:55 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers

adamShimi30 Jul 2020 22:05 UTC

50 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What if memes are common in highly capable minds?

Daniel Kokotajlo30 Jul 2020 20:45 UTC

40 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

PSA: Tagging is Awesome

abramdemski30 Jul 2020 17:52 UTC

76 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole

Zvi30 Jul 2020 15:50 UTC

39 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Richard_Kennaway30 Jul 2020 12:23 UTC

24 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would a halfway copied brain emulation be at risk of having different values/identity?

Ghatanathoah30 Jul 2020 5:43 UTC

9 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Rationalist Reading Group (Online)

NoSignalNoNoise30 Jul 2020 2:14 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Attention is your scarcest resource

benkuhn30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC

97 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Learning the prior and generalization

evhub29 Jul 2020 22:49 UTC

34 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

What Failure Looks Like: Distilling the Discussion

Ben Pace29 Jul 2020 21:49 UTC

82 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

New Paper on Herd Immunity Thresholds

Zvi29 Jul 2020 20:50 UTC

41 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Engaging Seriously with Short Timelines

sapphire29 Jul 2020 19:21 UTC

43 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #110]: Learning features from human feedback to enable reward learning

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC

13 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The “best predictor is malicious optimiser” problem

Donald Hobson29 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC

14 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC

16 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Parameters of Privacy

Raemon29 Jul 2020 1:18 UTC

31 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Predictions for GPT-N

hippke29 Jul 2020 1:16 UTC

36 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Tagging Open Call / Discussion Thread

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:58 UTC

65 points

118 comments4 min readLW link

Wiki-Tag FAQ

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:57 UTC

39 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Tags Discussion/Talk Thread

Ruby28 Jul 2020 21:57 UTC

30 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

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

abramdemski28 Jul 2020 20:22 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How will internet forums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?

ChristianKl28 Jul 2020 20:12 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

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

abramdemski28 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Conceited Folly of Certainty

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC

7 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

The Curse of Cursory Idealism

Noah Blaff28 Jul 2020 19:56 UTC

9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does the lottery ticket hypothesis suggest the scaling hypothesis?

Daniel Kokotajlo28 Jul 2020 19:52 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

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

Daniel Kokotajlo28 Jul 2020 19:36 UTC

22 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should I back up and redo, in a publicly-edited article?

Jameson Quinn28 Jul 2020 19:07 UTC

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Rereading Atlas Shrugged

Vaniver28 Jul 2020 18:54 UTC

161 points

36 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

FHI Report: How Will National Security Considerations Affect Antitrust Decisions in AI? An Examination of Historical Precedents

Cullen28 Jul 2020 18:34 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Delegate a Forecast

Amandango28 Jul 2020 17:43 UTC

44 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Asset Prices Consistently Violate Efficient Market Hypothesis

Liron28 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(lt3000.blogspot.com)