(Ir)ra­tio­nal­ity of Pas­cal’s wager

filozof3377@gmial.com3 Aug 2020 20:57 UTC
3 points
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is gpt-3 few-shot ready for real ap­pli­ca­tions?

nostalgebraist3 Aug 2020 19:50 UTC
31 points
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Solv­ing Key Align­ment Prob­lems Group

Logan Riggs3 Aug 2020 19:30 UTC
19 points
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Cry­on­ics Cost-Benefit Analysis

niplav3 Aug 2020 17:30 UTC
46 points
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Three men­tal images from think­ing about AGI de­bate & corrigibility

Steven Byrnes3 Aug 2020 14:29 UTC
55 points
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Unify­ing the Si­mu­lacra Definitions

Zvi3 Aug 2020 12:10 UTC
84 points
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[Question] What are ex­am­ples of ‘sci­en­tific’ stud­ies that con­tra­dict what you be­lieve about your­self?

Mati_Roy3 Aug 2020 6:11 UTC
12 points
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[Question] What are the most im­por­tant pa­pers/​post/​re­sources to read to un­der­stand more of GPT-3?

adamShimi2 Aug 2020 20:53 UTC
22 points
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Ir­ra­tional Re­sis­tance to Busi­ness Success

curi2 Aug 2020 19:15 UTC
3 points
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[Question] Why isn’t there a LessWrong App? Is a “blog-app” sus­tain­able/​use­ful for a com­mu­nity?

Osson42 Aug 2020 17:47 UTC
8 points
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Burley Bee kids bike trailer review

jefftk2 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC
11 points
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Eng­ineer­ing Ex­pe­rience Through Score

ZorbaTHut2 Aug 2020 12:09 UTC
25 points
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When Gears Go Wrong

Matt Goldenberg2 Aug 2020 6:21 UTC
28 points
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Tear­ing down the Ch­ester­ton’s Fence principle

DirectedEvolution2 Aug 2020 4:56 UTC
35 points
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Dis­solv­ing the “Is the Effi­cient Mar­ket Hy­poth­e­sis Dead?” Question

Alexei2 Aug 2020 4:46 UTC
37 points
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[Question] Would AGIs par­ent young AGIs?

Vishrut Arya2 Aug 2020 0:57 UTC
3 points
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Prin­ci­ples Be­hind Bottlenecks

curi1 Aug 2020 22:48 UTC
1 point
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Agen­tic Lan­guage Model Memes

FactorialCode1 Aug 2020 18:03 UTC
16 points
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[Question] What are you look­ing for in a Less Wrong post?

adamShimi1 Aug 2020 18:00 UTC
27 points
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Food Spend­ing Dur­ing Covid

jefftk1 Aug 2020 17:10 UTC
10 points
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Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: July 2020.

NunoSempere1 Aug 2020 17:08 UTC
21 points
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In­ner Align­ment: Ex­plain like I’m 12 Edition

Rafael Harth1 Aug 2020 15:24 UTC
181 points
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On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Week­end, Septem­ber 11th-13th

Linda Linsefors1 Aug 2020 14:55 UTC
48 points
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On Pro­cras­ti­na­tion—The art of shap­ing your fu­ture actions

Neel Nanda1 Aug 2020 10:22 UTC
10 points
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Gen­er­al­ized Effi­cient Mar­kets in Poli­ti­cal Power

johnswentworth1 Aug 2020 4:49 UTC
42 points
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The Era Of Un­limited Every­thing: Un­limited Ma­te­ri­als & Un­limited Money

jdcampolargo1 Aug 2020 3:01 UTC
4 points
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Power as Easily Ex­ploitable Opportunities

TurnTrout1 Aug 2020 2:14 UTC
32 points
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Let Your Mind Be Not Fixed

Gordon Seidoh Worley31 Jul 2020 17:54 UTC
46 points
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En­forc­ing Type Distinction

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)31 Jul 2020 11:39 UTC
25 points
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“Go west, young man!”—Prefer­ences in (im­perfect) maps

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2020 7:50 UTC
25 points
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[Question] Can you gain weird­ness points?

Nicholas / Heather Kross31 Jul 2020 3:41 UTC
20 points
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Free Ed­u­ca­tional and Re­search Resources

Rachel Shu31 Jul 2020 0:24 UTC
54 points
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Sun­day Au­gust 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jim­ran­domh, john­swen­th­worth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

30 Jul 2020 23:55 UTC
15 points
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Deal­ing with Cu­ri­os­ity-Stoppers

adamShimi30 Jul 2020 22:05 UTC
50 points
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[Question] What if memes are com­mon in highly ca­pa­ble minds?

Daniel Kokotajlo30 Jul 2020 20:45 UTC
40 points
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PSA: Tag­ging is Awesome

abramdemski30 Jul 2020 17:52 UTC
76 points
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Covid 7/​30: Whack a Mole

Zvi30 Jul 2020 15:50 UTC
39 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Richard_Kennaway30 Jul 2020 12:23 UTC
24 points
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[Question] Would a halfway copied brain em­u­la­tion be at risk of hav­ing differ­ent val­ues/​iden­tity?

Ghatanathoah30 Jul 2020 5:43 UTC
9 points
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Ra­tion­al­ist Read­ing Group (On­line)

NoSignalNoNoise30 Jul 2020 2:14 UTC
7 points
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At­ten­tion is your scarcest resource

benkuhn30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC
97 points
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Learn­ing the prior and generalization

evhub29 Jul 2020 22:49 UTC
34 points
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What Failure Looks Like: Distill­ing the Discussion

Ben Pace29 Jul 2020 21:49 UTC
82 points
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New Paper on Herd Im­mu­nity Thresholds

Zvi29 Jul 2020 20:50 UTC
41 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What a 20-year-lead in mil­i­tary tech might look like

Daniel Kokotajlo29 Jul 2020 20:10 UTC
74 points
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En­gag­ing Se­ri­ously with Short Timelines

sapphire29 Jul 2020 19:21 UTC
43 points
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[AN #110]: Learn­ing fea­tures from hu­man feed­back to en­able re­ward learning

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC
13 points
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(mailchi.mp)

The “best pre­dic­tor is mal­i­cious op­ti­miser” problem

Donald Hobson29 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
14 points
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Im­prov­ing lo­cal gov­er­nance in frag­ile states—prac­ti­cal les­sons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC
16 points
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Pa­ram­e­ters of Privacy

Raemon29 Jul 2020 1:18 UTC
31 points
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