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Predictions for GPT-N
hippke
Jul 29, 2020, 1:16 AM
36
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Tagging Open Call / Discussion Thread
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:58 PM
65
points
118
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Wiki-Tag FAQ
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
39
points
4
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Tags Discussion/Talk Thread
Ruby
Jul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM
30
points
81
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What happens to variance as neural network training is scaled? What does it imply about “lottery tickets”?
abramdemski
Jul 28, 2020, 8:22 PM
25
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How will internet forums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?
ChristianKl
Jul 28, 2020, 8:12 PM
14
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
To what extent are the scaling properties of Transformer networks exceptional?
abramdemski
Jul 28, 2020, 8:06 PM
30
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The Conceited Folly of Certainty
Noah Blaff
Jul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
7
points
3
comments
20
min read
LW
link
The Curse of Cursory Idealism
Noah Blaff
Jul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM
9
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does the lottery ticket hypothesis suggest the scaling hypothesis?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jul 28, 2020, 7:52 PM
14
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Probability that other architectures will scale as well as Transformers?
Daniel Kokotajlo
Jul 28, 2020, 7:36 PM
22
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How should I back up and redo, in a publicly-edited article?
Jameson Quinn
Jul 28, 2020, 7:07 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Rereading Atlas Shrugged
Vaniver
Jul 28, 2020, 6:54 PM
174
points
36
comments
13
min read
LW
link
1
review
FHI Report: How Will National Security Considerations Affect Antitrust Decisions in AI? An Examination of Historical Precedents
Cullen
Jul 28, 2020, 6:34 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)
Delegate a Forecast
Amandango
Jul 28, 2020, 5:43 PM
44
points
25
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Asset Prices Consistently Violate Efficient Market Hypothesis
Liron
Jul 28, 2020, 2:21 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(lt3000.blogspot.com)
A community-curated repository of interesting GPT-3 stuff
Rudi C
Jul 28, 2020, 2:16 PM
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
(github.com)
[Question]
Billionaire Economics
Virgil Kurkjian
Jul 28, 2020, 3:01 AM
22
points
31
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What specific dangers arise when asking GPT-N to write an Alignment Forum post?
Matthew Barnett
Jul 28, 2020, 2:56 AM
46
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Future of Science
Richard_Ngo
Jul 28, 2020, 2:43 AM
21
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Basic Conversational Coordination: Micro-coordination of Intention
Eli Tyre
Jul 27, 2020, 10:41 PM
41
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[updated] how does gpt2′s training corpus capture internet discussion? not well
nostalgebraist
Jul 27, 2020, 10:30 PM
25
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
AI and Efficiency
DragonGod
Jul 27, 2020, 8:58 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
The Rise of Commonsense Reasoning
DragonGod
Jul 27, 2020, 7:01 PM
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
(www.reddit.com)
Why You Might Want a New Way to Visualize Biases
dtm
Jul 27, 2020, 5:30 PM
18
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Are we in an AI overhang?
Andy Jones
Jul 27, 2020, 12:48 PM
266
points
106
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Generalizing the Power-Seeking Theorems
TurnTrout
Jul 27, 2020, 12:28 AM
41
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Change the world a little bit
DirectedEvolution
Jul 26, 2020, 10:35 PM
23
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Developmental Stages of GPTs
orthonormal
Jul 26, 2020, 10:03 PM
140
points
72
comments
7
min read
LW
link
1
review
The problem of Pop Analogy
thesilvermen
Jul 26, 2020, 9:44 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Where do people discuss doing things with GPT-3?
skybrian
Jul 26, 2020, 2:31 PM
2
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Jam is obsolete
jefftk
Jul 26, 2020, 2:00 PM
25
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
How I use Google Forms in my Workflow
Harri Besceli
Jul 26, 2020, 12:17 PM
34
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Godel in second-order logic?
Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
Jul 26, 2020, 7:16 AM
6
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Natural Explanation of Nash Equilibria
Dr. Birdbrain
Jul 25, 2020, 11:40 PM
3
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
A Scalable Urban Design and the Single Building City
Edward Swernofsky
Jul 25, 2020, 7:06 PM
22
points
21
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Constraints from naturalized ethics.
Charlie Steiner
Jul 25, 2020, 2:54 PM
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What it means to optimise
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:40 AM
6
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Access to AI: a human right?
dmtea
Jul 25, 2020, 9:38 AM
5
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How to learn from conversations
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:36 AM
16
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Taking the first step
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:33 AM
10
points
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
Become a person who Actually Does Things
Neel Nanda
Jul 25, 2020, 9:29 AM
55
points
17
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.neelnanda.io)
[Question]
Construct a portfolio to profit from AI progress.
sapphire
Jul 25, 2020, 8:18 AM
30
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Using books to prime behavior
ryan wong
Jul 25, 2020, 5:59 AM
10
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Reveal Culture
MalcolmOcean
Jul 25, 2020, 3:36 AM
92
points
18
comments
7
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Sporting vs. Herding: two styles of discourse
Suspended Reason
Jul 25, 2020, 1:56 AM
5
points
4
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Photos Before Drywall
jefftk
Jul 25, 2020, 1:40 AM
18
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Comment Replies for Chains, Bottlenecks and Optimization
curi
Jul 24, 2020, 6:51 PM
1
point
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
No Ultimate Goal and a Small Existential Crisis
Logan Riggs
Jul 24, 2020, 6:39 PM
12
points
23
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Writing with GPT-3
Jacob Falkovich
Jul 24, 2020, 3:22 PM
42
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
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