Es­ti­mat­ing the ROI of Insulation

jefftk3 Sep 2020 20:30 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Us­ing GPT-N to Solve In­ter­pretabil­ity of Neu­ral Net­works: A Re­search Agenda

3 Sep 2020 18:27 UTC
68 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Emo­tional valence vs RL re­ward: a video game analogy

Steven Byrnes3 Sep 2020 15:28 UTC
12 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 9/​3: Meet the New CDC

Zvi3 Sep 2020 13:40 UTC
49 points
9 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read”, by Pierre Bayard

Callmesalticidae3 Sep 2020 13:05 UTC
11 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best overview of com­mon Micro­morts?

Raemon3 Sep 2020 2:39 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readLW link1 review

Sun­day Septem­ber 6, 12pm (PT) — Ca­sual hang­ing out with the LessWrong community

habryka3 Sep 2020 2:08 UTC
34 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Study Group for Progress – 50% off for LessWrongers

jasoncrawford3 Sep 2020 0:17 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #115]: AI safety re­search prob­lems in the AI-GA framework

Rohin Shah2 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC
19 points
16 comments6 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] If there were an in­ter­ac­tive soft­ware teach­ing Yud­kowskian ra­tio­nal­ity, what con­cepts would you want to see it teach?

MikkW2 Sep 2020 5:37 UTC
25 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Box Spread Trick: Get rich slightly faster

Thomas Kwa1 Sep 2020 21:41 UTC
43 points
44 comments6 min readLW link

Au­gust 2020 gw­ern.net newsletter

gwern1 Sep 2020 21:04 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter Sum­mer 2020

avturchin1 Sep 2020 14:06 UTC
22 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

An­thropic Rea­son­ing and Per­spec­tive-Based Ar­gu­ments

dadadarren1 Sep 2020 12:36 UTC
28 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Au­gust 2020.

NunoSempere1 Sep 2020 11:38 UTC
16 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

SlateS­tarCodex On­line Meetup: Con­nor Leahy on GPT-N

JoshuaFox1 Sep 2020 6:49 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is Bayesi­anism im­por­tant for ra­tio­nal­ity?

Chris_Leong1 Sep 2020 4:24 UTC
37 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on AI Timelines Fore­cast­ing Thread

Amandango1 Sep 2020 1:42 UTC
53 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Weekend

Linda Linsefors31 Aug 2020 23:35 UTC
19 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A Policy for Bit­ing Bullets

eapache31 Aug 2020 21:00 UTC
6 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Helping peo­ple to solve their problems

Neel Nanda31 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
18 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

(Hu­mor) AI Align­ment Crit­i­cal Failure Table

Kaj_Sotala31 Aug 2020 19:51 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(sl4.org)

[Question] Plans /​ prep­ping for pos­si­ble poli­ti­cal vi­o­lence from up­com­ing US elec­tion?

anon0331 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Vir­tual Ra­tion­al­ity Congress 2020

Sophie Strobl31 Aug 2020 18:18 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

From GPT to AGI

ChristianKl31 Aug 2020 13:28 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Alarmism

Basil Marte31 Aug 2020 12:53 UTC
−5 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

in­ter­pret­ing GPT: the logit lens

nostalgebraist31 Aug 2020 2:47 UTC
225 points
37 comments10 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing: Progress Stud­ies Read­ing Group.

Sami_beanz30 Aug 2020 10:39 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

microCOVID.org: A tool to es­ti­mate COVID risk from com­mon activities

catherio29 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC
177 points
36 comments1 min readLW link1 review
(microcovid.org)

[Question] Thoughts on Neu­ral­ink up­date?

NoUsernameSelected29 Aug 2020 22:59 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pong from pix­els with­out read­ing “Pong from Pix­els”

Ian McKenzie29 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
17 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
72 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Safe Scram­bling?

Hoagy29 Aug 2020 14:31 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Spoiler-Free Re­view: Death and Taxes

Zvi29 Aug 2020 13:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Please take a sur­vey on the qual­ity/​im­pact of things I’ve written

MichaelA29 Aug 2020 10:39 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Up­dates and ad­di­tions to “Embed­ded Agency”

29 Aug 2020 4:22 UTC
82 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: The Ir­ish Wolfhound

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Dog Rat­ings: An In­tro­duc­tion & Explanation

Callmesalticidae29 Aug 2020 3:54 UTC
20 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Hu­man Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith28 Aug 2020 22:21 UTC
50 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

My guide to lifelogging

Matthew Barnett28 Aug 2020 21:34 UTC
28 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

How to teach things well

Neel Nanda28 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
108 points
17 comments15 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] How hard would it be to change GPT-3 in a way that al­lows au­dio?

ChristianKl28 Aug 2020 14:42 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Zib­bal­done With It All

Randomini28 Aug 2020 11:37 UTC
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Cambridge Vir­tual LW/​SSC Meetup

NoSignalNoNoise28 Aug 2020 2:45 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

“On Bul­lshit” and “On Truth,” by Harry Frankfurt

Callmesalticidae28 Aug 2020 0:44 UTC
20 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Pre­face to the se­quence on eco­nomic growth

Matthew Barnett27 Aug 2020 20:29 UTC
51 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Notes on “The An­thro­pol­ogy of Child­hood”

juliawise27 Aug 2020 17:11 UTC
184 points
10 comments45 min readLW link

Covid 8/​27: The Fall of the CDC

Zvi27 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
85 points
16 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Tech­ni­cal model re­fine­ment formalism

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:54 UTC
19 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Model splin­ter­ing: mov­ing from one im­perfect model to another

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:53 UTC
79 points
10 comments33 min readLW link