In Wikipe­dia — read­ing about Roko’s basilisk caus­ing “ner­vous break­downs” …

ThurstonBT13 Oct 2021 23:12 UTC
4 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Pro­posal] Method of lo­cat­ing use­ful sub­nets in large models

Quintin Pope13 Oct 2021 20:52 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

TheRealSlimHippo13 Oct 2021 16:22 UTC
28 points
3 comments17 min readLW link

Books Re­view: “Sapi­ens”, “Homo Deus” and “21 Les­sons For The 21st Cen­tury”, by Yu­val Noah Harari

Luca Parodi13 Oct 2021 16:21 UTC
14 points
2 comments16 min readLW link

Notes from the book ‘First Three Minutes’ by Steven Weinberg

invertedpassion13 Oct 2021 9:06 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Choos­ing a meetup venue

mingyuan13 Oct 2021 6:23 UTC
35 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Meetup ad­vice se­quence intro

mingyuan13 Oct 2021 6:21 UTC
35 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Zoe Curzi’s Ex­pe­rience with Lev­er­age Research

Ilverin the Stupid and Offensive13 Oct 2021 4:44 UTC
229 points
261 comments1 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Book Re­view: All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Go­ing To Die So I’ll Never Go There

Anmoljain13 Oct 2021 3:46 UTC
3 points
2 comments46 min readLW link

[linkpost] Fan­ta­sia for Two Voices

mike_hawke13 Oct 2021 2:55 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Choice Writ­ings of Do­minic Cummings

Connor_Flexman13 Oct 2021 2:41 UTC
121 points
75 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Open Thread: What are you work­ing on? (Oc­to­ber)

Raj Thimmiah13 Oct 2021 1:42 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What’s your plan?

jefftk13 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Bayeswatch 13: Spaceship

lsusr12 Oct 2021 21:35 UTC
55 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Model­ing Risks From Learned Optimization

Ben Cottier12 Oct 2021 20:54 UTC
45 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Philo­soph­i­cal In­ves­ti­ga­tions by Wittgenstein

Chris_Leong12 Oct 2021 20:14 UTC
34 points
11 comments33 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco, CA – ACX Meetup

derekpankaew12 Oct 2021 18:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Feel­ing Great by David Burns

Fei12 Oct 2021 16:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Quan­tify­ing Risk

devansh12 Oct 2021 14:41 UTC
4 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Build­ing Blocks of Poli­tics: An Overview of Selec­torate Theory

Yoav Ravid12 Oct 2021 11:27 UTC
86 points
26 comments49 min readLW link1 review

Niacin as a treat­ment for covid? (Prob­a­bly no, but I’m glad we’re check­ing)

Elizabeth12 Oct 2021 5:40 UTC
24 points
1 comment11 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

EDT with up­dat­ing dou­ble counts

paulfchristiano12 Oct 2021 4:40 UTC
56 points
12 comments7 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

my new short­sight reminder

mike_hawke11 Oct 2021 20:06 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Am­man, Jor­dan – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

mingyuan11 Oct 2021 20:03 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Yet Another Covid Risk Calculator

Thomas Colthurst11 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Free Will

Ape in the coat11 Oct 2021 18:41 UTC
28 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

NVIDIA and Microsoft re­leases 530B pa­ram­e­ter trans­former model, Me­ga­tron-Tur­ing NLG

Ozyrus11 Oct 2021 15:28 UTC
51 points
36 comments1 min readLW link
(developer.nvidia.com)

Detroit Third ACX Meetup

MattArnold11 Oct 2021 13:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

On Solv­ing Prob­lems Be­fore They Ap­pear: The Weird Episte­molo­gies of Alignment

adamShimi11 Oct 2021 8:20 UTC
110 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

Cup-Stack­ing Skills (or, Reflex­ive In­vol­un­tary Men­tal Mo­tions)

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)11 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC
120 points
36 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

Out­door danc­ing is likely very safe

jefftk11 Oct 2021 1:40 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book Re­view: Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth

jkim211 Oct 2021 1:07 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] Does any­one have an anki deck on age­ing /​ re­ju­ve­na­tion biotech­nol­ogy that they could share?

freedomandutility10 Oct 2021 16:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Bu­dapest Less Wrong/​ SSC

Timothy Underwood10 Oct 2021 16:14 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cure homes for digi­tal people

paulfchristiano10 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC
161 points
37 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(sideways-view.com)

The eval­u­a­tion func­tion of an AI is not its aim

Yair Halberstadt10 Oct 2021 14:52 UTC
13 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Open Borders

Sam Enright10 Oct 2021 12:27 UTC
24 points
19 comments12 min readLW link

Without a phone for 10 days

Benjamin Spiegel10 Oct 2021 5:19 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

The Ex­trap­o­la­tion Problem

lsusr10 Oct 2021 5:11 UTC
26 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

The S&P 500 Will Drop Below 3029 Be­fore July 16 (65 per­cent con­fi­dence)

FCCC10 Oct 2021 4:02 UTC
9 points
36 comments9 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 12: The Sin­gu­lar­ity War

lsusr10 Oct 2021 1:04 UTC
36 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

De­bug­ging Writer’s Block

matto9 Oct 2021 19:04 UTC
10 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

Sammy Martin9 Oct 2021 19:01 UTC
47 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

ACX At­lanta Meetup Oct 23rd, 2021

Steve French9 Oct 2021 17:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence or Evolu­tion?

Ramana Kumar9 Oct 2021 17:14 UTC
54 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Ap­pren­tice­ship Online

Henrik Karlsson9 Oct 2021 13:50 UTC
52 points
20 comments11 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

[Question] How to think about and deal with OpenAI

Rafael Harth9 Oct 2021 13:10 UTC
110 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you like ex­ces­sive sugar?

momom29 Oct 2021 10:40 UTC
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 11: Parabellum

lsusr9 Oct 2021 7:08 UTC
37 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Steel­man ar­gu­ments against the idea that AGI is in­evitable and will ar­rive soon

RomanS9 Oct 2021 6:22 UTC
20 points
12 comments5 min readLW link