“Re­dun­dant” AI Alignment

Mckay Jensen16 Oct 2021 21:32 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(quevivasbien.github.io)

My ex­pe­rience at and around MIRI and CFAR (in­spired by Zoe Curzi’s writeup of ex­pe­riences at Lev­er­age)

jessicata16 Oct 2021 21:28 UTC
84 points
949 comments22 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion Con­cepts in the Game of Life

16 Oct 2021 20:51 UTC
75 points
16 comments10 min readLW link

What if we should use more en­ergy, not less?

Snorkelfarsan16 Oct 2021 19:51 UTC
7 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

The AGI needs to be honest

rokosbasilisk16 Oct 2021 19:24 UTC
2 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is moral duty/​blame ir­ra­tional be­cause a per­son does only what they must?

benn@4efix.com16 Oct 2021 17:00 UTC
12 points
20 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Memetic haz­ards of AGI ar­chi­tec­ture posts

Ozyrus16 Oct 2021 16:10 UTC
9 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Write Sur­pris­ingly About Reality

lsusr16 Oct 2021 7:30 UTC
40 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Long Covid In­for­mal Study Results

Elizabeth16 Oct 2021 7:10 UTC
43 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

NLP Po­si­tion Paper: When Com­bat­ting Hype, Pro­ceed with Caution

Sam Bowman15 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
46 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you think you are a Boltz­mann brain? If not, why not?

Jack R15 Oct 2021 6:02 UTC
2 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

In­tel­li­gence, epistemics, and san­ity, in three short parts

ozziegooen15 Oct 2021 4:01 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view Re­view (end of the bounty pro­gram)

Ruby15 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
85 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Di­ag­nos­tic Tests

Tornus15 Oct 2021 2:58 UTC
6 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Book Re­view: A Pat­tern Lan­guage by Christo­pher Alexander

lincolnquirk15 Oct 2021 1:11 UTC
57 points
8 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Pay­ing peo­ple to vote for good poli­cies.

Matteodimaio15 Oct 2021 1:00 UTC
1 point
2 comments3 min readLW link

Fram­ing Practicum: Semistable Equilibrium

DirectedEvolution14 Oct 2021 23:31 UTC
26 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to re­spond to a se­ries of defi­antly per­sis­tent ev­i­dence-free claims?

ThurstonBT14 Oct 2021 23:01 UTC
−18 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Clas­si­cal sym­bol ground­ing and causal graphs

Stuart_Armstrong14 Oct 2021 18:04 UTC
22 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Con­scious­ness, Free Will and Scien­tific Ob­jec­tivity in Per­spec­tive-Based Reasoning

dadadarren14 Oct 2021 18:00 UTC
7 points
25 comments4 min readLW link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)

Book Anal­y­sis: New Thrawn Trilogy

ozymandias14 Oct 2021 17:49 UTC
64 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Is an­chor­ing a re­li­able cog­ni­tive bias?

justindomke14 Oct 2021 15:15 UTC
22 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(justindomke.wordpress.com)

Com­men­tary on “AGI Safety From First Prin­ci­ples by Richard Ngo, Septem­ber 2020”

Robert Kralisch14 Oct 2021 15:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 10/​14: Less Long Cvoid

Zvi14 Oct 2021 14:20 UTC
57 points
22 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Is nuk­ing women and chil­dren cheaper than fire­bomb­ing them?

lsusr14 Oct 2021 8:25 UTC
28 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Com­pute Gover­nance and Con­clu­sions—Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [3/​4]

lennart14 Oct 2021 8:23 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How To Talk So Lit­tle Kids Will Listen

weft14 Oct 2021 6:56 UTC
75 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Creat­ing a truly formidable Art

Valentine14 Oct 2021 4:39 UTC
131 points
59 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Book Re­view: De­nial of Death

PatrickDFarley14 Oct 2021 4:28 UTC
14 points
5 comments37 min readLW link

Book Re­view: The End of Average

Vanilla_cabs14 Oct 2021 1:49 UTC
17 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

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