Book Re­view: Spark! How ex­er­cise will im­prove the perfor­mance of your brain

Caridorc Tergilti1 Oct 2021 22:43 UTC
16 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

The Si­mu­la­tion Hy­poth­e­sis Un­der­cuts the SIA/​Great Filter Dooms­day Argument

1 Oct 2021 22:23 UTC
43 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Whole Brain Emu­la­tion: No Progress on C. el­e­gans After 10 Years

niconiconi1 Oct 2021 21:44 UTC
223 points
87 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

Pro­posal: Scal­ing laws for RL generalization

axioman1 Oct 2021 21:32 UTC
14 points
12 comments11 min readLW link

Meta learn­ing to gra­di­ent hack

Quintin Pope1 Oct 2021 19:25 UTC
55 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

How does fore­cast quan­tity im­pact fore­cast qual­ity on Me­tac­u­lus?

CharlesD1 Oct 2021 19:09 UTC
8 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Septem­ber 2021.

NunoSempere1 Oct 2021 17:06 UTC
13 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

What Selec­tion The­o­rems Do We Ex­pect/​Want?

johnswentworth1 Oct 2021 16:03 UTC
67 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

Con­tra Paul Chris­ti­ano on Sex

George3d61 Oct 2021 11:17 UTC
22 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(cerebralab.com)

How does The Cir­cle grow, ex­actly?

Raemon1 Oct 2021 7:53 UTC
60 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the pre­sump­tu­ous philosopher

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:59 UTC
13 points
20 comments22 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 3: An aside on bet­ting in anthropics

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:52 UTC
17 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 2: Telekine­sis, refer­ence classes, and other scandals

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:49 UTC
21 points
2 comments35 min readLW link

SIA > SSA, part 1: Learn­ing from the fact that you exist

Joe Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 5:43 UTC
46 points
16 comments16 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing ter­mi­nal values

kiwi0fruit1 Oct 2021 4:54 UTC
−4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Con­sider Tak­ing Zinc Every Time You Travel

Elizabeth1 Oct 2021 3:50 UTC
48 points
44 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

The LessWrong Team is now Light­cone In­fras­truc­ture, come work with us!

habryka1 Oct 2021 1:20 UTC
247 points
71 comments4 min readLW link

San Diego Less Wrong

CitizenTen1 Oct 2021 0:20 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 9/​30: Peo­ple Re­spond to Incentives

Zvi30 Sep 2021 18:40 UTC
49 points
14 comments17 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some Ex­ist­ing Selec­tion Theorems

johnswentworth30 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
54 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How can one train philo­soph­i­cal skill?

abramdemski30 Sep 2021 14:56 UTC
31 points
47 comments1 min readLW link

Take­off Speeds and Discontinuities

30 Sep 2021 13:50 UTC
63 points
1 comment15 min readLW link

Offer: free/​low-cost de­ci­sion sup­port ser­vices for world-im­prov­ing initiatives

Ian David Moss30 Sep 2021 13:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

My take on Vanessa Kosoy’s take on AGI safety

Steven Byrnes30 Sep 2021 12:23 UTC
103 points
10 comments31 min readLW link

AI learns be­trayal and how to avoid it

Stuart_Armstrong30 Sep 2021 9:39 UTC
30 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Vir­tual Real­ity Meetup

Hamp30 Sep 2021 7:28 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Book re­view] Who we are and how we got here

mukashi30 Sep 2021 4:26 UTC
14 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

In­ter­view with Skynet

lsusr30 Sep 2021 2:20 UTC
49 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Pre­dic­tion] We are in an Al­gorith­mic Overhang

lsusr29 Sep 2021 23:40 UTC
31 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Is­sues with Giv­ing Multiplier

jefftk29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
28 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Mind Is A Shaky Con­trol System

DirectedEvolution29 Sep 2021 20:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The role of tribes in achiev­ing last­ing im­pact and how to cre­ate them

29 Sep 2021 20:48 UTC
14 points
3 comments24 min readLW link

[Question] Wis­dom of the crowds?

amarai29 Sep 2021 19:14 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Book re­view] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an in-depth explainer

Sam Marks29 Sep 2021 19:03 UTC
100 points
23 comments23 min readLW link1 review

Easily Top 20%

Jacob Falkovich29 Sep 2021 18:24 UTC
38 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Sex-Pos­i­tivity is Countercultural

Jacob Falkovich29 Sep 2021 18:22 UTC
39 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

A brief re­view of the rea­sons multi-ob­jec­tive RL could be im­por­tant in AI Safety Research

29 Sep 2021 17:09 UTC
30 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Un­solved ML Safety Problems

jsteinhardt29 Sep 2021 16:00 UTC
61 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Brain-in­spired AGI and the “life­time an­chor”

Steven Byrnes29 Sep 2021 13:09 UTC
65 points
16 comments13 min readLW link

Bayeswatch 10: Spyware

lsusr29 Sep 2021 7:01 UTC
104 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “Hou­dini on Magic” by Harry Houdini

lsusr29 Sep 2021 2:37 UTC
21 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] What Heuris­tics Do You Use to Think About Align­ment Topics?

Logan Riggs29 Sep 2021 2:31 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

A re­view of Steven Pinker’s new book on rationality

Matthew Barnett29 Sep 2021 1:29 UTC
140 points
43 comments6 min readLW link

D&D.Sci 4th Edi­tion: League of Defen­ders of the Storm

aphyer28 Sep 2021 23:19 UTC
44 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Cryosleep

harsimony28 Sep 2021 22:33 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

You can talk to EA Funds be­fore applying

evhub28 Sep 2021 20:39 UTC
71 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Col­lec­tion of ar­gu­ments to ex­pect (outer and in­ner) al­ign­ment failure?

Sam Clarke28 Sep 2021 16:55 UTC
21 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Prob­lems with us­ing ap­proval vot­ing to elect to a multi-in­di­vi­d­ual body?

RyanCarey28 Sep 2021 11:03 UTC
8 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Sun­screen: much more than you wanted to know

Pierre Vandenberghe28 Sep 2021 10:42 UTC
29 points
10 comments6 min readLW link
(pierreavdb.substack.com)

Selec­tion The­o­rems: A Pro­gram For Un­der­stand­ing Agents

johnswentworth28 Sep 2021 5:03 UTC
124 points
28 comments6 min readLW link2 reviews