Fore­cast­ing progress in lan­guage models

28 Oct 2021 20:40 UTC
62 points
6 comments11 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

[AN #168]: Four tech­ni­cal top­ics for which Open Phil is so­lic­it­ing grant proposals

Rohin Shah28 Oct 2021 17:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Bet­ter and Worse Ways of Stat­ing SIA

dadadarren28 Oct 2021 16:04 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Recom­mend­ing Un­der­stand, a Game about Discern­ing the Rules

MondSemmel28 Oct 2021 14:53 UTC
96 points
53 comments4 min readLW link

Covid 10/​28: An Un­ex­pected Victory

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:50 UTC
29 points
37 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Un­ex­pected Vic­tory: Con­tainer Stack­ing at the Port of Long Beach

Zvi28 Oct 2021 14:40 UTC
300 points
41 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Save the kid, ruin the suit; Ac­cept­able util­ity ex­change rates; Distributed util­ity calcu­la­tions; Civic du­ties matter

spkoc28 Oct 2021 11:51 UTC
2 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Vot­ing for peo­ple harms people

CraigMichael28 Oct 2021 8:29 UTC
13 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Selfish­ness, prefer­ence falsifi­ca­tion, and AI alignment

jessicata28 Oct 2021 0:16 UTC
52 points
28 comments13 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Rul­ing Out Every­thing Else

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)27 Oct 2021 21:50 UTC
192 points
51 comments21 min readLW link2 reviews

They don’t make ’em like they used to

jasoncrawford27 Oct 2021 19:44 UTC
39 points
84 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Hegel vs. GPT-3

Bezzi27 Oct 2021 5:55 UTC
10 points
21 comments2 min readLW link

Every­thing Stud­ies on Cyn­i­cal Theories

DanielFilan27 Oct 2021 1:31 UTC
25 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(everythingstudies.com)

Harry Pot­ter and the Meth­ods of Psy­chomagic | Chap­ter 2: The Global Neu­ronal Workspace

Henry Prowbell26 Oct 2021 18:54 UTC
52 points
8 comments9 min readLW link

X-Risk, An­throp­ics, & Peter Thiel’s In­vest­ment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:50 UTC
21 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

[Question] Would the world be a bet­ter place if we all agreed to form a world gov­ern­ment next Mon­day?

idontwanttodie26 Oct 2021 18:14 UTC
−3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Use the “God’s-Eye View” in An­thropic Prob­lems.

dadadarren26 Oct 2021 13:47 UTC
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Im­pres­sive vs hon­est signaling

Adam Zerner26 Oct 2021 7:16 UTC
31 points
12 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Effec­tive­ness of Moderna booster shot and mix-and-match?

warrenjordan26 Oct 2021 6:18 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Be­ing You by Anil Seth

Alexander26 Oct 2021 5:44 UTC
34 points
23 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] No, re­ally, can “dead” time be sal­vaged?

Nicholas / Heather Kross26 Oct 2021 0:02 UTC
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Men­tal health benefits and down­sides of psychedelic use in ACX read­ers: sur­vey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC
118 points
18 comments10 min readLW link

Child Walksheds

jefftk25 Oct 2021 21:00 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Roots of Progress events in Austin, Novem­ber 4–6

jasoncrawford25 Oct 2021 16:12 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Fea­ture re­quest: templates

Randomized, Controlled25 Oct 2021 15:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Post­mod­ern Warfare

lsusr25 Oct 2021 9:02 UTC
64 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Orthog­o­nal­ity and the in­creased over­lap of ac­tions with the set of all events that comes with in­creased intelligence

Jay9525 Oct 2021 5:17 UTC
−8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dat­ing pro­files from first prin­ci­ples: het­ero­sex­ual male pro­file design

Xodarap25 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC
97 points
32 comments15 min readLW link

Walk­ing and Navigating

qazzquimby25 Oct 2021 1:54 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Self-In­tegrity and the Drown­ing Child

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Oct 2021 20:57 UTC
335 points
90 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Phil Tram­mell on Eco­nomic Growth Un­der Trans­for­ma­tive AI

Michaël Trazzi24 Oct 2021 18:11 UTC
14 points
3 comments54 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

P₂B: Plan to P₂B Better

24 Oct 2021 15:21 UTC
38 points
17 comments6 min readLW link

Deleted com­ments archive?

Said Achmiz24 Oct 2021 11:19 UTC
10 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Nanosys­tems are Poorly Abstracted

J Bostock24 Oct 2021 10:44 UTC
25 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Frank­furt Dec­la­ra­tion on the Cam­bridge Dec­la­ra­tion on Consciousness

Jan24 Oct 2021 9:54 UTC
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

De­liber­ate Play

jsteinhardt24 Oct 2021 2:50 UTC
91 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Towards De­con­fus­ing Gra­di­ent Hacking

leogao24 Oct 2021 0:43 UTC
39 points
3 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Grad­ing scheme from Valen­tine Smith

Valentin202623 Oct 2021 19:29 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

T-Mo­bile: Spu­ri­ous Ac­count Takeover Warning

jefftk23 Oct 2021 15:30 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

My ML Scal­ing bibliography

gwern23 Oct 2021 14:41 UTC
35 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

Scout Mind­set and Lat­ter-Day Saint Apostasy

Erich_Grunewald23 Oct 2021 14:18 UTC
21 points
1 comment18 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Naive self-su­per­vised ap­proaches to truth­ful AI

ryan_greenblatt23 Oct 2021 13:03 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

In­fer­ence cost limits the im­pact of ever larger models

SoerenMind23 Oct 2021 10:51 UTC
42 points
29 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What health-re­lated tips do you have for buy­ing meat?

Adam Zerner23 Oct 2021 7:09 UTC
17 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Where are the quick, easy wins?

Barry_Cotter23 Oct 2021 0:27 UTC
11 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How to es­ti­mate my prob­a­bil­ity of get­ting a (com­pet­i­tive) job in Academia

Tim Liptrot22 Oct 2021 23:58 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

I Don’t Know How To Count That Low

Elizabeth22 Oct 2021 22:00 UTC
104 points
10 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

30-ish fo­cus­ing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC
22 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Young Scientists

A Ray22 Oct 2021 18:01 UTC
28 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

AMA on Truth­ful AI: Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt, Owain Evans & co-authors

Owain_Evans22 Oct 2021 16:23 UTC
31 points
15 comments1 min readLW link