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An Emergency Fund for Effective Altruists (second version)

bice14 Nov 2021 18:28 UTC

12 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Televised sports exist to gamble with testosterone levels using prediction skill

Lucent14 Nov 2021 18:24 UTC

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Improving on the Karma System

Raelifin14 Nov 2021 18:01 UTC

105 points

36 comments19 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Paul Graham 101

Gunnar_Zarncke14 Nov 2021 16:52 UTC

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

My current uncertainties regarding AI, alignment, and the end of the world

dominicq14 Nov 2021 14:08 UTC

2 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Education on My Homeworld

lsusr14 Nov 2021 10:16 UTC

37 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

What would we do if alignment were futile?

Grant Demaree14 Nov 2021 8:09 UTC

75 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

A pharmaceutical stock pricing mystery

DirectedEvolution14 Nov 2021 1:19 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be

Charlie Rogers-Smith14 Nov 2021 0:41 UTC

167 points

19 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Coordination Skills I Wish I Had For the Pandemic

Raemon13 Nov 2021 23:32 UTC

89 points

9 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Sci-Hub sued in India

Connor_Flexman13 Nov 2021 23:12 UTC

131 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the likelihood of only sub exponential growth for AGI?

M. Y. Zuo13 Nov 2021 22:46 UTC

5 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Comments on Carlsmith’s “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

So8res13 Nov 2021 4:29 UTC

138 points

15 comments40 min readLW link 1 review

A FLI postdoctoral grant application: AI alignment via causal analysis and design of agents

PabloAMC13 Nov 2021 1:44 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Is Functional Decision Theory still an active area of research?

Grant Demaree13 Nov 2021 0:30 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Average probabilities, not log odds

AlexMennen12 Nov 2021 21:39 UTC

27 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

[linkpost] Crypto Cities

mike_hawke12 Nov 2021 21:26 UTC

25 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(vitalik.ca)

A Defense of Functional Decision Theory

Heighn12 Nov 2021 20:59 UTC

21 points

221 comments10 min readLW link

Why I’m excited about Redwood Research’s current project

paulfchristiano12 Nov 2021 19:26 UTC

114 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Stop button: towards a causal solution

tailcalled12 Nov 2021 19:09 UTC

25 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

RandomWalkNFT: A Game Theory Exercise

Annapurna12 Nov 2021 19:05 UTC

7 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Preprint is out! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder

Fabienne12 Nov 2021 17:59 UTC

169 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

ALERT⚠️ Not enough gud vibes 😎

Pee Doom12 Nov 2021 11:25 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Avoiding Negative Externalities—a theory with specific examples—Part 1

M. Y. Zuo12 Nov 2021 4:09 UTC

2 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

It’s Ok to Dance Again

jefftk12 Nov 2021 2:50 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Measuring and Forecasting Risks from AI

jsteinhardt12 Nov 2021 2:30 UTC

24 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

AGI is at least as far away as Nuclear Fusion.

Logan Zoellner11 Nov 2021 21:33 UTC

0 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics

Vitor11 Nov 2021 15:58 UTC

267 points

22 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Effective Altruism Virtual Programs Dec-Jan 2022

Yi-Yang11 Nov 2021 15:50 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 11/11: Winter and Effective Treatments Are Coming

Zvi11 Nov 2021 14:50 UTC

65 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Using blinders to help you see things for what they are

Adam Zerner11 Nov 2021 7:07 UTC

13 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Hardcode the AGI to need our approval indefinitely?

MichaelStJules11 Nov 2021 7:04 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

328 points

253 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Relaxation-Based Search, From Everyday Life To Unfamiliar Territory

johnswentworth10 Nov 2021 21:47 UTC

58 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Self-education best practices

Sean McAneny10 Nov 2021 17:12 UTC

12 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What exactly is GPT-3′s base objective?

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Nov 2021 0:57 UTC

60 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

 Robin Hanson’s Grabby Aliens model explained—part 2

Writer9 Nov 2021 17:43 UTC

13 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Come for the productivity, stay for the philosophy

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)9 Nov 2021 13:10 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Erase button

Astor9 Nov 2021 9:39 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Arguments in parallel vs arguments in series

Sunny from QAD9 Nov 2021 8:31 UTC

11 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]

Elizabeth9 Nov 2021 7:14 UTC

108 points

8 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.wired.com)

In Defence of Optimizing Routine Tasks

leogao9 Nov 2021 5:09 UTC

47 points

6 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Is there a clearly laid-out write-up of the case to drop Covid precautions?

NoSignalNoNoise9 Nov 2021 2:46 UTC

46 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Possible research directions to improve the mechanistic explanation of neural networks

delton1379 Nov 2021 2:36 UTC

31 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

ACX/SSC/LW Meetup

Sean Aubin9 Nov 2021 2:27 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

How do we become confident in the safety of a machine learning system?

evhub8 Nov 2021 22:49 UTC

133 points

5 comments31 min readLW link

Steelman solitaire: how to take playing devil’s advocate to the next level

KatWoods8 Nov 2021 20:49 UTC

63 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Excerpts from Veyne’s “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?”

Rob Bensinger8 Nov 2021 20:23 UTC

24 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

Worth checking your stock trading skills

at_the_zoo8 Nov 2021 19:19 UTC

48 points

37 comments3 min readLW link

What are red flags for Neural Network suffering?

Marius Hobbhahn8 Nov 2021 12:51 UTC

29 points

15 comments12 min readLW link