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Meetup for The Roots of Progress in San Diego, Dec 1

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2021 22:50 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Base Rates and Reference Classes

jsteinhardt24 Nov 2021 22:30 UTC

20 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Why do you need the story?

George3d624 Nov 2021 20:26 UTC

52 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

(cerebralab.com)

[AN #169]: Collaborating with humans without human data

Rohin Shah24 Nov 2021 18:30 UTC

33 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Paxlovid Remains Illegal: 11/24 Update

Zvi24 Nov 2021 13:40 UTC

54 points

21 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

HIRING: Inform and shape a new project on AI safety at Partnership on AI

Madhulika Srikumar24 Nov 2021 8:27 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much Bayesian evidence from rapid antigen and PCR tests?

mingyuan24 Nov 2021 6:54 UTC

8 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

French long COVID study: Belief vs Infection

Bucky23 Nov 2021 23:14 UTC

40 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Cornell Meetup

Lionel Levine23 Nov 2021 21:28 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

AI Tracker: monitoring current and near-future risks from superscale models

Edouard Harris and Jeremie Harris

23 Nov 2021 19:16 UTC

67 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(aitracker.org)

Laplace’s rule of succession

Ege Erdil23 Nov 2021 15:48 UTC

51 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

AI Safety Needs Great Engineers

Andy Jones23 Nov 2021 15:40 UTC

90 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

Slightly advanced decision theory 102: Four reasons not to be a (naive) utility maximizer

Jan23 Nov 2021 11:02 UTC

10 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Use Tools For What They’re For

DirectedEvolution23 Nov 2021 8:26 UTC

28 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

[linkpost] Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero

Quintin Pope23 Nov 2021 7:55 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[linkpost] Why Going to the Doctor Sucks (WaitButWhy)

mike_hawke23 Nov 2021 3:02 UTC

5 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(waitbutwhy.com)

Integrating Three Models of (Human) Cognition

jbkjr23 Nov 2021 1:06 UTC

33 points

4 comments32 min readLW link

Potential Alignment mental tool: Keeping track of the types

Donald Hobson22 Nov 2021 20:05 UTC

29 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss “Takeoff Speeds”

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2021 19:35 UTC

205 points

176 comments60 min readLW link 1 review

Morally underdefined situations can be deadly

Stuart_Armstrong22 Nov 2021 14:48 UTC

17 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

A Bayesian Aggregation Paradox

Jsevillamol22 Nov 2021 10:39 UTC

87 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Do factored sets elucidate anything about how to update everyday beliefs?

TekhneMakre22 Nov 2021 6:51 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Even if you’re right, you’re wrong

DanielFilan22 Nov 2021 5:40 UTC

17 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

The Meta-Puzzle

DanielFilan22 Nov 2021 5:30 UTC

23 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Some real examples of gradient hacking

Oliver Sourbut22 Nov 2021 0:11 UTC

15 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

“The Wisdom of the Lazy Teacher”

Richard_Kennaway21 Nov 2021 21:11 UTC

11 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Vitalik: Cryptoeconomics and X-Risk Researchers Should Listen to Each Other More

Emerson Spartz21 Nov 2021 18:53 UTC

47 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Giving Up On T-Mobile

jefftk21 Nov 2021 16:50 UTC

13 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

From language to ethics by automated reasoning

Michele Campolo21 Nov 2021 15:16 UTC

4 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Split and Commit

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)21 Nov 2021 6:27 UTC

184 points

34 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

What’s the weirdest way to win this game?

Adam Scherlis21 Nov 2021 5:18 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(adam.scherlis.com)

Eat the cute animals instead

Andrew Vlahos21 Nov 2021 1:06 UTC

−4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Chris Voss negotiation MasterClass: review

VipulNaik20 Nov 2021 22:39 UTC

70 points

15 comments33 min readLW link

ACX Montreal Meetup Dec 4 2021

E20 Nov 2021 17:49 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Maker of MIND

Tomás B.20 Nov 2021 16:28 UTC

109 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Meetup—CHANGED LOCATION

IS20 Nov 2021 14:42 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Emperor’s New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity

David Hugh-Jones20 Nov 2021 13:24 UTC

10 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

[Book Review] “Sorceror’s Apprentice” by Tahir Shah

lsusr20 Nov 2021 11:29 UTC

91 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Competence/Confidence

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)20 Nov 2021 8:59 UTC

60 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Awesome-github Post-Scarcity List

lorepieri20 Nov 2021 8:47 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

A Certain Formalization of Corrigibility Is VNM-Incoherent

TurnTrout20 Nov 2021 0:30 UTC

67 points

24 comments8 min readLW link

More detailed proposal for measuring alignment of current models

Beth Barnes20 Nov 2021 0:03 UTC

31 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Ambitious Altruistic Software Engineering Efforts: Opportunities and Benefits

ozziegooen19 Nov 2021 17:55 UTC

42 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Which booster shot to get and when?

NormanPerlmutter19 Nov 2021 8:52 UTC

22 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Goodhart: Endgame

Charlie Steiner19 Nov 2021 1:26 UTC

25 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Reaction and Reply to Sasha Chapin on Bad In-group Norms

Nicholas / Heather Kross19 Nov 2021 1:13 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

[Question] Does anyone know what Marvin Minsky is talking about here?

delton13719 Nov 2021 0:56 UTC

1 point

6 comments3 min readLW link

How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

354 points

38 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

“Acquisition of Chess Knowledge in AlphaZero”: probing AZ over time

jsd18 Nov 2021 23:24 UTC

11 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

18 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC

130 points

61 comments39 min readLW link 1 review