29 Nov 2021 19:26 UTC

121 points

39 comments40 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] COVID Era: Updating On Life Risks

jmh29 Nov 2021 17:27 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Snoo App Thoughts

jefftk29 Nov 2021 16:40 UTC

11 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Omicron Variant Post #2

Zvi29 Nov 2021 16:30 UTC

120 points

34 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Comments on Allan Dafoe on AI Governance

Alex Flint29 Nov 2021 16:16 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

How to measure FLOP/s for Neural Networks empirically?

Marius Hobbhahn29 Nov 2021 15:18 UTC

16 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Watching Myself Program

matto29 Nov 2021 13:44 UTC

56 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Question/Issue with the 5/10 Problem

acgt29 Nov 2021 10:45 UTC

6 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Redwood Research is hiring for several roles

Jack R and billzito

29 Nov 2021 0:16 UTC

44 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Compute Research Questions and Metrics—Transformative AI and Compute [4/4]

lennart28 Nov 2021 22:49 UTC

7 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

Anthropics and the Universal Distribution

Joe Carlsmith28 Nov 2021 20:35 UTC

52 points

9 comments47 min readLW link

The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”

Owain_Evans28 Nov 2021 20:17 UTC

186 points

32 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Is it better to fix a problem directly, or start again so the problem never happens?

Oluwalase Jotham28 Nov 2021 20:00 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

TTS audio of “Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty”

Quintin Pope28 Nov 2021 18:11 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2021 17:22 UTC

151 points

36 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

Solve Corrigibility Week

Logan Riggs28 Nov 2021 17:00 UTC

39 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Apparently winning by the bias of your opponents

tailcalled28 Nov 2021 13:20 UTC

23 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Why Bedroom Closets?

jefftk28 Nov 2021 3:20 UTC

12 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Frame Control

Aella27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC

330 points

282 comments23 min readLW link 2 reviews

Why Study Physics?

johnswentworth27 Nov 2021 22:30 UTC

71 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Being Normal by Brian Caplan

Gunnar_Zarncke27 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC

38 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How could a friendly AI deal with humans trying to sabotage it? (like how present day internet trolls introduce such problems)

M. Y. Zuo27 Nov 2021 22:07 UTC

7 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How common are abiogenesis events?

Dach27 Nov 2021 19:40 UTC

3 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Submit comments on Paxlovid to the FDA (deadline Nov 29th).

DirectedEvolution27 Nov 2021 18:44 UTC

20 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] I currently translate AGI-related texts to Russian. Is that useful?

Tapatakt27 Nov 2021 17:51 UTC

29 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should PAXLOVID be given preventively?

ChristianKl27 Nov 2021 16:51 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Finding the Central Limit Theorem in Bayes’ rule

Maxwell Peterson27 Nov 2021 5:48 UTC

23 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Tentative Anger

Adam Zerner27 Nov 2021 4:38 UTC

18 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Comment on “Deception as Cooperation”

Zack_M_Davis27 Nov 2021 4:04 UTC

23 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavance27 Nov 2021 2:06 UTC

197 points

18 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

larger language models may disappoint you [or, an eternally unfinished draft]

nostalgebraist26 Nov 2021 23:08 UTC

260 points

31 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

Kriorus update: full bodies patients were moved to the new location in Tver

avturchin26 Nov 2021 21:08 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Economist Irene Ng on Market design, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

fowlertm26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over

Zvi26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC

260 points

95 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Responding to common objections to the FDA unbanning Paxlovid right now

delton13726 Nov 2021 17:18 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(moreisdifferent.substack.com)

EfficientZero: How It Works

1a3orn26 Nov 2021 15:17 UTC

297 points

50 comments29 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Why don’t our vaccines get updated to the delta spike protein?

ChristianKl26 Nov 2021 10:43 UTC

16 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Rapid Increase of Highly Mutated B.1.1.529 Strain in South Africa

dawangy26 Nov 2021 1:05 UTC

103 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Latacora might be of interest to some AI Safety organizations

NunoSempere25 Nov 2021 23:57 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.latacora.com)

Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ajeya Cotra

25 Nov 2021 16:45 UTC

119 points

95 comments68 min readLW link

Covid 11/25: Another Thanksgiving

Zvi25 Nov 2021 13:40 UTC

73 points

9 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Coordinating the Unequal Treaties

lsusr25 Nov 2021 10:47 UTC

34 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

First Strike and Second Strike

lsusr25 Nov 2021 9:23 UTC

28 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

You are way more fallible than you think

Shmi25 Nov 2021 5:52 UTC

4 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Danger of motivatiogenesis in interdisciplinary work

particlemania25 Nov 2021 0:13 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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)