Ex­plor­ing De­ci­sion The­o­ries With Coun­ter­fac­tu­als and Dy­namic Agent Self-Pointers

JoshuaOSHickmanDec 18, 2021, 9:50 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Oc­cu­pa­tional Infohazards

jessicataDec 18, 2021, 8:56 PM
38 points
134 comments47 min readLW link

Lau­rie An­der­son talks

DagonDec 18, 2021, 8:47 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Disen­tan­gling Per­spec­tives On Strat­egy-Steal­ing in AI Safety

shawnghuDec 18, 2021, 8:13 PM
20 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

The end of Vic­to­rian cul­ture, part II: peo­ple and history

David Hugh-JonesDec 18, 2021, 6:55 PM
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

How I be­came a per­son who wakes up early

Alex_AltairDec 18, 2021, 6:41 PM
70 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[Ex­tended Dead­line: Jan 23rd] An­nounc­ing the PIBBSS Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Nora_AmmannDec 18, 2021, 4:56 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Univer­sal coun­ter­ar­gu­ment against “bad­ness of death” is wrong

avturchinDec 18, 2021, 4:02 PM
27 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Prin­ci­ples of In­tel­li­gent Be­havi­our in Biolog­i­cal and So­cial Sys­tems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimiDec 18, 2021, 3:23 PM
56 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Im­por­tant ML sys­tems from be­fore 2012?

JsevillamolDec 18, 2021, 12:12 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How the Equiv­a­lent Bet Test Ac­tu­ally Works

Erich_GrunewaldDec 18, 2021, 11:17 AM
4 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Per­ish­able Knowledge

lsusrDec 18, 2021, 5:53 AM
103 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Dis­tract­ing­ness of Var­i­ous Parts of Facebook

emily.fanDec 18, 2021, 3:35 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

DL to­wards the un­al­igned Re­cur­sive Self-Op­ti­miza­tion attractor

jacob_cannellDec 18, 2021, 2:15 AM
32 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

A Tree of Light

Jarred FilmerDec 18, 2021, 12:36 AM
7 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

In Defense of At­tempt­ing Hard Things, and my story of the Lev­er­age ecosystem

CathleenDec 17, 2021, 11:08 PM
115 points
43 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(cathleensdiscoveries.com)

[Question] Get­ting di­ag­nosed for ADHD if I don’t plan on tak­ing meds?

vroomerifyDec 17, 2021, 7:27 PM
6 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ven­ture Gran­ters, The VCs of pub­lic goods, in­cen­tiviz­ing good dreams

mako yassDec 17, 2021, 8:57 AM
12 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

Un­der­stand the ex­po­nen­tial func­tion: R0 of the COVID

Yandong ZhangDec 17, 2021, 6:44 AM
−6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Some mo­ti­va­tions to gra­di­ent hack

peterbarnettDec 17, 2021, 3:06 AM
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Blog Respectably

lsusrDec 17, 2021, 1:23 AM
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Rad­i­cal Op­ti­mism about Interpretability

Quintin PopeDec 16, 2021, 11:38 PM
66 points
16 comments8 min readLW link1 review

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Alice KDec 16, 2021, 11:03 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ev­i­dence Sets: Towards In­duc­tive-Bi­ases based Anal­y­sis of Pro­saic AGI

bayesian_kittenDec 16, 2021, 10:41 PM
22 points
10 comments21 min readLW link

Hous­ing Mar­kets, Satis­ficers, and One-Track Goodhart

J BostockDec 16, 2021, 9:38 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 12/​16: On Your Marks

ZviDec 16, 2021, 9:00 PM
53 points
36 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:48 PM
80 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The “Other” Option

jsteinhardtDec 16, 2021, 8:20 PM
24 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

What Ca­plan’s “Miss­ing Mood” Heuris­tic Is Really For

DirectedEvolutionDec 16, 2021, 7:47 PM
32 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Sub­way Slides

jefftkDec 16, 2021, 7:30 PM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Viru­lence Management

harsimonyDec 16, 2021, 7:25 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #7

ZviDec 16, 2021, 5:30 PM
155 points
41 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Where can one learn deep in­tu­itions about in­for­ma­tion the­ory?

ValentineDec 16, 2021, 3:47 PM
72 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Elic­i­ta­tion for Model­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI Risks

DavidmanheimDec 16, 2021, 3:24 PM
30 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

An Open Let­ter to the Monas­tic Academy and com­mu­nity members

HS2021Dec 16, 2021, 9:04 AM
44 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Five Miss­ing Moods

mike_hawkeDec 16, 2021, 1:25 AM
14 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Mo­ti­va­tions, Nat­u­ral Selec­tion, and Cur­ricu­lum Engineering

Oliver SourbutDec 16, 2021, 1:07 AM
16 points
0 comments42 min readLW link

Univer­sal­ity and the “Filter”

maggiehayesDec 16, 2021, 12:47 AM
10 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

More power to you

jasoncrawfordDec 15, 2021, 11:50 PM
16 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: A Bird’s Eye View

Neel NandaDec 15, 2021, 11:44 PM
127 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

SmartPoop 1.0: An AI Safety Science-Fiction

Lê Nguyên HoangDec 15, 2021, 10:28 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Bay Area Ra­tion­al­ist Field Day

Raj ThimmiahDec 15, 2021, 7:57 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fram­ing ap­proaches to al­ign­ment and the hard prob­lem of AI cognition

ryan_greenblattDec 15, 2021, 7:06 PM
16 points
15 comments27 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/​LW Pre-Holi­day Get-Together

ISDec 15, 2021, 4:58 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Leverage

lsusrDec 15, 2021, 5:20 AM
23 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

We’ll Always Have Crazy

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)Dec 15, 2021, 2:55 AM
36 points
22 comments13 min readLW link

2020 Re­view: The Dis­cus­sion Phase

VaniverDec 15, 2021, 1:12 AM
55 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Im­pli­ca­tions and Evidence

CallumMcDougallDec 14, 2021, 11:14 PM
39 points
9 comments19 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s “Hu­mans are Early”

RaemonDec 14, 2021, 10:07 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.overcomingbias.com)

Ngo’s view on al­ign­ment difficulty

Dec 14, 2021, 9:34 PM
63 points
7 comments17 min readLW link