Re­v­erse-en­g­ineer­ing us­ing interpretability

Beth BarnesDec 29, 2021, 11:21 PM
21 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Walk­through: Filing a UK self-as­sess­ment tax return

philhDec 29, 2021, 11:10 PM
22 points
3 comments21 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] Ques­tions about Stocker’s DIY vaccine

dawangyDec 29, 2021, 10:44 PM
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

In­creased Availa­bil­ity and Willing­ness for De­ploy­ment of Re­sources for Effec­tive Altru­ism and Long-Termism

Evan_GaensbauerDec 29, 2021, 8:30 PM
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

COVID Skep­ti­cism Isn’t About Science

jaspaxDec 29, 2021, 5:53 PM
128 points
76 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are the pros and cons of seek­ing a for­mal di­ag­no­sis of autism?

Dumbledore's ArmyDec 29, 2021, 4:52 PM
28 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

CDC Changes Iso­la­tion Guidelines

ZviDec 29, 2021, 4:40 PM
12 points
3 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Miss­ing Men­tal Models

silentbobDec 29, 2021, 2:08 PM
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does Braess’s para­dox show up in mar­kets?

TekhneMakreDec 29, 2021, 12:09 PM
31 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

What would you like from Micro­covid.org? How valuable would it be to you?

ElizabethDec 29, 2021, 4:42 AM
64 points
45 comments1 min readLW link

Should I blog on LessWrong?

maria_aDec 28, 2021, 10:25 PM
36 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A non-mag­i­cal ex­pla­na­tion of Jeffrey Epstein

lcDec 28, 2021, 9:15 PM
328 points
59 comments15 min readLW link1 review

Gra­di­ent Hack­ing via Schel­ling Goals

Adam ScherlisDec 28, 2021, 8:38 PM
33 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Omicron Post #10

ZviDec 28, 2021, 6:20 PM
67 points
18 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why is Covid Surveillance so Hard?

TornusDec 28, 2021, 5:41 PM
13 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Omicron: My Cur­rent Model

ZviDec 28, 2021, 5:10 PM
253 points
72 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

More ac­cu­rate mod­els can be worse

tailcalledDec 28, 2021, 12:20 PM
19 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Why did Europe con­quer the world?

lsusrDec 28, 2021, 12:00 PM
1 point
48 comments6 min readLW link

Ten Minutes with Sam Altman

lsusrDec 28, 2021, 7:32 AM
91 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Sols­tice Quaker Dark­ness Circling

RaemonDec 28, 2021, 6:09 AM
52 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “Suffer­ing-fo­cused Ethics” by Mag­nus Vinding

KStubDec 28, 2021, 5:58 AM
15 points
3 comments24 min readLW link

AI Fire Alarm Scenarios

PeterMcCluskeyDec 28, 2021, 2:20 AM
10 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

ACX/​LW Meetup

Noah TopperDec 28, 2021, 12:13 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Look Up (Film Re­view)

Nicholas / Heather KrossDec 27, 2021, 8:36 PM
27 points
11 comments7 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Ben Pace’s Con­tro­ver­sial Picks for the 2020 Review

Ben PaceDec 27, 2021, 6:25 PM
65 points
8 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] A good ra­tio­nal fic­tion about IT-in­spired magic sys­tem?

qbolecDec 27, 2021, 2:21 PM
18 points
17 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why did com­puter sci­ence get so galaxy-brained?

Nicholas / Heather KrossDec 27, 2021, 8:50 AM
1 point
8 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ver­sa­tion as path traversal

Adam ZernerDec 27, 2021, 8:41 AM
14 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

On State­less Societies

Martin SustrikDec 27, 2021, 7:28 AM
54 points
24 comments3 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing Study Group

Kay KozaronekDec 26, 2021, 11:11 PM
20 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

An in­ter­view with Dan­ica Remy on pro­tect­ing the Earth from as­ter­oids.

fowlertmDec 26, 2021, 9:40 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

San Fran­cisco shares COVID data only when it’s too late

kniteDec 26, 2021, 8:12 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Debtor’s Revolt

VaniverDec 26, 2021, 7:32 PM
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

In­ter­net Liter­acy Atrophy

ElizabethDec 26, 2021, 12:30 PM
111 points
49 comments3 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Merry Christmas

lsusrDec 26, 2021, 7:03 AM
107 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Why don’t gov­ern­ments seem to mind that com­pa­nies are ex­plic­itly try­ing to make AGIs?

ozziegooenDec 26, 2021, 1:58 AM
34 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: Threat Models

Neel NandaDec 25, 2021, 11:07 PM
53 points
3 comments28 min readLW link

[Question] What is a prob­a­bil­is­tic phys­i­cal the­ory?

Ege ErdilDec 25, 2021, 4:30 PM
15 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Belief-con­di­tional things—things that only ex­ist when you be­lieve in them

JanDec 25, 2021, 10:49 AM
7 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Tough Choices and Disappointment

maralornDec 24, 2021, 9:59 PM
2 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Con­verg­ing to­ward a Million Worlds

Joe KwonDec 24, 2021, 9:33 PM
11 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing the ten­sor product for­mu­la­tion in Trans­former Circuits

Tom LieberumDec 24, 2021, 6:05 PM
16 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How to se­lect a long-term goal and al­ign my mind to­wards it?

AlexanderDec 24, 2021, 11:40 AM
19 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Pr­ereq­ui­site Skills

lsusrDec 24, 2021, 10:11 AM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity for the MLP Lay­ers (rough early thoughts)

MadHatterDec 24, 2021, 7:24 AM
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Risks from AI persuasion

Beth BarnesDec 24, 2021, 1:48 AM
76 points
15 comments31 min readLW link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing Information

jsteinhardtDec 24, 2021, 12:00 AM
18 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Omicron Post #9

ZviDec 23, 2021, 9:50 PM
89 points
11 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re­ply to Eliezer on Biolog­i­cal Anchors

HoldenKarnofskyDec 23, 2021, 4:15 PM
149 points
46 comments15 min readLW link

Get Set, Also Go

ZviDec 23, 2021, 3:00 PM
62 points
21 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)