[Question] Are limited-hori­zon agents a good heuris­tic for the off-switch prob­lem?

Yonadav ShavitDec 5, 2021, 7:27 PM
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plicit model visualizations

Dorian Stern vukoticDec 5, 2021, 6:37 PM
12 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the pros and cons of a gov­ern­ment-backed, prop­erty-based cryp­tocur­rency?

AsgårdDec 5, 2021, 5:57 PM
−3 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing Yud­kowsky on Deep vs Shal­low Knowledge

adamShimiDec 5, 2021, 5:32 PM
100 points
32 comments24 min readLW link

Scott Alexan­der’s “Iver­mectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 5:43 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link2 reviews
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What have your ro­man­tic ex­pe­riences with non-EAs/​non-Ra­tion­al­ists been like?

Randomized, ControlledDec 5, 2021, 4:41 AM
46 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ior Clon­ing is Miscalibrated

leogaoDec 5, 2021, 1:36 AM
77 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pri­vacy and Manipulation

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 12:39 AM
80 points
41 comments8 min readLW link

Covid Christmas

jefftkDec 4, 2021, 10:00 PM
20 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Gen­er­al­iza­tion of ROC AUC for Bi­nary Classifiers

Adam ScherlisDec 4, 2021, 9:47 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(adam.scherlis.com)

Agents as P₂B Chain Reactions

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 9:35 PM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Agency: What it is and why it matters

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 9:32 PM
25 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Ad­vanc­ing Math­e­mat­ics By Guid­ing Hu­man In­tu­ition With AI

intersticeDec 4, 2021, 8:00 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nature.com)

[Question] Misc. ques­tions about EfficientZero

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 7:45 PM
51 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Lars Doucet’s Ge­or­gism se­ries on As­tral Codex Ten

Lars DoucetDec 4, 2021, 7:43 PM
21 points
2 comments37 min readLW link1 review
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What are the limi­ta­tions on poli­ti­cally mo­ti­vated re­lo­ca­tion?

AsgårdDec 4, 2021, 3:16 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we post­pone get­ting a booster due to Omicron, till there are Omicron-spe­cific boost­ers?

ChristianKlDec 4, 2021, 12:46 PM
33 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Can solip­sism be dis­proven?

nx2059Dec 4, 2021, 8:24 AM
−2 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Shul­man and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

Dec 3, 2021, 8:05 PM
90 points
16 comments20 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A Gen­eral Lan­guage As­sis­tant as a Lab­o­ra­tory for Alignment

Quintin PopeDec 3, 2021, 7:42 PM
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftkDec 3, 2021, 7:30 PM
24 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Learn­ing System

Henrik KarlssonDec 3, 2021, 7:08 PM
18 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

[Question] Does the Struc­ture of an al­gorithm mat­ter for AI Risk and/​or con­scious­ness?

Logan ZoellnerDec 3, 2021, 6:31 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Med­i­ta­tive Experience

Yonatan CaleDec 3, 2021, 5:58 PM
4 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

$100/​$50 re­wards for good references

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 3, 2021, 4:55 PM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where in the world will a UBI de­velop first?

AsgårdDec 3, 2021, 3:54 PM
4 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter fall 2021

avturchinDec 3, 2021, 1:06 PM
29 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cond-or­der se­lec­tion against the immortal

MalmesburyDec 3, 2021, 5:01 AM
45 points
47 comments6 min readLW link

For­mal­iz­ing Policy-Mod­ifi­ca­tion Corrigibility

TurnTroutDec 3, 2021, 1:31 AM
25 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: Novem­ber 2021

NunoSempereDec 2, 2021, 9:44 PM
18 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

“In­fo­haz­ard” is a pre­dom­i­nantly con­flict-the­o­retic concept

jessicataDec 2, 2021, 5:54 PM
45 points
17 comments14 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Covid 12/​2: But Aside From That

ZviDec 2, 2021, 4:20 PM
36 points
11 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #3

ZviDec 2, 2021, 3:10 PM
57 points
15 comments13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Built-in Mea­sur­ing Spoons

jefftkDec 2, 2021, 1:20 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets at Polymarket

ZviDec 2, 2021, 12:50 PM
39 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Syd­ney AI Safety Fellowship

Chris_LeongDec 2, 2021, 7:34 AM
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is Scary

Wei DaiDec 2, 2021, 6:35 AM
219 points
116 comments4 min readLW link1 review

AXRP Epi­sode 12 - AI Ex­is­ten­tial Risk with Paul Christiano

DanielFilanDec 2, 2021, 2:20 AM
38 points
0 comments126 min readLW link

Com­mon Prob­a­bil­ity Distributions

jsteinhardtDec 2, 2021, 1:50 AM
44 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

The 2020 Review

RaemonDec 2, 2021, 12:39 AM
112 points
39 comments6 min readLW link

Biol­ogy-In­spired AGI Timelines: The Trick That Never Works

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 1, 2021, 10:35 PM
157 points
142 comments65 min readLW link1 review

Open & Wel­come Thread De­cem­ber 2021

PatternDec 1, 2021, 7:57 PM
15 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

Viral Mu­ta­tion, Pan­demics and So­cial Response

jmhDec 1, 2021, 6:36 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are ex­pla­na­tions that ex­plain more phe­nom­ena always more un­likely than nar­rower ver­sions?

FinalFormal2Dec 1, 2021, 6:34 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Tak­ing Clones Seriously

Raymond DDec 1, 2021, 5:29 PM
56 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Hy­pothe­ses about Find­ing Knowl­edge and One-Shot Causal Entanglements

J BostockDec 1, 2021, 5:01 PM
16 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 1 - Small Molecules

George3d6Dec 1, 2021, 3:51 PM
26 points
1 comment9 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

FDA Votes on Molunpiravir

ZviDec 1, 2021, 3:00 PM
59 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do you write origi­nal ra­tio­nal­ist es­says?

lumenwritesDec 1, 2021, 8:08 AM
24 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­pe­rience with Cue Covid Testing

jefftkDec 1, 2021, 2:50 AM
19 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)