Con­se­quen­tial­ism & corrigibility

Steven ByrnesDec 14, 2021, 1:23 PM
70 points
29 comments7 min readLW link

Some ab­stract, non-tech­ni­cal rea­sons to be non-max­i­mally-pes­simistic about AI alignment

Rob BensingerDec 12, 2021, 2:08 AM
70 points
35 comments7 min readLW link

Ran­dom facts can come back to bite you

tailcalledDec 22, 2021, 5:33 PM
69 points
7 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Con­sid­er­a­tions on in­ter­ac­tion be­tween AI and ex­pected value of the fu­ture

Beth BarnesDec 7, 2021, 2:46 AM
68 points
28 comments4 min readLW link

Omicron Post #10

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

Covid 12/​30: In­finity War

ZviDec 30, 2021, 5:20 PM
67 points
18 comments19 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Case for Rad­i­cal Op­ti­mism about Interpretability

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

Ben Pace’s Con­tro­ver­sial Picks for the 2020 Review

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

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #1

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:02 AM
65 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The­o­ret­i­cal Neu­ro­science For Align­ment Theory

Cameron BergDec 7, 2021, 9:50 PM
65 points
18 comments23 min readLW link

ARC is hiring!

Dec 14, 2021, 8:09 PM
64 points
2 comments1 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

Ngo’s view on al­ign­ment difficulty

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

Get Set, Also Go

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

[Linkpost] Chi­nese gov­ern­ment’s guidelines on AI

RomanSDec 10, 2021, 9:10 PM
61 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

What’s Up With the CDC Now­cast?

ZviDec 22, 2021, 1:00 PM
61 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Par­ent­ing: “Try harder next time” is bad ad­vice for kids too

Steven ByrnesDec 20, 2021, 2:18 PM
60 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Per­sonal Re­sponse to Omicron

jefftkDec 30, 2021, 8:40 PM
60 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Magna Alta Doctrina

jacob_cannellDec 11, 2021, 9:54 PM
60 points
7 comments28 min readLW link

Covid 12/​9: Count­ing Down the Days

ZviDec 9, 2021, 9:40 PM
59 points
12 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

FDA Votes on Molunpiravir

ZviDec 1, 2021, 3:00 PM
59 points
3 comments8 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)

Tak­ing Clones Seriously

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

Busi­ness Writ­ing Ex­am­ple #2

lsusrDec 20, 2021, 5:06 AM
55 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­views on Im­prov­ing the AI Safety Pipeline

Chris_LeongDec 7, 2021, 12:03 PM
55 points
15 comments17 min readLW link

2020 Re­view: The Dis­cus­sion Phase

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

Model­ing Failure Modes of High-Level Ma­chine Intelligence

Dec 6, 2021, 1:54 PM
54 points
1 comment12 min readLW link

On State­less Societies

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

[Question] Should I de­lay hav­ing chil­dren to take ad­van­tage of poly­genic screen­ing?

Mati_RoyDec 19, 2021, 6:39 AM
54 points
50 comments1 min readLW link

My Overview of the AI Align­ment Land­scape: Threat Models

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

On (Not) Read­ing Papers

JanDec 21, 2021, 9:57 AM
53 points
10 comments7 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Six Spe­cial­iza­tions Makes You World-Class

lsusrDec 22, 2021, 8:03 AM
53 points
23 comments1 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)

Sols­tice Quaker Dark­ness Circling

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

[Question] Misc. ques­tions about EfficientZero

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

Leav­ing Orbit

Rob BensingerDec 6, 2021, 9:48 PM
50 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s buy out Cyc, for use in AGI in­ter­pretabil­ity sys­tems?

Steven ByrnesDec 7, 2021, 8:46 PM
49 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Red­wood’s Tech­nique-Fo­cused Epistemic Strategy

adamShimiDec 12, 2021, 4:36 PM
48 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] Is “gears-level” just a syn­onym for “mechanis­tic”?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Dec 13, 2021, 4:11 AM
48 points
29 comments1 min readLW link

How to not re­nege proso­cially, prosocially

Michael CohnDec 30, 2021, 12:55 AM
48 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[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

The Ma­chine that Broke My Heart

lsusrDec 30, 2021, 11:59 AM
46 points
34 comments2 min readLW link

Se­cond-or­der se­lec­tion against the immortal

MalmesburyDec 3, 2021, 5:01 AM
45 points
47 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)

Com­mon Prob­a­bil­ity Distributions

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

An Open Let­ter to the Monas­tic Academy and com­mu­nity members

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

The Promise and Peril of Finite Sets

davidadDec 10, 2021, 12:29 PM
42 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Are big brains for pro­cess­ing sen­sory in­put?

lsusrDec 10, 2021, 7:08 AM
42 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­pret­ing the Biobot Spike

jefftkDec 8, 2021, 4:30 PM
42 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)