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Notes from “Don’t Shoot the Dog”

juliawise2 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC

252 points

13 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Another (outer) alignment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC

244 points

38 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Announcing the Alignment Research Center

paulfchristiano26 Apr 2021 23:30 UTC

178 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Predictive Coding has been Unified with Backpropagation

lsusr2 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC

176 points

51 comments2 min readLW link

Specializing in Problems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworth10 Apr 2021 22:40 UTC

174 points

29 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

I’m from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA

Ben Pace and Eliezer Yudkowsky

5 Apr 2021 22:09 UTC

172 points

35 comments61 min readLW link 1 review

Testing The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Project Intro

johnswentworth6 Apr 2021 21:24 UTC

168 points

41 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Why has nuclear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC

148 points

50 comments15 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

The Case for Extreme Vaccine Effectiveness

Ruby13 Apr 2021 21:08 UTC

142 points

37 comments23 min readLW link

Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers

lifelonglearner and Peter Hase

9 Apr 2021 19:19 UTC

141 points

17 comments102 min readLW link

“AI and Compute” trend isn’t predictive of what is happening

alexlyzhov2 Apr 2021 0:44 UTC

133 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

Why We Launched LessWrong.SubStack

Ben Pace1 Apr 2021 6:34 UTC

132 points

44 comments4 min readLW link

Tales from Prediction Markets

ike3 Apr 2021 23:38 UTC

128 points

15 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(misinfounderload.substack.com)

AMA: Paul Christiano, alignment researcher

paulfchristiano28 Apr 2021 18:55 UTC

117 points

197 comments1 min readLW link

A new acausal trading platform: RobinShould

Matthew Barnett1 Apr 2021 16:56 UTC

116 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC

115 points

42 comments10 min readLW link

Jaan Tallinn’s 2020 Philanthropy Overview

jaan27 Apr 2021 16:22 UTC

113 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(jaan.online)

The irrelevance of test scores is greatly exaggerated

dynomight15 Apr 2021 14:15 UTC

111 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

How to Play a Support Role in Research Conversations

johnswentworth23 Apr 2021 20:57 UTC

105 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 4/22: Crisis in India

Zvi22 Apr 2021 13:40 UTC

100 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Letter] Advice for High School #1

lsusr20 Apr 2021 4:09 UTC

93 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

Highlights from The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC

92 points

9 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

“Taking your environment as object” vs “Being subject to your environment”

Ben Pace11 Apr 2021 22:47 UTC

86 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Draft report on existential risk from power-seeking AI

Joe Carlsmith28 Apr 2021 21:41 UTC

85 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

People Will Listen

sapphire11 Apr 2021 16:51 UTC

85 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

What are all these children doing in my ponds?

dominicq3 Apr 2021 20:16 UTC

83 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 4/15: Are We Seriously Doing This Again

Zvi15 Apr 2021 13:00 UTC

82 points

37 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Brief Review of Current and Near-Future Methods of Genetic Engineering

GeneSmith10 Apr 2021 19:16 UTC

81 points

33 comments15 min readLW link

Gradations of Inner Alignment Obstacles

abramdemski20 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC

81 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

Iterated Trust Kickstarters

Raemon20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC

74 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

Updating the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis

johnswentworth18 Apr 2021 21:45 UTC

73 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

Wanting to Succeed on Every Metric Presented

Logan Riggs12 Apr 2021 20:43 UTC

72 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Center for Applied Postrationality: An Update

Pee Doom1 Apr 2021 8:13 UTC

71 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Beliefs as emotional strategies

Kaj_Sotala9 Apr 2021 14:28 UTC

70 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Hell is wasted on the evil

lsusr15 Apr 2021 8:52 UTC

70 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

The secret of Wikipedia’s success

Aaron Bergman14 Apr 2021 22:18 UTC

68 points

11 comments6 min readLW link

(aaronbergman.substack.com)

FAQ: Advice for AI Alignment Researchers

Rohin Shah26 Apr 2021 18:59 UTC

67 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(rohinshah.com)

Agents Over Cartesian World Models

Mark Xu and evhub

27 Apr 2021 2:06 UTC

66 points

4 comments27 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:02 UTC

65 points

43 comments9 min readLW link

Solving the whole AGI control problem, version 0.0001

Steven Byrnes8 Apr 2021 15:14 UTC

63 points

7 comments26 min readLW link

Reflective Bayesianism

abramdemski6 Apr 2021 19:48 UTC

62 points

27 comments13 min readLW link

A New Center? [Politics] [Wishful Thinking]

abramdemski12 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC

62 points

36 comments3 min readLW link

Against “Context-Free Integrity”

Ben Pace14 Apr 2021 8:20 UTC

62 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

My take on Michael Littman on “The HCI of HAI”

Alex Flint2 Apr 2021 19:51 UTC

59 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Thiel on secrets and indefiniteness

Rob Bensinger20 Apr 2021 21:59 UTC

58 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Affordances

abramdemski2 Apr 2021 20:53 UTC

58 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

You Can Now Embed Flashcard Quizzes in Your LessWrong posts!

spencerg19 Apr 2021 13:44 UTC

57 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Rationality Cardinality

jimrandomh27 Apr 2021 22:27 UTC

57 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 4/29: Vaccination Slowdown

Zvi29 Apr 2021 13:50 UTC

55 points

19 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Alignment Newsletter Three Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah7 Apr 2021 14:39 UTC

55 points

0 comments5 min readLW link