Spe­cial­iz­ing in Prob­lems We Don’t Understand

johnswentworth10 Apr 2021 22:40 UTC
174 points
29 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Re­cently I bought a new laptop

Tetraspace10 Apr 2021 20:29 UTC
31 points
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A Brief Re­view of Cur­rent and Near-Fu­ture Meth­ods of Ge­netic Engineering

GeneSmith10 Apr 2021 19:16 UTC
81 points
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A DIY cryp­tocur­rency hard­ware wallet for free

jorges10 Apr 2021 17:36 UTC
6 points
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[Re­cruit­ing for a Dis­cord Server] AI Fore­cast­ing & Threat Model­ing Workshop

Quinn10 Apr 2021 16:15 UTC
6 points
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(docs.google.com)

Forc­ing Your­self is Self Harm, or Don’t Good­hart Yourself

Gordon Seidoh Worley10 Apr 2021 15:19 UTC
32 points
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Redis­cov­ery, the Mind’s Curare

Erich_Grunewald10 Apr 2021 7:42 UTC
3 points
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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Some­times, it can take a while to no­tice confusion

masasin10 Apr 2021 3:24 UTC
27 points
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Con­vict Con­di­tion­ing Book Review

Borasko9 Apr 2021 22:10 UTC
40 points
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Iden­ti­fi­a­bil­ity Prob­lem for Su­per­ra­tional De­ci­sion Theories

Bunthut9 Apr 2021 20:33 UTC
17 points
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Opinions on In­ter­pretable Ma­chine Learn­ing and 70 Sum­maries of Re­cent Papers

9 Apr 2021 19:19 UTC
141 points
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My Cur­rent Take on Counterfactuals

abramdemski9 Apr 2021 17:51 UTC
54 points
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[AN #145]: Our three year an­niver­sary!

Rohin Shah9 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC
19 points
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(mailchi.mp)

Why un­rig­gable *al­most* im­plies uninfluenceable

Stuart_Armstrong9 Apr 2021 17:07 UTC
11 points
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Covid 4/​9: Another Vac­cine Pass­port Objection

Zvi9 Apr 2021 14:50 UTC
54 points
34 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Beliefs as emo­tional strategies

Kaj_Sotala9 Apr 2021 14:28 UTC
70 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

High­lights from The Au­to­bi­og­ra­phy of An­drew Carnegie

jasoncrawford8 Apr 2021 22:03 UTC
92 points
9 comments19 min readLW link1 review
(rootsofprogress.org)

Air Qual­ity and Cognition

chw8 Apr 2021 21:42 UTC
29 points
5 comments15 min readLW link

A Sys­tem For Evolv­ing In­creas­ingly Gen­eral Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence From Cur­rent Technologies

Tsang Chung Shu8 Apr 2021 21:37 UTC
1 point
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AXRP Epi­sode 6 - De­bate and Imi­ta­tive Gen­er­al­iza­tion with Beth Barnes

DanielFilan8 Apr 2021 21:20 UTC
26 points
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Aging: A Sur­pris­ingly Tractable Problem

Quinn8 Apr 2021 19:25 UTC
11 points
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Homeo­static Bruce

matejsuchy8 Apr 2021 19:13 UTC
13 points
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(matejsuchy.substack.com)

A pos­si­ble prefer­ence algorithm

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2021 18:25 UTC
22 points
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If you don’t de­sign for ex­trap­o­la­tion, you’ll ex­trap­o­late poorly—pos­si­bly fatally

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2021 18:10 UTC
17 points
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In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Statis­ti­cal Inference

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:49 UTC
8 points
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In­sights from “All of Statis­tics”: Probability

Rafael Harth8 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

The Ja­panese Quiz: a Thought Ex­per­i­ment of Statis­ti­cal Epistemology

DanB8 Apr 2021 17:37 UTC
11 points
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Solv­ing the whole AGI con­trol prob­lem, ver­sion 0.0001

Steven Byrnes8 Apr 2021 15:14 UTC
63 points
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[Question] How should I be­have ≥14 days af­ter my first mRNA vac­cine dose but be­fore my sec­ond dose?

dsj8 Apr 2021 6:24 UTC
8 points
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[Question] Is there any plau­si­ble mechanisms for why tak­ing an mRNA vac­cine might be un­de­sir­able for a young healthy adult?

Mati_Roy8 Apr 2021 1:18 UTC
28 points
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Notes on Perseverance

David Gross8 Apr 2021 0:01 UTC
10 points
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Open and Wel­come Thread—April 2021

Raemon7 Apr 2021 21:15 UTC
13 points
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Another (outer) al­ign­ment failure story

paulfchristiano7 Apr 2021 20:12 UTC
244 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Which coun­ter­fac­tu­als should an AI fol­low?

Stuart_Armstrong7 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
19 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If my pre­vi­ous re­search is wrong, what are my op­tions ?

BB67 Apr 2021 16:44 UTC
50 points
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Align­ment Newslet­ter Three Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah7 Apr 2021 14:39 UTC
55 points
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2020 pre­dic­tions—Poli­tics, Econ, Tech

Bucky7 Apr 2021 14:10 UTC
8 points
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Com­pound­ing In­cum­bent Advantage

adaminoue7 Apr 2021 13:40 UTC
3 points
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(www.inoue.today)

I Trained a Neu­ral Net­work to Play Helltaker

lsusr7 Apr 2021 8:24 UTC
34 points
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Vim

lsusr7 Apr 2021 6:35 UTC
48 points
57 comments18 min readLW link

Cu­ri­ous In­quiry and Ri­gor­ous Training

DirectedEvolution6 Apr 2021 22:38 UTC
20 points
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IQ­captcha en­ters beta

ballerburg90056 Apr 2021 21:28 UTC
−1 points
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Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Intro

johnswentworth6 Apr 2021 21:24 UTC
168 points
41 comments6 min readLW link1 review

AI or­a­cles on blockchain

Caravaggio6 Apr 2021 20:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What will GPT-4 be in­ca­pable of?

Michaël Trazzi6 Apr 2021 19:57 UTC
34 points
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Reflec­tive Bayesianism

abramdemski6 Apr 2021 19:48 UTC
62 points
27 comments13 min readLW link

Don’t Sell Your Soul

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:02 UTC
65 points
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Monastery and Throne

Jacob Falkovich6 Apr 2021 19:00 UTC
115 points
42 comments10 min readLW link

There Is No Con­trol Sys­tem For COVID

Mike Harris6 Apr 2021 17:16 UTC
35 points
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The Accord

Timothy Underwood6 Apr 2021 15:44 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link