In­tro to Debt Crises

Connor_FlexmanJun 28, 2021, 11:50 PM
59 points
5 comments10 min readLW link

A quan­ti­ta­tive in­tro­duc­tion to churning

electroswingJun 28, 2021, 10:21 PM
19 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How much in­ter­est would there be in a fringe the­o­ries wiki?

Matthew BarnettJun 28, 2021, 9:03 PM
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

How teams went about their re­search at AI Safety Camp edi­tion 5

RemmeltJun 28, 2021, 3:15 PM
24 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Epony­mous Laws Part 2: Laws of Pro­gram­ming and Soft­ware Development

rogersbaconJun 28, 2021, 12:46 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Voic­ing Voice

WillaJun 28, 2021, 4:29 AM
6 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­mism about So­cial Technology

mike_hawkeJun 27, 2021, 11:35 PM
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­ten­tion­ally Mak­ing Close Friends

Neel NandaJun 27, 2021, 11:06 PM
289 points
35 comments18 min readLW link1 review
(www.neelnanda.io)

Brute force search­ing for alignment

Donald HobsonJun 27, 2021, 9:54 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What pre­cau­tions should fully-vac­ci­nated peo­ple still be tak­ing?

SameerishereJun 27, 2021, 7:10 PM
32 points
48 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What are some claims or opinions about multi-multi del­e­ga­tion you’ve seen in the meme­plex that you think de­serve scrutiny?

QuinnJun 27, 2021, 5:44 PM
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: LW tran­script with run­ning commentary

Jun 27, 2021, 4:02 PM
30 points
0 comments51 min readLW link

Nu­clear Strat­egy in a Semi-Vuln­er­a­ble World

Jackson WagnerJun 27, 2021, 8:17 AM
7 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

The Un­ex­pected Hang­ing Paradox

Chris_LeongJun 27, 2021, 6:17 AM
17 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Sam Alt­man and Ezra Klein on the AI Revolution

Zack_M_DavisJun 27, 2021, 4:53 AM
38 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

The Lan­guage of Bird

johnswentworthJun 27, 2021, 4:44 AM
45 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Deep limi­ta­tions? Ex­am­in­ing ex­pert dis­agree­ment over deep learning

Richard_NgoJun 27, 2021, 12:55 AM
18 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(link.springer.com)

[Question] What will be the af­ter­math of the US in­tel­li­gence lab leak re­port?

ChristianKlJun 26, 2021, 8:33 PM
20 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #153]: Ex­per­i­ments that demon­strate failures of ob­jec­tive robustness

Rohin ShahJun 26, 2021, 5:10 PM
25 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Im­prov­ing par­li­a­men­tary in­for­ma­tion processing

victorsintnicolaasJun 26, 2021, 4:11 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Cliffnotes to Craft of Re­search parts I, II, and III

QuinnJun 26, 2021, 2:00 PM
7 points
1 comment17 min readLW link

Why you should try a live read­ing session

Nihal MJun 26, 2021, 8:30 AM
13 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

An­throp­ics and Embed­ded Agency

dadadarrenJun 26, 2021, 1:45 AM
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

In­ter­nal In­for­ma­tion Cascades

JenniferRMJun 25, 2021, 4:35 PM
45 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Re­plac­ing Guilt audiobook

gianlucatrudaJun 25, 2021, 1:38 PM
65 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

I Will Or­ga­nize Mee­tups in Norfolk, Virginia [Hamp­ton Roads Metro Area]

WillaJun 25, 2021, 2:41 AM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Some­what Ra­tion­al­ist Baptism

ZorbaTHutJun 25, 2021, 12:39 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 9 - Finite Fac­tored Sets with Scott Garrabrant

DanielFilanJun 24, 2021, 10:10 PM
59 points
2 comments59 min readLW link

[Question] How do the side effects of No­vavax com­pare to other COVID-19 vac­cines?

ChristianKlJun 24, 2021, 4:36 PM
14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

War on Cancer II

ChristianKlJun 24, 2021, 2:59 PM
36 points
12 comments14 min readLW link

Covid 6/​24: The Span­ish Prisoner

ZviJun 24, 2021, 2:40 PM
43 points
30 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] ELI12: how do liber­tar­i­ans want wages to work?

TekhneMakreJun 24, 2021, 7:00 AM
3 points
57 comments2 min readLW link

Two non-ob­vi­ous les­sons from micro­covid.org

catherioJun 24, 2021, 2:35 AM
196 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Dis­cus­sion: Ob­jec­tive Ro­bust­ness and In­ner Align­ment Terminology

Jun 23, 2021, 11:25 PM
73 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Em­piri­cal Ob­ser­va­tions of Ob­jec­tive Ro­bust­ness Failures

Jun 23, 2021, 11:23 PM
63 points
5 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How do you deal with peo­ple cargo cult­ing COVID-19 defense?

ChristianKlJun 23, 2021, 7:59 PM
16 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are good in­sti­tutes to con­duct a re­search-based Masters in age­ing re­search?

freedomandutilityJun 23, 2021, 3:57 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Alex Turner’s Re­search, Com­pre­hen­sive In­for­ma­tion Gathering

adamShimiJun 23, 2021, 9:44 AM
15 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Fre­quent ar­gu­ments about alignment

John SchulmanJun 23, 2021, 12:46 AM
103 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

En­vi­ron­men­tal Struc­ture Can Cause In­stru­men­tal Convergence

TurnTroutJun 22, 2021, 10:26 PM
71 points
43 comments16 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Hard­ware for Trans­for­ma­tive AI

MrThinkJun 22, 2021, 6:13 PM
17 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The Point of Trade

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 22, 2021, 5:56 PM
175 points
77 comments4 min readLW link1 review

Less Wrong needs footnotes

Chris_LeongJun 22, 2021, 12:08 PM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax

abstractapplicJun 22, 2021, 11:48 AM
26 points
28 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there work look­ing at the im­pli­ca­tions of many wor­lds QM for ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Quintin PopeJun 22, 2021, 6:06 AM
−2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Burst work or steady work?

Nicholas / Heather KrossJun 22, 2021, 5:36 AM
27 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Scal­ing Net­works of Trust

Henrik KarlssonJun 22, 2021, 4:57 AM
92 points
21 comments10 min readLW link

The home­work as­sign­ment in­cen­tives, and why it’s now so extreme

Andrew VlahosJun 22, 2021, 4:19 AM
22 points
19 comments3 min readLW link

I’m no longer sure that I buy dutch book ar­gu­ments and this makes me skep­ti­cal of the “util­ity func­tion” abstraction

Eli TyreJun 22, 2021, 3:53 AM
41 points
29 comments4 min readLW link

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe CarlsmithJun 22, 2021, 2:10 AM
116 points
20 comments35 min readLW link