Deep­Mind: Gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents emerge from open-ended play

Daniel Kokotajlo27 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC
247 points
53 comments2 min readLW link
(deepmind.com)

Work­ing With Monsters

johnswentworth20 Jul 2021 15:23 UTC
246 points
54 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Go­ing Out With Dignity

Tomás B.9 Jul 2021 22:07 UTC
194 points
25 comments6 min readLW link1 review

The topic is not the content

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2021 0:14 UTC
181 points
25 comments5 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Po­ten­tial Bot­tle­necks to Tak­ing Over The World

johnswentworth6 Jul 2021 19:34 UTC
154 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Delta Strain: Fact Dump and Some Policy Takeaways

Connor_Flexman28 Jul 2021 3:38 UTC
119 points
60 comments16 min readLW link

How much chess en­g­ine progress is about adapt­ing to big­ger com­put­ers?

paulfchristiano7 Jul 2021 22:35 UTC
114 points
23 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] ($1000 bounty) How effec­tive are marginal vac­cine doses against the covid delta var­i­ant?

jacobjacob22 Jul 2021 1:26 UTC
105 points
73 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­men­tally eval­u­at­ing whether hon­esty generalizes

paulfchristiano1 Jul 2021 17:47 UTC
103 points
24 comments9 min readLW link1 review

A Con­tam­i­na­tion The­ory of the Obe­sity Epidemic

Bob Baker25 Jul 2021 2:39 UTC
99 points
50 comments5 min readLW link

Covid 7/​29: You Play to Win the Game

Zvi29 Jul 2021 16:10 UTC
97 points
25 comments23 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Slack Has Pos­i­tive Ex­ter­nal­ities For Groups

johnswentworth29 Jul 2021 15:03 UTC
97 points
11 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews

We have some ev­i­dence that masks work

technicalities11 Jul 2021 18:36 UTC
97 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Relentlessness

Alicorn6 Jul 2021 20:27 UTC
93 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

The shoot-the-moon strategy

jchan21 Jul 2021 16:19 UTC
90 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Funds are available to sup­port LessWrong groups, among others

21 Jul 2021 1:11 UTC
88 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

One Study, Many Re­sults (Matt Clancy)

aarongertler18 Jul 2021 23:10 UTC
84 points
19 comments9 min readLW link
(mattsclancy.substack.com)

My Mar­riage Vows

Vanessa Kosoy21 Jul 2021 10:48 UTC
84 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

In­ter­mit­tent Distil­la­tions #4: Semi­con­duc­tors, Eco­nomics, In­tel­li­gence, and Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress.

Mark Xu8 Jul 2021 22:14 UTC
81 points
9 comments10 min readLW link

Bench­mark­ing an old chess en­g­ine on new hardware

hippke16 Jul 2021 7:58 UTC
74 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review

Win­ston Churchill, fu­tur­ist and EA

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2021 2:07 UTC
74 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Covid 7/​8: Delta Takes Over

Zvi8 Jul 2021 13:00 UTC
72 points
16 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Link] Musk’s non-miss­ing mood

jimrandomh12 Jul 2021 22:09 UTC
71 points
20 comments1 min readLW link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Programming

4 Jul 2021 3:29 UTC
67 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Covid 7/​22: Er­ror Correction

Zvi22 Jul 2021 14:20 UTC
66 points
45 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 7/​15: Rates of Change

Zvi15 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
64 points
63 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Re­view: Order Without Law

philh10 Jul 2021 21:50 UTC
64 points
5 comments49 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Aca­demic Ra­tion­al­ity Research

ChristianKl25 Jul 2021 13:59 UTC
63 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

An­swer­ing ques­tions hon­estly in­stead of pre­dict­ing hu­man an­swers: lots of prob­lems and some solutions

evhub13 Jul 2021 18:49 UTC
62 points
24 comments31 min readLW link

(Brain­stem, Neo­cor­tex) ≠ (Base Mo­ti­va­tions, Honor­able Mo­ti­va­tions)

Steven Byrnes12 Jul 2021 16:39 UTC
62 points
14 comments9 min readLW link

Gen­er­al­iz­ing Koop­man-Pit­man-Darmois

johnswentworth15 Jul 2021 22:33 UTC
61 points
14 comments11 min readLW link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

16 Jul 2021 21:19 UTC
61 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing cap­i­tal gains taxes

paulfchristiano9 Jul 2021 5:20 UTC
60 points
38 comments3 min readLW link
(sideways-view.com)

For some, now may be the time to get your third Covid shot

Josh Jacobson10 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC
58 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What does know­ing the her­i­ta­bil­ity of a trait tell me in prac­tice?

Kaj_Sotala26 Jul 2021 16:29 UTC
58 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

BASALT: A Bench­mark for Learn­ing from Hu­man Feedback

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2021 17:40 UTC
56 points
20 comments2 min readLW link
(bair.berkeley.edu)

Chess and cheap ways to check day to day var­i­ance in cognition

KPier7 Jul 2021 0:08 UTC
56 points
27 comments3 min readLW link

Frac­tional progress es­ti­mates for AI timelines and im­plied re­source requirements

15 Jul 2021 18:43 UTC
55 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What would it look like if it looked like AGI was very near?

Tomás B.12 Jul 2021 15:22 UTC
55 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search Fa­cil­i­ta­tion Invitation

LoganStrohl10 Jul 2021 1:04 UTC
53 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

On­line LessWrong Com­mu­nity Weekend

EGI1 Jul 2021 19:28 UTC
53 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/​1: Don’t Panic

Zvi1 Jul 2021 12:30 UTC
53 points
35 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A (some­what beta) site for em­bed­ding bet­ting odds in your writing

Optimization Process2 Jul 2021 1:10 UTC
51 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(biatob.com)

Black ravens and red herrings

Matthew Barnett27 Jul 2021 17:46 UTC
51 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Ty­pol­ogy of blog posts that don’t always add any­thing clear and insightful

KatjaGrace13 Jul 2021 1:40 UTC
50 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Re: Com­pe­tent Elites

lsusr15 Jul 2021 5:16 UTC
50 points
37 comments3 min readLW link

A closer look at chess scal­ings (into the past)

hippke15 Jul 2021 8:13 UTC
50 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

New De­men­tia Trial Results

PeterMcCluskey2 Jul 2021 23:04 UTC
49 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

How to Sleep Better

Marius Hobbhahn16 Jul 2021 0:00 UTC
48 points
49 comments15 min readLW link

The SIA pop­u­la­tion up­date can be sur­pris­ingly small

Stuart_Armstrong8 Jul 2021 10:45 UTC
48 points
12 comments10 min readLW link