Analo­gies and Gen­eral Pri­ors on Intelligence

Aug 20, 2021, 9:03 PM
57 points
12 comments14 min readLW link

Provide feed­back on Open Philan­thropy’s AI al­ign­ment RFP

Aug 20, 2021, 7:52 PM
56 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

How Deep­Mind’s Gen­er­ally Ca­pable Agents Were Trained

1a3ornAug 20, 2021, 6:52 PM
87 points
6 comments19 min readLW link

[AN #161]: Creat­ing gen­er­al­iz­able re­ward func­tions for mul­ti­ple tasks by learn­ing a model of func­tional similarity

Rohin ShahAug 20, 2021, 5:20 PM
15 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

Ex­plor­ing Demo­cratic Dialogue be­tween Ra­tion­al­ity, Sili­con Valley, and the Wider World

RemmeltAug 20, 2021, 4:04 PM
−5 points
19 comments13 min readLW link

Mis­guided? Cal­lous? Just Plain Stupid?

Enoch RootAug 20, 2021, 6:48 AM
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Timescale Separation

johnswentworthAug 19, 2021, 6:27 PM
32 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Land­scape of Scien­tific Minds (Let my Peo­ple Go)

rogersbaconAug 19, 2021, 4:21 PM
34 points
21 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 8/​19: Crack­ing the Booster

ZviAug 19, 2021, 2:20 PM
52 points
23 comments21 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What is differ­ence be­tween thoughts and con­scious­ness?

OlitnessAug 19, 2021, 11:41 AM
1 point
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Bupro­pion and CBD oil

ChristianKlAug 19, 2021, 9:14 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup 8/​21: Ta­boo-ing practice

SilasBartaAug 18, 2021, 10:45 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A Modest Pro­posal: Log­ging for Environmentalists

localdeityAug 18, 2021, 9:53 PM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Shame: Authen­tic & Ap­plied/​Man­u­fac­tured Shame

Phoenix EliotAug 18, 2021, 9:37 PM
9 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

When Pro­gram­mers Don’t Un­der­stand Code, Don’t Blame The User

Adam ZernerAug 18, 2021, 7:59 PM
61 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Vac­ci­na­tion with nat­u­ral immunity

sudoLifeAug 18, 2021, 5:47 AM
4 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] De­bate over Cox’s the­o­rem

Haziq MuhammadAug 18, 2021, 4:51 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is Akaike statis­tics?

Haziq MuhammadAug 18, 2021, 4:49 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets: Polyno­mi­als and Probability

Scott GarrabrantAug 17, 2021, 9:53 PM
21 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Fac­tors of men­tal and phys­i­cal abil­ities—a statis­ti­cal analysis

dynomightAug 17, 2021, 8:42 PM
49 points
25 comments8 min readLW link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] Who was the per­son who es­caped the Nazis a day be­fore they cracked down?

masasinAug 17, 2021, 7:43 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Philosophy

Chris_LeongAug 17, 2021, 12:57 PM
17 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

Si­mul­ta­neous Re­dun­dant Research

egAug 17, 2021, 12:17 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A Bet­ter Time un­til Sun­burn Calculator

Josh JacobsonAug 17, 2021, 12:40 AM
52 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Think­ing about AI re­la­tion­ally

TekhneMakreAug 16, 2021, 10:03 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Grav­ity Turn

alkjashAug 16, 2021, 7:20 PM
220 points
21 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] Fram­ing Practicum: Dy­namic Equilibrium

johnswentworthAug 16, 2021, 6:52 PM
24 points
17 comments5 min readLW link

Power vs Precision

abramdemskiAug 16, 2021, 6:34 PM
48 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Metafore­cast up­date: Bet­ter search, cap­ture func­tion­al­ity, more plat­forms.

NunoSempereAug 16, 2021, 6:31 PM
35 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

All Metafore­cast COVID predictions

NunoSempereAug 16, 2021, 6:30 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] 1h-vol­un­teers needed for a small AI Safety-re­lated re­search pro­ject

PabloAMCAug 16, 2021, 5:53 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Some phrases in The Map that… Con­fuse me- help please, to make my re­view of it bet­ter!

William GasarchAug 16, 2021, 4:56 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Equanimity

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 16, 2021, 4:51 PM
30 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Why must plau­si­bil­ities be rep­re­sented us­ing real num­bers?

Haziq MuhammadAug 16, 2021, 4:31 PM
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some open ex­po­si­tion prob­lems in AI?

Sai Sasank YAug 16, 2021, 3:05 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is it worth mak­ing a database for moral pre­dic­tions?

Jonas HallgrenAug 16, 2021, 2:51 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Model­ling Trans­for­ma­tive AI Risks (MTAIR) Pro­ject: Introduction

Aug 16, 2021, 7:12 AM
91 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization ProcessAug 16, 2021, 5:53 AM
54 points
15 comments5 min readLW link

The halt­ing prob­lem is overstated

Yair HalberstadtAug 16, 2021, 5:26 AM
15 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

A gen­tle apoc­a­lypse

pchvykovAug 16, 2021, 5:03 AM
3 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

An Ap­pren­tice Ex­per­i­ment in Python Pro­gram­ming, Part 3

Aug 16, 2021, 4:42 AM
14 points
10 comments22 min readLW link

An ar­ro­gant Aris­to­tle proves too much

John DogAug 16, 2021, 1:19 AM
0 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Chas­ing Infinities

Michael BatemanAug 16, 2021, 1:19 AM
2 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

Pod­cast Club IRL: Ju­lia Galef on the Scout Mindset

Aditya KediaAug 15, 2021, 10:59 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Strat­egy vs. PR-nar­ra­tive

TekhneMakreAug 15, 2021, 10:40 PM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Pe­dophile Problems

rogersbaconAug 15, 2021, 6:23 PM
11 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Utili­tar­i­anism Ex­pressed in Julia

Erich_GrunewaldAug 15, 2021, 11:31 AM
12 points
0 comments12 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Open and Wel­come Thread – Au­gust 2021

habrykaAug 15, 2021, 5:59 AM
13 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Tran­si­tive Tol­er­ance Means Intolerance

orthonormalAug 14, 2021, 5:52 PM
39 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Stay­ing Grounded

johnswentworthAug 14, 2021, 5:43 PM
66 points
15 comments4 min readLW link