20 Aug 2021 21:03 UTC

57 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

Provide feedback on Open Philanthropy’s AI alignment RFP

abergal and Nick_Beckstead

20 Aug 2021 19:52 UTC

56 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How DeepMind’s Generally Capable Agents Were Trained

1a3orn20 Aug 2021 18:52 UTC

87 points

6 comments19 min readLW link

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

Rohin Shah20 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC

15 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

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

Remmelt20 Aug 2021 16:04 UTC

−5 points

19 comments13 min readLW link

Misguided? Callous? Just Plain Stupid?

Enoch Root20 Aug 2021 6:48 UTC

6 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Framing Practicum: Timescale Separation

johnswentworth19 Aug 2021 18:27 UTC

31 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

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

rogersbacon19 Aug 2021 16:21 UTC

34 points

21 comments12 min readLW link

Covid 8/19: Cracking the Booster

Zvi19 Aug 2021 14:20 UTC

52 points

23 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What is difference between thoughts and consciousness?

Olitness19 Aug 2021 11:41 UTC

1 point

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Bupropion and CBD oil

ChristianKl19 Aug 2021 9:14 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Cafe Meetup 8/21: Taboo-ing practice

SilasBarta18 Aug 2021 22:45 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Modest Proposal: Logging for Environmentalists

localdeity18 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Shame: Authentic & Applied/Manufactured Shame

Phoenix Eliot18 Aug 2021 21:37 UTC

9 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

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

Adam Zerner18 Aug 2021 19:59 UTC

61 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Vaccination with natural immunity

sudoLife18 Aug 2021 5:47 UTC

4 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Debate over Cox’s theorem

Haziq Muhammad18 Aug 2021 4:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is Akaike statistics?

Haziq Muhammad18 Aug 2021 4:49 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Polynomials and Probability

Scott Garrabrant17 Aug 2021 21:53 UTC

21 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Factors of mental and physical abilities—a statistical analysis

dynomight17 Aug 2021 20:42 UTC

48 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

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

masasin17 Aug 2021 19:43 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Moral Philosophy

Chris_Leong17 Aug 2021 12:57 UTC

17 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Simultaneous Redundant Research

eg17 Aug 2021 12:17 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A Better Time until Sunburn Calculator

Josh Jacobson17 Aug 2021 0:40 UTC

52 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Thinking about AI relationally

TekhneMakre16 Aug 2021 22:03 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Gravity Turn

alkjash16 Aug 2021 19:20 UTC

219 points

21 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] Framing Practicum: Dynamic Equilibrium

johnswentworth16 Aug 2021 18:52 UTC

24 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Power vs Precision

abramdemski16 Aug 2021 18:34 UTC

48 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

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

NunoSempere16 Aug 2021 18:31 UTC

35 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

All Metaforecast COVID predictions

NunoSempere16 Aug 2021 18:30 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

PabloAMC16 Aug 2021 17:53 UTC

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 Gasarch16 Aug 2021 16:56 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Zen and Rationality: Equanimity

Gordon Seidoh Worley16 Aug 2021 16:51 UTC

30 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

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

Haziq Muhammad16 Aug 2021 16:31 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

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

Sai Sasank Y16 Aug 2021 15:05 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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

Jonas Hallgren16 Aug 2021 14:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Modelling Transformative AI Risks (MTAIR) Project: Introduction

Davidmanheim and Aryeh Englander

16 Aug 2021 7:12 UTC

91 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Mildly against COVID risk budgets

Optimization Process16 Aug 2021 5:53 UTC

54 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

The halting problem is overstated

Yair Halberstadt16 Aug 2021 5:26 UTC

15 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

A gentle apocalypse

pchvykov16 Aug 2021 5:03 UTC

3 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 3

gilch and konstell

16 Aug 2021 4:42 UTC

14 points

10 comments22 min readLW link

An arrogant Aristotle proves too much

John Dog16 Aug 2021 1:19 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Chasing Infinities

Michael Bateman16 Aug 2021 1:19 UTC

2 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Podcast Club IRL: Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

Aditya Kedia15 Aug 2021 22:59 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Strategy vs. PR-narrative

TekhneMakre15 Aug 2021 22:40 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Pedophile Problems

rogersbacon15 Aug 2021 18:23 UTC

11 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia

Erich_Grunewald15 Aug 2021 11:31 UTC

12 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Open and Welcome Thread – August 2021

habryka15 Aug 2021 5:59 UTC

13 points

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Transitive Tolerance Means Intolerance

orthonormal14 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

39 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Staying Grounded

johnswentworth14 Aug 2021 17:43 UTC

66 points

15 comments4 min readLW link