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Call for research on evaluating alignment (funding + advice available)

Beth Barnes31 Aug 2021 23:28 UTC

105 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

A Layman’s Guide to Recreational Mathematics Videos

Sam Enright31 Aug 2021 23:11 UTC

33 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Reward splintering as reverse of interpretability

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2021 22:27 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Applications

Scott Garrabrant31 Aug 2021 21:19 UTC

34 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets: Inferring Time

Scott Garrabrant31 Aug 2021 21:18 UTC

23 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

What are biases, anyway? Multiple type signatures

Stuart_Armstrong31 Aug 2021 21:16 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

From Branes to Brains. How mathematical physics can be used in life sciences.

From_Branes_to_Brains31 Aug 2021 19:40 UTC

22 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Crosspost] On Hreha On Behavioral Economics

Scott Alexander31 Aug 2021 18:14 UTC

106 points

6 comments22 min readLW link

The Telephone Theorem: Information At A Distance Is Mediated By Deterministic Constraints

johnswentworth31 Aug 2021 16:50 UTC

96 points

26 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] What could small scale disasters from AI look like?

CharlesD31 Aug 2021 15:52 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Grokking the Intentional Stance

jbkjr31 Aug 2021 15:49 UTC

45 points

22 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

An Apprentice Experiment in Python Programming, Part 4

gilch and konstell

31 Aug 2021 7:56 UTC

14 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

World War Zero

lsusr31 Aug 2021 7:22 UTC

45 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Exercise Trade Offs

Elizabeth31 Aug 2021 2:40 UTC

32 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How much COVID protection is gained from protecting your eyes?

Davis_Kingsley31 Aug 2021 1:18 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Ljubljana—ACX Meetups Everywhere 2021

VesterDe31 Aug 2021 0:50 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Quote Quiz

Gunnar_Zarncke30 Aug 2021 23:30 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

We Live in an Era of Unprecedented World Peace

lsusr30 Aug 2021 22:25 UTC

27 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Research = Conceptual Alignment Research + Applied Alignment Research

adamShimi30 Aug 2021 21:13 UTC

37 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Antidotes to Number Numbness

Collisteru30 Aug 2021 20:17 UTC

12 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Causal without correlation, how?

MoritzG30 Aug 2021 16:43 UTC

2 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

A short introduction to machine learning

Richard_Ngo30 Aug 2021 14:31 UTC

94 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Beware of small world puzzles

mukashi30 Aug 2021 6:00 UTC

59 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Humanity is Winning the Fight Against Infectious Disease

lsusr30 Aug 2021 1:31 UTC

60 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Reminder: Online—Less Wrong Community Weekend 2021

EGI29 Aug 2021 22:19 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Small Vacation

DanB29 Aug 2021 19:55 UTC

44 points

21 comments8 min readLW link

Virtual Machine Learning Conferences: The Good and the Bad

libai29 Aug 2021 19:26 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Solow-Swan model of economic growth

Matthew Barnett29 Aug 2021 18:55 UTC

31 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s theorem?

Haziq Muhammad29 Aug 2021 18:36 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Governance Problem and the “Pretty Good” X-Risk

Zach Stein-Perlman29 Aug 2021 18:00 UTC

5 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What will be the most important resource after the information age?

actuallynotaustralian29 Aug 2021 10:23 UTC

0 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[ACX Linkpost] Highlights From The Comments On Missing School

mike_hawke29 Aug 2021 8:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

How much should we still worry about catching COVID? [Links and Discussion Thread]

MichaelStJules29 Aug 2021 6:26 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Training My Friend to Cook

lsusr29 Aug 2021 5:54 UTC

70 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

Superintelligent Introspection: A Counter-argument to the Orthogonality Thesis

DirectedEvolution29 Aug 2021 4:53 UTC

3 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Death by a Single Cut

lsusr29 Aug 2021 3:58 UTC

9 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In search for plausible scenarios of AI takeover, or the Takeover Argument

Ozyrus28 Aug 2021 22:30 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI Alignment

niplav28 Aug 2021 19:48 UTC

35 points

6 comments11 min readLW link

How To Write Quickly While Maintaining Epistemic Rigor

johnswentworth28 Aug 2021 17:52 UTC

451 points

38 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

Moral Golems Assume Uncertainty

Erich_Grunewald28 Aug 2021 14:05 UTC

4 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] What are good alignment conference papers?

adamShimi28 Aug 2021 13:35 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The AI research process as incipient superintelligence

Carlos Ramirez27 Aug 2021 20:16 UTC

5 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Can you control the past?

Joe Carlsmith27 Aug 2021 19:39 UTC

175 points

90 comments47 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Framing Practicum: Incentive

aysajan27 Aug 2021 19:22 UTC

38 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #162]: Foundation models: a paradigm shift within AI

Rohin Shah27 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC

25 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Cognitive scientist Joel Chan on metascience, scaling and automating innovation, collective intelligence, and tools for thought.

fowlertm27 Aug 2021 16:33 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Research productivity tip: “Solve The Whole Problem Day”

Steven Byrnes27 Aug 2021 13:05 UTC

50 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Altruism Under Extreme Uncertainty

lsusr27 Aug 2021 6:58 UTC

37 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Could you have stopped Chernobyl?

Carlos Ramirez27 Aug 2021 1:48 UTC

29 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

Amyloid Plaques: Chemical Streetlight, Medical Goodhart

J Bostock26 Aug 2021 21:25 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readLW link