Red­wood Re­search’s cur­rent project

Buck21 Sep 2021 23:30 UTC
145 points
29 comments15 min readLW link1 review

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

jefftk21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Effec­tive­ness Of Masks is Limited

Mike Harris21 Sep 2021 17:03 UTC
24 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Three enig­mas at the heart of our reasoning

Alex Flint21 Sep 2021 16:52 UTC
56 points
66 comments9 min readLW link1 review

David Wolpert on Knowledge

Alex Flint21 Sep 2021 1:54 UTC
33 points
3 comments13 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ships in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety!

DanielFilan21 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC
64 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(grants.futureoflife.org)

Toronto, ON—ACX/​SSC/​LW Meetup + Book Exchange

Sean Aubin21 Sep 2021 0:18 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Search for repli­ca­tion experiments

Andrew Vlahos20 Sep 2021 22:28 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Emo­tional microscope

pchvykov20 Sep 2021 21:37 UTC
3 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Ten Hun­dred Megaseconds

philh20 Sep 2021 21:30 UTC
7 points
6 comments2 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

[Question] How should dance venues best pro­tect the drinks of at­ten­dees?

Maxwell Peterson20 Sep 2021 19:32 UTC
10 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Or­di­nary Peo­ple and Ex­traor­di­nary Evil: A Re­port on the Beguil­ings of Evil

David Gross20 Sep 2021 15:19 UTC
58 points
31 comments4 min readLW link

AI, learn to be con­ser­va­tive, then learn to be less so: re­duc­ing side-effects, learn­ing pre­served fea­tures, and go­ing be­yond conservatism

Stuart_Armstrong20 Sep 2021 11:56 UTC
14 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How much should you be will­ing to pay for an AGI?

Logan Zoellner20 Sep 2021 11:51 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Sig­moids be­hav­ing badly: arXiv paper

Stuart_Armstrong20 Sep 2021 10:29 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “The Align­ment Prob­lem” by Brian Christian

lsusr20 Sep 2021 6:36 UTC
70 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Test­ing The Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion Hy­poth­e­sis: Pro­ject Update

johnswentworth20 Sep 2021 3:44 UTC
88 points
17 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Bel­mont/​Mid-Pen­in­sula ACX Meetup

moshezadka20 Sep 2021 0:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Where do your eyes go?

alkjash19 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC
266 points
22 comments14 min readLW link1 review
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] What is the ev­i­dence on the Church-Tur­ing Th­e­sis?

Morpheus19 Sep 2021 11:34 UTC
15 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Auto-Down­loder Chrome Extension

jefftk19 Sep 2021 1:30 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

This Can’t Go On

HoldenKarnofsky18 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
81 points
55 comments7 min readLW link2 reviews

On Humor

Chris Land18 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
6 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Norm In­no­va­tion and The­ory of Mind

Raemon18 Sep 2021 21:38 UTC
92 points
15 comments7 min readLW link1 review

80k Pod­cast dis­cus­sion: Mush­taq Khan on us­ing in­sti­tu­tional eco­nomics to pre­dict effec­tive gov­ern­ment reforms

Aditya Kedia18 Sep 2021 19:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Si­mu­lated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation

lsusr18 Sep 2021 7:37 UTC
66 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Kids Mov­ing Pictures

jefftk18 Sep 2021 2:00 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Book re­view: The Check­list Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 17 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC
122 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

The the­ory-prac­tice gap

Buck17 Sep 2021 22:51 UTC
138 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

Truth + Rea­son = The True Reli­gion?

David Gross17 Sep 2021 22:14 UTC
34 points
2 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] What should one’s policy re­gard­ing den­tal xrays be?

Randomized, Controlled17 Sep 2021 20:55 UTC
12 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing AI Takeover Scenarios

Sammy Martin17 Sep 2021 18:47 UTC
27 points
1 comment27 min readLW link

A simu­la­tion basilisk

andrew sauer17 Sep 2021 17:44 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Good­hart Ethology

Charlie Steiner17 Sep 2021 17:31 UTC
20 points
4 comments14 min readLW link

A Fight is a Faster Tax on Bullshit

Ray Doraisamy17 Sep 2021 16:26 UTC
2 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

Im­mo­bile AI makes a move: anti-wire­head­ing, on­tol­ogy change, and model splintering

Stuart_Armstrong17 Sep 2021 15:24 UTC
32 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Great Power Conflict

Zach Stein-Perlman17 Sep 2021 15:00 UTC
11 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

Born Again: Dis­con­nected Psy­chol­ogy, Mar­tian Science, and the Order of the Phoenix

rogersbacon17 Sep 2021 14:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Covid 9/​17: Done Bi­den His Time

Zvi17 Sep 2021 12:00 UTC
63 points
14 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How feel­ing more se­cure feels differ­ent than I expected

Kaj_Sotala17 Sep 2021 9:20 UTC
83 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Re­search speedruns

drossbucket17 Sep 2021 6:54 UTC
40 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Les­sons from covid pre­dic­tions: Always use mul­ti­ple models

pku17 Sep 2021 3:19 UTC
8 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Let Us Do Our Work As Well

jsteinhardt17 Sep 2021 0:40 UTC
7 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Writ­ing On The Pareto Frontier

johnswentworth17 Sep 2021 0:05 UTC
76 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

Jit­ters No Ev­i­dence of Stu­pidity in RL

1a3orn16 Sep 2021 22:43 UTC
96 points
18 comments3 min readLW link

Com­ments on Ja­cob Falkovich on loneliness

Alex Flint16 Sep 2021 22:04 UTC
29 points
9 comments16 min readLW link

Eco­nomic AI Safety

jsteinhardt16 Sep 2021 20:50 UTC
35 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

The Me­taethics and Nor­ma­tive Ethics of AGI Value Align­ment: Many Ques­tions, Some Implications

Eleos Arete Citrini16 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Dat­ing Minefield vs. Dat­ing Playground

Vlad Loweren16 Sep 2021 16:13 UTC
23 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tual Contracts

harsimony16 Sep 2021 15:20 UTC
10 points
4 comments9 min readLW link
(harsimony.wordpress.com)