Book Re­view: Homo Deus

Collisteru25 Sep 2021 21:36 UTC
15 points
8 comments11 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 11 - At­tain­able Utility and Power with Alex Turner

DanielFilan25 Sep 2021 21:10 UTC
19 points
5 comments53 min readLW link

Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases in Large Lan­guage Models

Jan25 Sep 2021 20:59 UTC
18 points
3 comments12 min readLW link
(universalprior.substack.com)

Sec­u­lar Ther­apy Project

Adam Zerner25 Sep 2021 20:34 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.seculartherapy.org)

De­sign­ing Low Up­keep Software

jefftk25 Sep 2021 18:50 UTC
38 points
10 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Path­ways: Google’s AGI

Lê Nguyên Hoang25 Sep 2021 7:02 UTC
47 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

This War of Mine

lsusr25 Sep 2021 1:43 UTC
64 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The 2021 Less Wrong Dar­win Game

lsusr24 Sep 2021 21:16 UTC
162 points
102 comments9 min readLW link

It’s Good Enough—A Party Game

Zmavli Caimle24 Sep 2021 16:49 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­pla­na­tions as Hard to Vary Assertions

Alexander24 Sep 2021 11:33 UTC
17 points
24 comments8 min readLW link

How’s it go­ing with the Univer­sal Cul­tural Takeover? Part II

David Hugh-Jones24 Sep 2021 9:37 UTC
22 points
1 comment4 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Com­mon knowl­edge about Lev­er­age Re­search 1.0

BayAreaHuman24 Sep 2021 6:56 UTC
206 points
212 comments5 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Who We Are and How We Got Here

Yair Halberstadt24 Sep 2021 5:05 UTC
16 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Carte­sian Frames and Fac­tored Sets on ArXiv

Scott Garrabrant24 Sep 2021 4:58 UTC
38 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Walkie-Talkies

jefftk24 Sep 2021 1:10 UTC
33 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?

HoldenKarnofsky24 Sep 2021 0:46 UTC
17 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

Shared Frames Are Cap­i­tal In­vest­ments in Coordination

johnswentworth23 Sep 2021 23:24 UTC
93 points
6 comments14 min readLW link1 review

Re­view: Mar­tyr Made Podcast

Elizabeth23 Sep 2021 20:10 UTC
22 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Matt Lev­ine spots IRL Paper­clip Max­i­mizer in Reddit

Nebu23 Sep 2021 19:10 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

How’s it go­ing with the Univer­sal Cul­tural Takeover? Part I

David Hugh-Jones23 Sep 2021 19:07 UTC
20 points
13 comments8 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

What is Com­pute? - Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [1/​4]

lennart23 Sep 2021 16:25 UTC
27 points
9 comments19 min readLW link

Covid 9/​23: There Is a War

Zvi23 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC
69 points
30 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Ra­tional Agents Win”

Isaac King23 Sep 2021 7:59 UTC
8 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Neu­ral net /​ de­ci­sion tree hy­brids: a po­ten­tial path to­ward bridg­ing the in­ter­pretabil­ity gap

Nathan Helm-Burger23 Sep 2021 0:38 UTC
21 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] Altered Traits

lsusr23 Sep 2021 0:33 UTC
67 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How dan­ger­ous is Long COVID for kids?

Viliam22 Sep 2021 22:29 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Sum­mary] “In­tro­duc­tion to Elec­tro­dy­nam­ics” by David Griffiths—Part 1

lsusr22 Sep 2021 22:22 UTC
23 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Can­cel­led: Bangkok, Thailand – ACX Mee­tups Every­where 2021

Robert Höglund22 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Robin Han­son’s Grabby Aliens model ex­plained—part 1

Writer22 Sep 2021 18:51 UTC
72 points
30 comments8 min readLW link1 review
(youtu.be)

[Question] Weird mod­els of coun­try de­vel­op­ment?

Connor_Flexman22 Sep 2021 17:39 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

[AN #165]: When large mod­els are more likely to lie

Rohin Shah22 Sep 2021 17:30 UTC
23 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(mailchi.mp)

[Question] What are good mod­els of col­lu­sion in AI?

EconomicModel22 Sep 2021 15:16 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we talk about autism (spec­trum) with­out talk­ing about bor­der­line p.d.?

MoritzG22 Sep 2021 14:32 UTC
−11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­ci­den­tal Optimizers

aysajan22 Sep 2021 13:27 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How do you learn to take more beau­tiful pic­tures with a cam­era?

ChristianKl22 Sep 2021 12:52 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A suffi­ciently para­noid non-Friendly AGI might self-mod­ify it­self to be­come Friendly

RomanS22 Sep 2021 6:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Seat­tle, WA – Oc­to­ber 2021 ACX Meetup

Optimization Process22 Sep 2021 5:30 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

In­sights from Modern Prin­ci­ples of Economics

TurnTrout22 Sep 2021 5:19 UTC
79 points
64 comments1 min readLW link

Petrov Day 2021: Mu­tu­ally As­sured Destruc­tion?

Ruby22 Sep 2021 1:04 UTC
99 points
96 comments4 min readLW link

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