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We Choose To Align AI

johnswentworth1 Jan 2022 20:06 UTC

280 points

16 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

An Observation of Vavilov Day

Elizabeth3 Jan 2022 21:10 UTC

236 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC

230 points

79 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Brain Efficiency: Much More than You Wanted to Know

jacob_cannell6 Jan 2022 3:38 UTC

199 points

102 comments29 min readLW link

Look For Principles Which Will Carry Over To The Next Paradigm

johnswentworth14 Jan 2022 20:22 UTC

182 points

7 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Postmortem on DIY Recombinant Covid Vaccine

caffemacchiavelli22 Jan 2022 14:12 UTC

179 points

27 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

What’s Up With Confusingly Pervasive Goal Directedness?

Raemon20 Jan 2022 19:22 UTC

172 points

89 comments4 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 1. What’s the problem & Why work on it now?

Steven Byrnes26 Jan 2022 15:23 UTC

158 points

19 comments26 min readLW link

Prizes for ELK proposals

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC

150 points

152 comments7 min readLW link

Use Normal Predictions

Jan Christian Refsgaard9 Jan 2022 15:01 UTC

147 points

67 comments6 min readLW link

More Is Different for AI

jsteinhardt4 Jan 2022 19:30 UTC

140 points

24 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

[New Feature] Support for Footnotes!

Ruby4 Jan 2022 7:35 UTC

132 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Third Time: a better way to work

bfinn7 Jan 2022 21:15 UTC

132 points

76 comments8 min readLW link

Long covid: probably worth avoiding—some considerations

KatjaGrace16 Jan 2022 11:46 UTC

127 points

88 comments14 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Land Ho!

Zvi20 Jan 2022 13:30 UTC

120 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Future ML Systems Will Be Qualitatively Different

jsteinhardt11 Jan 2022 19:50 UTC

119 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses

Owain_Evans25 Jan 2022 4:45 UTC

108 points

40 comments3 min readLW link

The Liar and the Scold

Tomás B.20 Jan 2022 20:31 UTC

102 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

How To Raise Others’ Aspirations in 17 Easy Steps

chanamessinger6 Jan 2022 0:14 UTC

99 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Trying to Keep the Garden Well

Tobias H16 Jan 2022 5:42 UTC

98 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Implications of Civilizational Inadequacy (reviewing mazes/simulacra/etc)

Raemon21 Jan 2022 1:45 UTC

93 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell Peterson10 Jan 2022 19:26 UTC

86 points

31 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

A one-question Turing test for GPT-3

Paul Crowley and rosiecam

22 Jan 2022 18:17 UTC

85 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

Calibration proverbs

Malmesbury11 Jan 2022 5:11 UTC

76 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Survey supports ‘long covid is bad’ hypothesis (very tentative)

KatjaGrace14 Jan 2022 14:50 UTC

76 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Lateral Thinking (AI safety HPMOR fanfic)

SlytherinsMonster2 Jan 2022 23:50 UTC

76 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Challenges with Breaking into MIRI-Style Research

Chris_Leong17 Jan 2022 9:23 UTC

75 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 1/13/22: Endgame

Zvi13 Jan 2022 18:10 UTC

75 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Omicron Post #12

Zvi4 Jan 2022 15:50 UTC

75 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why do we need a NEW philosophy of progress?

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC

75 points

26 comments8 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

2020 Review Article

Vaniver14 Jan 2022 4:58 UTC

74 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

List of Probability Calibration Exercises

Isaac King23 Jan 2022 2:12 UTC

73 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/6/22: The Blip

Zvi6 Jan 2022 18:30 UTC

68 points

21 comments25 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why rationalists should care (more) about free software

RichardJActon23 Jan 2022 17:31 UTC

66 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Truthful LMs as a warm-up for aligned AGI

Jacob_Hilton17 Jan 2022 16:49 UTC

65 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

ELK First Round Contest Winners

Mark Xu and paulfchristiano

26 Jan 2022 2:56 UTC

65 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Omicron Post #13: Outlook

Zvi7 Jan 2022 21:20 UTC

63 points

24 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Long Term Charities: Apply for SFF Funding

Zvi25 Jan 2022 17:00 UTC

62 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Review of the Literature, such as It Is

Erich_Grunewald15 Jan 2022 12:07 UTC

61 points

11 comments15 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Apply for research internships at ARC!

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:26 UTC

61 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

You Can Get Fluvoxamine

AppliedDivinityStudies18 Jan 2022 23:48 UTC

60 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

Signaling isn’t about signaling, it’s about Goodhart

Valentine6 Jan 2022 18:49 UTC

59 points

31 comments9 min readLW link

Shadows Of The Coming Race (1879)

Capybasilisk3 Jan 2022 15:55 UTC

58 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: Looking back at 2021

NunoSempere27 Jan 2022 20:08 UTC

57 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

(forecasting.substack.com)

ML Systems Will Have Weird Failure Modes

jsteinhardt26 Jan 2022 1:40 UTC

57 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Patron Saint Holidays

Raemon26 Jan 2022 9:26 UTC

56 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Covid 1/20/22: Peak Omicron

Zvi20 Jan 2022 16:20 UTC

56 points

21 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Scott Alexander 2021 Predictions: Market Prices—Resolution

SimonM2 Jan 2022 11:55 UTC

56 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

How I’m thinking about GPT-N

delton13717 Jan 2022 17:11 UTC

54 points

21 comments18 min readLW link

Omicron Post #14

Zvi13 Jan 2022 18:00 UTC

53 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)