EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams10 Oct 2022 23:58 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t ex­pect AGI any­time soon

cveres10 Oct 2022 22:38 UTC
−14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

QAPR 4: In­duc­tive biases

Quintin Pope10 Oct 2022 22:08 UTC
67 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

Apollo

Jarred Filmer10 Oct 2022 21:30 UTC
46 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does biol­ogy re­li­ably find the global max­i­mum, or at least get close?

Noosphere8910 Oct 2022 20:55 UTC
24 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Disen­tan­gling in­ner al­ign­ment failures

Erik Jenner10 Oct 2022 18:50 UTC
23 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

ACX meetup [Oc­to­ber]

sallatik10 Oct 2022 17:23 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Cat­e­gories Update

Logan Zoellner10 Oct 2022 15:19 UTC
33 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

When re­port­ing AI timelines, be clear who you’re defer­ring to

Sam Clarke10 Oct 2022 14:24 UTC
38 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why Balsa Re­search is Worthwhile

Zvi10 Oct 2022 13:50 UTC
87 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Les­sons learned from talk­ing to >100 aca­demics about AI safety

Marius Hobbhahn10 Oct 2022 13:16 UTC
216 points
18 comments12 min readLW link1 review

We can do bet­ter than argmax

Jan_Kulveit10 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC
49 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Vege­tar­i­anism and depression

Maggy10 Oct 2022 9:11 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Re­sults from the lan­guage model hackathon

Esben Kran10 Oct 2022 8:29 UTC
22 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

AMC’s an­i­mated se­ries “Pan­theon” is rele­vant to our interests

Ben Smith10 Oct 2022 5:59 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Joey Savoie from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and His Prin­ci­ples—OpenPrin­ci­ples Speaker Session

ti_guo10 Oct 2022 2:28 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why So Many Cookie Ban­ners?

jefftk10 Oct 2022 2:20 UTC
35 points
28 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Wanna bet?

ThomasJ9 Oct 2022 21:26 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Embed­ding AI into AR goggles

aixar9 Oct 2022 20:08 UTC
−12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] AI Risk Micro­dy­nam­ics Survey

Froolow9 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Cross­post] AlphaTen­sor, Taste, and the Scal­a­bil­ity of AI

jamierumbelow9 Oct 2022 19:42 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(jamieonsoftware.com)

Ben­galuru LW/​ACX So­cial Meetup—Oc­to­ber′22

faiz9 Oct 2022 18:50 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Balto/​Togo the­ory of sci­en­tific development

Elizabeth9 Oct 2022 18:30 UTC
69 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Pos­si­ble miracles

9 Oct 2022 18:17 UTC
64 points
34 comments8 min readLW link

Pen­tathlon: join a whole­some team com­pe­ti­tion with other EAs/​Rationalists

Caroline Jeanmaire9 Oct 2022 12:52 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Un­con­trol­lable AI as an Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:36 UTC
21 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Let’s talk about un­con­trol­lable AI

Karl von Wendt9 Oct 2022 10:34 UTC
15 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why do Me­tac­u­lus and Man­i­fold dis­play the com­mu­nity pre­dic­tions?

Alexander9 Oct 2022 7:29 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Clean­ing a Spoon is Complex

jefftk9 Oct 2022 1:10 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Good on­tolo­gies in­duce com­mu­ta­tive diagrams

Erik Jenner9 Oct 2022 0:06 UTC
49 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Con­sider your ap­petite for disagreements

Adam Zerner8 Oct 2022 23:25 UTC
107 points
18 comments6 min readLW link1 review

The Le­bowski The­o­rem — Char­i­ta­ble Reads of Anti-AGI-X-Risk Ar­gu­ments, Part 2

sstich8 Oct 2022 22:39 UTC
1 point
10 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Toy al­ign­ment prob­lem: So­cial Ne­work KPI design

qbolec8 Oct 2022 22:14 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

My ten­ta­tive in­ter­pretabil­ity re­search agenda—topol­ogy match­ing.

Maxwell Clarke8 Oct 2022 22:14 UTC
10 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing Guilt

Krieger8 Oct 2022 20:40 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Foot­ball, quan­tum chro­mo­dy­nam­ics, figure skat­ing and statistics

Malmesbury8 Oct 2022 19:46 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

SERI MATS Pro­gram—Win­ter 2022 Cohort

8 Oct 2022 19:09 UTC
72 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How many GPUs does NVIDIA make?

leogao8 Oct 2022 17:54 UTC
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ba­sic Post-scarcity Map

postscarcitymap8 Oct 2022 17:00 UTC
16 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Bro­ken Links for the Au­dio Ver­sion of 2021 MIRI Conversations

Krieger8 Oct 2022 16:16 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

The “you-can-just” alarm

Emrik8 Oct 2022 10:43 UTC
76 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an im­mi­nent global nu­clear war

Max Tegmark8 Oct 2022 6:26 UTC
164 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

The Teacup Test

lsusr8 Oct 2022 4:25 UTC
99 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] De­liber­ate prac­tice for re­search?

Alex_Altair8 Oct 2022 3:45 UTC
28 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Biggest Prob­lem with Deon­tol­ogy: The Ag­gre­ga­tion Problem

Arjun Panickssery8 Oct 2022 3:41 UTC
21 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Don’t leave your finger­prints on the future

So8res8 Oct 2022 0:35 UTC
118 points
46 comments5 min readLW link

Truth seek­ing is mo­ti­vated cognition

Gordon Seidoh Worley7 Oct 2022 19:19 UTC
6 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

The Book of The Machines (Chap­ter 8)

Justin Bullock7 Oct 2022 19:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments40 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis: US re­stricts GPU sales to China

aogara7 Oct 2022 18:38 UTC
102 points
58 comments5 min readLW link

Poly­se­man­tic­ity and Ca­pac­ity in Neu­ral Networks

7 Oct 2022 17:51 UTC
87 points
14 comments3 min readLW link