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

Zoe WilliamsOct 10, 2022, 11:58 PM
13 points
2 commentsLW link

Don’t ex­pect AGI any­time soon

cveresOct 10, 2022, 10:38 PM
−14 points
6 commentsLW link

QAPR 4: In­duc­tive biases

Quintin PopeOct 10, 2022, 10:08 PM
67 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

Apollo

Jarred FilmerOct 10, 2022, 9:30 PM
46 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

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

Noosphere89Oct 10, 2022, 8:55 PM
24 points
71 comments1 min readLW link

Disen­tan­gling in­ner al­ign­ment failures

Erik JennerOct 10, 2022, 6:50 PM
23 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

ACX meetup [Oc­to­ber]

sallatikOct 10, 2022, 5:23 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral Cat­e­gories Update

Logan ZoellnerOct 10, 2022, 3:19 PM
33 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

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

Sam ClarkeOct 10, 2022, 2:24 PM
38 points
6 commentsLW link

Why Balsa Re­search is Worthwhile

ZviOct 10, 2022, 1:50 PM
87 points
12 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Les­sons learned from talk­ing to >100 aca­demics about AI safety

Marius HobbhahnOct 10, 2022, 1:16 PM
216 points
18 comments12 min readLW link1 review

We can do bet­ter than argmax

Jan_KulveitOct 10, 2022, 10:32 AM
49 points
4 commentsLW link

Vege­tar­i­anism and depression

MaggyOct 10, 2022, 9:11 AM
2 points
2 commentsLW link

Re­sults from the lan­guage model hackathon

Esben KranOct 10, 2022, 8:29 AM
22 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

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

Ben SmithOct 10, 2022, 5:59 AM
20 points
3 commentsLW link

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

ti_guoOct 10, 2022, 2:28 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why So Many Cookie Ban­ners?

jefftkOct 10, 2022, 2:20 AM
35 points
28 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Wanna bet?

ThomasJOct 9, 2022, 9:26 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Embed­ding AI into AR goggles

aixarOct 9, 2022, 8:08 PM
−12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] AI Risk Micro­dy­nam­ics Survey

FroolowOct 9, 2022, 8:04 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

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

jamierumbelowOct 9, 2022, 7:42 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(jamieonsoftware.com)

Ben­galuru LW/​ACX So­cial Meetup—Oc­to­ber′22

faizOct 9, 2022, 6:50 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Balto/​Togo the­ory of sci­en­tific development

ElizabethOct 9, 2022, 6:30 PM
69 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Pos­si­ble miracles

Oct 9, 2022, 6:17 PM
64 points
34 comments8 min readLW link

Un­con­trol­lable AI as an Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Karl von WendtOct 9, 2022, 10:36 AM
21 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Let’s talk about un­con­trol­lable AI

Karl von WendtOct 9, 2022, 10:34 AM
15 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

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

AlexanderOct 9, 2022, 7:29 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Clean­ing a Spoon is Complex

jefftkOct 9, 2022, 1:10 AM
20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Good on­tolo­gies in­duce com­mu­ta­tive diagrams

Erik JennerOct 9, 2022, 12:06 AM
49 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Con­sider your ap­petite for disagreements

Adam ZernerOct 8, 2022, 11:25 PM
107 points
18 comments6 min readLW link1 review

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

sstichOct 8, 2022, 10:39 PM
1 point
10 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Toy al­ign­ment prob­lem: So­cial Ne­work KPI design

qbolecOct 8, 2022, 10:14 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

My ten­ta­tive in­ter­pretabil­ity re­search agenda—topol­ogy match­ing.

Maxwell ClarkeOct 8, 2022, 10:14 PM
10 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Sig­nal­ing Guilt

KriegerOct 8, 2022, 8:40 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Foot­ball, quan­tum chro­mo­dy­nam­ics, figure skat­ing and statistics

MalmesburyOct 8, 2022, 7:46 PM
9 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

SERI MATS Pro­gram—Win­ter 2022 Cohort

Oct 8, 2022, 7:09 PM
72 points
12 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How many GPUs does NVIDIA make?

leogaoOct 8, 2022, 5:54 PM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ba­sic Post-scarcity Map

postscarcitymapOct 8, 2022, 5:00 PM
16 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

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

KriegerOct 8, 2022, 4:16 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

The “you-can-just” alarm

EmrikOct 8, 2022, 10:43 AM
77 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Max TegmarkOct 8, 2022, 6:26 AM
164 points
169 comments4 min readLW link

The Teacup Test

lsusrOct 8, 2022, 4:25 AM
102 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] De­liber­ate prac­tice for re­search?

Alex_AltairOct 8, 2022, 3:45 AM
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Biggest Prob­lem with Deon­tol­ogy: The Ag­gre­ga­tion Problem

Arjun PanicksseryOct 8, 2022, 3:41 AM
21 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Don’t leave your finger­prints on the future

So8resOct 8, 2022, 12:35 AM
131 points
48 comments5 min readLW link

Truth seek­ing is mo­ti­vated cognition

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 7, 2022, 7:19 PM
6 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

The Book of The Machines (Chap­ter 8)

Justin BullockOct 7, 2022, 7:07 PM
2 points
0 comments40 min readLW link

Anal­y­sis: US re­stricts GPU sales to China

aogOct 7, 2022, 6:38 PM
102 points
58 comments5 min readLW link

Poly­se­man­tic­ity and Ca­pac­ity in Neu­ral Networks

Oct 7, 2022, 5:51 PM
87 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Align­ment Might Never Be Solved, By Hu­mans or AI

intersticeOct 7, 2022, 4:14 PM
49 points
6 comments3 min readLW link