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Fullness to Indicate Cleanliness
jefftk
Oct 11, 2022, 12:40 AM
9
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
What happened to the annual LW demographic surveys?
ROM
Oct 11, 2022, 12:19 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)
Zoe Williams
Oct 10, 2022, 11:58 PM
13
points
2
comments
LW
link
Don’t expect AGI anytime soon
cveres
Oct 10, 2022, 10:38 PM
−14
points
6
comments
LW
link
QAPR 4: Inductive biases
Quintin Pope
Oct 10, 2022, 10:08 PM
67
points
2
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Apollo
Jarred Filmer
Oct 10, 2022, 9:30 PM
46
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?
Noosphere89
Oct 10, 2022, 8:55 PM
24
points
71
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Disentangling inner alignment failures
Erik Jenner
Oct 10, 2022, 6:50 PM
23
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
ACX meetup [October]
sallatik
Oct 10, 2022, 5:23 PM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Natural Categories Update
Logan Zoellner
Oct 10, 2022, 3:19 PM
33
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you’re deferring to
Sam Clarke
Oct 10, 2022, 2:24 PM
38
points
6
comments
LW
link
Why Balsa Research is Worthwhile
Zvi
Oct 10, 2022, 1:50 PM
87
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Lessons learned from talking to >100 academics about AI safety
Marius Hobbhahn
Oct 10, 2022, 1:16 PM
216
points
18
comments
12
min read
LW
link
1
review
We can do better than argmax
Jan_Kulveit
Oct 10, 2022, 10:32 AM
49
points
4
comments
LW
link
Vegetarianism and depression
Maggy
Oct 10, 2022, 9:11 AM
2
points
2
comments
LW
link
Results from the language model hackathon
Esben Kran
Oct 10, 2022, 8:29 AM
22
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
AMC’s animated series “Pantheon” is relevant to our interests
Ben Smith
Oct 10, 2022, 5:59 AM
20
points
3
comments
LW
link
Joey Savoie from Charity Entrepreneurship and His Principles—OpenPrinciples Speaker Session
ti_guo
Oct 10, 2022, 2:28 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why So Many Cookie Banners?
jefftk
Oct 10, 2022, 2:20 AM
35
points
28
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Wanna bet?
ThomasJ
Oct 9, 2022, 9:26 PM
4
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Embedding AI into AR goggles
aixar
Oct 9, 2022, 8:08 PM
−12
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AI Risk Microdynamics Survey
Froolow
Oct 9, 2022, 8:04 PM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Crosspost] AlphaTensor, Taste, and the Scalability of AI
jamierumbelow
Oct 9, 2022, 7:42 PM
16
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(jamieonsoftware.com)
Bengaluru LW/ACX Social Meetup—October′22
faiz
Oct 9, 2022, 6:50 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Balto/Togo theory of scientific development
Elizabeth
Oct 9, 2022, 6:30 PM
69
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Possible miracles
Orpheus16
and
Thomas Larsen
Oct 9, 2022, 6:17 PM
64
points
34
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Uncontrollable AI as an Existential Risk
Karl von Wendt
Oct 9, 2022, 10:36 AM
21
points
0
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Let’s talk about uncontrollable AI
Karl von Wendt
Oct 9, 2022, 10:34 AM
15
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Why do Metaculus and Manifold display the community predictions?
Alexander
Oct 9, 2022, 7:29 AM
5
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cleaning a Spoon is Complex
jefftk
Oct 9, 2022, 1:10 AM
20
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Good ontologies induce commutative diagrams
Erik Jenner
Oct 9, 2022, 12:06 AM
49
points
5
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Consider your appetite for disagreements
Adam Zerner
Oct 8, 2022, 11:25 PM
107
points
18
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
The Lebowski Theorem — Charitable Reads of Anti-AGI-X-Risk Arguments, Part 2
sstich
Oct 8, 2022, 10:39 PM
1
point
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Toy alignment problem: Social Nework KPI design
qbolec
Oct 8, 2022, 10:14 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
My tentative interpretability research agenda—topology matching.
Maxwell Clarke
Oct 8, 2022, 10:14 PM
10
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Signaling Guilt
Krieger
Oct 8, 2022, 8:40 PM
21
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Football, quantum chromodynamics, figure skating and statistics
Malmesbury
Oct 8, 2022, 7:46 PM
10
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
SERI MATS Program—Winter 2022 Cohort
Ryan Kidd
,
Victor Warlop
and
Christian Smith
Oct 8, 2022, 7:09 PM
72
points
12
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How many GPUs does NVIDIA make?
leogao
Oct 8, 2022, 5:54 PM
27
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Introducing the Basic Post-scarcity Map
postscarcitymap
Oct 8, 2022, 5:00 PM
16
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Broken Links for the Audio Version of 2021 MIRI Conversations
Krieger
Oct 8, 2022, 4:16 PM
1
point
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
The “you-can-just” alarm
Emrik
Oct 8, 2022, 10:43 AM
77
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I think there’s a one-in-six chance of an imminent global nuclear war
Max Tegmark
Oct 8, 2022, 6:26 AM
164
points
169
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Teacup Test
lsusr
Oct 8, 2022, 4:25 AM
102
points
32
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Deliberate practice for research?
Alex_Altair
Oct 8, 2022, 3:45 AM
30
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Biggest Problem with Deontology: The Aggregation Problem
Arjun Panickssery
Oct 8, 2022, 3:41 AM
21
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)
Don’t leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
Oct 8, 2022, 12:35 AM
135
points
48
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Truth seeking is motivated cognition
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Oct 7, 2022, 7:19 PM
6
points
39
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Book of The Machines (Chapter 8)
Justin Bullock
7 Oct 2022 19:07 UTC
2
points
0
comments
40
min read
LW
link
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aog
7 Oct 2022 18:38 UTC
102
points
58
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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