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When should you defer to expertise? A useful heuristic (Crosspost from EA forum)
Noosphere89
Oct 13, 2022, 2:14 PM
9
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Cataloguing Priors in Theory and Practice
Paul Bricman
Oct 13, 2022, 12:36 PM
13
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon
jimrandomh
Oct 13, 2022, 6:25 AM
90
points
47
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Cambridge LW Meetup: See the Invisible
Tony Wang
Oct 13, 2022, 5:44 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Glossary Dance Game
jefftk
Oct 13, 2022, 2:20 AM
10
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Niceness is unnatural
So8res
Oct 13, 2022, 1:30 AM
134
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
A strange twist on the road to AGI
cveres
Oct 12, 2022, 11:27 PM
−8
points
0
comments
LW
link
Help out Redwood Research’s interpretability team by finding heuristics implemented by GPT-2 small
Haoxing Du
and
Buck
Oct 12, 2022, 9:25 PM
50
points
11
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Towards a comprehensive study of potential psychological causes of the ordinary range of variation of affective gender identity in males
tailcalled
Oct 12, 2022, 9:10 PM
52
points
4
comments
37
min read
LW
link
Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence
CallumMcDougall
Oct 12, 2022, 9:07 PM
170
points
27
comments
10
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.perfectlynormal.co.uk)
[MLSN #6]: Transparency survey, provable robustness, ML models that predict the future
Dan H
Oct 12, 2022, 8:56 PM
27
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Previous Work on Recreating Neural Network Input from Intermediate Layer Activations
bglass
Oct 12, 2022, 7:28 PM
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Be more effective by learning important practical knowledge using flashcards
Stenemo
Oct 12, 2022, 6:05 PM
5
points
2
comments
LW
link
Article Review: Google’s AlphaTensor
Robert_AIZI
Oct 12, 2022, 6:04 PM
8
points
4
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Alignment 201 curriculum
Richard_Ngo
Oct 12, 2022, 6:03 PM
102
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.agisafetyfundamentals.com)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12
jasoncrawford
Oct 12, 2022, 4:59 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Building a transformer from scratch—AI safety up-skilling challenge
Marius Hobbhahn
Oct 12, 2022, 3:40 PM
42
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Instrumental convergence in single-agent systems
Edouard Harris
and
simonsdsuo
Oct 12, 2022, 12:24 PM
33
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.gladstone.ai)
Singapore—Small casual dinner in Chinatown #5
Joe Rocca
Oct 12, 2022, 8:59 AM
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
A game of mattering
KatjaGrace
Oct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
28
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Calibration of a thousand predictions
KatjaGrace
Oct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
59
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
My argument against AGI
cveres
Oct 12, 2022, 6:33 AM
7
points
5
comments
LW
link
Actually, All Nuclear Famine Papers are Bunk
Lao Mein
Oct 12, 2022, 5:58 AM
113
points
37
comments
2
min read
LW
link
1
review
Contingency is not arbitrary
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Oct 12, 2022, 4:35 AM
13
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
That one apocalyptic nuclear famine paper is bunk
Lao Mein
Oct 12, 2022, 3:33 AM
110
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AstralCodexTen and Rationality Meetup Organisers’ Retreat Asia Pacific region
Elo
and
Harold
Oct 12, 2022, 3:20 AM
14
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance History
jefftk
Oct 12, 2022, 2:10 AM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Power-Seeking AI and Existential Risk
Antonio Franca
Oct 11, 2022, 10:50 PM
6
points
0
comments
9
min read
LW
link
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
Oct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM
28
points
1
comment
26
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Prettified AI Safety Game Cards
abramdemski
Oct 11, 2022, 7:35 PM
47
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
On the proper piloting of flesh shoots
Mordecai Weynberg
Oct 11, 2022, 6:52 PM
−4
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I think nuclear war triggered by Russian tactical nukes in Ukraine is unlikely
Dave Orr
Oct 11, 2022, 6:30 PM
50
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Anonymous advice: If you want to reduce AI risk, should you take roles that advance AI capabilities?
Benjamin Hilton
Oct 11, 2022, 2:16 PM
54
points
9
comments
LW
link
Misalignment Harms Can Be Caused by Low Intelligence Systems
DialecticEel
Oct 11, 2022, 1:39 PM
11
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Sketch] Validity Criterion for Logical Counterfactuals
DragonGod
Oct 11, 2022, 1:31 PM
6
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How much does the risk of dying from nuclear war differ within and between countries?
amarai
Oct 11, 2022, 11:55 AM
4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Did you enjoy Ramez Naam’s “Nexus” trilogy? Check out this interview on neurotech and the law.
fowlertm
Oct 11, 2022, 11:10 AM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What “The Message” Was For Me
Alex Beyman
Oct 11, 2022, 8:08 AM
−3
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Updates and Clarifications
SD Marlow
Oct 11, 2022, 5:34 AM
−5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
What if human reasoning is anti-inductive?
Q Home
Oct 11, 2022, 5:15 AM
4
points
2
comments
13
min read
LW
link
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
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