Covid 10/​20/​22: Wait, We Did WHAT?

ZviOct 20, 2022, 9:50 PM
55 points
16 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When ap­par­ently pos­i­tive ev­i­dence can be nega­tive evidence

cataOct 20, 2022, 9:47 PM
19 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Plans Are Pre­dic­tions, Not Op­ti­miza­tion Targets

johnswentworthOct 20, 2022, 9:17 PM
108 points
20 comments4 min readLW link1 review

In­tro­duc­tion to ab­stract entropy

Alex_AltairOct 20, 2022, 9:03 PM
234 points
78 comments18 min readLW link1 review

Tra­jec­to­ries to 2036

ukc10014Oct 20, 2022, 8:23 PM
3 points
1 comment14 min readLW link

[Question] Rough Sketch for Product to En­hance Ci­ti­zen Par­ti­ci­pa­tion in Politics

Fer32dwt34r3dfszOct 20, 2022, 8:04 PM
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The her­i­ta­bil­ity of hu­man val­ues: A be­hav­ior ge­netic cri­tique of Shard Theory

geoffreymillerOct 20, 2022, 3:51 PM
80 points
63 comments21 min readLW link

A Longter­mist case against Veganism

Connor TabarrokOct 20, 2022, 2:30 PM
−3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI Re­search Pro­gram Pre­dic­tion Markets

tailcalledOct 20, 2022, 1:42 PM
38 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the mean­ing of words cho­sen/​in­ter­preted to max­i­mize cor­re­la­tions with other rele­vant queries?

tailcalledOct 20, 2022, 10:03 AM
9 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How to Write Read­able Posts

David HartsoughOct 20, 2022, 7:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on “Can you con­trol the past”

So8resOct 20, 2022, 3:41 AM
64 points
41 comments21 min readLW link

Rhyth­mic Baby Toys

jefftkOct 20, 2022, 1:50 AM
15 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What Does AI Align­ment Suc­cess Look Like?

ShmiOct 20, 2022, 12:32 AM
23 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Scal­ing Laws for Re­ward Model Overoptimization

Oct 20, 2022, 12:20 AM
103 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

What is Con­scious­ness?

belkarxOct 19, 2022, 9:14 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

What to do if a nu­clear weapon is used in Ukraine?

Valentin2026Oct 19, 2022, 6:43 PM
13 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If I asked for an ex­pla­na­tion of a perfect Utopia, could you give one?

AkkiraOct 19, 2022, 5:56 PM
−4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we push for re­quiring AI train­ing data to be li­censed?

ChristianKlOct 19, 2022, 5:49 PM
37 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

Hacker-AI and Digi­tal Ghosts – Pre-AGI

Erland WittkotterOct 19, 2022, 3:33 PM
9 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

The re­ward func­tion is already how well you ma­nipu­late humans

KerryOct 19, 2022, 1:52 AM
20 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Re­sponse to Katja Grace’s AI x-risk counterarguments

Oct 19, 2022, 1:17 AM
77 points
18 comments15 min readLW link

(OLD) An Ex­tremely Opinionated An­no­tated List of My Favourite Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Papers

Neel NandaOct 18, 2022, 9:08 PM
72 points
5 comments12 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Distil­led Rep­re­sen­ta­tions Re­search Agenda

Oct 18, 2022, 8:59 PM
15 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

Draft­ing a Covid Survey

jefftkOct 18, 2022, 7:30 PM
15 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How To Make Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Use­ful For Align­ment Work

johnswentworthOct 18, 2022, 7:01 PM
97 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

A con­ver­sa­tion about Katja’s coun­ter­ar­gu­ments to AI risk

Oct 18, 2022, 6:40 PM
43 points
9 comments33 min readLW link

ACX Zurich Oc­to­ber Meetup

MBOct 18, 2022, 6:24 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Un­tapped Po­ten­tial at 13-18

belkarxOct 18, 2022, 6:09 PM
82 points
53 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How easy is it to su­per­vise pro­cesses vs out­comes?

Noosphere89Oct 18, 2022, 5:48 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Is GitHub Copi­lot in le­gal trou­ble?

tcelferactOct 18, 2022, 4:19 PM
35 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus is build­ing a team ded­i­cated to AI forecasting

ChristianWilliamsOct 18, 2022, 4:08 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Take Over the Uni­verse (in Three Easy Steps)

WriterOct 18, 2022, 3:04 PM
47 points
17 comments12 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Science of Deep Learn­ing—a tech­ni­cal agenda

Marius HobbhahnOct 18, 2022, 2:54 PM
36 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

My search for a re­li­able breakfast

tomdekanOct 18, 2022, 9:42 AM
6 points
17 comments3 min readLW link
(www.tomdekan.com)

In­finite Pos­si­bil­ity Space and the Shut­down Problem

magfrumpOct 18, 2022, 5:37 AM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.magfrump.net)

Au­di­tion to perform in Bay Sec­u­lar Solstice

mingyuanOct 18, 2022, 3:10 AM
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

De­ci­sion the­ory does not im­ply that we get to have nice things

So8resOct 18, 2022, 3:04 AM
171 points
73 comments26 min readLW link2 reviews

South Bay ACX/​LW Meetup

ISOct 18, 2022, 2:50 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Ver­ti­cal Flutes

jefftkOct 18, 2022, 1:40 AM
10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why Weren’t Hot Air Bal­loons In­vented Sooner?

Lost FuturesOct 18, 2022, 12:41 AM
115 points
52 comments6 min readLW link
(lostfutures.substack.com)

Is GPT-N bounded by hu­man ca­pa­bil­ities? No.

Cleo NardoOct 17, 2022, 11:26 PM
49 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (10 − 16 Oct 22′)

Zoe WilliamsOct 17, 2022, 10:51 PM
12 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A prag­matic met­ric for Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral Intelligence

lorepieriOct 17, 2022, 10:07 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(lorenzopieri.com)

They gave LLMs ac­cess to physics simulators

ryan_bOct 17, 2022, 9:21 PM
50 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Com­bat­ting perfectionism

tomdekanOct 17, 2022, 8:58 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(tomdekan.com)

Open Prob­lem in Vot­ing Theory

Scott GarrabrantOct 17, 2022, 8:42 PM
75 points
16 comments6 min readLW link

Max­i­mal Lot­tery-Lotteries

Scott GarrabrantOct 17, 2022, 8:39 PM
72 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Creat­ing su­per­in­tel­li­gence with­out AGI

AntbOct 17, 2022, 7:01 PM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Ideas: An Open AI Safety Re­search Platform

Esben KranOct 17, 2022, 5:01 PM
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link