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Data for IRL: What is needed to learn human values?
Jan Wehner
Oct 3, 2022, 9:23 AM
18
points
6
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Statistics for objects with shared identities
Q Home
Oct 3, 2022, 9:21 AM
2
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Visualizing Learned Representations of Rice Disease
muhia_bee
Oct 3, 2022, 9:09 AM
7
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(indecisive-sand-24a.notion.site)
[Question]
Is there a culture overhang?
Aleksi Liimatainen
Oct 3, 2022, 7:26 AM
18
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Baby Monitor with Delay
jefftk
Oct 3, 2022, 1:40 AM
12
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
What makes a probability question “well-defined”? (Part I)
Noah Topper
Oct 2, 2022, 9:05 PM
14
points
4
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(naivebayes.substack.com)
Against the weirdness heuristic
Eleni Angelou
Oct 2, 2022, 7:41 PM
17
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Easy fixing Voting
Charbel-Raphaël
Oct 2, 2022, 5:03 PM
12
points
2
comments
LW
link
Monthly Shorts 9/22, and An Essay in Defense of Technodeterminism
Celer
Oct 2, 2022, 4:10 PM
10
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
(keller.substack.com)
Open & Welcome Thread—Oct 2022
niplav
Oct 2, 2022, 11:04 AM
17
points
62
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Any further work on AI Safety Success Stories?
Krieger
Oct 2, 2022, 9:53 AM
8
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Request for feedback on sample blurbs for the EA fantasy novel I wrote
Timothy Underwood
Oct 2, 2022, 9:01 AM
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Paper: Large Language Models Can Self-improve [Linkpost]
Evan R. Murphy
Oct 2, 2022, 1:29 AM
52
points
15
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openreview.net)
Four usages of “loss” in AI
TurnTrout
Oct 2, 2022, 12:52 AM
46
points
18
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The computational complexity of progress
Malmesbury
Oct 1, 2022, 9:50 PM
21
points
2
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Company leadership and tactical decisions
Dentin
Oct 1, 2022, 9:21 PM
21
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Clarifying Your Principles
Raemon
Oct 1, 2022, 9:20 PM
60
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
How I Make Diagrams
jefftk
Oct 1, 2022, 9:10 PM
14
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Are c-sections underrated?
braces
Oct 1, 2022, 8:32 PM
47
points
15
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do anthropic considerations undercut the evolution anchor from the Bio Anchors report?
Ege Erdil
Oct 1, 2022, 8:02 PM
22
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Potential infinite value
[deleted]
Oct 1, 2022, 7:45 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AGI by 2050 probability less than 1%
fumin
Oct 1, 2022, 7:45 PM
−10
points
4
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(docs.google.com)
[Question]
What sorts of preparations ought I do in case of further escalation in Ukraine?
tailcalled
Oct 1, 2022, 4:44 PM
47
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Interesting predictions on manifold.markets
jmh
Oct 1, 2022, 4:09 PM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What’s the actual evidence that AI marketing tools are changing preferences in a way that makes them easier to predict?
Emrik
Oct 1, 2022, 3:21 PM
11
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Google could build a conscious AI in three months
derek shiller
Oct 1, 2022, 1:24 PM
10
points
18
comments
LW
link
Announcing the AI Safety Nudge Competition to Help Beat Procrastination
Marc Carauleanu
Oct 1, 2022, 1:49 AM
10
points
0
comments
LW
link
A Few Terrifying Facts About The Russo-Ukrainian War
Pee Doom
Sep 30, 2022, 9:34 PM
70
points
105
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Is the Idea Behind (Un-)Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning?
Morpheus
Sep 30, 2022, 4:48 PM
9
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Do insects’ lives matter?
Carn
Sep 30, 2022, 3:38 PM
0
points
3
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Another Loft Bed
jefftk
Sep 30, 2022, 2:50 PM
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Eli’s review of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”
elifland
Sep 30, 2022, 12:21 PM
67
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(docs.google.com)
Truth-Seeking: Reason vs. Intuition
sakraf
Sep 30, 2022, 12:12 PM
4
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(Structural) Stability of Coupled Optimizers
Paul Bricman
Sep 30, 2022, 11:28 AM
25
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Rank the following based on likelihood to nullify AI-risk
Aorou
Sep 30, 2022, 11:15 AM
3
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
The Importance-Avoidance Effect
David Hartsough
Sep 30, 2022, 10:09 AM
19
points
7
comments
LW
link
History of the theory of well-being
David Hartsough
30 Sep 2022 10:08 UTC
5
points
0
comments
LW
link
Media Publication Governed by Prediction Markets
joao_abrantes
30 Sep 2022 10:01 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(joao-abrantes.com)
If it seems intuitive, you’re not building intuition
myutin
30 Sep 2022 7:46 UTC
4
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
linkpost: loss basin visualization
Nathan Helm-Burger
30 Sep 2022 3:42 UTC
14
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
How To Observe Abstract Objects
LoganStrohl
30 Sep 2022 2:11 UTC
54
points
12
comments
21
min read
LW
link
1
review
Prioritizing Parental Sleep
jefftk
30 Sep 2022 2:10 UTC
77
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Bruce Wayne and the Cost of Inaction
TurnTrout
and
DivineMango
30 Sep 2022 0:19 UTC
89
points
5
comments
21
min read
LW
link
Distribution Shifts and The Importance of AI Safety
Leon Lang
29 Sep 2022 22:38 UTC
17
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Clarifying the Agent-Like Structure Problem
johnswentworth
29 Sep 2022 21:28 UTC
63
points
17
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Where I currently disagree with Ryan Greenblatt’s version of the ELK approach
So8res
29 Sep 2022 21:18 UTC
65
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
It matters when the first sharp left turn happens
Adam Jermyn
29 Sep 2022 20:12 UTC
45
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Covid 9/29/22: The Jones Act Waver
Zvi
29 Sep 2022 18:20 UTC
47
points
10
comments
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
High-Impact Psychology (HIPsy): Piloting a Global Network
Inga G.
29 Sep 2022 18:16 UTC
8
points
0
comments
LW
link
Unit Test Everything
DirectedEvolution
29 Sep 2022 18:12 UTC
30
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
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