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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
9
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
131
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
Oct 7, 2022, 7:07 PM
2
points
0
comments
40
min read
LW
link
Analysis: US restricts GPU sales to China
aog
Oct 7, 2022, 6:38 PM
102
points
58
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Polysemanticity and Capacity in Neural Networks
Buck
,
Adam Jermyn
and
Kshitij Sachan
Oct 7, 2022, 5:51 PM
87
points
14
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Alignment Might Never Be Solved, By Humans or AI
interstice
Oct 7, 2022, 4:14 PM
49
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
More examples of goal misgeneralization
Rohin Shah
and
Vikrant Varma
Oct 7, 2022, 2:38 PM
56
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)
Preparing to Call a Family Dance
jefftk
Oct 7, 2022, 12:50 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Calibrate—New Chrome Extension for hiding numbers so you can guess
chanamessinger
Oct 7, 2022, 11:21 AM
59
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(chrome.google.com)
EA Berlin Public Meetup October 2022
pranomostro
Oct 7, 2022, 10:11 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Accrue Nuclear Dignity Points
Pee Doom
Oct 7, 2022, 8:40 AM
9
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What does it mean for an AGI to be ‘safe’?
So8res
Oct 7, 2022, 4:13 AM
74
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
linkpost: neuro-symbolic hybrid ai
Nathan Helm-Burger
Oct 6, 2022, 9:52 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
So, geez there’s a lot of AI content these days
Raemon
Oct 6, 2022, 9:32 PM
258
points
140
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Analysing a 2036 Takeover Scenario
ukc10014
Oct 6, 2022, 8:48 PM
9
points
2
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Covid 10/6/22: Overreactions Aplenty
Zvi
Oct 6, 2022, 7:10 PM
37
points
18
comments
31
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A shot at the diamond-alignment problem
TurnTrout
Oct 6, 2022, 6:29 PM
95
points
67
comments
15
min read
LW
link
The probability that Artificial General Intelligence will be developed by 2043 is extremely low.
cveres
Oct 6, 2022, 6:05 PM
−13
points
8
comments
LW
link
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
jasoncrawford
Oct 6, 2022, 5:19 PM
13
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
More Recent Progress in the Theory of Neural Networks
jylin04
Oct 6, 2022, 4:57 PM
82
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Research Deprioritizing External Communication
jefftk
Oct 6, 2022, 12:20 PM
34
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Cape Town ACX/Rationality Meetup
Jordan Pieters
Oct 6, 2022, 10:39 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Warning Shots Probably Wouldn’t Change The Picture Much
So8res
Oct 6, 2022, 5:15 AM
126
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Notes on Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Vaniver
Oct 6, 2022, 2:36 AM
24
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Against Arguments For Exploitation
blackstampede
Oct 6, 2022, 1:58 AM
18
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
AI Timelines via Cumulative Optimization Power: Less Long, More Short
jacob_cannell
Oct 6, 2022, 12:21 AM
138
points
33
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do uncertainty/planning costs make convex hulls unrealistic?
eapi
Oct 6, 2022, 12:10 AM
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Generative, Episodic Objectives for Safe AI
Michael Glass
Oct 5, 2022, 11:18 PM
11
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
Oct 5, 2022, 10:40 PM
41
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
[Question]
How does anthropic reasoning and illusionism/eliminitivism interact?
Shiroe
Oct 5, 2022, 10:31 PM
5
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Finding Great Tutors
Ulisse Mini
Oct 5, 2022, 10:08 PM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-05
jasoncrawford
Oct 5, 2022, 7:24 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
Henrik Karlsson
Oct 5, 2022, 7:07 PM
89
points
12
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)
Neural Tangent Kernel Distillation
Thomas Larsen
and
Jeremy Gillen
Oct 5, 2022, 6:11 PM
76
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Tracking Compute Stocks and Flows: Case Studies?
Cullen
Oct 5, 2022, 5:57 PM
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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