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Furry Rationalists & Effective Anthropomorphism both exist
agentydragon
Oct 25, 2022, 3:37 AM
42
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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
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)
Quick notes on “mirror neurons”
Steven Byrnes
Oct 4, 2022, 5:39 PM
39
points
2
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
Consider trying Vivek Hebbar’s alignment exercises
Orpheus16
Oct 24, 2022, 7:46 PM
38
points
1
comment
4
min read
LW
link
AI Research Program Prediction Markets
tailcalled
Oct 20, 2022, 1:42 PM
38
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Weekly Roundup #2
Zvi
Oct 21, 2022, 12:10 PM
37
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Deepfake(?) Phishing
jefftk
Oct 21, 2022, 2:30 PM
37
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Should we push for requiring AI training data to be licensed?
ChristianKl
Oct 19, 2022, 5:49 PM
37
points
32
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI researchers announce NeuroAI agenda
Cameron Berg
Oct 24, 2022, 12:14 AM
37
points
12
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
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)
Science of Deep Learning—a technical agenda
Marius Hobbhahn
Oct 18, 2022, 2:54 PM
37
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Another problem with AI confinement: ordinary CPUs can work as radio transmitters
RomanS
Oct 14, 2022, 8:28 AM
36
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(news.softpedia.com)
Sleep Training
jefftk
Oct 5, 2022, 2:10 AM
36
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Prizes for ML Safety Benchmark Ideas
joshc
Oct 28, 2022, 2:51 AM
36
points
5
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)
Is GitHub Copilot in legal trouble?
tcelferact
Oct 18, 2022, 4:19 PM
35
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How are you dealing with ontology identification?
Erik Jenner
Oct 4, 2022, 11:28 PM
34
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
What will the scaled up GATO look like? (Updated with questions)
Amal
Oct 25, 2022, 12:44 PM
34
points
22
comments
1
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)
Natural Categories Update
Logan Zoellner
Oct 10, 2022, 3:19 PM
33
points
6
comments
2
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)
Covid 10/27/22: Another Origin Story
Zvi
Oct 27, 2022, 1:40 PM
32
points
1
comment
13
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know
George3d6
Oct 3, 2022, 3:02 PM
31
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(doyourownresearch.substack.com)
Adversarial vs Collaborative Contexts
jefftk
Oct 4, 2022, 2:40 AM
31
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Deliberate practice for research?
Alex_Altair
Oct 8, 2022, 3:45 AM
30
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What is good Cyber Security Advice?
Gunnar_Zarncke
Oct 24, 2022, 11:27 PM
30
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Paper: In-context Reinforcement Learning with Algorithm Distillation [Deepmind]
LawrenceC
Oct 26, 2022, 6:45 PM
29
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Consider Applying to the Future Fellowship at MIT
jefftk
Oct 25, 2022, 3:40 PM
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Cooperators are more powerful than agents
Ivan Vendrov
Oct 21, 2022, 8:02 PM
29
points
7
comments
3
min read
LW
link
POWERplay: An open-source toolchain to study AI power-seeking
Edouard Harris
Oct 24, 2022, 8:03 PM
29
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(github.com)
A game of mattering
KatjaGrace
Oct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
28
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
Covid 10/13/22: Just the Facts
Zvi
Oct 13, 2022, 2:40 PM
28
points
7
comments
10
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
From technocracy to the counterculture
jasoncrawford
Oct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM
28
points
1
comment
26
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
Finding Great Tutors
Ulisse Mini
Oct 5, 2022, 10:08 PM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quantum Immortality, foiled
Ben
Oct 29, 2022, 11:00 AM
27
points
4
comments
2
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
[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
Me (Steve Byrnes) on the “Brain Inspired” podcast
Steven Byrnes
Oct 30, 2022, 7:15 PM
26
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(braininspired.co)
GD’s Implicit Bias on Separable Data
Xander Davies
Oct 17, 2022, 4:13 AM
25
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Newsletter for Alignment Research: The ML Safety Updates
Esben Kran
Oct 22, 2022, 4:17 PM
25
points
0
comments
LW
link
Audition to perform in Bay Secular Solstice
mingyuan
Oct 18, 2022, 3:10 AM
25
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
I am a Memoryless System
Nicholas / Heather Kross
Oct 23, 2022, 5:34 PM
25
points
2
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)
Vehicle Platooning—a real world examination of the difficulties in coordination
M. Y. Zuo
Oct 13, 2022, 7:33 PM
24
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Pondering computation in the real world
Adam Shai
Oct 28, 2022, 3:57 PM
24
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Maps and Blueprint; the Two Sides of the Alignment Equation
Nora_Ammann
25 Oct 2022 16:29 UTC
24
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
AI Safety Ideas: An Open AI Safety Research Platform
Esben Kran
17 Oct 2022 17:01 UTC
24
points
0
comments
LW
link
Notes on Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Vaniver
6 Oct 2022 2:36 UTC
24
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?
Noosphere89
10 Oct 2022 20:55 UTC
24
points
71
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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