Against “Clas­sic Style”

Cleo NardoNov 23, 2022, 10:10 PM
67 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/​LW Meetup

ISNov 23, 2022, 10:05 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meme Dialects

jefftkNov 23, 2022, 9:30 PM
26 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] When do you vi­su­al­ize (or not) while do­ing math?

Alex_AltairNov 23, 2022, 8:15 PM
21 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

When AI solves a game, fo­cus on the game’s me­chan­ics, not its theme.

Cleo NardoNov 23, 2022, 7:16 PM
89 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

The Geo­met­ric Expectation

Scott GarrabrantNov 23, 2022, 6:05 PM
159 points
22 comments4 min readLW link

“Far Co­or­di­na­tion”

DragonGodNov 23, 2022, 5:14 PM
6 points
17 comments9 min readLW link

Con­jec­ture Se­cond Hiring Round

Nov 23, 2022, 5:11 PM
92 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Con­jec­ture: a ret­ro­spec­tive af­ter 8 months of work

Nov 23, 2022, 5:10 PM
180 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

Against a Gen­eral Fac­tor of Doom

Jeffrey HeningerNov 23, 2022, 4:50 PM
61 points
19 comments4 min readLW link1 review
(aiimpacts.org)

In­ject­ing some num­bers into the AGI de­bate—by Boaz Barak

JsevillamolNov 23, 2022, 4:10 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(windowsontheory.org)

Notes on an Ex­per­i­ment with Markets

Jeffrey HeningerNov 23, 2022, 4:10 PM
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

An­nounc­ing AI safety Men­tors and Mentees

Marius HobbhahnNov 23, 2022, 3:21 PM
62 points
7 comments10 min readLW link

Ex nihilo

Hopkins StanleyNov 23, 2022, 2:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man-level Di­plo­macy was my fire alarm

Lao MeinNov 23, 2022, 10:05 AM
54 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Sets of ob­jec­tives for a multi-ob­jec­tive RL agent to optimize

Nov 23, 2022, 6:49 AM
13 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Si­mu­la­tors, con­straints, and goal ag­nos­ti­cism: por­bynotes vol. 1

porbyNov 23, 2022, 4:22 AM
37 points
2 comments35 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Town Hall: FTX Fal­lout Edi­tion (RSVP Re­quired)

Ben PaceNov 23, 2022, 1:38 AM
43 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Feel­ing Old: Leav­ing your 20s in the 2020s

squidiousNov 22, 2022, 10:50 PM
37 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Brute-forc­ing the uni­verse: a non-stan­dard shot at di­a­mond alignment

Martín SotoNov 22, 2022, 10:36 PM
9 points
2 comments20 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing AI Align­ment Awards: $100k re­search con­tests about goal mis­gen­er­al­iza­tion & corrigibility

Nov 22, 2022, 10:19 PM
73 points
20 comments4 min readLW link

ACX Zurich Novem­ber Meetup

MBNov 22, 2022, 9:41 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Hu­man-level Full-Press Di­plo­macy (some bare facts).

Cleo NardoNov 22, 2022, 8:59 PM
50 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How does late-2022 COVID trans­mis­si­bil­ity drop over time?

Daniel DeweyNov 22, 2022, 7:54 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by play­ing “3-di­men­sional chess”.

Nov 22, 2022, 6:57 PM
134 points
97 comments24 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22

jasoncrawfordNov 22, 2022, 5:39 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority

Scott GarrabrantNov 22, 2022, 5:19 PM
192 points
13 comments9 min readLW link1 review

A Walk­through of In-Con­text Learn­ing and In­duc­tion Heads (w/​ Charles Frye) Part 1 of 2

Neel NandaNov 22, 2022, 5:12 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Sim­ple Im­prove­ment to Col­lege Foot­ball Over­time Rules

ZviNov 22, 2022, 5:00 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Meta AI an­nounces Cicero: Hu­man-Level Di­plo­macy play (with di­alogue)

Jacy Reese AnthisNov 22, 2022, 4:50 PM
93 points
64 comments1 min readLW link
(www.science.org)

Austin LW meetup notes: The FTX Affair

jchanNov 22, 2022, 2:01 PM
20 points
3 comments16 min readLW link

Mo­ti­vated Cog­ni­tion and the Mul­ti­verse of Truth

Q HomeNov 22, 2022, 12:51 PM
8 points
16 comments24 min readLW link

LessWrong read­ers are in­vited to ap­ply to the Lurkshop

Nov 22, 2022, 9:19 AM
101 points
41 comments3 min readLW link

Gaox­ing Guy

Alok SinghNov 22, 2022, 1:50 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(alok.github.io)

Mis­cel­la­neous First-Pass Align­ment Thoughts

NickGabsNov 21, 2022, 9:23 PM
12 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

[Heb­bian Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tions] Introduction

Nov 21, 2022, 8:34 PM
34 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(www.snellessen.com)

Utili­tar­i­anism Meets Egalitarianism

Scott GarrabrantNov 21, 2022, 7:00 PM
121 points
16 comments6 min readLW link1 review

In­ter­view with Matt Freeman

EvenflairNov 21, 2022, 6:17 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(overcast.fm)

Here’s the exit.

ValentineNov 21, 2022, 6:07 PM
113 points
180 comments10 min readLW link5 reviews

Benefits/​Risks of Scott Aaron­son’s Ortho­dox/​Re­form Fram­ing for AI Alignment

JeremyyNov 21, 2022, 5:54 PM
2 points
1 commentLW link

[ASoT] Reflec­tivity in Nar­row AI

Ulisse MiniNov 21, 2022, 12:51 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Scott Aaron­son on “Re­form AI Align­ment”

ShmiNov 20, 2022, 10:20 PM
39 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(scottaaronson.blog)

On Mo­ral­ity, Ethics, and all that Jazz

Delen HeismanNov 20, 2022, 8:00 PM
4 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(delen.substack.com)

Limits to the Con­trol­la­bil­ity of AGI

Nov 20, 2022, 7:18 PM
10 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

Ca­reer Scout­ing: Dentistry

koratkarNov 20, 2022, 3:55 PM
69 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(careerscouting.substack.com)

De­ci­sion The­ory but also Ghosts

eva_Nov 20, 2022, 1:24 PM
17 points
21 comments10 min readLW link

ARC pa­per: For­mal­iz­ing the pre­sump­tion of independence

Erik JennerNov 20, 2022, 1:22 AM
97 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Up­date to Mys­ter­ies of mode col­lapse: text-davinci-002 not RLHF

janusNov 19, 2022, 11:51 PM
71 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Make the Drought Eva­po­rate!

AnthonyRepettoNov 19, 2022, 11:41 PM
32 points
25 comments3 min readLW link

Elas­tic Pro­duc­tivity Tools

Simon BerensNov 19, 2022, 9:59 PM
76 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(simonberens.me)