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LW Beta Feature: Side-Comments

jimrandomhNov 24, 2022, 1:55 AM

103 points

47 comments1 min readLW link

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

Connor Leahy, Sid Black, Gabriel Alfour and Chris Scammell

Nov 23, 2022, 5:11 PM

92 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Conjecture: a retrospective after 8 months of work

Connor Leahy, Sid Black, Gabriel Alfour and Chris Scammell

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 link 1 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

Ben Smith and Roland Pihlakas

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

Orpheus16 and OliviaJ

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”.

boazbarak and benedelman

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 link 1 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

Jonas V and GradientDissenter

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

Samuel Nellessen and Jan

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 link 1 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

115 points

180 comments10 min readLW link 5 reviews

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

JeremyyNov 21, 2022, 5:54 PM

2 points

1 comment LW 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

Roman_Yampolskiy, Remmelt Ellen and Karl von Wendt

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