All200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
AllJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
All123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930

Don’t ex­pect your life part­ner to be bet­ter than your exes in more than one way: a math­e­mat­i­cal model

mddOct 29, 2022, 6:47 PM
7 points
1 comment9 min readLW link

The So­cial Re­ces­sion: By the Numbers

antonomonOct 29, 2022, 6:45 PM
165 points
29 comments8 min readLW link
(novum.substack.com)

Elec­tric Ket­tle vs Stove

jefftkOct 29, 2022, 12:50 PM
18 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity, foiled

BenOct 29, 2022, 11:00 AM
27 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Some Les­sons Learned from Study­ing Indi­rect Ob­ject Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in GPT-2 small

RowanWang, Alexandre Variengien, Arthur Conmy, Buck and jsteinhardt
Oct 28, 2022, 11:55 PM
101 points
9 comments9 min readLW link2 reviews
(arxiv.org)

Re­sources that (I think) new al­ign­ment re­searchers should know about

Orpheus16Oct 28, 2022, 10:13 PM
70 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

How of­ten does One Per­son suc­ceed?

Mayank ModiOct 28, 2022, 7:32 PM
1 point
3 commentsLW link

aisafety.com­mu­nity—A liv­ing doc­u­ment of AI safety communities

zeshen and plex
Oct 28, 2022, 5:50 PM
58 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Rapid Test Throat Swab­bing?

jefftkOct 28, 2022, 4:30 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Join the in­ter­pretabil­ity re­search hackathon

Esben KranOct 28, 2022, 4:26 PM
15 points
0 commentsLW link

Syncretism

AnnapurnaOct 28, 2022, 4:08 PM
16 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Pon­der­ing com­pu­ta­tion in the real world

Adam ShaiOct 28, 2022, 3:57 PM
24 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Ukraine and the Crimea Question

ChristianKlOct 28, 2022, 12:26 PM
−2 points
153 comments11 min readLW link

New book on s-risks

Tobias_BaumannOct 28, 2022, 9:36 AM
68 points
1 commentLW link

Cryp­tic symbols

Adam ScherlisOct 28, 2022, 6:44 AM
6 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(adam.scherlis.com)

All life’s helpers’ beliefs

TehdastehdasOct 28, 2022, 5:47 AM
−12 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Prizes for ML Safety Bench­mark Ideas

joshcOct 28, 2022, 2:51 AM
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Wor­ld­view iPeo­ple—Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

Toni MUENDELOct 28, 2022, 1:53 AM
−22 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Anatomy of change

Jose Miguel Cruz y CelisOct 28, 2022, 1:21 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nash equil­ibria of sym­met­ric zero-sum games

Ege ErdilOct 27, 2022, 11:50 PM
14 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Good psy­chol­ogy books/​books that con­tain good psy­cholog­i­cal mod­els?

shuffled-cantaloupeOct 27, 2022, 11:04 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pod­cast: The Left and Effec­tive Altru­ism with Habiba Islam

garrisonOct 27, 2022, 5:41 PM
2 points
2 commentsLW link

Les­sons from ‘Famine, Affluence, and Mo­ral­ity’ and its re­flec­tion on to­day.

Mayank ModiOct 27, 2022, 5:20 PM
4 points
0 commentsLW link

[Question] Is the Orthog­o­nal­ity Th­e­sis true for hu­mans?

Noosphere89Oct 27, 2022, 2:41 PM
12 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

His­tori­cism in the math-ad­ja­cent sciences

mrcbarbierOct 27, 2022, 2:38 PM
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

How Risky Is Trick-or-Treat­ing?

jefftkOct 27, 2022, 2:10 PM
58 points
18 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Covid 10/​27/​22: Another Ori­gin Story

ZviOct 27, 2022, 1:40 PM
32 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Why are prob­a­bil­ities rep­re­sented as real num­bers in­stead of ra­tio­nal num­bers?

Yaakov TOct 27, 2022, 11:23 AM
5 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus

PrometheusOct 27, 2022, 6:13 AM
13 points
18 commentsLW link

Ap­ply to the Red­wood Re­search Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Ex­per­i­ment (REMIX), a re­search pro­gram in Berkeley

maxnadeau, Xander Davies, Buck and Nate Thomas
Oct 27, 2022, 1:32 AM
135 points
14 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Quan­tum Suicide and Au­mann’s Agree­ment Theorem

Isaac KingOct 27, 2022, 1:32 AM
14 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel BeckerOct 26, 2022, 9:13 PM
10 points
0 commentsLW link

A list of Petrov buttons

philhOct 26, 2022, 8:50 PM
19 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

The Game of Antonyms

FaustifyOct 26, 2022, 7:26 PM
4 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

Paper: In-con­text Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing with Al­gorithm Distil­la­tion [Deep­mind]

LawrenceCOct 26, 2022, 6:45 PM
29 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] How to be­come more ar­tic­u­late?

just_browsingOct 26, 2022, 2:43 PM
19 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Open Bands: Lead­ing Rhythm

jefftk26 Oct 2022 14:30 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sig­nals of war in Au­gust 2021

yieldthought26 Oct 2022 8:11 UTC
70 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Trig­ger-based rapid checklists

VipulNaik26 Oct 2022 4:05 UTC
44 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Why some peo­ple be­lieve in AGI, but I don’t.

cveres26 Oct 2022 3:09 UTC
−15 points
6 commentsLW link

In­tent al­ign­ment should not be the goal for AGI x-risk reduction

John Nay26 Oct 2022 1:24 UTC
1 point
10 comments3 min readLW link

Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing Goal Mis­gen­er­al­iza­tion: Can we guess what kind of goals are se­lected by de­fault?

StefanHex and Julian_R
25 Oct 2022 20:48 UTC
15 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

A Walk­through of A Math­e­mat­i­cal Frame­work for Trans­former Circuits

Neel Nanda25 Oct 2022 20:24 UTC
52 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Noth­ing.

rogersbacon25 Oct 2022 16:33 UTC
−10 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

Maps and Blueprint; the Two Sides of the Align­ment Equation

Nora_Ammann25 Oct 2022 16:29 UTC
24 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Con­sider Ap­ply­ing to the Fu­ture Fel­low­ship at MIT

jefftk25 Oct 2022 15:40 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Beyond Kol­mogorov and Shannon

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Adam Shai
25 Oct 2022 15:13 UTC
63 points
22 comments5 min readLW link

What does it take to defend the world against out-of-con­trol AGIs?

Steven Byrnes25 Oct 2022 14:47 UTC
208 points
49 comments30 min readLW link1 review

Refine: what helped me write more?

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel25 Oct 2022 14:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Log­i­cal De­ci­sion The­o­ries: Our fi­nal failsafe?

Noosphere8925 Oct 2022 12:51 UTC
−7 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)