Chris­ti­ano and Yud­kowsky on AI pre­dic­tions and hu­man intelligence

Eliezer Yudkowsky23 Feb 2022 21:34 UTC
70 points
35 comments42 min readLW link

[Question] Was the K-T event a Great Filter?

Yoreth23 Feb 2022 20:35 UTC
8 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Pa­tient Observation

LoganStrohl23 Feb 2022 19:31 UTC
128 points
4 comments10 min readLW link1 review

More GPT-3 and sym­bol grounding

Stuart_Armstrong23 Feb 2022 18:30 UTC
21 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Some Tech­ni­cal Prob­lems With Mea­sur­ing Hap­piness (and some solu­tions)

Alexander de Vries23 Feb 2022 15:02 UTC
16 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 5. The “long-term pre­dic­tor”, and TD learning

Steven Byrnes23 Feb 2022 14:44 UTC
52 points
27 comments20 min readLW link

Do, Then Think

George3d623 Feb 2022 13:40 UTC
55 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

In­ter­view with Nec­tome CEO Robert McIn­tyre—Brain Preser­va­tion, Per­sonal Iden­tity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Beta Fea­ture] Google-Docs-like edit­ing for LessWrong posts

23 Feb 2022 1:52 UTC
165 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

How satis­fied should you ex­pect to be with your part­ner?

Vaniver22 Feb 2022 23:27 UTC
100 points
7 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Bay Ra­tion­al­ists Field Day

SurvivalBias22 Feb 2022 19:55 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.SCP: Ano­ma­lous Ac­qui­si­tions Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyer22 Feb 2022 18:19 UTC
32 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the sta­tus of TDCS for im­prov­ing in­tel­li­gence?

FinalFormal222 Feb 2022 17:27 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing By Writing

HoldenKarnofsky22 Feb 2022 15:50 UTC
141 points
15 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews
(www.cold-takes.com)

Harms and pos­si­bil­ities of schooling

TsviBT22 Feb 2022 7:48 UTC
120 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

But­terfly Ideas

Elizabeth22 Feb 2022 7:40 UTC
184 points
10 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(acesounderglass.com)

ELK Pro­posal: Think­ing Via A Hu­man Imitator

TurnTrout22 Feb 2022 1:52 UTC
31 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Re­ward Good Bets That Had Bad Outcomes

Neel Nanda22 Feb 2022 0:25 UTC
44 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

The Art and Science of In­tu­ition Pumping

adamShimi22 Feb 2022 0:18 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Do any AI al­ign­ment orgs hire re­motely?

RobertM21 Feb 2022 22:33 UTC
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Con­voy Crackdown

Zvi21 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC
92 points
21 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on sci­en­tific rea­son­ing and pivotal acts

21 Feb 2022 20:54 UTC
67 points
14 comments35 min readLW link

Direct Observation

LoganStrohl21 Feb 2022 20:51 UTC
42 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Align­ment re­search exercises

Richard_Ngo21 Feb 2022 20:24 UTC
149 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

Sum­mary/​Re­view/​Quotes of “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” by Joseph Henrich

Torello21 Feb 2022 20:03 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing mod­els of LW’s aver­sion to religion

Visible_Ignorance21 Feb 2022 18:54 UTC
24 points
52 comments7 min readLW link

Con­test for out­lin­ing rules for this con­test.

abramdemski21 Feb 2022 18:44 UTC
40 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Fa­vorite /​ most ob­scure re­search on un­der­stand­ing DNNs?

Vivek Hebbar21 Feb 2022 5:49 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Big Pic­ture Of Align­ment (Talk Part 1)

johnswentworth21 Feb 2022 5:49 UTC
101 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Two Challenges for ELK

derek shiller21 Feb 2022 5:49 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Re­view: Vá­clav Havel’s “The Power of the Pow­er­less”

David Gross21 Feb 2022 2:18 UTC
43 points
1 comment26 min readLW link

Prizes for the 2020 Review

Raemon20 Feb 2022 21:07 UTC
94 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Gen­er­al­iza­tion of the Solomonoff In­duc­tion to Ac­cu­racy—Is it pos­si­ble? Would it be use­ful?

PeterL20 Feb 2022 19:29 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­tioner: Novice

The Guild of the Rose20 Feb 2022 19:01 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

[Question] 2 (naive?) ideas for alignment

Jonathan Moregård20 Feb 2022 19:01 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­view: G.E.M. An­scombe’s “Modern Mo­ral Philos­o­phy”

David Gross20 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter win­ter 21-22, war risks up­date.

avturchin20 Feb 2022 18:58 UTC
29 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

An­ti­cor­re­lated Noise In­jec­tion for Im­proved Generalization

tailcalled20 Feb 2022 10:15 UTC
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Break­ing the SIA with an ex­po­nen­tially-Sleep­ing Beauty

0naut20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
8 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

How Many (Smallish) Or­ganic Com­pounds Are There?

chemslug20 Feb 2022 4:43 UTC
22 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Micro­covid Be­com­ing Less Useful

jefftk20 Feb 2022 3:50 UTC
59 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How to es­ti­mate con­fi­dence in­ter­vals for fermi es­ti­mate?

Sønderjye20 Feb 2022 1:26 UTC
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

12 in­ter­est­ing things I learned study­ing the dis­cov­ery of na­ture’s laws

Ben Pace19 Feb 2022 23:39 UTC
265 points
40 comments9 min readLW link1 review

What The Foucault

adamShimi19 Feb 2022 22:48 UTC
39 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is ve­g­anism morally cor­rect?

FinalFormal219 Feb 2022 21:20 UTC
−4 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Observation

LoganStrohl19 Feb 2022 18:47 UTC
83 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Align­ment re­searchers, how use­ful is ex­tra com­pute for you?

Lauro Langosco19 Feb 2022 15:35 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Mechanism de­sign /​ queue­ing the­ory for gov­ern­ment to sell visas

RyanCarey19 Feb 2022 12:33 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Danger­ous Learned Optimization

peterbarnett19 Feb 2022 10:46 UTC
4 points
2 comments4 min readLW link