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Hypothesis: gradient descent prefers general circuits

Quintin Pope8 Feb 2022 21:12 UTC

46 points

26 comments11 min readLW link

Paradigm-building from first principles: Effective altruism, AGI, and alignment

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 16:12 UTC

29 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

Metaculus launches contest for essays with quantitative predictions about AI

Tamay Besiroglu and Metaculus

8 Feb 2022 16:07 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Appendix: More Is Different In Other Domains

jsteinhardt8 Feb 2022 16:00 UTC

12 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Defending Functional Decision Theory

Heighn8 Feb 2022 14:58 UTC

6 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

How complex are myopic imitators?

Vivek Hebbar8 Feb 2022 12:00 UTC

26 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

The ’Why’s of an International Auxiliary Language (IAL part 1)

Long try8 Feb 2022 4:39 UTC

−1 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Capability Phase Transition Examples

gwern8 Feb 2022 3:32 UTC

39 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.reddit.com)

Meditation and Neuroscience, some odds and ends

MarkL8 Feb 2022 1:47 UTC

28 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

Paradigm-building: Introduction

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 0:06 UTC

28 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Reverse engineering of the simulation

jan betley7 Feb 2022 21:36 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

A Solution to the Desire-Action Conundrum

ship_shlap7 Feb 2022 18:00 UTC

3 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

Building cars we don’t understand

pchvykov7 Feb 2022 16:55 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

The case for “mental strength”

VipulNaik7 Feb 2022 15:43 UTC

39 points

9 comments9 min readLW link

Decreasing Isolation Further

jefftk7 Feb 2022 14:00 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Soup design: Everyone likes it, but few know how

tomdekan7 Feb 2022 11:32 UTC

2 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

[untitled post]

superads916 Feb 2022 20:39 UTC

−5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Predictions for 2050?

FinalFormal26 Feb 2022 20:33 UTC

−2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Misleading Boiler Error Message

jefftk6 Feb 2022 19:50 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Experimenting with microsolidarity crews

Jarred Filmer6 Feb 2022 11:41 UTC

48 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Uncompetitive programming with GPT-3

Bezzi6 Feb 2022 10:19 UTC

7 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Prelude

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Feb 2022 2:26 UTC

19 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Sledding Is Underrated

jefftk5 Feb 2022 21:10 UTC

35 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A modest spelling reform to increase autologicity, symmetry, and readability.

Randomized, Controlled5 Feb 2022 21:09 UTC

19 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Miscellaneous thoughts on handling a stressful life

VipulNaik5 Feb 2022 17:48 UTC

19 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Practical Decision-Making Course: A Retrospective

moridinamael, Bae's Theorem and noldodan

5 Feb 2022 16:25 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

[Question] Are fully google translated (my own) posts permitted?

EniScien5 Feb 2022 15:00 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Computability and Complexity

Ege Erdil and Metaculus

5 Feb 2022 14:53 UTC

21 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Bryan Caplan meets Socrates

Sam Enright5 Feb 2022 12:24 UTC

93 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Phonology | Sekko

Zmavli Caimle5 Feb 2022 11:59 UTC

4 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Why I want to make a logical language

Zmavli Caimle5 Feb 2022 11:52 UTC

21 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Confidence intervals seem to be rarely useful, in and of themselves

anorangicc5 Feb 2022 11:23 UTC

1 point

4 comments3 min readLW link

Real Reality

ship_shlap5 Feb 2022 4:13 UTC

22 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Why will AI be dangerous?

Legionnaire4 Feb 2022 23:41 UTC

38 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Anti-Parfit’s Hitchhiker

k644 Feb 2022 23:37 UTC

2 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is it rational to modify one’s utility function?

k644 Feb 2022 23:37 UTC

6 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Blog dedicated to rebuilding technology from civ collapse?

Casey B.4 Feb 2022 23:28 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment versus AI Alignment

Alex Flint4 Feb 2022 22:59 UTC

87 points

15 comments22 min readLW link

A Quick Look At 20% Time

Elizabeth4 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC

86 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

What is a “philosophy of progress?”

jasoncrawford4 Feb 2022 22:02 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Convoy

Zvi4 Feb 2022 21:40 UTC

28 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Can you prove that 0 = 1?

purplelight4 Feb 2022 21:31 UTC

−10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Expectations Influence Reality (and AI)

purplelight4 Feb 2022 21:31 UTC

0 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

AI Writeup Part 1

SNl4 Feb 2022 21:16 UTC

8 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

[Question] Do mesa-optimization problems correlate with low-slack?

sudo4 Feb 2022 21:11 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Impactful Forecasting Prize for forecast writeups on curated Metaculus questions

elifland, sam_atis and yagudin

4 Feb 2022 20:06 UTC

36 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[untitled post]

superads914 Feb 2022 19:03 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Money-generating environments vs. wealth-building environments (or “my thoughts on the stock market”)

Nicole Dieker4 Feb 2022 17:37 UTC

7 points

9 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Transferring credence without transferring evidence?

Kaarel4 Feb 2022 8:11 UTC

11 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Positly covid survey 2: controlled productivity data

KatjaGrace4 Feb 2022 7:30 UTC

15 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)