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Counter-theses on Sleep

Natália21 Mar 2022 23:21 UTC

446 points

135 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World

gwern9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC

407 points

120 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.gwern.net)

Why Agent Foundations? An Overly Abstract Explanation

johnswentworth25 Mar 2022 23:17 UTC

302 points

56 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Do a cost-benefit analysis of your technology usage

TurnTrout27 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC

198 points

53 comments13 min readLW link

Have You Tried Hiring People?

rank-biserial2 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC

185 points

117 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Searching for outliers

benkuhn21 Mar 2022 2:40 UTC

169 points

16 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

(www.benkuhn.net)

We’re already in AI takeoff

Valentine8 Mar 2022 23:09 UTC

144 points

119 comments7 min readLW link

ELK prize results

paulfchristiano and Mark Xu

9 Mar 2022 0:01 UTC

138 points

50 comments21 min readLW link

Beyond Blame Minimization

physicaleconomics27 Mar 2022 0:03 UTC

137 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Meadow Theory

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)9 Mar 2022 17:13 UTC

132 points

16 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

My current thoughts on the risks from SETI

Matthew Barnett15 Mar 2022 17:18 UTC

132 points

27 comments10 min readLW link

[Closed] Job Offering: Help Communicate Infrabayesianism

abramdemski, Vanessa Kosoy and Diffractor

23 Mar 2022 18:35 UTC

129 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

I left Russia on March 8

avturchin10 Mar 2022 20:05 UTC

127 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

A Longlist of Theories of Impact for Interpretability

Neel Nanda11 Mar 2022 14:55 UTC

126 points

41 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

The Wicked Problem Experience

HoldenKarnofsky2 Mar 2022 17:50 UTC

124 points

6 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

(www.cold-takes.com)

Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/01

lsusr2 Mar 2022 5:07 UTC

121 points

59 comments10 min readLW link

Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC

94 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

Vaniver15 Mar 2022 2:52 UTC

93 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Beyond micromarriages

Richard_Ngo11 Mar 2022 3:40 UTC

91 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

PSA: if you are in Russia, probably move out ASAP

yagudin3 Mar 2022 20:01 UTC

90 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Research Hamming Questions

johnswentworth22 Mar 2022 0:16 UTC

86 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #2: Options

Zvi10 Mar 2022 16:10 UTC

84 points

55 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You can tell a drawing from a painting

alkexr7 Mar 2022 11:45 UTC

79 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 7. From hardcoded drives to foresighted plans: A worked example

Steven Byrnes9 Mar 2022 14:28 UTC

78 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Only needs a flying saucer

Mary Chernyshenko18 Mar 2022 15:11 UTC

76 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Is Metaculus Slow to Update?

SimonM25 Mar 2022 19:44 UTC

75 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

New GPT3 Impressive Capabilities—InstructGPT3 [1/2]

simeon_c13 Mar 2022 10:58 UTC

72 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Gears-Level Mental Models of Transformer Interpretability

KevinRoWang29 Mar 2022 20:09 UTC

72 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information

Zvi21 Mar 2022 14:00 UTC

71 points

33 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ukraine Situation Report 2022/03/04

lsusr5 Mar 2022 6:44 UTC

71 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Lessons After a Couple Months of Trying to Do ML Research

KevinRoWang22 Mar 2022 23:45 UTC

70 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

[Letter] Russians are Welcome in America

lsusr5 Mar 2022 10:15 UTC

68 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big picture of motivation, decision-making, and RL

Steven Byrnes2 Mar 2022 15:26 UTC

68 points

17 comments16 min readLW link

How to Best Use Twitter

Zvi7 Mar 2022 15:40 UTC

62 points

8 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Civilization as Self-Restraint

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)21 Mar 2022 0:31 UTC

60 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Projecting compute trends in Machine Learning

Tamay, lennart and Jsevillamol

7 Mar 2022 15:32 UTC

59 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

How to Make Your Article Change People’s Minds or Actions? (Spoiler: Do User Testing Like a Startup Would)

Yonatan Cale30 Mar 2022 17:39 UTC

59 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Even more curated conversations with brilliant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC

59 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

Ukraine Post #6: More Data and Peace Terms

Zvi25 Mar 2022 18:20 UTC

59 points

21 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Performance on Human Tasks

Asher Ellis3 Mar 2022 20:13 UTC

58 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Omicron #16: Danger in China

Zvi14 Mar 2022 15:50 UTC

58 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 8. Takeaways from neuro 1/2: On AGI development

Steven Byrnes16 Mar 2022 13:59 UTC

57 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Retreat for rationality meetup organizers (apply to attend!)

mingyuan29 Mar 2022 18:42 UTC

57 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Exploring Finite Factored Sets with some toy examples

Thomas Kehrenberg19 Mar 2022 22:08 UTC

55 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(tm.kehrenberg.net)

When should you relocate to mitigate the risk of dying in a nuclear war?

Adam Zerner4 Mar 2022 10:34 UTC

55 points

27 comments14 min readLW link

On presenting the case for AI risk

Aryeh Englander9 Mar 2022 1:41 UTC

54 points

17 comments4 min readLW link

Experimental longtermism: theory needs data

Jan_Kulveit and technicalities

24 Mar 2022 8:23 UTC

52 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Ways to invest your wealth if you believe in a high-variance future?

Alex_Altair11 Mar 2022 16:07 UTC

51 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Ask AI companies about what they are doing for AI safety?

mic9 Mar 2022 15:14 UTC

51 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Duels & D.Sci March 2022: It’s time for D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-data!

aphyer25 Mar 2022 16:55 UTC

51 points

38 comments4 min readLW link