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[Linkpost] Growth in FLOPS used to train ML models
Derek M. Jones
Mar 14, 2022, 11:28 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Shotgun Book Reviews: Against Method, The Knowledge Machine and Understanding Nature
adamShimi
Mar 14, 2022, 8:13 AM
28
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Alex Tabarrok advocates for crowdfunding systems with *Refund Bonuses*. I think this might be a natural occurrence of a money pump against Causal Decision Theory pledgers
mako yass
Mar 14, 2022, 7:27 AM
17
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(marginalrevolution.com)
Challenges to Yudkowsky’s Pronoun Reform Proposal
Zack_M_Davis
Mar 13, 2022, 8:38 PM
50
points
56
comments
39
min read
LW
link
1
review
(unremediatedgender.space)
War-prompted Disaster Planning
jefftk
Mar 13, 2022, 8:10 PM
20
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Whence the determinant?
Ege Erdil
Mar 13, 2022, 7:38 PM
28
points
27
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Food manufacturers are out to get you
jwray
Mar 13, 2022, 7:36 PM
27
points
6
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Game theory, sanctions, and Ukraine
Dumbledore's Army
Mar 13, 2022, 5:45 PM
27
points
36
comments
3
min read
LW
link
How to Lumenate (UK Edition)
chanamessinger
Mar 13, 2022, 1:43 PM
49
points
17
comments
5
min read
LW
link
New GPT3 Impressive Capabilities—InstructGPT3 [1/2]
simeon_c
Mar 13, 2022, 10:58 AM
72
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Anecdotes Can Be Strong Evidence and Bayes Theorem Proves It
FCCC
Mar 13, 2022, 4:06 AM
16
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Compute Trends — Comparison to OpenAI’s AI and Compute
lennart
,
Jsevillamol
,
Pablo Villalobos
,
Marius Hobbhahn
,
Tamay Besiroglu
and
anson.ho
Mar 12, 2022, 6:09 PM
23
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Experience Restarting Contra
jefftk
Mar 12, 2022, 3:00 PM
16
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
Is there a good dataset for the moments of the income distribution throughout history?
Ege Erdil
Mar 12, 2022, 1:26 PM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why Rome?
Erich_Grunewald
Mar 12, 2022, 11:29 AM
19
points
7
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)
Bear Surprise Freedom Network
CraigMichael
Mar 12, 2022, 10:15 AM
26
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Book review of “Mengzi”
Anonymous
Mar 12, 2022, 4:54 AM
33
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
If someone with sufficient capabilities decides to deliberately create an Unaligned AGI, is there anything anyone can actually DO, to stop them?
nx2059
Mar 12, 2022, 12:01 AM
−4
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Your Future Self’s Credences Should Be Unpredictable to You
David Udell
Mar 11, 2022, 11:33 PM
6
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Arguments are good for helping people reason about things
AprilSR
Mar 11, 2022, 11:02 PM
28
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Is There a Valley of Bad Civilizational Adequacy?
lbThingrb
Mar 11, 2022, 7:49 PM
13
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
Rhythm Stage Setup v4
jefftk
Mar 11, 2022, 7:40 PM
9
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Deep Dives: My Advice for Pursuing Work in Research
scasper
Mar 11, 2022, 5:56 PM
33
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
If your solution doesn’t work, make it work
Ege Erdil
Mar 11, 2022, 4:10 PM
17
points
7
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Ways to invest your wealth if you believe in a high-variance future?
Alex_Altair
Mar 11, 2022, 4:07 PM
51
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Longlist of Theories of Impact for Interpretability
Neel Nanda
Mar 11, 2022, 2:55 PM
127
points
41
comments
5
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Beyond micromarriages
Richard_Ngo
Mar 11, 2022, 3:40 AM
91
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
On continuous decision boundaries
eeegnu
Mar 11, 2022, 3:36 AM
2
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Book review: The Dawn of Everything
PeterMcCluskey
Mar 11, 2022, 1:56 AM
24
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
[Question]
Are there any impossibility theorems for strong and safe AI?
David Johnston
Mar 11, 2022, 1:41 AM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Algorithmic Measure of Emergence v2.0
interstice
Mar 10, 2022, 8:26 PM
15
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
I left Russia on March 8
avturchin
Mar 10, 2022, 8:05 PM
127
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
What’s the chance a smart London resident dies of a Russian nuke in the next month?
DanielFilan
Mar 10, 2022, 7:20 PM
40
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(danielfilan.com)
[Question]
What’s the best ratio for Africans to starve compared to Ukrainians not dying in the war?
ChristianKl
Mar 10, 2022, 6:52 PM
9
points
28
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Infohazards, hacking, and Bricking—how to formalize these concepts?
Yitz
Mar 10, 2022, 4:42 PM
6
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Ukraine Post #2: Options
Zvi
Mar 10, 2022, 4:10 PM
84
points
55
comments
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Covid 3/10/22: We Have a Plan
Zvi
Mar 10, 2022, 4:10 PM
37
points
3
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Treat Examples as World-Building
adamShimi
Mar 10, 2022, 3:09 PM
19
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Best LessWrong posts for understanding scientific studies.
Sean McAneny
Mar 10, 2022, 1:13 PM
10
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Donations, The First Year
jenn
10 Mar 2022 3:57 UTC
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(jenn.site)
Programming note
HoldenKarnofsky
9 Mar 2022 21:20 UTC
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
The Proof of Doom
johnlawrenceaspden
9 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC
27
points
18
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Survey] Expectations of a Post-ASI Order
Lone Pine
9 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A Rephrasing Of and Footnote To An Embedded Agency Proposal
JoshuaOSHickman
9 Mar 2022 18:13 UTC
5
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
ELK Sub—Note-taking in internal rollouts
Hoagy
9 Mar 2022 17:23 UTC
6
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Meadow Theory
Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)
9 Mar 2022 17:13 UTC
132
points
16
comments
16
min read
LW
link
1
review
Being Moral is an end goal.
Yair Halberstadt
9 Mar 2022 16:37 UTC
10
points
17
comments
1
min read
LW
link
It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World
gwern
9 Mar 2022 16:35 UTC
408
points
120
comments
1
min read
LW
link
1
review
(www.gwern.net)
Effects are correlated, policy outcomes are not, and multi-factor explanations are hard
Thomas Kehrenberg
9 Mar 2022 15:30 UTC
16
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(tm.kehrenberg.net)
Ask AI companies about what they are doing for AI safety?
mic
9 Mar 2022 15:14 UTC
51
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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