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

JohnGreerFeb 23, 2022, 1:54 AM
20 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

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

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

How satis­fied should you ex­pect to be with your part­ner?

VaniverFeb 22, 2022, 11:27 PM
102 points
7 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

Bay Ra­tion­al­ists Field Day

SurvivalBiasFeb 22, 2022, 7:55 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.SCP: Ano­ma­lous Ac­qui­si­tions Eval­u­a­tion & Ruleset

aphyerFeb 22, 2022, 6:19 PM
32 points
9 comments8 min readLW link

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

FinalFormal2Feb 22, 2022, 5:27 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing By Writing

HoldenKarnofskyFeb 22, 2022, 3:50 PM
151 points
25 comments10 min readLW link3 reviews
(www.cold-takes.com)

Harms and pos­si­bil­ities of schooling

TsviBTFeb 22, 2022, 7:48 AM
123 points
38 comments12 min readLW link1 review

But­terfly Ideas

ElizabethFeb 22, 2022, 7:40 AM
200 points
10 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews
(acesounderglass.com)

ELK Pro­posal: Think­ing Via A Hu­man Imitator

TurnTroutFeb 22, 2022, 1:52 AM
31 points
6 comments11 min readLW link

Re­ward Good Bets That Had Bad Outcomes

Neel NandaFeb 22, 2022, 12:25 AM
44 points
11 comments8 min readLW link

The Art and Science of In­tu­ition Pumping

adamShimiFeb 22, 2022, 12:18 AM
26 points
3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Do any AI al­ign­ment orgs hire re­motely?

RobertMFeb 21, 2022, 10:33 PM
24 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Con­voy Crackdown

ZviFeb 21, 2022, 10:10 PM
92 points
21 comments14 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on sci­en­tific rea­son­ing and pivotal acts

Feb 21, 2022, 8:54 PM
67 points
14 comments35 min readLW link

Direct Observation

LoganStrohlFeb 21, 2022, 8:51 PM
43 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Align­ment re­search exercises

Richard_NgoFeb 21, 2022, 8:24 PM
150 points
17 comments8 min readLW link

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

TorelloFeb 21, 2022, 8:03 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Seek­ing mod­els of LW’s aver­sion to religion

Visible_IgnoranceFeb 21, 2022, 6:54 PM
24 points
52 comments7 min readLW link

Con­test for out­lin­ing rules for this con­test.

abramdemskiFeb 21, 2022, 6:44 PM
40 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

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

Vivek HebbarFeb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

The Big Pic­ture Of Align­ment (Talk Part 1)

johnswentworthFeb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
104 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Two Challenges for ELK

derek shillerFeb 21, 2022, 5:49 AM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

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

David GrossFeb 21, 2022, 2:18 AM
43 points
1 comment26 min readLW link

Prizes for the 2020 Review

RaemonFeb 20, 2022, 9:07 PM
94 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

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

PeterLFeb 20, 2022, 7:29 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Prac­ti­tioner: Novice

The Guild of the RoseFeb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(guildoftherose.org)

[Question] 2 (naive?) ideas for alignment

Jonathan MoregårdFeb 20, 2022, 7:01 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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

David GrossFeb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM
24 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

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

avturchinFeb 20, 2022, 6:58 PM
29 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

An­ti­cor­re­lated Noise In­jec­tion for Im­proved Generalization

tailcalledFeb 20, 2022, 10:15 AM
2 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Break­ing the SIA with an ex­po­nen­tially-Sleep­ing Beauty

0nautFeb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM
8 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven SkyfalFeb 20, 2022, 8:03 AM
15 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

How Many (Smallish) Or­ganic Com­pounds Are There?

chemslugFeb 20, 2022, 4:43 AM
22 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Micro­covid Be­com­ing Less Useful

jefftkFeb 20, 2022, 3:50 AM
59 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

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

SønderjyeFeb 20, 2022, 1:26 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

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

Ben PaceFeb 19, 2022, 11:39 PM
268 points
40 comments9 min readLW link1 review

What The Foucault

adamShimiFeb 19, 2022, 10:48 PM
39 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is ve­g­anism morally cor­rect?

FinalFormal2Feb 19, 2022, 9:20 PM
−4 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Observation

LoganStrohlFeb 19, 2022, 6:47 PM
84 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Align­ment re­searchers, how use­ful is ex­tra com­pute for you?

Lauro LangoscoFeb 19, 2022, 3:35 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

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

RyanCareyFeb 19, 2022, 12:33 PM
5 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on Danger­ous Learned Optimization

peterbarnettFeb 19, 2022, 10:46 AM
4 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

SPARC Ap­pli­ca­tions Are Now Live!

CitizenTenFeb 19, 2022, 2:15 AM
14 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dal­las Fe­bru­ary LessWrong/​ACX Meetup

nomagicpillFeb 19, 2022, 1:28 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

HCH and Ad­ver­sar­ial Questions

David UdellFeb 19, 2022, 12:52 AM
15 points
7 comments26 min readLW link

En­courage­ment to In­still Con­fi­dence?

ZviFeb 18, 2022, 10:30 PM
16 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Misc the­matic links

HoldenKarnofskyFeb 18, 2022, 10:00 PM
12 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Abun­dance and scarcity; work­ing for­wards and work­ing backwards

QuinnFeb 18, 2022, 7:05 PM
28 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Non-Fun­gible Costs

hawkebiaFeb 18, 2022, 5:15 PM
13 points
14 comments3 min readLW link