[Question] What have been the ma­jor “triumphs” in the field of AI over the last ten years?

lcMay 28, 2022, 7:49 PM
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Utilitarianism

C S SRUTHIMay 28, 2022, 7:35 PM
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[Question] Bayesian Per­sua­sion?

Karthik TadepalliMay 28, 2022, 5:52 PM
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[Question] What is Go­ing On With CFAR?

niplavMay 28, 2022, 3:21 PM
95 points
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An in­quiry into the thoughts of twenty-five peo­ple in India

KatjaGraceMay 28, 2022, 8:30 AM
21 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Func­tional Anal­y­sis Read­ing Group

Ulisse MiniMay 28, 2022, 2:40 AM
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Un­der­stand­ing Selec­tion Theorems

adamkMay 28, 2022, 1:49 AM
41 points
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In­fer­nal Cor­rigi­bil­ity, Fiendishly Difficult

David UdellMay 27, 2022, 8:32 PM
24 points
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New Water Qual­ity x Obe­sity Dataset Available

ElizabethMay 27, 2022, 7:50 PM
74 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

Boot­strap­ping Lan­guage Models

harsimonyMay 27, 2022, 7:43 PM
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Re­sources For the Red­wood Re­search Triple­byte Test

AiyenMay 27, 2022, 7:40 PM
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Sneak­ing Suspicion

benwrMay 27, 2022, 7:17 PM
17 points
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Range and Fore­cast­ing Accuracy

niplavMay 27, 2022, 6:47 PM
48 points
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Croe­sus, Cer­berus, and the mag­pies: a gen­tle in­tro­duc­tion to Elic­it­ing La­tent Knowledge

Alexandre VariengienMay 27, 2022, 5:58 PM
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De­con­fus­ing Lan­dauer’s Principle

EuanMcLeanMay 27, 2022, 5:58 PM
58 points
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On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (ii) LAVO

party girlMay 27, 2022, 4:45 PM
18 points
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(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

Can growth con­tinue?

jasoncrawfordMay 27, 2022, 4:19 PM
28 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

An aca­demic jour­nal is just a Twit­ter feed

David Hugh-JonesMay 27, 2022, 11:14 AM
13 points
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(wyclif.substack.com)

Grabby An­i­mals: Ob­ser­va­tion-se­lec­tion effects fa­vor the hy­poth­e­sis that UAP are an­i­mals which con­sist of the “field-mat­ter”:

avturchinMay 27, 2022, 9:27 AM
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Iter­ated Distil­la­tion-Am­plifi­ca­tion, Gato, and Proto-AGI [Re-Ex­plained]

Gabe MMay 27, 2022, 5:42 AM
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Where Utopias Go Wrong, or: The Four Lit­tle Planets

ExCephMay 27, 2022, 1:24 AM
15 points
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(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

A Story of AI Risk: In­struc­tGPT-N

peterbarnettMay 26, 2022, 11:22 PM
24 points
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In­fra-Bayesi­anism Distil­la­tion: Real­iz­abil­ity and De­ci­sion Theory

Thomas LarsenMay 26, 2022, 9:57 PM
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The mis­guided pur­suit of ex­is­ten­tial­ism and ab­sur­dism in com­bat­ting nihilism

SundaeMay 26, 2022, 9:17 PM
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Ex­pe­rience LessWrong with­out the Time-Wast­ing Rab­bitHole Effect

joraineMay 26, 2022, 7:09 PM
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Brass Puppet

abramdemskiMay 26, 2022, 5:42 PM
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Covid 5/​26/​22: I Guess I Should Re­spond To This Week’s Long Covid Study

ZviMay 26, 2022, 5:30 PM
46 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A dis­cus­sion of the pa­per, “Large Lan­guage Models are Zero-Shot Rea­son­ers”

HiroSakurabaMay 26, 2022, 3:55 PM
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Mo­ral Weights of Six An­i­mals, Con­sid­er­ing View­point Uncer­tainty—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbaconMay 26, 2022, 1:36 PM
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CNN fea­ture vi­su­al­iza­tion in 50 lines of code

StefanHexMay 26, 2022, 11:02 AM
17 points
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[Question] How much white col­lar work could be au­to­mated us­ing ex­ist­ing ML mod­els?

AMMay 26, 2022, 8:09 AM
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Benign Boundary Violations

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)May 26, 2022, 6:48 AM
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Here’s a List of Some of My Ideas for Blog Posts

lsusrMay 26, 2022, 5:35 AM
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View and bet in Man­i­fold pre­dic­tion mar­kets on Lesswrong

Sinclair ChenMay 26, 2022, 2:41 AM
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Test­ing Air Purifiers

jefftkMay 25, 2022, 11:50 PM
35 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Glass Puppet

lsusrMay 25, 2022, 11:01 PM
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How to get peo­ple to pro­duce more great ex­po­si­tion? Some strate­gies and their assumptions

riceissaMay 25, 2022, 10:30 PM
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[Question] Re­quest for small text­book recommendations

Alex_AltairMay 25, 2022, 10:19 PM
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Science-in­formed normativity

Richard_NgoMay 25, 2022, 6:30 PM
32 points
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(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Reflec­tions on a year of college

unoptimalMay 25, 2022, 4:26 PM
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The “Mea­sur­ing Stick of Utility” Problem

johnswentworthMay 25, 2022, 4:17 PM
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[Question] What’s The Best Place to Look When You Have A Ques­tion About x?

Chloe ThompsonMay 25, 2022, 1:51 PM
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RL with KL penalties is bet­ter seen as Bayesian inference

May 25, 2022, 9:23 AM
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A Quick Note on AI Scal­ing Asymptotes

alyssavanceMay 25, 2022, 2:55 AM
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MERV Filters for Covid?

jefftkMay 25, 2022, 1:50 AM
35 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Visi­ble Home­less­ness in SF: A Quick Break­down of Causes

alyssavanceMay 25, 2022, 1:40 AM
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au­ton­omy: the miss­ing AGI in­gre­di­ent?

nostalgebraistMay 25, 2022, 12:33 AM
69 points
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Ex­plain­ing in­ner al­ign­ment to myself

Jeremy GillenMay 24, 2022, 11:10 PM
9 points
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Google’s Ima­gen uses larger text encoder

Ben LivengoodMay 24, 2022, 9:55 PM
27 points
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End­point Speci­fi­ca­tion, or Good Help is Hard to Find

ACrackedPotMay 24, 2022, 9:00 PM
8 points
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