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Science-informed normativity

Richard_NgoMay 25, 2022, 6:30 PM

32 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Reflections on a year of college

unoptimalMay 25, 2022, 4:26 PM

35 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

The “Measuring Stick of Utility” Problem

johnswentworthMay 25, 2022, 4:17 PM

74 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What’s The Best Place to Look When You Have A Question About x?

Chloe ThompsonMay 25, 2022, 1:51 PM

39 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

RL with KL penalties is better seen as Bayesian inference

Tomek Korbak and Ethan Perez

May 25, 2022, 9:23 AM

114 points

17 comments12 min readLW link

A Quick Note on AI Scaling Asymptotes

alyssavanceMay 25, 2022, 2:55 AM

44 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

MERV Filters for Covid?

jefftkMay 25, 2022, 1:50 AM

35 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Visible Homelessness in SF: A Quick Breakdown of Causes

alyssavanceMay 25, 2022, 1:40 AM

209 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

autonomy: the missing AGI ingredient?

nostalgebraistMay 25, 2022, 12:33 AM

69 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Explaining inner alignment to myself

Jeremy GillenMay 24, 2022, 11:10 PM

9 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

Google’s Imagen uses larger text encoder

Ben LivengoodMay 24, 2022, 9:55 PM

27 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Endpoint Specification, or Good Help is Hard to Find

ACrackedPotMay 24, 2022, 9:00 PM

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Game Theory and Partner Abuse

arielleplusMay 24, 2022, 8:03 PM

−10 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

Mandatory Post About Monkeypox

ZviMay 24, 2022, 8:00 PM

54 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

I only believe in the paranormal

MalmesburyMay 24, 2022, 12:15 PM

94 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Why I Define My Experience At the Monastic Academy As Sexual Assault

HS2021May 24, 2022, 8:17 AM

72 points

24 comments15 min readLW link

The No Free Lunch theorems and their Razor

Adrià Garriga-alonsoMay 24, 2022, 6:40 AM

56 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

Synthetic Media and The Future of Film

ifalphaMay 24, 2022, 5:54 AM

35 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Complex Systems for AI Safety [Pragmatic AI Safety #3]

Dan H and TW123

May 24, 2022, 12:00 AM

58 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Contra Astral Codex Ten’s “On Sexy In-Laws”

Dalton MaberyMay 23, 2022, 10:53 PM

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Why I’m Worried About AI

peterbarnettMay 23, 2022, 9:13 PM

22 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Bits of Optimization Can Only Be Lost Over A Distance

johnswentworthMay 23, 2022, 6:55 PM

31 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] [Alignment] Is there a census on who’s working on what?

CedarMay 23, 2022, 3:33 PM

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[fiction]A Question of Perspective

EliasMay 23, 2022, 3:06 PM

17 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Finding Your Voice

EvenflairMay 23, 2022, 2:43 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

Science for the Possible World

Zechen ZhangMay 23, 2022, 2:01 PM

7 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Monkeypox: explaining the jump to Europe

DirectedEvolutionMay 23, 2022, 9:53 AM

44 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 15 - Natural Abstractions with John Wentworth

DanielFilanMay 23, 2022, 5:40 AM

34 points

1 comment58 min readLW link

PSA: The Sequences don’t need to be read in sequence

kaveMay 23, 2022, 2:53 AM

87 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Gradations of Agency

Daniel KokotajloMay 23, 2022, 1:10 AM

41 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

How curing aging could help progress

jasoncrawfordMay 22, 2022, 10:43 PM

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Help! What do I say at my wedding?

Jonathan TaskMay 22, 2022, 8:08 PM

7 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Adversarial attacks and optimal control

JanMay 22, 2022, 6:22 PM

17 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

What kinds of algorithms do multi-human imitators learn?

Chris van Merwijk and Joar Skalse

May 22, 2022, 2:27 PM

20 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Are human imitators superhuman models with explicit constraints on capabilities?

Chris van MerwijkMay 22, 2022, 12:46 PM

41 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The value of x-risk reduction

NathanBarnardMay 22, 2022, 7:44 AM

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

On The Spectrum, On The Guest List

party girlMay 22, 2022, 3:31 AM

24 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

An Agent Based Consciousness Model (unfortunately it’s not computable)

Logan ZoellnerMay 21, 2022, 11:00 PM

6 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Wormy the Worm

River LewisMay 21, 2022, 3:34 PM

3 points

23 comments5 min readLW link

(heytraveler.substack.com)

Philosophical considerations of cessation of brain activity

clockworkMay 21, 2022, 3:18 PM

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

How Big Are Covid Particles?

jefftkMay 21, 2022, 2:00 PM

29 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Short version] Information Loss --> Basin flatness

Vivek HebbarMay 21, 2022, 12:59 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Information Loss --> Basin flatness

Vivek HebbarMay 21, 2022, 12:58 PM

62 points

31 comments7 min readLW link

The Future of Nuclear War

avturchinMay 21, 2022, 7:52 AM

33 points

1 comment34 min readLW link

Clarifying what ELK is trying to achieve

Towards_KeeperhoodMay 21, 2022, 7:34 AM

22 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

[retracted] A really simplistic experiment for LessWrong and /r/SneerClub

Nicholas / Heather KrossMay 21, 2022, 5:52 AM

−1 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Who is available for contract work? (A la the Hacker News “Who Wants To Be Hired” threads)

nonzerosumMay 20, 2022, 11:59 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Why does gradient descent always work on neural networks?

MichaelDickensMay 20, 2022, 9:13 PM

15 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Beware boasting about non-existent forecasting track records

Jotto999May 20, 2022, 7:20 PM

339 points

112 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

How RL Agents Behave When Their Actions Are Modified? [Distillation post]

PabloAMCMay 20, 2022, 6:47 PM

22 points

0 comments8 min readLW link