Why I don’t be­lieve in doom

mukashiJun 7, 2022, 11:49 PM
6 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

“Pivotal Acts” means some­thing specific

RaemonJun 7, 2022, 9:56 PM
127 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Em­bod­i­ment is Indis­pens­able for AGI

P. G. Keerthana GopalakrishnanJun 7, 2022, 9:31 PM
6 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(keerthanapg.com)

Stephen Wolfram’s ideas are un­der-appreciated

KennyJun 7, 2022, 8:09 PM
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Who mod­els the mod­els that model mod­els? An ex­plo­ra­tion of GPT-3′s in-con­text model fit­ting ability

LovreJun 7, 2022, 7:37 PM
112 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How Does Cog­ni­tive Perfor­mance Trans­late to Real World Ca­pa­bil­ity?

DragonGodJun 7, 2022, 5:39 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (iv) Silencio

party girlJun 7, 2022, 3:39 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

[Question] Con­fused Thoughts on AI After­life (se­ri­ously)

EpiritoJun 7, 2022, 2:37 PM
−4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions

J BostockJun 7, 2022, 2:05 PM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on For­mal­iz­ing Composition

Tom LieberumJun 7, 2022, 7:51 AM
13 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AGI Safety FAQ /​ all-dumb-ques­tions-al­lowed thread

Aryeh EnglanderJun 7, 2022, 5:47 AM
227 points
526 comments4 min readLW link

Pitch­ing an Align­ment Softball

mu_(negative)Jun 7, 2022, 4:10 AM
47 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

We will be around in 30 years

mukashiJun 7, 2022, 3:47 AM
12 points
205 comments2 min readLW link

Where to Live for Happiness

nomagicpillJun 7, 2022, 1:09 AM
19 points
6 comments26 min readLW link
(210ethan.github.io)

A de­scrip­tive, not pre­scrip­tive, overview of cur­rent AI Align­ment Research

Jun 6, 2022, 9:59 PM
139 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup—Lyn­gby Den­mark 2022-07-03

Carl DybdahlJun 6, 2022, 8:35 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Micro­phone on Elec­tric Man­dolin II

jefftkJun 6, 2022, 8:30 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

We haven’t quit evolu­tion [short]

the gears to ascensionJun 6, 2022, 7:07 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Grokking “Fore­cast­ing TAI with biolog­i­cal an­chors”

anson.hoJun 6, 2022, 6:58 PM
38 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

DALL-E 2 - Unoffi­cial Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Image Edit­ing, Art Cri­tique Survey

bakztfutureJun 6, 2022, 6:27 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(bakztfuture.substack.com)

We Should Break Up Elite Colleges

sahajshardaJun 6, 2022, 6:15 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

[Question] What board games would you recom­mend?

Yair HalberstadtJun 6, 2022, 4:38 PM
16 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Health & Lifestyle In­ter­ven­tions With Heavy-Tailed Out­comes?

MondSemmelJun 6, 2022, 4:26 PM
12 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Read­ing the ethi­cists 2: Hunt­ing for AI al­ign­ment papers

Charlie SteinerJun 6, 2022, 3:49 PM
24 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Tran­script of a Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

ZviJun 6, 2022, 1:50 PM
85 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some ideas for fol­low-up pro­jects to Red­wood Re­search’s re­cent paper

JanBJun 6, 2022, 1:29 PM
10 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Give the model a model-builder

Adam JermynJun 6, 2022, 12:21 PM
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What jour­nal­ing prompts do you use?

ChristianKlJun 6, 2022, 11:35 AM
13 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Why do some peo­ple try to make AGI?

TekhneMakreJun 6, 2022, 9:14 AM
14 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Miriam Ye­vick on why both sym­bols and net­works are nec­es­sary for ar­tifi­cial minds

Bill BenzonJun 6, 2022, 8:34 AM
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion and Ad­e­quacy in Five Bullets

james.lucassenJun 6, 2022, 5:48 AM
35 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(jlucassen.com)

Why agents are powerful

Daniel KokotajloJun 6, 2022, 1:37 AM
37 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

Episte­molog­i­cal Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimiJun 6, 2022, 12:27 AM
66 points
11 comments10 min readLW link

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 5, 2022, 10:05 PM
940 points
708 comments30 min readLW link3 reviews

Teach­ing all things to all peo­ple in all ways

AnonymousJun 5, 2022, 9:38 PM
1 point
2 comments10 min readLW link

Noisy en­vi­ron­ment reg­u­late util­ity maximizers

Niclas KupperJun 5, 2022, 6:48 PM
4 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ex­pected Value vs. Ex­pected Growth

tom-pollakJun 5, 2022, 6:48 PM
3 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

North­boro Air Qual­ity Measurement

jefftkJun 5, 2022, 5:50 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

Filip SondejJun 5, 2022, 1:55 PM
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena 2: New be­ings in time

Bill BenzonJun 5, 2022, 1:30 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter May 2022 + short his­tory of “method­ol­o­gists”

avturchinJun 5, 2022, 11:50 AM
23 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Some ques­tions I’ve been pon­der­ing...

Dalton MaberyJun 5, 2022, 4:21 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Rein­vent­ing the wheel

jasoncrawfordJun 4, 2022, 10:39 PM
78 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

What do you do to de­liber­ately prac­tice?

hathJun 4, 2022, 10:20 PM
26 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Quick Look: Asymp­tomatic Her­pes Shedding

ElizabethJun 4, 2022, 9:40 PM
37 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Meetup in SF, June 11: Progress Stud­ies + Effec­tive Altruism

Jun 4, 2022, 9:30 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to pur­sue a ca­reer in tech­ni­cal AI alignment

Charlie Rogers-SmithJun 4, 2022, 9:11 PM
69 points
1 comment39 min readLW link

Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2022

MondSemmelJun 4, 2022, 7:27 PM
8 points
30 comments1 min readLW link

The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the world these days? We’re mov­ing to a new, a new what?

Bill BenzonJun 4, 2022, 7:07 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Re­turns on Cog­ni­tive Rein­vest­ment (Part 1)

DragonGodJun 4, 2022, 6:42 PM
17 points
11 comments13 min readLW link