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Highlights from the memoirs of Vannevar Bush

jasoncrawfordJul 15, 2022, 6:08 PM

11 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on Learning the Prior

carboniferous_umbraculum Jul 15, 2022, 5:28 PM

25 points

2 comments25 min readLW link

Review of The Engines of Cognition

William GasarchJul 15, 2022, 2:13 PM

14 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

A review of Nate Hilger’s The Parent Trap

David Hugh-JonesJul 15, 2022, 9:30 AM

15 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

Musings on the Human Objective Function

Michael SoareverixJul 15, 2022, 7:13 AM

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Peter Singer’s first published piece on AI

FaiJul 15, 2022, 6:18 AM

20 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(link.springer.com)

Don’t use ‘infohazard’ for collectively destructive info

Eliezer YudkowskyJul 15, 2022, 5:13 AM

86 points

33 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(www.facebook.com)

Upcoming heatwave: advice

stavrosJul 15, 2022, 5:03 AM

16 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

A note about differential technological development

So8resJul 15, 2022, 4:46 AM

197 points

33 comments6 min readLW link

Inward and outward steelmanning

Q HomeJul 14, 2022, 11:32 PM

13 points

6 comments18 min readLW link

Potato diet: A post mortem and an answer to SMTM’s article

Épiphanie GédéonJul 14, 2022, 11:18 PM

48 points

34 comments16 min readLW link

Proposed Orthogonality Theses #2-5

rjbgJul 14, 2022, 10:59 PM

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Better Quiddler

jefftkJul 14, 2022, 5:40 PM

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Circumventing interpretability: How to defeat mind-readers

Lee SharkeyJul 14, 2022, 4:59 PM

114 points

15 comments33 min readLW link

Covid 7/14/22: BA.2.75 Plus Tax

ZviJul 14, 2022, 2:40 PM

39 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Criticism of EA Criticism Contest

ZviJul 14, 2022, 2:30 PM

108 points

17 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Humans provide an untapped wealth of evidence about alignment

TurnTrout and Quintin Pope

Jul 14, 2022, 2:31 AM

212 points

94 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Wacky, risky, anti-inductive intelligence-enhancement methods?

Nicholas / Heather KrossJul 14, 2022, 1:40 AM

20 points

30 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to impress students with recent advances in ML?

Charbel-RaphaëlJul 14, 2022, 12:03 AM

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Love

David GrossJul 13, 2022, 11:35 PM

18 points

3 comments29 min readLW link

Deep learning curriculum for large language model alignment

Jacob_HiltonJul 13, 2022, 9:58 PM

57 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

Artificial Sandwiching: When can we test scalable alignment protocols without humans?

Sam BowmanJul 13, 2022, 9:14 PM

42 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Any tips for eliciting one’s own latent knowledge?

MSRayneJul 13, 2022, 9:12 PM

16 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Goal Alignment Is Robust To the Sharp Left Turn

Thane RuthenisJul 13, 2022, 8:23 PM

43 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

Making decisions using multiple worldviews

Richard_NgoJul 13, 2022, 7:15 PM

50 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] App idea to help with reading STEM textbooks (feedback request)

DirectedEvolutionJul 13, 2022, 6:28 PM

16 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

MIRI Conversations: Technology Forecasting & Gradualism (Distillation)

CallumMcDougallJul 13, 2022, 3:55 PM

31 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Passing Up Pay

jefftkJul 13, 2022, 2:10 PM

29 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How could the universe be infinitely large?

amaraiJul 13, 2022, 1:45 PM

0 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology

Dalton MaberyJul 13, 2022, 11:07 AM

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Everyone is an Imposter

TharinJul 13, 2022, 8:46 AM

19 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(echoesandchimes.com)

[Question] Which AI Safety research agendas are the most promising?

Chris_LeongJul 13, 2022, 7:54 AM

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Straw-Steelmanning

Chris van MerwijkJul 13, 2022, 5:48 AM

29 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Alien Message Contest: Solution

DaemonicSigilJul 13, 2022, 4:07 AM

29 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is wrong with this approach to corrigibility?

Rafael CosmanJul 12, 2022, 10:55 PM

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Acceptability Verification: A Research Agenda

David Udell and evhub

Jul 12, 2022, 8:11 PM

50 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-12

jasoncrawfordJul 12, 2022, 3:30 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Response to Blake Richards: AGI, generality, alignment, & loss functions

Steven ByrnesJul 12, 2022, 1:56 PM

62 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

Three Minimum Pivotal Acts Possible by Narrow AI

Michael SoareverixJul 12, 2022, 9:51 AM

0 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Mosaic and Palimpsests: Two Shapes of Research

adamShimi12 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC

39 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How do you concisely communicate & navigate the politics / culture at your job working at a large corporation or institution?

Willa12 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

On how various plans miss the hard bits of the alignment challenge

So8res12 Jul 2022 2:49 UTC

313 points

89 comments29 min readLW link 3 reviews

Rainmaking

WalterL12 Jul 2022 0:42 UTC

26 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Book Review: Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”

Tyler Simmons12 Jul 2022 0:07 UTC

13 points

0 comments30 min readLW link

(www.words-and-dirt.com)

Announcing Future Forum—Apply Now

wANIEL and freemany

11 Jul 2022 22:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Defining Optimization in a Deeper Way Part 2

J Bostock11 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Marriage, the Giving What We Can Pledge, and the damage caused by vague public commitments

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jul 2022 19:38 UTC

98 points

27 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Systemization

CFAR!Duncan11 Jul 2022 18:39 UTC

42 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How do AI timelines affect how you live your life?

Quadratic Reciprocity11 Jul 2022 13:54 UTC

80 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Cambridge LW Meetup: Free Speech

Darmani11 Jul 2022 4:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link