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Ars D&D.Sci: Mysteries of Mana Evaluation & Ruleset
aphyer
Jul 19, 2022, 2:06 AM
33
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Marburg Virus Pandemic Prediction Checklist
DirectedEvolution
Jul 18, 2022, 11:15 PM
30
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
At what point will we know if Eliezer’s predictions are right or wrong?
anonymous123456
Jul 18, 2022, 10:06 PM
5
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Modelling Deception
Garrett Baker
Jul 18, 2022, 9:21 PM
15
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Are Intelligence and Generality Orthogonal?
cubefox
Jul 18, 2022, 8:07 PM
18
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover
Ajeya Cotra
Jul 18, 2022, 7:06 PM
368
points
95
comments
75
min read
LW
link
1
review
Turning Some Inconsistent Preferences into Consistent Ones
niplav
Jul 18, 2022, 6:40 PM
23
points
5
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Addendum: A non-magical explanation of Jeffrey Epstein
lc
Jul 18, 2022, 5:40 PM
81
points
21
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Launching a new progress institute, seeking a CEO
jasoncrawford
Jul 18, 2022, 4:58 PM
25
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Machine Learning Model Sizes and the Parameter Gap [abridged]
Pablo Villalobos
Jul 18, 2022, 4:51 PM
20
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(epochai.org)
Quantilizers and Generative Models
Adam Jermyn
Jul 18, 2022, 4:32 PM
24
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
AI Hiroshima (Does A Vivid Example Of Destruction Forestall Apocalypse?)
Sable
Jul 18, 2022, 12:06 PM
4
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How the ---- did Feynman Get Here !?
George3d6
Jul 18, 2022, 9:43 AM
8
points
8
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
Conditioning Generative Models for Alignment
Jozdien
Jul 18, 2022, 7:11 AM
60
points
8
comments
20
min read
LW
link
Training goals for large language models
Johannes Treutlein
Jul 18, 2022, 7:09 AM
28
points
5
comments
19
min read
LW
link
A distillation of Evan Hubinger’s training stories (for SERI MATS)
Daphne_W
Jul 18, 2022, 3:38 AM
15
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
Forecasting ML Benchmarks in 2023
jsteinhardt
Jul 18, 2022, 2:50 AM
36
points
20
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)
What should you change in response to an “emergency”? And AI risk
AnnaSalamon
Jul 18, 2022, 1:11 AM
339
points
60
comments
6
min read
LW
link
1
review
Deception?! I ain’t got time for that!
Paul Colognese
Jul 18, 2022, 12:06 AM
55
points
5
comments
13
min read
LW
link
How Interpretability can be Impactful
Connall Garrod
Jul 18, 2022, 12:06 AM
18
points
0
comments
37
min read
LW
link
Why you might expect homogeneous take-off: evidence from ML research
Andrei Alexandru
Jul 17, 2022, 8:31 PM
24
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Examples of AI Increasing AI Progress
TW123
Jul 17, 2022, 8:06 PM
107
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Four questions I ask AI safety researchers
Orpheus16
Jul 17, 2022, 5:25 PM
17
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why I Think Abrupt AI Takeoff
lincolnquirk
Jul 17, 2022, 5:04 PM
14
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Culture wars in riddle format
Malmesbury
Jul 17, 2022, 2:51 PM
7
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Bangalore LW/ACX Meetup in person
Vyakart
Jul 17, 2022, 6:53 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Resolve Cycles
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 16, 2022, 11:17 PM
140
points
8
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Alignment as Game Design
Shoshannah Tekofsky
Jul 16, 2022, 10:36 PM
11
points
7
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Risk Management from a Climbers Perspective
Annapurna
Jul 16, 2022, 9:14 PM
5
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(jorgevelez.substack.com)
Cognitive Instability, Physicalism, and Free Will
dadadarren
Jul 16, 2022, 1:13 PM
5
points
27
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.sleepingbeautyproblem.com)
All AGI safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [July 2022]
plex
and
Robert Miles
Jul 16, 2022, 12:57 PM
84
points
132
comments
3
min read
LW
link
QNR Prospects
PeterMcCluskey
Jul 16, 2022, 2:03 AM
40
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
To-do waves
Paweł Sysiak
Jul 16, 2022, 1:19 AM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Moneypumping Bryan Caplan’s Belief in Free Will
Morpheus
Jul 16, 2022, 12:46 AM
5
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A summary of every “Highlights from the Sequences” post
Orpheus16
Jul 15, 2022, 11:01 PM
98
points
7
comments
17
min read
LW
link
Safety Implications of LeCun’s path to machine intelligence
Ivan Vendrov
Jul 15, 2022, 9:47 PM
102
points
18
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Comfort Zone Exploration
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 15, 2022, 9:18 PM
51
points
2
comments
12
min read
LW
link
A time-invariant version of Laplace’s rule
Jsevillamol
and
Ege Erdil
Jul 15, 2022, 7:28 PM
72
points
13
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(epochai.org)
An attempt to break circularity in science
fryolysis
Jul 15, 2022, 6:32 PM
3
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
A story about a duplicitous API
LiLiLi
Jul 15, 2022, 6:26 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Highlights from the memoirs of Vannevar Bush
jasoncrawford
Jul 15, 2022, 6:08 PM
11
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Notes on Learning the Prior
carboniferous_umbraculum
Jul 15, 2022, 5:28 PM
25
points
2
comments
25
min read
LW
link
Review of The Engines of Cognition
William Gasarch
Jul 15, 2022, 2:13 PM
14
points
5
comments
15
min read
LW
link
A review of Nate Hilger’s The Parent Trap
David Hugh-Jones
Jul 15, 2022, 9:30 AM
15
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(wyclif.substack.com)
Musings on the Human Objective Function
Michael Soareverix
Jul 15, 2022, 7:13 AM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Peter Singer’s first published piece on AI
Fai
Jul 15, 2022, 6:18 AM
20
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(link.springer.com)
Don’t use ‘infohazard’ for collectively destructive info
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Jul 15, 2022, 5:13 AM
86
points
33
comments
1
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
(www.facebook.com)
Upcoming heatwave: advice
stavros
Jul 15, 2022, 5:03 AM
16
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A note about differential technological development
So8res
Jul 15, 2022, 4:46 AM
197
points
33
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Inward and outward steelmanning
Q Home
Jul 14, 2022, 11:32 PM
13
points
6
comments
18
min read
LW
link
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