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What Is The True Name of Modularity?
CallumMcDougall
,
Lucius Bushnaq
and
Avery
Jul 1, 2022, 2:55 PM
39
points
10
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Paper: Forecasting world events with neural nets
Owain_Evans
,
Dan H
and
Joe Kwon
Jul 1, 2022, 7:40 PM
39
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/14/22: BA.2.75 Plus Tax
Zvi
Jul 14, 2022, 2:40 PM
39
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Mosaic and Palimpsests: Two Shapes of Research
adamShimi
Jul 12, 2022, 9:05 AM
39
points
3
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Predicting Parental Emotional Changes?
jefftk
Jul 6, 2022, 1:50 PM
39
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Personal forecasting retrospective: 2020-2022
elifland
Jul 21, 2022, 12:07 AM
38
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.foxy-scout.com)
Five views of Bayes’ Theorem
Adam Scherlis
Jul 2, 2022, 2:25 AM
38
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Robustness to Scaling Down: More Important Than I Thought
adamShimi
Jul 23, 2022, 11:40 AM
38
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Comparing Four Approaches to Inner Alignment
Lucas Teixeira
Jul 29, 2022, 9:06 PM
38
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
Ars D&D.sci: Mysteries of Mana
aphyer
Jul 9, 2022, 12:19 PM
38
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Levels of Pluralism
adamShimi
Jul 27, 2022, 9:35 AM
37
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[AN #173] Recent language model results from DeepMind
Rohin Shah
Jul 21, 2022, 2:30 AM
37
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(mailchi.mp)
Being a donor for Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/y)
EternallyBlissful
Jul 8, 2022, 6:17 AM
36
points
26
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Monkeypox Post #2
Zvi
Jul 28, 2022, 1:20 PM
36
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Remaking EfficientZero (as best I can)
Hoagy
Jul 4, 2022, 11:03 AM
36
points
9
comments
22
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)
Hiring Programmers in Academia
jefftk
Jul 24, 2022, 8:20 PM
36
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Minerva
Algon
Jul 1, 2022, 8:06 PM
36
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(ai.googleblog.com)
Hessian and Basin volume
Vivek Hebbar
Jul 10, 2022, 6:59 AM
35
points
10
comments
4
min read
LW
link
New US Senate Bill on X-Risk Mitigation [Linkpost]
Evan R. Murphy
Jul 4, 2022, 1:25 AM
35
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.hsgac.senate.gov)
Distillation Contest—Results and Recap
Aris
Jul 29, 2022, 5:40 PM
34
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/7/22: Paxlovid at the Pharmacy
Zvi
Jul 7, 2022, 2:30 PM
34
points
11
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Book Review: The Righteous Mind
ErnestScribbler
Jul 4, 2022, 5:45 PM
34
points
8
comments
35
min read
LW
link
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
A compressed take on recent disagreements
kman
Jul 4, 2022, 4:39 AM
33
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/28/22: Ruining It For Everyone
Zvi
Jul 28, 2022, 3:10 PM
32
points
8
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Who is this MSRayne person anyway?
MSRayne
Jul 1, 2022, 5:32 PM
32
points
30
comments
11
min read
LW
link
MIRI Conversations: Technology Forecasting & Gradualism (Distillation)
CallumMcDougall
Jul 13, 2022, 3:55 PM
31
points
1
comment
20
min read
LW
link
User research as a barometer of software design
Adam Zerner
Jul 8, 2022, 6:02 AM
31
points
13
comments
3
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
Finding Skeletons on Rashomon Ridge
David Udell
,
Peter S. Park
and
NickyP
Jul 24, 2022, 10:31 PM
30
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
One-day applied rationality workshop in Berlin Aug 29 (after LWCW)
Duncan Sabien (Inactive)
Jul 22, 2022, 7:58 AM
30
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
I’ve become a medical mystery and I don’t know how to effectively get help
CraigMichael
Jul 9, 2022, 6:58 AM
30
points
53
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Passing Up Pay
jefftk
Jul 13, 2022, 2:10 PM
29
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Alien Message Contest: Solution
DaemonicSigil
Jul 13, 2022, 4:07 AM
29
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Straw-Steelmanning
Chris van Merwijk
Jul 13, 2022, 5:48 AM
29
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AGI Safety Needs People With All Skillsets!
Severin T. Seehrich
Jul 25, 2022, 1:32 PM
28
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Nature abhors an immutable replicator… usually
MSRayne
Jul 3, 2022, 3:08 PM
28
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Spending Update 2022
jefftk
Jul 19, 2022, 2:10 PM
28
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Training goals for large language models
Johannes Treutlein
Jul 18, 2022, 7:09 AM
28
points
5
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Humans Reflecting on HRH
leogao
Jul 29, 2022, 9:56 PM
27
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which AI Safety research agendas are the most promising?
Chris_Leong
Jul 13, 2022, 7:54 AM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Translating between Latent Spaces
JamesH
,
Jeremy Gillen
and
NickyP
Jul 30, 2022, 3:25 AM
27
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Is General Intelligence “Compact”?
DragonGod
Jul 4, 2022, 1:27 PM
27
points
6
comments
22
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/21/22: Featuring ASPR
Zvi
Jul 21, 2022, 1:50 PM
27
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Reframing the AI Risk
Thane Ruthenis
Jul 1, 2022, 6:44 PM
26
points
7
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What are the simplest questions in applied rationality where you don’t know the answer to?
ChristianKl
Jul 20, 2022, 9:53 AM
26
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Rainmaking
WalterL
Jul 12, 2022, 12:42 AM
26
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
The Tree of Life: Stanford AI Alignment Theory of Change
Gabe M
Jul 2, 2022, 6:36 PM
25
points
0
comments
14
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)
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