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Capital and inequality

NathanBarnardAug 15, 2022, 5:23 PM

7 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Are there practical exercises for developing the Scout mindset?

ChristianKlAug 15, 2022, 5:23 PM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How do you get a job as a software developer?

lsusrAug 15, 2022, 2:45 PM

22 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

The Parable of the Boy Who Cried 5% Chance of Wolf

KatWoodsAug 15, 2022, 2:33 PM

140 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

And the Revenues Are So Small

ZviAug 15, 2022, 1:00 PM

19 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Extreme Security

lcAug 15, 2022, 12:11 PM

38 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

No shortcuts to knowledge: Why AI needs to ease up on scaling and learn how to code

YldedlyAug 15, 2022, 8:42 AM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(deoxyribose.github.io)

Seeking Interns/RAs for Mechanistic Interpretability Projects

Neel NandaAug 15, 2022, 7:11 AM

61 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking

Neel Nanda and Tom Lieberum

Aug 15, 2022, 2:41 AM

373 points

48 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

(colab.research.google.com)

[Question] If a nuke is coming towards SF Bay can people bunker in BART tunnels?

Pee DoomAug 15, 2022, 1:56 AM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the probability that a superintelligent, sentient AGI is actually infeasible?

Nathan1123Aug 14, 2022, 10:41 PM

−3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Dealing With Delusions

adrusiAug 14, 2022, 9:11 PM

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

All the posts I will never write

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielAug 14, 2022, 6:29 PM

54 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

Brain-like AGI project “aintelope”

Gunnar_ZarnckeAug 14, 2022, 4:33 PM

54 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Transparency: Why it’s critical and how to obtain it.

Zohar JacksonAug 14, 2022, 10:31 AM

6 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

A brief note on Simplicity Bias

carboniferous_umbraculum Aug 14, 2022, 2:05 AM

20 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Evolution is a bad analogy for AGI: inner alignment

Quintin PopeAug 13, 2022, 10:15 PM

81 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

An Uncanny Prison

Nathan1123Aug 13, 2022, 9:40 PM

3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Florida Elections

DoubleAug 13, 2022, 8:10 PM

−3 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Cultivating Valiance

Shoshannah TekofskyAug 13, 2022, 6:47 PM

35 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

An extended rocket alignment analogy

rememberAug 13, 2022, 6:22 PM

28 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] The OpenAI playground for GPT-3 is a terrible interface. Is there any great local (or web) app for exploring/learning with language models?

avivAug 13, 2022, 4:34 PM

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] What is an agent in reductionist materialism?

ValentineAug 13, 2022, 3:39 PM

7 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Refine’s First Blog Post Day

adamShimiAug 13, 2022, 10:23 AM

55 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Dumbest Possible Gets There First

ArtaxerxesAug 13, 2022, 10:20 AM

44 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

I missed the crux of the alignment problem the whole time

zeshenAug 13, 2022, 10:11 AM

53 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Shapes of Mind and Pluralism in Alignment

adamShimiAug 13, 2022, 10:01 AM

33 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

How I think about alignment

Linda LinseforsAug 13, 2022, 10:01 AM

31 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Steelmining via Analogy

Paul BricmanAug 13, 2022, 9:59 AM

24 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(paulbricman.com)

Appendix: Jargon Dictionary

CFAR!DuncanAug 13, 2022, 8:09 AM

34 points

5 comments21 min readLW link

Appendix: Hamming Questions

CFAR!DuncanAug 13, 2022, 8:07 AM

41 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Building a Bugs List prompts

CFAR!DuncanAug 13, 2022, 8:00 AM

69 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Cambridge LW Meetup: Constructive Complaining

Tony WangAug 13, 2022, 4:52 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Gradient descent doesn’t select for inner search

Ivan VendrovAug 13, 2022, 4:15 AM

47 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How to bet against civilizational adequacy?

Wei DaiAug 12, 2022, 11:33 PM

54 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Infant AI Scenario

Nathan1123Aug 12, 2022, 9:20 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments

VikaAug 12, 2022, 9:06 PM

395 points

37 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Dissolve: The Petty Crimes of Blaise Pascal

SebastianG Aug 12, 2022, 8:04 PM

17 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

The Host Minds of HBO’s Westworld.

NerretAug 12, 2022, 6:53 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

What is estimational programming? Squiggle in context

QuinnAug 12, 2022, 6:39 PM

14 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Oversight Misses 100% of Thoughts The AI Does Not Think

johnswentworthAug 12, 2022, 4:30 PM

111 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

Timelines explanation post part 1 of ?

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 12, 2022, 4:13 PM

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

A little playing around with Blenderbot3

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 12, 2022, 4:06 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Refining the Sharp Left Turn threat model, part 1: claims and mechanisms

Vika, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar and Mary Phuong

Aug 12, 2022, 3:17 PM

86 points

4 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

Argument by Intellectual Ordeal

lcAug 12, 2022, 1:03 PM

26 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-squatted AI x-risk domains index

plexAug 12, 2022, 12:01 PM

59 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Perfect Predictors

aditya malikAug 12, 2022, 11:51 AM

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good arguments against building new nuclear power plants?

RomanSAug 12, 2022, 7:32 AM

16 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Seeking PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)

CFAR!DuncanAug 12, 2022, 4:15 AM

62 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Artificial intelligence wireheading

Big TonyAug 12, 2022, 3:06 AM

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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