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SlateStarCodex Boulder Meetup Oct 2022
Josh Sacks
Aug 19, 2022, 7:43 PM
2
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
Mark Xu
Aug 19, 2022, 7:41 PM
91
points
6
comments
15
min read
LW
link
Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? From Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell
Noosphere89
Aug 19, 2022, 7:32 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
Guided Consumption Theory: A Virtuous Dance between Altruistic Agents, Economic Discriminators, and Opportunistic Helpers
Brad West
Aug 19, 2022, 5:49 PM
1
point
0
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Epistemic Artefacts of (conceptual) AI alignment research
Nora_Ammann
and
particlemania
Aug 19, 2022, 5:18 PM
31
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Introducing the Existential Risks Introductory Course (ERIC)
CallumMcDougall
and
Nandini Shiralkar
Aug 19, 2022, 3:54 PM
10
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Statistics for vague concepts and “Colors” of places
Q Home
Aug 19, 2022, 10:33 AM
−1
points
2
comments
8
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are language models close to the superhuman level in philosophy?
Roman Leventov
Aug 19, 2022, 4:43 AM
6
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What does moral progress consist of?
jasoncrawford
Aug 19, 2022, 12:22 AM
32
points
23
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Alignment’s phlogiston
Eleni Angelou
Aug 18, 2022, 10:27 PM
10
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Announcing the Distillation for Alignment Practicum (DAP)
Jonas Hallgren
and
CallumMcDougall
Aug 18, 2022, 7:50 PM
23
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
A conversation about progress and safety
jasoncrawford
Aug 18, 2022, 6:36 PM
12
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Discovering Agents
zac_kenton
Aug 18, 2022, 5:33 PM
73
points
11
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Oops It’s Time To Overthrow the Organizer Day!
Screwtape
Aug 18, 2022, 4:40 PM
62
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Bias towards simple functions; application to alignment?
DavidHolmes
Aug 18, 2022, 4:15 PM
5
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
What Games These Days?
jefftk
Aug 18, 2022, 2:30 PM
24
points
6
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Covid 8/18/22: CDC Admits Mistakes
Zvi
Aug 18, 2022, 2:30 PM
46
points
9
comments
17
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
In Defense Of Making Money
George3d6
Aug 18, 2022, 2:10 PM
65
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
Astral Codex Ten meetup in Prague [Oct 6]
Jiří Nádvorník
Aug 18, 2022, 12:15 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Playing Without Affordances
Alex Hollow
Aug 18, 2022, 11:53 AM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(alexhollow.wordpress.com)
Goal-directedness: relativising complexity
Morgan_Rogers
Aug 18, 2022, 9:48 AM
3
points
0
comments
11
min read
LW
link
What’s up with the bad Meta projects?
Yitz
Aug 18, 2022, 5:34 AM
42
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Announcing Encultured AI: Building a Video Game
Andrew_Critch
and
Nick Hay
Aug 18, 2022, 2:16 AM
103
points
26
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Detroit ACX September Meetup
MattArnold
Aug 18, 2022, 12:48 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Matt Yglesias on AI Policy
Grant Demaree
Aug 17, 2022, 11:57 PM
25
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.slowboring.com)
Spoons and Myofascial Trigger Points
vitaliya
Aug 17, 2022, 10:54 PM
5
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Concrete Advice for Forming Inside Views on AI Safety
Neel Nanda
Aug 17, 2022, 10:02 PM
30
points
6
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-17
jasoncrawford
Aug 17, 2022, 9:27 PM
11
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Conditioning, Prompts, and Fine-Tuning
Adam Jermyn
Aug 17, 2022, 8:52 PM
38
points
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Core of the Alignment Problem is...
Thomas Larsen
,
Jeremy Gillen
and
JamesH
Aug 17, 2022, 8:07 PM
76
points
10
comments
9
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
Aug 17, 2022, 7:55 PM
6
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Interpretability Tools Are an Attack Channel
Thane Ruthenis
Aug 17, 2022, 6:47 PM
42
points
14
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Human Mimicry Mainly Works When We’re Already Close
johnswentworth
Aug 17, 2022, 6:41 PM
81
points
16
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Thoughts on ‘List of Lethalities’
Alex Lawsen
Aug 17, 2022, 6:33 PM
27
points
0
comments
10
min read
LW
link
The longest training run
Jsevillamol
,
Tamay
,
Owen D
and
anson.ho
Aug 17, 2022, 5:18 PM
71
points
12
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(epochai.org)
Spoiler-Free Review: Across the Obelisk
Zvi
Aug 17, 2022, 2:30 PM
17
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Autonomy as taking responsibility for reference maintenance
Ramana Kumar
Aug 17, 2022, 12:50 PM
61
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Duplicating Rasberry Pi Images
jefftk
Aug 17, 2022, 12:10 PM
9
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
ACX Meetup—Amsterdam
Pierre Vandenberghe
Aug 17, 2022, 9:56 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Insufficient awareness of how everything sucks
Flaglandbase
Aug 17, 2022, 8:01 AM
−13
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mesa-optimization for goals defined only within a training environment is dangerous
Rubi J. Hudson
Aug 17, 2022, 3:56 AM
6
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
ACX / SSC Meetup Singapore
DG
Aug 17, 2022, 2:08 AM
2
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
That-time-of-year Astral Codex Ten Meetup
Ben Smith
Aug 17, 2022, 12:02 AM
3
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
SSC Reno Meetup
Steven
16 Aug 2022 23:37 UTC
1
point
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
My thoughts on direct work (and joining LessWrong)
RobertM
16 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC
58
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
We can make the future a million years from now go better [video]
Writer
16 Aug 2022 13:03 UTC
7
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
The Open Society and Its Enemies: Summary and Thoughts
matto
16 Aug 2022 11:44 UTC
12
points
4
comments
17
min read
LW
link
An introduction to signalling theory
Mvolz
16 Aug 2022 9:37 UTC
17
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
Understanding differences between humans and intelligence-in-general to build safe AGI
Florian_Dietz
16 Aug 2022 8:27 UTC
7
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Against population ethics
jasoncrawford
16 Aug 2022 5:19 UTC
29
points
39
comments
3
min read
LW
link
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