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Letter from leading Soviet Academicians to party and government leaders of the Soviet Union regarding signs of decline and structural problems of the economic-political system (1970)
M. Y. Zuo
Aug 1, 2022, 10:35 PM
20
points
10
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Technical AI Alignment Study Group
Eric K
Aug 1, 2022, 6:33 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there any writing about prompt engineering for humans?
Alex Hollow
Aug 1, 2022, 12:52 PM
18
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Meditation course claims 65% enlightenment rate: my review
KatWoods
Aug 1, 2022, 11:25 AM
111
points
35
comments
14
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which intro-to-AI-risk text would you recommend to...
Sherrinford
Aug 1, 2022, 9:36 AM
12
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Polaris, Five-Second Versions, and Thought Lengths
CFAR!Duncan
Aug 1, 2022, 7:14 AM
50
points
12
comments
8
min read
LW
link
A Word is Worth 1,000 Pictures
Kully
Aug 1, 2022, 4:08 AM
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
On akrasia: starting at the bottom
seecrow
Aug 1, 2022, 4:08 AM
37
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How likely do you think worse-than-extinction type fates to be?
span1
Aug 1, 2022, 4:08 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Abstraction sacrifices causal clarity
Marv K
Jul 31, 2022, 7:24 PM
2
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Time-logging programs and/or spreadsheets (2022)
mikbp
Jul 31, 2022, 6:18 PM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Conservatism is a rational response to epistemic uncertainty
contrarianbrit
Jul 31, 2022, 6:04 PM
2
points
11
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(thomasprosser.substack.com)
South Bay ACX/LW Meetup
IS
Jul 31, 2022, 3:30 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Perverse Independence Incentives
jefftk
Jul 31, 2022, 2:40 PM
61
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Wolfram Research v Cook
Kenny
Jul 31, 2022, 1:35 PM
7
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Wanted: Notation for credal resilience
PeterH
Jul 31, 2022, 7:35 AM
21
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Anatomy of a Dating Document
squidious
Jul 31, 2022, 2:40 AM
29
points
24
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)
chinchilla’s wild implications
nostalgebraist
Jul 31, 2022, 1:18 AM
424
points
128
comments
10
min read
LW
link
1
review
AGI-level reasoner will appear sooner than an agent; what the humanity will do with this reasoner is critical
Roman Leventov
Jul 30, 2022, 8:56 PM
24
points
10
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What job should I do?
Tom Paine
Jul 30, 2022, 9:15 AM
2
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How transparency changed over time
ViktoriaMalyasova
Jul 30, 2022, 4:36 AM
21
points
0
comments
6
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
Drexler’s Nanotech Forecast
PeterMcCluskey
Jul 30, 2022, 12:45 AM
25
points
28
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)
Humans Reflecting on HRH
leogao
Jul 29, 2022, 9:56 PM
26
points
4
comments
2
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
Questions for a Theory of Narratives
Marv K
Jul 29, 2022, 7:31 PM
5
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Focusing
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 29, 2022, 7:15 PM
115
points
23
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
,
Sid Black
,
Chris Scammell
and
Andrea_Miotti
Jul 29, 2022, 7:07 PM
131
points
6
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Abstracting The Hardness of Alignment: Unbounded Atomic Optimization
adamShimi
Jul 29, 2022, 6:59 PM
75
points
3
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Bucket Errors
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 29, 2022, 6:50 PM
43
points
7
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Distillation Contest—Results and Recap
Aris
Jul 29, 2022, 5:40 PM
34
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The generalized Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz theorem.
Donald Hobson
Jul 29, 2022, 12:12 AM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Conversations We Make Space For
Severin T. Seehrich
Jul 28, 2022, 9:37 PM
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Announcing the AI Safety Field Building Hub, a new effort to provide AISFB projects, mentorship, and funding
Vael Gates
Jul 28, 2022, 9:29 PM
49
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Defining Optimization in a Deeper Way Part 4
J Bostock
Jul 28, 2022, 5:02 PM
7
points
0
comments
5
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)
Monkeypox Post #2
Zvi
Jul 28, 2022, 1:20 PM
36
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
For Better Commenting, Stop Out Loud
DirectedEvolution
Jul 28, 2022, 1:39 AM
18
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeking beta readers who are ignorant of biology but knowledgeable about AI safety
Holly_Elmore
Jul 27, 2022, 11:02 PM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Principles of Privacy for Alignment Research
johnswentworth
Jul 27, 2022, 7:53 PM
73
points
31
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Moral strategies at different capability levels
Richard_Ngo
Jul 27, 2022, 6:50 PM
112
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-27
jasoncrawford
Jul 27, 2022, 5:20 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments
Dennis Towne
Jul 27, 2022, 3:49 PM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ai.googleblog.com)
Levels of Pluralism
adamShimi
Jul 27, 2022, 9:35 AM
37
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Human trials for the Marburg vaccine: funding opportunity?
americanwalrus
Jul 27, 2022, 5:53 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.independent.co.uk)
[Question]
“Fanatical” Longtermists: Why is Pascal’s Wager wrong?
Yitz
Jul 27, 2022, 4:16 AM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Unifying Bargaining Notions (2/2)
Diffractor
Jul 27, 2022, 3:40 AM
118
points
19
comments
21
min read
LW
link
AGI ruin scenarios are likely (and disjunctive)
So8res
Jul 27, 2022, 3:21 AM
177
points
38
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Technocracy and the Space Age
jasoncrawford
Jul 26, 2022, 11:14 PM
25
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
«Boundaries», Part 1: a key missing concept from utility theory
Andrew_Critch
Jul 26, 2022, 11:03 PM
158
points
33
comments
7
min read
LW
link
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