[Question] Can we get full au­dio for Eliezer’s con­ver­sa­tion with Sam Har­ris?

JakubKAug 7, 2022, 8:35 PM
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity No Bar to AI (Or, why Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity mat­ters less than you think for real life prob­lems)

Noosphere89Aug 7, 2022, 7:55 PM
17 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

The les­sons of Xanadu

jasoncrawfordAug 7, 2022, 5:59 PM
110 points
20 comments8 min readLW link
(jasoncrawford.org)

Care­ful with Caching

jefftkAug 7, 2022, 3:20 PM
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How would Log­i­cal De­ci­sion The­o­ries ad­dress the Psy­chopath But­ton?

Nathan1123Aug 7, 2022, 3:19 PM
5 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Jack Clark on the re­al­ities of AI policy

Kaj_SotalaAug 7, 2022, 8:44 AM
68 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(threadreaderapp.com)

Ex­pected (So­cial) Value

algrthmsAug 7, 2022, 8:16 AM
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

La­men­ta­tions, Gaza and Empathy

Yair HalberstadtAug 7, 2022, 7:55 AM
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosigAug 7, 2022, 7:50 AM
70 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Most Ivy-smart stu­dents aren’t at Ivy-tier schools

Aaron BergmanAug 7, 2022, 3:18 AM
82 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(www.aaronbergman.net)

Seat­tle Septem­ber meetup: Ab­sur­dity Bias

nsokolskyAug 7, 2022, 1:37 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Do meta-memes and meta-an­timemes ex­ist? e.g. ‘The map is not the ter­ri­tory’ is also a map

M. Y. ZuoAug 7, 2022, 1:17 AM
4 points
31 comments1 min readLW link

New­comb­ness of the Din­ing Philoso­phers Problem

Nathan1123Aug 6, 2022, 9:58 PM
10 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[AMA] An­nounc­ing Open Phil’s Univer­sity Group Or­ga­nizer and Cen­tury Fel­low­ships [x-post]

Aug 6, 2022, 9:48 PM
14 points
0 comments13 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Bos­ton Rents Over Time II

jefftkAug 6, 2022, 9:20 PM
23 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Dwarves & D.Sci: Data Fortress

aphyerAug 6, 2022, 6:24 PM
38 points
26 comments3 min readLW link

A De­cep­tively Sim­ple Ar­gu­ment in fa­vor of Prob­lem Factorization

Logan ZoellnerAug 6, 2022, 5:32 PM
3 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

A Data limited future

Donald HobsonAug 6, 2022, 2:56 PM
52 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Six weeks doesn’t make a habit

lynettebyeAug 6, 2022, 8:54 AM
48 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Why I Am Skep­ti­cal of AI Reg­u­la­tion as an X-Risk Miti­ga­tion Strategy

A RayAug 6, 2022, 5:46 AM
31 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

My ad­vice on find­ing your own path

A RayAug 6, 2022, 4:57 AM
35 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Pre­dic­tIt is clos­ing due to CFTC chang­ing its mind

eigenAug 6, 2022, 3:34 AM
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus and medians

rossryAug 6, 2022, 3:34 AM
18 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the In­tro­duc­tion to ML Safety course

Aug 6, 2022, 2:46 AM
73 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 2: trends in EA’s han­dling of boundaries

Andrew_CritchAug 6, 2022, 12:42 AM
81 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

“Just hiring peo­ple” is some­times still ac­tu­ally possible

lcAug 5, 2022, 9:44 PM
38 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

The need for certainty

Thomas McMurtryAug 5, 2022, 8:18 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Rant on Prob­lem Fac­tor­iza­tion for Alignment

johnswentworthAug 5, 2022, 7:23 PM
102 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

Coun­ter­fac­tu­als are Con­fus­ing be­cause of an On­tolog­i­cal Shift

Chris_LeongAug 5, 2022, 7:03 PM
17 points
35 comments2 min readLW link

Orange county ACX/​Less-Wrong dis­cus­sion group and hang-out. (or­ange county)

Michael MichalchikAug 5, 2022, 6:25 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gears-Level Un­der­stand­ing, De­liber­ate Perfor­mance, The Strate­gic Level

CFAR!DuncanAug 5, 2022, 5:11 PM
30 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] COVID-19 Group Test­ing Post-mortem?

gwernAug 5, 2022, 4:32 PM
72 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Where are the red lines for AI?

Karl von WendtAug 5, 2022, 9:34 AM
26 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

Bridg­ing Ex­pected Utility Max­i­miza­tion and Optimization

Daniel HerrmannAug 5, 2022, 8:18 AM
25 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Deon­tol­ogy and Tool AI

Nathan1123Aug 5, 2022, 5:20 AM
4 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

An at­tempt to un­der­stand the Com­plex­ity of Values

Dalton MaberyAug 5, 2022, 4:43 AM
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

$20K In Boun­ties for AI Safety Public Materials

Aug 5, 2022, 2:52 AM
71 points
9 comments6 min readLW link

Two Kids Crosswise

jefftkAug 5, 2022, 2:40 AM
16 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Fal­ling Drill

ScrewtapeAug 5, 2022, 12:08 AM
46 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Con­ver­gence Towards World-Models: A Gears-Level Model

Thane RuthenisAug 4, 2022, 11:31 PM
38 points
1 comment13 min readLW link

Cam­bist Booking

ScrewtapeAug 4, 2022, 10:40 PM
20 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Cal­ibra­tion Trivia

ScrewtapeAug 4, 2022, 10:31 PM
12 points
9 comments4 min readLW link

Monthly Shorts 7/​22

CelerAug 4, 2022, 10:30 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(keller.substack.com)

The Prag­mas­cope Idea

johnswentworthAug 4, 2022, 9:52 PM
59 points
20 comments3 min readLW link

Run­ning a Ba­sic Meetup

ScrewtapeAug 4, 2022, 9:49 PM
20 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Fiber arts, mys­te­ri­ous do­dec­a­he­drons, and wait­ing on “Eureka!”

eukaryoteAug 4, 2022, 8:37 PM
124 points
15 comments9 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[Question] Would “Man­hat­tan Pro­ject” style be benefi­cial or dele­te­ri­ous for AI Align­ment?

Valentin2026Aug 4, 2022, 7:12 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] AI al­ign­ment: Would a lazy self-preser­va­tion in­stinct be suffi­cient?

BrainFrogAug 4, 2022, 5:53 PM
−1 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

So­cratic Duck­ing, OODA Loops, Frame-by-Frame Debugging

CFAR!DuncanAug 4, 2022, 5:44 PM
26 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

What do ML re­searchers think about AI in 2022?

KatjaGraceAug 4, 2022, 3:40 PM
221 points
33 comments3 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)