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Community Building for Graduate Students: A Targeted Approach
Neil Crawford
Sep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
6
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
How Josiah became an AI safety researcher
Neil Crawford
Sep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
No, human brains are not (much) more efficient than computers
Jesse Hoogland
Sep 6, 2022, 1:53 PM
22
points
21
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jessehoogland.com)
On oxytocin-sensitive neurons in auditory cortex
Steven Byrnes
Sep 6, 2022, 12:54 PM
32
points
6
comments
12
min read
LW
link
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)
Zoe Williams
Sep 6, 2022, 11:06 AM
51
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Alex Lawsen On Forecasting AI Progress
Michaël Trazzi
Sep 6, 2022, 9:32 AM
18
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(theinsideview.ai)
What are you for?
lsusr
Sep 6, 2022, 3:32 AM
39
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Power (and limits?) of Chunking
Nicholas / Heather Kross
Sep 6, 2022, 2:26 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Another Unphrased B-part
jefftk
Sep 6, 2022, 1:30 AM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Exploratory] Becoming more Agentic
Johannes C. Mayer
Sep 6, 2022, 12:45 AM
6
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
AI Governance Needs Technical Work
Mau
Sep 5, 2022, 10:28 PM
41
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Overton Gymnastics: An Exercise in Discomfort
Shoshannah Tekofsky
and
omark
Sep 5, 2022, 7:20 PM
40
points
15
comments
4
min read
LW
link
The Good King
GregorDeVillain
Sep 5, 2022, 7:17 PM
−6
points
0
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Beta Readers are Great
HoldenKarnofsky
Sep 5, 2022, 7:10 PM
28
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.cold-takes.com)
Impact Shares For Speculative Projects
Elizabeth
Sep 5, 2022, 6:00 PM
30
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
An unofficial “Highlights from the Sequences” tier list
Orpheus16
Sep 5, 2022, 2:07 PM
29
points
1
comment
5
min read
LW
link
A Game About AI Alignment (& Meta-Ethics): What Are the Must Haves?
JonathanErhardt
Sep 5, 2022, 7:55 AM
18
points
15
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Exploratory] What does it mean that an experiment is high bit?
Johannes C. Mayer
Sep 5, 2022, 3:13 AM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(Link) I’m Missing a Chunk of My Brain
mukashi
Sep 5, 2022, 2:10 AM
13
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.nytimes.com)
THE 3 WILLPOWER KEYS
GregorDeVillain
Sep 4, 2022, 10:57 PM
−11
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
What’s your Mission?
GregorDeVillain
Sep 4, 2022, 6:52 PM
−4
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
EA, Veganism and Negative Animal Utilitarianism
Yair Halberstadt
Sep 4, 2022, 6:30 PM
10
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The ethics of reclining airplane seats
braces
Sep 4, 2022, 5:59 PM
93
points
70
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Russian Food for Petrov Day
weft
Sep 4, 2022, 5:57 PM
17
points
9
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Prototyping in C
jefftk
Sep 4, 2022, 5:50 PM
19
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Turn your flashcards into Art
Heye Groß
Sep 4, 2022, 5:31 PM
16
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Let’s Terraform West Texas
blackstampede
Sep 4, 2022, 4:24 PM
87
points
33
comments
5
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Help me find a good Hackathon subject
Charbel-Raphaël
Sep 4, 2022, 8:40 AM
6
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Bay Solstice 2022 Call For Volunteers
Scott Alexander
Sep 4, 2022, 6:44 AM
43
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The shard theory of human values
Quintin Pope
and
TurnTrout
Sep 4, 2022, 4:28 AM
255
points
67
comments
24
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
Breaking Newcomb’s Problem with Non-Halting states
Slimepriestess
Sep 4, 2022, 4:01 AM
16
points
9
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Monthly Shorts 8/22
Celer
Sep 4, 2022, 2:30 AM
3
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(keller.substack.com)
Fully Live Electronic Contra
jefftk
Sep 4, 2022, 1:30 AM
9
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
How To Know What the AI Knows—An ELK Distillation
Fabien Roger
Sep 4, 2022, 12:46 AM
7
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Private alignment research sharing and coordination
porby
Sep 4, 2022, 12:01 AM
62
points
13
comments
5
min read
LW
link
AXRP Episode 18 - Concept Extrapolation with Stuart Armstrong
DanielFilan
Sep 3, 2022, 11:12 PM
12
points
1
comment
39
min read
LW
link
An Update on Academia vs. Industry (one year into my faculty job)
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Sep 3, 2022, 8:43 PM
122
points
18
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Request for Alignment Research Project Recommendations
Rauno Arike
Sep 3, 2022, 3:29 PM
10
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Three scenarios of pseudo-alignment
Eleni Angelou
Sep 3, 2022, 12:47 PM
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Bugs or Features?
qbolec
Sep 3, 2022, 7:04 AM
73
points
9
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Exploratory] Seperate exploratory writing from public writing
Johannes C. Mayer
Sep 3, 2022, 2:57 AM
6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
We may be able to see sharp left turns coming
Ethan Perez
and
Neel Nanda
Sep 3, 2022, 2:55 AM
54
points
29
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Exploratory] Exploratory Writing Info
Johannes C. Mayer
Sep 3, 2022, 2:50 AM
3
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Can someone explain to me why most researchers think alignment is probably something that is humanly tractable?
iamthouthouarti
Sep 3, 2022, 1:12 AM
32
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Behaviour Manifolds and the Hessian of the Total Loss—Notes and Criticism
carboniferous_umbraculum
Sep 3, 2022, 12:15 AM
35
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Sticky goals: a concrete experiment for understanding deceptive alignment
evhub
Sep 2, 2022, 9:57 PM
39
points
13
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Agency engineering: is AI-alignment “to human intent” enough?
catubc
Sep 2, 2022, 6:14 PM
9
points
10
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Hanover, Germany—ACX Meetups Everywhere 2022
eikowagenknecht
Sep 2, 2022, 5:31 PM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Laziness in AI
Richard Henage
Sep 2, 2022, 5:04 PM
13
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Exporting Hangouts History
jefftk
Sep 2, 2022, 3:00 PM
20
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
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