First we shape our so­cial graph; then it shapes us

Henrik KarlssonSep 7, 2022, 3:50 PM
53 points
6 comments8 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

AI-as­sisted list of ten con­crete al­ign­ment things to do right now

lemonhopeSep 7, 2022, 8:38 AM
8 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Can “Re­ward Eco­nomics” solve AI Align­ment?

Q HomeSep 7, 2022, 7:58 AM
3 points
15 comments18 min readLW link

Is there a list of pro­jects to get started with In­ter­pretabil­ity?

Franziska FischerSep 7, 2022, 4:27 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Progress Re­port 7: mak­ing GPT go hur­rdurr in­stead of brrrrrrr

Nathan Helm-BurgerSep 7, 2022, 3:28 AM
21 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Fram­ing AI Childhoods

David UdellSep 6, 2022, 11:40 PM
37 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Deleted com­ments archive

Said AchmizSep 6, 2022, 9:54 PM
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Guitar Pedals on Fiddle

jefftkSep 6, 2022, 7:30 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Re­jected Early Drafts of New­comb’s Problem

zahmahkiboSep 6, 2022, 7:04 PM
114 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How can we se­cure more re­search po­si­tions at our uni­ver­si­ties for x-risk re­searchers?

Neil CrawfordSep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Com­mu­nity Build­ing for Grad­u­ate Stu­dents: A Tar­geted Approach

Neil CrawfordSep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

How Josiah be­came an AI safety researcher

Neil CrawfordSep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

No, hu­man brains are not (much) more effi­cient than computers

Jesse HooglandSep 6, 2022, 1:53 PM
22 points
21 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jessehoogland.com)

On oxy­tocin-sen­si­tive neu­rons in au­di­tory cortex

Steven ByrnesSep 6, 2022, 12:54 PM
32 points
6 comments12 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)

Zoe WilliamsSep 6, 2022, 11:06 AM
51 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Alex Lawsen On Fore­cast­ing AI Progress

Michaël TrazziSep 6, 2022, 9:32 AM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(theinsideview.ai)

What are you for?

lsusrSep 6, 2022, 3:32 AM
39 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

The Power (and limits?) of Chunking

Nicholas / Heather KrossSep 6, 2022, 2:26 AM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Another Un­phrased B-part

jefftkSep 6, 2022, 1:30 AM
10 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Ex­plo­ra­tory] Be­com­ing more Agentic

Johannes C. MayerSep 6, 2022, 12:45 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Gover­nance Needs Tech­ni­cal Work

MauSep 5, 2022, 10:28 PM
41 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Over­ton Gym­nas­tics: An Ex­er­cise in Discomfort

Sep 5, 2022, 7:20 PM
40 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

The Good King

GregorDeVillainSep 5, 2022, 7:17 PM
−6 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

Beta Read­ers are Great

HoldenKarnofskySep 5, 2022, 7:10 PM
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Im­pact Shares For Spec­u­la­tive Projects

ElizabethSep 5, 2022, 6:00 PM
30 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

An un­offi­cial “High­lights from the Se­quences” tier list

Orpheus16Sep 5, 2022, 2:07 PM
29 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A Game About AI Align­ment (& Meta-Ethics): What Are the Must Haves?

JonathanErhardtSep 5, 2022, 7:55 AM
18 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

[Ex­plo­ra­tory] What does it mean that an ex­per­i­ment is high bit?

Johannes C. MayerSep 5, 2022, 3:13 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

(Link) I’m Miss­ing a Chunk of My Brain

mukashiSep 5, 2022, 2:10 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.nytimes.com)

THE 3 WILLPOWER KEYS

GregorDeVillainSep 4, 2022, 10:57 PM
−11 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What’s your Mis­sion?

GregorDeVillainSep 4, 2022, 6:52 PM
−4 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

EA, Ve­ganism and Nega­tive An­i­mal Utilitarianism

Yair HalberstadtSep 4, 2022, 6:30 PM
10 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

The ethics of re­clin­ing air­plane seats

bracesSep 4, 2022, 5:59 PM
93 points
70 comments1 min readLW link

Rus­sian Food for Petrov Day

weftSep 4, 2022, 5:57 PM
17 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­to­typ­ing in C

jefftkSep 4, 2022, 5:50 PM
19 points
11 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Turn your flash­cards into Art

Heye GroßSep 4, 2022, 5:31 PM
16 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Ter­raform West Texas

blackstampedeSep 4, 2022, 4:24 PM
87 points
33 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Help me find a good Hackathon sub­ject

Charbel-RaphaëlSep 4, 2022, 8:40 AM
6 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Sols­tice 2022 Call For Volunteers

Scott AlexanderSep 4, 2022, 6:44 AM
43 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The shard the­ory of hu­man values

Sep 4, 2022, 4:28 AM
255 points
67 comments24 min readLW link2 reviews

Break­ing New­comb’s Prob­lem with Non-Halt­ing states

SlimepriestessSep 4, 2022, 4:01 AM
16 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

Monthly Shorts 8/​22

CelerSep 4, 2022, 2:30 AM
3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(keller.substack.com)

Fully Live Elec­tronic Contra

jefftkSep 4, 2022, 1:30 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How To Know What the AI Knows—An ELK Distillation

Fabien RogerSep 4, 2022, 12:46 AM
7 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Pri­vate al­ign­ment re­search shar­ing and coordination

porby4 Sep 2022 0:01 UTC
62 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 18 - Con­cept Ex­trap­o­la­tion with Stu­art Armstrong

DanielFilan3 Sep 2022 23:12 UTC
12 points
1 comment39 min readLW link

An Up­date on Academia vs. In­dus­try (one year into my fac­ulty job)

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)3 Sep 2022 20:43 UTC
122 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Re­quest for Align­ment Re­search Pro­ject Recommendations

Rauno Arike3 Sep 2022 15:29 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Three sce­nar­ios of pseudo-al­ign­ment

Eleni Angelou3 Sep 2022 12:47 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Bugs or Fea­tures?

qbolec3 Sep 2022 7:04 UTC
73 points
9 comments2 min readLW link