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OpenPrinciples Bootcamp (Free) -- Reflect & Act on your Rationality Principles.
ti_guo
Sep 8, 2022, 3:06 AM
6
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Searching for Modularity in Large Language Models
NickyP
and
Stephen Fowler
Sep 8, 2022, 2:25 AM
44
points
3
comments
14
min read
LW
link
90% of anything should be bad (& the precision-recall tradeoff)
cartografie
Sep 8, 2022, 1:20 AM
33
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
How to Do Research. v1
Pablo Repetto
Sep 8, 2022, 1:08 AM
29
points
4
comments
41
min read
LW
link
(pabloernesto.github.io)
Galaxy Trucker Needs a New Second Half
jefftk
Sep 7, 2022, 8:10 PM
13
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
[Question]
In a lack of data, how should you weigh credences in theoretical physics’s Theories of Everything, or TOEs?
Noosphere89
Sep 7, 2022, 6:25 PM
7
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Generators Of Disagreement With AI Alignment
George3d6
Sep 7, 2022, 6:15 PM
27
points
9
comments
9
min read
LW
link
(www.epistem.ink)
Shrödinger’s lottery or: Why you are going to live forever
Chase Dowdell
Sep 7, 2022, 6:13 PM
1
point
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Is training data going to be diluted by AI-generated content?
Hannes Thurnherr
Sep 7, 2022, 6:13 PM
10
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
It’s (not) how you use it
Eleni Angelou
Sep 7, 2022, 5:15 PM
8
points
1
comment
2
min read
LW
link
First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
Henrik Karlsson
Sep 7, 2022, 3:50 PM
53
points
6
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)
AI-assisted list of ten concrete alignment things to do right now
lemonhope
Sep 7, 2022, 8:38 AM
8
points
5
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Can “Reward Economics” solve AI Alignment?
Q Home
Sep 7, 2022, 7:58 AM
3
points
15
comments
18
min read
LW
link
Is there a list of projects to get started with Interpretability?
Franziska Fischer
Sep 7, 2022, 4:27 AM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress Report 7: making GPT go hurrdurr instead of brrrrrrr
Nathan Helm-Burger
Sep 7, 2022, 3:28 AM
21
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Framing AI Childhoods
David Udell
Sep 6, 2022, 11:40 PM
37
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Deleted comments archive
Said Achmiz
Sep 6, 2022, 9:54 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Guitar Pedals on Fiddle
jefftk
Sep 6, 2022, 7:30 PM
10
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Rejected Early Drafts of Newcomb’s Problem
zahmahkibo
Sep 6, 2022, 7:04 PM
114
points
5
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How can we secure more research positions at our universities for x-risk researchers?
Neil Crawford
Sep 6, 2022, 5:17 PM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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
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