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Funding is All You Need: Getting into Grad School by Hacking the NSF GRFP Fellowship
hapanin
Sep 22, 2022, 9:39 PM
106
points
9
comments
12
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What Do AI Safety Pitches Not Get About Your Field?
Aris
Sep 22, 2022, 9:27 PM
28
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Free Will” in a Computational Universe
DragonGod
Sep 22, 2022, 9:25 PM
5
points
6
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Initial Thoughts on Dissolving “Couldness”
DragonGod
Sep 22, 2022, 9:23 PM
6
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Let’s Compare Notes
Shoshannah Tekofsky
Sep 22, 2022, 8:47 PM
17
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Methodological Therapy: An Agenda For Tackling Research Bottlenecks
adamShimi
,
Lucas Teixeira
and
remember
Sep 22, 2022, 6:41 PM
54
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
Berkeley group house, spots open
Jack R
Sep 22, 2022, 5:13 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Fake qualities of mind
Kaj_Sotala
Sep 22, 2022, 4:40 PM
59
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
Dath Ilan’s Views on Stopgap Corrigibility
David Udell
Sep 22, 2022, 4:16 PM
78
points
19
comments
13
min read
LW
link
(www.glowfic.com)
Ukraine Post #12
Zvi
Sep 22, 2022, 2:40 PM
104
points
3
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Covid 9/22/22: The Joe Biden Sings
Zvi
Sep 22, 2022, 2:40 PM
15
points
17
comments
24
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
AI Risk Intro 2: Solving The Problem
CallumMcDougall
and
L Rudolf L
Sep 22, 2022, 1:55 PM
22
points
0
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Understanding Infra-Bayesianism: A Beginner-Friendly Video Series
Jack Parker
and
Connall Garrod
Sep 22, 2022, 1:25 PM
140
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is the game design/art maxim more generalizable to criticism/praise itself?
Noosphere89
Sep 22, 2022, 1:19 PM
4
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
AI career
ondragon
Sep 22, 2022, 3:48 AM
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mathematical Circuits in Neural Networks
Sean Osier
Sep 22, 2022, 3:48 AM
34
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.youtube.com)
LW Petrov Day 2022 (Monday, 9/26)
Ruby
Sep 22, 2022, 2:56 AM
120
points
111
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Tuesday Family Dinner
jefftk
Sep 22, 2022, 2:40 AM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Toy Models of Superposition
evhub
Sep 21, 2022, 11:48 PM
69
points
4
comments
5
min read
LW
link
1
review
(transformer-circuits.pub)
How to Train Your AGI Dragon
Eris Discordia
Sep 21, 2022, 10:28 PM
−1
points
3
comments
5
min read
LW
link
An issue with MacAskill’s Evidentialist’s Wager
Martín Soto
Sep 21, 2022, 10:02 PM
1
point
9
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Announcing AISIC 2022 - the AI Safety Israel Conference, October 19-20
Davidmanheim
Sep 21, 2022, 7:32 PM
13
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Nearcast-based “deployment problem” analysis
HoldenKarnofsky
Sep 21, 2022, 6:52 PM
85
points
2
comments
26
min read
LW
link
Scraping training data for your mind
Henrik Karlsson
Sep 21, 2022, 4:27 PM
47
points
4
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)
Trends in Training Dataset Sizes
Pablo Villalobos
Sep 21, 2022, 3:47 PM
25
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(epochai.org)
[Question]
Can you define “utility” in utilitarianism without using words for specific human emotions?
SurvivalBias
Sep 21, 2022, 3:29 AM
13
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Infohazards” The ML Field’s Greatest Excuse.
Puffy Bird
Sep 21, 2022, 3:19 AM
−3
points
1
comment
3
min read
LW
link
Case Rates to Sequencing Reads
jefftk
Sep 21, 2022, 2:00 AM
15
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Towards deconfusing wireheading and reward maximization
leogao
Sep 21, 2022, 12:36 AM
81
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
[Question]
What key nutrients are required for daily energy?
trevor
Sep 20, 2022, 11:30 PM
7
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Quantified Intuitions: An epistemics training website including a new EA-themed calibration app
Sage Future
and
elifland
Sep 20, 2022, 10:25 PM
28
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Redaction Machine
Ben
Sep 20, 2022, 10:03 PM
505
points
48
comments
27
min read
LW
link
1
review
You Are Not Measuring What You Think You Are Measuring
johnswentworth
Sep 20, 2022, 8:04 PM
410
points
45
comments
8
min read
LW
link
2
reviews
What happened to the idea of progress?
jasoncrawford
Sep 20, 2022, 7:56 PM
8
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(bigthink.com)
Features and Antifeatures
Davis_Kingsley
Sep 20, 2022, 5:54 PM
23
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Cryptocurrency Exploits Show the Importance of Proactive Policies for AI X-Risk
eSpencer
Sep 20, 2022, 5:53 PM
1
point
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Alignment Org Cheat Sheet
Orpheus16
and
Thomas Larsen
Sep 20, 2022, 5:36 PM
70
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Doing oversight from the very start of training seems hard
peterbarnett
Sep 20, 2022, 5:21 PM
14
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
$13,000 of prizes for changing our mind about who to fund (Clearer Thinking Regrants Forecasting Tournament)
spencerg
Sep 20, 2022, 4:06 PM
14
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(manifold.markets)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-20
jasoncrawford
Sep 20, 2022, 2:07 PM
7
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
[Question]
If we have Human-level chatbots, won’t we end up being ruled by possible people?
Erlja Jkdf.
Sep 20, 2022, 1:59 PM
5
points
13
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Twitter Polls: Evidence is Evidence
Zvi
Sep 20, 2022, 12:30 PM
34
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Some of the most important entrepreneurship skills are tacit knowledge
Ruhul
Sep 20, 2022, 12:06 PM
20
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Character alignment
p.b.
Sep 20, 2022, 8:27 AM
22
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Losing the root for the tree
Adam Zerner
Sep 20, 2022, 4:53 AM
480
points
31
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
Failed Adventures in Delay
jefftk
Sep 20, 2022, 2:20 AM
8
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Gene drives: why the wait?
Metacelsus
Sep 19, 2022, 11:37 PM
125
points
50
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(denovo.substack.com)
Prize idea: Transmit MIRI and Eliezer’s worldviews
elifland
Sep 19, 2022, 9:21 PM
47
points
18
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Rationality Dojo Berlin Handout
UnplannedCauliflower
Sep 19, 2022, 8:11 PM
19
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
A noob goes to the SERI MATS presentations
Lowell Dennings
Sep 19, 2022, 5:35 PM
27
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
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