Fund­ing is All You Need: Get­ting into Grad School by Hack­ing the NSF GRFP Fellowship

hapaninSep 22, 2022, 9:39 PM
106 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] What Do AI Safety Pitches Not Get About Your Field?

ArisSep 22, 2022, 9:27 PM
28 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

“Free Will” in a Com­pu­ta­tional Universe

DragonGodSep 22, 2022, 9:25 PM
5 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

Ini­tial Thoughts on Dis­solv­ing “Could­ness”

DragonGodSep 22, 2022, 9:23 PM
6 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Let’s Com­pare Notes

Shoshannah TekofskySep 22, 2022, 8:47 PM
17 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Method­olog­i­cal Ther­apy: An Agenda For Tack­ling Re­search Bottlenecks

Sep 22, 2022, 6:41 PM
54 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

Berkeley group house, spots open

Jack RSep 22, 2022, 5:13 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Fake qual­ities of mind

Kaj_SotalaSep 22, 2022, 4:40 PM
59 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Dath Ilan’s Views on Stop­gap Corrigibility

David UdellSep 22, 2022, 4:16 PM
78 points
19 comments13 min readLW link
(www.glowfic.com)

Ukraine Post #12

ZviSep 22, 2022, 2:40 PM
104 points
3 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Covid 9/​22/​22: The Joe Bi­den Sings

ZviSep 22, 2022, 2:40 PM
15 points
17 comments24 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI Risk In­tro 2: Solv­ing The Problem

Sep 22, 2022, 1:55 PM
22 points
0 comments27 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing In­fra-Bayesi­anism: A Begin­ner-Friendly Video Series

Sep 22, 2022, 1:25 PM
140 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is the game de­sign/​art maxim more gen­er­al­iz­able to crit­i­cism/​praise it­self?

Noosphere89Sep 22, 2022, 1:19 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] AI career

ondragonSep 22, 2022, 3:48 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Math­e­mat­i­cal Cir­cuits in Neu­ral Networks

Sean OsierSep 22, 2022, 3:48 AM
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

LW Petrov Day 2022 (Mon­day, 9/​26)

RubySep 22, 2022, 2:56 AM
120 points
111 comments5 min readLW link

Tues­day Fam­ily Dinner

jefftkSep 22, 2022, 2:40 AM
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Toy Models of Superposition

evhubSep 21, 2022, 11:48 PM
69 points
4 comments5 min readLW link1 review
(transformer-circuits.pub)

How to Train Your AGI Dragon

Eris DiscordiaSep 21, 2022, 10:28 PM
−1 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

An is­sue with MacAskill’s Ev­i­den­tial­ist’s Wager

Martín SotoSep 21, 2022, 10:02 PM
1 point
9 comments4 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing AISIC 2022 - the AI Safety Is­rael Con­fer­ence, Oc­to­ber 19-20

DavidmanheimSep 21, 2022, 7:32 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Nearcast-based “de­ploy­ment prob­lem” analysis

HoldenKarnofskySep 21, 2022, 6:52 PM
85 points
2 comments26 min readLW link

Scrap­ing train­ing data for your mind

Henrik KarlssonSep 21, 2022, 4:27 PM
47 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

Trends in Train­ing Dataset Sizes

Pablo VillalobosSep 21, 2022, 3:47 PM
25 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(epochai.org)

[Question] Can you define “util­ity” in util­i­tar­i­anism with­out us­ing words for spe­cific hu­man emo­tions?

SurvivalBiasSep 21, 2022, 3:29 AM
13 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

“In­fo­haz­ards” The ML Field’s Great­est Ex­cuse.

Puffy BirdSep 21, 2022, 3:19 AM
−3 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Case Rates to Se­quenc­ing Reads

jefftkSep 21, 2022, 2:00 AM
15 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Towards de­con­fus­ing wire­head­ing and re­ward maximization

leogaoSep 21, 2022, 12:36 AM
81 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What key nu­tri­ents are re­quired for daily en­ergy?

trevorSep 20, 2022, 11:30 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tified In­tu­itions: An epistemics train­ing web­site in­clud­ing a new EA-themed cal­ibra­tion app

Sep 20, 2022, 10:25 PM
28 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The Redac­tion Machine

BenSep 20, 2022, 10:03 PM
505 points
48 comments27 min readLW link1 review

You Are Not Mea­sur­ing What You Think You Are Measuring

johnswentworthSep 20, 2022, 8:04 PM
410 points
45 comments8 min readLW link2 reviews

What hap­pened to the idea of progress?

jasoncrawfordSep 20, 2022, 7:56 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(bigthink.com)

Fea­tures and Antifeatures

Davis_KingsleySep 20, 2022, 5:54 PM
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Cryp­tocur­rency Ex­ploits Show the Im­por­tance of Proac­tive Poli­cies for AI X-Risk

eSpencerSep 20, 2022, 5:53 PM
1 point
0 comments4 min readLW link

Align­ment Org Cheat Sheet

Sep 20, 2022, 5:36 PM
70 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Do­ing over­sight from the very start of train­ing seems hard

peterbarnettSep 20, 2022, 5:21 PM
14 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

$13,000 of prizes for chang­ing our mind about who to fund (Clearer Think­ing Re­grants Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment)

spencergSep 20, 2022, 4:06 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(manifold.markets)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-09-20

jasoncrawfordSep 20, 2022, 2:07 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW 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 comments1 min readLW link

Twit­ter Polls: Ev­i­dence is Evidence

ZviSep 20, 2022, 12:30 PM
34 points
8 comments7 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some of the most im­por­tant en­trepreneur­ship skills are tacit knowledge

RuhulSep 20, 2022, 12:06 PM
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Char­ac­ter alignment

p.b.Sep 20, 2022, 8:27 AM
22 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Los­ing the root for the tree

Adam ZernerSep 20, 2022, 4:53 AM
480 points
31 comments9 min readLW link1 review

Failed Ad­ven­tures in Delay

jefftkSep 20, 2022, 2:20 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Gene drives: why the wait?

MetacelsusSep 19, 2022, 11:37 PM
125 points
50 comments3 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Prize idea: Trans­mit MIRI and Eliezer’s worldviews

eliflandSep 19, 2022, 9:21 PM
47 points
18 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Dojo Ber­lin Handout

UnplannedCauliflowerSep 19, 2022, 8:11 PM
19 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

A noob goes to the SERI MATS presentations

Lowell DenningsSep 19, 2022, 5:35 PM
27 points
0 comments5 min readLW link