18 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC

55 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

[Cross-post] Is the Fermi Paradox due to the Flaw of Averages?

Aryeh Englander, Lonnie Chrisman and Yaakov T

18 Jan 2023 19:22 UTC

41 points

27 comments15 min readLW link

(lumina.com)

First Three Episodes of The Filan Cabinet

DanielFilan18 Jan 2023 19:20 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Best Questions To Vet Potential Ai-Safety Applicants

jacksonjezion18 Jan 2023 19:01 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Looking for a specific group of people

FriggenRedChickenMan18 Jan 2023 19:00 UTC

15 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

A problem with group epistemics

Mckay Jensen18 Jan 2023 17:06 UTC

4 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

(quevivasbien.github.io)

Why you should learn sign language

Noah Topper18 Jan 2023 17:03 UTC

53 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

(naivebayes.substack.com)

Flying With Covid

jefftk18 Jan 2023 17:00 UTC

44 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Prototype of Using GPT-3 to Generate Textbook-length Content

Rafael Cosman18 Jan 2023 14:25 UTC

2 points

8 comments40 min readLW link

(github.com)

How many people are working (directly) on reducing existential risk from AI?

Benjamin Hilton18 Jan 2023 8:46 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Summaries (9th Jan to 15th Jan 23′)

Zoe Williams18 Jan 2023 7:29 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI’s Alignment Plan is not S.M.A.R.T.

Søren Elverlin18 Jan 2023 6:39 UTC

9 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Formal definition of Ontology Mismatch?

NathanBarnard18 Jan 2023 5:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Transformer Mech Interp: Any visualizations?

Joyee Chen18 Jan 2023 4:32 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Neural networks generalize because of this one weird trick

Jesse Hoogland18 Jan 2023 0:10 UTC

179 points

29 comments53 min readLW link 1 review

(www.jessehoogland.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-17

jasoncrawford17 Jan 2023 21:31 UTC

13 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Quotes Worth Talking About

akaTrickster17 Jan 2023 21:26 UTC

−1 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Building a transhumanist future: 15 years of hplusroadmap, now Discord

kanzure17 Jan 2023 21:17 UTC

42 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Ad Fraud Detection Prediction Market

jefftk17 Jan 2023 18:10 UTC

17 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Collin Burns on Alignment Research And Discovering Latent Knowledge Without Supervision

Michaël Trazzi17 Jan 2023 17:21 UTC

25 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(theinsideview.ai)

Lessons learned and review of the AI Safety Nudge Competition

Marc Carauleanu17 Jan 2023 17:13 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Five Reasons to Lie

Dzoldzaya17 Jan 2023 16:53 UTC

0 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

On AI and Interest Rates

Zvi17 Jan 2023 15:00 UTC

79 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Language models can generate superior text compared to their input

ChristianKl17 Jan 2023 10:57 UTC

48 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

Löbian emotional processing of emergent cooperation: an example

Andrew_Critch17 Jan 2023 5:59 UTC

23 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Preparing for AI-assisted alignment research: we need data!

CBiddulph17 Jan 2023 3:28 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Tesla Model 3 Review

jefftk17 Jan 2023 1:10 UTC

18 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should AI writers be prohibited in education?

Eleni Angelou17 Jan 2023 0:42 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

What can thought-experiments do?

Cleo Nardo17 Jan 2023 0:35 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Experiment Idea: RL Agents Evading Learned Shutdownability

Leon Lang16 Jan 2023 22:46 UTC

31 points

7 comments17 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Consequentialists: One-Way Pattern Traps

David Udell16 Jan 2023 20:48 UTC

59 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Book Review: Worlds of Flow

remember16 Jan 2023 20:17 UTC

83 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

For the Record: DL ∩ ASI = ∅

maximkazhenkov16 Jan 2023 19:04 UTC

12 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What determines female romantic “market value”?

anon_girl16 Jan 2023 18:45 UTC

16 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Status conscious

avantika.mehra16 Jan 2023 17:44 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Confusing the ideal for the necessary

adamShimi16 Jan 2023 17:29 UTC

79 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Tyler Cowen AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford16 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(progressforum.org)

Reflections on Trusting Trust & AI

Itay Yona16 Jan 2023 6:36 UTC

10 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(mentaleap.ai)

Is “Earning to Give” a Bad Framework?

clans16 Jan 2023 5:35 UTC

2 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(locationtbd.home.blog)

Why you ask the significance question why

Slider16 Jan 2023 3:44 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Investment, Work, and Vision: Who is responsible for creating value?

Sable16 Jan 2023 1:57 UTC

0 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

Conclusion and Bibliography for “Understanding the diffusion of large language models”

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:46 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Questions for further investigation of AI diffusion

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:46 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Implications of large language model diffusion for AI governance

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:45 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Publication decisions for large language models, and their impacts

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:44 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Drivers of large language model diffusion: incremental research, publicity, and cascades

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:44 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The replication and emulation of GPT-3

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:40 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-3-like models are now much easier to access and deploy than to develop

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:39 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Background for “Understanding the diffusion of large language models”

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:38 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding the diffusion of large language models: summary

Ben Cottier16 Jan 2023 1:37 UTC

26 points

1 comment1 min readLW link