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Issue #122: Full List
26 July, 2020 // View curated list
Something as simple as saying “have a nice day” or “thank you” to a stranger that we encounter in everyday life is linked with greater subjective well-being. // drive.google.com
# Coronavirus
Covid 7/23: The Second Summit // Zvi, 11 min
School Vouchers As Pandemic Response // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Instrumental
Be impatient // benkuhn, 8 min
Become a person who Actually Does Things // neel-nanda-1, 3 min
Construct a portfolio to profit from AI progress. // deluks917, 1 min
If you are signed up for cryonics with life insurance, how much life insurance did you get and over what term? // elityre, 1 min
Photos Before Drywall // jkaufman, 1 min
Selling real estate: should you overprice or underprice? // steve2152, 11 min
Restocking // jkaufman, 1 min
Taking the first step // neel-nanda-1, 18 min
How to learn from conversations // neel-nanda-1, 4 min
What it means to optimise // neel-nanda-1, 9 min
Pulse and Glide Cycling // jkaufman, 2 min
# Epistemic
The Basic Double Crux pattern // elityre, 4 min
A New Way to Visualize Biases // dtm, 1 min
An Old Way to Visualize Biases // zachary-robertson, 1 min
Operationalizing Interpretability // lifelonglearner, 5 min
Aggregating forecasts // Jsevillamol, 4 min
Meaning is Quasi-Idempotent // Chris_Leong, 2 min
Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty // habryka4, 1 min
# Ai
To what extent is GPT-3 capable of reasoning? // TurnTrout, 18 min Favorite
Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3 // johnswentworth, 4 min
Can you get AGI from a Transformer? // steve2152, 14 min
Competition: Amplify Rohin’s Prediction on AGI researchers & Safety Concerns // stuhlmueller, 3 min
$1000 bounty for OpenAI to show whether GPT3 was "deliberately" pretending to be stupider than it is // jacobjacob, 2 min
Writing with GPT-3 // Jacobian, 5 min
Replicating the replication crisis with GPT-3? // skybrian, 1 min
The "AI Dungeons" Dragon Model is heavily path dependent (testing GPT-3 on ethics) // sil-ver, 7 min
GPT-3 Gems // TurnTrout, 47 min
Research agenda for AI safety and a better civilization // agilecaveman, 18 min
Learning Values in Practice // Stuart_Armstrong, 6 min
Constraints from naturalized ethics. // Charlie Steiner, 3 min
Parallels Between AI Safety by Debate and Evidence Law // Cullen_OKeefe, 2 min
Access to AI: a human right? // dmtea, 2 min
The Rediscovery of Interiority in Machine Learning // DanB
"Do Nothing" utility function, 3½ years later? // niplav, 1 min
AI Benefits Post 5: Outstanding Questions on Governing Benefits // Cullen_OKeefe, 4 min
[Preprint] The Computational Limits of Deep Learning // gworley, 1 min
# Meta-ethics
No Ultimate Goal and a Small Existential Crisis // elriggs, 3 min
# Anthropic
Longevity interventions when young // George3d6, 47 min Favorite
# Decision theory
Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.) // sustrik, 29 min Favorite
Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.) // sustrik, 15 min
Chains, Bottlenecks and Optimization // curi, 4 min
Bottleneck Examples // curi, 11 min
A Natural Explanation of Nash Equilibria // Dr. Birdbrain, 6 min
Comment Replies for Chains, Bottlenecks and Optimization // curi, 4 min
Innocent Verdicts // Robin Hanson, 1 min
# Math and cs
What Would I Do? Self-prediction in Simple Algorithms // Scott Garrabrant, 6 min
Uncalibrated quantum experiments act clasically // justinpombrio, 10 min
Optimizing arbitrary expressions with a linear number of queries to a Logical Induction Oracle (Cartoon Guide) // donald-hobson, 2 min
Weak HCH accesses EXP // evhub, 3 min
Math. proof of the superiority of independent guesses? // Milton, 1 min
# Books
Using books to prime behavior // ryan-wong, 1 min
# Community
Criticism of some popular LW articles // AllAmericanBreakfast, 7 min
More Right // adamzerner, 4 min
Praise of some popular LW articles // AllAmericanBreakfast, 9 min
Inefficient doesn't mean indifferent, but it might mean wimpy. // AllAmericanBreakfast, 6 min
Forum Assisted Discussion // dan-b-1, 3 min
Online Meetup: Balaji Srinivasan on "Nation of Emigrants" // JoshuaFox, 1 min
Types Of Online Meetups // dan-b-1, 2 min
C̶a̶m̶b̶r̶i̶d̶g̶e̶ Virtual LW/SSC Meetup // AspiringRationalist, 1 min
# Culture war
Reveal Culture // malcolmocean, 8 min
Musical Outgroups // evan-huus, 4 min
Beware RightTalkism // Robin Hanson, 4 min
# Misc
"Can you keep this confidential? How do you know?" // Raemon, 4 min
Thiel on Progress and Stagnation // ricraz, 12 min
How good is humanity at coordination? // Buck, 3 min
A Scalable Urban Design and the Single Building City // edward-swernofsky, 19 min
Artificial vs. Real Intelligence // nixtaken, 15 min
What are the limits of self-education? // nitropie, 1 min
# Podcasts
EP67 Tomas Björkman on The Nordic Secret // The Jim Rutt Show, 92 min
# Videos of the week
The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy // TED, 11 min