rational
Issue #252: Full List
19 February, 2023 // View curated list
Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned // www.lesswrong.com
# Instrumental
Please don't throw your mind away // TsviBT, 22 min
Buy Duplicates // sberens, 1 min
How I Learn From Textbooks // AllAmericanBreakfast, 9 min
Sleep Quality: Strategies that work for me // Lukas T, 8 min
# Epistemic
Elements of Rationalist Discourse // RobbBB, 5 min
Hashing out long-standing disagreements seems low-value to me // So8res, 5 min
Important fact about how people evaluate sets of arguments // daniel-kokotajlo, 2 min
Contra Kavanagh On Fideism // Scott Alexander, 12 min
# Ai
Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned // evhub, 1 min
AGI in sight: our look at the game board // AndreaM, 7 min
Bing chat is the AI fire alarm // Ratios, 3 min
I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing's AI // yitz, 1 min
Don't accelerate problems you're trying to solve // AndreaM, 6 min
The public supports regulating AI for safety // Zach Stein-Perlman, 1 min
GPT-4 Predictions // stephen-mcaleese, 14 min
My understanding of Anthropic strategy // Swimmer963, 5 min
Parametrically retargetable decision-makers tend to seek power // TurnTrout, 2 min
Qualities that alignment mentors value in junior researchers // akash-wasil, 3 min
One-layer transformers aren’t equivalent to a set of skip-trigrams // Buck, 7 min
How seriously should we take the hypothesis that LW is just wrong on how AI will impact the 21st century? // sharmake-farah, 1 min
The Cave Allegory Revisited: Understanding GPT's Worldview // Jan_Kulveit, 3 min
# Meta-ethics
Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics? // joekc, 44 min
# Anthropic
Thoughts on an Expanded Simulation Hypothesis: AI Caretakers, Consciousness Removal, WBE-AI Hybrids, & Some Physics // 314159, 6 min
How Weird Inside Black Holes? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Decision theory
Junk Fees, Bunding and Unbundling // Zvi, 7 min
Nozick's Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory // edward-p-koenings, 16 min
Elite Vs Expert “Innovation” // Robin Hanson, 2 min
# Books
Enjoy LessWrong in ebook format // Stuckwork, 1 min
Book review: How Social Science Got Better // PeterMcCluskey, 3 min
# Community
Avoid large group discussions in your social events // r, 4 min
# Culture war
Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust // Zack_M_Davis, 3 min
# Misc
How much is death a limit on knowledge accumulation? // gworley, 1 min
Whole Bird Emulation requires Quantum Mechanics // jeffrey-heninger, 4 min
A Short History of My Last Six Years // Tim Urban, 10 min
Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted To Know // Scott Alexander, 16 min
# Podcasts
The Filan Cabinet Podcast with Oliver Habryka - Transcript // MondSemmel, 89 min
Bayes Blast 1 – In Defense of Chatbot Romance // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 10 min
EP 177 Gregg Henriques Part 2: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap // The Jim Rutt Show, 95 min
EP 176 Gregg Henriques Part 1: Addressing the Enlightenment Gap // The Jim Rutt Show, 98 min
Bonus preview – YIMBY follow-ups and Vulgar EA // The Bayesian Conspiracy, 16 min