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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.What the heck
Figure 1. Image generated by DALL-3 to represent the concept of self-other overlapMany thanks to Bog
TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subje
This is a link post.Content warning: About an IRL death.Today's post isn’t so much an essay as
NB. I am on the Google Deepmind language model interpretability team. But the arguments/views in thi
This is a link post.Google DeepMind reports on a system for solving mathematical problems that alleg
This is a link post.What is an agent? It's a slippery concept with no commonly accepted formal
(Crossposted from Twitter)I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding pov
Eliezer Yudkowsky periodically complains about people coming up with questionable plans with questio
This post was inspired by some talks at the recent LessOnline conference including one by LessWrong
This is a link post.Editor's note: Somewhat after I posted this on my own blog, Max Chiswick co
This is a linkpost for https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin, pos
xlr8harder writes:In general I don’t think an uploaded mind is you, but rather a copy. But one thoug
I haven't shared this post with other relevant parties – my experience has been that private d
This is a linkpost for https://www.bhauth.com/blog/biology/cancer%20vaccines.html cancer neoantigens
IImagine an alternate version of the Effective Altruism movement, whose early influences came from
About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of f
An NII machine in Nogales, AZ. (Image source)There's bound to be a lot of discussion of the Bid
Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.[Thanks to Ary
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