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Back to Search"Self-driving car bets" by paulfchristiano
This month I lost a bunch of bets.
Back in early 2016 I bet at even odds that self-driving ride sharing would be available in 10 US cities by July 202…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born" by Henrik Karlsson
In the early 2010s, a popular idea was to provide coworking spaces and shared living to people who were building startups. That way the founders woul…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Rationality !== Winning" by Raemon
I think "Rationality is winning" is a bit of a trap.
(The original phrase is notably "rationality is systematized winning", which is better, but it t…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Brain Efficiency Cannell Prize Contest Award Ceremony" by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Previously Jacob Cannell wrote the post "Brain Efficiency" which makes several radical claims: that the brain is at the pareto frontier of speed, ene…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Grant applications and grand narratives" by Elizabeth
The Lightspeed application asks: “What impact will [your project] have on the world? What is your project’s goal, how will you know if you’ve achiev…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Cryonics and Regret" by MvB
This post is not about arguments in favor of or against cryonics. I would just like to share a particular emotional response of mine as the topic bec…
2 years, 6 months ago
"Unifying Bargaining Notions (2/2)" by Diffractor
Alright, time for the payoff, unifying everything discussed in the previous post. This post is a lot more mathematically dense, you might want to dig…
2 years, 8 months ago
"The ants and the grasshopper" by Richard Ngo
Inspired by Aesop, Soren Kierkegaard, Robin Hanson, sadoeuphemist and Ben Hoffman.
One winter a grasshopper, starving and frail, approaches a colony o…
2 years, 8 months ago
"Steering GPT-2-XL by adding an activation vector" by TurnTrout et al.
Summary: We demonstrate a new scalable way of interacting with language models: adding certain activation vectors into forward passes. Essentially, w…
2 years, 9 months ago
"An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin" by Rob Bensinger
Philosopher David Chalmers asked: "Is there a canonical source for "the argument for AGI ruin" somewhere, preferably laid out as an explicit argument…
2 years, 9 months ago