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GreaterWrong viewer for LessWrong; Conjecture.dev
I am reading more and more LessWrong in recent months (mostly, after the Simulator theory by Janus (work done while at Conjecture) has been posted there in September).
I still think the Simulator theory is probably the single most important research breakthrough of 2022.
These days LessWrong is dominated by writing related to AI safety (the topic is made particularly acute by the recent progress in LLMs: ChatGPT and even more capable Bing Chat; no consensus whatsoever, of course, but I do think that GPT-3 release in May 2020 is, in some sense, an equivalent of the nuclear fission discovery on 19 December 1938, and that ChatGPT performance (+ Bing Chat clearly drastically enhanced capabilities even compared to that) is, in the same sense, an equivalent of the first working nuclear reactor on 2 December 1942, if one goes by "AI today is what nuclear energy has been back then" analogy).
So, one thing which might be useful is that there is GreaterWrong alternative viewer (which looks different from LessWrong default viewer and which can be visually tuned in terms of presentation style; also different default front page for the site if one uses GreaterWrong). Which viewer is better might depend on your device (display, browser, etc).
Another thing, Conjecture people tend to produce some of the best, most interesting articles there.
I'll put a few links into the comments.
I still think the Simulator theory is probably the single most important research breakthrough of 2022.
These days LessWrong is dominated by writing related to AI safety (the topic is made particularly acute by the recent progress in LLMs: ChatGPT and even more capable Bing Chat; no consensus whatsoever, of course, but I do think that GPT-3 release in May 2020 is, in some sense, an equivalent of the nuclear fission discovery on 19 December 1938, and that ChatGPT performance (+ Bing Chat clearly drastically enhanced capabilities even compared to that) is, in the same sense, an equivalent of the first working nuclear reactor on 2 December 1942, if one goes by "AI today is what nuclear energy has been back then" analogy).
So, one thing which might be useful is that there is GreaterWrong alternative viewer (which looks different from LessWrong default viewer and which can be visually tuned in terms of presentation style; also different default front page for the site if one uses GreaterWrong). Which viewer is better might depend on your device (display, browser, etc).
Another thing, Conjecture people tend to produce some of the best, most interesting articles there.
I'll put a few links into the comments.
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/72scWeZRta2ApsKja/epistemological-vigilance-for-alignment
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/72scWeZRta2ApsKja/epistemological-vigilance-for-alignment
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/2JJtxitp6nqu6ffak/basic-facts-about-language-models-during-training-1
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2JJtxitp6nqu6ffak/basic-facts-about-language-models-during-training-1
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/tag/conjecture-org
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/conjecture-org
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/PE22QJSww8mpwh7bt/agi-in-sight-our-look-at-the-game-board
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PE22QJSww8mpwh7bt/agi-in-sight-our-look-at-the-game-board
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Gs29k3beHiqWFZqnn/conjecture-internal-infohazard-policy
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Gs29k3beHiqWFZqnn/conjecture-internal-infohazard-policy
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators
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https://www.greaterwrong.com/users/janus-1?show=posts
https://www.lesswrong.com/users/janus-1
The most recent of those posts is quite impressive (although easy to misinterpret if one is not paying close attention):
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/bxt7uCiHam4QXrQAA/cyborgism
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bxt7uCiHam4QXrQAA/cyborgism