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Autonomous AI systems (Agent AIs) trained using reinforcement learning can do harm when they take wrong actions, especially superintelligent Agent AIs.

After reviewing hits and reading all the relevant looking papers and following citations, the most useful were: The overall thrust of the meta-analyses is that there is consistent and substantial...

English Wikipedia is in decline. As a long-time editor & former admin, I was deeply dismayed by the process.

Because of the potential to select for arbitrarily many generations, IES (or equally powerful methods like genome synthesis) can deliver arbitrarily large net gains—raising the question of what one...

A number of other datasets are known to exist but are unavailable or available only in restricted form, including: law enforcement scrapes (see the Force briefing ), seized server images National...

“How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy.

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Matt Levine is the most well-known newslettrist ( “Money Stuff” ) in the financial industry, having blogged or written since 2011 15ya , finding his niche in popularization after stints in Wall...

How close does formal mathematical proof empirically come to perfection?

Danbooru2021 is a large-scale anime image database with 4.9m+ images annotated with 162m+ tags; it can be useful for machine learning purposes such as image recognition and generation.