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How To Get Into Independent Research On Alignment/Agency

johnswentworth19 Nov 2021 0:00 UTC

347 points

38 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

Discussion with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AGI interventions

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

11 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC

328 points

251 comments34 min readLW link 1 review

Frame Control

Aella27 Nov 2021 22:59 UTC

317 points

283 comments23 min readLW link 2 reviews

Feature Selection

Zack_M_Davis1 Nov 2021 0:22 UTC

316 points

24 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

EfficientZero: How It Works

1a3orn26 Nov 2021 15:17 UTC

296 points

50 comments29 min readLW link 1 review

Study Guide

johnswentworth6 Nov 2021 1:23 UTC

281 points

48 comments16 min readLW link

A Brief Introduction to Container Logistics

Vitor11 Nov 2021 15:58 UTC

261 points

22 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron Variant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over

Zvi26 Nov 2021 19:00 UTC

260 points

95 comments18 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

larger language models may disappoint you [or, an eternally unfinished draft]

nostalgebraist26 Nov 2021 23:08 UTC

254 points

31 comments31 min readLW link 2 reviews

Ngo and Yudkowsky on alignment difficulty

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

15 Nov 2021 20:31 UTC

250 points

148 comments99 min readLW link 1 review

Concentration of Force

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien6 Nov 2021 8:20 UTC

236 points

23 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Yudkowsky and Christiano discuss “Takeoff Speeds”

Eliezer Yudkowsky22 Nov 2021 19:35 UTC

201 points

176 comments60 min readLW link 1 review

Attempted Gears Analysis of AGI Intervention Discussion With Eliezer

Zvi15 Nov 2021 3:50 UTC

197 points

49 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Almost everyone should be less afraid of lawsuits

alyssavance27 Nov 2021 2:06 UTC

196 points

18 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

Speaking of Stag Hunts

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien6 Nov 2021 8:20 UTC

190 points

373 comments18 min readLW link

The Rationalists of the 1950s (and before) also called themselves “Rationalists”

Owain_Evans28 Nov 2021 20:17 UTC

188 points

32 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Split and Commit

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien21 Nov 2021 6:27 UTC

181 points

33 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Preprint is out! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder

Fabienne12 Nov 2021 17:59 UTC

167 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2021 17:22 UTC

149 points

36 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

(rootsofprogress.org)

You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be

Charlie Rogers-Smith14 Nov 2021 0:41 UTC

145 points

19 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

App and book recommendations for people who want to be happier and more productive

KatWoods6 Nov 2021 17:40 UTC

138 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

Comments on Carlsmith’s “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

So8res13 Nov 2021 4:29 UTC

138 points

14 comments40 min readLW link 1 review

EfficientZero: human ALE sample-efficiency w/MuZero+self-supervised

gwern2 Nov 2021 2:32 UTC

136 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sci-Hub sued in India

Connor_Flexman13 Nov 2021 23:12 UTC

131 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

Ngo and Yudkowsky on AI capability gains

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Richard_Ngo

18 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC

130 points

61 comments39 min readLW link 1 review

How do we become confident in the safety of a machine learning system?

evhub8 Nov 2021 22:49 UTC

126 points

5 comments31 min readLW link

Transcript: “You Should Read HPMOR”

TurnTrout2 Nov 2021 18:20 UTC

123 points

12 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Soares, Tallinn, and Yudkowsky discuss AGI cognition

So8res, Eliezer Yudkowsky and jaan

29 Nov 2021 19:26 UTC

121 points

39 comments40 min readLW link 1 review

Omicron Variant Post #2

Zvi29 Nov 2021 16:30 UTC

120 points

34 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ajeya Cotra

25 Nov 2021 16:45 UTC

119 points

95 comments68 min readLW link

Why I’m excited about Redwood Research’s current project

paulfchristiano12 Nov 2021 19:26 UTC

114 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]

Elizabeth9 Nov 2021 7:14 UTC

108 points

8 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.wired.com)

Rapid Increase of Highly Mutated B.1.1.529 Strain in South Africa

dawangy26 Nov 2021 1:05 UTC

103 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

The Maker of MIND

Tomás B.20 Nov 2021 16:28 UTC

102 points

19 comments11 min readLW link

Money Stuff

Jacob Falkovich1 Nov 2021 16:08 UTC

102 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

Improving on the Karma System

Raelifin14 Nov 2021 18:01 UTC

98 points

35 comments19 min readLW link

Effective Evil

lsusr2 Nov 2021 0:26 UTC

97 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Apply to the ML for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB) in Berkeley [Jan 3 - Jan 22]

habryka and Buck

3 Nov 2021 18:22 UTC

95 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Review] “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray

lsusr2 Nov 2021 5:49 UTC

94 points

134 comments23 min readLW link

[Book Review] “Sorceror’s Apprentice” by Tahir Shah

lsusr20 Nov 2021 11:29 UTC

91 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Comments on OpenPhil’s Interpretability RFP

paulfchristiano5 Nov 2021 22:36 UTC

91 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

AI Safety Needs Great Engineers

Andy Jones23 Nov 2021 15:40 UTC

87 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

A Bayesian Aggregation Paradox

Jsevillamol22 Nov 2021 10:39 UTC

87 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

Coordination Skills I Wish I Had For the Pandemic

Raemon13 Nov 2021 23:32 UTC

85 points

9 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Satisficers Tend To Seek Power: Instrumental Convergence Via Retargetability

TurnTrout18 Nov 2021 1:54 UTC

85 points

8 comments17 min readLW link

(www.overleaf.com)

Transcript for Geoff Anders and Anna Salamon’s Oct. 23 conversation

Rob Bensinger8 Nov 2021 2:19 UTC

83 points

97 comments58 min readLW link

A positive case for how we might succeed at prosaic AI alignment

evhub16 Nov 2021 1:49 UTC

80 points

46 comments6 min readLW link

What would we do if alignment were futile?

Grant Demaree14 Nov 2021 8:09 UTC

75 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

Covid 11/25: Another Thanksgiving

Zvi25 Nov 2021 13:40 UTC

73 points

9 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Worst Commonsense Concepts?

abramdemski15 Nov 2021 18:22 UTC

73 points

34 comments3 min readLW link