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The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Implications and Evidence

CallumMcDougall14 Dec 2021 23:14 UTC

37 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

Robin Hanson’s “Humans are Early”

Raemon14 Dec 2021 22:07 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Ngo’s view on alignment difficulty

Richard_Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky

14 Dec 2021 21:34 UTC

63 points

7 comments17 min readLW link

A proposed system for ideas jumpstart

Just Learning14 Dec 2021 21:01 UTC

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Should we rely on the speed prior for safety?

Marc Carauleanu14 Dec 2021 20:45 UTC

14 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

ARC’s first technical report: Eliciting Latent Knowledge

paulfchristiano, Mark Xu and Ajeya Cotra

14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC

225 points

90 comments1 min readLW link 3 reviews

(docs.google.com)

ARC is hiring!

paulfchristiano and Mark Xu

14 Dec 2021 20:09 UTC

63 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Interlude: Agents as Automobiles

Daniel Kokotajlo14 Dec 2021 18:49 UTC

26 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF)

Zvi14 Dec 2021 14:30 UTC

186 points

65 comments64 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Consequentialism & corrigibility

Steven Byrnes14 Dec 2021 13:23 UTC

66 points

27 comments7 min readLW link

Decision Theory Breakdown—Personal Attempt at a Review

Jake Arft-Guatelli14 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC

4 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Mystery Hunt 2022

Scott Garrabrant13 Dec 2021 21:57 UTC

30 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Enabling More Feedback for AI Safety Researchers

frances_lorenz13 Dec 2021 20:10 UTC

17 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Language Model Alignment Research Internships

Ethan Perez13 Dec 2021 19:53 UTC

74 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Omicron Post #6

Zvi13 Dec 2021 18:00 UTC

89 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Analysis of Bird Box (2018)

TekhneMakre13 Dec 2021 17:30 UTC

11 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Solving Interpretability Week

Logan Riggs13 Dec 2021 17:09 UTC

11 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding and controlling auto-induced distributional shift

L Rudolf L13 Dec 2021 14:59 UTC

32 points

4 comments16 min readLW link

A fate worse than death?

RomanS13 Dec 2021 11:05 UTC

−25 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

What’s the backward-forward FLOP ratio for Neural Networks?

Marius Hobbhahn and Jsevillamol

13 Dec 2021 8:54 UTC

19 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

Summary of the Acausal Attack Issue for AIXI

Diffractor13 Dec 2021 8:16 UTC

12 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Hard-Coding Neural Computation

MadHatter13 Dec 2021 4:35 UTC

34 points

8 comments27 min readLW link

[Question] Is “gears-level” just a synonym for “mechanistic”?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)13 Dec 2021 4:11 UTC

48 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Baby Nicknames

jefftk13 Dec 2021 2:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why do governments refer to existential risks primarily in terms of national security?

Evan_Gaensbauer13 Dec 2021 1:05 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] [Resolved] Who else prefers “AI alignment” to “AI safety?”

Evan_Gaensbauer13 Dec 2021 0:35 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Working through D&D.Sci, problem 1

Pablo Repetto12 Dec 2021 23:10 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Teaser: Hard-coding Transformer Models

MadHatter12 Dec 2021 22:04 UTC

74 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

The Three Mutations of Dark Rationality

DarkRationalist12 Dec 2021 22:01 UTC

−15 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Redwood’s Technique-Focused Epistemic Strategy

adamShimi12 Dec 2021 16:36 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

For and Against Lotteries in Elite University Admissions

Sam Enright12 Dec 2021 13:41 UTC

10 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Nuclear war anthropics

smountjoy12 Dec 2021 4:54 UTC

11 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Some abstract, non-technical reasons to be non-maximally-pessimistic about AI alignment

Rob Bensinger12 Dec 2021 2:08 UTC

70 points

35 comments7 min readLW link

Magna Alta Doctrina

jacob_cannell11 Dec 2021 21:54 UTC

58 points

7 comments28 min readLW link

EA Dinner Covid Logistics

jefftk11 Dec 2021 21:50 UTC

17 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Transforming myopic optimization to ordinary optimization—Do we want to seek convergence for myopic optimization problems?

tailcalled11 Dec 2021 20:38 UTC

12 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

What on Earth is a Series I savings bond?

rossry11 Dec 2021 12:18 UTC

11 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

D&D.Sci GURPS Dec 2021: Hunters of Monsters

J Bostock11 Dec 2021 12:13 UTC

20 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

Anxiety and computer architecture

Adam Zerner11 Dec 2021 10:37 UTC

13 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Reasons to act according to the free will paradigm?

Maciej Jałocha11 Dec 2021 8:44 UTC

−3 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Moral Frameworks

lsusr11 Dec 2021 5:28 UTC

14 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Moore’s Law, AI, and the pace of progress

Veedrac11 Dec 2021 3:02 UTC

125 points

38 comments24 min readLW link

What role should evolutionary analogies play in understanding AI takeoff speeds?

anson.ho11 Dec 2021 1:19 UTC

14 points

0 comments42 min readLW link

[Question] Nonverbal thinkers: how do you experience your inner critic?

Phoenix Eliot11 Dec 2021 0:40 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Plan

johnswentworth10 Dec 2021 23:41 UTC

254 points

78 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

[Linkpost] Chinese government’s guidelines on AI

RomanS10 Dec 2021 21:10 UTC

61 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding Gradient Hacking

peterbarnett10 Dec 2021 15:58 UTC

41 points

5 comments30 min readLW link

There is essentially one best-validated theory of cognition.

abramdemski10 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC

89 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

The Promise and Peril of Finite Sets

davidad10 Dec 2021 12:29 UTC

42 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Are big brains for processing sensory input?

lsusr10 Dec 2021 7:08 UTC

43 points

20 comments3 min readLW link