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Theoretical Neuroscience For Alignment Theory

Cameron BergDec 7, 2021, 9:50 PM

66 points

33 votes

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18 comments23 min readLW link

Let’s buy out Cyc, for use in AGI interpretability systems?

Steven ByrnesDec 7, 2021, 8:46 PM

50 points

24 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

HIRING: Inform and shape a new project on AI safety at Partnership on AI

madhu_likaDec 7, 2021, 7:37 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Randomness in Science

rogersbaconDec 7, 2021, 6:17 PM

19 points

10 votes

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15 comments9 min readLW link

Counting Lightning

JsevillamolDec 7, 2021, 2:50 PM

33 points

23 votes

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8 comments6 min readLW link

Exterminating humans might be on the to-do list of a Friendly AI

RomanSDec 7, 2021, 2:15 PM

5 points

22 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Interviews on Improving the AI Safety Pipeline

Chris_LeongDec 7, 2021, 12:03 PM

55 points

26 votes

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15 comments17 min readLW link

Considerations on interaction between AI and expected value of the future

Beth BarnesDec 7, 2021, 2:46 AM

68 points

22 votes

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28 comments4 min readLW link

Retail Investor Advantages

leogaoDec 7, 2021, 2:08 AM

13 points

16 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Ordering yourself around with an app

bfinnDec 7, 2021, 12:49 AM

9 points

6 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

Dear Self; We Need To Talk About Social Media

ElizabethDec 7, 2021, 12:40 AM

158 points

95 votes

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19 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

Leaving Orbit

Rob BensingerDec 6, 2021, 9:48 PM

50 points

34 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Declustering, reclustering, and filling in thingspace

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 6, 2021, 8:53 PM

16 points

7 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

More Christiano, Cotra, and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ajeya Cotra

Dec 6, 2021, 8:33 PM

91 points

31 votes

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28 comments40 min readLW link

Are there alternative to solving value transfer and extrapolation?

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 6, 2021, 6:53 PM

20 points

8 votes

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8 comments5 min readLW link

Implications of the Grabby Aliens Model

harsimonyDec 6, 2021, 6:34 PM

2 points

1 vote

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3 comments2 min readLW link

(harsimony.wordpress.com)

A Possible Resolution To Spurious Counterfactuals

JoshuaOSHickmanDec 6, 2021, 6:26 PM

15 points

5 votes

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5 comments4 min readLW link

Information bottleneck for counterfactual corrigibility

tailcalledDec 6, 2021, 5:11 PM

8 points

3 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

Omicron Post #4

ZviDec 6, 2021, 5:00 PM

153 points

73 votes

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66 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Life, struggle, and the psychological fallout from COVID

Alex FlintDec 6, 2021, 4:59 PM

15 points

11 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

Modeling Failure Modes of High-Level Machine Intelligence

Ben Cottier, Daniel_Eth and Sammy Martin

Dec 6, 2021, 1:54 PM

54 points

17 votes

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1 comment12 min readLW link

A Framework to Explain Bayesian Models

JsevillamolDec 6, 2021, 10:38 AM

27 points

9 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

Anti-correlated causation

DirectedEvolutionDec 6, 2021, 4:36 AM

18 points

8 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

ML Alignment Theory Program under Evan Hubinger

ozhang, evhub and Victor W

Dec 6, 2021, 12:03 AM

82 points

39 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are limited-horizon agents a good heuristic for the off-switch problem?

Yonadav ShavitDec 5, 2021, 7:27 PM

14 points

8 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

Explicit model visualizations

Dorian Stern vukoticDec 5, 2021, 6:37 PM

12 points

7 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the pros and cons of a government-backed, property-based cryptocurrency?

AsgårdDec 5, 2021, 5:57 PM

−3 points

5 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Interpreting Yudkowsky on Deep vs Shallow Knowledge

adamShimiDec 5, 2021, 5:32 PM

102 points

45 votes

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31 comments24 min readLW link

Scott Alexander’s “Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 5:43 AM

13 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link 2 reviews

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What have your romantic experiences with non-EAs/non-Rationalists been like?

Randomized, ControlledDec 5, 2021, 4:41 AM

47 points

20 votes

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24 comments1 min readLW link

Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated

leogaoDec 5, 2021, 1:36 AM

77 points

38 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Privacy and Manipulation

RaemonDec 5, 2021, 12:39 AM

80 points

33 votes

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41 comments8 min readLW link

Covid Christmas

jefftkDec 4, 2021, 10:00 PM

20 points

9 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Generalization of ROC AUC for Binary Classifiers

Adam ScherlisDec 4, 2021, 9:47 PM

10 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(adam.scherlis.com)

Agents as P₂B Chain Reactions

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 9:35 PM

18 points

8 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Agency: What it is and why it matters

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 9:32 PM

25 points

11 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Advancing Mathematics By Guiding Human Intuition With AI

intersticeDec 4, 2021, 8:00 PM

5 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

[Question] Misc. questions about EfficientZero

Daniel KokotajloDec 4, 2021, 7:45 PM

51 points

19 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Lars Doucet’s Georgism series on Astral Codex Ten

Lars DoucetDec 4, 2021, 7:43 PM

21 points

8 votes

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2 comments37 min readLW link 1 review

(astralcodexten.substack.com)

[Question] What are the limitations on politically motivated relocation?

AsgårdDec 4, 2021, 3:16 PM

9 points

5 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we postpone getting a booster due to Omicron, till there are Omicron-specific boosters?

ChristianKlDec 4, 2021, 12:46 PM

33 points

11 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

Can solipsism be disproven?

nx2059Dec 4, 2021, 8:24 AM

−2 points

9 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Shulman and Yudkowsky on AI progress

Eliezer Yudkowsky and CarlShulman

Dec 3, 2021, 8:05 PM

90 points

28 votes

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16 comments20 min readLW link

[Linkpost] A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment

Quintin PopeDec 3, 2021, 7:42 PM

37 points

10 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Browser Engines

jefftkDec 3, 2021, 7:30 PM

24 points

13 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Learning System

Henrik KarlssonDec 3, 2021, 7:08 PM

18 points

11 votes

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12 comments10 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

[Question] Does the Structure of an algorithm matter for AI Risk and/or consciousness?

Logan ZoellnerDec 3, 2021, 6:31 PM

7 points

4 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

A Meditative Experience

Yonatan CaleDec 3, 2021, 5:58 PM

4 points

3 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

$100/$50 rewards for good references

Stuart_ArmstrongDec 3, 2021, 4:55 PM

20 points

9 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where in the world will a UBI develop first?

AsgårdDec 3, 2021, 3:54 PM

4 points

4 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

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