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A strange twist on the road to AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 11:27 PM

−8 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Help out Redwood Research’s interpretability team by finding heuristics implemented by GPT-2 small

Haoxing Du and Buck

Oct 12, 2022, 9:25 PM

50 points

26 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a comprehensive study of potential psychological causes of the ordinary range of variation of affective gender identity in males

tailcalledOct 12, 2022, 9:10 PM

56 points

23 votes

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7 comments37 min readLW link

Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

CallumMcDougallOct 12, 2022, 9:07 PM

175 points

93 votes

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27 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(www.perfectlynormal.co.uk)

[MLSN #6]: Transparency survey, provable robustness, ML models that predict the future

Dan HOct 12, 2022, 8:56 PM

27 points

10 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Previous Work on Recreating Neural Network Input from Intermediate Layer Activations

bglassOct 12, 2022, 7:28 PM

1 point

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Be more effective by learning important practical knowledge using flashcards

StenemoOct 12, 2022, 6:05 PM

5 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Article Review: Google’s AlphaTensor

Robert_AIZIOct 12, 2022, 6:04 PM

8 points

5 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

Alignment 201 curriculum

Richard_NgoOct 12, 2022, 6:03 PM

102 points

40 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.agisafetyfundamentals.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12

jasoncrawfordOct 12, 2022, 4:59 PM

8 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Building a transformer from scratch—AI safety up-skilling challenge

Marius HobbhahnOct 12, 2022, 3:40 PM

42 points

21 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Instrumental convergence in single-agent systems

Edouard Harris and simonsdsuo

Oct 12, 2022, 12:24 PM

33 points

20 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

(www.gladstone.ai)

Singapore—Small casual dinner in Chinatown #5

Joe RoccaOct 12, 2022, 8:59 AM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

A game of mattering

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM

29 points

16 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Calibration of a thousand predictions

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM

59 points

23 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

My argument against AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 6:33 AM

7 points

8 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Actually, All Nuclear Famine Papers are Bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 5:58 AM

113 points

82 votes

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37 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Contingency is not arbitrary

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 12, 2022, 4:35 AM

13 points

8 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

That one apocalyptic nuclear famine paper is bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 3:33 AM

110 points

60 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

AstralCodexTen and Rationality Meetup Organisers’ Retreat Asia Pacific region

Oct 12, 2022, 3:20 AM

14 points

6 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Abbots Bromley Horn Dance History

jefftkOct 12, 2022, 2:10 AM

11 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Power-Seeking AI and Existential Risk

Antonio FrancaOct 11, 2022, 10:50 PM

7 points

8 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

From technocracy to the counterculture

jasoncrawfordOct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM

28 points

10 votes

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1 comment26 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Prettified AI Safety Game Cards

abramdemskiOct 11, 2022, 7:35 PM

47 points

16 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

On the proper piloting of flesh shoots

Mordecai WeynbergOct 11, 2022, 6:52 PM

−4 points

13 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Why I think nuclear war triggered by Russian tactical nukes in Ukraine is unlikely

Dave OrrOct 11, 2022, 6:30 PM

50 points

21 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

Misalignment Harms Can Be Caused by Low Intelligence Systems

DialecticEelOct 11, 2022, 1:39 PM

11 points

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Sketch] Validity Criterion for Logical Counterfactuals

DragonGodOct 11, 2022, 1:31 PM

6 points

2 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How much does the risk of dying from nuclear war differ within and between countries?

amaraiOct 11, 2022, 11:55 AM

4 points

3 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Did you enjoy Ramez Naam’s “Nexus” trilogy? Check out this interview on neurotech and the law.

fowlertmOct 11, 2022, 11:10 AM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

What “The Message” Was For Me

Alex BeymanOct 11, 2022, 8:08 AM

−3 points

11 votes

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14 comments4 min readLW link

Updates and Clarifications

SD MarlowOct 11, 2022, 5:34 AM

−5 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

What if human reasoning is anti-inductive?

Q HomeOct 11, 2022, 5:15 AM

4 points

9 votes

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2 comments13 min readLW link

Fullness to Indicate Cleanliness

jefftkOct 11, 2022, 12:40 AM

9 points

3 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What happened to the annual LW demographic surveys?

ROMOct 11, 2022, 12:19 AM

5 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)

Zoe WilliamsOct 10, 2022, 11:58 PM

13 points

5 votes

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2 comments14 min readLW link

Don’t expect AGI anytime soon

cveresOct 10, 2022, 10:38 PM

−14 points

7 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

QAPR 4: Inductive biases

Quintin PopeOct 10, 2022, 10:08 PM

67 points

24 votes

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2 comments18 min readLW link

Apollo

Jarred FilmerOct 10, 2022, 9:30 PM

46 points

28 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Does biology reliably find the global maximum, or at least get close?

Noosphere89Oct 10, 2022, 8:55 PM

24 points

9 votes

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71 comments1 min readLW link

Disentangling inner alignment failures

Erik JennerOct 10, 2022, 6:50 PM

23 points

12 votes

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5 comments4 min readLW link

ACX meetup [October]

sallatikOct 10, 2022, 5:23 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Natural Categories Update

Logan ZoellnerOct 10, 2022, 3:19 PM

33 points

16 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you’re deferring to

Sam ClarkeOct 10, 2022, 2:24 PM

38 points

17 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Why Balsa Research is Worthwhile

ZviOct 10, 2022, 1:50 PM

87 points

41 votes

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12 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Lessons learned from talking to >100 academics about AI safety

Marius HobbhahnOct 10, 2022, 1:16 PM

216 points

105 votes

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18 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

We can do better than argmax

Jan_KulveitOct 10, 2022, 10:32 AM

49 points

25 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link

Vegetarianism and depression

MaggyOct 10, 2022, 9:11 AM

2 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Results from the language model hackathon

Esben KranOct 10, 2022, 8:29 AM

22 points

14 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

AMC’s animated series “Pantheon” is relevant to our interests

Ben SmithOct 10, 2022, 5:59 AM

20 points

10 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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