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What sorts of systems can be deceptive?

Andrei Alexandru31 Oct 2022 22:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

“Cars and Elephants”: a handwavy argument/analogy against mechanistic interpretability

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)31 Oct 2022 21:26 UTC

48 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient

So8res31 Oct 2022 21:16 UTC

132 points

48 comments34 min readLW link

Sanity-checking in an age of hyperbole

Ciprian Elliu Ivanof31 Oct 2022 20:04 UTC

2 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Why Aren’t There More Schelling Holidays?

johnswentworth31 Oct 2022 19:31 UTC

63 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

publishing alignment research and exfohazards

Tamsin Leake31 Oct 2022 18:02 UTC

80 points

12 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(carado.moe)

The circular problem of epistemic irresponsibility

Roman Leventov31 Oct 2022 17:23 UTC

5 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 3/6: Anti-economy and Signal Pollution

PashaKamyshev31 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC

7 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

Average utilitarianism is non-local

Yair Halberstadt31 Oct 2022 16:36 UTC

29 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Marvel Snap: Phase 1

Zvi31 Oct 2022 15:20 UTC

23 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Boundaries vs Frames

Scott Garrabrant31 Oct 2022 15:14 UTC

58 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Embedding safety in ML development

zeshen31 Oct 2022 12:27 UTC

24 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

[Book] Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable

Esben Kran31 Oct 2022 11:38 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(christophm.github.io)

My (naive) take on Risks from Learned Optimization

Artyom Karpov31 Oct 2022 10:59 UTC

7 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Tactical Nuclear Weapons Aren’t Cost-Effective Compared to Precision Artillery

Lao Mein31 Oct 2022 4:33 UTC

28 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Gandalf or Saruman? A Soldier in Scout’s Clothing

DirectedEvolution31 Oct 2022 2:40 UTC

41 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

love, not competition

Tamsin Leake30 Oct 2022 19:44 UTC

30 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

Me (Steve Byrnes) on the “Brain Inspired” podcast

Steven Byrnes30 Oct 2022 19:15 UTC

26 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(braininspired.co)

“Normal” is the equilibrium state of past optimization processes

Alex_Altair30 Oct 2022 19:03 UTC

81 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 2/6: Behavioral Modification

PashaKamyshev30 Oct 2022 16:57 UTC

9 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Instrumental ignoring AI, Dumb but not useless.

Donald Hobson30 Oct 2022 16:55 UTC

7 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Weekly Roundup #3

Zvi30 Oct 2022 12:20 UTC

23 points

5 comments15 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Quickly refactoring the U.S. Constitution

lc30 Oct 2022 7:17 UTC

7 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 3a: Defining boundaries as directed Markov blankets

Andrew_Critch30 Oct 2022 6:31 UTC

86 points

20 comments15 min readLW link

Am I secretly excited for AI getting weird?

porby29 Oct 2022 22:16 UTC

115 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 1/6: Historical Priors

PashaKamyshev29 Oct 2022 21:59 UTC

2 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Don’t expect your life partner to be better than your exes in more than one way: a mathematical model

mdd29 Oct 2022 18:47 UTC

7 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

The Social Recession: By the Numbers

antonomon29 Oct 2022 18:45 UTC

165 points

29 comments8 min readLW link

(novum.substack.com)

Electric Kettle vs Stove

jefftk29 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Quantum Immortality, foiled

Ben29 Oct 2022 11:00 UTC

27 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Some Lessons Learned from Studying Indirect Object Identification in GPT-2 small

KevinRoWang, Alexandre Variengien, Arthur Conmy, Buck and jsteinhardt

28 Oct 2022 23:55 UTC

99 points

9 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

(arxiv.org)

Resources that (I think) new alignment researchers should know about

Akash28 Oct 2022 22:13 UTC

77 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

How often does One Person succeed?

Mayank Modi28 Oct 2022 19:32 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

aisafety.community—A living document of AI safety communities

zeshen and plex

28 Oct 2022 17:50 UTC

57 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

Rapid Test Throat Swabbing?

jefftk28 Oct 2022 16:30 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Join the interpretability research hackathon

Esben Kran28 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Syncretism

Annapurna28 Oct 2022 16:08 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Pondering computation in the real world

Adam Shai28 Oct 2022 15:57 UTC

24 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Ukraine and the Crimea Question

ChristianKl28 Oct 2022 12:26 UTC

−2 points

153 comments11 min readLW link

New book on s-risks

Tobias_Baumann28 Oct 2022 9:36 UTC

68 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Cryptic symbols

Adam Scherlis28 Oct 2022 6:44 UTC

6 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(adam.scherlis.com)

All life’s helpers’ beliefs

Tehdastehdas28 Oct 2022 5:47 UTC

−12 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Prizes for ML Safety Benchmark Ideas

joshc28 Oct 2022 2:51 UTC

36 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Worldview iPeople—Future Fund’s AI Worldview Prize

Toni MUENDEL28 Oct 2022 1:53 UTC

−22 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

Anatomy of change

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis28 Oct 2022 1:21 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Nash equilibria of symmetric zero-sum games

Ege Erdil27 Oct 2022 23:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Good psychology books/books that contain good psychological models?

shuffled-cantaloupe27 Oct 2022 23:04 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Podcast: The Left and Effective Altruism with Habiba Islam

garrison27 Oct 2022 17:41 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Lessons from ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’ and its reflection on today.

Mayank Modi27 Oct 2022 17:20 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the Orthogonality Thesis true for humans?

Noosphere8927 Oct 2022 14:41 UTC

12 points

20 comments1 min readLW link