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Reflective Consequentialism

Adam Zerner18 Nov 2022 23:56 UTC

21 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Value Created vs. Value Extracted

Sable18 Nov 2022 21:34 UTC

8 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

generalized wireheading

Tamsin Leake18 Nov 2022 20:18 UTC

25 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

The Disastrously Confident And Inaccurate AI

Sharat Jacob Jacob18 Nov 2022 19:06 UTC

13 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

How AI Fails Us: A non-technical view of the Alignment Problem

testingthewaters18 Nov 2022 19:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(ethics.harvard.edu)

[Question] Is there any policy for a fair treatment of AIs whose friendliness is in doubt?

nahoj18 Nov 2022 19:01 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

SBF, Pascal’s Mugging, and a Proposed Solution

Cole Killian18 Nov 2022 18:39 UTC

−1 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(colekillian.com)

Distillation of “How Likely Is Deceptive Alignment?”

NickGabs18 Nov 2022 16:31 UTC

24 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Contra Chords

jefftk18 Nov 2022 16:20 UTC

12 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Updates on scaling laws for foundation models from ′ Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute’

Nick_Greig18 Nov 2022 12:46 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Halifax, NS – Monthly Rationalist, EA, and ACX Meetup

Ideopunk18 Nov 2022 11:45 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing The Logical Foundation, A Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC

9 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

My Deontology Says Narrow-Mindedness is Always Wrong

LVSN18 Nov 2022 6:11 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Ethics != Ai Safety

Dentin18 Nov 2022 3:02 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t design agents which exploit adversarial inputs

TurnTrout and Garrett Baker

18 Nov 2022 1:48 UTC

70 points

64 comments12 min readLW link

Engineering Monosemanticity in Toy Models

Adam Jermyn, evhub and Nicholas Schiefer

18 Nov 2022 1:43 UTC

75 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

AGIs may value intrinsic rewards more than extrinsic ones

catubc17 Nov 2022 21:49 UTC

8 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

LLMs may capture key components of human agency

catubc17 Nov 2022 20:14 UTC

27 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Mastodon Replies as Comments

jefftk17 Nov 2022 20:10 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Announcing the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford17 Nov 2022 19:26 UTC

83 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What kind of bias is this?

Daniel Samuel17 Nov 2022 18:44 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Forecasting Research Ideas

Jsevillamol17 Nov 2022 17:37 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Results from the interpretability hackathon

Esben Kran and Neel Nanda

17 Nov 2022 14:51 UTC

81 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(alignmentjam.com)

Covid 11/17/22: Slow Recovery

Zvi17 Nov 2022 14:50 UTC

33 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Sadly, FTX

Zvi17 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC

133 points

18 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deontology and virtue ethics as “effective theories” of consequentialist ethics

Jan_Kulveit17 Nov 2022 14:11 UTC

63 points

9 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

The Ground Truth Problem (Or, Why Evaluating Interpretability Methods Is Hard)

Jessica Rumbelow17 Nov 2022 11:06 UTC

27 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] [Personal Question] Can anyone help me navigate this potentially painful interpersonal dynamic rationally?

SlainLadyMondegreen17 Nov 2022 8:53 UTC

9 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Massive Scaling Should be Frowned Upon

harsimony17 Nov 2022 8:43 UTC

4 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why are profitable companies laying off staff?

Yair Halberstadt17 Nov 2022 6:19 UTC

15 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Discussion: Was SBF a naive utilitarian, or a sociopath?

NicholasKross17 Nov 2022 2:52 UTC

0 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Kelsey Piper’s recent interview of SBF

agucova16 Nov 2022 20:30 UTC

51 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

The Echo Principle

Jonathan Moregård16 Nov 2022 20:09 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

[Question] Is there some reason LLMs haven’t seen broader use?

tailcalled16 Nov 2022 20:04 UTC

25 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

When should we be surprised that an invention took “so long”?

jasoncrawford16 Nov 2022 20:04 UTC

32 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Questions about Value Lock-in, Paternalism, and Empowerment

Sam F. Brown16 Nov 2022 15:33 UTC

13 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

(sambrown.eu)

If Professional Investors Missed This...

jefftk16 Nov 2022 15:00 UTC

37 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Disagreement with bio anchors that lead to shorter timelines

Marius Hobbhahn16 Nov 2022 14:40 UTC

75 points

17 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Current themes in mechanistic interpretability research

Lee Sharkey, Sid Black and beren

16 Nov 2022 14:14 UTC

89 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

Unpacking “Shard Theory” as Hunch, Question, Theory, and Insight

Jacy Reese Anthis16 Nov 2022 13:54 UTC

31 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Miracles and why not to believe them

mruwnik16 Nov 2022 12:07 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do people do remote research collaborations effectively?

Krieger16 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Method of statements: an alternative to taboo

Q Home16 Nov 2022 10:57 UTC

7 points

0 comments41 min readLW link

The two conceptions of Active Inference: an intelligence architecture and a theory of agency

Roman Leventov16 Nov 2022 9:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Developer experience for the motivation

Adam Zerner16 Nov 2022 7:12 UTC

49 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-15

jasoncrawford16 Nov 2022 3:21 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (7th Nov − 13th Nov 22′)

Zoe Williams16 Nov 2022 3:04 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The FTX Saga—Simplified

Annapurna16 Nov 2022 2:42 UTC

44 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

Utilitarianism and the idea of a “rational agent” are fundamentally inconsistent with reality

banev16 Nov 2022 0:19 UTC

−4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Is the speed of training large models going to increase significantly in the near future due to Cerebras Andromeda?

Amal 15 Nov 2022 22:50 UTC

12 points

11 comments1 min readLW link