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Scott Aaronson on “Reform AI Alignment”

Shmi20 Nov 2022 22:20 UTC

39 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)

On Morality, Ethics, and all that Jazz

Delen Heisman20 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC

4 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(delen.substack.com)

Limits to the Controllability of AGI

Roman_Yampolskiy, Remmelt Ellen and Karl von Wendt

20 Nov 2022 19:18 UTC

10 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Career Scouting: Dentistry

koratkar20 Nov 2022 15:55 UTC

69 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

(careerscouting.substack.com)

Decision Theory but also Ghosts

eva_20 Nov 2022 13:24 UTC

20 points

26 comments10 min readLW link

ARC paper: Formalizing the presumption of independence

Erik Jenner20 Nov 2022 1:22 UTC

97 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Update to Mysteries of mode collapse: text-davinci-002 not RLHF

janus19 Nov 2022 23:51 UTC

71 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Make the Drought Evaporate!

AnthonyRepetto19 Nov 2022 23:41 UTC

32 points

25 comments3 min readLW link

Elastic Productivity Tools

Simon Berens19 Nov 2022 21:59 UTC

76 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(simonberens.me)

A Short Dialogue on the Meaning of Reward Functions

Leon Lang, Quintin Pope and peligrietzer

19 Nov 2022 21:04 UTC

45 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

By Default, GPTs Think In Plain Sight

Fabien Roger19 Nov 2022 19:15 UTC

89 points

36 comments9 min readLW link

Review: Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt

matto19 Nov 2022 18:52 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How does acausal trade work in a deterministic multiverse?

sisyphus19 Nov 2022 1:50 UTC

2 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Choosing the right dish

Adam Zerner19 Nov 2022 1:38 UTC

38 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

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)

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

1 comment2 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

16 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

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, an EA-Aligned Nonprofit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC

9 points

23 comments24 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

72 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

(docs.google.com)

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

68 points

9 comments10 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

5 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

[Question] [retracted] Discussion: Was SBF a naive utilitarian, or a sociopath?

Nicholas Kross17 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 comments2 min readLW link

(www.vox.com)

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