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Feeling Old: Leaving your 20s in the 2020s

squidiousNov 22, 2022, 10:50 PM

37 points

17 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

Brute-forcing the universe: a non-standard shot at diamond alignment

Martín SotoNov 22, 2022, 10:36 PM

9 points

7 votes

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2 comments20 min readLW link

Announcing AI Alignment Awards: $100k research contests about goal misgeneralization & corrigibility

Orpheus16 and Olive Branch

Nov 22, 2022, 10:19 PM

74 points

38 votes

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20 comments4 min readLW link

ACX Zurich November Meetup

MBNov 22, 2022, 9:41 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Human-level Full-Press Diplomacy (some bare facts).

Cleo NardoNov 22, 2022, 8:59 PM

50 points

25 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How does late-2022 COVID transmissibility drop over time?

Daniel DeweyNov 22, 2022, 7:54 PM

8 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing “3-dimensional chess”.

boazbarak and benedelman

Nov 22, 2022, 6:57 PM

134 points

76 votes

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97 comments24 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-22

jasoncrawfordNov 22, 2022, 5:39 PM

17 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Tyranny of the Epistemic Majority

Scott GarrabrantNov 22, 2022, 5:19 PM

191 points

75 votes

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13 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

A Walkthrough of In-Context Learning and Induction Heads (w/ Charles Frye) Part 1 of 2

Neel NandaNov 22, 2022, 5:12 PM

20 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Simple Improvement to College Football Overtime Rules

ZviNov 22, 2022, 5:00 PM

10 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Meta AI announces Cicero: Human-Level Diplomacy play (with dialogue)

Jacy Reese AnthisNov 22, 2022, 4:50 PM

93 points

50 votes

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64 comments1 min readLW link

(www.science.org)

Austin LW meetup notes: The FTX Affair

jchanNov 22, 2022, 2:01 PM

20 points

13 votes

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3 comments16 min readLW link

Motivated Cognition and the Multiverse of Truth

Q HomeNov 22, 2022, 12:51 PM

8 points

7 votes

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16 comments24 min readLW link

LessWrong readers are invited to apply to the Lurkshop

Jonas V and GradientDissenter

Nov 22, 2022, 9:19 AM

101 points

57 votes

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41 comments3 min readLW link

Gaoxing Guy

Alok SinghNov 22, 2022, 1:50 AM

3 points

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(alok.github.io)

Miscellaneous First-Pass Alignment Thoughts

NickGabsNov 21, 2022, 9:23 PM

12 points

5 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

[Hebbian Natural Abstractions] Introduction

Samuel Nellessen and Jan

Nov 21, 2022, 8:34 PM

34 points

13 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

(www.snellessen.com)

Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism

Scott GarrabrantNov 21, 2022, 7:00 PM

121 points

49 votes

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16 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Interview with Matt Freeman

EvenflairNov 21, 2022, 6:17 PM

15 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(overcast.fm)

Here’s the exit.

ValentineNov 21, 2022, 6:07 PM

141 points

343 votes

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184 comments10 min readLW link 5 reviews

[Question] Benefits/Risks of Scott Aaronson’s Orthodox/Reform Framing for AI Alignment

JeremyyNov 21, 2022, 5:54 PM

2 points

1 vote

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(scottaaronson.blog)

[ASoT] Reflectivity in Narrow AI

Ulisse MiniNov 21, 2022, 12:51 AM

6 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Scott Aaronson on “Reform AI Alignment”

ShmiNov 20, 2022, 10:20 PM

39 points

32 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)

On Morality, Ethics, and all that Jazz

Delen HeismanNov 20, 2022, 8:00 PM

4 points

4 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

(delen.substack.com)

Limits to the Controllability of AGI

Roman_Yampolskiy, Remmelt Ellen and Karl von Wendt

Nov 20, 2022, 7:18 PM

10 points

19 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

Career Scouting: Dentistry

koratkarNov 20, 2022, 3:55 PM

69 points

33 votes

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5 comments5 min readLW link

(careerscouting.substack.com)

Decision Theory but also Ghosts

eva_Nov 20, 2022, 1:24 PM

20 points

17 votes

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26 comments10 min readLW link

ARC paper: Formalizing the presumption of independence

Erik JennerNov 20, 2022, 1:22 AM

97 points

48 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

janusNov 19, 2022, 11:51 PM

71 points

36 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Make the Drought Evaporate!

AnthonyRepettoNov 19, 2022, 11:41 PM

32 points

24 votes

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25 comments3 min readLW link

Elastic Productivity Tools

Simon BerensNov 19, 2022, 9:59 PM

76 points

47 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

(simonberens.me)

A Short Dialogue on the Meaning of Reward Functions

Leon Lang, Quintin Pope and peligrietzer

Nov 19, 2022, 9:04 PM

45 points

28 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

By Default, GPTs Think In Plain Sight

Fabien RogerNov 19, 2022, 7:15 PM

89 points

58 votes

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36 comments9 min readLW link

Review: Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt

mattoNov 19, 2022, 6:52 PM

4 points

1 vote

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2 comments2 min readLW link

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

sisyphusNov 19, 2022, 1:50 AM

2 points

7 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Choosing the right dish

Adam ZernerNov 19, 2022, 1:38 AM

38 points

22 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

Reflective Consequentialism

Adam ZernerNov 18, 2022, 11:56 PM

21 points

8 votes

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14 comments4 min readLW link

Value Created vs. Value Extracted

SableNov 18, 2022, 9:34 PM

8 points

6 votes

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6 comments6 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

The Disastrously Confident And Inaccurate AI

Sharat Jacob JacobNov 18, 2022, 7:06 PM

13 points

9 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

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

testingthewatersNov 18, 2022, 7:02 PM

7 points

3 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(ethics.harvard.edu)

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

nahojNov 18, 2022, 7:01 PM

16 points

8 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Distillation of “How Likely Is Deceptive Alignment?”

NickGabsNov 18, 2022, 4:31 PM

24 points

13 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

Contra Chords

jefftkNov 18, 2022, 4:20 PM

12 points

3 votes

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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_GreigNov 18, 2022, 12:46 PM

15 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

IdeopunkNov 18, 2022, 11:45 AM

10 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Introducing The Logical Foundation, an EA-Aligned Nonprofit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income

Michael SimmNov 18, 2022, 8:13 AM

9 points

6 votes

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23 comments24 min readLW link

My Deontology Says Narrow-Mindedness is Always Wrong

LVSNNov 18, 2022, 6:11 AM

6 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Ethics != Ai Safety

DentinNov 18, 2022, 3:02 AM

2 points

9 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t design agents which exploit adversarial inputs

TurnTrout and Garrett Baker

Nov 18, 2022, 1:48 AM

72 points

30 votes

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64 comments12 min readLW link

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