How could we know that an AGI sys­tem will have good con­se­quences?

So8res7 Nov 2022 22:42 UTC
111 points
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A Walk­through of In­ter­pretabil­ity in the Wild (w/​ au­thors Kevin Wang, Arthur Conmy & Alexan­dre Variengien)

Neel Nanda7 Nov 2022 22:39 UTC
30 points
15 comments3 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

In­ter­cept ar­ti­cle about lab accidents

ChristianKl7 Nov 2022 21:10 UTC
23 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(theintercept.com)

The biolog­i­cal func­tion of love for non-kin is to gain the trust of peo­ple we can­not deceive

chaosmage7 Nov 2022 20:26 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Distil­la­tion Ex­per­i­ment: Chunk-Knitting

DirectedEvolution7 Nov 2022 19:56 UTC
10 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Think­ing About Mastodon

jefftk7 Nov 2022 19:40 UTC
33 points
17 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Ideas for tiny re­search pro­jects re­lated to ra­tio­nal­ity?

Frej7 Nov 2022 18:45 UTC
3 points
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Loss of con­trol of AI is not a likely source of AI x-risk

squek7 Nov 2022 18:44 UTC
−6 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

AI Safety Un­con­fer­ence NeurIPS 2022

Orpheus7 Nov 2022 15:39 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(aisafetyevents.org)

Hacker-AI – Does it already ex­ist?

Erland Wittkotter7 Nov 2022 14:01 UTC
3 points
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What’s the Deal with Elon Musk and Twit­ter?

Zvi7 Nov 2022 13:50 UTC
60 points
13 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How to Make Easy De­ci­sions

lynettebye7 Nov 2022 13:17 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties that sur­prised us dur­ing our Clearer Think­ing Re­grants program

spencerg7 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC
20 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

4 Key As­sump­tions in AI Safety

Prometheus7 Nov 2022 10:50 UTC
20 points
5 comments7 min readLW link

Google Search as a Washed Up Ser­vice Dog: “I HALP!”

Shmi7 Nov 2022 7:02 UTC
20 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Book Re­view] “Sta­tion Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel

lsusr7 Nov 2022 5:56 UTC
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Counterfactability

Scott Garrabrant7 Nov 2022 5:39 UTC
40 points
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2022 LessWrong Cen­sus?

Matt He7 Nov 2022 5:16 UTC
67 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

A philoso­pher’s cri­tique of RLHF

TW1237 Nov 2022 2:42 UTC
55 points
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[Question] Is there any dis­cus­sion on avoid­ing be­ing Dutch-booked or oth­er­wise taken ad­van­tage of one’s bounded ra­tio­nal­ity by re­fus­ing to en­gage?

Shmi7 Nov 2022 2:36 UTC
38 points
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Ex­ams-Only Universities

Mati_Roy6 Nov 2022 22:05 UTC
80 points
40 comments2 min readLW link

Democ­racy Is in Danger, but Not for the Rea­sons You Think

ExCeph6 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC
−7 points
4 comments12 min readLW link
(ginnungagapfoundation.wordpress.com)

Play­ground Game: Monster

jefftk6 Nov 2022 16:00 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Has Pas­cal’s Mug­ging prob­lem been com­pletely solved yet?

EniScien6 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
3 points
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[Question] Should I Pur­sue a PhD?

DragonGod6 Nov 2022 10:58 UTC
8 points
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You won’t solve al­ign­ment with­out agent foundations

Mikhail Samin6 Nov 2022 8:07 UTC
29 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Word-Dis­tance vs Idea-Dis­tance: The Case for Lanoitaring

Sable6 Nov 2022 5:25 UTC
7 points
7 comments7 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

Ap­ple Cider Syrup

jefftk6 Nov 2022 2:10 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

What is epi­ge­net­ics?

Metacelsus6 Nov 2022 1:24 UTC
78 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Response

Jarred Filmer6 Nov 2022 1:03 UTC
29 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one in­creased their AGI timelines?

Darren McKee6 Nov 2022 0:03 UTC
39 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Take­aways from a sur­vey on AI al­ign­ment resources

DanielFilan5 Nov 2022 23:40 UTC
73 points
10 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(danielfilan.com)

Un­pri­ca­ble In­for­ma­tion and Cer­tifi­cate Hell

eva_5 Nov 2022 22:56 UTC
13 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Recom­mend HAIST re­sources for as­sess­ing the value of RLHF-re­lated al­ign­ment research

5 Nov 2022 20:58 UTC
26 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

In­stead of tech­ni­cal re­search, more peo­ple should fo­cus on buy­ing time

5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC
101 points
45 comments14 min readLW link

Prov­ably Hon­est—A First Step

Srijanak De5 Nov 2022 19:18 UTC
10 points
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Should AI fo­cus on prob­lem-solv­ing or strate­gic plan­ning? Why not both?

Oliver Siegel5 Nov 2022 19:17 UTC
−12 points
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How to store hu­man val­ues on a computer

Oliver Siegel5 Nov 2022 19:17 UTC
−12 points
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The Slip­pery Slope from DALLE-2 to Deep­fake Anarchy

scasper5 Nov 2022 14:53 UTC
17 points
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When can a mimic sur­prise you? Why gen­er­a­tive mod­els han­dle seem­ingly ill-posed problems

David Johnston5 Nov 2022 13:19 UTC
8 points
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My sum­mary of “Prag­matic AI Safety”

Eleni Angelou5 Nov 2022 12:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Re­view of the Challenge

SD Marlow5 Nov 2022 6:38 UTC
−14 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Spec­trum of Independence

jefftk5 Nov 2022 2:40 UTC
43 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[pa­per link] In­ter­pret­ing sys­tems as solv­ing POMDPs: a step to­wards a for­mal un­der­stand­ing of agency

the gears to ascension5 Nov 2022 1:06 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.semanticscholar.org)

Me­tac­u­lus is seek­ing Soft­ware Engineers

dschwarz5 Nov 2022 0:42 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(apply.workable.com)

Should we “go against na­ture”?

jasoncrawford4 Nov 2022 22:14 UTC
10 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

How much should we care about non-hu­man an­i­mals?

bokov4 Nov 2022 21:36 UTC
17 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.lesswrong.com)

For ELK truth is mostly a distraction

c.trout4 Nov 2022 21:14 UTC
44 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

Toy Models and Tegum Products

Adam Jermyn4 Nov 2022 18:51 UTC
28 points
7 comments5 min readLW link

Fol­low up to med­i­cal miracle

Elizabeth4 Nov 2022 18:00 UTC
77 points
5 comments6 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)