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[Question] How can one literally buy time (from x-risk) with money?

Alex_AltairDec 13, 2022, 7:24 PM

24 points

13 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Best introductory overviews of AGI safety?

JakubKDec 13, 2022, 7:01 PM

21 points

13 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Applications open for AGI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment Course

Richard_NgoDec 13, 2022, 6:31 PM

49 points

16 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

What Does It Mean to Align AI With Human Values?

AlgonDec 13, 2022, 4:56 PM

8 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.quantamagazine.org)

It Takes Two Paracetamol?

Eli_Dec 13, 2022, 4:29 PM

33 points

17 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

[Interim research report] Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren

Dec 13, 2022, 3:41 PM

154 points

70 votes

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23 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] Is the ChatGPT-simulated Linux virtual machine real?

KenoubiDec 13, 2022, 3:41 PM

18 points

10 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Existential AI Safety is NOT separate from near-term applications

scasperDec 13, 2022, 2:47 PM

37 points

25 votes

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17 comments3 min readLW link

What is the correlation between upvoting and benefit to readers of LW?

banevDec 13, 2022, 2:26 PM

7 points

8 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

Limits of Superintelligence

Aleksei PetrenkoDec 13, 2022, 12:19 PM

1 point

1 vote

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Bay 2022 Solstice

RaemonDec 13, 2022, 8:58 AM

17 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Last day to nominate things for the Review. Also, 2019 books still exist.

RaemonDec 13, 2022, 8:53 AM

15 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AI alignment is distinct from its near-term applications

paulfchristianoDec 13, 2022, 7:10 AM

255 points

118 votes

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21 comments2 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Take 10: Fine-tuning with RLHF is aesthetically unsatisfying.

Charlie SteinerDec 13, 2022, 7:04 AM

37 points

12 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Are lawsuits against AGI companies extending AGI timelines?

SlowingAGIDec 13, 2022, 6:00 AM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5th Dec − 11th Dec 22′)

Zoe WilliamsDec 13, 2022, 2:53 AM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

Alignment with argument-networks and assessment-predictions

Tor Økland BarstadDec 13, 2022, 2:17 AM

10 points

3 votes

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5 comments45 min readLW link

Revisiting algorithmic progress

Tamay and Ege Erdil

Dec 13, 2022, 1:39 AM

95 points

34 votes

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15 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

An exploration of GPT-2′s embedding weights

Adam ScherlisDec 13, 2022, 12:46 AM

44 points

25 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

12 career-related questions that may (or may not) be helpful for people interested in alignment research

Orpheus16Dec 12, 2022, 10:36 PM

20 points

14 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Concept extrapolation for hypothesis generation

Stuart_Armstrong, Patrick Leask and rgorman

Dec 12, 2022, 10:09 PM

20 points

12 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Let’s go meta: Grammatical knowledge and self-referential sentences [ChatGPT]

Bill BenzonDec 12, 2022, 9:50 PM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

D&D.Sci December 2022 Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplicDec 12, 2022, 9:21 PM

17 points

9 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Log-odds are better than Probabilities

Robert_AIZIDec 12, 2022, 8:10 PM

22 points

9 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Bengaluru LW/ACX Social Meetup—December 2022

faizDec 12, 2022, 7:30 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Psychological Disorders and Problems

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Dec 12, 2022, 6:15 PM

39 points

22 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Confusing the goal and the path

adamShimiDec 12, 2022, 4:42 PM

44 points

20 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Meaningful things are those the universe possesses a semantics for

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirDec 12, 2022, 4:03 PM

16 points

9 votes

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14 comments14 min readLW link

Tradeoffs in complexity, abstraction, and generality

remember and Gabriel Alfour

Dec 12, 2022, 3:55 PM

32 points

12 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Green Line Extension Opening Dates

jefftkDec 12, 2022, 2:40 PM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Join the AI Testing Hackathon this Friday

Esben KranDec 12, 2022, 2:24 PM

10 points

5 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(alignmentjam.com)

Side-channels: input versus output

davidadDec 12, 2022, 12:32 PM

44 points

18 votes

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16 comments2 min readLW link

Take 9: No, RLHF/IDA/debate doesn’t solve outer alignment.

Charlie SteinerDec 12, 2022, 11:51 AM

33 points

19 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

Creating a database for base rates

nikosDec 12, 2022, 10:09 AM

2 points

1 vote

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Trivial GPT-3.5 limitation workaround

Dave92F1Dec 12, 2022, 8:42 AM

5 points

9 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Ponzi schemes can be highly profitable if your timing is good

GeneSmithDec 12, 2022, 6:42 AM

10 points

22 votes

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18 comments5 min readLW link

Prodding ChatGPT to solve a basic algebra problem

ShmiDec 12, 2022, 4:09 AM

14 points

3 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Wider Default Audio Player in Chrome?

jefftkDec 12, 2022, 3:30 AM

11 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A brainteaser for language models

Adam ScherlisDec 12, 2022, 2:43 AM

47 points

30 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Benchmarks for Comparing Human and AI Intelligence

MrThinkDec 11, 2022, 10:06 PM

9 points

5 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Reflections on the PIBBSS Fellowship 2022

Nora_Ammann and particlemania

Dec 11, 2022, 9:53 PM

32 points

17 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

A crisis for online communication: bots and bot users will overrun the Internet?

Mitchell_PorterDec 11, 2022, 9:11 PM

15 points

11 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Factored Sets in Pictures

Magdalena WacheDec 11, 2022, 6:49 PM

183 points

87 votes

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35 comments12 min readLW link

Formalization as suspension of intuition

adamShimiDec 11, 2022, 3:16 PM

54 points

23 votes

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18 comments1 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

An argument on animal consciousness (soliciting criticism)

SciHamsterDec 11, 2022, 3:12 PM

1 point

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT’s new novel rationality technique of fact checking

ChristianKlDec 11, 2022, 1:54 PM

−14 points

13 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Reframing inner alignment

davidadDec 11, 2022, 1:53 PM

53 points

19 votes

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13 comments4 min readLW link

A poem about applied rationality by ChatGPT

ChristianKlDec 11, 2022, 1:43 PM

4 points

8 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT goes through a wormhole hole in our Shandyesque universe [virtual wacky weed]

Bill BenzonDec 11, 2022, 11:59 AM

−1 points

5 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Using Obsidian if you’re used to using Roam

Solenoid_EntityDec 11, 2022, 8:59 AM

19 points

10 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

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