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[Question] Is Paul Christiano still as optimistic about Approval-Directed Agents as he was in 2018?

Chris_Leong14 Dec 2022 23:28 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

«Boundaries», Part 3b: Alignment problems in terms of boundaries

Andrew_Critch14 Dec 2022 22:34 UTC

72 points

7 comments13 min readLW link

Aligning alignment with performance

Marv K14 Dec 2022 22:19 UTC

2 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Contrary to List of Lethality’s point 22, alignment’s door number 2

False Name14 Dec 2022 22:01 UTC

−2 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

Kolmogorov Complexity and Simulation Hypothesis

False Name14 Dec 2022 22:01 UTC

−3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Stanley Meyer’s water fuel cell

mikbp14 Dec 2022 21:19 UTC

2 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

all claw, no world — and other thoughts on the universal distribution

Tamsin Leake14 Dec 2022 18:55 UTC

15 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

[Question] Is the AI timeline too short to have children?

Yoreth14 Dec 2022 18:32 UTC

38 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Predicting GPU performance

Marius Hobbhahn and Tamay

14 Dec 2022 16:27 UTC

60 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

[Incomplete] What is Computation Anyway?

DragonGod14 Dec 2022 16:17 UTC

16 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Chair Hanging Peg

jefftk14 Dec 2022 15:30 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My AGI safety research—2022 review, ’23 plans

Steven Byrnes14 Dec 2022 15:15 UTC

51 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

Extracting and Evaluating Causal Direction in LLMs’ Activations

Fabien Roger and simeon_c

14 Dec 2022 14:33 UTC

29 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

Key Mostly Outward-Facing Facts From the Story of VaccinateCA

Zvi14 Dec 2022 13:30 UTC

61 points

2 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision

Xodarap14 Dec 2022 12:32 UTC

45 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] COVID China Personal Advice (No mRNA vax, possible hospital overload, bug-chasing edition)

Lao Mein14 Dec 2022 10:31 UTC

20 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond a better world

Davidmanheim14 Dec 2022 10:18 UTC

14 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(progressforum.org)

Proof as mere strong evidence

adamShimi14 Dec 2022 8:56 UTC

28 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Trying to disambiguate different questions about whether RLHF is “good”

Buck14 Dec 2022 4:03 UTC

106 points

47 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

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

Alex_Altair13 Dec 2022 19:24 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Best introductory overviews of AGI safety?

JakubK13 Dec 2022 19:01 UTC

21 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Applications open for AGI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment Course

Richard_Ngo and Jamie Bernardi

13 Dec 2022 18:31 UTC

48 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Algon13 Dec 2022 16:56 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.quantamagazine.org)

It Takes Two Paracetamol?

Eli_13 Dec 2022 16:29 UTC

33 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

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

Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun and beren

13 Dec 2022 15:41 UTC

137 points

22 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

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

Kenoubi13 Dec 2022 15:41 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Existential AI Safety is NOT separate from near-term applications

scasper13 Dec 2022 14:47 UTC

37 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

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

banev13 Dec 2022 14:26 UTC

8 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Limits of Superintelligence

Aleksei Petrenko13 Dec 2022 12:19 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readLW link

Bay 2022 Solstice

Raemon13 Dec 2022 8:58 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Raemon13 Dec 2022 8:53 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI alignment is distinct from its near-term applications

paulfchristiano13 Dec 2022 7:10 UTC

254 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

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

Charlie Steiner13 Dec 2022 7:04 UTC

37 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

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

SlowingAGI13 Dec 2022 6:00 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Zoe Williams13 Dec 2022 2:53 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment with argument-networks and assessment-predictions

Tor Økland Barstad13 Dec 2022 2:17 UTC

10 points

5 comments45 min readLW link

Revisiting algorithmic progress

Tamay and Ege Erdil

13 Dec 2022 1:39 UTC

94 points

15 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

An exploration of GPT-2′s embedding weights

Adam Scherlis13 Dec 2022 0:46 UTC

42 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

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

Akash12 Dec 2022 22:36 UTC

20 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Concept extrapolation for hypothesis generation

Stuart_Armstrong, patrickleask and rgorman

12 Dec 2022 22:09 UTC

20 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

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

Bill Benzon12 Dec 2022 21:50 UTC

5 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

D&D.Sci December 2022 Evaluation and Ruleset

abstractapplic12 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC

14 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Log-odds are better than Probabilities

Robert_AIZI12 Dec 2022 20:10 UTC

22 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Bengaluru LW/ACX Social Meetup—December 2022

faiz12 Dec 2022 19:30 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Psychological Disorders and Problems

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

12 Dec 2022 18:15 UTC

39 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Confusing the goal and the path

adamShimi12 Dec 2022 16:42 UTC

44 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Meaningful things are those the universe possesses a semantics for

Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir12 Dec 2022 16:03 UTC

16 points

14 comments14 min readLW link

Tradeoffs in complexity, abstraction, and generality

remember and Gabriel Alfour

12 Dec 2022 15:55 UTC

32 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Green Line Extension Opening Dates

jefftk12 Dec 2022 14:40 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Join the AI Testing Hackathon this Friday

Esben Kran12 Dec 2022 14:24 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link