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[Question] Book recommendations for the history of ML?

Eleni AngelouDec 28, 2022, 11:50 PM

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Rock-Paper-Scissors Can Be Weird

winwonceDec 28, 2022, 11:12 PM

14 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

200 COP in MI: The Case for Analysing Toy Language Models

Neel NandaDec 28, 2022, 9:07 PM

40 points

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3 comments7 min readLW link

200 Concrete Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability: Introduction

Neel NandaDec 28, 2022, 9:06 PM

108 points

59 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

Effective ways to find love?

anonymoususerDec 28, 2022, 8:46 PM

9 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Classical logic based on propositions-as-subsingleton-types

Thomas KehrenbergDec 28, 2022, 8:16 PM

5 points

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0 comments16 min readLW link

In Defense of Wrapper-Minds

Thane RuthenisDec 28, 2022, 6:28 PM

24 points

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38 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is the best way to approach Expected Value calculations when payoffs are highly skewed?

jmhDec 28, 2022, 2:42 PM

8 points

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16 comments1 min readLW link

Bandwagon effect: Bias in Evaluating AGI X-Risks

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 28, 2022, 7:54 AM

1 point

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Getting up to Speed on the Speed Prior in 2022

robertzkDec 28, 2022, 7:49 AM

36 points

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5 comments65 min readLW link

[Question] What does “probability” really mean?

sisyphusDec 28, 2022, 3:20 AM

5 points

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20 comments1 min readLW link

Zooming the Chrome Audio Player

jefftkDec 28, 2022, 2:30 AM

9 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

What AI Safety Materials Do ML Researchers Find Compelling?

Vael Gates and Collin

Dec 28, 2022, 2:03 AM

175 points

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34 comments2 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Meetup

ISDec 28, 2022, 1:59 AM

3 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Regarding Blake Lemoine’s claim that LaMDA is ‘sentient’, he might be right (sorta), but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks

philosophybearDec 28, 2022, 1:55 AM

9 points

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 5 - How do we know what we know?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyDec 28, 2022, 1:28 AM

10 points

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2 comments12 min readLW link

Is checking that a state of the world is not dystopian easier than constructing a non-dystopian state?

No77eDec 27, 2022, 8:57 PM

5 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Crypto-currency as pro-alignment mechanism

False NameDec 27, 2022, 5:45 PM

−10 points

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2 comments2 min readLW link

My Reservations about Discovering Latent Knowledge (Burns, Ye, et al)

Robert_AIZIDec 27, 2022, 5:27 PM

50 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Things that can kill you quickly: What everyone should know about first aid

jasoncrawfordDec 27, 2022, 4:23 PM

167 points

88 votes

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21 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(jasoncrawford.org)

[Question] Why The Focus on Expected Utility Maximisers?

DragonGodDec 27, 2022, 3:49 PM

118 points

55 votes

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84 comments3 min readLW link

Presumptive Listening: sticking to familiar concepts and missing the outer reasoning paths

RemmeltDec 27, 2022, 3:40 PM

−16 points

10 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Mere exposure effect: Bias in Evaluating AGI X-Risks

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 2:05 PM

0 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Housing and Transportation Roundup #2

ZviDec 27, 2022, 1:10 PM

25 points

11 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Are tulpas moral patients?

ChristianKlDec 27, 2022, 11:30 AM

16 points

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28 comments1 min readLW link

Reflections on my 5-month alignment upskilling grant

Jay BaileyDec 27, 2022, 10:51 AM

83 points

51 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

Institutions Cannot Restrain Dark-Triad AI Exploitation

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 10:34 AM

5 points

7 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Introduction: Bias in Evaluating AGI X-Risks

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 10:27 AM

1 point

8 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

MDPs and the Bellman Equation, Intuitively Explained

Jack O'BrienDec 27, 2022, 5:50 AM

11 points

4 votes

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3 comments14 min readLW link

How ‘Human-Human’ dynamics give way to ‘Human-AI’ and then ‘AI-AI’ dynamics

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 3:16 AM

−2 points

7 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Nine Points of Collective Insanity

Remmelt and flandry19

Dec 27, 2022, 3:14 AM

−2 points

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(mflb.com)

Fractional Resignation

jefftkDec 27, 2022, 2:30 AM

19 points

9 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

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[Question] What policies have most thoroughly crippled (otherwise-promising) industries or technologies?

benwrDec 27, 2022, 2:25 AM

40 points

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing—Some Woolly speculations (2019 essay on semantics and language models)

philosophybearDec 27, 2022, 2:11 AM

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Against Agents as an Approach to Aligned Transformative AI

DragonGodDec 27, 2022, 12:47 AM

12 points

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Can we efficiently distinguish different mechanisms?

paulfchristianoDec 27, 2022, 12:20 AM

91 points

31 votes

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30 comments16 min readLW link

(ai-alignment.com)

Air-gapping evaluation and support

Ryan KiddDec 26, 2022, 10:52 PM

53 points

28 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Slightly against aligning with neo-luddites

Matthew BarnettDec 26, 2022, 10:46 PM

104 points

50 votes

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31 comments4 min readLW link

Avoiding perpetual risk from TAI

scasperDec 26, 2022, 10:34 PM

15 points

11 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing: The Independent AI Safety Registry

Shoshannah TekofskyDec 26, 2022, 9:22 PM

53 points

25 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Are men harder to help?

bracesDec 26, 2022, 9:11 PM

36 points

18 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] How much should I update on the fact that my dentist is named Dennis?

MichaelDickensDec 26, 2022, 7:11 PM

2 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Theodicy and the simulation hypothesis, or: The problem of simulator evil

philosophybearDec 26, 2022, 6:55 PM

12 points

5 votes

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12 comments19 min readLW link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

Safety of Self-Assembled Neuromorphic Hardware

CanDec 26, 2022, 6:51 PM

16 points

8 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Coherent extrapolated dreaming

Alex FlintDec 26, 2022, 5:29 PM

38 points

15 votes

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10 comments17 min readLW link

An overview of some promising work by junior alignment researchers

Orpheus16Dec 26, 2022, 5:23 PM

34 points

23 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Solstice song: Here Lies the Dragon

jchanDec 26, 2022, 4:08 PM

8 points

3 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

The Usefulness Paradigm

AprillionDec 26, 2022, 1:23 PM

4 points

6 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Looking Back on Posts From 2022

ZviDec 26, 2022, 1:20 PM

50 points

20 votes

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8 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Analogies between Software Reverse Engineering and Mechanistic Interpretability

Neel Nanda and Itay Yona

Dec 26, 2022, 12:26 PM

34 points

14 votes

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6 comments11 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

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