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Historical Notes on Charitable Funds

jefftk4 Dec 2022 23:30 UTC

28 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AGI as a Black Swan Event

Stephen McAleese4 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC

8 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Pre-Holiday Get-Together

IS4 Dec 2022 22:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT is settling the Chinese Room argument

averros4 Dec 2022 20:25 UTC

−7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Race to the Top: Benchmarks for AI Safety

Isabella Duan4 Dec 2022 18:48 UTC

29 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread—December 2022

niplav4 Dec 2022 15:06 UTC

8 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

AI can exploit safety plans posted on the Internet

Peter S. Park4 Dec 2022 12:17 UTC

−15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT seems overconfident to me

qbolec4 Dec 2022 8:03 UTC

19 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Could an AI be Religious?

mk544 Dec 2022 5:00 UTC

−12 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Can GPT-3 Write Contra Dances?

jefftk4 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC

6 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Take 3: No indescribable heavenworlds.

Charlie Steiner4 Dec 2022 2:48 UTC

23 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Summary of a new study on out-group hate (and how to fix it)

DirectedEvolution4 Dec 2022 1:53 UTC

60 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

(www.pnas.org)

[Question] Will the first AGI agent have been designed as an agent (in addition to an AGI)?

nahoj3 Dec 2022 20:32 UTC

1 point

8 comments1 min readLW link

Logical induction for software engineers

Alex Flint3 Dec 2022 19:55 UTC

163 points

8 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Utilitarianism is the only option

aelwood3 Dec 2022 17:14 UTC

−12 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Our 2022 Giving

jefftk3 Dec 2022 15:40 UTC

33 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is school good or bad?

tailcalled3 Dec 2022 13:14 UTC

10 points

76 comments1 min readLW link

MrBeast’s Squid Game Tricked Me

lsusr3 Dec 2022 5:50 UTC

75 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Great Cryonics Survey of 2022

Mati_Roy3 Dec 2022 5:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: results on induction heads

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, Tao Lin, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:59 UTC

34 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: results on a paren balance checker

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, Tao Lin, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:59 UTC

34 points

2 comments30 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: Appendix

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:58 UTC

18 points

4 comments20 min readLW link

Causal Scrubbing: a method for rigorously testing interpretability hypotheses [Redwood Research]

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:58 UTC

206 points

35 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Take 2: Building tools to help build FAI is a legitimate strategy, but it’s dual-use.

Charlie Steiner3 Dec 2022 0:54 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci December 2022: The Boojumologist

abstractapplic2 Dec 2022 23:39 UTC

32 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Subsets and quotients in interpretability

Erik Jenner2 Dec 2022 23:13 UTC

26 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Research Principles for 6 Months of AI Alignment Studies

Shoshannah Tekofsky2 Dec 2022 22:55 UTC

23 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism

Ulisse Mini2 Dec 2022 22:01 UTC

33 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Brun’s theorem and sieve theory

Ege Erdil2 Dec 2022 20:57 UTC

31 points

1 comment73 min readLW link

Apply for the ML Upskilling Winter Camp in Cambridge, UK [2-10 Jan]

hannah wing-yee2 Dec 2022 20:45 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Takeoff speeds, the chimps analogy, and the Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis

NickGabs2 Dec 2022 19:14 UTC

16 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[ASoT] Finetuning, RL, and GPT’s world prior

Jozdien2 Dec 2022 16:33 UTC

45 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

NeurIPS Safety & ChatGPT. MLAISU W48

Esben Kran and Steinthal

2 Dec 2022 15:50 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.apartresearch.com)

[Question] Is ChatGPT rigth when advising to brush the tongue when brushing teeth?

ChristianKl2 Dec 2022 14:53 UTC

13 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day

Zvi2 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC

243 points

77 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deconfusing Direct vs Amortised Optimization

beren2 Dec 2022 11:30 UTC

136 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

Inner and outer alignment decompose one hard problem into two extremely hard problems

TurnTrout2 Dec 2022 2:43 UTC

136 points

23 comments47 min readLW link 3 reviews

New Feature: Collaborative editing now supports logged-out users

RobertM2 Dec 2022 2:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Mastering Stratego (Deepmind)

svemirski2 Dec 2022 2:21 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.deepmind.com)

Update on Harvard AI Safety Team and MIT AI Alignment

Xander Davies, Sam Marks, kaivu, tlevin, leni, maxnadeau and Naomi Bashkansky

2 Dec 2022 0:56 UTC

60 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Quick look: cognitive damage from well-administered anesthesia

Elizabeth2 Dec 2022 0:40 UTC

28 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Against meta-ethical hedonism

Joe Carlsmith2 Dec 2022 0:23 UTC

24 points

5 comments35 min readLW link

Lumenators for very lazy British people

shakeelh2 Dec 2022 0:18 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

 Understanding goals in complex systems

Johannes C. Mayer1 Dec 2022 23:49 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

A challenge for AGI organizations, and a challenge for readers

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

1 Dec 2022 23:11 UTC

302 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Playing with Aerial Photos

jefftk1 Dec 2022 22:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Take 1: We’re not going to reverse-engineer the AI.

Charlie Steiner1 Dec 2022 22:41 UTC

38 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Re-Examining LayerNorm

Eric Winsor1 Dec 2022 22:20 UTC

127 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

The LessWrong 2021 Review: Intellectual Circle Expansion

Ruby and Raemon

1 Dec 2022 21:17 UTC

95 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

The Plan − 2022 Update

johnswentworth1 Dec 2022 20:43 UTC

239 points

37 comments8 min readLW link 1 review