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Historical Notes on Charitable Funds

jefftkDec 4, 2022, 11:30 PM

28 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

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AGI as a Black Swan Event

Stephen McAleeseDec 4, 2022, 11:00 PM

8 points

9 votes

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8 comments7 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Pre-Holiday Get-Together

ISDec 4, 2022, 10:57 PM

10 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT is settling the Chinese Room argument

averrosDec 4, 2022, 8:25 PM

−7 points

10 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Race to the Top: Benchmarks for AI Safety

Isabella DuanDec 4, 2022, 6:48 PM

29 points

11 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread—December 2022

niplavDec 4, 2022, 3:06 PM

8 points

4 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

AI can exploit safety plans posted on the Internet

Peter S. ParkDec 4, 2022, 12:17 PM

−15 points

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4 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT seems overconfident to me

qbolecDec 4, 2022, 8:03 AM

19 points

6 votes

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3 comments16 min readLW link

Could an AI be Religious?

mk54Dec 4, 2022, 5:00 AM

−12 points

7 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Can GPT-3 Write Contra Dances?

jefftkDec 4, 2022, 3:00 AM

6 points

4 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Take 3: No indescribable heavenworlds.

Charlie SteinerDec 4, 2022, 2:48 AM

23 points

11 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

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

DirectedEvolutionDec 4, 2022, 1:53 AM

60 points

22 votes

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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)?

nahojDec 3, 2022, 8:32 PM

1 point

2 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Logical induction for software engineers

Alex FlintDec 3, 2022, 7:55 PM

163 points

60 votes

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8 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Utilitarianism is the only option

aelwoodDec 3, 2022, 5:14 PM

−12 points

10 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Our 2022 Giving

jefftkDec 3, 2022, 3:40 PM

33 points

13 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is school good or bad?

tailcalledDec 3, 2022, 1:14 PM

10 points

12 votes

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76 comments1 min readLW link

MrBeast’s Squid Game Tricked Me

lsusrDec 3, 2022, 5:50 AM

75 points

51 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Great Cryonics Survey of 2022

Mati_RoyDec 3, 2022, 5:10 AM

16 points

9 votes

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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

Dec 3, 2022, 12:59 AM

34 points

12 votes

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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

Dec 3, 2022, 12:59 AM

34 points

12 votes

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2 comments30 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: Appendix

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

Dec 3, 2022, 12:58 AM

18 points

7 votes

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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

Dec 3, 2022, 12:58 AM

206 points

76 votes

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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 SteinerDec 3, 2022, 12:54 AM

17 points

7 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci December 2022: The Boojumologist

abstractapplicDec 2, 2022, 11:39 PM

32 points

16 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

Subsets and quotients in interpretability

Erik JennerDec 2, 2022, 11:13 PM

26 points

14 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

Research Principles for 6 Months of AI Alignment Studies

Shoshannah TekofskyDec 2, 2022, 10:55 PM

23 points

8 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism

Ulisse MiniDec 2, 2022, 10:01 PM

33 points

21 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

Brun’s theorem and sieve theory

Ege ErdilDec 2, 2022, 8:57 PM

31 points

12 votes

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1 comment73 min readLW link

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

hannah wing-yeeDec 2, 2022, 8:45 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

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

NickGabsDec 2, 2022, 7:14 PM

16 points

13 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

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

JozdienDec 2, 2022, 4:33 PM

45 points

24 votes

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8 comments5 min readLW link

NeurIPS Safety & ChatGPT. MLAISU W48

Esben Kran and Steinthal

Dec 2, 2022, 3:50 PM

3 points

4 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.apartresearch.com)

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

ChristianKlDec 2, 2022, 2:53 PM

13 points

8 votes

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14 comments2 min readLW link

Jailbreaking ChatGPT on Release Day

ZviDec 2, 2022, 1:10 PM

243 points

139 votes

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77 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deconfusing Direct vs Amortised Optimization

berenDec 2, 2022, 11:30 AM

136 points

59 votes

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19 comments10 min readLW link

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

TurnTroutDec 2, 2022, 2:43 AM

136 points

79 votes

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23 comments47 min readLW link 3 reviews

New Feature: Collaborative editing now supports logged-out users

RobertMDec 2, 2022, 2:41 AM

10 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Mastering Stratego (Deepmind)

svemirskiDec 2, 2022, 2:21 AM

6 points

3 votes

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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

Dec 2, 2022, 12:56 AM

60 points

28 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

Quick look: cognitive damage from well-administered anesthesia

ElizabethDec 2, 2022, 12:40 AM

28 points

12 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Against meta-ethical hedonism

Joe CarlsmithDec 2, 2022, 12:23 AM

24 points

12 votes

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5 comments35 min readLW link

Lumenators for very lazy British people

shakeelhDec 2, 2022, 12:18 AM

16 points

10 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

 Understanding goals in complex systems

Johannes C. MayerDec 1, 2022, 11:49 PM

9 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

A challenge for AGI organizations, and a challenge for readers

Rob Bensinger and Eliezer Yudkowsky

Dec 1, 2022, 11:11 PM

302 points

148 votes

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33 comments2 min readLW link

Playing with Aerial Photos

jefftkDec 1, 2022, 10:50 PM

9 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Charlie SteinerDec 1, 2022, 10:41 PM

38 points

15 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

Re-Examining LayerNorm

Eric WinsorDec 1, 2022, 10:20 PM

127 points

64 votes

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12 comments5 min readLW link

The LessWrong 2021 Review: Intellectual Circle Expansion

Ruby and Raemon

Dec 1, 2022, 9:17 PM

95 points

35 votes

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55 comments8 min readLW link

The Plan − 2022 Update

johnswentworthDec 1, 2022, 8:43 PM

239 points

135 votes

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37 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

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