In defense of prob­a­bly wrong mechanis­tic models

evhub6 Dec 2022 23:24 UTC
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AI Safety in a Vuln­er­a­ble World: Re­quest­ing Feed­back on Pre­limi­nary Thoughts

Jordan Arel6 Dec 2022 22:35 UTC
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ChatGPT and the Hu­man Race

Ben Reilly6 Dec 2022 21:38 UTC
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[Question] How do finite fac­tored sets com­pare with phase space?

Alex_Altair6 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC
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Mesa-Op­ti­miz­ers via Grokking

orthonormal6 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC
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Us­ing GPT-Eliezer against ChatGPT Jailbreaking

6 Dec 2022 19:54 UTC
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The Parable of the Crimp

Phosphorous6 Dec 2022 18:41 UTC
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The Cat­e­gor­i­cal Im­per­a­tive Obscures

Gordon Seidoh Worley6 Dec 2022 17:48 UTC
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MIRI’s “Death with Dig­nity” in 60 sec­onds.

Cleo Nardo6 Dec 2022 17:18 UTC
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Things roll downhill

awenonian6 Dec 2022 15:27 UTC
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EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (28th Nov − 4th Dec 22′)

Zoe Williams6 Dec 2022 9:38 UTC
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Free Will is [REDACTED]

lsusr6 Dec 2022 8:14 UTC
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Take 5: Another prob­lem for nat­u­ral ab­strac­tions is laz­i­ness.

Charlie Steiner6 Dec 2022 7:00 UTC
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Ver­ifi­ca­tion Is Not Easier Than Gen­er­a­tion In General

johnswentworth6 Dec 2022 5:20 UTC
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Shh, don’t tell the AI it’s likely to be evil

naterush6 Dec 2022 3:35 UTC
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[Question] What are the ma­jor un­der­ly­ing di­vi­sions in AI safety?

Chris_Leong6 Dec 2022 3:28 UTC
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[Link] Why I’m op­ti­mistic about OpenAI’s al­ign­ment approach

janleike5 Dec 2022 22:51 UTC
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(aligned.substack.com)

The No Free Lunch the­o­rem for dummies

Steven Byrnes5 Dec 2022 21:46 UTC
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ChatGPT and Ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing Test

Viliam5 Dec 2022 21:45 UTC
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ChatGPT on Spielberg’s A.I. and AI Alignment

Bill Benzon5 Dec 2022 21:10 UTC
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Up­dat­ing my AI timelines

Matthew Barnett5 Dec 2022 20:46 UTC
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Steer­ing Be­havi­our: Test­ing for (Non-)My­opia in Lan­guage Models

5 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC
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Col­lege Ad­mis­sions as a Bru­tal One-Shot Game

devansh5 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC
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Anal­y­sis of AI Safety sur­veys for field-build­ing insights

Ash Jafari5 Dec 2022 19:21 UTC
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Test­ing Ways to By­pass ChatGPT’s Safety Features

Robert_AIZI5 Dec 2022 18:50 UTC
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(aizi.substack.com)

Fore­sight for AGI Safety Strat­egy: Miti­gat­ing Risks and Iden­ti­fy­ing Golden Opportunities

jacquesthibs5 Dec 2022 16:09 UTC
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Aligned Be­hav­ior is not Ev­i­dence of Align­ment Past a Cer­tain Level of Intelligence

Ronny Fernandez5 Dec 2022 15:19 UTC
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[Question] How should I judge the im­pact of giv­ing $5k to a fam­ily of three kids and two men­tally ill par­ents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:42 UTC
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Is the “Valley of Con­fused Ab­strac­tions” real?

jacquesthibs5 Dec 2022 13:36 UTC
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Take 4: One prob­lem with nat­u­ral ab­strac­tions is there’s too many of them.

Charlie Steiner5 Dec 2022 10:39 UTC
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[Question] What are some good Less­wrong-re­lated ac­counts or hash­tags on Mastodon that I should fol­low?

SpectrumDT5 Dec 2022 9:42 UTC
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[Question] Who are some promi­nent rea­son­able peo­ple who are con­fi­dent that AI won’t kill ev­ery­one?

Optimization Process5 Dec 2022 9:12 UTC
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Monthly Shorts 11/​22

Celer5 Dec 2022 7:30 UTC
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(keller.substack.com)

A ChatGPT story about ChatGPT doom

SurfingOrca5 Dec 2022 5:40 UTC
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A Ten­ta­tive Timeline of The Near Fu­ture (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

Yitz5 Dec 2022 5:33 UTC
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Nook Nature

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien5 Dec 2022 4:10 UTC
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Prob­a­bly good pro­jects for the AI safety ecosystem

Ryan Kidd5 Dec 2022 2:26 UTC
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His­tor­i­cal Notes on Char­i­ta­ble Funds

jefftk4 Dec 2022 23:30 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

AGI as a Black Swan Event

Stephen McAleese4 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC
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South Bay ACX/​LW Pre-Holi­day Get-Together

IS4 Dec 2022 22:57 UTC
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ChatGPT is set­tling the Chi­nese Room argument

averros4 Dec 2022 20:25 UTC
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Race to the Top: Bench­marks for AI Safety

Isabella Duan4 Dec 2022 18:48 UTC
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Open & Wel­come Thread—De­cem­ber 2022

niplav4 Dec 2022 15:06 UTC
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AI can ex­ploit safety plans posted on the Internet

Peter S. Park4 Dec 2022 12:17 UTC
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ChatGPT seems over­con­fi­dent to me

qbolec4 Dec 2022 8:03 UTC
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Could an AI be Reli­gious?

mk544 Dec 2022 5:00 UTC
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Can GPT-3 Write Con­tra Dances?

jefftk4 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

Take 3: No in­de­scrib­able heav­en­wor­lds.

Charlie Steiner4 Dec 2022 2:48 UTC
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Sum­mary of a new study on out-group hate (and how to fix it)

DirectedEvolution4 Dec 2022 1:53 UTC
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(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
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