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[Question] Convince me that humanity is as doomed by AGI as Yudkowsky et al., seems to believe

Yitz10 Apr 2022 21:02 UTC

92 points

141 comments2 min readLW link

Emotionally Confronting a Probably-Doomed World: Against Motivation Via Dignity Points

TurnTrout10 Apr 2022 18:45 UTC

151 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Does non-access to outputs prevent recursive self-improvement?

Gunnar_Zarncke10 Apr 2022 18:37 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Brief Excursion Into Molecular Neuroscience

Jan10 Apr 2022 17:55 UTC

48 points

8 comments19 min readLW link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Finally Entering Alignment

Ulisse Mini10 Apr 2022 17:01 UTC

79 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Schelling Meetup Toronto

Sean Aubin10 Apr 2022 13:58 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Is Fisherian Runaway Gradient Hacking?

Ryan Kidd10 Apr 2022 13:47 UTC

15 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Worse than an unaligned AGI

shminux10 Apr 2022 3:35 UTC

−1 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Time-Time Tradeoffs

Akash10 Apr 2022 2:33 UTC

17 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Boston Contra: Fully Gender-Free

jefftk10 Apr 2022 0:40 UTC

3 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Hidden comments settings not working?

TLW9 Apr 2022 23:15 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Godshatter Versus Legibility: A Fundamentally Different Approach To AI Alignment

LukeOnline9 Apr 2022 21:43 UTC

15 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

A concrete bet offer to those with short AGI timelines

Matthew Barnett and Tamay

9 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

198 points

116 comments5 min readLW link

New: use The Nonlinear Library to listen to the top LessWrong posts of all time

KatWoods9 Apr 2022 20:50 UTC

39 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

140 Cognitive Biases You Should Know

André Ferretti9 Apr 2022 17:15 UTC

7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Strategies for keeping AIs narrow in the short term

Rossin9 Apr 2022 16:42 UTC

9 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Hyperbolic takeoff

Ege Erdil9 Apr 2022 15:57 UTC

17 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Elicit: Language Models as Research Assistants

stuhlmueller and jungofthewon

9 Apr 2022 14:56 UTC

71 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

Emergent Ventures/Schmidt (new grantor for individual researchers)

gwern9 Apr 2022 14:41 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(marginalrevolution.com)

AI safety: the ultimate trolley problem

chaosmage9 Apr 2022 12:05 UTC

−21 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

AMA Conjecture, A New Alignment Startup

adamShimi9 Apr 2022 9:43 UTC

47 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What advice do you have for someone struggling to detach their grim-o-meter?

Zorger749 Apr 2022 7:35 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can AI systems have extremely impressive outputs and also not need to be aligned because they aren’t general enough or something?

WilliamKiely9 Apr 2022 6:03 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Buy-in Before Randomization

jefftk9 Apr 2022 1:30 UTC

26 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why Instrumental Goals are not a big AI Safety Problem

Jonathan Paulson9 Apr 2022 0:10 UTC

0 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

A method of writing content easily with little anxiety

jessicata8 Apr 2022 22:11 UTC

64 points

19 comments3 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

Good Heart Donation Lottery Winner

Gordon Seidoh Worley8 Apr 2022 20:34 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Roam Research Mobile is Out!

Logan Riggs8 Apr 2022 19:05 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Progress Report 4: logit lens redux

Nathan Helm-Burger8 Apr 2022 18:35 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What would the creation of aligned AGI look like for us?

Perhaps8 Apr 2022 18:05 UTC

3 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Convincing All Capability Researchers

Logan Riggs8 Apr 2022 17:40 UTC

120 points

70 comments3 min readLW link

Language Model Tools for Alignment Research

Logan Riggs8 Apr 2022 17:32 UTC

28 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Takeaways From 3 Years Working In Machine Learning

George3d68 Apr 2022 17:14 UTC

34 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

[RETRACTED] It’s time for EA leadership to pull the short-timelines fire alarm.

Not Relevant8 Apr 2022 16:07 UTC

109 points

163 comments4 min readLW link

Boulder ACX Meetup, Sun Apr 24

Josh Sacks8 Apr 2022 15:43 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

AIs should learn human preferences, not biases

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2022 13:45 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

We Are Conjecture, A New Alignment Research Startup

Connor Leahy8 Apr 2022 11:40 UTC

197 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Different perspectives on concept extrapolation

Stuart_Armstrong8 Apr 2022 10:42 UTC

48 points

8 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Is there a possibility that the upcoming scaling of data in language models causes A.G.I.?

ArtMi8 Apr 2022 6:56 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Good Heart Week Is Over!

Ben Pace8 Apr 2022 6:43 UTC

55 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

The Rationalist-Etcetera Diaspora: A SPREADSHEET!!

Amelia Bedelia8 Apr 2022 5:43 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Alignment and Recognition

Chris_Leong8 Apr 2022 5:39 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Nature’s answer to the explore/exploit problem

lizard_brain8 Apr 2022 5:13 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Edge cases don’t invalidate the rule

Adam Selker8 Apr 2022 4:17 UTC

6 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Reverse (intent) alignment may allow for safer Oracles

azsantosk8 Apr 2022 2:48 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Summary: “Internet Search tips” by Gwern Branwen

Pablo Repetto8 Apr 2022 2:02 UTC

12 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

Maxwell Peterson’s Highlighted Posts

Maxwell Peterson8 Apr 2022 1:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Foot-Chording Chords

jefftk8 Apr 2022 1:10 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

DeepMind: The Podcast—Excerpts on AGI

WilliamKiely7 Apr 2022 22:09 UTC

99 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Convincing Your Brain That Humanity is Evil is Easy

Johannes C. Mayer7 Apr 2022 21:39 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readLW link