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A transparency and interpretability tech tree

evhub16 Jun 2022 23:44 UTC

163 points

11 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

BBC Future covers progress studies

jasoncrawford16 Jun 2022 22:44 UTC

21 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Humans are very reliable agents

alyssavance16 Jun 2022 22:02 UTC

266 points

35 comments3 min readLW link

Towards Gears-Level Understanding of Agency

Thane Ruthenis16 Jun 2022 22:00 UTC

23 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

A possible AI-inoculation due to early “robot uprising”

shminux16 Jun 2022 21:21 UTC

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AI Risk, as Seen on Snapchat

dkirmani16 Jun 2022 19:31 UTC

23 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “The madness of reduced medical diagnostics” by Dynomight

Kenny16 Jun 2022 19:20 UTC

16 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Breaking Down Goal-Directed Behaviour

Oliver Sourbut16 Jun 2022 18:45 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Perils of optimizing in social contexts

owencb16 Jun 2022 17:40 UTC

50 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Don’t Over-Optimize Things

owencb16 Jun 2022 16:33 UTC

27 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Security analysis of ‘cloud chemistry labs’?

Kenny16 Jun 2022 16:06 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 6/16/22: Do Not Hand it to Them

Zvi16 Jun 2022 14:40 UTC

29 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is there a worked example of Georgian taxes?

Dagon16 Jun 2022 14:07 UTC

8 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Against Active Shooter Drills

Zvi16 Jun 2022 13:40 UTC

91 points

30 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ten experiments in modularity, which we’d like you to run!

CallumMcDougall, Lucius Bushnaq and Avery

16 Jun 2022 9:17 UTC

62 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What if LaMDA is indeed sentient / self-aware / worth having rights?

RomanS16 Jun 2022 9:10 UTC

22 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Lifeguards

Akash15 Jun 2022 23:03 UTC

12 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Rationality Vienna Hike

Laszlo_Treszkai15 Jun 2022 22:11 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Hofstadter on GPT-3 Nonsense

rictic15 Jun 2022 21:53 UTC

236 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-13

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2022 19:47 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

I applied for a MIRI job in 2020. Here’s what happened next.

ViktoriaMalyasova15 Jun 2022 19:37 UTC

82 points

17 comments7 min readLW link

Contextual Evil

ACrackedPot15 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC

1 point

12 comments2 min readLW link

Multigate Priors

Adam Jermyn15 Jun 2022 19:30 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

FYI: I’m working on a book about the threat of AGI/ASI for a general audience. I hope it will be of value to the cause and the community

Darren McKee15 Jun 2022 18:08 UTC

42 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are all the AI Alignment and AI Safety Communication Hubs?

Gunnar_Zarncke15 Jun 2022 16:16 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Georgism, in theory

Stuart_Armstrong15 Jun 2022 15:20 UTC

40 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Berlin AI Safety Open Meetup June 2022

pranomostro15 Jun 2022 14:33 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A central AI alignment problem: capabilities generalization, and the sharp left turn

So8res15 Jun 2022 13:10 UTC

279 points

53 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Our mental building blocks are more different than I thought

Marius Hobbhahn15 Jun 2022 11:07 UTC

44 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] Has there been any work on attempting to use Pascal’s Mugging to make an AGI behave?

Chris_Leong15 Jun 2022 8:33 UTC

7 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Alignment Risk Doesn’t Require Superintelligence

JustisMills15 Jun 2022 3:12 UTC

35 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

A Butterfly’s View of Probability

Gabriel Wu15 Jun 2022 2:14 UTC

29 points

17 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Favourite new AI productivity tools?

Gabe M15 Jun 2022 1:08 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Will vague “AI sentience” concerns do more for AI safety than anything else we might do?

Aryeh Englander14 Jun 2022 23:53 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Yes, AI research will be substantially curtailed if a lab causes a major disaster

lc14 Jun 2022 22:17 UTC

103 points

31 comments2 min readLW link

Slow motion videos as AI risk intuition pumps

Andrew_Critch14 Jun 2022 19:31 UTC

237 points

41 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Cryptographic Life: How to transcend in a sub-lightspeed world via Homomorphic encryption

Golol14 Jun 2022 19:22 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Blake Richards on Why he is Skeptical of Existential Risk from AI

Michaël Trazzi14 Jun 2022 19:09 UTC

41 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(theinsideview.ai)

[Question] How Do You Quantify [Physics Interfacing] Real World Capabilities?

DragonGod14 Jun 2022 14:49 UTC

17 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Was the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution?

Davis Kedrosky14 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC

29 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

Investigating causal understanding in LLMs

Marius Hobbhahn and Tom Lieberum

14 Jun 2022 13:57 UTC

28 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

Why multi-agent safety is important

Akbir Khan14 Jun 2022 9:23 UTC

10 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Was Eliezer Yudkowsky right to give himself 10% to succeed with HPMoR in 2010?

momom214 Jun 2022 7:00 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Resources I send to AI researchers about AI safety

Vael Gates14 Jun 2022 2:24 UTC

69 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022)

Vael Gates14 Jun 2022 0:54 UTC

38 points

2 comments30 min readLW link

Cambridge LW Meetup: Personal Finance

Tony Wang14 Jun 2022 0:12 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI: GPT-based LLMs show ability to discriminate between its own wrong answers, but inability to explain how/why it makes that discrimination, even as model scales

Aditya Jain13 Jun 2022 23:33 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

[Question] Who said something like “The fact that putting 2 apples next to 2 other apples leads to there being 4 apples there has nothing to do with the fact that 2 + 2 = 4”?

hunterglenn13 Jun 2022 22:23 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

Continuity Assumptions

Jan_Kulveit13 Jun 2022 21:31 UTC

35 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Crypto-fed Computation

aaguirre13 Jun 2022 21:20 UTC

23 points

7 comments7 min readLW link