A de­scrip­tive, not pre­scrip­tive, overview of cur­rent AI Align­ment Research

6 Jun 2022 21:59 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup—Lyn­gby Den­mark 2022-07-03

Carl Dybdahl6 Jun 2022 20:35 UTC
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Micro­phone on Elec­tric Man­dolin II

jefftk6 Jun 2022 20:30 UTC
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We haven’t quit evolu­tion [short]

the gears to ascension6 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
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Grokking “Fore­cast­ing TAI with biolog­i­cal an­chors”

anson.ho6 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
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DALL-E 2 - Unoffi­cial Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Image Edit­ing, Art Cri­tique Survey

bakztfuture6 Jun 2022 18:27 UTC
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We Should Break Up Elite Colleges

sahajsharda6 Jun 2022 18:15 UTC
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[Question] What board games would you recom­mend?

Yair Halberstadt6 Jun 2022 16:38 UTC
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[Question] Health & Lifestyle In­ter­ven­tions With Heavy-Tailed Out­comes?

MondSemmel6 Jun 2022 16:26 UTC
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Read­ing the ethi­cists 2: Hunt­ing for AI al­ign­ment papers

Charlie Steiner6 Jun 2022 15:49 UTC
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Tran­script of a Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi6 Jun 2022 13:50 UTC
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Some ideas for fol­low-up pro­jects to Red­wood Re­search’s re­cent paper

JanB6 Jun 2022 13:29 UTC
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Give the model a model-builder

Adam Jermyn6 Jun 2022 12:21 UTC
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[Question] What jour­nal­ing prompts do you use?

ChristianKl6 Jun 2022 11:35 UTC
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Why do some peo­ple try to make AGI?

TekhneMakre6 Jun 2022 9:14 UTC
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Miriam Ye­vick on why both sym­bols and net­works are nec­es­sary for ar­tifi­cial minds

Bill Benzon6 Jun 2022 8:34 UTC
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Op­ti­miza­tion and Ad­e­quacy in Five Bullets

james.lucassen6 Jun 2022 5:48 UTC
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Why agents are powerful

Daniel Kokotajlo6 Jun 2022 1:37 UTC
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Episte­molog­i­cal Vigilance for Alignment

adamShimi6 Jun 2022 0:27 UTC
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AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Jun 2022 22:05 UTC
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Teach­ing all things to all peo­ple in all ways

Anonymous5 Jun 2022 21:38 UTC
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Noisy en­vi­ron­ment reg­u­late util­ity maximizers

Niclas Kupper5 Jun 2022 18:48 UTC
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Ex­pected Value vs. Ex­pected Growth

tom-pollak5 Jun 2022 18:48 UTC
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North­boro Air Qual­ity Measurement

jefftk5 Jun 2022 17:50 UTC
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New co­op­er­a­tion mechanism—quadratic fund­ing with­out a match­ing pool

Filip Sondej5 Jun 2022 13:55 UTC
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The Fourth Arena 2: New be­ings in time

Bill Benzon5 Jun 2022 13:30 UTC
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Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter May 2022 + short his­tory of “method­ol­o­gists”

avturchin5 Jun 2022 11:50 UTC
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Some ques­tions I’ve been pon­der­ing...

Dalton Mabery5 Jun 2022 4:21 UTC
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Rein­vent­ing the wheel

jasoncrawford4 Jun 2022 22:39 UTC
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What do you do to de­liber­ately prac­tice?

hath4 Jun 2022 22:20 UTC
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Quick Look: Asymp­tomatic Her­pes Shedding

Elizabeth4 Jun 2022 21:40 UTC
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Meetup in SF, June 11: Progress Stud­ies + Effec­tive Altruism

4 Jun 2022 21:30 UTC
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How to pur­sue a ca­reer in tech­ni­cal AI alignment

Charlie Rogers-Smith4 Jun 2022 21:11 UTC
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Open & Wel­come Thread—June 2022

MondSemmel4 Jun 2022 19:27 UTC
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The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the world these days? We’re mov­ing to a new, a new what?

Bill Benzon4 Jun 2022 19:07 UTC
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Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Re­turns on Cog­ni­tive Rein­vest­ment (Part 1)

DragonGod4 Jun 2022 18:42 UTC
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[Question] Does quan­tum me­chan­ics pre­dict all the effects of rel­a­tivity ex­cept grav­ity?

EniScien4 Jun 2022 13:52 UTC
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Deep Learn­ing Sys­tems Are Not Less In­ter­pretable Than Logic/​Prob­a­bil­ity/​Etc

johnswentworth4 Jun 2022 5:41 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the Align­ment of Com­plex Sys­tems Re­search Group

4 Jun 2022 4:10 UTC
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Eter­nal youth as eter­nal suffering

shminux4 Jun 2022 1:48 UTC
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D&D.Sci June 2022: A God­dess Tried To Rein­car­nate Me Into A Fan­tasy World, But I In­sisted On Us­ing Data Science To Select An Op­ti­mal Com­bi­na­tion Of Cheat Skills!

abstractapplic4 Jun 2022 1:28 UTC
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The Bur­den of Worldbuilding

lsusr4 Jun 2022 1:15 UTC
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[Question] Longter­mist Con­se­quences of a New Dark Age?

David Udell3 Jun 2022 23:00 UTC
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Just Say No to Utilitarianism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 22:59 UTC
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The STEM Attractor

David Udell3 Jun 2022 22:21 UTC
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Book Re­view: Talent

Zvi3 Jun 2022 20:10 UTC
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On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (iii) Etiquette

party girl3 Jun 2022 18:44 UTC
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Give the AI safe tools

Adam Jermyn3 Jun 2022 17:04 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity camps in Oxford for 16-20 yo: Ap­ply by June 12th

Anna Gajdova3 Jun 2022 15:22 UTC
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I’m try­ing out “as­ter­oid mind­set”

Alex_Altair3 Jun 2022 13:35 UTC
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