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Inward and outward steelmanning

Q Home14 Jul 2022 23:32 UTC

13 points

6 comments18 min readLW link

Potato diet: A post mortem and an answer to SMTM’s article

Épiphanie Gédéon14 Jul 2022 23:18 UTC

47 points

34 comments16 min readLW link

Proposed Orthogonality Theses #2-5

rjbg14 Jul 2022 22:59 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Better Quiddler

jefftk14 Jul 2022 17:40 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Circumventing interpretability: How to defeat mind-readers

Lee Sharkey14 Jul 2022 16:59 UTC

112 points

12 comments33 min readLW link

Covid 7/14/22: BA.2.75 Plus Tax

Zvi14 Jul 2022 14:40 UTC

39 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Criticism of EA Criticism Contest

Zvi14 Jul 2022 14:30 UTC

108 points

17 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Humans provide an untapped wealth of evidence about alignment

TurnTrout and Quintin Pope

14 Jul 2022 2:31 UTC

197 points

94 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Wacky, risky, anti-inductive intelligence-enhancement methods?

NicholasKross14 Jul 2022 1:40 UTC

19 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to impress students with recent advances in ML?

Charbel-Raphaël14 Jul 2022 0:03 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Love

David Gross13 Jul 2022 23:35 UTC

17 points

3 comments29 min readLW link

Deep learning curriculum for large language model alignment

Jacob_Hilton13 Jul 2022 21:58 UTC

57 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

Artificial Sandwiching: When can we test scalable alignment protocols without humans?

Sam Bowman13 Jul 2022 21:14 UTC

41 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Any tips for eliciting one’s own latent knowledge?

MSRayne13 Jul 2022 21:12 UTC

16 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Goal Alignment Is Robust To the Sharp Left Turn

Thane Ruthenis13 Jul 2022 20:23 UTC

47 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

Making decisions using multiple worldviews

Richard_Ngo13 Jul 2022 19:15 UTC

50 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] App idea to help with reading STEM textbooks (feedback request)

DirectedEvolution13 Jul 2022 18:28 UTC

16 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

MIRI Conversations: Technology Forecasting & Gradualism (Distillation)

CallumMcDougall13 Jul 2022 15:55 UTC

31 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Passing Up Pay

jefftk13 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC

29 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How could the universe be infinitely large?

amarai13 Jul 2022 13:45 UTC

0 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

John von Neumann on how to safely progress with technology

Dalton Mabery13 Jul 2022 11:07 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Everyone is an Imposter

Tharin13 Jul 2022 8:46 UTC

19 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(echoesandchimes.com)

[Question] Which AI Safety research agendas are the most promising?

Chris_Leong13 Jul 2022 7:54 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Straw-Steelmanning

Chris van Merwijk13 Jul 2022 5:48 UTC

30 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Alien Message Contest: Solution

DaemonicSigil13 Jul 2022 4:07 UTC

29 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is wrong with this approach to corrigibility?

Rafael Cosman12 Jul 2022 22:55 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Acceptability Verification: A Research Agenda

David Udell and evhub

12 Jul 2022 20:11 UTC

50 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-12

jasoncrawford12 Jul 2022 15:30 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Response to Blake Richards: AGI, generality, alignment, & loss functions

Steven Byrnes12 Jul 2022 13:56 UTC

62 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

Three Minimum Pivotal Acts Possible by Narrow AI

Michael Soareverix12 Jul 2022 9:51 UTC

0 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Mosaic and Palimpsests: Two Shapes of Research

adamShimi12 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC

39 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How do you concisely communicate & navigate the politics / culture at your job working at a large corporation or institution?

Willa12 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

On how various plans miss the hard bits of the alignment challenge

So8res12 Jul 2022 2:49 UTC

302 points

88 comments29 min readLW link 3 reviews

Rainmaking

WalterL12 Jul 2022 0:42 UTC

25 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Book Review: Neal Stephenson’s “Termination Shock”

Tyler Simmons12 Jul 2022 0:07 UTC

13 points

0 comments30 min readLW link

(www.words-and-dirt.com)

Announcing Future Forum—Apply Now

wANIEL and freemany

11 Jul 2022 22:57 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Defining Optimization in a Deeper Way Part 2

J Bostock11 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Marriage, the Giving What We Can Pledge, and the damage caused by vague public commitments

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jul 2022 19:38 UTC

98 points

27 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Systemization

CFAR!Duncan11 Jul 2022 18:39 UTC

40 points

5 comments12 min readLW link

How Can I Maximize My Happiness?

UtilityMonster11 Jul 2022 17:40 UTC

6 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How do AI timelines affect how you live your life?

Quadratic Reciprocity11 Jul 2022 13:54 UTC

80 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

Cambridge LW Meetup: Free Speech

Darmani11 Jul 2022 4:36 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Checksum Sensor Alignment

lsusr11 Jul 2022 3:31 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Alignment Problem

lsusr11 Jul 2022 3:03 UTC

46 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

Immanuel Kant and the Decision Theory App Store

Daniel Kokotajlo10 Jul 2022 16:04 UTC

88 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Metaculus is seeking experienced leaders, researchers & operators for high-impact roles

ChristianWilliams10 Jul 2022 14:27 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(apply.workable.com)

Avoid the abbreviation “FLOPs” – use “FLOP” or “FLOP/s” instead

Daniel_Eth10 Jul 2022 10:44 UTC

69 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

My Opportunity Costs

abstractapplic10 Jul 2022 10:14 UTC

21 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Why Portland

Adam Zerner10 Jul 2022 7:20 UTC

25 points

18 comments9 min readLW link

Hessian and Basin volume

Vivek Hebbar10 Jul 2022 6:59 UTC

35 points

10 comments4 min readLW link