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[Question] Seriously, what goes wrong with “reward the agent when it makes you smile”?

TurnTrout11 Aug 2022 22:22 UTC

87 points

43 comments2 min readLW link

Encultured AI Pre-planning, Part 2: Providing a Service

Andrew_Critch and Nick Hay

11 Aug 2022 20:11 UTC

33 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

My summary of the alignment problem

Peter Hroššo11 Aug 2022 19:42 UTC

15 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(threadreaderapp.com)

Language models seem to be much better than humans at next-token prediction

Buck, Fabien Roger and LawrenceC

11 Aug 2022 17:45 UTC

183 points

60 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Introducing Pastcasting: A tool for forecasting practice

Sage Future11 Aug 2022 17:38 UTC

95 points

10 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

Pendulums, Policy-Level Decisionmaking, Saving State

CFAR!Duncan11 Aug 2022 16:47 UTC

30 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Covid 8/11/22: The End Is Never The End

Zvi11 Aug 2022 16:20 UTC

28 points

11 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Singapore—Small casual dinner in Chinatown #4

Joe Rocca11 Aug 2022 12:30 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on the good regulator theorem

JonasMoss11 Aug 2022 12:08 UTC

12 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How and why to turn everything into audio

KatWoods and AmberDawn

11 Aug 2022 8:55 UTC

57 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

Shard Theory: An Overview

David Udell11 Aug 2022 5:44 UTC

167 points

34 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Do advancements in Decision Theory point towards moral absolutism?

Nathan112311 Aug 2022 0:59 UTC

0 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective

Richard_Ngo10 Aug 2022 22:46 UTC

107 points

15 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

How much alignment data will we need in the long run?

Jacob_Hilton10 Aug 2022 21:39 UTC

37 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

On Ego, Reincarnation, Consciousness and The Universe

qmaury10 Aug 2022 20:21 UTC

−3 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Formalizing Alignment

Marv K10 Aug 2022 18:50 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How Do We Align an AGI Without Getting Socially Engineered? (Hint: Box It)

Peter S. Park, NickyP and Stephen Fowler

10 Aug 2022 18:14 UTC

28 points

30 comments11 min readLW link

Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models [Linkpost]

aog10 Aug 2022 18:02 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

How To Go From Interpretability To Alignment: Just Retarget The Search

johnswentworth10 Aug 2022 16:08 UTC

212 points

34 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Using GPT-3 to augment human intelligence

Henrik Karlsson10 Aug 2022 15:54 UTC

52 points

8 comments18 min readLW link

(escapingflatland.substack.com)

ACX meetup [August]

sallatik10 Aug 2022 9:54 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Dissent Collusion

Screwtape10 Aug 2022 2:43 UTC

31 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

The Medium Is The Bandage

party girl10 Aug 2022 1:45 UTC

11 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Why is increasing public awareness of AI safety not a priority?

FinalFormal210 Aug 2022 1:28 UTC

−5 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Manifold x CSPI $25k Forecasting Tournament

David Chee9 Aug 2022 21:13 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cspicenter.com)

Proposal: Consider not using distance-direction-dimension words in abstract discussions

moridinamael9 Aug 2022 20:44 UTC

46 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How would two superintelligent AIs interact, if they are unaligned with each other?

Nathan11239 Aug 2022 18:58 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Disagreements about Alignment: Why, and how, we should try to solve them

ojorgensen9 Aug 2022 18:49 UTC

11 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Is it possible to find venture capital for AI research org with strong safety focus?

AnonResearch9 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Many Gods refutation and Instrumental Goals. (Proper one)

aditya malik9 Aug 2022 11:59 UTC

0 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Content generation. Where do we draw the line?

Q Home9 Aug 2022 10:51 UTC

6 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are some alternatives to Shapley values which drop additivity?

eapi9 Aug 2022 9:16 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(math.stackexchange.com)

Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom

peter_hartree9 Aug 2022 8:56 UTC

12 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Team Shard Status Report

David Udell9 Aug 2022 5:33 UTC

38 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing: Mechanism Design for AI Safety—Reading Group

Rubi J. Hudson9 Aug 2022 4:21 UTC

18 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Works that might be useful but are difficult, so forgotten?

TekhneMakre9 Aug 2022 2:22 UTC

10 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Project proposal: Testing the IBP definition of agent

Jeremy Gillen, Thomas Larsen and JamesH

9 Aug 2022 1:09 UTC

21 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

How (not) to choose a research project

Garrett Baker, CatGoddess and Johannes C. Mayer

9 Aug 2022 0:26 UTC

79 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Are ya winning, son?

Nathan11239 Aug 2022 0:06 UTC

14 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

General alignment properties

TurnTrout8 Aug 2022 23:40 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Experiment: Be my math tutor?

sudo8 Aug 2022 22:50 UTC

12 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Encultured AI, Part 1 Appendix: Relevant Research Examples

Andrew_Critch and Nick Hay

8 Aug 2022 22:44 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Encultured AI Pre-planning, Part 1: Enabling New Benchmarks

Andrew_Critch and Nick Hay

8 Aug 2022 22:44 UTC

63 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Broad Basins and Data Compression

Jeremy Gillen, Stephen Fowler and Thomas Larsen

8 Aug 2022 20:33 UTC

33 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Interpretability/Tool-ness/Alignment/Corrigibility are not Composable

johnswentworth8 Aug 2022 18:05 UTC

149 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

LW Meetup @ DEFCON (Las Vegas) − 5-7pm Thu. Aug. 11 at Forum Food Court (Caesars)

jchan8 Aug 2022 14:57 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A sufficiently paranoid paperclip maximizer

RomanS8 Aug 2022 11:17 UTC

19 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Instrumental Goals and Many Gods Refutation

aditya malik8 Aug 2022 10:46 UTC

−10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Area under the curve, Eat Dirt, Broccoli Errors, Copernicus & Chaos

CFAR!Duncan8 Aug 2022 8:17 UTC

42 points

0 comments7 min readLW link