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Stop-gradients lead to fixed point predictions

Johannes Treutlein, Caspar Oesterheld, Rubi J. Hudson and Emery Cooper

Jan 28, 2023, 10:47 PM

37 points

2 comments24 min readLW link

Eli Dourado AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawfordJan 28, 2023, 10:18 PM

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

LW Filter Tags (Rationality/World Modeling now promoted in Latest Posts)

Ruby and RobertM

Jan 28, 2023, 10:14 PM

60 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

No Fire in the Equations

Carlos RamirezJan 28, 2023, 9:16 PM

−16 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Optimality is the tiger, and annoying the user is its teeth

Christopher KingJan 28, 2023, 8:20 PM

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

NatáliaJan 28, 2023, 8:18 PM

306 points

69 comments30 min readLW link

Advice I found helpful in 2022

Orpheus16Jan 28, 2023, 7:48 PM

36 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

The Knockdown Argument Paradox

Bryan FrancesJan 28, 2023, 7:23 PM

−12 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Less Wrong/ACX Budapest Feb 4th Meetup

Richard Horvath and Timothy Underwood

Jan 28, 2023, 2:49 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Reflections on Deception & Generality in Scalable Oversight (Another OpenAI Alignment Review)

Shoshannah TekofskyJan 28, 2023, 5:26 AM

53 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

A Simple Alignment Typology

Shoshannah TekofskyJan 28, 2023, 5:26 AM

34 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Spooky action at a distance in the loss landscape

Jesse Hoogland and Filip Sondej

Jan 28, 2023, 12:22 AM

61 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jessehoogland.com)

WaPo: “Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT.”

Julian BradshawJan 27, 2023, 10:54 PM

26 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.washingtonpost.com)

Literature review of TAI timelines

Jsevillamol, keith_wynroe and David Atkinson

Jan 27, 2023, 8:07 PM

35 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Scaling Laws Literature Review

Pablo VillalobosJan 27, 2023, 7:57 PM

36 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

The role of Bayesian ML in AI safety—an overview

Marius HobbhahnJan 27, 2023, 7:40 PM

31 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

Assigning Praise and Blame: Decoupling Epistemology and Decision Theory

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

Jan 27, 2023, 6:16 PM

59 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How could humans dominate over a super intelligent AI?

Marco DiscendentiJan 27, 2023, 6:15 PM

−5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT understands language

philosophybearJan 27, 2023, 7:14 AM

27 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

Jar of Chocolate

jefftkJan 27, 2023, 3:40 AM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Basics of Rationalist Discourse

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Jan 27, 2023, 2:40 AM

284 points

193 comments36 min readLW link 4 reviews

The recent banality of rationality (and effective altruism)

CraigMichaelJan 27, 2023, 1:19 AM

−6 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

11 heuristics for choosing (alignment) research projects

Orpheus16 and danesherbs

Jan 27, 2023, 12:36 AM

50 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

A different observation of Vavilov Day

ElizabethJan 26, 2023, 9:50 PM

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [~monthly thread]

mwatkins and Robert Miles

Jan 26, 2023, 9:01 PM

39 points

81 comments2 min readLW link

Just another thought experiment

Bohdan Kudlai Jan 26, 2023, 7:29 PM

−11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)

YitzJan 26, 2023, 6:26 PM

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Risk Management Framework | NIST

DragonGodJan 26, 2023, 3:27 PM

36 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nist.gov)

“How to Escape from the Simulation”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbaconJan 26, 2023, 3:11 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Loom: Why and How to use it

brookJan 26, 2023, 2:34 PM

2 points

5 comments LW link

Covid 1/26/23: Case Count Crash

ZviJan 26, 2023, 12:50 PM

32 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How are you currently modeling COVID contagiousness?

CounterBlunderJan 26, 2023, 4:46 AM

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the simplest concrete unsolved problem in AI alignment?

aggJan 26, 2023, 4:15 AM

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

2022 Less Wrong Census/Survey: Request for Comments

ScrewtapeJan 25, 2023, 8:57 PM

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Next steps after AGISF at UMich

JakubKJan 25, 2023, 8:57 PM

10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

AGI will have learnt utility functions

berenJan 25, 2023, 7:42 PM

38 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

[RFC] Possible ways to expand on “Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision”.

gekaklam, Walter Laurito , Kaarel and Kay Kozaronek

Jan 25, 2023, 7:03 PM

48 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

HoldenKarnofskyJan 25, 2023, 6:20 PM

75 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohlJan 25, 2023, 5:52 PM

259 points

50 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Thoughts on the impact of RLHF research

paulfchristianoJan 25, 2023, 5:23 PM

253 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Could AI be used to engineer a sociopolitical situation where humans can solve the problems surrounding AGI?

hollowingJan 25, 2023, 5:17 PM

1 point

6 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-25

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2023 16:12 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Visualisation of Probability Mass

brook25 Jan 2023 15:09 UTC

7 points

0 comments LW link

When Did EA Start?

jefftk25 Jan 2023 14:30 UTC

37 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Some Thoughts on AI Art

abramdemski25 Jan 2023 14:18 UTC

74 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

Quick thoughts on “scalable oversight” / “super-human feedback” research

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)25 Jan 2023 12:55 UTC

27 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)25 Jan 2023 7:58 UTC

155 points

49 comments19 min readLW link

ChatGPT vs the 2-4-6 Task

cwillu25 Jan 2023 6:59 UTC

20 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Pessimistic Shard Theory

Garrett Baker25 Jan 2023 0:59 UTC

72 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Thatcher’s Axiom

Edward P. Könings24 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC

10 points

22 comments4 min readLW link