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AGI in sight: our look at the game board

Andrea_Miotti and Gabriel Alfour

Feb 18, 2023, 10:17 PM

227 points

135 comments6 min readLW link

(andreamiotti.substack.com)

We should be signal-boosting anti Bing chat content

mbrooksFeb 18, 2023, 6:52 PM

−4 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Can talk, can think, can suffer.

IlioFeb 18, 2023, 6:43 PM

1 point

8 comments3 min readLW link

Parametrically retargetable decision-makers tend to seek power

TurnTroutFeb 18, 2023, 6:41 PM

172 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Near-Term Risks of an Obedient Artificial Intelligence

ymeskhoutFeb 18, 2023, 6:30 PM

20 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

EIS VII: A Challenge for Mechanists

scasperFeb 18, 2023, 6:27 PM

36 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Reading Speed Exists!

Johannes C. MayerFeb 18, 2023, 3:30 PM

12 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: the Meditative Archetype

EvenflairFeb 18, 2023, 3:23 PM

14 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

Should we cry “wolf”?

TapataktFeb 18, 2023, 11:24 AM

24 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Name of the fallacy of assuming an extreme value (e.g. 0) with the illusion of ‘avoiding to have to make an assumption’?

FlorianHFeb 18, 2023, 8:11 AM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

I Think We’re Approaching The Bitter Lesson’s Asymptote

SomeoneYouOnceKnewFeb 18, 2023, 5:33 AM

−3 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Bus-Only Bus Lane Enforcement

jefftkFeb 18, 2023, 2:50 AM

19 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Run Head on Towards the Falling Tears

Johannes C. MayerFeb 18, 2023, 1:33 AM

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Two problems with ‘Simulators’ as a frame

ryan_greenblattFeb 17, 2023, 11:34 PM

79 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

GPT-4 Predictions

Stephen McAleeseFeb 17, 2023, 11:20 PM

110 points

27 comments11 min readLW link

On Board Vision, Hollow Words, and the End of the World

MarcelloFeb 17, 2023, 11:18 PM

52 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

PICT: A Zero-Shot Prompt Template to Automate Evaluation

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXIFeb 17, 2023, 11:16 PM

17 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Hunch seeds: Info bio

the gears to ascensionFeb 17, 2023, 9:25 PM

12 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Why Do We Believe

ScrewtapeFeb 17, 2023, 8:58 PM

9 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

I Am Scared of Posting Negative Takes About Bing’s AI

YitzFeb 17, 2023, 8:50 PM

63 points

28 comments1 min readLW link

EIS VI: Critiques of Mechanistic Interpretability Work in AI Safety

scasperFeb 17, 2023, 8:48 PM

49 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Tinker Bell Theory and LLMs

Fergus FettesFeb 17, 2023, 8:23 PM

1 point

11 comments1 min readLW link

Recommendation: Bug Bounties and Responsible Disclosure for Advanced ML Systems

VaniverFeb 17, 2023, 8:11 PM

125 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Microsoft and OpenAI, stop telling chatbots to roleplay as AI

hold_my_fishFeb 17, 2023, 7:55 PM

50 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

A warm-up for the AI governance project

jacekFeb 17, 2023, 6:06 PM

10 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Link Post > Blog Post

party girlFeb 17, 2023, 5:59 PM

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

One-layer transformers aren’t equivalent to a set of skip-trigrams

BuckFeb 17, 2023, 5:26 PM

127 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Should we be kind and polite to emerging AIs?

David GrossFeb 17, 2023, 4:58 PM

9 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Follow-up Posting on Cyborg Psychologist

Hopkins StanleyFeb 17, 2023, 4:56 PM

0 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

A “slow takeoff” might still look fast

MichaelDickensFeb 17, 2023, 4:51 PM

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Info Distillation Fellowship

Robert Miles and mwatkins

Feb 17, 2023, 4:16 PM

47 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Nozick’s Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory

Edward P. KöningsFeb 17, 2023, 4:11 PM

10 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

[Question] Are LLMs sufficient for AI takeoff?

rpglover64Feb 17, 2023, 3:46 PM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Sydney’s Secret: A Short Story by Bing Chat

felaFeb 17, 2023, 1:31 PM

36 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Automating Consistency

HoagyFeb 17, 2023, 1:24 PM

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Human decision processes are not well factored

remember and Gabriel Alfour

Feb 17, 2023, 1:11 PM

33 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

2023 ACX Predictions: Buy/Sell/Hold

ZviFeb 17, 2023, 1:10 PM

25 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bing chat is the AI fire alarm

RatiosFeb 17, 2023, 6:51 AM

115 points

63 comments3 min readLW link

Seeing more whole

Joe CarlsmithFeb 17, 2023, 5:12 AM

31 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Powerful mesa-optimisation is already here

Roman LeventovFeb 17, 2023, 4:59 AM

35 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Self-Reference Breaks the Orthogonality Thesis

lsusrFeb 17, 2023, 4:11 AM

43 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

The public supports regulating AI for safety

Zach Stein-PerlmanFeb 17, 2023, 4:10 AM

114 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Bring “Ban faster SIMD semiconductors” into the Overton window

worried-techno-optimistFeb 17, 2023, 3:27 AM

−7 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Republishing an old essay in light of current news on Bing’s AI: “Regarding Blake Lemoine’s claim that LaMDA is ‘sentient’, he might be right (sorta), but perhaps not for the reasons he thinks”

philosophybearFeb 17, 2023, 3:27 AM

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

How should AI systems behave, and who should decide? [OpenAI blog]

ShardPhoenixFeb 17, 2023, 1:05 AM

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

The Ethics of ACI

Akira PyinyaFeb 16, 2023, 11:51 PM

−8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

NYT: A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled

trevorFeb 16, 2023, 10:57 PM

53 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] What is a world-model?

Adam ShaiFeb 16, 2023, 10:39 PM

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Jaynes

David UdellFeb 16, 2023, 9:57 PM

29 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

[Question] Is AGI communist?

MPFeb 16, 2023, 9:28 PM

−10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

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