Some mis­cel­la­neous thoughts on ChatGPT, sto­ries, and me­chan­i­cal interpretability

Bill Benzon4 Feb 2023 19:35 UTC
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O(“AGI Safety”)>O(“Stop Tyrants”)

AnthonyRepetto4 Feb 2023 18:38 UTC
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Monthly Doom Ar­gu­ment Threads? Doom Ar­gu­ment Wiki?

LVSN4 Feb 2023 16:59 UTC
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The Fu­ture of Struc­tured Self Improvement

Evenflair4 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC
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(guildoftherose.org)

Em­pa­thy as a nat­u­ral con­se­quence of learnt re­ward models

beren4 Feb 2023 15:35 UTC
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Mech In­terp Pro­ject Ad­vis­ing Call: Me­mori­sa­tion in GPT-2 Small

Neel Nanda4 Feb 2023 14:17 UTC
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Do IQ tests mea­sure in­tel­li­gence? - A pre­dic­tion mar­ket on my fu­ture be­liefs about the topic

tailcalled4 Feb 2023 11:19 UTC
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(manifold.markets)

AXRP Epi­sode 19 - Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity with Neel Nanda

DanielFilan4 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC
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The 2/​3 rule for multi-fac­tor authentication

RomanHauksson4 Feb 2023 2:57 UTC
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Path-Depen­dence in ChatGPT’s Poli­ti­cal Outputs

lsusr4 Feb 2023 2:02 UTC
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Fuck­ing God­damn Ba­sics of Ra­tion­al­ist Discourse

LoganStrohl4 Feb 2023 1:47 UTC
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Small Talk is Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Feb 2023 0:38 UTC
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Up­date on Book Re­view Dom­i­nant As­surance Contract

Arjun Panickssery3 Feb 2023 23:16 UTC
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[Question] 2+2=π√2+n

Logan Zoellner3 Feb 2023 22:27 UTC
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[Question] If I en­counter a ca­pa­bil­ities pa­per that kinda spooks me, what should I do with it?

the gears to ascension3 Feb 2023 21:37 UTC
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[Question] What Are The Pre­con­di­tions/​Pr­ereq­ui­sites for Asymp­totic Anal­y­sis?

DragonGod3 Feb 2023 21:26 UTC
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[Linkpost] Google in­vested $300M in An­thropic in late 2022

Akash3 Feb 2023 19:13 UTC
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(www.ft.com)

Many AI gov­er­nance pro­pos­als have a trade­off be­tween use­ful­ness and feasibility

3 Feb 2023 18:49 UTC
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Re­ply to Dun­can Sa­bien on Strawmanning

Zack_M_Davis3 Feb 2023 17:57 UTC
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Semi-rare plain lan­guage words that are great to remember

LVSN3 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC
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[Question] What qual­ities does an AGI need to have to re­al­ize the risk of false vac­uum, with­out hard­cod­ing physics the­o­ries into it?

RationalSieve3 Feb 2023 16:00 UTC
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Hous­ing and Tran­sit Roundup #3

Zvi3 Feb 2023 15:10 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ta­boo P(doom)

NathanBarnard3 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC
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ChatGPT: Tan­tal­iz­ing af­terthoughts in search of story tra­jec­to­ries [in­duc­tion heads]

Bill Benzon3 Feb 2023 10:35 UTC
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Jor­dan Peter­son: Guru/​Villain

Bryan Frances3 Feb 2023 9:02 UTC
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[Question] What is the risk of ask­ing a coun­ter­fac­tual or­a­cle a ques­tion that already had its an­swer erased?

Chris_Leong3 Feb 2023 3:13 UTC
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I don’t think MIRI “gave up”

Raemon3 Feb 2023 0:26 UTC
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What fact that you know is true but most peo­ple aren’t ready to ac­cept it?

lorepieri3 Feb 2023 0:06 UTC
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[Question] Monotonous Work

Gideon Bauer2 Feb 2023 21:35 UTC
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Is AI risk as­sess­ment too an­thro­pocen­tric?

Craig Mattson2 Feb 2023 21:34 UTC
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Hal­i­fax Monthly Meetup: In­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altruism

Ideopunk2 Feb 2023 21:10 UTC
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Con­di­tion­ing Pre­dic­tive Models: Outer al­ign­ment via care­ful conditioning

2 Feb 2023 20:28 UTC
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Con­di­tion­ing Pre­dic­tive Models: Large lan­guage mod­els as predictors

2 Feb 2023 20:28 UTC
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Nor­ma­tive vs De­scrip­tive Models of Agency

mattmacdermott2 Feb 2023 20:28 UTC
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An­drew Hu­ber­man on How to Op­ti­mize Sleep

Leon Lang2 Feb 2023 20:17 UTC
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[Question] How can I help in­flam­ma­tion-based nerve dam­age be tem­po­rary?

Optimization Process2 Feb 2023 19:20 UTC
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More find­ings on max­i­mal data dimension

Marius Hobbhahn2 Feb 2023 18:33 UTC
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Her­i­ta­bil­ity, Be­hav­iorism, and Within-Life­time RL

Steven Byrnes2 Feb 2023 16:34 UTC
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Covid 2/​2/​23: The Emer­gency Ends on 5/​11

Zvi2 Feb 2023 14:00 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You are prob­a­bly not a good al­ign­ment re­searcher, and other blatant lies

junk heap homotopy2 Feb 2023 13:55 UTC
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Don’t Judge a Tool by its Aver­age Output

silentbob2 Feb 2023 13:42 UTC
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Epoch Im­pact Re­port 2022

Jsevillamol2 Feb 2023 13:09 UTC
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You Don’t Ex­ist, Duncan

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien2 Feb 2023 8:37 UTC
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Tem­po­rally Lay­ered Ar­chi­tec­ture for Adap­tive, Distributed and Con­tin­u­ous Control

Roman Leventov2 Feb 2023 6:29 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Re­search agenda: For­mal­iz­ing ab­strac­tions of computations

Erik Jenner2 Feb 2023 4:29 UTC
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Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-01

jasoncrawford2 Feb 2023 2:25 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Ret­ro­spec­tive on the AI Safety Field Build­ing Hub

Vael Gates2 Feb 2023 2:06 UTC
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How to ex­port An­droid Chrome tabs to an HTML file in Linux (as of Fe­bru­ary 2023)

Adam Scherlis2 Feb 2023 2:03 UTC
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(adam.scherlis.com)

Hacked Ac­count Spam

jefftk2 Feb 2023 1:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

A sim­ple tech­nique to re­duce nega­tive rumination

cranberry_bear2 Feb 2023 1:33 UTC
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