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Shutting Down the Lightcone Offices

habryka and Ben Pace

Mar 14, 2023, 10:47 PM

338 points

146 votes

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103 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

[Question] What are some ideas that LessWrong has reinvented?

RomanHaukssonMar 14, 2023, 10:27 PM

4 points

4 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

Human preferences as RL critic values—implications for alignment

Seth HerdMar 14, 2023, 10:10 PM

27 points

12 votes

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6 comments6 min readLW link

PaperclipGPT(-4)

Michael TontchevMar 14, 2023, 10:03 PM

7 points

10 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

GPT-4 developer livestream

Gerald MonroeMar 14, 2023, 8:55 PM

9 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Main actors in the AI race

MartaMar 14, 2023, 8:50 PM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Success without dignity: a nearcasting story of avoiding catastrophe by luck

HoldenKarnofskyMar 14, 2023, 7:23 PM

85 points

45 votes

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17 comments15 min readLW link

GPT can write Quines now (GPT-4)

Andrew_CritchMar 14, 2023, 7:18 PM

112 points

65 votes

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30 comments1 min readLW link

Vector semantics and the (in-context) construction of meaning in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”

Bill BenzonMar 14, 2023, 7:16 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

A better analogy and example for teaching AI takeover: the ML Inferno

Christopher KingMar 14, 2023, 7:14 PM

18 points

9 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

PaLM API & MakerSuite

Gabe MMar 14, 2023, 7:08 PM

20 points

11 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(developers.googleblog.com)

What is a definition, how can it be extrapolated?

Stuart_ArmstrongMar 14, 2023, 6:08 PM

34 points

12 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

Cambridge LW: Rationality Practice: The Map is Not the Territory

DarmaniMar 14, 2023, 5:56 PM

6 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Beneficial initial conditions for AGI

mikbpMar 14, 2023, 5:41 PM

1 point

2 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] “The elephant in the room: the biggest risk of artificial intelligence may not be what we think” What to say about that?

Obladi ObladaMar 14, 2023, 5:37 PM

−5 points

4 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

GPT-4

nzMar 14, 2023, 5:02 PM

151 points

91 votes

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150 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Storytelling Makes GPT-3.5 Deontologist: Unexpected Effects of Context on LLM Behavior

Edmund Mills and Scott Emmons

Mar 14, 2023, 8:44 AM

17 points

10 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

Forecasting Authoritarian and Sovereign Power uses of Large Language Models

K. Liam SmithMar 14, 2023, 8:44 AM

7 points

5 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(taboo.substack.com)

Fixed points in mortal population games

ViktoriaMalyasovaMar 14, 2023, 7:10 AM

31 points

9 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(www.lesswrong.com)

To determine alignment difficulty, we need to know the absolute difficulty of alignment generalization

Jeffrey LadishMar 14, 2023, 3:52 AM

12 points

5 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (6th − 12th March 2023)

Zoe WilliamsMar 14, 2023, 3:01 AM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

Alpaca: A Strong Open-Source Instruction-Following Model

sanxiynMar 14, 2023, 2:41 AM

26 points

12 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(crfm.stanford.edu)

Discussion with Nate Soares on a key alignment difficulty

HoldenKarnofskyMar 13, 2023, 9:20 PM

267 points

94 votes

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43 comments22 min readLW link 1 review

What Discovering Latent Knowledge Did and Did Not Find

Fabien RogerMar 13, 2023, 7:29 PM

166 points

64 votes

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17 comments11 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Meetup

ISMar 13, 2023, 6:25 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Could Roko’s basilisk acausally bargain with a paperclip maximizer?

Christopher KingMar 13, 2023, 6:21 PM

1 point

8 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian optimization to find molecules that bind to proteins

rotatingpaguroMar 13, 2023, 6:17 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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Linkpost: ‘Dissolving’ AI Risk – Parameter Uncertainty in AI Future Forecasting

DavidWMar 13, 2023, 4:52 PM

6 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Decentralized Exclusion

jefftkMar 13, 2023, 3:50 PM

26 points

20 votes

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19 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Linkpost: A Contra AI FOOM Reading List

DavidWMar 13, 2023, 2:45 PM

25 points

10 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(magnusvinding.com)

Linkpost: A tale of 2.5 orthogonality theses

DavidWMar 13, 2023, 2:19 PM

9 points

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Plan for mediocre alignment of brain-like [model-based RL] AGI

Steven ByrnesMar 13, 2023, 2:11 PM

68 points

25 votes

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25 comments12 min readLW link

Against AGI Timelines

Jonathan YanMar 13, 2023, 1:33 PM

13 points

11 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(benlandautaylor.com)

What is calibration?

AlexMennenMar 13, 2023, 6:30 AM

27 points

8 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

On taking AI risk seriously

Eleni AngelouMar 13, 2023, 5:50 AM

6 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

Nose / throat treatments for respiratory infections

juliawiseMar 13, 2023, 2:41 AM

47 points

21 votes

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6 comments8 min readLW link

Gold, Silver, Red: A color scheme for understanding people

Michael SoareverixMar 13, 2023, 1:06 AM

17 points

12 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

Yudkowsky on AGI risk on the Bankless podcast

Rob BensingerMar 13, 2023, 12:42 AM

83 points

38 votes

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5 comments75 min readLW link

Thoughts on self-inspecting neural networks.

DeruwynMar 12, 2023, 11:58 PM

4 points

3 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

An AI risk argument that resonates with NYTimes readers

Julian BradshawMar 12, 2023, 11:09 PM

212 points

137 votes

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14 comments1 min readLW link

Musicians and Mouths

jefftkMar 12, 2023, 10:50 PM

13 points

5 votes

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7 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Are there cognitive realms?

TsviBTMar 12, 2023, 7:28 PM

34 points

18 votes

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3 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What happened on the Extropians message board?

politicalpersuasionMar 12, 2023, 7:22 PM

−53 points

11 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Creating a Discord server for Mechanistic Interpretability Projects

Victor LevosoMar 12, 2023, 6:00 PM

30 points

18 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Paper Replication Walkthrough: Reverse-Engineering Modular Addition

Neel NandaMar 12, 2023, 1:25 PM

18 points

9 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(neelnanda.io)

What problems do African-Americans face? An initial investigation using Standpoint Epistemology and Surveys

tailcalledMar 12, 2023, 11:42 AM

34 points

29 votes

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26 comments15 min readLW link

“Liquidity” vs “solvency” in bank runs (and some notes on Silicon Valley Bank)

rossryMar 12, 2023, 9:16 AM

108 points

50 votes

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27 comments12 min readLW link

“You’ll Never Persuade People Like That”

Zack_M_DavisMar 12, 2023, 5:38 AM

17 points

32 votes

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31 comments2 min readLW link

Parasitic Language Games: maintaining ambiguity to hide conflict while burning the commons

HazardMar 12, 2023, 5:25 AM

115 points

52 votes

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17 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a way to sort LW search results by date posted?

zeshenMar 12, 2023, 4:56 AM

5 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

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