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An A.I. Safety Presentation at RIT

Nicholas KrossMar 27, 2023, 11:49 PM

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(www.youtube.com)

Which AI outputs should humans check for shenanigans, to avoid AI takeover? A simple model

Tom DavidsonMar 27, 2023, 11:36 PM

16 points

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3 comments8 min readLW link

The Prospect of an AI Winter

Erich_GrunewaldMar 27, 2023, 8:55 PM

62 points

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24 comments15 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

[Question] Best arguments against the outside view that AGI won’t be a huge deal, thus we survive.

Noosphere89Mar 27, 2023, 8:49 PM

4 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (20th − 26th March 2023)

Zoe WilliamsMar 27, 2023, 8:46 PM

4 points

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Three of my beliefs about upcoming AGI

Robert_AIZIMar 27, 2023, 8:27 PM

6 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Nobody knows how to reliably test for AI safety

marcusarvanMar 27, 2023, 7:48 PM

1 point

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0 comments5 min readLW link

New blog: Planned Obsolescence

Ajeya CotraMar 27, 2023, 7:46 PM

96 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.planned-obsolescence.org)

South Bay ACX/SSC Spring Meetups Everywhere

allisonaMar 27, 2023, 7:39 PM

2 points

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[Question] Resources to see how people think/approach mathematics and problem-solving

zefMar 27, 2023, 7:12 PM

7 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Staggering Hunters

ScrewtapeMar 27, 2023, 7:11 PM

12 points

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Neurotechnology is Critical for AI Alignment

Milan CvitkovicMar 27, 2023, 6:27 PM

10 points

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(milan.cvitkovic.net)

[Question] Best resources to learn philosophy of mind and AI?

Sky MooMar 27, 2023, 6:22 PM

1 point

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the tensor is a lonely place

jml6Mar 27, 2023, 6:22 PM

−11 points

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(ekjsgrjelrbno.substack.com)

[Question] Bermudez Interface Problem

Motor VehicleMar 27, 2023, 6:11 PM

1 point

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Would you be a better RLHF labeler than GPT-4?

kacheMar 27, 2023, 6:10 PM

1 point

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1 comment1 min readLW link

LLM Powered LW Search

odraode17Mar 27, 2023, 6:09 PM

−1 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Swiss Existential Risk Initiative (CHERI) 2023 Research Fellowship

Tobias HMar 27, 2023, 4:36 PM

3 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Industrialization/Computerization Analogies

Gordon Seidoh WorleyMar 27, 2023, 4:34 PM

16 points

9 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Lessons from Convergent Evolution for AI Alignment

Jan_Kulveit and rosehadshar

Mar 27, 2023, 4:25 PM

54 points

27 votes

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9 comments8 min readLW link

GPT-4 is bad at strategic thinking

Christopher KingMar 27, 2023, 3:11 PM

22 points

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8 comments1 min readLW link

The salt in pasta water fallacy

Thomas SepulchreMar 27, 2023, 2:53 PM

235 points

164 votes

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52 comments3 min readLW link 2 reviews

CAIS-inspired approach towards safer and more interpretable AGIs

Peter HroššoMar 27, 2023, 2:36 PM

13 points

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7 comments1 min readLW link

An Overview of Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

AnnapurnaMar 27, 2023, 1:44 PM

10 points

7 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

A Hivemind of GPT-4 bots REALLY IS A HIVEMIND!

Erlja Jkdf.Mar 27, 2023, 12:44 PM

−10 points

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Duploish Marble Runs

jefftkMar 27, 2023, 12:20 PM

26 points

12 votes

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(www.jefftk.com)

GPT-4 Plugs In

ZviMar 27, 2023, 12:10 PM

198 points

108 votes

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47 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Please help me sense-check my assumptions about the needs of the AI Safety community and related career plans

peterslatteryMar 27, 2023, 8:23 AM

6 points

4 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Practical Pitfalls of Causal Scrubbing

Jérémy Scheurer, Phil3, tony, jacquesthibs and David Lindner

Mar 27, 2023, 7:47 AM

87 points

36 votes

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17 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] What If: An Earthquake in Taiwan?

SableMar 27, 2023, 7:31 AM

8 points

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What can we learn from Lex Fridman’s interview with Sam Altman?

Karl von WendtMar 27, 2023, 6:27 AM

56 points

33 votes

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22 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Steelmanning OpenAI’s Short-Timelines Slow-Takeoff Goal

FinalFormal2Mar 27, 2023, 2:55 AM

5 points

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The default outcome for aligned AGI still looks pretty bad

GeneSmithMar 27, 2023, 12:02 AM

14 points

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19 comments3 min readLW link

LLM Modularity: The Separability of Capabilities in Large Language Models

NickyPMar 26, 2023, 9:57 PM

99 points

55 votes

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3 comments41 min readLW link

Testing ChatGPT for white lies

twkaiserMar 26, 2023, 9:32 PM

3 points

2 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

Don’t take bad options away from people

Dumbledore's ArmyMar 26, 2023, 8:12 PM

42 points

66 votes

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100 comments5 min readLW link

What would a compute monitoring plan look like? [Linkpost]

Orpheus16Mar 26, 2023, 7:33 PM

158 points

76 votes

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10 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] GPT-4 Specs: 1 Trillion Parameters?

infinibot27Mar 26, 2023, 6:56 PM

6 points

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Sentience in Machines—How Do We Test for This Objectively?

Mayowa OsiboduMar 26, 2023, 6:56 PM

−2 points

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(www.researchgate.net)

If it quacks like a duck...

RationalMindsetMar 26, 2023, 6:54 PM

−4 points

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Chronostasis: The Time-Capsule Conundrum of Language Models

RationalMindsetMar 26, 2023, 6:54 PM

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[Question] What happens with logical induction when...

Donald HobsonMar 26, 2023, 6:31 PM

18 points

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Draft: Introduction to optimization

Alex_AltairMar 26, 2023, 5:25 PM

43 points

24 votes

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8 comments16 min readLW link

Chat bot as CEO at NetDragon Websoft

ChristianKlMar 26, 2023, 4:01 PM

8 points

2 votes

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(www.firstpost.com)

Datapoint: median 10% AI x-risk mentioned on Dutch public TV channel

Chris van MerwijkMar 26, 2023, 12:50 PM

17 points

7 votes

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[Question] How Politics interacts with AI ?

qbolecMar 26, 2023, 9:53 AM

−11 points

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Descriptive vs. specifiable values

TsviBTMar 26, 2023, 9:10 AM

17 points

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2 comments2 min readLW link

The alignment stability problem

Seth HerdMar 26, 2023, 2:10 AM

35 points

15 votes

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15 comments4 min readLW link

Survey on lifeloggers for a research project

Mati_RoyMar 26, 2023, 12:02 AM

20 points

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Manifold: If okay AGI, why?

Eliezer YudkowskyMar 25, 2023, 10:43 PM

120 points

58 votes

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37 comments1 min readLW link

(manifold.markets)

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