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Consciousness is irrelevant—instead solve alignment by asking this question
Oliver Siegel
Mar 4, 2023, 10:06 PM
−10
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
More money with less risk: sell services instead of model access
lemonhope
Mar 4, 2023, 8:51 PM
9
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Contra “Strong Coherence”
DragonGod
Mar 4, 2023, 8:05 PM
39
points
24
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Practitioner’s Path 2.0: A new framework for structured self-improvement
Evenflair
Mar 4, 2023, 7:19 PM
32
points
2
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(guildoftherose.org)
The Benefits of Distillation in Research
Jonas Hallgren
Mar 4, 2023, 5:45 PM
15
points
2
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Optimal Music Choice
mbazzani
Mar 4, 2023, 5:26 PM
5
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Why don’t more people talk about ecological psychology?
Ppau
Mar 4, 2023, 5:03 PM
21
points
10
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Switching to Electric Mandolin
jefftk
Mar 4, 2023, 3:40 PM
16
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Predictive Performance on Metaculus vs. Manifold Markets
nikos
Mar 4, 2023, 8:10 AM
18
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Contra Hanson on AI Risk
Liron
Mar 4, 2023, 8:02 AM
36
points
23
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Bite Sized Tasks
Johannes C. Mayer
Mar 4, 2023, 3:31 AM
18
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How popular is ChatGPT? Part 2: slower growth than Pokémon GO
Richard Korzekwa
Mar 3, 2023, 11:40 PM
42
points
4
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(aiimpacts.org)
Acausal normalcy
Andrew_Critch
Mar 3, 2023, 11:34 PM
195
points
36
comments
8
min read
LW
link
1
review
Comments on OpenAI’s “Planning for AGI and beyond”
So8res
Mar 3, 2023, 11:01 PM
148
points
2
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Why are counterfactuals elusive?
Martín Soto
Mar 3, 2023, 8:13 PM
14
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Situational awareness in Large Language Models
Simon Möller
Mar 3, 2023, 6:59 PM
31
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
AI Governance & Strategy: Priorities, talent gaps, & opportunities
Orpheus16
Mar 3, 2023, 6:09 PM
56
points
2
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Measuring Ads Opt-Out Compliance
jefftk
Mar 3, 2023, 4:00 PM
18
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
ChatGPT tells stories, and a note about reverse engineering: A Working Paper
Bill Benzon
Mar 3, 2023, 3:12 PM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Group Wiki Walk
Screwtape
Mar 3, 2023, 3:10 PM
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Robin Hanson’s latest AI risk position statement
Liron
Mar 3, 2023, 2:25 PM
55
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.overcomingbias.com)
A reply to Byrnes on the Free Energy Principle
Roman Leventov
Mar 3, 2023, 1:03 PM
28
points
16
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Sydney can play chess and kind of keep track of the board state
Erik Jenner
Mar 3, 2023, 9:39 AM
64
points
19
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Fiction] The boy in the glass dome
Kaj_Sotala
Mar 3, 2023, 7:50 AM
28
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(kajsotala.fi)
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)
Cleo Nardo
Mar 3, 2023, 3:22 AM
629
points
188
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Aspiring AI safety researchers should ~argmax over AGI timelines
Ryan Kidd
Mar 3, 2023, 2:04 AM
29
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
ACX/SSC/LW meetup
Épiphanie Gédéon
Mar 2, 2023, 11:37 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Results Prediction Thread About How Different Factors Affect AI X-Risk
MrThink
Mar 2, 2023, 10:13 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Why I’m not into the Free Energy Principle
Steven Byrnes
Mar 2, 2023, 7:27 PM
150
points
50
comments
9
min read
LW
link
1
review
[Question]
Lost in the sauce
JungleTact1cs
Mar 2, 2023, 4:58 PM
−5
points
12
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI #2
Zvi
Mar 2, 2023, 2:50 PM
66
points
18
comments
55
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Payor’s Lemma in Natural Language
Andrew_Critch
Mar 2, 2023, 12:22 PM
62
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Joscha Bach on Synthetic Intelligence [annotated]
Roman Leventov
Mar 2, 2023, 11:02 AM
10
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
(www.jimruttshow.com)
[Question]
If I want to test how good I would be as an AI safety researcher alongside my full-time job (with the hope of it becoming my full-time career at some point), is this a good plan?
Malleable_shape
Mar 2, 2023, 9:44 AM
16
points
0
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Job listing (closed): Sentience Institute is accepting applications for a researcher
michael_dello
Mar 2, 2023, 4:40 AM
6
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)
Reflection Mechanisms as an Alignment Target—Attitudes on “near-term” AI
elandgre
,
Beth Barnes
and
Marius Hobbhahn
Mar 2, 2023, 4:29 AM
21
points
0
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Live Kingfisher Album?
jefftk
Mar 2, 2023, 3:40 AM
11
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Don’t Jump or I’ll...
Double
Mar 2, 2023, 2:58 AM
13
points
7
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Clippy, the friendly paperclipper
Seth Herd
Mar 2, 2023, 12:02 AM
3
points
11
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Human level AI can plausibly take over the world
anithite
Mar 1, 2023, 11:27 PM
27
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Extreme GDP growth is a bad operating definition of “slow takeoff”
lc
Mar 1, 2023, 10:25 PM
24
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Learn the mathematical structure, not the conceptual structure
Adam Shai
Mar 1, 2023, 10:24 PM
98
points
35
comments
2
min read
LW
link
The Parable of the King and the Random Process
moridinamael
Mar 1, 2023, 10:18 PM
312
points
26
comments
6
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
To MIRI-style folk, you can’t simulate the universe from the beginning
the gears to ascension
Mar 1, 2023, 9:38 PM
2
points
19
comments
2
min read
LW
link
OpenAI introduce ChatGPT API at 1/10th the previous $/token
Arthur Conmy
Mar 1, 2023, 8:48 PM
28
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(openai.com)
Progress links and tweets, 2023-03-01
jasoncrawford
Mar 1, 2023, 8:33 PM
12
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Taboo “compute overhang”
Zach Stein-Perlman
Mar 1, 2023, 7:15 PM
21
points
8
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Call for Cruxes by Rhyme, a Longtermist History Consultancy
Lara
Mar 1, 2023, 6:39 PM
1
point
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Fighting without hope
Orpheus16
Mar 1, 2023, 6:15 PM
46
points
14
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
Sunlight is yellow parallel rays plus blue isotropic light
Thomas Kehrenberg
Mar 1, 2023, 5:58 PM
77
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
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