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Consciousness as recurrence, potential for enforcing alignment?

FoyleApr 18, 2023, 11:05 PM

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Encouraging New Users To Bet On Their Beliefs

YafahEdelmanApr 18, 2023, 10:10 PM

49 points

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8 comments2 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #2: ChaosGPT, Natural Selection, and AI Safety in the Media

ozhang, Dan H and Orpheus16

Apr 18, 2023, 6:44 PM

30 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Scientism vs. people

Roman LeventovApr 18, 2023, 5:28 PM

4 points

11 votes

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4 comments11 min readLW link

Capabilities and alignment of LLM cognitive architectures

Seth HerdApr 18, 2023, 4:29 PM

88 points

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18 comments20 min readLW link

World and Mind in Artificial Intelligence: arguments against the AI pause

Arturo MaciasApr 18, 2023, 2:40 PM

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Slowing AI: Interventions

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 18, 2023, 2:30 PM

19 points

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Cryptographic and auxiliary approaches relevant for AI safety

Allison DuettmannApr 18, 2023, 2:18 PM

7 points

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0 comments6 min readLW link

The Overemployed Via ChatGPT

ZviApr 18, 2023, 1:40 PM

58 points

35 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Linkpost] AI Alignment, Explained in 5 Points (updated)

Daniel_EthApr 18, 2023, 8:09 AM

10 points

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Argentines LW/SSC/EA/MIRIx—Call to All

daviddelaubaApr 18, 2023, 6:37 AM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

No, really, it predicts next tokens.

simonApr 18, 2023, 3:47 AM

58 points

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55 comments3 min readLW link

The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin

Rob BensingerApr 18, 2023, 3:37 AM

189 points

89 votes

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73 comments14 min readLW link

High schoolers can apply to the Atlas Fellowship: $10k scholarship + 11-day program

Ronny Fernandez and Jonas V

Apr 18, 2023, 2:53 AM

26 points

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Green goo is plausible

anithiteApr 18, 2023, 12:04 AM

67 points

49 votes

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31 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

AI Impacts Quarterly Newsletter, Jan-Mar 2023

HarlanApr 17, 2023, 10:10 PM

5 points

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(blog.aiimpacts.org)

[Question] How do you align your emotions through updates and existential uncertainty?

VojtaKovarikApr 17, 2023, 8:46 PM

4 points

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10 comments1 min readLW link

AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA): call for applicants

CallumMcDougallApr 17, 2023, 8:30 PM

100 points

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9 comments7 min readLW link

AI policy ideas: Reading list

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 17, 2023, 7:00 PM

24 points

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7 comments4 min readLW link

NYT: The Surprising Thing A.I. Engineers Will Tell You if You Let Them

SodiumApr 17, 2023, 6:59 PM

11 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.nytimes.com)

But why would the AI kill us?

So8resApr 17, 2023, 6:42 PM

141 points

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96 comments2 min readLW link

Sama Says the Age of Giant AI Models is Already Over

AlgonApr 17, 2023, 6:36 PM

49 points

23 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

Meetup Tip: Conversation Starters

ScrewtapeApr 17, 2023, 6:25 PM

20 points

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Redwood Research

Omega.Apr 17, 2023, 6:20 PM

4 points

16 votes

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0 comments22 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

How Large Language Models Nuke our Naive Notions of Truth and Reality

Sean LeeApr 17, 2023, 6:08 PM

0 points

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23 comments11 min readLW link

An alternative of PPO towards alignment

ml hkustApr 17, 2023, 5:58 PM

2 points

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2 comments4 min readLW link

What I learned at the AI Safety Europe Retreat

skaisgApr 17, 2023, 5:40 PM

28 points

17 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

(skaisg.eu)

What is your timelines for ADI (artificial disempowering intelligence)?

Christopher KingApr 17, 2023, 5:01 PM

3 points

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[Question] Can we get around Godel’s Incompleteness theorems and Turing undecidable problems via infinite computers?

Noosphere89Apr 17, 2023, 3:14 PM

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12 comments1 min readLW link

La Crosse, WI Rationality Meetup

Daniel UebeleApr 17, 2023, 3:13 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Foundations

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 17, 2023, 2:30 PM

45 points

18 votes

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11 comments17 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Reading list

Zach Stein-PerlmanApr 17, 2023, 2:30 PM

47 points

17 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Goodhart’s Law inside the human mind

Kaj_SotalaApr 17, 2023, 1:48 PM

127 points

59 votes

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13 comments16 min readLW link

Prediction: any uncontrollable AI will turn earth into a giant computer

Karl von WendtApr 17, 2023, 12:30 PM

11 points

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8 comments3 min readLW link

AutoBound on neural network can achieve OOMs lower training loss

Maybe_aApr 17, 2023, 5:20 AM

10 points

6 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(ai.googleblog.com)

Making Booking.Com less out to get you

ElizabethApr 17, 2023, 4:04 AM

21 points

9 votes

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(www.alexcharlton.co)

grey goo is unlikely

bhauthApr 17, 2023, 1:59 AM

156 points

116 votes

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123 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

(bhauth.com)

AGI Clinics: A Safe Haven for Humanity’s First Encounters with Superintelligence

portr.Apr 17, 2023, 1:52 AM

−5 points

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Summaries of top forum posts (27th March to 16th April)

Zoe WilliamsApr 17, 2023, 12:28 AM

14 points

7 votes

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1 comment12 min readLW link

AI Takeover Scenario with Scaled LLMs

simeon_cApr 16, 2023, 11:28 PM

42 points

27 votes

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15 comments8 min readLW link

My experience getting funding for my biological research

MetacelsusApr 16, 2023, 10:53 PM

78 points

32 votes

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10 comments5 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Top lesson from GPT: we will probably destroy humanity “for the lulz” as soon as we are able.

ShmiApr 16, 2023, 8:27 PM

63 points

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28 comments1 min readLW link

On urgency, priority and collective reaction to AI-Risks: Part I

DenreikApr 16, 2023, 7:14 PM

−10 points

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Efficient Learning: Memorization

Alvin ÅnestrandApr 16, 2023, 5:58 PM

4 points

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Mechanistically interpreting time in GPT-2 small

rgould, Elizabeth Ho and Arthur Conmy

Apr 16, 2023, 5:57 PM

68 points

33 votes

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6 comments21 min readLW link

La Crosse, WI Rationality Meetup

Daniel UebeleApr 16, 2023, 5:33 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Soul of the Writer (on LLMs, the psychology of writers, and the nature of intelligence)

rogersbaconApr 16, 2023, 4:02 PM

11 points

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

Possibilizing vs. actualizing

TsviBTApr 16, 2023, 3:55 PM

31 points

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2 comments5 min readLW link

Human Extinction by AI through economic power

ChristianKlApr 16, 2023, 12:15 PM

8 points

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Bit Flip

Charlie SandersApr 16, 2023, 7:30 AM

−2 points

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11 comments11 min readLW link

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