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When did humans become self-aware?

Derek M. Jones23 Apr 2023 22:36 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(vectors.substack.com)

[Question] Are there AI policies that are robustly net-positive even when considering different AI scenarios?

Noosphere8923 Apr 2023 21:46 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Getting Started With Naturalism

LoganStrohl23 Apr 2023 21:02 UTC

58 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we care about agency for alignment?

Chris_Leong23 Apr 2023 18:10 UTC

22 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Taming the Fire of Intelligence

Peter Kuhn23 Apr 2023 17:41 UTC

0 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

Preventing AI Misuse: State of the Art Research and its Flaws

Madhav Malhotra23 Apr 2023 17:37 UTC

15 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Could transformer network models learn motor planning like they can learn language and image generation?

mu_(negative)23 Apr 2023 17:24 UTC

2 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Could a superintelligence deduce general relativity from a falling apple? An investigation

titotal23 Apr 2023 12:49 UTC

147 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

Endo-, Dia-, Para-, and Ecto-systemic novelty

TsviBT23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

An Intro to Anthropic Reasoning using the ‘Boy or Girl Paradox’ as a toy example

TobyC23 Apr 2023 10:20 UTC

28 points

28 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics of the Mind?

Ben Amitay23 Apr 2023 6:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A great talk for AI noobs (according to an AI noob)

dov23 Apr 2023 5:34 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Bits of NEFFA

jefftk23 Apr 2023 2:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“Rate limiting” as a mod tool

Raemon23 Apr 2023 0:42 UTC

48 points

36 comments4 min readLW link

What should we censor from training data?

wassname22 Apr 2023 23:33 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Architecture-aware optimisation: train ImageNet and more without hyperparameters

Chris Mingard22 Apr 2023 21:50 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

OpenAI’s GPT-4 Safety Goals

PeterMcCluskey22 Apr 2023 19:11 UTC

3 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Introducing the Nuts and Bolts Of Naturalism

LoganStrohl22 Apr 2023 18:31 UTC

75 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

We Need To Know About Continual Learning

michael_mjd22 Apr 2023 17:08 UTC

29 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

The Security Mindset, S-Risk and Publishing Prosaic Alignment Research

lukemarks22 Apr 2023 14:36 UTC

39 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How did LW update p(doom) after LLMs blew up?

FinalFormal222 Apr 2023 14:21 UTC

24 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

The Cruel Trade-Off Between AI Misuse and AI X-risk Concerns

simeon_c22 Apr 2023 13:49 UTC

24 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

five ways to say “Almost Always” and actually mean it

Yudhister Kumar22 Apr 2023 10:38 UTC

17 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.ykumar.org)

P(doom|superintelligence) or coin tosses and dice throws of human values (and other related Ps).

Muyyd22 Apr 2023 10:06 UTC

−7 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is it allowed to post job postings here? I am looking for a new PhD student to work on AI Interpretability. Can I advertise my position?

Tiberius22 Apr 2023 1:22 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong moderation messaging container

Raemon22 Apr 2023 1:19 UTC

21 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Neural network polytopes (Colab notebook)

Zach Furman21 Apr 2023 22:42 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(colab.research.google.com)

Readability is mostly a waste of characters

vlad.proex21 Apr 2023 22:05 UTC

21 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

The Relationship between RLHF and AI Psychology: Debunking the Shoggoth Argument

FinalFormal221 Apr 2023 22:05 UTC

−12 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

ask me about my battery

bhauth21 Apr 2023 21:55 UTC

34 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Thinking about maximization and corrigibility

James Payor21 Apr 2023 21:22 UTC

63 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Would we even want AI to solve all our problems?

So8res21 Apr 2023 18:04 UTC

97 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

The Commission for Stopping Further Improvements: A letter of note from Isambard K. Brunel

jasoncrawford21 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC

39 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Should we publish mechanistic interpretability research?

Marius Hobbhahn and LawrenceC

21 Apr 2023 16:19 UTC

105 points

40 comments13 min readLW link

500 Million, But Not A Single One More—The Animation

Writer21 Apr 2023 15:48 UTC

47 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Talking publicly about AI risk

Jan_Kulveit21 Apr 2023 11:28 UTC

173 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on “the hot mess theory of AI misalignment”

JakubK21 Apr 2023 10:07 UTC

13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(sohl-dickstein.github.io)

Requisite Variety

Stephen Fowler21 Apr 2023 8:07 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Agency Overhang

Jeffrey Ladish21 Apr 2023 7:47 UTC

81 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What would “The Medical Model Is Wrong” look like?

Elo21 Apr 2023 1:46 UTC

8 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Gas and Water

jefftk21 Apr 2023 1:30 UTC

17 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Did the fonts change?

the gears to ascension21 Apr 2023 0:40 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Should we openly talk about explicit use cases for AutoGPT?

ChristianKl20 Apr 2023 23:44 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

United We Align: Harnessing Collective Human Intelligence for AI Alignment Progress

Shoshannah Tekofsky20 Apr 2023 23:19 UTC

41 points

13 comments25 min readLW link

[Question] Where to start with statistics if I want to measure things?

matto20 Apr 2023 22:40 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Upskilling, bridge-building, research on security/cryptography and AI safety

Allison Duettmann20 Apr 2023 22:32 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Behavioural statistics for a maze-solving agent

peligrietzer and TurnTrout

20 Apr 2023 22:26 UTC

44 points

11 comments10 min readLW link

An introduction to language model interpretability

Alexandre Variengien20 Apr 2023 22:22 UTC

14 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

The Case for Brain-Only Preservation

Mati_Roy20 Apr 2023 22:01 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(biostasis.substack.com)

[Question] Practical ways to actualize our beliefs into concrete bets over a longer time horizon?

M. Y. Zuo20 Apr 2023 21:21 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link