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Prizes for matrix completion problems

paulfchristiano3 May 2023 23:30 UTC

163 points

51 comments1 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Alignment Research @ EleutherAI

Curtis Huebner3 May 2023 22:45 UTC

40 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(blog.eleuther.ai)

«Boundaries/Membranes» and AI safety compilation

Chipmonk3 May 2023 21:41 UTC

53 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] What constraints does deep learning place on alignment plans?

Garrett Baker3 May 2023 20:40 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI rising: why we are in a new era of acute risk and increasing public awareness, and what to do now

Greg C3 May 2023 20:26 UTC

23 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Formalizing the “AI x-risk is unlikely because it is ridiculous” argument

Christopher King3 May 2023 18:56 UTC

47 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] List of notable people who believe in AI X-risk?

vlad.proex3 May 2023 18:46 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] LessWrong exporting?

axiomAdministrator3 May 2023 18:34 UTC

0 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-03

jasoncrawford3 May 2023 16:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Personhood is a Religious Belief

jan Sijan3 May 2023 16:16 UTC

−42 points

28 comments6 min readLW link

Slowing AI: Crunch time

Zach Stein-Perlman3 May 2023 15:00 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing

wesg and Neel Nanda

3 May 2023 13:30 UTC

33 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Monthly Roundup #6: May 2023

Zvi3 May 2023 12:50 UTC

31 points

12 comments24 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How much do personal biases in risk assessment affect assessment of AI risks?

Gordon Seidoh Worley3 May 2023 6:12 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Communication strategies for autism, with examples

stonefly3 May 2023 5:25 UTC

15 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviews.

spencerg3 May 2023 3:57 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

“Copilot” type AI integration could lead to training data needed for AGI

anithite3 May 2023 0:57 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds

JakubK2 May 2023 22:50 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

A Case for the Least Forgiving Take On Alignment

Thane Ruthenis2 May 2023 21:34 UTC

99 points

82 comments22 min readLW link

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? [linkpost]

Matthew Barnett2 May 2023 21:01 UTC

52 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Does descaling a kettle help? Theory and practice

philh2 May 2023 20:20 UTC

35 points

25 comments8 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Avoiding xrisk from AI doesn’t mean focusing on AI xrisk

Stuart_Armstrong2 May 2023 19:27 UTC

64 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #4: AI and Cybersecurity, Persuasive AIs, Weaponization, and Geoffrey Hinton talks AI risks

ozhang, Dan H, Akash and aogara

2 May 2023 18:41 UTC

32 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

My best system yet: text-based project management

jt2 May 2023 17:44 UTC

6 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the state of AI safety in Japan?

ChristianKl2 May 2023 17:06 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Five Worlds of AI (by Scott Aaronson and Boaz Barak)

mishka2 May 2023 13:23 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(scottaaronson.blog)

Systems that cannot be unsafe cannot be safe

Davidmanheim2 May 2023 8:53 UTC

62 points

27 comments2 min readLW link

AGI safety career advice

Richard_Ngo2 May 2023 7:36 UTC

131 points

24 comments13 min readLW link

An Impossibility Proof Relevant to the Shutdown Problem and Corrigibility

Audere2 May 2023 6:52 UTC

65 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on Virtue Ethics for AIs

peligrietzer2 May 2023 5:46 UTC

74 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

Technological unemployment as another test for rationalist winning

RomanHauksson2 May 2023 4:16 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Moral Copernican Principle

Legionnaire2 May 2023 3:25 UTC

5 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread—May 2023

Ruby2 May 2023 2:58 UTC

21 points

41 comments1 min readLW link

Summaries of top forum posts (24th − 30th April 2023)

Zoe Williams2 May 2023 2:30 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 21 - Interpretability for Engineers with Stephen Casper

DanielFilan2 May 2023 0:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment66 min readLW link

Getting Your Eyes On

LoganStrohl2 May 2023 0:33 UTC

58 points

11 comments14 min readLW link

What 2025 looks like

Ruby1 May 2023 22:53 UTC

75 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

[Question] Natural Selection vs Gradient Descent

CuriousApe111 May 2023 22:16 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A[I] Zombie Apocalypse Is Already Upon Us

NickHarris1 May 2023 22:02 UTC

−6 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Geoff Hinton Quits Google

Adam Shai1 May 2023 21:03 UTC

98 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Apprentice Thread 2

hath1 May 2023 20:09 UTC

50 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Budapest, Hungary – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2023

Richard Horvath, Timothy Underwood and marta_k

1 May 2023 17:36 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

In favor of steelmanning

jp1 May 2023 17:12 UTC

36 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Shah (DeepMind) and Leahy (Conjecture) Discuss Alignment Cruxes

OliviaJ, Rohin Shah, Connor Leahy and Andrea_Miotti

1 May 2023 16:47 UTC

94 points

10 comments30 min readLW link

Distinguishing misuse is difficult and uncomfortable

lukehmiles1 May 2023 16:23 UTC

17 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does agency necessarily imply self-preservation instinct?

Mislav Jurić1 May 2023 16:06 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

What Boston Can Teach Us About What a Woman Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC

18 points

45 comments12 min readLW link

The Rocket Alignment Problem, Part 2

Zvi1 May 2023 14:30 UTC

40 points

20 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Socialist Democratic-Republic GAME: 12 Amendments to the Constitutions of the Free World

monkymind1 May 2023 13:13 UTC

−34 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where is all this evidence of UFOs?

Logan Zoellner1 May 2023 12:13 UTC

29 points

42 comments1 min readLW link