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[Question] If alignment problem was unsolvable, would that avoid doom?

Kinrany7 May 2023 22:13 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin

Rob Bensinger7 May 2023 21:52 UTC

91 points

26 comments19 min readLW link

Where “the Sequences” Are Wrong

Thoth Hermes7 May 2023 20:21 UTC

−15 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

(thothhermes.substack.com)

What’s wrong with being dumb?

Adam Zerner7 May 2023 18:31 UTC

14 points

17 comments2 min readLW link

Categories of Arguing Style : Why being good among rationalists isn’t enough to argue with everyone

Camille Berger 7 May 2023 17:45 UTC

16 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

Self-Administered Gell-Mann Amnesia

krs7 May 2023 17:44 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Understanding mesa-optimization using toy models

tilmanr, rusheb, Guillaume Corlouer, Dan Valentine, afspies, mivanitskiy and Can

7 May 2023 17:00 UTC

42 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

How to have Polygenically Screened Children

GeneSmith7 May 2023 16:01 UTC

344 points

108 comments27 min readLW link

Statistical models & the irrelevance of rare exceptions

patrissimo7 May 2023 15:59 UTC

37 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Let’s look for coherence theorems

Valdes7 May 2023 14:45 UTC

25 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

Graphical Representations of Paul Christiano’s Doom Model

Nathan Young7 May 2023 13:03 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

An anthropomorphic AI dilemma

TsviBT7 May 2023 12:44 UTC

26 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Violin Supports

jefftk7 May 2023 12:10 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Properties of Good Textbooks

niplav7 May 2023 8:38 UTC

50 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Against sacrificing AI transparency for generality gains

Ape in the coat7 May 2023 6:52 UTC

4 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

TED talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky: Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence

bayesed7 May 2023 5:45 UTC

49 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Thinking of Convenience as an Economic Term

ozziegooen7 May 2023 1:21 UTC

6 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Corrigibility, Much more detail than anyone wants to Read

Logan Zoellner7 May 2023 1:02 UTC

26 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Residual stream norms grow exponentially over the forward pass

StefanHex and TurnTrout

7 May 2023 0:46 UTC

72 points

24 comments11 min readLW link

On the Loebner Silver Prize (a Turing test)

hold_my_fish7 May 2023 0:39 UTC

18 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Time and Energy Costs to Erase a Bit

DaemonicSigil6 May 2023 23:29 UTC

24 points

32 comments7 min readLW link

How much do you believe your results?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC

459 points

14 comments15 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Long Covid Risks: 2023 Update

Elizabeth6 May 2023 18:20 UTC

70 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Is “red” for GPT-4 the same as “red” for you?

Yusuke Hayashi6 May 2023 17:55 UTC

9 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

The Broader Fossil Fuel Community

Jeffrey Heninger6 May 2023 14:49 UTC

16 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Estimating Norovirus Prevalence

jefftk6 May 2023 11:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Alignment as Function Fitting

A.H.6 May 2023 11:38 UTC

7 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

My preferred framings for reward misspecification and goal misgeneralisation

Yi-Yang6 May 2023 4:48 UTC

24 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

You don’t need to be a genius to be in AI safety research

Claire Short6 May 2023 2:32 UTC

13 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Naturalist Collection

LoganStrohl6 May 2023 0:37 UTC

66 points

7 comments15 min readLW link

Do you work at an AI lab? Please quit

Nik Samoylov5 May 2023 23:41 UTC

−29 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Explaining “Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems”

electroswing5 May 2023 23:33 UTC

57 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Sleeping Beauty – the Death Hypothesis

Guillaume Charrier5 May 2023 23:32 UTC

0 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Orthogonal’s Formal-Goal Alignment theory of change

Tamsin Leake5 May 2023 22:36 UTC

68 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

A smart enough LLM might be deadly simply if you run it for long enough

Mikhail Samin5 May 2023 20:49 UTC

16 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

What Jason has been reading, May 2023: “Protopia,” complex systems, Daedalus vs. Icarus, and more

jasoncrawford5 May 2023 19:54 UTC

25 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

CHAT Diplomacy: LLMs and National Security

JohnBuridan5 May 2023 19:45 UTC

25 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

Linkpost for Accursed Farms Discussion / debate with AI expert Eliezer Yudkowsky

gilch5 May 2023 18:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Regulate or Compete? The China Factor in U.S. AI Policy (NAIR #2)

charles_m5 May 2023 17:43 UTC

2 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(navigatingairisks.substack.com)

Kingfisher Live CD Process

jefftk5 May 2023 17:00 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

What can we learn from Bayes about reasoning?

jasoncrawford5 May 2023 15:52 UTC

21 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why not use active SETI to prevent AI Doom?

RomanS5 May 2023 14:41 UTC

13 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Investigating Emergent Goal-Like Behavior in Large Language Models using Experimental Economics

phelps-sg5 May 2023 11:15 UTC

6 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Monthly Shorts 4/23

Celer5 May 2023 7:20 UTC

8 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

[Question] What is it like to be a compatibilist?

tslarm5 May 2023 2:56 UTC

8 points

72 comments1 min readLW link

Transcript of a presentation on catastrophic risks from AI

RobertM5 May 2023 1:38 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

How to get good at programming

Ulisse Mini5 May 2023 1:14 UTC

39 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

An Update On The Campaign For AI Safety Dot Org

yanni kyriacos5 May 2023 0:21 UTC

−11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A brief collection of Hinton’s recent comments on AGI risk

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2023 23:31 UTC

143 points

9 comments11 min readLW link

Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGrace4 May 2023 22:20 UTC

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)