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Adumbrations on AGI from an outsider

nicholashaldenMay 24, 2023, 5:41 PM

57 points

44 comments8 min readLW link

(nicholashalden.home.blog)

Explaining “Hell is Game Theory Folk Theorems”

electroswingMay 5, 2023, 11:33 PM

57 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

PaLM-2 & GPT-4 in “Extrapolating GPT-N performance”

Lukas FinnvedenMay 30, 2023, 6:33 PM

57 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

«Boundaries/Membranes» and AI safety compilation

ChipmonkMay 3, 2023, 9:41 PM

56 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis

TsviBTMay 20, 2023, 5:56 AM

56 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

The Treacherous Turn is finished! (AI-takeover-themed tabletop RPG)

Daniel KokotajloMay 22, 2023, 5:49 AM

55 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(thetreacherousturn.ai)

The way AGI wins could look very stupid

Christopher KingMay 12, 2023, 4:34 PM

54 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Towards Measures of Optimisation

mattmacdermott and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

May 12, 2023, 3:29 PM

53 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

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

Matthew BarnettMay 2, 2023, 9:01 PM

53 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Yoshua Bengio argues for tool-AI and to ban “executive-AI”

habrykaMay 9, 2023, 12:13 AM

53 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

(yoshuabengio.org)

Distillation of Neurotech and Alignment Workshop January 2023

lisathiergart and Sumner L Norman

May 22, 2023, 7:17 AM

52 points

9 comments14 min readLW link

Job Opening: SWE to help build signature vetting system for AI-related petitions

Ethan Ashkie and Andrew_Critch

May 20, 2023, 7:02 PM

52 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Apprentice Thread 2

hathMay 1, 2023, 8:09 PM

50 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Gemini will bring the next big timeline update

p.b.May 29, 2023, 6:05 AM

50 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Look At What’s In Front Of You (Conclusion to The Nuts and Bolts of Naturalism)

LoganStrohlMay 25, 2023, 7:00 PM

50 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Properties of Good Textbooks

niplavMay 7, 2023, 8:38 AM

50 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

GPT as an “Intelligence Forklift.”

boazbarakMay 19, 2023, 9:15 PM

49 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

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

bayesedMay 7, 2023, 5:45 AM

49 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Self-administered EMDR without a therapist is very useful for a lot of things!

EternallyBlissfulMay 25, 2023, 5:54 PM

49 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

Three Iterative Processes

LoganStrohlMay 12, 2023, 2:50 AM

49 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

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

Christopher KingMay 3, 2023, 6:56 PM

48 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

The case for removing alignment and ML research from the training dataset

berenMay 30, 2023, 8:54 PM

48 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Support Structures for Naturalist Study

LoganStrohlMay 15, 2023, 12:25 AM

47 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

New OpenAI Paper—Language models can explain neurons in language models

MrThinkMay 10, 2023, 7:46 AM

47 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Product Endorsement: Apollo Neuro

ElizabethMay 8, 2023, 7:00 PM

46 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Infinite-width MLPs as an “ensemble prior”

Vivek HebbarMay 12, 2023, 11:45 AM

46 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Understanding mesa-optimization using toy models

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

May 7, 2023, 5:00 PM

45 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

AI #13: Potential Algorithmic Improvements

ZviMay 25, 2023, 3:40 PM

45 points

4 comments67 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Making Up Baby Signs

jefftkMay 9, 2023, 4:40 PM

44 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Do Deadlines Make Us Less Creative?

lynettebyeMay 19, 2023, 3:41 PM

44 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Worrying less about acausal extortion

RaemonMay 23, 2023, 2:08 AM

43 points

11 comments13 min readLW link

LessWrong Community Weekend 2023 [Applications now closed]

Henry ProwbellMay 1, 2023, 9:31 AM

43 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Conflicts between emotional schemas often involve internal coercion

Richard_NgoMay 17, 2023, 10:02 AM

43 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Papers, Please #1: Various Papers on Employment, Wages and Productivity

ZviMay 22, 2023, 12:00 PM

42 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

D&D.Sci 5E: Return of the League of Defenders

aphyerMay 26, 2023, 8:39 PM

42 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Difficulties in making powerful aligned AI

DanielFilanMay 14, 2023, 8:50 PM

41 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Why I’m Not (Yet) A Full-Time Technical Alignment Researcher

Nicholas / Heather KrossMay 25, 2023, 1:26 AM

41 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

$500 Bounty/Prize Problem: Channel Capacity Using “Insensitive” Functions

johnswentworthMay 16, 2023, 9:31 PM

40 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Should Rational Animations invite viewers to read content on LessWrong?

WriterMay 27, 2023, 7:26 PM

40 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Research @ EleutherAI

Curtis HuebnerMay 3, 2023, 10:45 PM

40 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(blog.eleuther.ai)

$300 for the best sci-fi prompt

RomanSMay 17, 2023, 4:23 AM

40 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

The Rocket Alignment Problem, Part 2

ZviMay 1, 2023, 2:30 PM

40 points

20 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGraceMay 4, 2023, 10:20 PM

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

How to get good at programming

Ulisse MiniMay 5, 2023, 1:14 AM

39 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Interpretability Dreams

DanielFilanMay 24, 2023, 9:08 PM

39 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

Language Agents Reduce the Risk of Existential Catastrophe

cdkg and Simon Goldstein

May 28, 2023, 7:10 PM

39 points

14 comments26 min readLW link

I bet $500 on AI winning the IMO gold medal by 2026

azsantoskMay 11, 2023, 2:46 PM

37 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Reality and reality-boxes

Jim PivarskiMay 13, 2023, 2:14 PM

37 points

11 comments21 min readLW link

Boomerang—protocol to dissolve some commitment races

Filip SondejMay 30, 2023, 4:21 PM

37 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

Mr. Meeseeks as an AI capability tripwire

Eric ZhangMay 19, 2023, 11:33 AM

37 points

17 comments2 min readLW link