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[Question] How could AIs ‘see’ each other’s source code?

Kenny2 Jun 2023 22:41 UTC

29 points

45 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal: labs should precommit to pausing if an AI argues for itself to be improved

NickGabs2 Jun 2023 22:31 UTC

3 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Inference from a Mathematical Description of an Existing Alignment Research: a proposal for an outer alignment research program

Christopher King2 Jun 2023 21:54 UTC

7 points

4 comments16 min readLW link

Thoughts on Dancing the Whole Dance: Positional Calling for Contra

jefftk2 Jun 2023 20:50 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Advice for Entering AI Safety Research

scasper2 Jun 2023 20:46 UTC

25 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

AI should be used to find better morality

Jorterder2 Jun 2023 20:38 UTC

−20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

A mind needn’t be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity

So8res2 Jun 2023 18:00 UTC

78 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are computationally complex algorithms expensive to have, expensive to operate, or both?

Noosphere892 Jun 2023 17:50 UTC

7 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Replication] Conjecture’s Sparse Coding in Toy Models

Hoagy and Logan Riggs

2 Jun 2023 17:34 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Limits to Learning: Rethinking AGI’s Path to Dominance

tangerine2 Jun 2023 16:43 UTC

3 points

4 comments15 min readLW link

The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable?

Remmelt2 Jun 2023 15:42 UTC

49 points

46 comments14 min readLW link

Hallucinating Suction

Johannes C. Mayer2 Jun 2023 14:16 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Winning doesn’t need to flow through increases in rationality

MichelJusten2 Jun 2023 12:05 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Product Recommendation: LessWrong dialogues with Recast

Bart Bussmann2 Jun 2023 8:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Think carefully before calling RL policies “agents”

TurnTrout2 Jun 2023 3:46 UTC

124 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Dreams of “Mathopedia”

NicholasKross2 Jun 2023 1:30 UTC

40 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Outreach success: Intro to AI risk that has been successful

Michael Tontchev1 Jun 2023 23:12 UTC

83 points

8 comments74 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Open Source LLMs Can Now Actively Lie

Josh Levy1 Jun 2023 22:03 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Safe AI and moral AI

William D'Alessandro1 Jun 2023 21:36 UTC

−2 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

AI #14: A Very Good Sentence

Zvi1 Jun 2023 21:30 UTC

118 points

30 comments65 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Four levels of understanding decision theory

Max H1 Jun 2023 20:55 UTC

12 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC

387 points

34 comments8 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

self-improvement-executors are not goal-maximizers

bhauth1 Jun 2023 20:46 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Experimental Fat Loss

johnlawrenceaspden1 Jun 2023 20:26 UTC

23 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?

1a3orn1 Jun 2023 19:36 UTC

132 points

73 comments24 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-01

jasoncrawford1 Jun 2023 19:03 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] When does an AI become intelligent enough to become self-aware and power-seeking?

FinalFormal21 Jun 2023 18:09 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Uncertainty about the future does not imply that AGI will go well

Lauro Langosco1 Jun 2023 17:38 UTC

62 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are the arguments for/against FOOM?

FinalFormal21 Jun 2023 17:23 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

Elizabeth1 Jun 2023 17:10 UTC

147 points

82 comments19 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The unspoken but ridiculous assumption of AI doom: the hidden doom assumption

Christopher King1 Jun 2023 17:01 UTC

−9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Don’t waste your time meditating on meditation retreats!

Anton Rodenhauser1 Jun 2023 16:56 UTC

23 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Request]: Use “Epilogenics” instead of “Eugenics” in most circumstances

GeneSmith1 Jun 2023 15:36 UTC

39 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

Book Club: Thomas Schelling’s “The Strategy of Conflict”

Optimization Process1 Jun 2023 15:29 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes

Chi Nguyen1 Jun 2023 14:30 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Yes, avoiding extinction from AI is an urgent priority: a response to Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan.

Soroush Pour1 Jun 2023 13:38 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.soroushjp.com)

Work dumber not smarter

lukehmiles1 Jun 2023 12:40 UTC

95 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

Short Remark on the (subjective) mathematical ‘naturalness’ of the Nanda—Lieberum addition modulo 113 algorithm

Spencer Becker-Kahn1 Jun 2023 11:31 UTC

104 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

How will they feed us

meijer19731 Jun 2023 8:49 UTC

4 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

“LLMs Don’t Have a Coherent Model of the World”—What it Means, Why it Matters

Davidmanheim1 Jun 2023 7:46 UTC

31 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

General intelligence: what is it, what makes it hard, and will we have it soon?

homeopathicsyzygy1 Jun 2023 6:46 UTC

2 points

0 comments21 min readLW link

Maximal Sentience: A Sentience Spectrum and Test Foundation

Snowyiu1 Jun 2023 6:45 UTC

1 point

2 comments4 min readLW link

Re: The Crux List

Logan Zoellner1 Jun 2023 4:48 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

An explanation of decision theories

metachirality1 Jun 2023 3:42 UTC

20 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Dancing to Positional Calling

jefftk1 Jun 2023 2:40 UTC

11 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Alignment

Alfonso Pérez Escudero1 Jun 2023 1:06 UTC

1 point

1 comment3 min readLW link

Limiting factors to predict AI take-off speed

Alfonso Pérez Escudero31 May 2023 23:19 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

The challenge of articulating tacit knowledge

Nina Rimsky31 May 2023 23:10 UTC

48 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(ninarimsky.substack.com)

Unpredictability and the Increasing Difficulty of AI Alignment for Increasingly Intelligent AI

Max_He-Ho31 May 2023 22:25 UTC

5 points

2 comments20 min readLW link

Shutdown-Seeking AI

Simon Goldstein31 May 2023 22:19 UTC

48 points

31 comments15 min readLW link