Some rea­sons to not say “Doomer”

Ruby9 Jul 2023 21:05 UTC
45 points
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The Seeker’s Game – Vignettes from the Bay

Yulia9 Jul 2023 19:32 UTC
136 points
18 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Why have ex­po­sure no­tifi­ca­tion apps been (mostly) dis­con­tinued?

VipulNaik9 Jul 2023 19:07 UTC
10 points
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[Question] The Ne­ces­sity of Pri­vacy: A Con­di­tion for So­cial Change and Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion?

Blake9 Jul 2023 18:42 UTC
−8 points
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At­tempt­ing to De­con­struct “Real”

herschel9 Jul 2023 16:40 UTC
21 points
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Quick pro­posal: De­ci­sion mar­ket re­grantor us­ing man­i­fund (please im­prove)

Nathan Young9 Jul 2023 12:49 UTC
10 points
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[Question] Where are the peo­ple build­ing AGI in the non-dumb way?

Johannes C. Mayer9 Jul 2023 11:39 UTC
10 points
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[Question] What to read on the “in­for­mal multi-world model”?

mishka9 Jul 2023 4:48 UTC
13 points
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Whether LLMs “un­der­stand” any­thing is mostly a ter­minolog­i­cal dispute

RobertM9 Jul 2023 3:31 UTC
10 points
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Ta­boo Truth

Tomás B.8 Jul 2023 23:23 UTC
31 points
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“View”

herschel8 Jul 2023 23:19 UTC
6 points
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[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situ­a­tion?

Q Home8 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC
16 points
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A Two-Part Sys­tem for Prac­ti­cal Self-Care

Jonathan Moregård8 Jul 2023 21:23 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

Really Strong Fea­tures Found in Resi­d­ual Stream

Logan Riggs8 Jul 2023 19:40 UTC
69 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Eight Strate­gies for Tack­ling the Hard Part of the Align­ment Problem

scasper8 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC
42 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

“Con­cepts of Agency in Biol­ogy” (Okasha, 2023) - Brief Paper Summary

Nora_Ammann8 Jul 2023 18:22 UTC
40 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

Blan­chard’s Danger­ous Idea and the Plight of the Lu­cid Crossdreamer

Zack_M_Davis8 Jul 2023 18:03 UTC
37 points
135 comments72 min readLW link
(unremediatedgender.space)

Con­tin­u­ous Ad­ver­sar­ial Qual­ity As­surance: Ex­tend­ing RLHF and Con­sti­tu­tional AI

Benaya Koren8 Jul 2023 17:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Com­mentless down­vot­ing is not a good way to fight infohazards

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2023 17:29 UTC
6 points
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[Question] Why does anx­iety (?) make me dumb?

TeaTieAndHat8 Jul 2023 16:13 UTC
18 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Eco­nomic Time Bomb: An Over­looked Em­ploy­ment Bub­ble Threat­en­ing the US Economy

Glenn Clayton8 Jul 2023 15:19 UTC
4 points
10 comments6 min readLW link

What is ev­ery­one do­ing in AI governance

Igor Ivanov8 Jul 2023 15:16 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

LLM mis­al­ign­ment can prob­a­bly be found with­out man­ual prompt engineering

ProgramCrafter8 Jul 2023 14:35 UTC
1 point
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You must not fool your­self, and you are the eas­iest per­son to fool

Richard_Ngo8 Jul 2023 14:05 UTC
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Fixed Point: a love story

Richard_Ngo8 Jul 2023 13:56 UTC
90 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing AI Align­ment work­shop at the ALIFE 2023 conference

rorygreig8 Jul 2023 13:52 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(humanvaluesandartificialagency.com)

3D Printed Talk­box Cap

jefftk8 Jul 2023 13:00 UTC
9 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Writ­ing this post as ra­tio­nal­ity case study

Ben Amitay8 Jul 2023 12:24 UTC
10 points
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[Question] What Does LessWrong/​EA Think of Hu­man In­tel­li­gence Aug­men­ta­tion as of mid-2023?

lukemarks8 Jul 2023 11:42 UTC
84 points
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[Question] Re­quest for feed­back—in­fo­haz­ards in test­ing LLMs for causal rea­son­ing?

DirectedEvolution8 Jul 2023 9:01 UTC
16 points
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Views on when AGI comes and on strat­egy to re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk

TsviBT8 Jul 2023 9:00 UTC
95 points
31 comments14 min readLW link

Week­day Even­ing Beach Picnics

jefftk8 Jul 2023 2:20 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

ACI#4: Seed AI is the new Per­pet­ual Mo­tion Machine

Akira Pyinya8 Jul 2023 1:17 UTC
−7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Links to dis­cus­sions on so­cial equil­ibrium and hu­man value af­ter (al­igned) su­per-AI?

Michael Tontchev8 Jul 2023 1:01 UTC
7 points
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Notes from the Qatar Cen­ter for Global Bank­ing and Fi­nance 3rd An­nual Conference

PixelatedPenguin7 Jul 2023 23:48 UTC
2 points
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In­tro­duc­ing bayescalc.io

Adele Lopez7 Jul 2023 16:11 UTC
114 points
29 comments1 min readLW link
(bayescalc.io)

Meetup Tip: Ask At­ten­dees To Ex­plain It

Screwtape7 Jul 2023 16:08 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Pass­ing the ide­olog­i­cal Tur­ing test? Ar­gu­ments against ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI.

Nina Rimsky7 Jul 2023 10:38 UTC
42 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(ninarimsky.substack.com)

In­ter­pret­ing Mo­du­lar Ad­di­tion in MLPs

Bart Bussmann7 Jul 2023 9:22 UTC
15 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

In­ter­nal in­de­pen­dent re­view for lan­guage model agent alignment

Seth Herd7 Jul 2023 6:54 UTC
53 points
26 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Can LessWrong provide me with some­thing I find ob­vi­ously highly use­ful to my own prac­ti­cal life?

agrippa7 Jul 2023 3:08 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

ask me about technology

bhauth7 Jul 2023 2:03 UTC
23 points
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Ap­par­ently, of the 195 Million the DoD al­lo­cated in Univer­sity Re­search Fund­ing Awards in 2022, more than half of them con­cerned AI or com­pute hard­ware research

mako yass7 Jul 2023 1:20 UTC
41 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.defense.gov)

What are the best non-LW places to read on al­ign­ment progress?

Raemon7 Jul 2023 0:57 UTC
50 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Two paths to win the AGI transition

Nathan Helm-Burger6 Jul 2023 21:59 UTC
11 points
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Em­piri­cal Ev­i­dence Against “The Longest Train­ing Run”

NickGabs6 Jul 2023 18:32 UTC
24 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

Progress Stud­ies Fel­low­ship look­ing for members

jay ram6 Jul 2023 17:41 UTC
3 points
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Does biol­ogy mat­ter to con­scious­ness?

Reed6 Jul 2023 17:38 UTC
2 points
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BOUNTY AVAILABLE: AI ethi­cists, what are your ob­ject-level ar­gu­ments against AI notkil­lev­ery­oneism?

Peter Berggren6 Jul 2023 17:32 UTC
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Lay­er­ing and Tech­ni­cal Debt in the Global Wayfind­ing Model

herschel6 Jul 2023 17:30 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link