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Posts that attempt to Define or clarify the meaning of a concept, a word, phrase, or something else.

Broadly hu­man level, cog­ni­tively com­plete AGI

p.b.6 Aug 2024 9:26 UTC
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Su­per­po­si­tion is not “just” neu­ron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC
64 points
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What Do We Mean By “Ra­tion­al­ity”?

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Mar 2009 22:33 UTC
360 points
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Com­pact vs. Wide Models

Vaniver16 Jul 2018 4:09 UTC
31 points
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What is au­ton­omy, and how does it lead to greater risk from AI?

Davidmanheim1 Aug 2023 7:58 UTC
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0 comments6 min readLW link

What’s So Bad About Ad-Hoc Math­e­mat­i­cal Defi­ni­tions?

johnswentworth15 Mar 2021 21:51 UTC
200 points
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“AI Align­ment” is a Danger­ously Over­loaded Term

Roko15 Dec 2023 14:34 UTC
108 points
100 comments3 min readLW link

What Does “Sig­nal­ling” Mean?

abramdemski16 Sep 2020 21:19 UTC
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When to use “meta” vs “self-refer­ence”, “re­cur­sive”, etc.

Alex_Altair6 Apr 2022 4:57 UTC
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The Prob­lem With The Cur­rent State of AGI Definitions

Yitz29 May 2022 13:58 UTC
40 points
22 comments8 min readLW link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 17:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments17 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral and mechanis­tic defi­ni­tions (of­ten con­fuse AI al­ign­ment dis­cus­sions)

LawrenceC20 Feb 2023 21:33 UTC
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Essen­tial Be­hav­iorism Terms

Rivka17 Mar 2023 17:41 UTC
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What Bos­ton Can Teach Us About What a Wo­man Is

ymeskhout1 May 2023 15:34 UTC
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A point of clar­ifi­ca­tion on in­fo­haz­ard terminology

eukaryote2 Feb 2020 17:43 UTC
50 points
21 comments2 min readLW link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Per­son­hood is a Reli­gious Belief

jan Sijan3 May 2023 16:16 UTC
−42 points
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Disam­biguat­ing “al­ign­ment” and re­lated no­tions

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)5 Jun 2018 15:35 UTC
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Four kinds of problems

jacobjacob21 Aug 2018 23:01 UTC
35 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

Note on Ter­minol­ogy: “Ra­tion­al­ity”, not “Ra­tion­al­ism”

Vladimir_Nesov14 Jan 2011 21:21 UTC
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An Agent is a Wor­ldline in Teg­mark V

komponisto12 Jul 2018 5:12 UTC
24 points
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Flow­sheet Logic and Note­card Logic

moridinamael9 Sep 2015 16:42 UTC
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In fa­vor of taboo­ing the word “val­ues” and us­ing only “pri­ori­ties” instead

chaosmage25 Oct 2018 22:28 UTC
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Defi­ni­tions are about effi­ciency and con­sis­tency with com­mon lan­guage.

Nacruno9610 Jul 2023 23:46 UTC
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Spaghetti Towers

eukaryote22 Dec 2018 5:29 UTC
202 points
36 comments3 min readLW link1 review
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Tech­ni­cal model re­fine­ment formalism

Stuart_Armstrong27 Aug 2020 11:54 UTC
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0 comments6 min readLW link

Glos­sary of Futurology

mind_bomber21 Aug 2015 5:51 UTC
3 points
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Define Rationality

Marshall5 Mar 2009 18:25 UTC
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Seek­ing bet­ter name for “Effec­tive Ego­ism”

DataPacRat25 Nov 2016 22:31 UTC
14 points
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[Question] What Belongs in my Glos­sary?

Zvi2 Nov 2020 19:52 UTC
14 points
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Begin­ning at the Beginning

Annoyance11 Mar 2009 19:23 UTC
5 points
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What’s in a name? That which we call a ra­tio­nal­ist…

badger24 Apr 2009 23:53 UTC
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Ra­tion­al­ity is win­ning—or is it?

taw7 May 2009 14:51 UTC
−8 points
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My con­cerns about the term ‘ra­tio­nal­ist’

JamesCole4 Jun 2009 15:31 UTC
12 points
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The two mean­ings of math­e­mat­i­cal terms

JamesCole15 Jun 2009 14:30 UTC
0 points
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ESR’s com­ments on some EY:OB/​LW posts

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jun 2009 0:16 UTC
7 points
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Ra­tion­al­ists, Post-Ra­tion­al­ists, And Ra­tion­al­ist-Adjacents

orthonormal13 Mar 2020 20:25 UTC
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Geno­cide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvis20 Oct 2023 4:14 UTC
33 points
19 comments5 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

Sen­tience, Sapi­ence, Con­scious­ness & Self-Aware­ness: Defin­ing Com­plex Terms

LukeOnline20 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
10 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

Disen­tan­gling in­ner al­ign­ment failures

Erik Jenner10 Oct 2022 18:50 UTC
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5 comments4 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity Is Ex­per­tise With Reality

Horatio Von Becker2 Sep 2021 20:45 UTC
−14 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] For­mal “left” and “right” definitions

Roman Nastenko30 Mar 2024 23:42 UTC
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[Question] What are some posthu­man­ist/​more-than-hu­man ap­proaches to defi­ni­tions of in­tel­li­gence and agency? Par­tic­u­larly in ap­pli­ca­tion to AI re­search.

Eli Hiton9 Apr 2024 21:52 UTC
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ChatGPT defines 10 con­crete terms: gener­i­cally, for 5- and 11-year-olds, and for a sci­en­tist

Bill Benzon11 Apr 2024 20:27 UTC
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“Open Source AI” is a lie, but it doesn’t have to be

jacobhaimes30 Apr 2024 23:10 UTC
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5 comments6 min readLW link
(jacob-haimes.github.io)

Let’s Talk About Emergence

jacobhaimes7 Jun 2024 19:18 UTC
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0 comments7 min readLW link
(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

Re­la­tion­ships among words, met­al­in­gual defi­ni­tion, and interpretability

Bill Benzon7 Jun 2024 19:18 UTC
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What is space? What is time?

Tahp7 Jun 2024 22:15 UTC
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Com­mon Uses of “Ac­cep­tance”

Yi-Yang26 Jul 2024 11:18 UTC
9 points
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Clar­ify­ing Align­ment Fun­da­men­tals Through the Lens of Ontology

eternal/ephemera7 Oct 2024 20:57 UTC
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0 comments24 min readLW link

Why There Is No An­swer to Your Philo­soph­i­cal Question

Bryan Frances24 Mar 2023 23:22 UTC
−12 points
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The Use­ful Idea of Truth

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Oct 2012 18:16 UTC
183 points
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