Newsletters

TagLast edit: 3 Sep 2020 3:22 UTC by Rohin Shah

Newsletters are collected summaries of recent events, posts, and academic papers.

The most prolific newsletter on Less Wrong is Rohin Shah’s weekly Alignment Newsletter.

Forecasting Newsletter. June 2020.

NunoSempere1 Jul 2020 9:46 UTC

27 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

QAPR 4: Inductive biases

Quintin Pope10 Oct 2022 22:08 UTC

64 points

2 comments18 min readLW link

[MLSN #8] Mechanistic interpretability, using law to inform AI alignment, scaling laws for proxy gaming

Dan H and ThomasW

20 Feb 2023 15:54 UTC

20 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.mlsafety.org)

Quintin’s alignment papers roundup—week 1

Quintin Pope10 Sep 2022 6:39 UTC

120 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

[AN #102]: Meta learning by GPT-3, and a list of full proposals for AI alignment

Rohin Shah3 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC

38 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[AN #115]: AI safety research problems in the AI-GA framework

Rohin Shah2 Sep 2020 17:10 UTC

19 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #36

Rohin Shah12 Dec 2018 1:10 UTC

21 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #47

Rohin Shah4 Mar 2019 4:30 UTC

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #112]: Engineering a Safer World

Rohin Shah13 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

25 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

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[AN #118]: Risks, solutions, and prioritization in a world with many AI systems

Rohin Shah23 Sep 2020 18:20 UTC

15 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

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[AN #129]: Explaining double descent by measuring bias and variance

Rohin Shah16 Dec 2020 18:10 UTC

14 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

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[AN #145]: Our three year anniversary!

Rohin Shah9 Apr 2021 17:48 UTC

19 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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Forecasting Newsletter: April 2021

NunoSempere1 May 2021 16:07 UTC

9 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[AN #166]: Is it crazy to claim we’re in the most important century?

Rohin Shah8 Oct 2021 17:30 UTC

52 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[AN #167]: Concrete ML safety problems and their relevance to x-risk

Rohin Shah20 Oct 2021 17:10 UTC

19 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #170]: Analyzing the argument for risk from power-seeking AI

Rohin Shah8 Dec 2021 18:10 UTC

21 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

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Forecasting Newsletter: January 2022

NunoSempere3 Feb 2022 19:22 UTC

17 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: February 2022

NunoSempere5 Mar 2022 19:30 UTC

33 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

[AN #173] Recent language model results from DeepMind

Rohin Shah21 Jul 2022 2:30 UTC

37 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (21 Aug − 27 Aug 22′)

Zoe Williams30 Aug 2022 1:42 UTC

57 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5 − 11 Sep 22′)

Zoe Williams12 Sep 2022 23:24 UTC

24 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Quintin’s alignment papers roundup—week 2

Quintin Pope19 Sep 2022 13:41 UTC

67 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

QAPR 3: interpretability-guided training of neural nets

Quintin Pope28 Sep 2022 16:02 UTC

48 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

[MLSN #6]: Transparency survey, provable robustness, ML models that predict the future

Dan H12 Oct 2022 20:56 UTC

26 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (10 − 16 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams17 Oct 2022 22:51 UTC

12 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (17 − 23 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams25 Oct 2022 2:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (24 − 30th Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams1 Nov 2022 2:58 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (31st Oct − 6th Nov 22′)

Zoe Williams8 Nov 2022 3:58 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (7th Nov − 13th Nov 22′)

Zoe Williams16 Nov 2022 3:04 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What AI newsletters or substacks about AI do you recommend?

wunan25 Nov 2022 19:29 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (14th Nov − 27th Nov 22′)

Zoe Williams29 Nov 2022 23:00 UTC

21 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

ML Safety at NeurIPS & Paradigmatic AI Safety? MLAISU W49

Esben Kran and Steinthal

9 Dec 2022 10:38 UTC

19 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(newsletter.apartresearch.com)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5th Dec − 11th Dec 22′)

Zoe Williams13 Dec 2022 2:53 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Summaries (9th Jan to 15th Jan 23′)

Zoe Williams18 Jan 2023 7:29 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (16th − 22nd Jan ’23)

Zoe Williams23 Jan 2023 3:46 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (23rd − 29th Jan ’23)

Zoe Williams31 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (30th Jan − 5th Feb 2023)

Zoe Williams7 Feb 2023 2:13 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (27th Feb − 5th Mar 2023)

Zoe Williams6 Mar 2023 3:18 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (6th − 12th March 2023)

Zoe Williams14 Mar 2023 3:01 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety − 7 months of discussion in 17 minutes

Zoe Williams15 Mar 2023 23:41 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (13th − 19th March 2023)

Zoe Williams20 Mar 2023 4:18 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (20th − 26th March 2023)

Zoe Williams27 Mar 2023 20:46 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: April 2020

NunoSempere30 Apr 2020 16:41 UTC

22 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: May 2020.

NunoSempere31 May 2020 12:35 UTC

9 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Null-boxing Newcomb’s Problem

Yitz13 Jul 2020 16:32 UTC

33 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

May gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Jun 2018 14:47 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Rationality Feed: Last Month’s Best Posts

sapphire12 Feb 2018 13:18 UTC

23 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #13: 07/02/18

Rohin Shah2 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC

70 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Alignment Newsletter #16: 07/23/18

Rohin Shah23 Jul 2018 16:20 UTC

42 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #15: 07/16/18

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC

42 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

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[AN #58] Mesa optimization: what it is, and why we should care

Rohin Shah24 Jun 2019 16:10 UTC

54 points

9 comments8 min readLW link

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Rationality Feed: Last Month’s Best Posts

sapphire21 Mar 2018 14:12 UTC

20 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[AN #59] How arguments for AI risk have changed over time

Rohin Shah8 Jul 2019 17:20 UTC

43 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The Alignment Newsletter #1: 04/09/18

Rohin Shah9 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC

12 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #2: 04/16/18

Rohin Shah16 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #3: 04/23/18

Rohin Shah23 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #4: 04/30/18

Rohin Shah30 Apr 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #5: 05/07/18

Rohin Shah7 May 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #6: 05/14/18

Rohin Shah14 May 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #7: 05/21/18

Rohin Shah21 May 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #8: 05/28/18

Rohin Shah28 May 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #9: 06/04/18

Rohin Shah4 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #10: 06/11/18

Rohin Shah11 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #11: 06/18/18

Rohin Shah18 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

The Alignment Newsletter #12: 06/25/18

Rohin Shah25 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #14

Rohin Shah9 Jul 2018 16:20 UTC

14 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Alignment Newsletter #17

Rohin Shah30 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC

32 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #18

Rohin Shah6 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC

17 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #19

Rohin Shah14 Aug 2018 2:10 UTC

18 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #20

Rohin Shah20 Aug 2018 16:00 UTC

12 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #21

Rohin Shah27 Aug 2018 16:20 UTC

25 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #22

Rohin Shah3 Sep 2018 16:10 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #23

Rohin Shah10 Sep 2018 17:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #24

Rohin Shah17 Sep 2018 16:20 UTC

10 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #25

Rohin Shah24 Sep 2018 16:10 UTC

18 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #26

Rohin Shah2 Oct 2018 16:10 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #27

Rohin Shah9 Oct 2018 1:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #28

Rohin Shah15 Oct 2018 21:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #29

Rohin Shah22 Oct 2018 16:20 UTC

15 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #30

Rohin Shah29 Oct 2018 16:10 UTC

29 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #31

Rohin Shah5 Nov 2018 23:50 UTC

17 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #32

Rohin Shah12 Nov 2018 17:20 UTC

18 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #33

Rohin Shah19 Nov 2018 17:20 UTC

23 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #34

Rohin Shah26 Nov 2018 23:10 UTC

24 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #35

Rohin Shah4 Dec 2018 1:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #37

Rohin Shah17 Dec 2018 19:10 UTC

25 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #38

Rohin Shah25 Dec 2018 16:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #39

Rohin Shah1 Jan 2019 8:10 UTC

32 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #40

Rohin Shah8 Jan 2019 20:10 UTC

21 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #41

Rohin Shah17 Jan 2019 8:10 UTC

22 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #42

Rohin Shah22 Jan 2019 2:00 UTC

20 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #43

Rohin Shah29 Jan 2019 21:10 UTC

14 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #44

Rohin Shah6 Feb 2019 8:30 UTC

18 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #45

Rohin Shah14 Feb 2019 2:10 UTC

25 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #46

Rohin Shah22 Feb 2019 0:10 UTC

12 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #48

Rohin Shah11 Mar 2019 21:10 UTC

29 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #49

Rohin Shah20 Mar 2019 4:20 UTC

23 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #50

Rohin Shah28 Mar 2019 18:10 UTC

15 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #51

Rohin Shah3 Apr 2019 4:10 UTC

25 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

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Alignment Newsletter #52

Rohin Shah6 Apr 2019 1:20 UTC

19 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

Alignment Newsletter One Year Retrospective

Rohin Shah10 Apr 2019 6:58 UTC

94 points

31 comments21 min readLW link

Alignment Newsletter #53

Rohin Shah18 Apr 2019 17:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

[AN #54] Boxing a finite-horizon AI system to keep it unambitious

Rohin Shah28 Apr 2019 5:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #55] Regulatory markets and international standards as a means of ensuring beneficial AI

Rohin Shah5 May 2019 2:20 UTC

17 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #56] Should ML researchers stop running experiments before making hypotheses?

Rohin Shah21 May 2019 2:20 UTC

21 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #57] Why we should focus on robustness in AI safety, and the analogous problems in programming

Rohin Shah5 Jun 2019 23:20 UTC

26 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #60] A new AI challenge: Minecraft agents that assist human players in creative mode

Rohin Shah22 Jul 2019 17:00 UTC

23 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #61] AI policy and governance, from two people in the field

Rohin Shah5 Aug 2019 17:00 UTC

12 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #62] Are adversarial examples caused by real but imperceptible features?

Rohin Shah22 Aug 2019 17:10 UTC

27 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #63] How architecture search, meta learning, and environment design could lead to general intelligence

Rohin Shah10 Sep 2019 19:10 UTC

21 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #64]: Using Deep RL and Reward Uncertainty to Incentivize Preference Learning

Rohin Shah16 Sep 2019 17:10 UTC

11 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #65]: Learning useful skills by watching humans “play”

Rohin Shah23 Sep 2019 17:30 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #66]: Decomposing robustness into capability robustness and alignment robustness

Rohin Shah30 Sep 2019 18:00 UTC

12 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

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[AN #67]: Creating environments in which to study inner alignment failures

Rohin Shah7 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC

17 points

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[AN #68]: The attainable utility theory of impact

Rohin Shah14 Oct 2019 17:00 UTC

17 points

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[AN #69] Stuart Russell’s new book on why we need to replace the standard model of AI

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC

60 points

12 comments15 min readLW link

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[AN #70]: Agents that help humans who are still learning about their own preferences

Rohin Shah23 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #71]: Avoiding reward tampering through current-RF optimization

Rohin Shah30 Oct 2019 17:10 UTC

12 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #72]: Alignment, robustness, methodology, and system building as research priorities for AI safety

Rohin Shah6 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC

26 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

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[AN #73]: Detecting catastrophic failures by learning how agents tend to break

Rohin Shah13 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC

11 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #74]: Separating beneficial AI into competence, alignment, and coping with impacts

Rohin Shah20 Nov 2019 18:20 UTC

19 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #75]: Solving Atari and Go with learned game models, and thoughts from a MIRI employee

Rohin Shah27 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC

38 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

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[AN #76]: How dataset size affects robustness, and benchmarking safe exploration by measuring constraint violations

Rohin Shah4 Dec 2019 18:10 UTC

14 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #77]: Double descent: a unification of statistical theory and modern ML practice

Rohin Shah18 Dec 2019 18:30 UTC

21 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

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[AN #78] Formalizing power and instrumental convergence, and the end-of-year AI safety charity comparison

Rohin Shah26 Dec 2019 1:10 UTC

26 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #79]: Recursive reward modeling as an alignment technique integrated with deep RL

Rohin Shah1 Jan 2020 18:00 UTC

13 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

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[AN #80]: Why AI risk might be solved without additional intervention from longtermists

Rohin Shah2 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

35 points

94 comments10 min readLW link

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[AN #81]: Universality as a potential solution to conceptual difficulties in intent alignment

Rohin Shah8 Jan 2020 18:00 UTC

31 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

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[AN #82]: How OpenAI Five distributed their training computation

Rohin Shah15 Jan 2020 18:20 UTC

19 points

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[AN #83]: Sample-efficient deep learning with ReMixMatch

Rohin Shah22 Jan 2020 18:10 UTC

15 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

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[AN #84] Reviewing AI alignment work in 2018-19

Rohin Shah29 Jan 2020 18:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

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[AN #85]: The normative questions we should be asking for AI alignment, and a surprisingly good chatbot

Rohin Shah5 Feb 2020 18:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #86]: Improving debate and factored cognition through human experiments

Rohin Shah12 Feb 2020 18:10 UTC

14 points

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[AN #87]: What might happen as deep learning scales even further?

Rohin Shah19 Feb 2020 18:20 UTC

28 points

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[AN #88]: How the principal-agent literature relates to AI risk

Rohin Shah27 Feb 2020 9:10 UTC

18 points

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[AN #89]: A unifying formalism for preference learning algorithms

Rohin Shah4 Mar 2020 18:20 UTC

16 points

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[AN #90]: How search landscapes can contain self-reinforcing feedback loops

Rohin Shah11 Mar 2020 17:30 UTC

11 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #91]: Concepts, implementations, problems, and a benchmark for impact measurement

Rohin Shah18 Mar 2020 17:10 UTC

15 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

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[AN #92]: Learning good representations with contrastive predictive coding

Rohin Shah25 Mar 2020 17:20 UTC

18 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

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[AN #93]: The Precipice we’re standing at, and how we can back away from it

Rohin Shah1 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC

24 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

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[AN #94]: AI alignment as translation between humans and machines

Rohin Shah8 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC

11 points

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[AN #95]: A framework for thinking about how to make AI go well

Rohin Shah15 Apr 2020 17:10 UTC

20 points

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[AN #96]: Buck and I discuss/argue about AI Alignment

Rohin Shah22 Apr 2020 17:20 UTC

17 points

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[AN #97]: Are there historical examples of large, robust discontinuities?

Rohin Shah29 Apr 2020 17:30 UTC

15 points

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[AN #98]: Understanding neural net training by seeing which gradients were helpful

Rohin Shah6 May 2020 17:10 UTC

22 points

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[AN #99]: Doubling times for the efficiency of AI algorithms

Rohin Shah13 May 2020 17:20 UTC

29 points

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[AN #100]: What might go wrong if you learn a reward function while acting

Rohin Shah20 May 2020 17:30 UTC

33 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

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[AN #101]: Why we should rigorously measure and forecast AI progress

Rohin Shah27 May 2020 17:20 UTC

15 points

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[AN #103]: ARCHES: an agenda for existential safety, and combining natural language with deep RL

Rohin Shah10 Jun 2020 17:20 UTC

29 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

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[AN #104]: The perils of inaccessible information, and what we can learn about AI alignment from COVID

Rohin Shah18 Jun 2020 17:10 UTC

19 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

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[AN #105]: The economic trajectory of humanity, and what we might mean by optimization

Rohin Shah24 Jun 2020 17:30 UTC

24 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

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[AN #106]: Evaluating generalization ability of learned reward models

Rohin Shah1 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC

14 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

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[AN #107]: The convergent instrumental subgoals of goal-directed agents

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2020 6:47 UTC

13 points

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[AN #108]: Why we should scrutinize arguments for AI risk

Rohin Shah16 Jul 2020 6:47 UTC

19 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

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[AN #109]: Teaching neural nets to generalize the way humans would

Rohin Shah22 Jul 2020 17:10 UTC

17 points

3 comments9 min readLW link

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[AN #110]: Learning features from human feedback to enable reward learning

Rohin Shah29 Jul 2020 17:20 UTC

13 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

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Russian x-risks newsletter, summer 2019

avturchin7 Sep 2019 9:50 UTC

39 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Rational Feed: Last Month’s Best Posts

sapphire2 May 2018 18:19 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Forecasting Newsletter: July 2020.

NunoSempere1 Aug 2020 17:08 UTC

21 points

4 comments22 min readLW link

June gwern.net newsletter

gwern4 Jul 2018 22:59 UTC

34 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

[AN #111]: The Circuits hypotheses for deep learning

Rohin Shah5 Aug 2020 17:40 UTC

23 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

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Call for contributors to the Alignment Newsletter

Rohin Shah21 Aug 2019 18:21 UTC

39 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

November 2018 gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Dec 2018 13:57 UTC

35 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

June 2019 gwern.net newsletter

gwern1 Jul 2019 14:35 UTC

29 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Recent updates to gwern.net (2015-2016)

gwern26 Aug 2016 19:22 UTC

42 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Recent updates to gwern.net (2011)

gwern26 Nov 2011 1:58 UTC

45 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

October gwern.net links

gwern1 Nov 2018 1:11 UTC

29 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

March gwern.net link roundup

gwern20 Apr 2018 19:09 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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Announcing Rational Newsletter

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Recent updates to gwern.net (2013-2014)

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Announcing LessWrong Digest

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July 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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[AN #113]: Checking the ethical intuitions of large language models

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[AN #114]: Theory-inspired safety solutions for powerful Bayesian RL agents

Rohin Shah26 Aug 2020 17:20 UTC

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Bi-Weekly Rational Feed

sapphire24 Jun 2017 0:07 UTC

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September 2019 gwern.net newsletter

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Russian x-risks newsletter Summer 2020

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Forecasting Newsletter: August 2020.

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Russian x-risks newsletter #2, fall 2019

avturchin3 Dec 2019 16:54 UTC

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[AN #116]: How to make explanations of neurons compositional

Rohin Shah9 Sep 2020 17:20 UTC

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Dec 2019 gwern.net newsletter

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Recent updates to gwern.net (2014-2015)

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[AN #123]: Inferring what is valuable in order to align recommender systems

Rohin Shah28 Oct 2020 17:00 UTC

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Forecasting Newsletter: October 2020.

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Bi-weekly Rational Feed

sapphire8 Aug 2017 13:56 UTC

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[AN #125]: Neural network scaling laws across multiple modalities

Rohin Shah11 Nov 2020 18:20 UTC

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[AN #127]: Rethinking agency: Cartesian frames as a formalization of ways to carve up the world into an agent and its environment

Rohin Shah2 Dec 2020 18:20 UTC

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November 2020 gwern.net newsletter

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[AN #133]: Building machines that can cooperate (with humans, institutions, or other machines)

Rohin Shah13 Jan 2021 18:10 UTC

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[AN #136]: How well will GPT-N perform on downstream tasks?

Rohin Shah3 Feb 2021 18:10 UTC

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[AN #172] Sorry for the long hiatus!

Rohin Shah5 Jul 2022 6:20 UTC

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EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)

Zoe Williams6 Sep 2022 11:06 UTC

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EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (26 Sep − 9 Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams10 Oct 2022 23:58 UTC

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Newsletter for Alignment Research: The ML Safety Updates

Esben Kran22 Oct 2022 16:17 UTC

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AI & ML Safety Updates W43

Esben Kran and Steinthal

28 Oct 2022 13:18 UTC

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How Should AIS Relate To Its Funders? W46

Steinthal, Esben Kran and Sabrina Zaki

21 Nov 2022 15:58 UTC

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NeurIPS Safety & ChatGPT. MLAISU W48

Esben Kran and Steinthal

2 Dec 2022 15:50 UTC

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Will Machines Ever Rule the World? MLAISU W50

Esben Kran16 Dec 2022 11:03 UTC

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EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (12th Dec − 18th Dec 22′)

Zoe Williams20 Dec 2022 9:49 UTC

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AI improving AI [MLAISU W01!]

Esben Kran6 Jan 2023 11:13 UTC

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[MLSN #7]: an example of an emergent internal optimizer

joshc and Dan H

9 Jan 2023 19:39 UTC

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Robustness & Evolution [MLAISU W02]

Esben Kran13 Jan 2023 15:47 UTC

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Generalizability & Hope for AI [MLAISU W03]

Esben Kran20 Jan 2023 10:06 UTC

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Decentralized Research & ChatGPT [MLAISU W04]

Esben Kran27 Jan 2023 13:55 UTC

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Oversight and AI risk [MLAISU W05]

Esben Kran and Fazl

6 Feb 2023 12:26 UTC

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Arms Race Dynamics [MLAISU W06]

Esben Kran and Fazl

10 Feb 2023 13:20 UTC

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Bing misalignment [MLAISU W07]

Esben Kran and Fazl

21 Feb 2023 9:02 UTC

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RL Interpretability & Perspectives on AI Safety [MLAISU W08-09]

Esben Kran and Fazl

6 Mar 2023 23:52 UTC

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GPT-4 & Japanese Alignment [MLAISU W10]

Esben Kran and Fazl

15 Mar 2023 18:07 UTC

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