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More examples of goal misgeneralization
Rohin Shah
and
Vikrant Varma
Oct 7, 2022, 2:38 PM
56
points
8
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)
Preparing to Call a Family Dance
jefftk
Oct 7, 2022, 12:50 PM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Calibrate—New Chrome Extension for hiding numbers so you can guess
chanamessinger
Oct 7, 2022, 11:21 AM
59
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(chrome.google.com)
EA Berlin Public Meetup October 2022
pranomostro
Oct 7, 2022, 10:11 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Accrue Nuclear Dignity Points
Pee Doom
Oct 7, 2022, 8:40 AM
9
points
8
comments
5
min read
LW
link
What does it mean for an AGI to be ‘safe’?
So8res
Oct 7, 2022, 4:13 AM
74
points
29
comments
3
min read
LW
link
linkpost: neuro-symbolic hybrid ai
Nathan Helm-Burger
Oct 6, 2022, 9:52 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
So, geez there’s a lot of AI content these days
Raemon
Oct 6, 2022, 9:32 PM
258
points
140
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Analysing a 2036 Takeover Scenario
ukc10014
Oct 6, 2022, 8:48 PM
9
points
2
comments
27
min read
LW
link
Covid 10/6/22: Overreactions Aplenty
Zvi
Oct 6, 2022, 7:10 PM
37
points
18
comments
31
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A shot at the diamond-alignment problem
TurnTrout
Oct 6, 2022, 6:29 PM
95
points
67
comments
15
min read
LW
link
The probability that Artificial General Intelligence will be developed by 2043 is extremely low.
cveres
Oct 6, 2022, 6:05 PM
−13
points
8
comments
LW
link
American invention from the “heroic age” to the system-building era
jasoncrawford
Oct 6, 2022, 5:19 PM
13
points
1
comment
10
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
More Recent Progress in the Theory of Neural Networks
jylin04
Oct 6, 2022, 4:57 PM
82
points
6
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Research Deprioritizing External Communication
jefftk
Oct 6, 2022, 12:20 PM
34
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Cape Town ACX/Rationality Meetup
Jordan Pieters
Oct 6, 2022, 10:39 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Warning Shots Probably Wouldn’t Change The Picture Much
So8res
Oct 6, 2022, 5:15 AM
130
points
42
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Notes on Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Vaniver
Oct 6, 2022, 2:36 AM
24
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Against Arguments For Exploitation
blackstampede
Oct 6, 2022, 1:58 AM
18
points
8
comments
7
min read
LW
link
AI Timelines via Cumulative Optimization Power: Less Long, More Short
jacob_cannell
Oct 6, 2022, 12:21 AM
138
points
33
comments
6
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Do uncertainty/planning costs make convex hulls unrealistic?
eapi
Oct 6, 2022, 12:10 AM
16
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Generative, Episodic Objectives for Safe AI
Michael Glass
Oct 5, 2022, 11:18 PM
11
points
3
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Dependency Tree For The Development Of Plate Tectonics
Elizabeth
Oct 5, 2022, 10:40 PM
41
points
3
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
[Question]
How does anthropic reasoning and illusionism/eliminitivism interact?
Shiroe
Oct 5, 2022, 10:31 PM
5
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Finding Great Tutors
Ulisse Mini
Oct 5, 2022, 10:08 PM
27
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-05
jasoncrawford
Oct 5, 2022, 7:24 PM
9
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
Henrik Karlsson
Oct 5, 2022, 7:07 PM
89
points
12
comments
11
min read
LW
link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)
Neural Tangent Kernel Distillation
Thomas Larsen
and
Jeremy Gillen
Oct 5, 2022, 6:11 PM
76
points
20
comments
8
min read
LW
link
Tracking Compute Stocks and Flows: Case Studies?
Cullen
Oct 5, 2022, 5:57 PM
11
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Linkpost] “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights”—Office of Science and Technology Policy, USA (2022)
T431
Oct 5, 2022, 4:42 PM
9
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.whitehouse.gov)
Paper: Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor [Deepmind]
LawrenceC
Oct 5, 2022, 4:20 PM
82
points
18
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.deepmind.com)
Reflection Mechanisms as an Alignment target: A follow-up survey
Marius Hobbhahn
,
elandgre
and
Beth Barnes
Oct 5, 2022, 2:03 PM
15
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Charitable Reads of Anti-AGI-X-Risk Arguments, Part 1
sstich
Oct 5, 2022, 5:03 AM
3
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Sleep Training
jefftk
Oct 5, 2022, 2:10 AM
36
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Looping
Jarred Filmer
Oct 5, 2022, 1:47 AM
56
points
6
comments
2
min read
LW
link
How are you dealing with ontology identification?
Erik Jenner
Oct 4, 2022, 11:28 PM
34
points
10
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Smoke without fire is scary
Adam Jermyn
Oct 4, 2022, 9:08 PM
52
points
22
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Deprecated: Some humans are fitness maximizers
Shoshannah Tekofsky
Oct 4, 2022, 7:38 PM
6
points
22
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Will you let your kid play football?
5hout
Oct 4, 2022, 5:48 PM
14
points
12
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Quick notes on “mirror neurons”
Steven Byrnes
Oct 4, 2022, 5:39 PM
39
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Feature request: Filter by read/ upvoted
Nathan Young
Oct 4, 2022, 5:17 PM
16
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Layers Of Mind
PeteG
Oct 4, 2022, 4:52 PM
−8
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does Google still hire people via their foobar challenge?
Algon
Oct 4, 2022, 3:39 PM
11
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Russia will do a nuclear test
sanxiyn
Oct 4, 2022, 2:59 PM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Paper+Summary: OMNIGROK: GROKKING BEYOND ALGORITHMIC DATA
Marius Hobbhahn
Oct 4, 2022, 7:22 AM
46
points
11
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(arxiv.org)
Frontline of AGI Alignment
SD Marlow
Oct 4, 2022, 3:47 AM
−10
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(robothouse.substack.com)
Adversarial vs Collaborative Contexts
jefftk
Oct 4, 2022, 2:40 AM
31
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Humans aren’t fitness maximizers
So8res
Oct 4, 2022, 1:31 AM
50
points
46
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Self-defeating conspiracy theorists and their theories
M. Y. Zuo
Oct 4, 2022, 12:48 AM
5
points
12
comments
3
min read
LW
link
No free lunch theorem is irrelevant
Catnee
Oct 4, 2022, 12:21 AM
18
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
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