Con­tra shard the­ory, in the con­text of the di­a­mond max­i­mizer problem

So8resOct 13, 2022, 11:51 PM
107 points
19 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Greed Is the Root of This Evil

Thane RuthenisOct 13, 2022, 8:40 PM
18 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

Ve­hi­cle Pla­toon­ing—a real world ex­am­i­na­tion of the difficul­ties in coordination

M. Y. ZuoOct 13, 2022, 7:33 PM
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ship in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety is open for ap­pli­ca­tions!

Cynthia ChenOct 13, 2022, 6:32 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Feelings

Eris DiscordiaOct 13, 2022, 5:48 PM
9 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Against the nor­ma­tive re­al­ist’s wager

Joe CarlsmithOct 13, 2022, 4:35 PM
16 points
9 comments23 min readLW link

Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/​13/​22)

ZviOct 13, 2022, 3:40 PM
52 points
16 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Misal­ign­ment-by-de­fault in multi-agent systems

Oct 13, 2022, 3:38 PM
21 points
8 comments20 min readLW link
(www.gladstone.ai)

A stub­born un­be­liever fi­nally gets the depth of the AI al­ign­ment problem

aelwoodOct 13, 2022, 3:16 PM
17 points
8 comments3 min readLW link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Covid 10/​13/​22: Just the Facts

ZviOct 13, 2022, 2:40 PM
28 points
7 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When should you defer to ex­per­tise? A use­ful heuris­tic (Cross­post from EA fo­rum)

Noosphere89Oct 13, 2022, 2:14 PM
9 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cat­a­logu­ing Pri­ors in The­ory and Practice

Paul BricmanOct 13, 2022, 12:36 PM
13 points
8 comments7 min readLW link

Trans­for­ma­tive VR Is Likely Com­ing Soon

jimrandomhOct 13, 2022, 6:25 AM
92 points
46 comments2 min readLW link

Cam­bridge LW Meetup: See the Invisible

Tony WangOct 13, 2022, 5:44 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Glos­sary Dance Game

jefftkOct 13, 2022, 2:20 AM
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Nice­ness is unnatural

So8resOct 13, 2022, 1:30 AM
130 points
20 comments8 min readLW link1 review

A strange twist on the road to AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 11:27 PM
−8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Help out Red­wood Re­search’s in­ter­pretabil­ity team by find­ing heuris­tics im­ple­mented by GPT-2 small

Oct 12, 2022, 9:25 PM
50 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

Towards a com­pre­hen­sive study of po­ten­tial psy­cholog­i­cal causes of the or­di­nary range of vari­a­tion of af­fec­tive gen­der iden­tity in males

tailcalledOct 12, 2022, 9:10 PM
52 points
4 comments37 min readLW link

Six (and a half) in­tu­itions for KL divergence

CallumMcDougallOct 12, 2022, 9:07 PM
165 points
27 comments10 min readLW link1 review
(www.perfectlynormal.co.uk)

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

Dan HOct 12, 2022, 8:56 PM
27 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Pre­vi­ous Work on Re­cre­at­ing Neu­ral Net­work In­put from In­ter­me­di­ate Layer Activations

bglassOct 12, 2022, 7:28 PM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link

Be more effec­tive by learn­ing im­por­tant prac­ti­cal knowl­edge us­ing flashcards

StenemoOct 12, 2022, 6:05 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­ti­cle Re­view: Google’s AlphaTensor

Robert_AIZIOct 12, 2022, 6:04 PM
8 points
4 comments10 min readLW link

Align­ment 201 curriculum

Richard_NgoOct 12, 2022, 6:03 PM
102 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.agisafetyfundamentals.com)

Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12

jasoncrawfordOct 12, 2022, 4:59 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Build­ing a trans­former from scratch—AI safety up-skil­ling challenge

Marius HobbhahnOct 12, 2022, 3:40 PM
42 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal con­ver­gence in sin­gle-agent systems

Oct 12, 2022, 12:24 PM
33 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(www.gladstone.ai)

Sin­ga­pore—Small ca­sual din­ner in Chi­na­town #5

Joe RoccaOct 12, 2022, 8:59 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A game of mattering

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
28 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Cal­ibra­tion of a thou­sand predictions

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
57 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

My ar­gu­ment against AGI

cveresOct 12, 2022, 6:33 AM
7 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Ac­tu­ally, All Nu­clear Famine Papers are Bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 5:58 AM
113 points
37 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Contin­gency is not arbitrary

Gordon Seidoh WorleyOct 12, 2022, 4:35 AM
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

That one apoc­a­lyp­tic nu­clear famine pa­per is bunk

Lao MeinOct 12, 2022, 3:33 AM
110 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

As­tralCodexTen and Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup Or­ganisers’ Re­treat Asia Pa­cific region

Oct 12, 2022, 3:20 AM
14 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Ab­bots Brom­ley Horn Dance History

jefftkOct 12, 2022, 2:10 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Power-Seek­ing AI and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Antonio FrancaOct 11, 2022, 10:50 PM
6 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

From tech­noc­racy to the counterculture

jasoncrawfordOct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM
28 points
1 comment26 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Pret­tified AI Safety Game Cards

abramdemskiOct 11, 2022, 7:35 PM
47 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On the proper pi­lot­ing of flesh shoots

Mordecai WeynbergOct 11, 2022, 6:52 PM
−4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why I think nu­clear war trig­gered by Rus­sian tac­ti­cal nukes in Ukraine is unlikely

Dave OrrOct 11, 2022, 6:30 PM
50 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Anony­mous ad­vice: If you want to re­duce AI risk, should you take roles that ad­vance AI ca­pa­bil­ities?

Benjamin HiltonOct 11, 2022, 2:16 PM
54 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Misal­ign­ment Harms Can Be Caused by Low In­tel­li­gence Systems

DialecticEelOct 11, 2022, 1:39 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Sketch] Val­idity Cri­te­rion for Log­i­cal Counterfactuals

DragonGodOct 11, 2022, 1:31 PM
6 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How much does the risk of dy­ing from nu­clear war differ within and be­tween coun­tries?

amaraiOct 11, 2022, 11:55 AM
4 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Did you en­joy Ramez Naam’s “Nexus” tril­ogy? Check out this in­ter­view on neu­rotech and the law.

fowlertmOct 11, 2022, 11:10 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What “The Mes­sage” Was For Me

Alex BeymanOct 11, 2022, 8:08 AM
−3 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Up­dates and Clarifications

SD MarlowOct 11, 2022, 5:34 AM
−5 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

What if hu­man rea­son­ing is anti-in­duc­tive?

Q HomeOct 11, 2022, 5:15 AM
4 points
2 comments13 min readLW link