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Follow up to medical miracle
Elizabeth
Nov 4, 2022, 6:00 PM
76
points
5
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(acesounderglass.com)
Cross-Void Optimization
pneumynym
Nov 4, 2022, 5:47 PM
1
point
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Monthly Shorts 10/22
Celer
Nov 4, 2022, 4:30 PM
12
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(keller.substack.com)
Weekly Roundup #4
Zvi
Nov 4, 2022, 3:00 PM
42
points
1
comment
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
A new place to discuss cognitive science, ethics and human alignment
Daniel_Friedrich
Nov 4, 2022, 2:34 PM
3
points
4
comments
LW
link
A newcomer’s guide to the technical AI safety field
zeshen
Nov 4, 2022, 2:29 PM
42
points
3
comments
10
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Are alignment researchers devoting enough time to improving their research capacity?
Carson Jones
Nov 4, 2022, 12:58 AM
13
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Don’t you think RLHF solves outer alignment?
Charbel-Raphaël
Nov 4, 2022, 12:36 AM
9
points
23
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mechanistic Interpretability as Reverse Engineering (follow-up to “cars and elephants”)
David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)
Nov 3, 2022, 11:19 PM
28
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Could a Supreme Court suit work to solve NEPA problems?
ChristianKl
Nov 3, 2022, 9:10 PM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
[Video] How having Fast Fourier Transforms sooner could have helped with Nuclear Disarmament—Veritaserum
mako yass
Nov 3, 2022, 9:04 PM
17
points
1
comment
LW
link
Further considerations on the Evidentialist’s Wager
Martín Soto
Nov 3, 2022, 8:06 PM
3
points
9
comments
8
min read
LW
link
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 6/6: What can be done
PashaKamyshev
Nov 3, 2022, 7:48 PM
2
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
A Mystery About High Dimensional Concept Encoding
Fabien Roger
Nov 3, 2022, 5:05 PM
46
points
13
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Why do we post our AI safety plans on the Internet?
Peter S. Park
Nov 3, 2022, 4:02 PM
4
points
4
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Multiple Deploy-Key Repos
jefftk
Nov 3, 2022, 3:10 PM
15
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Covid 11/3/22: Asking Forgiveness
Zvi
Nov 3, 2022, 1:50 PM
23
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Adversarial Policies Beat Professional-Level Go AIs
sanxiyn
Nov 3, 2022, 1:27 PM
31
points
35
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(goattack.alignmentfund.org)
K-types vs T-types — what priors do you have?
Cleo Nardo
Nov 3, 2022, 11:29 AM
74
points
25
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Information Markets 2: Optimally Shaped Reward Bets
eva_
Nov 3, 2022, 11:08 AM
9
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
The Rational Utilitarian Love Movement (A Historical Retrospective)
Caleb Biddulph
Nov 3, 2022, 7:11 AM
3
points
0
comments
LW
link
The Mirror Chamber: A short story exploring the anthropic measure function and why it can matter
mako yass
Nov 3, 2022, 6:47 AM
30
points
13
comments
10
min read
LW
link
Open Letter Against Reckless Nuclear Escalation and Use
Max Tegmark
Nov 3, 2022, 5:34 AM
27
points
25
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Lazy Python Argument Parsing
jefftk
Nov 3, 2022, 2:20 AM
20
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 5/6: Relationship between C-risk and X-risk
PashaKamyshev
Nov 3, 2022, 2:19 AM
2
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there a good way to award a fixed prize in a prediction contest?
jchan
Nov 2, 2022, 9:37 PM
18
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
“Are Experiments Possible?” Seeds of Science call for reviewers
rogersbacon
Nov 2, 2022, 8:05 PM
8
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Humans do acausal coordination all the time
Adam Jermyn
Nov 2, 2022, 2:40 PM
57
points
35
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Far-UVC Light Update: No, LEDs are not around the corner (tweetstorm)
Davidmanheim
Nov 2, 2022, 12:57 PM
73
points
27
comments
4
min read
LW
link
(twitter.com)
Housing and Transit Thoughts #1
Zvi
Nov 2, 2022, 12:10 PM
35
points
5
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Mind is uncountable
Filip Sondej
Nov 2, 2022, 11:51 AM
18
points
22
comments
LW
link
AI Safety Needs Great Product Builders
goodgravy
Nov 2, 2022, 11:33 AM
14
points
2
comments
LW
link
Why is fiber good for you?
braces
Nov 2, 2022, 2:04 AM
18
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Information Markets
eva_
Nov 2, 2022, 1:24 AM
46
points
6
comments
12
min read
LW
link
Sequence Reread: Fake Beliefs [plus sequence spotlight meta]
Raemon
Nov 2, 2022, 12:09 AM
27
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Real-Time Research Recording: Can a Transformer Re-Derive Positional Info?
Neel Nanda
Nov 1, 2022, 11:56 PM
69
points
16
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(youtu.be)
All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [~monthly thread]
Robert Miles
Nov 1, 2022, 11:23 PM
68
points
105
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Which Issues in Conceptual Alignment have been Formalised or Observed (or not)?
ojorgensen
Nov 1, 2022, 10:32 PM
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 4/6: Bioweapons and Philosophy of Modification
PashaKamyshev
Nov 1, 2022, 8:50 PM
7
points
1
comment
8
min read
LW
link
Open & Welcome Thread—November 2022
MondSemmel
Nov 1, 2022, 6:47 PM
14
points
46
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Mildly Against Donor Lotteries
jefftk
Nov 1, 2022, 6:10 PM
10
points
9
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(www.jefftk.com)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-11-01
jasoncrawford
Nov 1, 2022, 5:48 PM
16
points
4
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
On the correspondence between AI-misalignment and cognitive dissonance using a behavioral economics model
Stijn Bruers
Nov 1, 2022, 5:39 PM
4
points
0
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Threat Model Literature Review
zac_kenton
,
Rohin Shah
,
David Lindner
,
Vikrant Varma
,
Vika
,
Mary Phuong
,
Ramana Kumar
and
Elliot Catt
1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
78
points
4
comments
25
min read
LW
link
Clarifying AI X-risk
zac_kenton
,
Rohin Shah
,
David Lindner
,
Vikrant Varma
,
Vika
,
Mary Phuong
,
Ramana Kumar
and
Elliot Catt
1 Nov 2022 11:03 UTC
127
points
24
comments
4
min read
LW
link
1
review
Auditing games for high-level interpretability
Paul Colognese
1 Nov 2022 10:44 UTC
33
points
1
comment
7
min read
LW
link
Remember to translate your thoughts back again
brook
1 Nov 2022 8:49 UTC
25
points
11
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
Conversations on Alcohol Consumption
Annapurna
1 Nov 2022 5:09 UTC
20
points
6
comments
9
min read
LW
link
ML Safety Scholars Summer 2022 Retrospective
TW123
1 Nov 2022 3:09 UTC
29
points
0
comments
LW
link
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (24 − 30th Oct 22′)
Zoe Williams
1 Nov 2022 2:58 UTC
13
points
1
comment
LW
link
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