12 ca­reer-re­lated ques­tions that may (or may not) be helpful for peo­ple in­ter­ested in al­ign­ment research

Orpheus16Dec 12, 2022, 10:36 PM
20 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Con­cept ex­trap­o­la­tion for hy­poth­e­sis generation

Dec 12, 2022, 10:09 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Let’s go meta: Gram­mat­i­cal knowl­edge and self-refer­en­tial sen­tences [ChatGPT]

Bill BenzonDec 12, 2022, 9:50 PM
5 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

D&D.Sci De­cem­ber 2022 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplicDec 12, 2022, 9:21 PM
17 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

Log-odds are bet­ter than Probabilities

Robert_AIZIDec 12, 2022, 8:10 PM
22 points
4 comments4 min readLW link
(aizi.substack.com)

Ben­galuru LW/​ACX So­cial Meetup—De­cem­ber 2022

faizDec 12, 2022, 7:30 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Psy­cholog­i­cal Di­sor­ders and Problems

Dec 12, 2022, 6:15 PM
39 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Con­fus­ing the goal and the path

adamShimiDec 12, 2022, 4:42 PM
44 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

Mean­ingful things are those the uni­verse pos­sesses a se­man­tics for

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirDec 12, 2022, 4:03 PM
16 points
14 comments14 min readLW link

Trade­offs in com­plex­ity, ab­strac­tion, and generality

Dec 12, 2022, 3:55 PM
32 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Green Line Ex­ten­sion Open­ing Dates

jefftkDec 12, 2022, 2:40 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Join the AI Test­ing Hackathon this Friday

Esben KranDec 12, 2022, 2:24 PM
10 points
0 commentsLW link

Side-chan­nels: in­put ver­sus output

davidadDec 12, 2022, 12:32 PM
44 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Take 9: No, RLHF/​IDA/​de­bate doesn’t solve outer al­ign­ment.

Charlie SteinerDec 12, 2022, 11:51 AM
33 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Creat­ing a database for base rates

nikosDec 12, 2022, 10:09 AM
2 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Triv­ial GPT-3.5 limi­ta­tion workaround

Dave LindberghDec 12, 2022, 8:42 AM
5 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Ponzi schemes can be highly prof­itable if your timing is good

GeneSmithDec 12, 2022, 6:42 AM
10 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

Prod­ding ChatGPT to solve a ba­sic alge­bra problem

ShmiDec 12, 2022, 4:09 AM
14 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

Wider De­fault Au­dio Player in Chrome?

jefftkDec 12, 2022, 3:30 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A brain­teaser for lan­guage models

Adam ScherlisDec 12, 2022, 2:43 AM
47 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Bench­marks for Com­par­ing Hu­man and AI Intelligence

MrThinkDec 11, 2022, 10:06 PM
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Reflec­tions on the PIBBSS Fel­low­ship 2022

Dec 11, 2022, 9:53 PM
32 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

A crisis for on­line com­mu­ni­ca­tion: bots and bot users will over­run the In­ter­net?

Mitchell_PorterDec 11, 2022, 9:11 PM
15 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Finite Fac­tored Sets in Pictures

Magdalena WacheDec 11, 2022, 6:49 PM
174 points
35 comments12 min readLW link

For­mal­iza­tion as sus­pen­sion of intuition

adamShimiDec 11, 2022, 3:16 PM
54 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(epistemologicalvigilance.substack.com)

An ar­gu­ment on an­i­mal con­scious­ness (so­lic­it­ing crit­i­cism)

SciHamsterDec 11, 2022, 3:12 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT’s new novel ra­tio­nal­ity tech­nique of fact checking

ChristianKlDec 11, 2022, 1:54 PM
−14 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Refram­ing in­ner alignment

davidadDec 11, 2022, 1:53 PM
53 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

A poem about ap­plied ra­tio­nal­ity by ChatGPT

ChristianKlDec 11, 2022, 1:43 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT goes through a worm­hole hole in our Shandyesque uni­verse [vir­tual wacky weed]

Bill BenzonDec 11, 2022, 11:59 AM
−1 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Us­ing Ob­sidian if you’re used to us­ing Roam

Solenoid_EntityDec 11, 2022, 8:59 AM
19 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[fic­tion] Our Fi­nal Hour

Mati_RoyDec 11, 2022, 5:49 AM
23 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Con­sider us­ing re­versible au­tomata for al­ign­ment research

Alex_AltairDec 11, 2022, 1:00 AM
88 points
30 comments2 min readLW link

High level dis­course struc­ture in ChatGPT: Part 2 [Quasi-sym­bolic?]

Bill BenzonDec 10, 2022, 10:26 PM
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Poll Re­sults on AGI

Niclas KupperDec 10, 2022, 9:25 PM
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Reflect­ing on the 2022 Guild of the Rose Workshops

moridinamaelDec 10, 2022, 9:21 PM
26 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Rev­ers­ing a quan­tum simu­la­tion on the plane­tary scale

MythopoeistDec 10, 2022, 8:26 PM
2 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

ACX Zurich De­cem­ber Meetup

MBDec 10, 2022, 7:23 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[ASoT] Nat­u­ral ab­strac­tions and AlphaZero

Ulisse MiniDec 10, 2022, 5:53 PM
33 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] How promis­ing are le­gal av­enues to re­strict AI train­ing data?

thehalliardDec 10, 2022, 4:31 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­spira­tion as a Scarce Resource

zenbu zenbu zenbu zenbuDec 10, 2022, 3:23 PM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(inflorescence.substack.com)

Will Man­i­fold Mar­kets/​Me­tac­u­lus have built-in sup­port for re­flec­tive la­tent vari­ables by 2025?

tailcalledDec 10, 2022, 1:55 PM
34 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

My thoughts on OpenAI’s Align­ment plan

Donald HobsonDec 10, 2022, 10:35 AM
25 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] How would you im­prove ChatGPT’s fil­ter­ing?

Noah ScalesDec 10, 2022, 8:05 AM
9 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] A thought experiment

sisyphusDec 10, 2022, 5:23 AM
3 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

pa­tio11′s “Ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort”

RobertMDec 10, 2022, 12:27 AM
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

A dy­nam­i­cal sys­tems primer for en­tropy and optimization

Alex_AltairDec 10, 2022, 12:13 AM
45 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

[Linkpost] The Story Of VaccinateCA

hathDec 9, 2022, 11:54 PM
103 points
4 comments10 min readLW link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

Pro­saic mis­al­ign­ment from the Solomonoff Predictor

Cleo NardoDec 9, 2022, 5:53 PM
42 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Take 8: Queer the in­ner/​outer al­ign­ment di­chotomy.

Charlie SteinerDec 9, 2022, 5:46 PM
31 points
2 comments2 min readLW link