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[Link] Why I’m optimistic about OpenAI’s alignment approach

janleike5 Dec 2022 22:51 UTC

98 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

(aligned.substack.com)

The No Free Lunch theorem for dummies

Steven Byrnes5 Dec 2022 21:46 UTC

37 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

ChatGPT and Ideological Turing Test

Viliam5 Dec 2022 21:45 UTC

42 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

ChatGPT on Spielberg’s A.I. and AI Alignment

Bill Benzon5 Dec 2022 21:10 UTC

5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Updating my AI timelines

Matthew Barnett5 Dec 2022 20:46 UTC

145 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

Steering Behaviour: Testing for (Non-)Myopia in Language Models

Evan R. Murphy and Megan Kinniment

5 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC

40 points

19 comments10 min readLW link

College Admissions as a Brutal One-Shot Game

devansh5 Dec 2022 20:05 UTC

8 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

Analysis of AI Safety surveys for field-building insights

Ash Jafari5 Dec 2022 19:21 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Testing Ways to Bypass ChatGPT’s Safety Features

Robert_AIZI5 Dec 2022 18:50 UTC

7 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Foresight for AGI Safety Strategy: Mitigating Risks and Identifying Golden Opportunities

jacquesthibs5 Dec 2022 16:09 UTC

28 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Aligned Behavior is not Evidence of Alignment Past a Certain Level of Intelligence

Ronny Fernandez5 Dec 2022 15:19 UTC

19 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How should I judge the impact of giving $5k to a family of three kids and two mentally ill parents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:42 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Is the “Valley of Confused Abstractions” real?

jacquesthibs5 Dec 2022 13:36 UTC

20 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Take 4: One problem with natural abstractions is there’s too many of them.

Charlie Steiner5 Dec 2022 10:39 UTC

37 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good Lesswrong-related accounts or hashtags on Mastodon that I should follow?

SpectrumDT5 Dec 2022 9:42 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Who are some prominent reasonable people who are confident that AI won’t kill everyone?

Optimization Process5 Dec 2022 9:12 UTC

72 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Shorts 11/22

Celer5 Dec 2022 7:30 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(keller.substack.com)

A ChatGPT story about ChatGPT doom

SurfingOrca5 Dec 2022 5:40 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

A Tentative Timeline of The Near Future (2022-2025) for Self-Accountability

Yitz5 Dec 2022 5:33 UTC

26 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Nook Nature

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)5 Dec 2022 4:10 UTC

52 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Probably good projects for the AI safety ecosystem

Ryan Kidd5 Dec 2022 2:26 UTC

78 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

Historical Notes on Charitable Funds

jefftk4 Dec 2022 23:30 UTC

28 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AGI as a Black Swan Event

Stephen McAleese4 Dec 2022 23:00 UTC

8 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

South Bay ACX/LW Pre-Holiday Get-Together

IS4 Dec 2022 22:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT is settling the Chinese Room argument

averros4 Dec 2022 20:25 UTC

−7 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Race to the Top: Benchmarks for AI Safety

Isabella Duan4 Dec 2022 18:48 UTC

29 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Open & Welcome Thread—December 2022

niplav4 Dec 2022 15:06 UTC

8 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

AI can exploit safety plans posted on the Internet

Peter S. Park4 Dec 2022 12:17 UTC

−15 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT seems overconfident to me

qbolec4 Dec 2022 8:03 UTC

19 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Could an AI be Religious?

mk544 Dec 2022 5:00 UTC

−12 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Can GPT-3 Write Contra Dances?

jefftk4 Dec 2022 3:00 UTC

6 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Take 3: No indescribable heavenworlds.

Charlie Steiner4 Dec 2022 2:48 UTC

23 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Summary of a new study on out-group hate (and how to fix it)

DirectedEvolution4 Dec 2022 1:53 UTC

60 points

30 comments3 min readLW link

(www.pnas.org)

[Question] Will the first AGI agent have been designed as an agent (in addition to an AGI)?

nahoj3 Dec 2022 20:32 UTC

1 point

8 comments1 min readLW link

Logical induction for software engineers

Alex Flint3 Dec 2022 19:55 UTC

161 points

8 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Utilitarianism is the only option

aelwood3 Dec 2022 17:14 UTC

−13 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Our 2022 Giving

jefftk3 Dec 2022 15:40 UTC

33 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is school good or bad?

tailcalled3 Dec 2022 13:14 UTC

10 points

76 comments1 min readLW link

MrBeast’s Squid Game Tricked Me

lsusr3 Dec 2022 5:50 UTC

75 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Great Cryonics Survey of 2022

Mati_Roy3 Dec 2022 5:10 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: results on induction heads

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, Tao Lin, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:59 UTC

34 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: results on a paren balance checker

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, Tao Lin, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:59 UTC

34 points

2 comments30 min readLW link

Causal scrubbing: Appendix

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:58 UTC

18 points

4 comments20 min readLW link

Causal Scrubbing: a method for rigorously testing interpretability hypotheses [Redwood Research]

LawrenceC, Adrià Garriga-alonso, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill, ryan_greenblatt, jenny, Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck and Nate Thomas

3 Dec 2022 0:58 UTC

205 points

35 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Take 2: Building tools to help build FAI is a legitimate strategy, but it’s dual-use.

Charlie Steiner3 Dec 2022 0:54 UTC

17 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci December 2022: The Boojumologist

abstractapplic2 Dec 2022 23:39 UTC

32 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Subsets and quotients in interpretability

Erik Jenner2 Dec 2022 23:13 UTC

26 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

Research Principles for 6 Months of AI Alignment Studies

Shoshannah Tekofsky2 Dec 2022 22:55 UTC

23 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism

Ulisse Mini2 Dec 2022 22:01 UTC

31 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Brun’s theorem and sieve theory

Ege Erdil2 Dec 2022 20:57 UTC

31 points

1 comment73 min readLW link