Bureau­cracy of AIs

Logan ZoellnerJun 9, 2022, 11:03 PM
17 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

You Only Get One Shot: an In­tu­ition Pump for Embed­ded Agency

Oliver SourbutJun 9, 2022, 9:38 PM
24 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Fore­stal­ling At­mo­spheric Ignition

Lone PineJun 9, 2022, 8:49 PM
11 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

How Do Selec­tion The­o­rems Re­late To In­ter­pretabil­ity?

johnswentworthJun 9, 2022, 7:39 PM
60 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-08

jasoncrawfordJun 9, 2022, 7:13 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

If no near-term al­ign­ment strat­egy, re­search should aim for the long-term

harsimonyJun 9, 2022, 7:10 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Oper­a­tional­iz­ing two tasks in Gary Mar­cus’s AGI challenge

Bill BenzonJun 9, 2022, 6:31 PM
12 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Why it’s bad to kill Grandma

dynomightJun 9, 2022, 6:12 PM
29 points
14 comments8 min readLW link
(dynomight.substack.com)

[Question] Model­ing hu­man­ity’s ro­bust­ness to GCRs?

T431Jun 9, 2022, 5:34 PM
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If there was a mil­len­nium equiv­a­lent prize for AI al­ign­ment, what would the prob­lems be?

Yair HalberstadtJun 9, 2022, 4:56 PM
17 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Book Re­view: How the World Be­came Rich

Davis KedroskyJun 9, 2022, 4:55 PM
14 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)

Covid 6/​9/​22: Nice

ZviJun 9, 2022, 4:30 PM
26 points
2 comments12 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Web­site For Yoda Timers

Adam ZernerJun 9, 2022, 4:28 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined

HoldenKarnofskyJun 9, 2022, 3:50 PM
170 points
42 comments17 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

The “mind-body vi­cious cy­cle” model of RSI & back pain

Steven ByrnesJun 9, 2022, 12:30 PM
91 points
32 comments12 min readLW link

[Linkpost & Dis­cus­sion] AI Trained on 4Chan Be­comes ‘Hate Speech Ma­chine’ [and out­performs GPT-3 on Truth­fulQA Bench­mark?!]

YitzJun 9, 2022, 10:59 AM
16 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.vice.com)

Com­ment re­ply: my low-qual­ity thoughts on why CFAR didn’t get farther with a “real/​effi­ca­cious art of ra­tio­nal­ity”

AnnaSalamonJun 9, 2022, 2:12 AM
263 points
63 comments17 min readLW link1 review

To­day in AI Risk His­tory: The Ter­mi­na­tor (1984 film) was re­leased.

ImpassionataJun 9, 2022, 1:32 AM
−3 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

There’s prob­a­bly a trade­off be­tween AI ca­pa­bil­ity and safety, and we should act like it

David JohnstonJun 9, 2022, 12:17 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one ac­tu­ally tried to con­vince Terry Tao or other top math­e­mat­i­ci­ans to work on al­ign­ment?

P.Jun 8, 2022, 10:26 PM
64 points
51 comments4 min readLW link

En­ti­tle­ment as a ma­jor am­plifier of unhappiness

VipulNaikJun 8, 2022, 10:08 PM
29 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Silly On­line Rules

Gunnar_ZarnckeJun 8, 2022, 8:40 PM
8 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Un­typ­i­cal SIA

avturchinJun 8, 2022, 2:23 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Elic­it­ing La­tent Knowl­edge (ELK) - Distil­la­tion/​Summary

Marius HobbhahnJun 8, 2022, 1:18 PM
69 points
2 comments21 min readLW link

Re­search Ques­tions from Stained Glass Windows

StefanHexJun 8, 2022, 12:38 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Steel­man­ning Marx­ism/​Communism

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

Stay­ing Split: Sa­ba­tini and So­cial Justice

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Jun 8, 2022, 8:32 AM
153 points
28 comments21 min readLW link

Less Wrong /​ ACX Bu­dapest June 11th Meetup

Richard HorvathJun 8, 2022, 5:16 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pud­dle Tem­per­a­ture Alarm

jefftkJun 8, 2022, 2:10 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Why I don’t be­lieve in doom

mukashiJun 7, 2022, 11:49 PM
6 points
30 comments4 min readLW link

“Pivotal Acts” means some­thing specific

RaemonJun 7, 2022, 9:56 PM
127 points
23 comments2 min readLW link

Em­bod­i­ment is Indis­pens­able for AGI

P. G. Keerthana GopalakrishnanJun 7, 2022, 9:31 PM
6 points
1 comment6 min readLW link
(keerthanapg.com)

Stephen Wolfram’s ideas are un­der-appreciated

KennyJun 7, 2022, 8:09 PM
20 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Who mod­els the mod­els that model mod­els? An ex­plo­ra­tion of GPT-3′s in-con­text model fit­ting ability

LovreJun 7, 2022, 7:37 PM
112 points
16 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How Does Cog­ni­tive Perfor­mance Trans­late to Real World Ca­pa­bil­ity?

DragonGodJun 7, 2022, 5:39 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (iv) Silencio

party girlJun 7, 2022, 3:39 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

[Question] Con­fused Thoughts on AI After­life (se­ri­ously)

EpiritoJun 7, 2022, 2:37 PM
−4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Think­ing about Broad Classes of Utility-like Functions

J BostockJun 7, 2022, 2:05 PM
7 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Thoughts on For­mal­iz­ing Composition

Tom LieberumJun 7, 2022, 7:51 AM
13 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AGI Safety FAQ /​ all-dumb-ques­tions-al­lowed thread

Aryeh EnglanderJun 7, 2022, 5:47 AM
227 points
526 comments4 min readLW link

Pitch­ing an Align­ment Softball

mu_(negative)Jun 7, 2022, 4:10 AM
47 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

We will be around in 30 years

mukashiJun 7, 2022, 3:47 AM
12 points
205 comments2 min readLW link

Where to Live for Happiness

nomagicpillJun 7, 2022, 1:09 AM
19 points
6 comments26 min readLW link
(210ethan.github.io)

A de­scrip­tive, not pre­scrip­tive, overview of cur­rent AI Align­ment Research

Jun 6, 2022, 9:59 PM
139 points
21 comments7 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ist Meetup—Lyn­gby Den­mark 2022-07-03

Carl DybdahlJun 6, 2022, 8:35 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Micro­phone on Elec­tric Man­dolin II

jefftkJun 6, 2022, 8:30 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

We haven’t quit evolu­tion [short]

the gears to ascensionJun 6, 2022, 7:07 PM
5 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Grokking “Fore­cast­ing TAI with biolog­i­cal an­chors”

anson.hoJun 6, 2022, 6:58 PM
38 points
0 comments14 min readLW link

DALL-E 2 - Unoffi­cial Nat­u­ral Lan­guage Image Edit­ing, Art Cri­tique Survey

bakztfutureJun 6, 2022, 6:27 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(bakztfuture.substack.com)

We Should Break Up Elite Colleges

sahajshardaJun 6, 2022, 6:15 PM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)