OpenAI: GPT-based LLMs show abil­ity to dis­crim­i­nate be­tween its own wrong an­swers, but in­abil­ity to ex­plain how/​why it makes that dis­crim­i­na­tion, even as model scales

Aditya JainJun 13, 2022, 11:33 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(openai.com)

[Question] Who said some­thing like “The fact that putting 2 ap­ples next to 2 other ap­ples leads to there be­ing 4 ap­ples there has noth­ing to do with the fact that 2 + 2 = 4”?

hunterglennJun 13, 2022, 10:23 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readLW link

Con­ti­nu­ity Assumptions

Jan_KulveitJun 13, 2022, 9:31 PM
44 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Crypto-fed Computation

aaguirreJun 13, 2022, 9:20 PM
24 points
7 comments7 min readLW link

A Modest Pivotal Act

anonymousaisafetyJun 13, 2022, 7:24 PM
−16 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Con­tra EY: Can AGI de­stroy us with­out trial & er­ror?

nsokolskyJun 13, 2022, 6:26 PM
137 points
72 comments15 min readLW link

What are some smaller-but-con­crete challenges re­lated to AI safety that are im­pact­ing peo­ple to­day?

nonzerosumJun 13, 2022, 5:36 PM
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] New SEP ar­ti­cle on Bayesian Epistemology

Aryeh EnglanderJun 13, 2022, 3:03 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Train­ing Trace Priors

Adam JermynJun 13, 2022, 2:22 PM
12 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Can you MRI a deep learn­ing model?

Yair HalberstadtJun 13, 2022, 1:43 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

On A List of Lethalities

ZviJun 13, 2022, 12:30 PM
165 points
50 comments54 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

D&D.Sci June 2022 Eval­u­a­tion and Ruleset

abstractapplicJun 13, 2022, 10:31 AM
34 points
11 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the “This AI is of moral con­cern.” fire alarm?

Quintin PopeJun 13, 2022, 8:05 AM
37 points
56 comments2 min readLW link

The beau­tiful mag­i­cal en­chanted golden Dall-e Mini is underrated

p.b.Jun 13, 2022, 7:58 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Why so lit­tle AI risk on ra­tio­nal­ist-ad­ja­cent blogs?

Grant DemareeJun 13, 2022, 6:31 AM
46 points
23 comments8 min readLW link

Code Qual­ity and Rule Consequentialism

Adam ZernerJun 13, 2022, 3:12 AM
17 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

Grokking “Semi-in­for­ma­tive pri­ors over AI timelines”

anson.hoJun 12, 2022, 10:17 PM
15 points
7 comments14 min readLW link

[Question] How much does cy­ber­se­cu­rity re­duce AI risk?

DarmaniJun 12, 2022, 10:13 PM
34 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How are com­pute as­sets dis­tributed in the world?

Chris van MerwijkJun 12, 2022, 10:13 PM
30 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of AIXI

Thomas LarsenJun 12, 2022, 9:41 PM
22 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Why all the fuss about re­cur­sive self-im­prove­ment?

So8resJun 12, 2022, 8:53 PM
158 points
62 comments7 min readLW link1 review

Why the Kal­dor-Hicks crite­rion can be non-transitive

RupertJun 12, 2022, 5:26 PM
4 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How do you post links here?

skybrianJun 12, 2022, 4:23 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Filter out tags from the front page?

jaspaxJun 12, 2022, 10:59 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How To: A Work­shop (or any­thing)

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)Jun 12, 2022, 8:00 AM
53 points
13 comments37 min readLW link1 review

A claim that Google’s LaMDA is sentient

Ben LivengoodJun 12, 2022, 4:18 AM
31 points
133 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How much stupi­der than hu­mans can AI be and still kill us all through sheer num­bers and re­source ac­cess?

ShmiJun 12, 2022, 1:01 AM
11 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

ELK Pro­posal—Make the Re­porter care about the Pre­dic­tor’s beliefs

Jun 11, 2022, 10:53 PM
8 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why has no per­son /​ group ever taken over the world?

Aryeh EnglanderJun 11, 2022, 8:51 PM
25 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there English-speak­ing mee­tups in Frank­furt/​Mu­nich/​Zurich?

Grant DemareeJun 11, 2022, 8:02 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Beauty and the Beast

Tomás B.Jun 11, 2022, 6:59 PM
38 points
8 comments6 min readLW link

Poorly-Aimed Death Rays

Thane RuthenisJun 11, 2022, 6:29 PM
48 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

AGI Safety Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Initiative

inesJun 11, 2022, 5:34 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A gam­ing group for ra­tio­nal­ity-aware people

dhatasJun 11, 2022, 4:04 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t you in­tro­duce re­ally im­pres­sive peo­ple you per­son­ally know to AI al­ign­ment (more of­ten)?

VerdenJun 11, 2022, 3:59 PM
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Godzilla Strategies

johnswentworthJun 11, 2022, 3:44 PM
159 points
72 comments3 min readLW link

Steganog­ra­phy and the Cy­cleGAN—al­ign­ment failure case study

Jan CzechowskiJun 11, 2022, 9:41 AM
34 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Moun­tain Troll

lsusrJun 11, 2022, 9:14 AM
103 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Show LW: Yo­daTimer.com

Adam ZernerJun 11, 2022, 8:52 AM
27 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

How fast can we perform a for­ward pass?

jsteinhardtJun 10, 2022, 11:30 PM
53 points
9 comments15 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Sum­mary of “AGI Ruin: A List of Lethal­ities”

Stephen McAleeseJun 10, 2022, 10:35 PM
45 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

How dan­ger­ous is hu­man-level AI?

Alex_AltairJun 10, 2022, 5:38 PM
21 points
4 comments8 min readLW link

Another plau­si­ble sce­nario of AI risk: AI builds mil­i­tary in­fras­truc­ture while col­lab­o­rat­ing with hu­mans, defects later.

avturchinJun 10, 2022, 5:24 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Leav­ing Google, Join­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Observatory

jefftkJun 10, 2022, 5:00 PM
114 points
4 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

On The Spec­trum, On The Guest List: (v) The Fleur Room

party girlJun 10, 2022, 2:50 PM
8 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com)

Progress Re­port 6: get the tool working

Nathan Helm-BurgerJun 10, 2022, 11:18 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is AI Align­ment Im­pos­si­ble?

HeighnJun 10, 2022, 10:08 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

I No Longer Believe In­tel­li­gence to be “Mag­i­cal”

DragonGodJun 10, 2022, 8:58 AM
27 points
34 comments6 min readLW link

[linkpost] The fi­nal AI bench­mark: BIG-bench

RomanSJun 10, 2022, 8:53 AM
25 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could Pa­tent-Trol­ling de­lay AI timelines?

Pablo RepettoJun 10, 2022, 2:53 AM
1 point
3 comments1 min readLW link