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Humans Reflecting on HRH
leogao
Jul 29, 2022, 9:56 PM
27
points
4
comments
2
min read
LW
link
Comparing Four Approaches to Inner Alignment
Lucas Teixeira
Jul 29, 2022, 9:06 PM
38
points
1
comment
9
min read
LW
link
Questions for a Theory of Narratives
Marv K
Jul 29, 2022, 7:31 PM
5
points
4
comments
4
min read
LW
link
Focusing
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 29, 2022, 7:15 PM
115
points
23
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Conjecture: Internal Infohazard Policy
Connor Leahy
,
Sid Black
,
Chris Scammell
and
Andrea_Miotti
Jul 29, 2022, 7:07 PM
131
points
6
comments
19
min read
LW
link
Abstracting The Hardness of Alignment: Unbounded Atomic Optimization
adamShimi
Jul 29, 2022, 6:59 PM
75
points
3
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Bucket Errors
CFAR!Duncan
Jul 29, 2022, 6:50 PM
43
points
7
comments
11
min read
LW
link
Distillation Contest—Results and Recap
Aris
Jul 29, 2022, 5:40 PM
34
points
0
comments
7
min read
LW
link
The generalized Sierpinski-Mazurkiewicz theorem.
Donald Hobson
Jul 29, 2022, 12:12 AM
11
points
4
comments
1
min read
LW
link
The Conversations We Make Space For
Severin T. Seehrich
Jul 28, 2022, 9:37 PM
21
points
0
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Announcing the AI Safety Field Building Hub, a new effort to provide AISFB projects, mentorship, and funding
Vael Gates
Jul 28, 2022, 9:29 PM
49
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Defining Optimization in a Deeper Way Part 4
J Bostock
Jul 28, 2022, 5:02 PM
7
points
0
comments
5
min read
LW
link
Covid 7/28/22: Ruining It For Everyone
Zvi
Jul 28, 2022, 3:10 PM
32
points
8
comments
12
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
Monkeypox Post #2
Zvi
Jul 28, 2022, 1:20 PM
36
points
3
comments
6
min read
LW
link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)
For Better Commenting, Stop Out Loud
DirectedEvolution
Jul 28, 2022, 1:39 AM
18
points
30
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Seeking beta readers who are ignorant of biology but knowledgeable about AI safety
Holly_Elmore
Jul 27, 2022, 11:02 PM
11
points
6
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Principles of Privacy for Alignment Research
johnswentworth
Jul 27, 2022, 7:53 PM
73
points
31
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Moral strategies at different capability levels
Richard_Ngo
Jul 27, 2022, 6:50 PM
112
points
14
comments
5
min read
LW
link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-27
jasoncrawford
Jul 27, 2022, 5:20 PM
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments
Dennis Towne
Jul 27, 2022, 3:49 PM
5
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(ai.googleblog.com)
Levels of Pluralism
adamShimi
Jul 27, 2022, 9:35 AM
37
points
0
comments
14
min read
LW
link
Human trials for the Marburg vaccine: funding opportunity?
americanwalrus
Jul 27, 2022, 5:53 AM
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(www.independent.co.uk)
[Question]
“Fanatical” Longtermists: Why is Pascal’s Wager wrong?
Yitz
Jul 27, 2022, 4:16 AM
3
points
7
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Unifying Bargaining Notions (2/2)
Diffractor
Jul 27, 2022, 3:40 AM
118
points
19
comments
21
min read
LW
link
AGI ruin scenarios are likely (and disjunctive)
So8res
Jul 27, 2022, 3:21 AM
177
points
38
comments
6
min read
LW
link
Technocracy and the Space Age
jasoncrawford
Jul 26, 2022, 11:14 PM
25
points
5
comments
2
min read
LW
link
(rootsofprogress.org)
«Boundaries», Part 1: a key missing concept from utility theory
Andrew_Critch
Jul 26, 2022, 11:03 PM
158
points
33
comments
7
min read
LW
link
Incoherence of unbounded selfishness
emmab
Jul 26, 2022, 10:27 PM
−6
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
«Boundaries» Sequence (Index Post)
Andrew_Critch
Jul 26, 2022, 7:12 PM
25
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Active Inference as a formalisation of instrumental convergence
Roman Leventov
26 Jul 2022 17:55 UTC
12
points
2
comments
3
min read
LW
link
(direct.mit.edu)
NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop 2022
Dan H
26 Jul 2022 15:28 UTC
72
points
2
comments
1
min read
LW
link
(neurips2022.mlsafety.org)
AI ethics vs AI alignment
Wei Dai
26 Jul 2022 13:08 UTC
5
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Utility functions and probabilities are entangled
Thomas Kwa
26 Jul 2022 5:36 UTC
15
points
5
comments
1
min read
LW
link
How Promising is Theoretical Research on Rationality? Seeking Career Advice
Aspirant223
26 Jul 2022 1:08 UTC
3
points
3
comments
3
min read
LW
link
Prediction markets meetup/coworking (hosted by Manifold Markets)
Sinclair Chen
and
Austin Chen
26 Jul 2022 0:14 UTC
2
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Alignment being impossible might be better than it being really difficult
Martín Soto
25 Jul 2022 23:57 UTC
13
points
2
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
How optimistic should we be about AI figuring out how to interpret itself?
oh54321
25 Jul 2022 22:09 UTC
3
points
1
comment
1
min read
LW
link
Protectionism in One Country: How Industrial Policy Worked in Canada
Davis Kedrosky
25 Jul 2022 22:08 UTC
5
points
0
comments
16
min read
LW
link
(daviskedrosky.substack.com)
Mistakes as agency
pchvykov
25 Jul 2022 16:17 UTC
12
points
8
comments
4
min read
LW
link
My Bitcoin Thesis @2022 - Part 1
aysajan
25 Jul 2022 15:49 UTC
7
points
6
comments
13
min read
LW
link
The Reader’s Guide to Optimal Monetary Policy
Ege Erdil
25 Jul 2022 15:10 UTC
57
points
10
comments
14
min read
LW
link
AGI Safety Needs People With All Skillsets!
Severin T. Seehrich
25 Jul 2022 13:32 UTC
28
points
0
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Is there any evidence that handwashing does anything to prevent COVID?
mukashi
25 Jul 2022 7:34 UTC
4
points
3
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Opening Session Tips & Advice
CFAR!Duncan
25 Jul 2022 3:57 UTC
95
points
3
comments
14
min read
LW
link
1
review
How much should we worry about mesa-optimization challenges?
sudo
25 Jul 2022 3:56 UTC
4
points
13
comments
2
min read
LW
link
[Question]
Does agent foundations cover all future ML systems?
Jonas Hallgren
25 Jul 2022 1:17 UTC
4
points
0
comments
1
min read
LW
link
Unifying Bargaining Notions (1/2)
Diffractor
25 Jul 2022 0:28 UTC
210
points
41
comments
16
min read
LW
link
Reward is not the optimization target
TurnTrout
25 Jul 2022 0:03 UTC
376
points
123
comments
10
min read
LW
link
3
reviews
Brainstorm of things that could force an AI team to burn their lead
So8res
24 Jul 2022 23:58 UTC
134
points
8
comments
13
min read
LW
link
Finding Skeletons on Rashomon Ridge
David Udell
,
Peter S. Park
and
NickyP
24 Jul 2022 22:31 UTC
30
points
2
comments
7
min read
LW
link
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