The al­ign­ment prob­lem from a deep learn­ing perspective

Richard_NgoAug 10, 2022, 10:46 PM
107 points
15 comments27 min readLW link1 review

How much al­ign­ment data will we need in the long run?

Jacob_HiltonAug 10, 2022, 9:39 PM
37 points
15 comments4 min readLW link

On Ego, Rein­car­na­tion, Con­scious­ness and The Uni­verse

qmauryAug 10, 2022, 8:21 PM
−3 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

For­mal­iz­ing Alignment

Marv KAug 10, 2022, 6:50 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

How Do We Align an AGI Without Get­ting So­cially Eng­ineered? (Hint: Box It)

Aug 10, 2022, 6:14 PM
28 points
30 comments11 min readLW link

Emer­gent Abil­ities of Large Lan­guage Models [Linkpost]

aogAug 10, 2022, 6:02 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

How To Go From In­ter­pretabil­ity To Align­ment: Just Re­tar­get The Search

johnswentworthAug 10, 2022, 4:08 PM
209 points
34 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Us­ing GPT-3 to aug­ment hu­man intelligence

Henrik KarlssonAug 10, 2022, 3:54 PM
52 points
8 comments18 min readLW link
(escapingflatland.substack.com)

ACX meetup [Au­gust]

sallatikAug 10, 2022, 9:54 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dissent Collusion

ScrewtapeAug 10, 2022, 2:43 AM
30 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

The Medium Is The Bandage

party girlAug 10, 2022, 1:45 AM
11 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Why is in­creas­ing pub­lic aware­ness of AI safety not a pri­or­ity?

FinalFormal2Aug 10, 2022, 1:28 AM
−5 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

Man­i­fold x CSPI $25k Fore­cast­ing Tournament

David CheeAug 9, 2022, 9:13 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.cspicenter.com)

Pro­posal: Con­sider not us­ing dis­tance-di­rec­tion-di­men­sion words in ab­stract discussions

moridinamaelAug 9, 2022, 8:44 PM
46 points
18 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How would two su­per­in­tel­li­gent AIs in­ter­act, if they are un­al­igned with each other?

Nathan1123Aug 9, 2022, 6:58 PM
4 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Disagree­ments about Align­ment: Why, and how, we should try to solve them

ojorgensenAug 9, 2022, 6:49 PM
11 points
2 comments16 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-09

jasoncrawfordAug 9, 2022, 5:35 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Is it pos­si­ble to find ven­ture cap­i­tal for AI re­search org with strong safety fo­cus?

AnonResearchAug 9, 2022, 4:12 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] Many Gods re­fu­ta­tion and In­stru­men­tal Goals. (Proper one)

aditya malikAug 9, 2022, 11:59 AM
0 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Con­tent gen­er­a­tion. Where do we draw the line?

Q HomeAug 9, 2022, 10:51 AM
6 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are some al­ter­na­tives to Shap­ley val­ues which drop ad­di­tivity?

eapiAug 9, 2022, 9:16 AM
11 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(math.stackexchange.com)

Ra­dio Bostrom: Au­dio nar­ra­tions of pa­pers by Nick Bostrom

PeterHAug 9, 2022, 8:56 AM
12 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Team Shard Sta­tus Report

David UdellAug 9, 2022, 5:33 AM
38 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing: Mechanism De­sign for AI Safety—Read­ing Group

Rubi J. HudsonAug 9, 2022, 4:21 AM
18 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What are some Works that might be use­ful but are difficult, so for­got­ten?

TekhneMakreAug 9, 2022, 2:22 AM
10 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­ject pro­posal: Test­ing the IBP defi­ni­tion of agent

Aug 9, 2022, 1:09 AM
21 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

How (not) to choose a re­search project

Aug 9, 2022, 12:26 AM
79 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Are ya win­ning, son?

Nathan1123Aug 9, 2022, 12:06 AM
14 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Gen­eral al­ign­ment properties

TurnTroutAug 8, 2022, 11:40 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment: Be my math tu­tor?

sudoAug 8, 2022, 10:50 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

En­cul­tured AI, Part 1 Ap­pendix: Rele­vant Re­search Examples

Aug 8, 2022, 10:44 PM
11 points
1 comment7 min readLW link

En­cul­tured AI Pre-plan­ning, Part 1: En­abling New Benchmarks

Aug 8, 2022, 10:44 PM
63 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Broad Bas­ins and Data Compression

Aug 8, 2022, 8:33 PM
33 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

In­ter­pretabil­ity/​Tool-ness/​Align­ment/​Cor­rigi­bil­ity are not Composable

johnswentworthAug 8, 2022, 6:05 PM
143 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

LW Meetup @ DEFCON (Las Ve­gas) − 5-7pm Thu. Aug. 11 at Fo­rum Food Court (Cae­sars)

jchanAug 8, 2022, 2:57 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

A suffi­ciently para­noid pa­per­clip maximizer

RomanSAug 8, 2022, 11:17 AM
18 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] In­stru­men­tal Goals and Many Gods Re­fu­ta­tion

aditya malikAug 8, 2022, 10:46 AM
−10 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Area un­der the curve, Eat Dirt, Broc­coli Er­rors, Coper­ni­cus & Chaos

CFAR!DuncanAug 8, 2022, 8:17 AM
41 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Steganog­ra­phy in Chain of Thought Reasoning

A Ray8 Aug 2022 3:47 UTC
62 points
13 comments6 min readLW link

How Deadly Will Roughly-Hu­man-Level AGI Be?

David Udell8 Aug 2022 1:59 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can we get full au­dio for Eliezer’s con­ver­sa­tion with Sam Har­ris?

JakubK7 Aug 2022 20:35 UTC
30 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Com­plex­ity No Bar to AI (Or, why Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity mat­ters less than you think for real life prob­lems)

Noosphere897 Aug 2022 19:55 UTC
17 points
14 comments3 min readLW link
(www.gwern.net)

The les­sons of Xanadu

jasoncrawford7 Aug 2022 17:59 UTC
110 points
20 comments8 min readLW link
(jasoncrawford.org)

Care­ful with Caching

jefftk7 Aug 2022 15:20 UTC
15 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How would Log­i­cal De­ci­sion The­o­ries ad­dress the Psy­chopath But­ton?

Nathan11237 Aug 2022 15:19 UTC
5 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

Jack Clark on the re­al­ities of AI policy

Kaj_Sotala7 Aug 2022 8:44 UTC
68 points
3 comments3 min readLW link
(threadreaderapp.com)

Ex­pected (So­cial) Value

algrthms7 Aug 2022 8:16 UTC
5 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

La­men­ta­tions, Gaza and Empathy

Yair Halberstadt7 Aug 2022 7:55 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Paper read­ing as a Cargo Cult

jem-mosig7 Aug 2022 7:50 UTC
70 points
10 comments5 min readLW link

Most Ivy-smart stu­dents aren’t at Ivy-tier schools

Aaron Bergman7 Aug 2022 3:18 UTC
82 points
7 comments8 min readLW link
(www.aaronbergman.net)