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[Question] How to bet against civilizational adequacy?

Wei DaiAug 12, 2022, 11:33 PM

54 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Infant AI Scenario

Nathan1123Aug 12, 2022, 9:20 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

DeepMind alignment team opinions on AGI ruin arguments

VikaAug 12, 2022, 9:06 PM

395 points

37 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

Dissolve: The Petty Crimes of Blaise Pascal

SebastianG Aug 12, 2022, 8:04 PM

17 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

The Host Minds of HBO’s Westworld.

NerretAug 12, 2022, 6:53 PM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

What is estimational programming? Squiggle in context

QuinnAug 12, 2022, 6:39 PM

14 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

Oversight Misses 100% of Thoughts The AI Does Not Think

johnswentworthAug 12, 2022, 4:30 PM

110 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

Timelines explanation post part 1 of ?

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 12, 2022, 4:13 PM

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

A little playing around with Blenderbot3

Nathan Helm-BurgerAug 12, 2022, 4:06 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Refining the Sharp Left Turn threat model, part 1: claims and mechanisms

Vika, Vikrant Varma, Ramana Kumar and Mary Phuong

Aug 12, 2022, 3:17 PM

86 points

4 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

Argument by Intellectual Ordeal

lcAug 12, 2022, 1:03 PM

26 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Anti-squatted AI x-risk domains index

plexAug 12, 2022, 12:01 PM

59 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Perfect Predictors

aditya malikAug 12, 2022, 11:51 AM

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good arguments against building new nuclear power plants?

RomanSAug 12, 2022, 7:32 AM

16 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Seeking PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge)

CFAR!DuncanAug 12, 2022, 4:15 AM

62 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Artificial intelligence wireheading

Big TonyAug 12, 2022, 3:06 AM

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Dissected boxed AI

Nathan1123Aug 12, 2022, 2:37 AM

−8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Troll Timers

ScrewtapeAug 12, 2022, 12:55 AM

29 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Seriously, what goes wrong with “reward the agent when it makes you smile”?

TurnTroutAug 11, 2022, 10:22 PM

87 points

43 comments2 min readLW link

Encultured AI Pre-planning, Part 2: Providing a Service

Andrew_Critch and Nick Hay

Aug 11, 2022, 8:11 PM

33 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

My summary of the alignment problem

Peter HroššoAug 11, 2022, 7:42 PM

15 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(threadreaderapp.com)

Language models seem to be much better than humans at next-token prediction

Buck, Fabien Roger and LawrenceC

Aug 11, 2022, 5:45 PM

182 points

60 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Introducing Pastcasting: A tool for forecasting practice

Sage FutureAug 11, 2022, 5:38 PM

95 points

10 comments2 min readLW link 2 reviews

Pendulums, Policy-Level Decisionmaking, Saving State

CFAR!DuncanAug 11, 2022, 4:47 PM

30 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Covid 8/11/22: The End Is Never The End

ZviAug 11, 2022, 4:20 PM

28 points

11 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Singapore—Small casual dinner in Chinatown #4

Joe RoccaAug 11, 2022, 12:30 PM

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on the good regulator theorem

JonasMossAug 11, 2022, 12:08 PM

12 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How and why to turn everything into audio

KatWoods and AmberDawn

Aug 11, 2022, 8:55 AM

55 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

Shard Theory: An Overview

David UdellAug 11, 2022, 5:44 AM

166 points

34 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Do advancements in Decision Theory point towards moral absolutism?

Nathan1123Aug 11, 2022, 12:59 AM

0 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective

Richard_NgoAug 10, 2022, 10:46 PM

107 points

15 comments27 min readLW link 1 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)

Peter S. Park, NickyP and Stephen Fowler

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 link 1 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