And the word was “God”

pchvykovAug 30, 2022, 9:13 PM
−22 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Wor­lds Where Iter­a­tive De­sign Fails

johnswentworthAug 30, 2022, 8:48 PM
208 points
30 comments10 min readLW link1 review

In­ner Align­ment via Superpowers

Aug 30, 2022, 8:01 PM
37 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

ML Model At­tri­bu­tion Challenge [Linkpost]

aogAug 30, 2022, 7:34 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(mlmac.io)

How likely is de­cep­tive al­ign­ment?

evhubAug 30, 2022, 7:34 PM
104 points
28 comments60 min readLW link

Built-In Bundling For Faster Loading

jefftkAug 30, 2022, 7:20 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] A bayesian up­dat­ing on ex­pert opinions

amaraiAug 30, 2022, 11:56 AM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Any Utili­tar­i­anism Makes Sense As Policy

George3d6Aug 30, 2022, 9:55 AM
6 points
6 comments7 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

A gen­tle primer on car­ing, in­clud­ing in strange senses, with applications

KaarelAug 30, 2022, 8:05 AM
10 points
4 comments18 min readLW link

Mod­ified Guess Culture

konstellAug 30, 2022, 2:30 AM
5 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(konstell.com)

[Question] What is the best cri­tique of AI ex­is­ten­tial risk ar­gu­ments?

joshcAug 30, 2022, 2:18 AM
6 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

How to plan for a rad­i­cally un­cer­tain fu­ture?

KerryAug 30, 2022, 2:14 AM
57 points
35 comments1 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (21 Aug − 27 Aug 22′)

Zoe WilliamsAug 30, 2022, 1:42 AM
57 points
4 comments12 min readLW link

Can We Align a Self-Im­prov­ing AGI?

Peter S. ParkAug 30, 2022, 12:14 AM
8 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

On the na­ture of help—a frame­work for helping

FaustifyAug 29, 2022, 8:42 PM
3 points
2 comments13 min readLW link

Fun­da­men­tal Uncer­tainty: Chap­ter 4 - Why don’t we do what we think we should?

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 29, 2022, 7:25 PM
15 points
6 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] How can I rec­on­cile the two most likely re­quire­ments for hu­man­i­ties near-term sur­vival.

Erlja Jkdf.Aug 29, 2022, 6:46 PM
1 point
6 comments1 min readLW link

*New* Canada AI Safety & Gover­nance community

Wyatt Tessari L'AlliéAug 29, 2022, 6:45 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Are Gen­er­a­tive World Models a Mesa-Op­ti­miza­tion Risk?

Thane RuthenisAug 29, 2022, 6:37 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Se­quenc­ing Intro

jefftkAug 29, 2022, 5:50 PM
39 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How Do AI Timelines Affect Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

Stephen McAleeseAug 29, 2022, 4:57 PM
7 points
9 comments23 min readLW link

How might we al­ign trans­for­ma­tive AI if it’s de­vel­oped very soon?

HoldenKarnofskyAug 29, 2022, 3:42 PM
140 points
55 comments45 min readLW link1 review

An Au­dio In­tro­duc­tion to Nick Bostrom

PeterHAug 29, 2022, 8:50 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Please Do Fight the Hypothetical

Lone PineAug 29, 2022, 8:35 AM
18 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Have you con­sid­ered get­ting rid of death?

WillaAug 29, 2022, 1:31 AM
20 points
19 comments1 min readLW link
(immortalityisgreat.substack.com)

(My un­der­stand­ing of) What Every­one in Tech­ni­cal Align­ment is Do­ing and Why

Aug 29, 2022, 1:23 AM
413 points
90 comments37 min readLW link1 review

Break­ing down the train­ing/​de­ploy­ment dichotomy

Erik JennerAug 28, 2022, 9:45 PM
30 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

More Clothes Over Time?

jefftkAug 28, 2022, 8:30 PM
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Ex­pand­ing Mo­ral Cine­matic Universe

RaemonAug 28, 2022, 6:42 PM
67 points
9 comments14 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Cur­rent The­o­ries of Consciousness

hohenheimAug 28, 2022, 5:55 PM
60 points
43 comments49 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Can lab-grown brains be­come con­scious?

Jack RAug 28, 2022, 5:45 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Robert Long On Why Ar­tifi­cial Sen­tience Might Matter

Michaël TrazziAug 28, 2022, 5:30 PM
29 points
5 comments5 min readLW link
(theinsideview.ai)

Ar­tifi­cial Mo­ral Ad­vi­sors: A New Per­spec­tive from Mo­ral Psychology

David GrossAug 28, 2022, 4:37 PM
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(dl.acm.org)

Pronunciations

Solenoid_EntityAug 28, 2022, 11:43 AM
15 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

First thing AI will do when it takes over is get fis­sion going

visiaxAug 28, 2022, 5:56 AM
−2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Who or­dered al­ign­ment’s ap­ple?

Eleni AngelouAug 28, 2022, 4:05 AM
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

Suffi­ciently many Godzillas as an al­ign­ment strategy

142857Aug 28, 2022, 12:08 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What would you ex­pect a mas­sive mul­ti­modal on­line fed­er­ated learner to be ca­pa­ble of?

Aryeh EnglanderAug 27, 2022, 5:31 PM
13 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Basin broad­ness de­pends on the size and num­ber of or­thog­o­nal features

Aug 27, 2022, 5:29 PM
36 points
21 comments6 min readLW link

In­for­mal se­man­tics and Orders

Q HomeAug 27, 2022, 4:17 AM
14 points
10 comments26 min readLW link

Help Un­der­stand­ing Prefer­ences And Evil

NetcentricaAug 27, 2022, 3:42 AM
6 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Con­tra Dance Con­tact Tracing

jefftkAug 27, 2022, 1:50 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­nual AGI Bench­mark­ing Event

Lawrence PhillipsAug 27, 2022, 12:06 AM
24 points
3 comments2 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Is there a benefit in low ca­pa­bil­ity AI Align­ment re­search?

LettiAug 26, 2022, 11:51 PM
1 point
1 comment2 min readLW link

AI Risk in Terms of Un­sta­ble Nu­clear Software

Thane RuthenisAug 26, 2022, 6:49 PM
30 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Tak­ing the pa­ram­e­ters which seem to mat­ter and ro­tat­ing them un­til they don’t

Garrett BakerAug 26, 2022, 6:26 PM
120 points
48 comments1 min readLW link

ACX Mee­tups Every­where List

Scott AlexanderAug 26, 2022, 6:12 PM
63 points
1 comment41 min readLW link

What’s the Most Im­pres­sive Thing That GPT-4 Could Plau­si­bly Do?

bayesedAug 26, 2022, 3:34 PM
24 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is pop­u­la­tion col­lapse due to low birth rates a prob­lem?

mukashiAug 26, 2022, 3:28 PM
6 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Could you please share a tool to help with rea­son­ing or make bet­ter de­ci­sions?

hodovaniAug 26, 2022, 10:36 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link