Fun math facts about 2023

Adam Scherlis1 Jan 2023 23:38 UTC
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The Thing­ness of Things

TsviBT1 Jan 2023 22:19 UTC
48 points
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Thoughts On Ex­pand­ing the AI Safety Com­mu­nity: Benefits and Challenges of Outreach to Non-Tech­ni­cal Professionals

Yashvardhan Sharma1 Jan 2023 19:21 UTC
4 points
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[Question] Would it be good or bad for the US mil­i­tary to get in­volved in AI risk?

Grant Demaree1 Jan 2023 19:02 UTC
50 points
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Bet­ter New Year’s Goals through Align­ing the Elephant and the Rider

moridinamael1 Jan 2023 17:54 UTC
20 points
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(guildoftherose.org)

A Löbian ar­gu­ment pat­tern for im­plicit rea­son­ing in nat­u­ral lan­guage: Löbian party invitations

Andrew_Critch1 Jan 2023 17:39 UTC
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woke offline, anti-woke online

Yair Halberstadt1 Jan 2023 8:24 UTC
13 points
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Sum­mary of 80k’s AI prob­lem profile

JakubK1 Jan 2023 7:30 UTC
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What per­cent of peo­ple work in moral mazes?

Raemon1 Jan 2023 4:33 UTC
21 points
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Re­cur­sive Mid­dle Man­ager Hell

Raemon1 Jan 2023 4:33 UTC
221 points
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Challenge to the no­tion that any­thing is (maybe) pos­si­ble with AGI

1 Jan 2023 3:57 UTC
−27 points
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(mflb.com)

The Roots of Progress’s 2022 in review

jasoncrawford1 Jan 2023 2:54 UTC
14 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

In­vest­ing for a World Trans­formed by AI

PeterMcCluskey1 Jan 2023 2:47 UTC
67 points
24 comments6 min readLW link1 review
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Why Free Will is NOT an illusion

Akira Pyinya1 Jan 2023 2:29 UTC
0 points
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Lo­calhost Se­cu­rity Messaging

jefftk1 Jan 2023 2:20 UTC
7 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

0 and 1 aren’t probabilities

Alok Singh1 Jan 2023 0:09 UTC
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(en.wikipedia.org)

‘simu­la­tor’ fram­ing and con­fu­sions about LLMs

Beth Barnes31 Dec 2022 23:38 UTC
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Mon­i­tor­ing de­vices I have loved

Elizabeth31 Dec 2022 22:51 UTC
62 points
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Slack mat­ters more than any outcome

Valentine31 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
156 points
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To Be Par­tic­u­lar About Morality

AGO31 Dec 2022 19:58 UTC
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200 COP in MI: In­ter­pret­ing Al­gorith­mic Problems

Neel Nanda31 Dec 2022 19:55 UTC
33 points
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The Feel­ing of Idea Scarcity

johnswentworth31 Dec 2022 17:34 UTC
246 points
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Curse of knowl­edge and Naive re­al­ism: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

31 Dec 2022 13:33 UTC
−7 points
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(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] What ca­reer ad­vice do you give to soft­ware en­g­ineers?

Antb31 Dec 2022 12:01 UTC
15 points
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[Question] Are Mix­ture-of-Ex­perts Trans­form­ers More In­ter­pretable Than Dense Trans­form­ers?

simeon_c31 Dec 2022 11:34 UTC
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[Question] In which cases can ChatGPT be used as an aid for the­sis or sci­en­tific pa­per writ­ing?

Bob Guran31 Dec 2022 10:50 UTC
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Two Is­sues with Play­ing Chicken with the Universe

Chris_Leong31 Dec 2022 6:47 UTC
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Ex­treme risk neu­tral­ity isn’t always wrong

Grant Demaree31 Dec 2022 4:05 UTC
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Ver­bal par­ity: What is it and how to mea­sure it? + an ed­ited ver­sion of “Against John Searle, Gary Mar­cus, the Chi­nese Room thought ex­per­i­ment and its world”

philosophybear31 Dec 2022 3:46 UTC
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Should AI sys­tems have to iden­tify them­selves?

Darren McKee31 Dec 2022 2:57 UTC
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[Question] What do you imag­ine, when you imag­ine “tak­ing over the world”?

johnswentworth31 Dec 2022 1:04 UTC
22 points
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A few thoughts on my self-study for al­ign­ment research

Thomas Kehrenberg30 Dec 2022 22:05 UTC
6 points
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Christ­mas Microscopy

jefftk30 Dec 2022 21:10 UTC
27 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

What “up­side” of AI?

False Name30 Dec 2022 20:58 UTC
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Ev­i­dence on re­cur­sive self-im­prove­ment from cur­rent ML

beren30 Dec 2022 20:53 UTC
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[Question] Is ChatGPT TAI?

Amal 30 Dec 2022 19:44 UTC
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My thoughts on OpenAI’s al­ign­ment plan

Akash30 Dec 2022 19:33 UTC
55 points
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Beyond Re­wards and Values: A Non-du­al­is­tic Ap­proach to Univer­sal Intelligence

Akira Pyinya30 Dec 2022 19:05 UTC
10 points
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10 Years of LessWrong

SebastianG 30 Dec 2022 17:15 UTC
73 points
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Chat­bots as a Publi­ca­tion Format

derek shiller30 Dec 2022 14:11 UTC
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Hu­man sex­u­al­ity as an in­ter­est­ing case study of alignment

beren30 Dec 2022 13:37 UTC
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The Twit­ter Files: Covid Edition

Zvi30 Dec 2022 13:30 UTC
32 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Wor­ldly Po­si­tions archive, briefly with pri­vate drafts

KatjaGrace30 Dec 2022 12:20 UTC
11 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Models Don’t “Get Re­ward”

Sam Ringer30 Dec 2022 10:37 UTC
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The hy­per­finite timeline

Alok Singh30 Dec 2022 9:30 UTC
3 points
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(alok.github.io)

Re­ac­tive de­val­u­a­tion: Bias in Eval­u­at­ing AGI X-Risks

30 Dec 2022 9:02 UTC
−15 points
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Things I carry al­most ev­ery day, as of late De­cem­ber 2022

DanielFilan30 Dec 2022 7:40 UTC
38 points
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(danielfilan.com)

More ways to spot abysses

KatjaGrace30 Dec 2022 6:30 UTC
21 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Lan­guage mod­els are nearly AGIs but we don’t no­tice it be­cause we keep shift­ing the bar

philosophybear30 Dec 2022 5:15 UTC
105 points
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-12-29

jasoncrawford30 Dec 2022 4:54 UTC
12 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)