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A different observation of Vavilov Day

Elizabeth26 Jan 2023 21:50 UTC

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [~monthly thread]

mwatkins and Robert Miles

26 Jan 2023 21:01 UTC

39 points

81 comments2 min readLW link

Just another thought experiment

Bohdan Kudlai 26 Jan 2023 19:29 UTC

−11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Exquisite Oracle: A Dadaist-Inspired Literary Game for Many Friends (or 1 AI)

Yitz26 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

AI Risk Management Framework | NIST

DragonGod26 Jan 2023 15:27 UTC

36 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nist.gov)

“How to Escape from the Simulation”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbacon26 Jan 2023 15:11 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Loom: Why and How to use it

brook26 Jan 2023 14:34 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 1/26/23: Case Count Crash

Zvi26 Jan 2023 12:50 UTC

32 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How are you currently modeling COVID contagiousness?

CounterBlunder26 Jan 2023 4:46 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the simplest concrete unsolved problem in AI alignment?

agg26 Jan 2023 4:15 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

2022 Less Wrong Census/Survey: Request for Comments

Screwtape25 Jan 2023 20:57 UTC

5 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Next steps after AGISF at UMich

JakubK25 Jan 2023 20:57 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

AGI will have learnt utility functions

beren25 Jan 2023 19:42 UTC

36 points

3 comments13 min readLW link

[RFC] Possible ways to expand on “Discovering Latent Knowledge in Language Models Without Supervision”.

gekaklam, Walter Laurito , Kaarel and Kay Kozaronek

25 Jan 2023 19:03 UTC

48 points

6 comments12 min readLW link

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

HoldenKarnofsky25 Jan 2023 18:20 UTC

75 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohl25 Jan 2023 17:52 UTC

239 points

49 comments5 min readLW link

Thoughts on the impact of RLHF research

paulfchristiano25 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC

250 points

102 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Could AI be used to engineer a sociopolitical situation where humans can solve the problems surrounding AGI?

hollowing25 Jan 2023 17:17 UTC

1 point

6 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-01-25

jasoncrawford25 Jan 2023 16:12 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Visualisation of Probability Mass

brook25 Jan 2023 15:09 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

When Did EA Start?

jefftk25 Jan 2023 14:30 UTC

37 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Some Thoughts on AI Art

abramdemski25 Jan 2023 14:18 UTC

74 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

Quick thoughts on “scalable oversight” / “super-human feedback” research

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)25 Jan 2023 12:55 UTC

27 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Sapir-Whorf for Rationalists

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)25 Jan 2023 7:58 UTC

149 points

49 comments19 min readLW link

ChatGPT vs the 2-4-6 Task

cwillu25 Jan 2023 6:59 UTC

20 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Pessimistic Shard Theory

Garrett Baker25 Jan 2023 0:59 UTC

72 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Thatcher’s Axiom

Edward P. Könings24 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC

10 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Some questions about free will compatibilism

Asking Questions24 Jan 2023 21:54 UTC

3 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

Alexander and Yudkowsky on AGI goals

Scott Alexander and Eliezer Yudkowsky

24 Jan 2023 21:09 UTC

174 points

52 comments26 min readLW link

[Question] Is _The Age of AI: And Our Human Future_ worth reading

jmh24 Jan 2023 21:05 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Inverse Scaling Prize: Second Round Winners

Ian McKenzie, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

24 Jan 2023 20:12 UTC

58 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

ChatGPT intimates a tantalizing future; its core LLM is organized on multiple levels; and it has broken the idea of thinking.

Bill Benzon24 Jan 2023 19:05 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

How-to Transformer Mechanistic Interpretability—in 50 lines of code or less!

StefanHex24 Jan 2023 18:45 UTC

47 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities

Sam Enright24 Jan 2023 18:22 UTC

36 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(samenright.com)

Explanatory Parsimony, Explanatory Superfluousness and Uselessness of Newton’s First Law

Jimdrix_Hendri24 Jan 2023 17:21 UTC

−2 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Guesstimate: Why and how to use it

brook and chanamessinger

24 Jan 2023 16:24 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

GWWC Pledge History

jefftk24 Jan 2023 15:50 UTC

15 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Gradient hacking is extremely difficult

beren24 Jan 2023 15:45 UTC

162 points

22 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What sci-fi books are most relevant to a future with transformative AI?

sid24 Jan 2023 15:30 UTC

2 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Grant-making in EA should consider peer-reviewing grant applications along the public-sector model

Ben Smith24 Jan 2023 15:01 UTC

0 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

“Endgame safety” for AGI

Steven Byrnes24 Jan 2023 14:15 UTC

84 points

10 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on hardware / compute requirements for AGI

Steven Byrnes24 Jan 2023 14:03 UTC

52 points

30 comments24 min readLW link

Parameter Scaling Comes for RL, Maybe

1a3orn24 Jan 2023 13:55 UTC

99 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

How to find cool things in a new place

Sam F. Brown24 Jan 2023 11:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Crosspost] ACX 2022 Prediction Contest Results

Scott Alexander, Eric Neyman and Sam Marks

24 Jan 2023 6:56 UTC

46 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

The Human-AI Reflective Equilibrium

Allison Duettmann24 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC

22 points

1 comment24 min readLW link

“Status” can be corrosive; here’s how I handle it

Akash24 Jan 2023 1:25 UTC

71 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What area of the digital domain seems safe from AI in the next 5-10 years?

Adrien Chauvet24 Jan 2023 1:16 UTC

11 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Some of my disagreements with List of Lethalities

TurnTrout24 Jan 2023 0:25 UTC

68 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

Rounding Someone Off

David Udell24 Jan 2023 0:03 UTC

25 points

0 comments5 min readLW link