28 Jan 2023 22:47 UTC

37 points

2 comments24 min readLW link

Eli Dourado AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2023 22:18 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

LW Filter Tags (Rationality/World Modeling now promoted in Latest Posts)

Ruby and RobertM

28 Jan 2023 22:14 UTC

60 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

No Fire in the Equations

Carlos Ramirez28 Jan 2023 21:16 UTC

−16 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Optimality is the tiger, and annoying the user is its teeth

Christopher King28 Jan 2023 20:20 UTC

25 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

305 points

69 comments30 min readLW link

Advice I found helpful in 2022

Akash28 Jan 2023 19:48 UTC

36 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

The Knockdown Argument Paradox

Bryan Frances28 Jan 2023 19:23 UTC

−12 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Less Wrong/ACX Budapest Feb 4th Meetup

Richard Horvath and Timothy Underwood

28 Jan 2023 14:49 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Reflections on Deception & Generality in Scalable Oversight (Another OpenAI Alignment Review)

Shoshannah Tekofsky28 Jan 2023 5:26 UTC

53 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

A Simple Alignment Typology

Shoshannah Tekofsky28 Jan 2023 5:26 UTC

34 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Spooky action at a distance in the loss landscape

Jesse Hoogland and Filip Sondej

28 Jan 2023 0:22 UTC

61 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jessehoogland.com)

WaPo: “Big Tech was moving cautiously on AI. Then came ChatGPT.”

Julian Bradshaw27 Jan 2023 22:54 UTC

26 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.washingtonpost.com)

Literature review of TAI timelines

Jsevillamol, keith_wynroe and David Atkinson

27 Jan 2023 20:07 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Scaling Laws Literature Review

Pablo Villalobos27 Jan 2023 19:57 UTC

36 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

The role of Bayesian ML in AI safety—an overview

Marius Hobbhahn27 Jan 2023 19:40 UTC

31 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

Assigning Praise and Blame: Decoupling Epistemology and Decision Theory

adamShimi and Gabriel Alfour

27 Jan 2023 18:16 UTC

59 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How could humans dominate over a super intelligent AI?

Marco Discendenti27 Jan 2023 18:15 UTC

−5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

ChatGPT understands language

philosophybear27 Jan 2023 7:14 UTC

27 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

Jar of Chocolate

jefftk27 Jan 2023 3:40 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Basics of Rationalist Discourse

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)27 Jan 2023 2:40 UTC

267 points

192 comments36 min readLW link 4 reviews

The recent banality of rationality (and effective altruism)

CraigMichael27 Jan 2023 1:19 UTC

−6 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

11 heuristics for choosing (alignment) research projects

Akash and danesherbs

27 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC

50 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

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

255 points

50 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

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

154 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