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South Bay Meetup

DavidFriedman30 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Thiel’s speech at Oxford Debating Union on technological stagnation, Nuclear weapons, COVID, Environment, Alignment, ‘anti-anti anti-anti-classical liberalism’, Bostrom, LW, etc.

M. Y. Zuo30 Jan 2023 23:31 UTC

8 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

Medical Image Registration: The obscure field where Deep Mesaoptimizers are already at the top of the benchmarks. (post + colab notebook)

Hastings30 Jan 2023 22:46 UTC

34 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Humans Can Be Manually Strategic

Screwtape30 Jan 2023 22:35 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Why I hate the “accident vs. misuse” AI x-risk dichotomy (quick thoughts on “structural risk”)

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)30 Jan 2023 18:50 UTC

32 points

41 comments2 min readLW link

2022 Unofficial LessWrong General Census

Screwtape30 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC

97 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Call for submissions: “(In)human Values and Artificial Agency”, ALIFE 2023

the gears to ascension30 Jan 2023 17:37 UTC

29 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(humanvaluesandartificialagency.com)

What I mean by “alignment is in large part about making cognition aimable at all”

So8res30 Jan 2023 15:22 UTC

168 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

The Energy Requirements and Feasibility of Off-World Mining

clans30 Jan 2023 15:07 UTC

31 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

(locationtbd.home.blog)

Whatever their arguments, Covid vaccine sceptics will probably never convince me

contrarianbrit30 Jan 2023 13:42 UTC

8 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

(thomasprosser.substack.com)

Simulacra Levels Summary

Zvi30 Jan 2023 13:40 UTC

73 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Few Principles of Successful AI Design

Vestozia30 Jan 2023 10:42 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

Against Boltzmann mesaoptimizers

porby30 Jan 2023 2:55 UTC

76 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

How Likely is Losing a Google Account?

jefftk30 Jan 2023 0:20 UTC

52 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Model-driven feedback could amplify alignment failures

aogara30 Jan 2023 0:00 UTC

21 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Takeaways from calibration training

Olli Järviniemi29 Jan 2023 19:09 UTC

38 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Structure, creativity, and novelty

TsviBT29 Jan 2023 14:30 UTC

18 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

What is the ground reality of countries taking steps to recalibrate AI development towards Alignment first?

Nebuch29 Jan 2023 13:26 UTC

8 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Compendium of problems with RLHF

Charbel-Raphaël29 Jan 2023 11:40 UTC

120 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

formal alignment: what it is, and some proposals

Tamsin Leake29 Jan 2023 11:32 UTC

53 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

My biggest takeaway from Redwood Research REMIX

Alok Singh29 Jan 2023 11:00 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(alok.github.io)

EA novel published on Amazon

Timothy Underwood29 Jan 2023 8:33 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Reverse RSS Stats

jefftk29 Jan 2023 3:40 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why and How to Graduate Early [U.S.]

Tego29 Jan 2023 1:28 UTC

29 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Stop-gradients lead to fixed point predictions

Johannes Treutlein, Caspar Oesterheld, Rubi J. Hudson and Emery Cooper

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

311 points

68 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

to me, it’s instrumentality that is alienating

Tamsin Leake27 Jan 2023 18:27 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

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

266 points

181 comments36 min readLW link

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