[Question] How do you feel about LessWrong these days? [Open feed­back thread]

jacobjacob5 Dec 2023 20:54 UTC
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Cri­tique-a-Thon of AI Align­ment Plans

Iknownothing5 Dec 2023 20:50 UTC
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Ar­gu­ments for/​against schem­ing that fo­cus on the path SGD takes (Sec­tion 3 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith5 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC
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In defence of He­len Toner, Adam D’An­gelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post)

mrtreasure5 Dec 2023 18:40 UTC
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(pastebin.com)

Study­ing The Alien Mind

5 Dec 2023 17:27 UTC
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Deep For­get­ting & Un­learn­ing for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasper5 Dec 2023 16:48 UTC
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On ‘Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Poli­cies’ (RSPs)

Zvi5 Dec 2023 16:10 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC
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(carado.moe)

A So­cratic di­alogue with my student

lsusr5 Dec 2023 9:31 UTC
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Neu­ral un­cer­tainty es­ti­ma­tion re­view ar­ti­cle (for al­ign­ment)

Charlie Steiner5 Dec 2023 8:01 UTC
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An­a­lyz­ing the His­tor­i­cal Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardt5 Dec 2023 6:30 UTC
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(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Some open-source dic­tio­nar­ies and dic­tio­nary learn­ing infrastructure

Sam Marks5 Dec 2023 6:05 UTC
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The LessWrong 2022 Review

habryka5 Dec 2023 4:00 UTC
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Bands And Low-stakes Dances

jefftk5 Dec 2023 3:50 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

Ac­cel­er­at­ing sci­ence through evolv­able institutions

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2023 23:21 UTC
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Speak­ing to Con­gres­sional staffers about AI risk

4 Dec 2023 23:08 UTC
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Open Thread – Win­ter 2023/​2024

habryka4 Dec 2023 22:59 UTC
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In­ter­view with Vanessa Kosoy on the Value of The­o­ret­i­cal Re­search for AI

WillPetillo4 Dec 2023 22:58 UTC
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2023 Align­ment Re­search Up­dates from FAR AI

4 Dec 2023 22:32 UTC
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(far.ai)

What’s new at FAR AI

4 Dec 2023 21:18 UTC
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(far.ai)

n of m ring signatures

DanielFilan4 Dec 2023 20:00 UTC
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(danielfilan.com)

Mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity through clustering

Alistair Fraser4 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC
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Agents which are EU-max­i­miz­ing as a group are not EU-max­i­miz­ing individually

Mlxa4 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC
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Plan­ning in LLMs: In­sights from AlphaGo

jco4 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC
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Non-clas­sic sto­ries about schem­ing (Sec­tion 2.3.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith4 Dec 2023 18:44 UTC
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6. The Mutable Values Prob­lem in Value Learn­ing and CEV

RogerDearnaley4 Dec 2023 18:31 UTC
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Up­dates to Open Phil’s ca­reer de­vel­op­ment and tran­si­tion fund­ing program

4 Dec 2023 18:10 UTC
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[Valence se­ries] 1. Introduction

Steven Byrnes4 Dec 2023 15:40 UTC
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South Bay Meetup 12/​9

David Friedman4 Dec 2023 7:32 UTC
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Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul Bricman4 Dec 2023 7:31 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

A call for a quan­ti­ta­tive re­port card for AI bioter­ror­ism threat models

Juno4 Dec 2023 6:35 UTC
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FTL travel summary

Isaac King4 Dec 2023 5:17 UTC
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Dis­ap­point­ing Table Refinishing

jefftk4 Dec 2023 2:50 UTC
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the micro-fulfill­ment cam­brian explosion

bhauth4 Dec 2023 1:15 UTC
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(www.bhauth.com)

Niet­zsche’s Mo­ral­ity in Plain English

Arjun Panickssery4 Dec 2023 0:57 UTC
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(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Med­i­ta­tions on Mot

Richard_Ngo4 Dec 2023 0:19 UTC
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(www.mindthefuture.info)

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC
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(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Does schem­ing lead to ad­e­quate fu­ture em­pow­er­ment? (Sec­tion 2.3.1.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith3 Dec 2023 18:32 UTC
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[Question] How do you do post mortems?

matto3 Dec 2023 14:46 UTC
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The benefits and risks of op­ti­mism (about AI safety)

Karl von Wendt3 Dec 2023 12:45 UTC
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Book Re­view: 1948 by Benny Morris

Yair Halberstadt3 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC
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Quick takes on “AI is easy to con­trol”

So8res2 Dec 2023 22:31 UTC
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The goal-guard­ing hy­poth­e­sis (Sec­tion 2.3.1.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith2 Dec 2023 15:20 UTC
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The Method of Loci: With some brief re­marks, in­clud­ing trans­form­ers and eval­u­at­ing AIs

Bill Benzon2 Dec 2023 14:36 UTC
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Tak­ing Into Ac­count Sen­tient Non-Hu­mans in AI Am­bi­tious Value Learn­ing: Sen­tien­tist Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Adrià Moret2 Dec 2023 14:07 UTC
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Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

jefftk2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

After Align­ment — Dialogue be­tween RogerDear­naley and Seth Herd

2 Dec 2023 6:03 UTC
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List of strate­gies for miti­gat­ing de­cep­tive alignment

joshc2 Dec 2023 5:56 UTC
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[Question] What is known about in­var­i­ants in self-mod­ify­ing sys­tems?

mishka2 Dec 2023 5:04 UTC
9 points
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2023 Unoffi­cial LessWrong Cen­sus/​Survey

Screwtape2 Dec 2023 4:41 UTC
169 points
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