A proof of in­ner Löb’s theorem

James Payor21 Feb 2023 21:11 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Fight­ing For Our Lives—What Or­di­nary Peo­ple Can Do

TinkerBird21 Feb 2023 20:36 UTC
12 points
18 comments4 min readLW link

The Emo­tional Type of a Decision

moridinamael21 Feb 2023 20:35 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

What is it like do­ing AI safety work?

KatWoods21 Feb 2023 20:12 UTC
57 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Pre­train­ing Lan­guage Models with Hu­man Preferences

21 Feb 2023 17:57 UTC
134 points
19 comments11 min readLW link

A Stranger Pri­or­ity? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effec­tive Altru­ism (my dis­ser­ta­tion)

Joe Carlsmith21 Feb 2023 17:26 UTC
38 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

EIS X: Con­tinual Learn­ing, Mo­du­lar­ity, Com­pres­sion, and Biolog­i­cal Brains

scasper21 Feb 2023 16:59 UTC
14 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

No Room for Poli­ti­cal Philosophy

Arturo Macias21 Feb 2023 16:11 UTC
0 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

De­cep­tive Align­ment is <1% Likely by Default

DavidW21 Feb 2023 15:09 UTC
90 points
29 comments14 min readLW link

AI #1: Syd­ney and Bing

Zvi21 Feb 2023 14:00 UTC
171 points
44 comments61 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

You’re not a simu­la­tion, ’cause you’re hallucinating

Stuart_Armstrong21 Feb 2023 12:12 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Ba­sic facts about lan­guage mod­els dur­ing training

beren21 Feb 2023 11:46 UTC
97 points
15 comments18 min readLW link

[Preprint] Pre­train­ing Lan­guage Models with Hu­man Preferences

Giulio21 Feb 2023 11:44 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Break­ing the Op­ti­mizer’s Curse, and Con­se­quences for Ex­is­ten­tial Risks and Value Learning

Roger Dearnaley21 Feb 2023 9:05 UTC
10 points
1 comment23 min readLW link

Medlife Cri­sis: “Why Do Peo­ple Keep Fal­ling For Things That Don’t Work?”

RomanHauksson21 Feb 2023 6:22 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

A foun­da­tion model ap­proach to value inference

sen21 Feb 2023 5:09 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal­ity makes agents agenty

porby21 Feb 2023 4:28 UTC
20 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Gam­ified nar­row re­verse imi­ta­tion learn­ing

TekhneMakre21 Feb 2023 4:26 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Feel­ings are Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley21 Feb 2023 2:38 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

AI al­ign­ment re­searchers don’t (seem to) stack

So8res21 Feb 2023 0:48 UTC
191 points
40 comments3 min readLW link

EA & LW Fo­rum Weekly Sum­mary (6th − 19th Feb 2023)

Zoe Williams21 Feb 2023 0:26 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

What to think when a lan­guage model tells you it’s sentient

Robbo21 Feb 2023 0:01 UTC
9 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

On sec­ond thought, prompt in­jec­tions are prob­a­bly ex­am­ples of misalignment

lc20 Feb 2023 23:56 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Noth­ing Is Ever Taught Correctly

LVSN20 Feb 2023 22:31 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Be­hav­ioral and mechanis­tic defi­ni­tions (of­ten con­fuse AI al­ign­ment dis­cus­sions)

LawrenceC20 Feb 2023 21:33 UTC
33 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

Val­ida­tor mod­els: A sim­ple ap­proach to de­tect­ing goodharting

beren20 Feb 2023 21:32 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

There are no co­her­ence theorems

20 Feb 2023 21:25 UTC
145 points
124 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any AI safety rele­vant fully re­mote roles suit­able for some­one with 2-3 years of ma­chine learn­ing en­g­ineer­ing in­dus­try ex­pe­rience?

Malleable_shape20 Feb 2023 19:57 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A cir­cuit for Python doc­strings in a 4-layer at­ten­tion-only transformer

20 Feb 2023 19:35 UTC
95 points
8 comments21 min readLW link

Syd­ney the Bin­gena­tor Can’t Think, But It Still Threat­ens People

Valentin Baltadzhiev20 Feb 2023 18:37 UTC
−3 points
2 comments8 min readLW link

EIS IX: In­ter­pretabil­ity and Adversaries

scasper20 Feb 2023 18:25 UTC
30 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

What AI com­pa­nies can do to­day to help with the most im­por­tant century

HoldenKarnofsky20 Feb 2023 17:00 UTC
38 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Ban­kless Pod­cast: 159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky

bayesed20 Feb 2023 16:42 UTC
83 points
54 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Spec­u­la­tive Tech­nolo­gies launch and Ben Rein­hardt AMA

jasoncrawford20 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[MLSN #8] Mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity, us­ing law to in­form AI al­ign­ment, scal­ing laws for proxy gaming

20 Feb 2023 15:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(newsletter.mlsafety.org)

Bing find­ing ways to by­pass Microsoft’s filters with­out be­ing asked. Is it re­pro­ducible?

Christopher King20 Feb 2023 15:11 UTC
27 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Me­tac­u­lus In­tro­duces New ‘Con­di­tional Pair’ Fore­cast Ques­tions for Mak­ing Con­di­tional Predictions

ChristianWilliams20 Feb 2023 13:36 UTC
40 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On In­ves­ti­gat­ing Con­spir­acy Theories

Zvi20 Feb 2023 12:50 UTC
116 points
38 comments5 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Es­ti­ma­tion Game: a monthly Fermi es­ti­ma­tion web app

20 Feb 2023 11:33 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

The idea that ChatGPT is sim­ply “pre­dict­ing” the next word is, at best, misleading

Bill Benzon20 Feb 2023 11:32 UTC
55 points
87 comments5 min readLW link

Rus­sell Con­ju­ga­tions list & vot­ing thread

Daniel Kokotajlo20 Feb 2023 6:39 UTC
22 points
62 comments1 min readLW link

Emer­gent De­cep­tion and Emer­gent Optimization

jsteinhardt20 Feb 2023 2:40 UTC
64 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

AGI doesn’t need un­der­stand­ing, in­ten­tion, or con­scious­ness in or­der to kill us, only intelligence

James Blaha20 Feb 2023 0:55 UTC
10 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

Re­mote AI Align­ment Over­hang?

tryactions19 Feb 2023 22:30 UTC
37 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

A Neu­ral Net­work un­der­go­ing Gra­di­ent-based Train­ing as a Com­plex System

carboniferous_umbraculum 19 Feb 2023 22:08 UTC
22 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Another Way to Be Okay

Gretta Duleba19 Feb 2023 20:49 UTC
105 points
15 comments6 min readLW link

A Way To Be Okay

Duncan Sabien (Deactivated)19 Feb 2023 20:27 UTC
108 points
37 comments10 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Lily’s world with ChatGPT [things an AI won’t do]

Bill Benzon19 Feb 2023 16:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

EIS VIII: An Eng­ineer’s Un­der­stand­ing of De­cep­tive Alignment

scasper19 Feb 2023 15:25 UTC
30 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Does novel un­der­stand­ing im­ply novel agency /​ val­ues?

TsviBT19 Feb 2023 14:41 UTC
18 points
0 comments7 min readLW link