Against AI Un­der­stand­ing and Sen­tience: Large Lan­guage Models, Mean­ing, and the Pat­terns of Hu­man Lan­guage Use

Jonathan Yan13 Apr 2023 23:29 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(philsci-archive.pitt.edu)

At­tributes of suc­cess­ful professors

electroswing13 Apr 2023 20:38 UTC
13 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Fi­nan­cial Times: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

trevor13 Apr 2023 19:55 UTC
113 points
17 comments16 min readLW link
(www.ft.com)

R0 Is Not Counterfactual

jefftk13 Apr 2023 19:50 UTC
33 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Sub­scripts for Probabilities

niplav13 Apr 2023 18:32 UTC
67 points
9 comments5 min readLW link

The Virus—Short Story

Michael Soareverix13 Apr 2023 18:18 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

First ACX Brno Meetup

adekcz13 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Pol­lut­ing the agen­tic commons

hamandcheese13 Apr 2023 17:42 UTC
7 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.secondbest.ca)

Cam­bridge LW Meetup: When Science Isn’t Enough

13 Apr 2023 17:36 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Even if hu­man & AI al­ign­ment are just as easy, we are screwed

Matthew_Opitz13 Apr 2023 17:32 UTC
35 points
5 comments5 min readLW link

In­tro to On­to­ge­netic Curriculum

Eris13 Apr 2023 17:15 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Was Homer a stochas­tic par­rot? Mean­ing in liter­ary texts and LLMs

Bill Benzon13 Apr 2023 16:44 UTC
7 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

AI #7: Free Agency

Zvi13 Apr 2023 16:20 UTC
33 points
12 comments47 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Nav­i­gat­ing the Open-Source AI Land­scape: Data, Fund­ing, and Safety

13 Apr 2023 15:29 UTC
32 points
7 comments11 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On AutoGPT

Zvi13 Apr 2023 12:30 UTC
248 points
47 comments20 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Iden­ti­fy­ing se­man­tic neu­rons, mechanis­tic cir­cuits & in­ter­pretabil­ity web apps

13 Apr 2023 11:59 UTC
18 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Try­ing Agen­tGPT, an Au­toGPT variant

Gunnar_Zarncke13 Apr 2023 10:13 UTC
10 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Epoch’s dash­board of key trends and figures in Ma­chine Learning

Jsevillamol13 Apr 2023 7:33 UTC
35 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(epochai.org)

[Question] What is the best source to ex­plain short AI timelines to a skep­ti­cal per­son?

trevor13 Apr 2023 4:29 UTC
12 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

“Aligned” foun­da­tion mod­els don’t im­ply al­igned systems

Max H13 Apr 2023 4:13 UTC
39 points
11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Us­ing ChatGPT for mem­ory re­con­soli­da­tion?

warrenjordan13 Apr 2023 1:27 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­de­pen­dence Dividends

jefftk13 Apr 2023 1:20 UTC
35 points
11 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AI x-risk, ap­prox­i­mately or­dered by embarrassment

Alex Lawsen 12 Apr 2023 23:01 UTC
151 points
7 comments19 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 20 - ‘Re­form’ AI Align­ment with Scott Aaronson

DanielFilan12 Apr 2023 21:30 UTC
22 points
2 comments68 min readLW link

Ap­ply to >30 AI safety fun­ders in one ap­pli­ca­tion with the Non­lin­ear Network

12 Apr 2023 21:23 UTC
65 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

AGI goal space is big, but nar­row­ing might not be as hard as it seems.

Jacy Reese Anthis12 Apr 2023 19:03 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral lan­guage alignment

Jacy Reese Anthis12 Apr 2023 19:02 UTC
31 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Repug­nant lev­els of violins

Solenoid_Entity12 Apr 2023 17:11 UTC
72 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Progress links and tweets, 2023-04-12

jasoncrawford12 Apr 2023 16:52 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

A ba­sic math­e­mat­i­cal struc­ture of intelligence

Golol12 Apr 2023 16:49 UTC
4 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Should Au­toGPT up­date us to­wards re­search­ing IDA?

Michaël Trazzi12 Apr 2023 16:41 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Box­ing lessons

yakimoff12 Apr 2023 16:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dazed and con­fused: Good olde’ walk around the Marin Head­lands

yakimoff12 Apr 2023 16:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Towards a solu­tion to the al­ign­ment prob­lem via ob­jec­tive de­tec­tion and eval­u­a­tion

Paul Colognese12 Apr 2023 15:39 UTC
9 points
7 comments12 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence as exit strat­egy from the age of acute ex­is­ten­tial risk

Arturo Macias12 Apr 2023 14:48 UTC
−7 points
15 comments7 min readLW link

The UBI dystopia: a glimpse into the fu­ture via pre­sent-day abuses

Solenoid_Entity12 Apr 2023 14:44 UTC
50 points
73 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Goals of model vs. goals of simu­lacra?

dr_s12 Apr 2023 13:02 UTC
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Align­ment of Au­toGPT agents

Ozyrus12 Apr 2023 12:54 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Boundaries-based se­cu­rity and AI safety approaches

Allison Duettmann12 Apr 2023 12:36 UTC
43 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Scaf­folded LLMs as nat­u­ral lan­guage computers

beren12 Apr 2023 10:47 UTC
94 points
10 comments11 min readLW link

LW is prob­a­bly not the place for “I asked this LLM (x) and here’s what it said!”, but where is?

lillybaeum12 Apr 2023 10:12 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

No con­vinc­ing ev­i­dence for gra­di­ent de­scent in ac­ti­va­tion space

Blaine12 Apr 2023 4:48 UTC
82 points
9 comments20 min readLW link

A Brief In­tro­duc­tion to ACI, 2: An Event-Cen­tric View

Akira Pyinya12 Apr 2023 3:23 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Bos­ton So­cial Dance Covid Requirements

jefftk12 Apr 2023 2:30 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Link] Sarah Con­stantin: “Why I am Not An AI Doomer”

lbThingrb12 Apr 2023 1:52 UTC
61 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

[Question] Ra­tion­al­ist po­si­tion to­wards ly­ing?

WilliamTerry12 Apr 2023 1:21 UTC
−2 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Na­tional Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and In­for­ma­tion Ad­minis­tra­tion: AI Ac­countabil­ity Policy Re­quest for Comment

sanxiyn11 Apr 2023 22:59 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ntia.gov)

Bi­nar­is­tic Bifur­ca­tion: How Real­ity Splits Into Two Separate Binaries

Thoth Hermes11 Apr 2023 21:19 UTC
−25 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(thothhermes.substack.com)

Bryan Bishop AMA on the Progress Forum

jasoncrawford11 Apr 2023 21:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

AI Risk US Pres­i­den­tial Candidate

Simon Berens11 Apr 2023 19:31 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readLW link