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Questions I’d Want to Ask an AGI+ to Test Its Understanding of Ethics

sweenesm26 Jan 2024 23:40 UTC

14 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

An Invitation to Refrain from Downvoting Posts into Net-Negative Karma

MikkW26 Jan 2024 20:13 UTC

2 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

The Good Balsamic Vinegar

jenn26 Jan 2024 19:30 UTC

51 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(jenn.site)

The Perspective-based Explanation to the Reflective Inconsistency Paradox

dadadarren26 Jan 2024 19:00 UTC

10 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

To Boldly Code

StrivingForLegibility26 Jan 2024 18:25 UTC

25 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Incorporating Mechanism Design Into Decision Theory

StrivingForLegibility26 Jan 2024 18:25 UTC

17 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC

159 points

41 comments4 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Notes on Innocence

David Gross26 Jan 2024 14:45 UTC

13 points

21 comments19 min readLW link

Stacked Laptop Monitor

jefftk26 Jan 2024 14:10 UTC

22 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jan 2024 13:31 UTC

42 points

28 comments4 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

[Question] Workshop (hackathon, residence program, etc.) about for-profit AI Safety projects?

Roman Leventov26 Jan 2024 9:49 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI

Jeremy Gillen and peterbarnett

26 Jan 2024 7:22 UTC

161 points

60 comments57 min readLW link

Approximately Bayesian Reasoning: Knightian Uncertainty, Goodhart, and the Look-Elsewhere Effect

RogerDearnaley26 Jan 2024 3:58 UTC

16 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Musings on Cargo Cult Consciousness

Gareth Davidson25 Jan 2024 23:00 UTC

−14 points

11 comments17 min readLW link

RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks

StellaAthena25 Jan 2024 19:17 UTC

94 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

(www.rand.org)

[Question] Bayesian Reflection Principles and Ignorance of the Future

crickets25 Jan 2024 19:00 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

“Does your paradigm beget new, good, paradigms?”

Raemon25 Jan 2024 18:23 UTC

40 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

AI #48: The Talk of Davos

Zvi25 Jan 2024 16:20 UTC

38 points

9 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Importing a Python File by Name

jefftk25 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC

12 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Repost] The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

mesaoptimizer25 Jan 2024 15:20 UTC

72 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(web.archive.org)

Nash Bargaining between Subagents doesn’t solve the Shutdown Problem

A.H.25 Jan 2024 10:47 UTC

22 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Status-oriented spending

Adam Zerner25 Jan 2024 6:46 UTC

14 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Protecting agent boundaries

Chipmonk25 Jan 2024 4:13 UTC

11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is a random box of gas predictable after 20 seconds?

Thomas Kwa and habryka

24 Jan 2024 23:00 UTC

37 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Will quantum randomness affect the 2028 election?

Thomas Kwa and habryka

24 Jan 2024 22:54 UTC

66 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #30: Investments in Compute and Military AI Plus, Japan and Singapore’s National AI Safety Institutes

aogara, Dan H and Corin Katzke

24 Jan 2024 19:38 UTC

27 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Krueger Lab AI Safety Internship 2024

Joey Bream24 Jan 2024 19:17 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Agents that act for reasons: a thought experiment

Michele Campolo24 Jan 2024 16:47 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Impact Assessment of AI Safety Camp (Arb Research)

Samuel Holton24 Jan 2024 16:19 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled

ryan_greenblatt and Buck

24 Jan 2024 16:11 UTC

260 points

66 comments28 min readLW link

LLMs can strategically deceive while doing gain-of-function research

Igor Ivanov24 Jan 2024 15:45 UTC

33 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #14: January 2024

Zvi24 Jan 2024 12:50 UTC

38 points

22 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

This might be the last AI Safety Camp

Remmelt and Linda Linsefors

24 Jan 2024 9:33 UTC

195 points

34 comments1 min readLW link

Global LessWrong/AC10 Meetup on VRChat

Tomás B. and the gears to ascension

24 Jan 2024 5:44 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Humans aren’t fleeb.

Charlie Steiner24 Jan 2024 5:31 UTC

35 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

A Paradigm Shift in Sustainability

Jose Miguel Cruz y Celis23 Jan 2024 23:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

From Finite Factors to Bayes Nets

J Bostock23 Jan 2024 20:03 UTC

38 points

7 comments8 min readLW link

Institutional economics through the lens of scale-free regulative development, morphogenesis, and cognitive science

Roman Leventov23 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC

8 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

Making a Secular Solstice Songbook

jefftk23 Jan 2024 19:40 UTC

38 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Simple Appreciations

Jonathan Moregård23 Jan 2024 16:23 UTC

17 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

[Question] What environmental cues had you not seen them would have ended in disaster?

koratkar23 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots (survey of Replika users in Nature)

Kaj_Sotala23 Jan 2024 14:05 UTC

45 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

“Safety as a Scientific Pursuit” (2024)

technicalities23 Jan 2024 12:40 UTC

14 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(banburismus.substack.com)

Brainstorming: Slow Takeoff

David Piepgrass23 Jan 2024 6:58 UTC

2 points

0 comments51 min readLW link

Reframing Acausal Trolling as Acausal Patronage

StrivingForLegibility23 Jan 2024 3:04 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Orthogonality or the “Human Worth Hypothesis”?

Jeffs23 Jan 2024 0:57 UTC

21 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

the subreddit size threshold

bhauth23 Jan 2024 0:38 UTC

32 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Starting in mechanistic interpretability

Jakub Smékal22 Jan 2024 23:40 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(jakubsmekal.com)

We need a Science of Evals

Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer

22 Jan 2024 20:30 UTC

71 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

Announcing the SoS Research Collective for independent researchers (and academics thinking independently)

rogersbacon22 Jan 2024 20:13 UTC

15 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.theseedsofscience.pub)