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Open Problems

TagLast edit: Aug 18, 2021, 2:54 PM by plex

Open problems(or open questions) are the things in a field that haven’t yet been figured out. Gathering them all in the same place can help to see on what’s the frontier of that field or find things to work on.

See also Hamming Questions

[Question] What are the open prob­lems in Hu­man Ra­tion­al­ity?

RaemonJan 13, 2019, 4:46 AM
99 points
93 comments1 min readLW link3 reviews

[Question] Prob­lems In­volv­ing Ab­strac­tion?

johnswentworthOct 20, 2020, 4:49 PM
30 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems in AI X-Risk [PAIS #5]

Jun 10, 2022, 2:08 AM
61 points
6 comments36 min readLW link

200 Con­crete Open Prob­lems in Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity: Introduction

Neel NandaDec 28, 2022, 9:06 PM
106 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

A Re­quest for Open Problems

MrHenMay 8, 2009, 1:33 PM
28 points
103 comments1 min readLW link

Why Are Max­i­mum En­tropy Distri­bu­tions So Ubiquitous?

johnswentworthApr 5, 2023, 8:12 PM
68 points
6 comments9 min readLW link

A Primer On Chaos

johnswentworthMar 28, 2023, 6:01 PM
53 points
9 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What‘s in your list of un­solved prob­lems in AI al­ign­ment?

jacquesthibsMar 7, 2023, 6:58 PM
60 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

UDT shows that de­ci­sion the­ory is more puz­zling than ever

Wei DaiSep 13, 2023, 12:26 PM
218 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Con­crete em­piri­cal re­search pro­jects in mechanis­tic anomaly detection

Apr 3, 2024, 11:07 PM
43 points
3 comments10 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems in Nega­tive Side Effect Minimization

May 6, 2022, 9:37 AM
12 points
6 comments17 min readLW link

Con­di­tion­ing Pre­dic­tive Models: Open prob­lems, Con­clu­sion, and Appendix

Feb 10, 2023, 7:21 PM
36 points
3 comments11 min readLW link

Ro­bust Agency for Peo­ple and Organizations

RaemonJul 19, 2019, 1:18 AM
65 points
10 comments12 min readLW link

Deep For­get­ting & Un­learn­ing for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasperDec 5, 2023, 4:48 PM
125 points
30 comments13 min readLW link

Open prob­lems in ac­ti­va­tion engineering

Jul 24, 2023, 7:46 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(coda.io)

Open Prob­lems with Myopia

Mar 10, 2021, 6:38 PM
66 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Open prob­lem: how can we quan­tify player al­ign­ment in 2x2 nor­mal-form games?

TurnTroutJun 16, 2021, 2:09 AM
23 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

A Cer­tain For­mal­iza­tion of Cor­rigi­bil­ity Is VNM-Incoherent

TurnTroutNov 20, 2021, 12:30 AM
67 points
24 comments8 min readLW link

[In­tro to brain-like-AGI safety] 15. Con­clu­sion: Open prob­lems, how to help, AMA

Steven ByrnesMay 17, 2022, 3:11 PM
97 points
10 comments15 min readLW link

Open tech­ni­cal prob­lem: A Quinean proof of Löb’s the­o­rem, for an eas­ier car­toon guide

Andrew_CritchNov 24, 2022, 9:16 PM
58 points
35 comments3 min readLW link1 review

200 COP in MI: Study­ing Learned Fea­tures in Lan­guage Models

Neel NandaJan 19, 2023, 3:48 AM
24 points
2 comments30 min readLW link

Open Problems

lukeprogJul 5, 2011, 7:25 AM
41 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to Solomonoff Induction

Wei DaiJun 6, 2012, 12:26 AM
45 points
104 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­posal for “Open Prob­lems in Friendly AI”

lukeprogJun 1, 2012, 2:06 AM
33 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to Con­tribute to The­o­ret­i­cal Re­ward Learn­ing Research

Joar SkalseFeb 28, 2025, 7:27 PM
16 points
0 comments21 min readLW link

Tiling Agents for Self-Mod­ify­ing AI (OPFAI #2)

Eliezer YudkowskyJun 6, 2013, 8:24 PM
88 points
259 comments3 min readLW link

AI Safety De­bate and Its Applications

VojtaKovarikJul 23, 2019, 10:31 PM
38 points
5 comments11 min readLW link

An an­gle of at­tack on Open Prob­lem #1

BenyaAug 18, 2012, 12:08 PM
48 points
85 comments7 min readLW link

Friendly AI Re­search and Taskification

multifoliateroseDec 14, 2010, 6:30 AM
30 points
47 comments5 min readLW link

The­ory 1–4

Arilwen OrilothMay 22, 2024, 4:08 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Se­cret Col­lu­sion: Will We Know When to Un­plug AI?

Sep 16, 2024, 4:07 PM
56 points
7 comments31 min readLW link

Two Blegs

talismanMar 26, 2009, 4:42 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Create Paradigms

johnswentworthNov 9, 2020, 8:04 PM
50 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Towards Hodge-podge Alignment

Cleo NardoDec 19, 2022, 8:12 PM
95 points
30 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What ques­tion would you like to col­lab­o­rate on?

weathersystemsJun 2, 2021, 7:31 PM
12 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

[LINK] The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

jefftkOct 17, 2012, 8:03 PM
35 points
46 comments1 min readLW link

Hal­loween Problem

Saint BlasphemerOct 24, 2023, 4:46 PM
−10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Pre­serv­ing our her­i­tage: Build­ing a move­ment and a knowl­edge ark for cur­rent and fu­ture generations

rnk8Nov 29, 2023, 7:20 PM
0 points
5 comments12 min readLW link

Lay­ing the Foun­da­tions for Vi­sion and Mul­ti­modal Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity & Open Problems

Mar 13, 2024, 5:09 PM
44 points
13 comments14 min readLW link

Open ques­tion: are min­i­mal cir­cuits dae­mon-free?

paulfchristianoMay 5, 2018, 10:40 PM
83 points
70 comments2 min readLW link1 review

Open Prob­lems in Archipelago

RaemonApr 16, 2019, 10:57 PM
44 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Open Prob­lems Re­lated to the Sin­gu­lar­ity (draft 1)

lukeprogDec 13, 2011, 10:57 AM
53 points
42 comments4 min readLW link
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