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Donald Hobson

Karma: 3,261

MMath Cambridge. Currently studying postgrad at Edinburgh.

Fic­tion: My al­ter­nate earth story.

Donald HobsonApr 16, 2022, 7:06 PM
25 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing toy neu­ral nets un­der node re­moval. Sec­tion 1.

Donald HobsonApr 13, 2022, 11:30 PM
12 points
7 comments8 min readLW link

How BoMAI Might fail

Donald HobsonApr 7, 2022, 3:32 PM
11 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ware us­ing words off the prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tion that gen­er­ated them.

Donald HobsonDec 19, 2021, 4:52 PM
42 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Po­ten­tial Align­ment men­tal tool: Keep­ing track of the types

Donald HobsonNov 22, 2021, 8:05 PM
29 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Yet More Mo­dal Combat

Donald HobsonAug 24, 2021, 10:32 AM
10 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Brute force search­ing for alignment

Donald HobsonJun 27, 2021, 9:54 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Biotech to make hu­mans afraid of AI

Donald HobsonJun 18, 2021, 8:19 AM
−20 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Spec­u­la­tions against GPT-n writ­ing al­ign­ment papers

Donald HobsonJun 7, 2021, 9:13 PM
31 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Op­ti­miza­tion, spec­u­la­tions on the X and only X prob­lem.

Donald HobsonMar 30, 2021, 9:38 PM
10 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Policy re­stric­tions and Se­cret keep­ing AI

Donald HobsonJan 24, 2021, 8:59 PM
6 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

The “best pre­dic­tor is mal­i­cious op­ti­miser” problem

Donald HobsonJul 29, 2020, 11:49 AM
14 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing ar­bi­trary ex­pres­sions with a lin­ear num­ber of queries to a Log­i­cal In­duc­tion Or­a­cle (Car­toon Guide)

Donald HobsonJul 23, 2020, 9:37 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Web AI dis­cus­sion Groups

Donald HobsonJun 30, 2020, 11:22 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[META] Build­ing a ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem to avoid censorship

Donald HobsonJun 23, 2020, 2:12 PM
36 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What does a pos­i­tive out­come with­out al­ign­ment look like?

Donald HobsonMay 9, 2020, 1:57 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Would Covid19 pa­tients benefit from blood trans­fu­sions from peo­ple who have re­cov­ered?

Donald HobsonMar 29, 2020, 10:27 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Pro­gram­ming: Cas­cad­ing Failure chains

Donald HobsonMar 28, 2020, 7:22 PM
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Bo­gus Exam Questions

Donald HobsonMar 28, 2020, 12:56 PM
18 points
8 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How hard would it be to at­tack coro­n­avirus with CRISPR?

Donald HobsonMar 6, 2020, 11:18 PM
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link