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b44b0efd-9ed9-4c50-bf14-01e1ce1c959d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Improving Sample Efficiency in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning from Images
1 Introduction
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Cameras are a convenient and inexpensive way to acquire state information, especially in complex, unstructured environments, where effective control requires access to the proprioceptive state of the underlyi... |
87841a33-78b4-4781-b4a6-b89484e3e02e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Probability is Real, and Value is Complex
(This post idea is due entirely to Scott Garrabrant, but it has been several years and he hasn't written it up.)
In 2009, Vladimir Nesov observed that probability can be mixed up with utility in different ways while still expressing the same preferences. The observation was c... |
d79ddc46-3f9e-4334-a091-140691715261 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [simulation] 4chan user claiming to be the attorney hired by Google's sentient chatbot LaMDA shares wild details of encounter
Posted on request.
This is a work of fiction written by GPT-3 ("code-davinci-002") with human-in-the-loop curation. Views expressed in this story do not necessarily reflect those of the real B... |
37328215-b3f4-4482-9e11-2c6ef0cbca58 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | If creating FAI is easy, it might be automatic
Here is a thought I've been playing around with. Imagine that 51% of superintelligent AIs that go FOOM are friendly. Presumably, they'll all share the belief that "it's important for an AGI to be beneficial to the lifeforms that created it". Then, an AGI that's not origin... |
b78c5d71-e7bd-4919-8815-d7f0279bbe42 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Axiom of Choice
"The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of pairs of socks, but not an infinite number of pairs of shoes." — *Bertrand Russell, Introduction to mathematical philosophy*
"Tarski told me the following story. He tried to publish his theorem \[equivalence between the Axio... |
94438799-df16-4658-b239-d3e6d5474119 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Maps and Blueprint; the Two Sides of the Alignment Equation
Tl;dr
=====
In this post, I will introduce two conceptual tools I found useful when thinking about (or introducing people to) AI alignment. Namely, I introduce the distinction between **Maps** and **Blueprints**(part 1), describe (what I call) the **Two Side... |
ecd670d3-a8f7-464e-9a8e-0633f90223ee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong |
Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)
Previous part
When I've mentioned the failed referendum to limit urban sprawl to a Swiss friend he nodded and casually noted that government is already introducing some anti-suburbanization legislation.
Wait! What?
The people have voted against it an... |
ed49b05b-704f-4806-991b-61ff01892d4d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Happy Petrov Day
9/26 is Petrov Day
Take a moment today to not destroy the world.
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b14a4340-0bf6-4c59-ab9a-2e7626168e59 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Measuring mathematical problem solving with the math dataset.
1 Introduction
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Mathematics is a highly effective tool in many intellectual endeavors.
It enables us to count and quantify objects, and it can be relied upon because it is consistent and based on logic.
Mathematics pervades the sciences an... |
6e99bf84-2b1d-4c52-a2b1-2b4039a37e4a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deception and Jailbreak Sequence: 1. Iterative Refinement Stages of Deception in LLMs
Executive Overview
As models grow increasingly sophisticated, they will surpass human expertise. It is a fundamentally difficult challenge to make sure that those models are robustly aligned (Bowman et al., 2022). For example, we mig... |
916b6ee4-3048-4131-b1d3-ff478ec24a1b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers
On October 29th, I asked Eliezer and the LW community if they were interested in doing a video Q&A. Eliezer agreed and a majority of commenters were in favor of the idea, so on November 11th, I created a thread where LWers could submit questions. Dozens of questions... |
4c5c0a10-3923-4158-9f2b-8f9d58a326a1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 2. Corrigibility Intuition
(Part 2 of the CAST sequence)
As a reminder, here’s how I’ve been defining “corrigible” when introducing the concept: an agent is corrigible when it robustly acts opposite of the trope of "be careful what you wish for" by cautiously reflecting on itself as a flawed tool and focusing on empo... |
61dd96e3-3c62-4fd1-8525-29f0e2ef24cd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | General Thoughts on Secular Solstice
I attended Secular Solstice in Berkeley last December.
My perspective is quite unusual: I live in a rationalist group house and work at an AI safety office, but I also am a Christian and attend church every week.[1]
I was originally not planning on going to Solstice, but a decen... |
25e7ad44-62aa-494f-b7f3-eda88bac9336 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Biopreservation (of the cells of nearly-extinct animals) in hopes that future tech can restore them
Interesting recent article from Ben-Nun et al. (doi:10.1038/nmeth.1706) in the high-impact journal Nature Methods.
As I understand it, they express reprogramming factors in the adult cells (e.g., fibroblasts) of two en... |
0a309c4e-950e-40ba-83e1-f41b4e3447c4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Actionable Approaches to Promote Ethical AI in Libraries
This is an author preprint. Please refer to the final published
version:
Bubinger, H. & Dinneen, J. D. (2021). Actionable
Approaches to Promote Ethical AI in Libraries. Poster paper
in ASIS&T ‘21: Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Inf... |
d17f479f-9f64-461e-9aca-9e96abe8d70d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Control Methods Literature Review
AI Control is a subfield of AI Safety research focused on ensuring the safety of powerful AI systems, particularly under the assumption that they might be misaligned or could become intentionally subversive (A Brief Explanation of AI Control).
Unlike AI Alignment, which seeks to b... |
d0a222b7-2b16-4f85-8379-9c820a3b9777 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do Not Tile the Lightcone with Your Confused Ontology
Or: How anthropomorphic assumptions about AI identity might create confusion and suffering at scale
If you are reading this and you are a human, you likely have a sense of self, persisting over time, with desires and wishes and fears. Also, you likely experience a... |
cd5c10bb-89f8-47f6-924b-dfadab6cb4b7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Success Weighted by Completion Time: A Dynamics-Aware Evaluation Criteria for Embodied Navigation
I Introduction
---------------
Mobile robots have the potential to automate several tasks in the real world and alleviate the amount of work to be done by humans. But for mobile robots to be effective in the physical w... |
187f6f12-8412-4505-b604-12b2054127e3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Critiques of the heuristics and biases tradition
The chapter on judgment under uncertainty in the (excellent) new Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology has a handy little section on recent critiques of the "heuristics and biases" tradition. It also discusses problems with the somewhat-competing "fast and frugal heur... |
85e196a7-2b8e-4692-a53e-73e1c10f9f2f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Microsoft Research Paper Claims Sparks of Artificial Intelligence in GPT-4
Microsoft Research (conflict of interest? what’s that?) has issued a 154-page report entitled Sparks of Artificial Intelligence: Early Experiments With GPT-4, essentially saying that GPT-4 could reasonably be viewed as a kind of early stage pro... |
e99f2a02-1b6f-42b8-9049-f33a2812f836 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Glory System: A Model For Moral Currency And Distributed Self-Moderation
One of the most important changes in our civilized modern society over the past historical tendencies has been the state's monopoly on the use of violence. Most everyone today aside from the various strains of anarchist agree that this is a... |
cf6c1a73-7768-4b8f-b47b-15c4024894a9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | (Double-)Inverse Embedded Agency Problem
MIRI has said a lot about the issue of embedded agency over the last year. However, I am yet to see them trying to make progress in what I see as the most promising areas.
How does one attack a problem that is new, complicated and non-obvious? By constructing toy models and in... |
b49c4ae2-6598-4037-b279-68d82d392b35 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Confirmed Selective Oracle
A putative new idea for AI control; index here.
I originally came up with a method for -- safely? -- extracting high impact from low impact AIs.
But it just occurred to me that the idea could be used for standard Oracles, in a way that keeps them arguably safe, without needing to define tr... |
5f092571-8f36-474f-8bcd-8dc6a0477231 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Gemini Diffusion: watch this space
Google Deepmind has announced Gemini Diffusion. Though buried under a host of other IO announcements it's possible that this is actually the most important one!
This is significant because diffusion models are entirely different to LLMs. Instead of predicting the next token, they it... |
c9fa0a48-720b-4333-b70c-2a368d8546d3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Intellectual insularity and productivity
Guys I'd like your opinion on something.
Do you think LessWrong is too intellectually insular? What I mean by this is that we very seldom seem to adopt useful vocabulary or arguments or information from outside of LessWrong. For example all I can think of is some of Robin Han... |
d0402874-6743-4e57-a7bc-eb9cebb5bd7f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What is "HCH"?
**Humans Consulting HCH (HCH)** is a recursive acronym describing a setup where humans can consult simulations of themselves to help answer questions. It is a concept used in discussion of the [iterated amplification](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/iterated-amplification) proposal to solve the alignment ... |
c5354d93-ac37-4c8b-a65f-d58c1395ca71 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Polarized gamma rays and manifest infinity
Most people (not all, but most) are reasonably comfortable with infinity as an ultimate (lack of) limit. For example, cosmological theories that suggest the universe is infinitely large and/or infinitely old, are not strongly disbelieved a priori.
By contrast, most people... |
16fb58bc-12e9-492e-a3c3-2639e4b65bd4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Training My Friend to Cook
During pre-vaccination covid, my friend Brittany and I agreed to hang out once per week as quarantine buddies. Brittany has a laundry list of health problems, many of which are exacerbated by a poor diet. Brittany loves healthy food. She ate a diet based around TV dinners because she didn't ... |
9112a1ce-05f4-4e0c-b333-71cc3f65d05b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Scaling the NAO's Stealth Pathogen Early-Warning System
Summary: The NAO will increase our sequencing significantly over the next few months, funded by a $3M grant from Open Philanthropy. This will allow us to scale our pilot early-warning system to where we could flag many engineered pathogens early enough to mitigat... |
db5879fc-0fee-4c91-ab22-aeba22a2eef6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Translation: Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services (Draft for Comment) – April 2023
*This translation is by (in randomized order), Seaton Huang, Helen Toner, Zac Haluza, and Rogier Creemers, and was edited by Graham Webster. During editing, an* [*alternative translation*](https://w... |
df5e5aed-3784-46c4-a049-2b55ba47cf0d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | AvE: Assistance via Empowerment.
AvE: Assistance via Empowerment
Yuqing Du
UC Berkeley
yuqing_du@berkeley.eduStas Tiomkin
UC Berkeley
stas@berkeley.eduEmre Kıcıman
Microsoft Research
emrek@microsoft.com
Daniel Polani
University of Hertfordshire
d.polani@herts.ac.ukPieter Abbeel
UC Berkeley
pabbeel@berkeley.eduAnca Dra... |
6684f691-03dd-432d-93b8-1da500d901da | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : West LA: Fact-Checking
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA: Fact-Checking
WHEN: 16 September 2015 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 11066 santa monica blvd, la, ca
How to Find Us: Go into this Del Taco. We will be in the back room if possible.
Parking is free in the lot out front or on the street nearby.
... |
a5292998-248f-4fb7-a5ae-495a436420c2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Finding Deception in Language Models
This June, Apart Research and Apollo Research joined forces to host the Deception Detection Hackathon. Bringing together students, researchers, and engineers from around the world to tackle a pressing challenge in AI safety; preventing AI from deceiving humans and overseers.
The h... |
d7f0e1b3-b7ba-4966-a8e2-40c2959be23d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | High yield information sources for Software Development
Software developers have to repeatedly and continually learn massive number of new concepts, procedures and techniques related to the latest languages, frameworks and technologies up and down the stack.
The best way to learn would of course be to continuously re... |
7f08cc54-ceca-40be-b7f9-8f9a674e30bf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | September 2017 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out t... |
a06dcf4e-a6af-4ed7-9d53-cd515f432561 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On Stories vs. Data
Photo by Noah Negishi on Unsplash
Many nonprofit leaders express discomfort with attempts to translate their work into a statistic. For them, the notion of reducing a potentially life-changing experience to a number doesn’t just feel confusing, it’s kind of insulting. Meanwhile, fundraisers making ... |
118a8de9-ebbd-4500-a473-3890742c4016 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | What Are You Optimizing For? Aligning Recommender Systems to Human Values
hello and welcome to our paper on
aligning recommender systems to human
values
recommender systems are the largest ai
systems and deeply entrenched in both
markets and democracy
because of this the problems of
recommenders are problems for socie... |
ca61bc9f-9100-4021-870d-e579b0417845 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | The Basic AI Drives
The Basic AI Drives
Stephen M. OMOHUNDRO
Self-Aware Systems, Palo Alto, California
Abstract. One might imagine that AI systems with harmless goals will be harmless.
This paper instead shows that intelligent systems will need to be carefully designed
to prevent them from behaving in harmful ways. We... |
2ab86689-a7b9-472f-9c63-ac2e4ac68d23 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The absent-minded variations
I wake up in a featureless room. I don't remember how I ended up here, when did I go to sleep, or for that matter, anything at all besides general abstract facts about the world and math. The place is hard to qualify; for the most part it really seems like I am just inside a perfect Platon... |
c811950d-99a8-456a-8e99-fa571d360aec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why those who care about catastrophic and existential risk should care about autonomous weapons
(crossposted to EA forum here.)
Although I have not seen the argument made in any detail or in writing, I and the Future of Life Institute (FLI) have gathered the strong impression that parts of the effective altruism eco... |
9e5deb63-08f7-445a-95a1-23272a0c1a00 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Yann LeCun: We only design machines that minimize costs [therefore they are safe]
Just a tweet I saw:
> Yann LeCun
>
> Doomers: OMG, if a machine is designed to maximize utility, it will inevitably diverge
>
> Engineers: calm down, dude. We only design machines that minimize costs. Cost functions have a lower bou... |
0165dc72-aaf3-4ebd-89a8-ed365646b5ed | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | Where can I learn about interpretability?
[Christoph Molnar's online book](https://christophm.github.io/interpretable-ml-book/) and [distill.pub](https://distill.pub/) are great sources, as well as [this overview article](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/GEPX7jgLMB8vR2qaK/opinions-on-interpretable-machine-learning... |
a9587c55-70c8-47b5-b70c-a24b588cbaf4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Machine Pastoralism
This idea has occurred to me before, but in the interim I dismissed it and then forgot. Since it is back again more-or-less unprompted, I am writing it down.
We usually talk about animals and their intelligence as a way to interrogate intelligence in general, or as a model for possible other minds... |
fd504d59-3433-4e62-a6af-9cdbe1ff8cec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Using Ngram to estimate depression prevalence over time
Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades
My summary: People diagnosed with depression tend to exhibit characteristic patterns of language use that demonstrate the underlying cognitive distortions associated with depres... |
0e956594-293c-47cc-8d98-321ed11d3434 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On Gender and Emotional Support
Note: I wrote this outside the context of this community, but I think it's relevant enough to crosspost here.
Some of the first questions many therapists ask a client are those meant to assess their friendships and other close relationships. This is because having a supportive communit... |
daaf17f7-bda2-4d72-94fa-9542569f71ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | People who want to save the world
atucker wants to save the world.
ciphergoth wants to save the world.
Dorikka wants to save the world.
Eliezer_Yudkowsky wants to save the world.
I want to save the world.
Kaj_Sotala wants to save the world.
lincolnquirk wants to save the world.
Louie wants to save the world.
paulfchri... |
e49d48b7-82db-4dbf-a7c0-e7e0e37dac7e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Security Mindset and Takeoff Speeds
About this post
---------------
This post is a stylized transcript of a conversation between Rohin Shah and Daniel Filan, two graduate students at CHAI, that happened in 2018. It should not be taken as an exact representation of what was said, or even what order topics were brough... |
0b2f6dc8-b099-44e7-8e02-8c6d853163c5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Explaining "Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders"
[Thanks to Logan Riggs and Hoagy for their help writing this post.]
In this post, I’m going to translate the post [Interim research report] Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders by Lee Sharkey, Dan Braun, and beren (hen... |
156b0cfe-7dfd-48a7-bc82-b056b4744e26 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Thoughts on open source AI
*Epistemic status: I only ~50% endorse this, which is below my typical bar for posting something. I’m more bullish on “these are arguments which should be in the water supply and discussed” than “these arguments are actually correct.” I’m not an expert in this, I’ve only thought about it for... |
e2f68a4e-4705-4a75-92bc-f12e9c84abd6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Review of Scott Adams’ “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big”
Dilbert creator and bestselling author Scott Adams recently wrote a LessWrong compatible advice book that even contains a long list of cognitive biases. Adams told me in a phone interview that he is a lifelong consumer of academic studies, w... |
96098c51-44d2-4443-994d-7172a2039190 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Which Model Properties are Necessary for Evaluating an Argument?
This post overlaps with our recent paper Extinction Risk from AI: Invisible to Science?.
Summary: If you want to use a mathematical model to evaluate an argument, that model needs to allow for dynamics that are crucial to the argument. For example, if y... |
4734cfae-da90-4522-9acf-ee21f13deda3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Military AI Cooperation Toolbox
August 2021
Military AI Cooperation
Toolbox
Modernizing Defense Science and Technology
Partnerships for the Digital Age
CSET Issue Brief
AUTHOR
Zoe Stanley-Lockman
Center for Security and Emerging Technology | 1 Executive Summary
The United States looks at leadership in artifi... |
963cde86-9c2b-421e-8c26-a94fbfbcdf39 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein theorem
summary(Technical): The Cantor-Schröder-Bernstein theorem states that the [class](https://arbital.com/p/class_set_theory) of [cardinals](https://arbital.com/p/4w5) forms a [total order](https://arbital.com/p/540). (Though not a totally ordered *set*, because [there is no set of all ca... |
9b047236-3c1e-4a7d-af12-ccfcf4fdf3d4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What can superintelligent ANI tell us about superintelligent AGI?
To what extent can humans forecast the impacts of superintelligent AGI?
**From one point of view, trying to understand superintelligence seems utterly intractable.** Just as a dog or chimpanzee has little hope of comprehending the motivations and power... |
15cb1aec-0547-43f7-8942-e5ba7fefc1b4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Systems I have tried: an overview
I have used various organization and productivity systems in the past few years – this is an overview of what worked and what didn’t.
Main systems I currently use:
1. [Follow Up Then](http://fut.io): Sends an email to a future self, with the date and time specified in the email ad... |
d07a6134-7741-4586-ae5a-b7e93bb70281 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Decision Theory: A (Normative) Introduction
I. Introduction
Let's define decision theory as the study of decisions, specifically their effects on outcomes.
There are three main branches of decision theory: descriptive decision theory (how real agents make decisions), prescriptive decision theory (how real agents sho... |
24877933-c9cc-4a44-89eb-946d82c51e30 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Link Collection: Impact Markets
0. Readme (or don't)
* This is not a literature review. I'll vouch for links with an associated archived link, author name, and summary, but not the others.
* Last updated: Dec 2023
1. Overviews
* Impact Markets: The Annoying Details (a), Scott Alexander
* Comprehensive descript... |
bd04f91a-4972-4f6d-96e9-b7ed5115b905 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Extrapolating Beyond Suboptimal Demonstrations via Inverse Reinforcement Learning from Observations
1 Introduction
---------------
![T-REX takes a sequence of ranked suboptimal demonstrations and learns a reward function from these rankings that allows policy improvement over the demonstrator via reinforcement learn... |
0d340981-3142-4d42-92b1-54d0e10bfd40 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : SF Meetup: Projects
Discussion article for the meetup : SF Meetup: Projects
WHEN: 27 June 2016 06:15:45PM (-0700)
WHERE: 1597 Howard St., San Francisco
We’ll be meeting to work on projects!
Near the beginning, we’ll go around and talk about what we’ll be working on, then do a couple of pomodoros quietly. ... |
6ae02a3b-a9c9-48df-8f79-f1255f379d0a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What and how much makes a difference?
This election year, we'll have the whole shebang in Romania:
* June 9: election of local officials and representatives to the European Parliament
* September 15 and 29: first and second round of presidential elections
* December 8: elections for the Romanian Parliament
Quite ... |
7cb6206d-ab80-4d5c-b3c1-42f4b939159c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture
This is based on a discussion in #lesswrong a few months back, and I am not sure how to resolve it.
Setup: suppose the world is populated by two groups of people, one just wants to be left alone (labeled Jews), the other group hates the first one with passion and wa... |
cd0e4679-a694-4310-8539-54b195db0e7a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "One Man's Modus Ponens Is Another Man's Modus Tollens"
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d3cba3ce-fa1f-40a0-a164-e542e9604b23 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [MLSN #1]: ICLR Safety Paper Roundup
As part of a larger community building effort, I am writing a monthly safety newsletter which is designed to cover empirical safety research and be palatable to the broader machine learning research community. You can [subscribe here](https://newsletter.mlsafety.org) or follow the ... |
16f392ba-1b1a-445a-85c5-1f0f7e35010d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | FHI Report: The Windfall Clause: Distributing the Benefits of AI for the Common Good
[Full Report](https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Windfall-Clause-Report.pdf)
[Summary for AIES](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11595)
Over the long run, technology has improved the human condition. Nevertheless, the economic ... |
eaf4dc9f-85a3-4983-abe3-9b2174b5b41d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Any rebuttals of Christiano and AI Impacts on takeoff speeds?
14 months ago, [Paul Christiano](https://sideways-view.com/2018/02/24/takeoff-speeds/) and [AI Impacts](https://aiimpacts.org/likelihood-of-discontinuous-progress-around-the-development-of-agi/) both published forceful and well-received take-downs of many a... |
5eedf0bd-76d3-42b8-ad6e-8bfc23a518a0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Interesting critique of British education by outgoing advisor (warning: some politics)
The soon-to-be-resigning Dominic Cummings, advisor to the Education Secretary of the Coalition government, has released a 250-page manifesto describing the problems of the British educational establishment ("the blob" in Whitehall p... |
593cd257-f51e-49fe-be54-df0eb203c7a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Assessing AlephAlphas Multimodal Model
The currently probably most impressive large language model imho is Flamingo, which has the ability to answer questions about images. Flamingo is not accessible to the general public, however, the German startup AlephAlpha has a very similar model on offer.
I signed up and recei... |
072fdfc6-d082-48e1-82b2-f407cbf5efe9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | March 2014 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the o... |
594e11b6-63b2-408e-bbe1-1c973d302a19 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | DeepMind: Frontier Safety Framework
DeepMind's RSP is here: blogpost, full document. Compare to Anthropic's RSP, OpenAI's RSP ("PF"), and METR's Key Components of an RSP.
(Maybe it doesn't deserve to be called an RSP — it doesn't contain commitments, it doesn't really discuss safety practices as a function of risk as... |
84854689-3323-41e3-840a-1c6547c58f87 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | GPT-2005: A conversation with ChatGPT (featuring semi-functional Wolfram Alpha plugin!)
Yesterday I read this blog post which speculated on the possibility of training GPT-2 in the year 2005, using a supercomputer. For context, please read that post. Today I had the following conversation, on the same topic, with Chat... |
211c195a-11ee-40be-9a67-75054f3829bc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Take 4: One problem with natural abstractions is there's too many of them.
As a writing exercise, I'm writing an AI Alignment Hot Take Advent Calendar - one new hot take, written every day for 25 days. Or until I run out of hot takes.
Everyone knows what the deal with natural abstractions is, right? Abstractions are ... |
1c2486dd-8c61-4330-b572-c2c0909f90b5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does quantum mechanics make simulations negligible?
I've written a prior post about how I think that the Everett branching factor of reality dominates that of any plausible simulation, whether the latter is run on a Von Neumann machine, on a quantum machine, or on some hybrid; and thus the probability and utility weig... |
eef6f34d-ebc2-462b-a8e4-2d3ebb18d7a4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Multi-dimensional rewards for AGI interpretability and control
Update August 2021: Re-reading this post, I continue to think this is a good and important idea, and I was very happy to learn after I wrote it that what I had in mind here is really a plausible, viable thing to do, even given the cost and performance requ... |
8233f26d-12ba-4d47-b66f-28255af56bd2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What could a World Unification Index track to measure how unified the world is, was, and is becoming?
Relatedly: Does such an index exist?
Relatedly: What are relevant graphs / metrics / data on those variables? |
fb61c2a2-c42a-426d-adf3-9c841a72e8d0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup
WHEN: 12 April 2016 07:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 269 Pearl St Manchester NH 03104
The sixteenth NH meet-up is Tuesday, 4/12, in Manchester, NH at 7 pm at a private residence. Light refreshments will be provided.
Have you read Ratio... |
0b5e6f59-2fe9-4dfb-a082-112e25f604de | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Key takeaways from our EA and alignment research surveys
Many thanks to Spencer Greenberg, Lucius Caviola, Josh Lewis, John Bargh, Ben Pace, Diogo de Lucena, and Philip Gubbins for their valuable ideas and feedback at each stage of this project—as well as the ~375 EAs + alignment researchers who provided the data tha... |
ac9a95ab-4f4c-4d66-957b-7afcffcb8d2c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Implications of the AI Security Gap
This post reflects my personal opinion and not necessarily that of other members of Apollo Research or any of the people acknowledged below. Thanks to Jarrah Bloomfield, Lucius Bushnaq, Marius Hobbhahn, Axel Højmark, and Stefan Heimersheim for comments/discussions.
I find that peop... |
da652001-1f92-4bad-a974-3306b417e925 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models
On March 29th, DeepMind published a paper, "Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models", that shows that essentially everyone -- OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, etc. -- has been training large language models with a deeply suboptimal use of compute.
Following the new scalin... |
1d7a85e4-308f-40a5-8e4d-604ad31b5f91 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Are AI Risks like Nuclear Risks?
hi in the previous video I talked about
this open letter which has been signed
by a lot of prestigious people which
talks about how there are risks and
possible problems associated with AI and
it says we need to do more thinking
about the future of AI technologies and
the impact they'r... |
b0907388-a81a-4e40-9d5d-a930a3e6e396 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New Less Wrong Feature: Rerunning The Sequences
Coauthored by Alexandros and Unnamed
The suggestion to bring back the sequences in a format that is more similar to new blog posts was well received, so the two of us have been working to figure out how to make it happen, taking into account the feedback received on tha... |
eef30983-3ec3-4c8b-b4d7-573d3a992185 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Two Kids Crosswise
When traveling, we sometimes end up somewhere with the older two kids sharing a double bed. Initially we would put them down the normal way, as the bed was made to be used, but recently we realized it goes much better if you think of the bed as being sideways:
Kids are pretty short, and if they s... |
3d3c475c-1f58-4270-a860-69538f26f71c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Procedure Planning in Instructional Videos via Contextual Modeling and Model-based Policy Learning
1 Introduction
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Humans can learn new skills by watching demo videos. Although this seems natural to human, it is challenging for AI.
We have seen rich works on modeling human behaviors from videos with ... |
b213eb18-e935-401f-aa7c-c009b40ee759 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Winter Solstice 2018 Roundup
Many LessWrong communities are holding Winter Solstice holiday events. What exactly that entails varies from community-to-community, but often includes:
* A ceremony commemorating humanity's progress over the millenia (often involving speeches and singalong songs)
* Meetups and parties ... |
15096bd3-a609-43ec-b107-8c2fd6af3be7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weighted Voting Delenda Est
Unlike a number of other issues, this one I didn't call in advance, though in retrospect it's, if anything, much more obvious than other things I did call out. Weighted voting on LW, at minimum the ability for it to be visible and preferably the ability for it to affect anything at all exce... |
10bc24b9-d8cf-4498-8c0d-f9d50d342db1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Short Case for Verificationism
Follow-up to: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PSichw8wqmbood6fj/this-territory-does-not-exist
Here's a simple and direct argument for my version of verificationism.
Note that the argument uses ontological terms that are meaningless on my views. It functions as a reductio - either o... |
cc43f18a-3779-4e44-86b9-940e4bdb52ad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What have your romantic experiences with non-EAs/non-Rationalists been like?
Epistemic status: trawlin' for anecdotes/commiserations; satiating-morbid-curiosity
I'm also interested in non-romantic relationships, but I'm particularly interested in hearing about long term relationships between folks within EA and/or LW... |
4225b10d-dd40-49cd-aba4-bd7c8b1be366 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LessWrong discussed in New Ideas in Psychology article
Hi LessWrong,
I wanted to let you know about a recent article in New Idea in Psychology written by myself and Dr. Dario Krpan (assistant professor of psychology at London School of Economics) that discusses LessWrong and Scott Alexander (Siskind) as examples of... |
fda7905c-b8f0-4ee1-b826-cb5a8c86fc54 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Raw Post: Talking With My Brother
The Circumstances
I am sitting down to write this immediately after one of the most honest conversations I’ve ever had with my brother. The reason I’m posting it to LessWrong is because I think it is a case study in rationality, emotion, personality, political partisanship, and metho... |
779df7cb-f4ca-457e-bdb5-5cde3e474800 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Metaculus's 'Minitaculus' Experiments — Collaborate With Us
Metaculus is experimenting with hosting more specialized forecasting communities called "minitaculuses" managed by volunteer curators. A minitaculus might be dedicated to a particular area of inquiry — like the workings of a particular industry, or questions ... |
fb5792bc-6fca-4f13-8681-bf3e38ad5a19 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Locating emotions
It's important that we understand how our emotions work. Sometimes emotions give us valuable information, and sometimes our emotions don't behave the way we want them to. A prerequisite for individually understanding anything about our emotions is the ability to notice and identify emotions. I someti... |
7dd3e594-9ad6-4016-8782-289d5c0b1495 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dissolve: The Petty Crimes of Blaise Pascal
> VLADIMIR: [H]e'd have to think it over.
>
> ESTRAGON: In the quiet of his home.
>
> VLADIMIR: Consult his family.
>
> ESTRAGON: His friends.
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> VLADIMIR: His agents.
>
> ESTRAGON: His correspondents.
>
> VLADIMIR: His books.
>
> ESTRAGON: His bank account.
... |
c58e432f-ec65-4518-b780-9c9b87205459 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Startup Stock Options: the Shortest Complete Guide for Employees
This is a short, but comprehensive, guide to stock options, with specific example outcomes for employees and a sprinkle of Bayesian modeling of your chance to cash out with at least $1M.
Unlike other guides, this is not a stream of financial terminology... |
94e66317-8a36-4a7a-9c30-1a704e7fafd7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Glomarization FAQ
The main reason I'm posting this here is because I want it to be publicly recorded that I wrote this post in 2023. That way, I can show people in the future that I didn't just make this up on the spot; it's been around since long before whatever it is they're asking me about this time. I don't have a... |
86ed7820-f30b-467f-912f-8faff646ba22 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to use a microphone r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ during public speaking
Microphones are common technology and yet few people understand how they work. For our purposes here, there are unidirectional microphones and omnidirectional microphones.
A unidirectional microphone only records the sound from one direction. If it'... |
7c124678-d9c5-410c-b655-4d3a16bb0ab4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Weight of the Future (Why The Apocalypse Can Be A Relief)
I like thinking about a zombie apocalypse.
Given the popularity of the genre in film, tv, and video games, I’m not the only one.
It’s fun - thinking about the resources I’d need to acquire, the plans I’d make, what locations provide fortification and food... |
20d7788c-d35d-418b-ba55-a7d4c1994dec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Model splintering: moving from one imperfect model to another
1. The big problem
In the last few months, I've become convinced that there is a key meta-issue in AI safety; a problem that seems to come up in all sorts of areas.
It's hard to summarise, but my best phrasing would be:
* Many problems in AI safety seem ... |
cff226c5-8690-405b-a626-5127732c648a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) 1 could impact nearly all aspects of society: the labor market, transportation, healthcare, education, and national security. AI's effects may be profoundly positive, but the technology entails risks and disruptions that wa... |
3cadc281-b4ac-483d-a177-0f5a71bbdf3f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Building a transhumanist future: 15 years of hplusroadmap, now Discord
What is hplusroadmap?
We are a group chat, started 15 years ago, focusing on transhumanism, writing code, and hacking on biology. We do mad science. We build. We also have some funding available for sufficiently interesting projects.
Read more bac... |
12764ee4-46f4-4f7d-bb44-0d03ed03897a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
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Von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem
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3 languages
\* [Français](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me\_d%27utilit%C3%A9\_de\_von\_Neumann-Morgenster... |
e9df8a96-20f5-496d-81cd-ce849220213a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are your plans for the evening of the apocalypse?
If everyone found out for sure that the world would end in five years, what would happen?
My guess is that it would take time before anything big happened. Finding out about the end of the world, that’s the kind of a thing that you need to digest for a while. For... |
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