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3859bf34-acfd-42fc-9a80-ccb5d584e18a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On the Nature of Reputation
Abstract: Reputation tokens (e.g. brands, but lot of other things as well) are vessels to store reputation. They are free to create but expensive to fill with trust. Consumers use them to deal with information overload. Producers use them to manipulate common knowledge. Also, a certain kind... |
2dbc1169-3494-4a71-8f99-efd6d47e7094 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Bakeoff
For most of the past week Lily has been trying to persuade us to have a cooking competition. Her initial idea involved kids cooking unassisted, but after talking through ways I saw this going poorly she decided she was ok with teams. This morning she said it was time, and declared it would be Lily + Jeff vs An... |
947046e5-cf58-4f3c-ad83-88474dd9ec6b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A whirlwind tour of Ethereum finance
As a hacker and cryptocurrency liker, I have been hearing for a while about "DeFi" stuff going on in Ethereum without really knowing what it was. I own a bunch of ETH, so I finally decided that enough was enough and spent a few evenings figuring out what was going on. To my pleasan... |
dbc914fb-299d-4617-9058-8109eefd3d21 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Exercise isn't necessarily good for people
I would appreciate it very much if anyone would take a close look at this-- it looks sound to me, but it also appeals to my prejudices.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E42TQNWhW3w#!
My comments are in square brackets. Everything else is my notes on th... |
4a28e718-4af1-40e5-a964-ba1ead96656d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Tetlock's "Expert Political Judgment"
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: Tetlock's "Expert Political Judgment"
WHEN: 14 December 2014 03:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery
We will be meeting in the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery (8th and ... |
b1d0f956-917b-4317-acf7-3fc0822a62c0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A boltzmann brain question.
I have a question on Boltzmann brains which I'd like to hear your opinions on - mostly because I don't know the answer to this....
First of all - a Boltzmann brain is the idea that - in a sufficiently large and long-lived universe, a brain just like mine or yours will occasionally pop into... |
47642836-d28b-4e3f-bcc5-fa827584d774 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Difference between CDT and ADT/UDT as constant programs
After some thinking, I came upon an idea how to define the difference between CDT and UDT within the constant programs framework. I would post it as a comment, but it is rather long...
The idea is to separate the cognitive part of an agent into three separate mo... |
548d1616-94a4-4fe8-8178-c63779a989c9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | [Link, 2011] Team may be chosen to receive $1.4 billion to simulate human brain
This is the team responsible for simulating the rat cortical column.
[http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110308/full/news.2011.143.htm](http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110308/full/news.2011.143.html)
The team is one of 6 that is being con... |
0d6ce315-b262-49dd-a7fe-64c844061d55 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Third-party testing as a key ingredient of AI policy
(nb: this post is written for anyone interested, not specifically aimed at this forum)
We believe that the AI sector needs effective third-party testing for frontier AI systems. Developing a testing regime and associated policy interventions based on the insights o... |
d2216fae-215c-4044-9159-f69189eed3c6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | psychology and applications of reinforcement learning: where do I learn more?
Minicamp made me take the notion of an [Ugh Field](/lw/21b/ugh_fields/) seriously, and I've found Ugh Fields a fairly useful model for understanding how my brain works. I have/had lots of topics that have been unpleasant to think about and ... |
997a06d5-d34a-4bd2-b9da-5d160737c6ad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | DeepMind is hiring for the Scalable Alignment and Alignment Teams
We are hiring for several roles in the Scalable Alignment and Alignment Teams at DeepMind, two of the subteams of DeepMind Technical AGI Safety trying to make artificial general intelligence go well. In brief,
* The Alignment Team investigates how to... |
1e4a4556-e9b9-40d4-9024-8bfce02c7f65 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Misgeneralization as a misnomer
Here’s two different ways an AI can turn out [unfriendly](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BSee6LXg4adtrndwy/what-does-it-mean-for-an-agi-to-be-safe):
1. You somehow build an AI that cares about “making people happy”. In training, it tells people jokes and buys people flowers and offer... |
3cfce926-1b81-4a3a-8f5f-1217e854d860 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Linkpost] The neuroconnectionist research programme
This is a linkpost for https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00705-w (open access preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03718)
> Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to model behavioural and neural data, an appro... |
c02ce2e2-47b9-4682-9dcc-c7e6c97f04bc | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A proposal for ethically traceable artificial intelligence
1
A proposal for ethically traceable artificial
intelligence
Christopher A. Tucker, Ph.D., Cartheur Robotics, sp ol. s r.o., Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract
Although the problem of a critique of robotic behav ior in near-unanimous agreement to human no... |
914cd3e2-1f41-4e9d-88a2-9b2c2ea5abff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Geoff Hinton Quits Google
The NYTimes reports that Geoff Hinton has quit his role at Google:
> On Monday, however, he officially joined a growing chorus of critics who say those companies are racing toward danger with their aggressive campaign to create products based on generative artificial intelligence, the techno... |
6e8f337d-6978-43f4-9702-aad69789ca9b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Out to Get You
Epistemic Status: Reference.
Expanded From: Against Facebook, as the post originally intended.
Some things are fundamentally Out to Get You.
They seek resources at your expense. Fees are hidden. Extra options are foisted upon you. Things are made intentionally worse, forcing you to pay to make it les... |
3f4eef5b-eea9-4789-a2f7-faaf336796ad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Fifteen Things I Learned From Watching a Game of Secret Hitler
Epistemic Status: Not likely to be true things. Right?
1. Liberals know nothing, fascists know everything.
2. Most of the policies democratic governments could pass are fascist policies that expand government power.
3. The remaining policies are lib... |
abcd5027-f680-4501-9862-2b4f192de182 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration
This topic is not really related to the things normally discussed here, but I think it's really important, and it might interest Less Wrongers, especially since many of us are interested in ethics and utility calculations that are essentially cost-benefit a... |
299dffdb-ee0b-498a-810b-db9b0fdfbe90 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Gen Con: Applied Game Theory
Discussion article for the meetup : Gen Con: Applied Game Theory
WHEN: 06 August 2016 02:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 100 S Capitol Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46225, USA
Time tentative, location to be worked out. If you are attending Gen Con and want to meet up with rationalists, please c... |
90883fe9-c538-4a3b-96f1-2e20dd8362c3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Superintelligence 14: Motivation selection methods
*This is part of a weekly reading group on [Nick Bostrom](http://www.nickbostrom.com/)'s book, [Superintelligence](http://www.amazon.com/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies-Nick-Bostrom/dp/0199678111). For more information about the group, and an index of posts so fa... |
ae185b88-54bd-4718-9c42-5780c5801a45 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Chapter 121: Something to Protect: Severus Snape
A somber mood pervaded the Headmistress's office. Minerva had returned after dropping off Draco and Narcissa/Nancy at St. Mungo's, where the Lady Malfoy was being examined to see if a decade living as a Muggle had done any damage to her health; and Harry had come up to ... |
57e314d6-98cb-4f95-a7d2-8d6880a37fb1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | If Van der Waals was a neural network
If Van der Waals was a neural network
At some point in history a lot of thought was put into obtaining the equation:
R*T = P*V/n
The ideal gas equation we learn in kindergarten, which uses the magic number R
in order to make predictions about how n moles of an “ideal gas” will c... |
99a43860-7f78-40d5-b05d-41fd641a91db | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Progress links and short notes, 2024-12-16
Much of this content originated on social media. To follow news and announcements in a more timely fashion, follow me on Twitter, Threads, Bluesky, or Farcaster.
Contents
* Jobs & fellowships
* Looking for writers?
* People doing interesting things
* Events
* DARPA wan... |
0574664e-f572-4d42-b299-7b2a0a1e0a9c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Modal Bargaining Agents
*Summary: Bargaining problems are interesting in the case of Löbian cooperation; Eliezer suggested a geometric algorithm for resolving bargaining conflicts by leaving the Pareto frontier, and this algorithm can be made into a modal agent, given an additional suggestion by Benja.*
Bargaining a... |
ad51fc02-2cca-4df4-a79f-e912ffca25ab | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Visualizing the power of multiple step selection processes in JS: Galton's bean machine
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47262ad2-dae0-495b-8452-171e65aacee8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Tel Aviv: Board Game Night
Discussion article for the meetup : Tel Aviv: Board Game Night
WHEN: 17 August 2015 07:00:00PM (+0300)
WHERE: Google Tel-Aviv, Electra Tower, 67891, Israel, 67891 Tel Aviv, Israel
19:00 Israel time, playing board games as usual. This time we will do it in Campus TLV (Floor 34, ha... |
2d07deb5-8ab9-46cd-82a6-2c3c1eb8a970 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Uncontrollable Super-Powerful Explosives
In the late 19th century, two researchers meet to discuss their differing views on the existential risk posed by future Uncontrollable Super-Powerful Explosives.
* Catastrophist: I predict that one day, not too far in the future, we will find a way to unlock a qualitatively n... |
f93fbe49-6fc1-4b2f-bcf3-2c8e96cc50dd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Optimal eating (or rather, a step in the right direction)
Over the past few months I've been working to optimize my life. In this post I describe my attempt to optimize my day-to-day cooking and eating - my goal with this post is to get input and to offer a potential template for people who aren't happy with their cu... |
6509b789-3e30-49df-842e-000555d553bd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Covid 11/24/22: Thanks for Good Health
This Thanksgiving, I am thankful that I am once again back at full health. Covid comes and Covid goes. It was like I had a bad cold… for three days. That actually about sums it up, with some residual coughing. After a week, I was able to do a full session on the elliptical machin... |
4ae775f2-8633-454c-9f46-dc9b584f60de | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Willpower duality
Rationality is designed to make you win, to help you attain your objectives. One of the most prominent phenomena getting in the way is akrasia, the lack of willpower preventing us to perform whatever action we want to do.
So, wait, do we want to act or not? There are two facets of willpower, which I... |
cd07ae61-65c3-4839-b14f-a32b8f484c18 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Levels of global catastrophes: from mild to extinction
Levels of global catastrophes: from mild to extinction
It is important to make a bridge between existential risks and other possible risks. If we say that existential risks are infinitely more important than other risks, we put them out of scope of policymakers (... |
3b67debe-ff20-4a20-9373-2d1a86f835a9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What to read instead of news?
I often read the news to take a break from work. Maybe this isn't such a good idea. (https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf).
What should I read instead? Ideally it should be interesting but not impenetrable, finished in less than half an hour, and easily available from my b... |
dfdc2a7d-d181-4919-b8cf-929a2240ff86 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Forecasting AGI: Insights from Prediction Markets and Metaculus
I have tried to find all prediction market and Metaculus questions related to AGI timelines. Here I examine how they compare to each other, and what they actually say about when AGI might arrive.
If you know of a market that I have missed, please tell me... |
3409fadb-a12b-4160-b0ee-567069f3f669 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Models predicting significant violence in the US?
Do you have a model predicting >1% chance of significant political violence (>5,000 deaths) in the US in the next year? Pls share.
Also welcome: models predicting <.1%
Metaculus has been walking around 1-5% probability of a US civil war before July 2021. While 1% is ... |
57304568-2f44-4dee-b168-3ca8849e0a1a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | How do takeoff speeds affect the probability of bad outcomes from AGI?
Introduction
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In general, people seem to treat slow takeoff as the safer option as compared to classic FOOMish takeoff (see e.g. [these interviews](https://aiimpacts.org/takeaways-from-safety-by-default-interviews/), [this report](htt... |
133a9327-2d27-4d1e-9aa9-e796d94d5719 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Grey Goo Requires AI
**Summary:** Risks from self-replicating machines or nanotechnology rely on the presence of a powerful artificial intelligence within the machines in order to overcome human control and the logistics of self-assembling in many domains.
The [grey goo scenario](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_go... |
83b3b015-ffe4-4a71-bda5-804f8f880aa8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is a Glowfic?
This is a description for first-time glowfic readers who are unfamiliar with the format.
A glowfic is a fictional story written by multiple authors who roleplay as the characters. A typical glowfic will appear on glowfic.com and looks like an internet forum where fictional people will post comments... |
f363b61e-5fef-4001-a8a6-5a7659b05d74 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Self-modification as a game theory problem
In this post I'll try to show a surprising link between two research topics on LW: game-theoretic cooperation between AIs (quining, Loebian cooperation, modal combat, etc) and stable self-modification of AIs (tiling agents, Loebian obstacle, etc).
When you're trying to coope... |
73a467eb-e62b-4459-9f92-74da7c773a01 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Optical Illusions are Out of Distribution Errors
Our visual black box is trained on what we see in the real world. We don't process raw sensory data - we keep a more abstracted model in our heads. This is a blessing and a curse - it may either be more useful to have a sparser cognitive inventory, and work on a higher ... |
24a6dc6a-148a-4221-b0e1-25eb21604a45 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A starter guide for evals
This is a starter guide for model evaluations (evals). Our goal is to provide a general overview of what evals are, what skills are helpful for evaluators, potential career trajectories, and possible ways to start in the field of evals.
Evals is a nascent field, so many of the following rec... |
3264e499-3e66-435f-b958-4365ef937148 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dating Roundup #3: Third Time’s the Charm
The first speculated on why you’re still single. We failed to settle the issue. A lot of you were indeed still single. So the debate continues.
The second gave more potential reasons, starting with the suspicion that you are not even trying, and also many ways you are likely ... |
e576be8f-461b-4365-a63c-ba702b0e4ced | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The Gradient – The Artificiality of Alignment
[The Gradient](https://thegradient.pub/) is a “digital publication about artificial intelligence and the future,” founded by researchers at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I found the latest essay, “The Artificiality of Intelligence,” by a PhD student at U... |
11585db1-17c0-4c96-8735-faa110385dc3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ethicality of Denying Agency
If your 5-year-old seems to have an unhealthy appetite for chocolate, you’d take measures to prevent them from consuming it. Any time they’d ask you to buy them some, you’d probably refuse their request, even if they begged. You might make sure that any chocolate in the house is well-hidde... |
60538a3a-38cf-4a0a-9568-4fa119942271 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A New Sequence on Rationality
In August, I asked "What is rational"? I wasn't satisfied with any answer I received, and then decided to answer it myself; I began developing my own theory of rationality from first principles. I wrote and scrapped two drafts, and after 4 months, I've finally started the path to an answe... |
28656857-813d-4ff8-b123-ca294047b06b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | the deobfuscation conjecture
the deobfuscation conjecture
----------------------------
suppose i write a program that tries to find counterexamples to [fermat's last theom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem): that is, numbers a>1, b>1, c>1, n>2 such that aⁿ+bⁿ=cⁿ.
suppose i now explain to you thi... |
672c2967-3169-4dda-84f5-2f4c64b8747b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reply to Jebari and Lundborg on Artificial Superintelligence
Jebari and Lundborg have recently published an article entitled Artificial superintelligence and its limits: why AlphaZero cannot become a general agent. It focuses on the thorny issue of agency in superintelligent AIs. I’m glad to see more work on this cruc... |
17e2b130-4241-405f-9a45-c53c61538612 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Examining Evolution as an Upper Bound for AGI Timelines
Cross-posted from https://mybrainsthoughts.com/?p=349
With the massive degree of progress in AI over the last decade or so, it’s natural to wonder about its future - particularly the timeline to achieving human (and superhuman) levels of general intelligence. Aj... |
b08d7d0e-9c3e-467f-9505-6bd12bf9e3bb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | UK's new 10-year "National AI Strategy," released today
Published [here](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-ai-strategy), for those interested in reading and discussing: <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-ai-strategy> |
2c3822bb-d2de-4bd2-b5bd-d6946b4869c4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Super Happy People (3/8)
(Part 3 of 8 in "Three Worlds Collide")
...The Lady Sensory said, in an unsteady voice, "My lords, a third ship has jumped into this system. Not Babyeater, not human."
The holo showed a triangle marked with three glowing dots, the human ship and the Babyeater ship and the newcomers. Th... |
7bad201c-25b6-4237-9d4f-3090291e18ec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Taking a simplified model
(cross-posted from my blog, Sunday Stopwatch)
This may be trivial but I didn't see it written down explicitly anywhere, so I'm writing it. There's a specific trick I've noticed that some people do that makes for better conversations, and I don't know if there's a name for it, but I think the... |
02952e81-efe3-452a-b340-e1f0dc5dbc0b | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post3898
A putative new idea for AI control; index here . Note: this post replaces and supersedes the previous one which is now obsolete. Hacking utility indifference Utility indifference was a technique for corrigibility was an attempt to allow an AI to safely change its values, without seeking to provoke or avoi... |
c09f89ed-6571-4d7a-bd32-2edf73747aef | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | LW is probably not the place for "I asked this LLM (x) and here's what it said!", but where is?
I notice a nonzero amount of posts on LW, admittedly typically not overly high karma, that go something like, "I asked Bing to do x and its' answer freaked me out!", or "I talked to ChatGPT4 about itself and it told me weir... |
6a74f2e2-2793-4392-b94d-83c08fe6d3e2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Orange County Atheist Meetup Wednesday August 10
Discussion article for the meetup : Orange County Atheist Meetup Wednesday August 10
WHEN: 10 August 2011 07:30:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 18542 MacArthur Blvd Irvine, CA 92612
This week we are going to do something a little different for the weekly Irvine meetup. ... |
6c888b25-54b0-43d9-9964-cdb5b83090b0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Bill Hibbard on Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Bill Hibbard is an Emeritus Senior Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, currently working on issues of AI safety and unint... |
3a44a101-5809-43ec-ab36-0eace9f25a4c | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post673
TL;DR: Contrast-consistent search (CCS) seemed exciting to us and we were keen to apply it. At this point, we think it is unlikely to be directly helpful for implementations of alignment strategies (>95%). Instead of finding knowledge, it seems to find the most prominent feature. We are less sure about the... |
8d233493-0919-497c-96c7-d3ff93035d45 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Any-Benefit Mindset and Any-Reason Reasoning
One concept from Cal Newport's Deep Work that has stuck with me is that of the any-benefit mindset:
> To be clear, I’m not trying to denigrate the benefits [of social media]—there’s nothing illusory or misguided about them. What I’m emphasizing, however, is that these bene... |
ba680b09-403c-4dbc-a610-50088389e8da | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Motive Ambiguity
Central theme in: Immoral Mazes Sequence, but this generalizes.
When looking to succeed, pain is not the unit of effort, and money is a, if not the, unit of caring.
One is not always looking to succeed.
Here is a common type of problem.
You are married, and want to take your spouse out to a roman... |
a285d1a6-d798-4d2b-aa41-5367f485cb30 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How can I remove the launch button from my LW home page?
I have opted out of Petrov day. I'd like to remove the button, too, to decrease the chance that I press it (even by accident).
I can just use my adblocker or browser tools, but that's a non-trivial solution since I use quite a few devices. |
4512d1f6-3c6e-455a-adf5-bf5ed6729a8c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The World According to Dominic Cummings
Like him or loath him, Dominic Cummings is now the most politically successful rationalist-adjacent figure. For this reason, it seems like our community ought to try to understand him to see what we can learn. I'm sure there are people who have read more of his content than I ha... |
5a233c9f-7b78-4809-a7cc-06e107f0b567 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | What's been written about the nature of "son-of-CDT"?
I'm quite curious what kind of decision algorithm a CDT agent might implement in a successor AI, but I've only found a few vague references. Are there any good posts/papers/etc about this? |
484cc856-3a86-48a5-9a4a-c55bf1ea8bf7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Call Booth External Monitor
My neck is not great, and spending a lot of time looking down at my laptop screen really aggravates it. After damaging my screen a year ago I used a stacked laptop monitor that folded up, and it worked well. The main place I tended to use at full height was call booths, since otherwise I wa... |
79bf1f43-5020-41a0-9d83-838038c1b964 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When AI Optimizes for the Wrong Thing
AI systems often optimize for what they can measure—not what actually matters. The result is tools that feel intelligent but produce results misaligned with user goals.
A common case is engagement-based optimization. Recommendation engines, chatbots, and search systems increasing... |
0723ebd1-3737-4800-8c1e-96ede8bbef6f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 21, chapters 91 & 92
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapters 91 & 92 . The previous thread has passed 500 comments.
T... |
78ba45cb-b67b-4dba-98f3-c87a1c9a285e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Shallow Questions
Discussion article for the meetup : San Francisco Meetup: Shallow Questions
WHEN: 01 May 2017 06:15:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: Yerba Buenna Gardens
PLEASE NOTE: THE MEETUP WAS MOVED TODAY. We’re trying another new format this week! Please come and let us know what you think... |
1051b44e-97a0-451a-b7c1-bad30e7f9eb7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationalist Inspired Coming-of-age Rituals
I was recently asked to lead part of my cousin's secular Bar Mitzvah inspired coming-of-age ceremony. Would love recommendations for rituals, quotes, or wisdom to use here. I've really enjoyed the rituals I've seen come out of the rationalist community, and I'm curious if any... |
68261b52-a78d-4406-b0bc-746eb7bddf4d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Our Existing Solutions to AGI Alignment (semi-safe)
This post addresses the best methods we have of creating (relatively) aligned AGI. The safety of these methods IS NOT guaranteed. AI Alignment is not a solved issue.
These methods *appear* to offer better solutions than existing methods, such as simple maximizers. ... |
4db2b8fe-d446-4cad-bcf7-eff85df4a3af | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sparse Autoencoders Work on Attention Layer Outputs
This post is the result of a 2 week research sprint project during the training phase of Neel Nanda’s MATS stream.
Executive Summary
* We replicate Anthropic's MLP Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) paper on attention outputs and it works well: the SAEs learn sparse, inter... |
4073b4aa-cc4b-4621-b3f3-6acbff635bb8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Gandhi, murder pills, and mental illness
Gandhi is the perfect pacifist, utterly committed to not bringing about harm to his fellow beings. If a murder pill existed such that it would make murder seem ok without changing any of your other values, Gandhi would refuse to take it on the grounds that he doesn't want his f... |
16062e23-e00e-44a0-9207-a70f0911b31c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Inadequacy of Current Science (Novum Organum Book 1: 1-37)
This is the third post in the Novum Organum sequence. For context, see the sequence introduction.
We have used Francis Bacon's Novum Organum in the version presented at www.earlymoderntexts.com. Translated by and copyright to Jonathan Bennett. Prepared fo... |
d1260552-7fd3-459c-9c00-e234a0752445 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The two meanings of mathematical terms
[edit: sorry, the formatting of links and italics in this is all screwy. I've tried editing both the rich-text and the HTML and either way it looks ok while i'm editing it but the formatted terms either come out with no surrounding spaces or two surrounding spaces]
In the lates... |
98448eea-4a7e-4fb2-8051-c4756404f048 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Natural Value Learning
The main idea of this post is to make a distinction between natural and unnatural value learning. The secondary point of this post is that we should be suspicious of unnatural schemes for value learning, though the point is not that we should reject them. (I am not fully satisfied with the term,... |
4eadde99-8e07-4cf3-9a92-13253fb4c525 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Crises Reveal Centralisation (Stefan Schubert)
This post from [@Stefan\_Schubert](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/stefan_schubert?mention=user)'s blog is great. Highlights/summary:
> I think there are some common heuristics that lead people to think that power is more decentralised than it is [...]:
>
> .... |
b4f46915-9ae5-47ad-8ad5-f5e605bd1d37 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Where are the post-COVID complainers?
Assumption: COVID immunity lasts a long time, because that's how diseases work, and this is the case for 95+% of people who get COVID or a COVID vaccine.
20% of the United States has had COVID (13-30% per https://covid19-projections.com/) and presumed immune. Even if we conservat... |
ca684a85-faf8-4f15-8bcc-c811638d1f5f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is there a ML agent that abandons it's utility function out-of-distribution without losing capabilities?
At Techniques for optimizing worst-case performance Paul Christiano says
> The key point is that a malign failure requires leveraging the intelligence of the model to do something actively bad. If our model is tra... |
c13091e4-148c-4d4e-a475-db256122fb57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why I Am Not a Rationalist, or, why several of my friends warned me that this is a cult
A common question here is how the LW community can grow more rapidly. Another is why seemingly rational people choose not to participate.
I've read all of HPMOR and some of the sequences, attended a couple of meetups, am signed up... |
ed7774e4-0141-4d26-a2ac-90ea9d1855be | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Life Advice Repository
Looking thru the Repository Repository I can't find a nice category for a lot of real life or self help advice that has been posted here over time. Sure some belongs to the Boring Advice Repository but the following you surely wouldn't expect there:
Lets start with lukeprog's all-time favorit... |
b348f588-06ee-4c36-80b8-2e69ef758291 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Runaway Optimizers in Mind Space
This post is an attempt to make an argument more explicit that sometimes seems to be implied (or stated without deeper explanation) in AI safety discussions, but that I haven’t seen spelled out that directly or in this particular form. This post contains nothing fundamentally new, but ... |
888af5e2-0e47-4b82-aba9-c8b8c3baf65f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Active Curiosity vs Open Curiosity
I think the word ‘curiosity’ is used to describe two distinct things that I will now differentiate as active curiosity and open curiosity.
Active curiosity is driven & purposeful. Like thirst, it seeks to be quenched.
When you see a blurry object among distant waves and it looks li... |
012270ff-7929-42c9-a147-b9b508c289a2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : West LA Meetup: Lightning Talks
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA Meetup: Lightning Talks
WHEN: 03 September 2014 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 11066 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
How to Find Us: Go into the Del Taco. There will be a Rubik's Cube. Parking is completely free. There is a sign that... |
29969dcc-7f5f-4c79-a128-b1f0ffa9a237 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My recommendations for gratitude exercises
Gratitude has become an increasingly important part of my life. It has also been one of my greatest sources of improvement of well-being and one of the biggest factors in lifting me out of depression. How does this work? The short answer is that I keep a gratitude journal. ... |
134b8fd5-805f-455c-9744-865be0d0b56b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Engineering General Intelligence (the OpenCog/CogPrime book)
Ben Goertzel has made available a pre-print copy of his book Engineering General Intelligence (Vol1, Vol2). The first volume is basically the OpenCog organization's roadmap to AGI, and the second volume a 700 page overview of the design. |
2feb6099-a971-4776-958d-5486c21486ca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Choosing an Inferior Alternative
"Choosing an Inferior Alternative" (ungated version) is a 2006 paper1 by J. Edward Russo, Kurt A. Carlson and Margaret G. Meloy. It is presented as an example of cognitive biases leading to poor decision-making. In this case, participants were asked to rate options based on several cha... |
ae69c14a-435e-4921-b923-8a800aba462e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Navigating the Open-Source AI Landscape: Data, Funding, and Safety
Introduction
Open-source AI promises to democratize technology, but it can also be abused and may lead to hard-to-control AI. In this post, we'll explore the data, ethics, and funding behind these models to discover how to balance innovation and safety... |
2920c278-f739-41fc-b006-e4c1b28f0c80 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Nate Soares is answering questions about MIRI at the EA Forum
Nate Soares, MIRI's new Executive Director, is going to be answering questions tomorrow at the EA Forum (link). You can post your questions there now; he'll start replying Thursday, 15:00-18:00 US Pacific time.
Quoting Nate:
> Last week Monday, I t... |
83308da1-fe64-4469-ab34-4c72ee5d05b0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | AGI doesn't need understanding, intention, or consciousness in order to kill us, only intelligence
### Why the development of artificial general intelligence could be the most dangerous new arms race since nuclear weapons
The rise of transformer-based architectures, such as [ChatGPT](https://chat.openai.com/) and ... |
ac454a05-9f17-4c03-bf72-7670aae1eede | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Contra "Strong Coherence"
Polished from my shortform
See also: Is "Strong Coherence" Anti-Natural?
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Introduction
Many AI risk failure modes imagine strong coherence/goal directedness[1] (e.g. [expected] utility maximisers).
Such strong coherence is not represented in hum... |
775d7482-b5fd-43ac-bf24-b5ffa72a7759 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Software Agent Illustrating Some Features of an Illusionist Account of Consciousness
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e4d0ab72-0ac7-4a53-950e-5ecdfabef49d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Extreme updating: The devil is in the missing details
Today Ed Yong has a post on Not Exactly Rocket Science that is about updating - actually, the most extreme case in updating, where a person gets to choose between relying completely on their own judgement, or completely on the judgement of others. He describes 2 e... |
e28dd988-b518-409b-95ff-a62c6c78876e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New LW Meetups: Bristol, Tel Aviv
This summary was posted to LW main on May 17th. The following week's summary is here.
New meetups (or meetups with a hiatus of more than a year) are happening in:
* First Bristol meetup: 25 May 2013 03:00PM
* Tel Aviv, Israel Meetup - Goal Clarification with special guest Cat from... |
5f216d12-ac97-4026-a56f-f095d9e3ff14 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Reducing Goodhart: Announcement, Executive Summary
**I - Release announcement**
I have just posted a *very* thorough edit-slash-rewrite of my [Reducing Goodhart sequence](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/aJvgWxkCBWpHpXti4). Many thanks to people who gave me feedback or chatted with me about related topics, and many a... |
23767b2a-40f2-474e-b513-f804043f8251 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to Upload a Mind (In Three Not-So-Easy Steps)
Cross-posted to the EA forum
This Rational Animations video is about the research and practical challenges of "whole brain emulation" or "mind uploading", presented as a step by step guide. We primarily follow the roadmap of Sandberg and Bostrom's 2008 report, linke... |
529faccf-ffc8-4344-ba53-18186a7afb6c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Open Letter To EA and AI Safety On Decelerating AI Development
Tl;dr: when it comes to AI, we need to slow down, as fast as is safe and practical. Here’s why.
Summary
* We need to slow down AI development for pragmatic and ethical reasons
* Energetic public advocacy for slowing down and greater safety seems, in... |
7a908dee-3c21-4e38-916a-baf76ade8863 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Curriculum Design for Teaching via Demonstrations: Theory and Applications
1 Introduction
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Imitation learning is a paradigm in which a learner acquires a new set of skills by imitating a teacher’s behavior. The importance of imitation learning is realized in real-world applications where the desired ... |
108bb37a-4e9f-4768-859d-3e26561c4151 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Group Rationality Diary, July 16-31
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for July 16-31.
> It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
>
> * Established a useful new habit
> * Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some beli... |
1397df47-8b66-4ecb-8048-9b0f70cf58e7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | “Fragility of Value” vs. LLMs
It seems like we keep getting LLMs that are better and better at *getting* the point of fairly abstract concepts (e.g. understanding jokes). As compute increases and their performance improves, it seems increasingly likely that human “values” are within the class of not-that-heavily-finet... |
3124f154-3a6d-47c4-8826-8548a04d0c81 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On Irrational Theory of Identity
Meet Alice. Alice alieves that losing consciousness causes discontinuity of identity.
Alice has a good job. Every payday, she takes her salary and enjoys herself in a reasonable way for her means--maybe going to a restaurant, maybe seeing a movie, normal things. And in the evening,... |
9230c769-d35d-4f36-a17a-922d815ac579 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Toronto Meetup, Apr 14 8pm
When: Thursday, April 14th, 20:00
Where: The Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur Avenue
Hi everyone,
Same plan as the last meetup. The reservation is under my name (Spencer Sleep) this time, as last time they put the name down as "Less Wrong" (first name and surname) and got angry at m... |
ad4c1378-422e-46a7-997f-355374a88c86 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Semen and Semantics: Understanding Porn with Language Embeddings
Summary
Porn content has gotten more extreme over time. Here's the average title for the first full year of Pornhub's existence, 2008:
* "Hot blonde girl gets fucked"
and here's the average title for 2023:
* "FAMILYXXX - "I Cant Resist My Stepsis Bi... |
49107c0a-1b8e-4562-9d07-2165f28e06a3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Hardware-Software Framework: A New Perspective on Economic Growth with AI
First, a few words about me, as I’m new here.
I am a professor of economics at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Years of studying the causes and mechanisms of long-run economic growth brought me to the topic of AI, arguably the most... |
c8d34f16-6514-4162-aa85-1088235e69c2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Did the Army Poison a Bunch of Women in Minnesota?
The 1950s were crazy times. Human experimentation in the US was normalized in a way that would make modern IRBs implode from shock. After the Soviets tested their first nuclear bomb in 1949, war planners in the US, both civilian and military, were interested in accele... |
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