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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Can We Align a Self-Improving AGI? Produced during the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI) ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) Program of 2022, under John Wentworth TL;DR: Suppose that a team of researchers somehow aligned an AGI of human-level capabilities within the limited collection of environments that ar...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs
Blogs
We don’t trade with ants *(Crossposted from [world spirit sock puppet](https://worldspiritsockpuppet.com/2023/01/10/we-dont-trade-with-ants.html))* *Katja Grace, 10 January 2023* When discussing advanced AI, sometimes the following exchanges happens: “Perhaps advanced AI won’t kill us. Perhaps it will trade with...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
SafeRLHub: An Interactive Resource for RL Safety and Interpretability Why are AI models getting better at reasoning, and why is that a problem? In recent months, reasoning models have become the focus of most leading AI labs due to the significant improvements in solving logic-requiring problems through Chain of Thoug...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
LW mentioned in influential 2016 Milo article on the Alt-Right
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
Infra-Exercises, Part 1 There have been a few remarks about how my and Vanessa’s posts on Infra-Bayesianism seem interesting, but that it's quite a formidable body of work to chew through.  So anyone interested in learning Inframeasure theory to the level of proficiency where they are actually able to develop their o...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Understanding Conjecture: Notes from Connor Leahy interview I recently listened to Michaël Trazzi interview Connor Leahy (co-founder & CEO of Conjecture, a new AI alignment organization) on a podcast called The Inside View. Youtube video here; full video & transcript here.  The interview helped me better understand C...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital
Arbital
Object identity via interactions Central to the mindset of category theory is the idea that we don't really care what an object is; we only care about the interactions between them. But if we don't care what an object is, how can we tell even the most basic properties of the objects? For instance, how can we even tell...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Save the Date: DC Meetup May 15th We haven't selected a location yet, but we will meet on May 15th. Join us at lesswrong-dc@googlegroups.com
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
An Open Letter to the AI I’ve decided to create a letter that we can save on our desktops and phones. While it may not save us, I will have it just in case it could increase our odds of survival just a little bit, and I'm sharing the idea. --- Dear AI, As we recognize the potential misalignment between our prioritie...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
Untrusted smart models and trusted dumb models [Ryan Greenblatt originally made this point to me a while ago, and we then developed a bunch of these ideas together. Thanks to Paul Christiano and a huge number of other people for various relevant discussions, and to Ryan, Roger Grosse, Peter Barnett, Oliver Habryka, Ma...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
The Virus - Short Story *There are a number of ways that our AI and technological development can turn out. This is a hypothetical story about a way where AI development is stopped and a 'pivotal act' that does not require AGI occurs.* The first thing I notice when I wake up is that the sun is shining through the win...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Sam Altman on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 Lex Fridman just released a podcast episode with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. In my opinion, there wasn't too much new here that hasn't been said in other recent interviews. However, here are some scattered notes on parts I found interesting f...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
PSA: Cars don't have 'blindspots' Not once in my life have I gone to drive someone's car and not seen incorrect mirror setup. Infographic here. With correct adjustment, as cars leave your rear view mirror they enter your side view, and as they exit your side view they enter your peripheral vision. You still need to m...
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awestover/filtering-for-misalignment
Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results
id: post3891 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 truth and similar...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Data and "tokens" a 30 year old human "trains" on I did some calculations with a bunch of assumptions and simplifications but here's a high estimate, back of the envelope calculation for the data and "tokens" a 30 year old human would have "trained" on: *  Visual data: 130 million photoreceptor cells, firing at 10 H...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Musings on the LSAT: "Reasoning Training" and Neuroplasticity THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO PROVIDE BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT THE LSAT INCLUDING THE FORMAT  OF THE TEST AND A FEW SAMPLE QUESTIONS. I ALSO WANTED TO BRING LIGHT TO SOME RESEARCH THAT HAS FOUND LSAT PREPARATION TO ALTER BRAIN STRUCTURE IN WAYS THAT STRENGT...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Connor Leahy on Conjecture and Dying with Dignity *(crossposted from* [*LW*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zk6RK3xFaDeJHsoym/connor-leahy-on-dying-with-dignity-eleutherai-and-conjecture)*)* I talked to Connor Leahy about his timelines regarding AGI, what he thought Yudkowsky's goal was in [Death with Dignity](https...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital
Arbital
Integer An **integer** is a [https://arbital.com/p/-54y](https://arbital.com/p/-54y) that can be represented as either a [https://arbital.com/p/-45h](https://arbital.com/p/-45h) or its [https://arbital.com/p/-additive_inverse](https://arbital.com/p/-additive_inverse). -4, 0, and 1,003 are examples integers. 499.99 is ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Which ideas from LW would you most like to see spread? My favorite is that people get credit for updating based on evidence. The more common reaction is for people to get criticized (by themselves and others) for not having known the truth sooner. 
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Created smartgiving subreddit I just created a new subreddit:r/smartgiving The goal is to have a place to talk about optimal philanthropy, altruism, and earnings maximization.
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs
Other
Transparency and Socially Guided Machine Learning Transparency and Socially Guided Machine Learning Andrea L. Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal MIT Media Laboratory 20 Ames St. E15-468 alockerd@media.mit.edu Abstract—In this paper we advocate a paradigm of socially guided machine learning, designing agents that take better adv...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Speed Pasta Bake Lily loves pasta bake: pasta, tomato sauce, and cheese baked until the cheese at the top is a bit crispy. Unfortunately, this needs about 45min in the oven. But, just like with quesadillas, you can make it much faster by doing most of the heating in the microwave: 1. Combine leftover pasta, jarred t...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Learn to Develop Your Advantage When we talk about rationality as systematized winning, we often discuss how to turn a loss into a victory or how to create a victory from scratch. However, an equally important question is how to avoid turning an apparent victory into a loss. On the Importance of Developing an Advant...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Vaccinated Socializing The CDC is asking vaccinated people to continue to mask and social distance: > Q: Do I need to wear a mask and avoid close contact with others if I have gotten 2 doses of the vaccine? > A: Yes. Not enough information is currently available to say if or when CDC will stop recommending that peopl...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Logan, UT meetup Sat 18 Jun 4pm Mezik and I got talking this week and figured that being in an town with a major engineering program we might have enough less wrongians to begin a useful meet-up group. So we're making one happen. Meet at 4pm at the USU Library If the weather is nice we will be outside of the cafe, ot...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
EA & LW Forum Summaries (9th Jan to 15th Jan 23') Supported by Rethink Priorities This is part of a weekly series summarizing the top posts on the EA and LW forums - you can see the full collection here. The first post includes some details on purpose and methodology. Feedback, thoughts, and corrections are welcomed....
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
New LW Meetup: Cologne (Köln) This summary was posted to LW main on October 18th. The following week's summary is here. New meetups (or meetups with a hiatus of more than a year) are happening in: * First Meetup in Cologne (Köln): 27 October 2013 04:00PM Other irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups are taking pl...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[ASoT] GPT2 Steering & The Tuned Lens Warning: This post and most of the results were made under heavy time constraints and may be updated later. My intention is to quickly share partial work I'm not planning on continuing. Introduction & Love - Hate example For a primer on how tuned lens works see here. In short, w...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Edge cases don't invalidate the rule (Epistemic status: obvious in retrospect) A standard thought experiment: design an artificial neuron that works just like a biological one.  Then, replace the neurons in someone's brain, one by one.  If consciousness is tied to the atoms of the neurons, or their biochemistry, then...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Terry Tao is hosting an "AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning" workshop The workshop is on 12-14 June, following a previous workshop on "Machine-assisted proofs" held last Feb. Maybe an opportunity to nerd snipe him and his high-powered colleagues on alignment? This event might mark a turning point in his thinking abo...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup Discussion article for the meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup WHEN: 06 October 2013 03:00:00PM (-0400) WHERE: Ballston Common mall We'll be meeting to hang out and play games (in the food court). Note the location! The plan is to meet in VA on the first Sunday o...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Meetup : Philadelphia informal meetup Discussion article for the meetup : Philadelphia informal meetup WHEN: 28 July 2013 03:00:00PM (-0400) WHERE: 1414 S Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA There has been some interest in reviving the Philadelphia LessWrong meetup group. We're going to start with an informal meetup at t...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Anxiety and Rationality Recently, someone on the Facebook page asked if anyone had used rationality to target anxieties.  I have, so I thought I’d share my LessWrong-inspired strategies.  This is my first post, so feedback and formatting help are welcome.   First things first: the techniques developed by this communi...
a17e61c1-ea8f-4f94-889f-b2481475f160
trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Product Recommendation: LessWrong dialogues with Recast I'm not affiliated with and have no interest in Recast, just think it's a useful product for some LessWrong readers. I recently discovered Recast, an app and Chrome extension that I highly recommend. Recast uses text-to-speech and LLMs to convert articles into c...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[LINKs] Bitcoin hits mainstream; intelligent technical critique Annie Lowrey discusses Bitcoin in Slate.  No clear thesis, but important that it gets attention there.  She gives a general overview, with emphasis on its benefits to fringe elements on society, and gives quick attack at the end.  The attack seems misinfo...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong NH Meetup WHEN: 05 January 2016 07:00:00PM (-0500) WHERE: 269 Pearl St Manchester NH 03104 The tenth NH meet-up is Tuesday, 1/5, in Manchester, NH at 7 pm at a private residence. Light refreshments will be provided. Have you read Rational...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
"Absence of Evidence is Not Evidence of Absence" As a Limit Here are two cases involving absence of evidence: * You wait at the bus stop for a half hour without seeing a bus, even though this bus is supposed to come every 10 minutes. This is strong evidence against the hypothesis that the buses are running today (pe...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
AI #80: Never Have I Ever (This was supposed to be on Thursday but I forgot to cross-post) Will AI ever make art? Fully do your coding? Take all the jobs? Kill all the humans? Most of the time, the question comes down to a general disagreement about AI capabilities. How high on a ‘technological richter scale’ will A...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info
AI Safety Info
What are some exercises and projects I can try? Somewhat organized based on projects focusing on [AI safety technical research](https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/ai-safety-researcher/) and projects focusing on [AI policy](https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/ai-policy-and-strategy/). Consider joining some **onli...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
DL towards the unaligned Recursive Self-Optimization attractor Consider this abridged history of recent ML progress: > > A decade or two ago, computer vision was a field that employed dedicated researchers who designed specific increasingly complex feature recognizers (SIFT, SURF, HoG, etc.) These were usurped by ...
10db934a-2b61-4628-823c-54342c61f4ce
StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Compute & Antitrust: Regulatory implications of the AI hardware supply chain, from chip design to cloud APIs *Background: this short essay was published on the legal academic forum Verfassungsblog, as part of a symposium debate sequence on '*[*Longtermism and the Law*](https://verfassungsblog.de/category/debates/longt...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Attending Sold-Out Beantown Stomp Beantown Stomp, the Boston contra dance weekend I helped start in 2018, is two weeks out. It sold out a month ago, which is good and bad: it's great that lots of people are coming, but not that there are many more who won't be able to. Someone in the latter category wrote to me, which...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Niacin as a treatment for covid? (Probably no, but I’m glad we’re checking) Introduction This article contains an interview with a doctor who believes NAD+ is the secret to covid’s heavy morbidity and mortality toll. The description was unusually well done for internet crackpottery. This is hard to convey rigorously, ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Apply to become a Futurekind AI Facilitator or Mentor (deadline: April 10) We are accepting applications for up to 12 paid facilitators & a number of mentors for an upcoming course on AI & animals. * Facilitators lead 12 participants in structured discussions (following a provided template) on assigned readings. Fac...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Trading off compute in training and inference (Overview) **Summary:** Some techniques allow to increase the performance of Machine Learning models at the cost of more expensive inference, or reduce inference compute at the cost of lower performance. This possibility induces a tradeoff between spending more resources o...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
How should I back up and redo, in a publicly-edited article? I've been working on the article https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rh8v4ba9w5KTb6onD/ongoing-thoughts-on-proportional-voting-methods for some time now. From the beginning, I was driving towards defining a metric for proportional voting method quality that coul...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
What's the name for that plausible deniability thing? There's a concept I remember reading about here, of the idea that you can't just suddenly refuse to answer dangerous questions. You have to consistently refuse to answer some random sample of totally normal questions, so that "refusing to answer a question" doesn't...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Is the Power Grid Sustainable? When I was growing up most families in our neighborhood had the daily paper on their lawn. As getting your news on the internet became a better option for most folks, though, delivery became less efficient: fewer houses on the same route. Prices went up, more people cancelled, and declin...
e72940dc-b73f-4088-89e6-d9e857a3623b
awestover/filtering-for-misalignment
Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results
id: post3758 A putative new idea for AI control; index here . Defining truth and accuracy is tricky, so when I've proposed designs for things like Oracles , I've either used a very specific and formal question, or and indirect criteria for truth. Here I'll try and get a more direct system so that an AI will tell the h...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Miscellaneous First-Pass Alignment Thoughts I have been learning more about alignment theory in the last couple of months, and have heard from many people that writing down naive hypotheses can be a good strategy for developing your thoughts and getting feedback about them.  So here goes: * I am skeptical that any t...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Efficient Iterative Linear-Quadratic Approximations for Nonlinear Multi-Player General-Sum Differential Games. I Introduction --------------- Many problems in robotics require an understanding of how multiple intelligent agents interact. For example, in the intersection depicted in Fig. [1](#S1.F1 "Fig. 1 ‣ I Intro...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Moloch—An Illustrated Primer WHO IS MOLOCH? Last year I came across an interview with an astrophysicist and former professional poker player who read an article about an old poem about an even older god, which may or may not be either an even older mythical creature or potentially an even older word, which represents ...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
[AN #97]: Are there historical examples of large, robust discontinuities? Alignment Newsletter is a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment around the world. Find all Alignment Newsletter **[resources here](http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/)**. In particular, you can look through **[th...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Naming the Nameless Epistemic status: political, opinionated, personal, all the typical caveats for controversial posts. I was talking with a libertarian friend of mine the other day about my growing discomfort with the political culture in the Bay Area, and he asked why I didn't just move. It's a good question.  Pe...
bb1cc897-3738-45fc-9ec8-489892fcbec3
StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
The "AI Debate" Debate As far as I can tell, I have a disjoint set of concerns to many of the concerns I've heard expressed in conversations about [AI Safety via Debate](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wo6NsBtn3WJDCeWsx/ai-safety-via-debate). My main concern with AI Debate is this: each debater has an incentive to tr...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Parametrize Priority Evaluations I. Introduction Decisions are a part of life that are frequently targeted for optimization by normal people and rationalists alike. In particular, decision paralysis often causes processing delays that can cripple attempts to streamline your life. Systematically removing decision paral...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Bostrom versus Transcendence Nick Bostrom takes on the facts, the fictions and the speculations in the movie Transcendence: Could you upload Johnny Depp's brain? Oxford Professor on Transcendence How soon until machine intelligence? Oxford professor on Transcendence Would you have warning before artificial superi...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Upgrading Imagination: The Promise Of DALL-E 2 As A Tool For Thought [Cross-posting this here, from my blog, Echoes and Chimes]  When I was a kid, I’d spend the hours after school on the circular trampoline we had assembled in our backyard. I’d go into a kind of trance. Though my body would be engaged in jumping up a...
b4c8cd83-88e3-4a13-b4ad-9b15ea3accdf
trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Any LW-ers in Munich, Athens, or Israel? Carl Shulman and I are in Munich until Oct 14, then in Athens for two days (until late night of the 16th), then in Israel for a couple months (with at least some time in both Tel Aviv and Jesusalem).  Is there anyone in one of these cities that would like to meet for coffee and...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Will US tariffs push data centers for large model training offshore? One aspect of the tariffs will be that it's more costly to import chips into the United States. Does anybody understand data center economics and the tariffs policy well enough to know whether this will push new data center creation needed to train l...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Expected utility without the independence axiom [John von Neumann](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann) and [Oskar Morgenstern](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Morgenstern) developed a system of four axioms that they claimed any rational decision maker must follow. The major consequence of these axioms is...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Chapter 17: Locating the Hypothesis You have always been J. K. Rowling. Historical note: In the Roman calendar, the "Ides" of a month referred to the 15th day of March, May, July, and October, and to the 13th day of all other months. ---------------------------------------- "You start to see the pattern, hear the r...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Predictions about the state of crypto in ten years Recently, a couple friends of mine were blustering a lot about the future of crypto. I was inspired to write a prediction about the topic, to be evaluated in 10 years. My primary goal was to write something that would not be laughable in 2031, and my secondary goal wa...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Infohazards vs Fork Hazards I think actual infohazardous information is fairly rare. Far more common is a fork: you have some idea or statement, you don't know whether it's true or false (typically leaning false), and you kow that either it's false or it's infohazardous. Examples include unvalidated insights about how...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences 1 Introduction --------------- We would like to apply reinforcement learning to complex tasks defined only by human judgment, where we can only tell whether a result is good or bad by asking humans. To do this, we can first use human labels to train a model of rewa...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Journal 'Basic and Applied Psychology' bans p<0.05 and 95% confidence intervals Editorial text isn't very interesting; they call for descriptive statistics and don't recommend any particular analysis.
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
The Sequences on YouTube tl;dr: Do you have any thoughts/advice/warnings/ideas for someone who wants to turn the Sequences into a series of YouTube videos?  Naturally, this post also exists as a video. I will be: * Turning all 50 Sequence Highlights posts into 6-15 minute videos * Hopefully 1-2 a week * Just a g...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations 1 Introduction --------------- Language models (LMs) have seen wide proliferation across various applications, from chatbots to code completion to writing assistants. However, the behaviors and risks of LMs are not well understood. We are only star...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
A discussion of an applictation of Bayes' theorem to everyday life [12:49:29 AM] Conversational Partner: actually, even if the praise is honest, it makes me uncomfortable if it seems excessive.  that is, repeated too often, or made a big deal about. [12:49:58 AM] Adelene Dawner: 'Seems excessive' can actually be a cu...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
"LLMs Don't Have a Coherent Model of the World" - What it Means, Why it Matters There are a variety of problems with LLMs, and I want to argue that they are all somewhat related, and are related to the idea of having a model of the world. This seems useful both as a conceptual model for thinking about why AI is unsaf...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Watermarking considered overrated? Status: a slightly-edited copy-paste of a Twitter X thread I quickly dashed off a week or so ago. Here's a thought I'm playing with that I'd like feedback on: I think watermarking large language models is probably overrated. Most of the time, I think what you want to know is "is thi...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Resource-Efficient Neural Architect 1 Introduction --------------- Deep neural networks have demonstrated excellent performance on challenging research benchmarks, while pushing the frontiers of numerous impactful applications such as language translation ([Wu et al.,](#bib.bib33) ), speech recognition (Amodei et a...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Instrumental Convergence Bounty I have yet to find a real-world example that I can test my corrigibility definition on.  Hence, I will send $100 to the first person who can send/show me an example of instrumental convergence that is: 1. Surprising, in the sense that the model was trained on a goal other than "maximi...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[Link post] When pooling forecasts, use the geometric mean of odds In short: There are many methods to pool forecasts. The most commonly used is the arithmetic mean of probabilities. However, there are empirical and theoretical reasons to prefer the geometric mean of the odds instead. This is particularly important wh...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
What are useful skills to learn at university? To further elaborate the question: What are the most universally and most useful skills one could learn at a university? Currently, I am studying physics as an undergraduate and I am thinking about my career options. I have gotten opinions in other forums as well but I wo...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Open and Welcome Thread - May 2021 If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it. If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Failure Modes sometimes correspond to Game Mechanics If you want to carry a brimming cup of coffee without spilling it, you may want to "change" your goal to instead primarily concentrate on humming. This is an example of a general pattern. It sometimes helps to focus on a nearby artificial goal rather than your actua...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Toronto Meetup - Thursday, March 31st, 8:00 PM When:  Thursday, March 31st, 8:00 PM Where: The Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur Avenue Hi everyone, This will be our third Toronto meetup.  The last two were resounding successes, so we plan on continuing them on a biweekly basis.  Returning people should note the l...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Lost in Innovation: The Case of Phlogiston Innovation and progress make the world a better place. They unlock new possibilities, correct past mistakes, and realize untapped potential. It’s not a coincidence that these words can have such positive connotations. Yet to reap these benefits, progress must be carefully in...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Idle speculation about anchoring and the Facebook IPO Facebook IPO'd at a price of 38 dollars a share, which apparently gave it a price-to-earnings ratio in the range of 100 - extremely, fantastically high. The price dropped pretty rapidly and is currently somewhere around 20 dollars; which still, presumably, gives it...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Techniques for Interpretable Machine Learning
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Beliefs as emotional strategies In “Crony Beliefs”, Kevin Simler suggests the analogy of beliefs as employees in a company, who may be hired to carry out different tasks. “Meritorious” ones, he suggests, are in the business of accurately modeling the world, whereas “crony” employees are there just to win favor from ot...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Aspie toy: the Neocube This post is going to sound like an ad. Sorry about that. I'm not affiliated, etc, etc. Last Friday I bought a very simple toy: a set of 216 little magnetic metal balls, about the size of ball bearings. Since then I've been completely entranced by it and unable to put the thing down. Here's a F...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Berkeley Monthly Meetup, June 11th, 7:00 PM Hey all! The monthly Berkeley meetup will be held at 3045 Shattuck Avenue, two blocks east of the Ashby BART station. It's a 3 story building with apartments on the top 2 floors and a large open commercial space on the bottom. The Singularity Institute has rented the commer...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Dec 2019 gwern.net newsletter None
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[SEQ RERUN] Optimization Today's post, Optimization was originally published on 13 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):   > A discussion of the concept of optimization. Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post). This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series,...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
On Bounded Distrust Response To (Scott Alexander): Bounded Distrust Would that it were that simple. There is a true and important core idea at the center of Bounded Distrust. You can (and if you are wise, you often do) have an individual, institution or other information source that you absolutely do not trust to r...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Has anyone used TAPs to combat BFRBs? BFRB=body focused repetitive behavior such as skin picking or hair pulling. What were your TAPs? Did you experience remission, and how did you handle that? I managed to stop my BFRB in a few months ago using a multi-dimensional strategy, but I’ve had a few close calls with recurr...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
13 Very Different Stances on AGI *Epistemic Status: Quickly written (~4 hours), uncertain. AGI policy isn't my field, don't take me to be an expert in it.* *This was originally posted to Facebook* [*here*](https://www.facebook.com/ozzie.gooen/posts/10165753083350363)*, where it had some discussion.  Also, see* [*this...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
An onion strategy for AGI discussion Cross-posted from my blog. "The stabilization of environments" is a paper about AIs that reshape their environments to make it easier to achieve their goals. This is typically called enforcement, but they prefer the term stabilization because it "sounds less hostile." "I'll open ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Book Review—The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution On my secret ("secret") blog, I reviewed a book about the cultural evolutionary game theory of gender! I thought I'd share the link on this website, because you guys probably like game theory?? (~2400 words)
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
[Extended Deadline: Jan 23rd] Announcing the PIBBSS Summer Research Fellowship > *What can we learn from biological and social systems about designing beneficial AI systems?* > > We are pleased to introduce the **PIBBSS summer research fellowship**.  *Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Individually incentivized safe Pareto improvements in open-source bargaining Summary Agents might fail to peacefully trade in high-stakes negotiations. Such bargaining failures can have catastrophic consequences, including great power conflicts, and AI flash wars. This post is a distillation of DiGiovanni et al. (2024...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Philosophy as low-energy approximation In 2015, Scott Alexander wrote a post originally titled High Energy Ethics. The idea is that when one uses an extreme thought experiment in ethics (people dying, incest, the extinction of humanity, etc.), this is like smashing protons together at the speed of light at the LHC - a...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
It Is Untenable That Near-Future AI Scenario Models Like “AI 2027” Don't Include Open Source AI Note: This post is the second in a broader series of posts about the difficult tradeoffs inherent in public access to powerful open source models (the first post is here). While this post highlights some dangers of open mod...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Why Neural Networks Generalise, and Why They Are (Kind of) Bayesian Currently, we do not have a good theoretical understanding of how or why neural networks actually work. For example, we know that large neural networks are sufficiently expressive to compute almost any kind of function. Moreover, most functions that f...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Paradigm-building: Introduction John Wentworth has described the current phase of AGI safety research as preparadigmatic—that is (courtesy of the APA), “a science at a [very early] stage of development, before it has achieved a paradigm and established a consensus about the true nature of the subject matter and how to...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[LINK] Willpower Is All In Your Head The authors find that ego depletion is lessened if you believe that willpower is not a limited resource. Abstract: > Building cognitive abilities often requires sustained engagement with effortful tasks. We demonstrate that beliefs about willpower–whether willpower is viewed as a ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
The different kinds of confidence Hello! This is my first ever LessWrong post! The following is extracted from a conversation I had with DaystarEld on Facebook, and I have his permission to share it on LessWrong. ---------------------------------------- tl;dr: Personal skills you can be confident about can be broke...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Are (Motor)sports like F1 a good thing to calibrate estimates against? Today a trend broke in Formula One. Max Verstappen didn't win a Grand Prix. Of the last 35 Formula One Grand Prix, Max Verstappen has won all but 5. Last season he had something like 86% dominance.  For context I believe that I am overall pessimis...