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2d554206-76f9-4364-a5c8-633c49bdacd0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Retrospective Look at the Guild of Servants: Alpha Phase
Executive Summary
The Guild of Servants is an organization founded in August 2020 aimed at providing structure and community to rationalists, and others with similar ambitions, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Alpha Phase of the project recently conc... |
c87c9288-76a7-4582-8d26-789a61972885 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Alignment - Path to AI as ally, not slave nor foe
More thoughts resulting from my previous [post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CNN7dboyQ3AEQsvke/half-baked-alignment-idea)
I'd like to argue that rather than trying hopelessly to fully control an AI that is smarter than we are, we should rather treat it as an ind... |
36ea5279-c3d0-4be2-92e5-a32fda541f18 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Perceiver AR: general-purpose, long-context autoregressive generation
Over the last few years, autoregressive Transformers have brought a steady stream of breakthroughs in generative modeling. These models generate each element of a sample – the pixels of an image, the characters of a text (typically in “token” chunks... |
79f578b3-3c8e-40e9-89f6-d81e551ae19b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Unbounded linear utility functions?
The LW community seems to assume, by default, that "unbounded, linear utility functions are reasonable." That is, if you value the existence of 1 swan at 1.5 utilons, then 10 swans should be worth 15, etc.
Yudkowsky in his post on scope insensitivity argues that nonlinearity of pe... |
2b613101-5b12-4095-a1f6-a0a054a833e2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Interview with Nectome CEO Robert McIntyre - Brain Preservation, Personal Identity, AGI, and More
This is cross-posted from my blog and is written more for a general audience rather than LessWrong people who will be more familiar with some of the relevant concepts.
Robert McIntrye is an all-around smart and interesti... |
2e5b2b48-1cd7-4466-8b6a-93fd80877c8c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Importance of Judging: A Reflection on Rational Thought
Epistemic status: Mostly sorting out my own thoughts here. Feel free to try to convince me I am wrong.
In earlier drafts of this post, I held the belief that "judging people is bad." I even went to great lengths to avoid passing judgment and occasionally adj... |
779f5e03-97c1-4537-b007-e071c47710a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Interpretations of "probability"
(Written for Arbital in 2016.)
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What does it mean to say that a flipped coin has a 50% probability of landing heads?
Historically, there are two popular types of answers to this question, the "frequentist" and "subjective" (aka "Bayesian") ans... |
0d4e81a4-3b9e-4418-9db5-9417c3d97e56 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Persuasion Tools: AI takeover without AGI or agency?
*[epistemic status: speculation]*
> I'm envisioning that in the future there will also be systems where you can input any conclusion that you want to argue (including moral conclusions) and the target audience, and the system will give you the most convincing argu... |
191537d4-c731-4dac-a85d-5ecb4c5b25fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Alignment solutions for weak AI don't (necessarily) scale to strong AI
"We do not know, and probably aren't even close to knowing, how to align a superintelligence. And RLHF is very cool for what we use it for today, but thinking that the alignment problem is now solved would be a very grave mistake indeed." - Sam Alt... |
e95d7c56-d8fb-43b4-af43-ab68cf68b351 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Economic Thinking
Economics is often portrayed as a dismal science. It seems to be about a small group of experts talking mostly about monetary policy. I want to argue that this is not true and that there is an elegant, natural and simple interpretation that admits far-reaching applications.
Finite thinking
First, w... |
593bba94-b5bb-48f4-8bd0-f70272f87679 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LLMs for Alignment Research: a safety priority?
A recent short story by Gabriel Mukobi illustrates a near-term scenario where things go bad because new developments in LLMs allow LLMs to accelerate capabilities research without a correspondingly large acceleration in safety research.
This scenario is disturbingly clo... |
398683e2-42f5-4cfe-baee-a78faca8a8eb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Money-generating environments vs. wealth-building environments (or "my thoughts on the stock market")
Crossposted.
Very interested in whether you think I'm right; also interested in the ways you think I'm wrong.
This post is going to include a discussion of the stock market, which means that I am obligated to begin ... |
eaf87a68-8ea9-40bd-b378-66c43d637e5c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | DeepMind x UCL RL Lecture Series - Deep Reinforcement Learning #1 [12/13]
today i'll be discussing an exciting era
of research that's been instrumental to
many recent successes in reinforcement
learning and this is uh typically
referred to as deep reinforcement
learning so this is the combination of
reinforcement lear... |
19e3cc82-4713-4a29-9188-8d61007666be | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Learning to play Minecraft with Video PreTraining
Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by
Watching Unlabeled Online Videos
Bowen Bakery
bowen@openai.comIlge Akkayay
ilge@openai.comPeter Zhokhovy
peterz@openai.comJoost Huizingay
joost@openai.com
Jie Tangy
jietang@openai.comAdrien Ecoffety
adrien@openai.comBra... |
13a768ab-94f7-437e-b38f-a35daf43fb83 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Vienna Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Vienna Meetup
WHEN: 17 August 2013 03:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
The Meetup will be held at the NIG, room 2G on the second floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien.
This time, the discussion will be led by Andreas, focusing on the... |
82a2d5ef-16fa-4854-9584-86c3f86f1791 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Living in Many Worlds
Today's post, Living in Many Worlds was originally published on 05 June 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> The many worlds of quantum mechanics are not some strange, alien universe into which you have been thrust. They are where you have always lived. Egan's Law: "It all ... |
e4461143-b9b1-42e6-9b4e-859d3e3ccb50 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Wise Sayings
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: Wise Sayings
WHEN: 25 October 2015 03:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery
Crossposted from mailing list. Meeting in courtyard, gathering from 3:00 to 3:30 to start at 3:30.
We'll be meeting to share and discu... |
f6098d6e-d95d-40b0-9a24-5a7340277f59 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Don't try to solve the entire alignment problem
On first approaching the [alignment problem](https://arbital.com/p/2v) for [advanced agents](https://arbital.com/p/2c), aka "[robust](https://arbital.com/p/2l) and [beneficial](https://arbital.com/p/3d9) [AGI](https://arbital.com/p/42g)", aka "[Friendly AI](https://arbit... |
3e2416f0-f832-41a4-8646-4c02ef35e56c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research
The Problem Problem
-------------------
\tcolorbox
Highlights
* [leftmargin=\*]
* General intelligence is connected to the ability to adapt and prosper in a wide range of environments.
* Generat... |
c87ce1c5-fdb1-4441-ab34-6b63c1dc263c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Winners of the AI Safety Nudge Competition
The AI Safety Nudge Competition aims to encourage people to do things related to AI Safety today instead of procrastinating it into the future by allowing them to enter into a draw if they complete the goal that they set for themselves.
Participants defined a specific goa... |
c378e333-4a06-4689-a4af-cf531691894f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Will OpenAI's work unintentionally increase existential risks related to AI?
[The original question was "Is OpenAI increasing the existential risks related to AI?" I changed it to the current one following a discussion with Rohin in the comments. It clarifies that my question asks about the consequences of OpenAI's wo... |
d23e4149-6354-4f0b-a5a5-192b09622a06 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is the theory of change behind writing papers about AI safety?
Papers in AIS highlight some partial solutions to AIS-related problems (like machine unlearning), make progress on some approaches to the core problems of AI safety, like machine interoperability or are just about some safety failures of current AI sa... |
68cef836-a101-4a46-9689-ca00c991561d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Beta Feature: Side-Comments
LessWrong now has side-comments. This feature is in beta; you can turn it on for yourself on individual posts using the triple-dot menu below the post title, or enable it for all posts by going to your user settings and checking the "Opt into experimental features" checkbox in the Site C... |
9cc3b9f8-844d-405b-ae1d-dbec3655730d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Draft: Reasons to Use Informal Probabilities
> If I roll 15 fair 6-sided dice, take the ones that rolled 4 or higher, roll them again, and sum up all the die rolls... what is the probability that I drop at least one die on the floor?
There are two different ways of using probability. When we think of probability, we ... |
5e3166ab-602d-41ca-892f-26ec8f13d2ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What time in your life were you the most productive at learning and/or thinking and why?
Example answers include “high school math camp, because we were forced to do X and because there was an atmosphere of amicable competition” or “that day when I locked myself in a room with a textbook” or “the day when I studied X,... |
3cdf5e72-eedf-4001-96e4-87bcdbcad565 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On polytopes
[Epistemic status: slightly ranty. This is a lightly edited slack chat, and so may be lower-quality.]
I am surprised by the perennial spikes in excitement about "polytopes" and "tropical geometry on activation space" in machine learning and interpretability[1]. I'm not going to discuss tropical geometry ... |
ba2fab0c-6c13-4d94-8e58-3493aeb5ff05 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notes on Loyalty
This post examines the virtue of loyalty. It is meant mostly as an exploration of what other people have learned about this virtue, rather than as me expressing my own opinions about it, though I’ve been selective about what I found interesting or credible, according to my own inclinations. I wrote th... |
b7993aa1-6af5-4fe3-8406-c188a1001d02 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Powerless Moral Evaluation
[Disclaimer: this is my first post on Less Wrong. Comments and criticism appreciated, but constructive criticism especially appreciated. The below is a reactionary argument/a reactionary conceptual frame, though I would not describe myself as a reactionary.]
One prominent way to assess the ... |
34c0937a-b3fa-4a43-96dd-c2af93ebffb4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Occam's razor is insufficient to infer the preferences of irrational agents
Occam’s razor is insufficient to infer the preferences
of irrational agents
S¨oren Mindermann\*y
Vector Institute
University of Toronto
soeren.mindermann@gmail.comStuart Armstrong\*z
Future of Humanity Institute
University of Oxford
stuart.arm... |
2c714c42-4efc-4110-b58c-daff90b32bab | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Bystander Apathy
Today's post, Bystander Apathy was originally published on 13 April 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> The bystander effect is when groups of people are less likely to take action than an individual. There are a few explanations for why this might be the case.
Discuss the po... |
7adb5322-3bb4-498e-8090-bc48651cfbc0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What are “type signatures”?
[Type signatures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_signature) are a concept from computer science. A type signature identifies the kinds of inputs and outputs that a function can have. For example, a function which adds 3 to a number has a type signature of number to number.
The type sig... |
a4853216-9ab0-4277-9d79-69f1567fe849 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Saving for the long term
I'm 22 years old, just got a job, and have the option of putting money in a 401k. More generally, I just started making money and need to think about how I'm going to invest and save it.
As far as long-term/retirement savings goes, the way I see it is that my goal is to ensure that I have a s... |
d1a73962-0123-4ce2-bf1f-cf8d3de9fd7d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Latent Space Collapse? Understanding the Effects of Narrow Fine-Tuning on LLMs
This is my first post on the platform and my first set of experiments with GPT-2 using TransformerLens. If you spot any interesting insights or mistakes, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. While these findings aren't entirely... |
2bb4f4ef-a78c-476f-a9a1-f4e16ce246e4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The hunt of the Iuventa
From the January 20th 2018 issue of the German magazine Der Spiegel, the article Jagd auf Iuventa (The hunt of the Iuventa) reports on NGOs which rescue immigrants who try to reach Europe through the Mediterranean.
> "One can perhaps understand what we are doing here after watching first hand ... |
58473820-f0f0-4d2f-8102-d4dc97425b65 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Training AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward Modelling
hi what is technology don't skip ahead I
promise I'm going someone with this so
you could have some kind of definition
from a dictionary that's like technology
is machinery and equipment made using
scientific knowledge something like that
but where a... |
c33dc83d-0c32-40ba-9923-575e8b766d22 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Grokking “Semi-informative priors over AI timelines”
*Notes:*
* *I give visual explanations for Tom Davidson’s report,* [*Semi-informative priors over AI timelines*](https://www.openphilanthropy.org/semi-informative-priors)*, and summarise the key assumptions and intuitions*
* *The diagrams can be found* [*here*](htt... |
8db29c37-4b9c-4c4e-a6f7-4f6f3013b333 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Group selection update
Group selection might seem like an odd topic for a LessWrong post. Yet a google seach for "group selection" site:lesswrong.com turns up 345 results.
Just the power and generality of the concept of evolution is enough to justify posts on it here. In addition, the impact group selection could h... |
178ff4c0-2213-490c-9823-021cbed581c0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Shutting down the destructive internal monologue through transcranial direct current stimulation
Fast track to pure focus
> Weisend, who is working on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme to accelerate learning, has been using this form of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to c... |
e59f519a-38ab-4793-ab1f-33e3243b4420 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | More "Stupid" Questions
This is a thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. The previous "stupid" questions thread went to over 800 comments in two and a half weeks, so I think it's time for a new one. |
85e65056-9919-47b0-a0d6-f6591994b632 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | ELK Proposal: Thinking Via A Human Imitator
I want to use the AI’s intelligence to figure out how to translate into the human ontology. The hope is to route a smart entity's performance through a dumb entity's understanding and thereby get the smart entity to solve interpretability-by-the-dumb-entity. While my propose... |
e3d86b5d-4ecc-4f96-a9f4-a1b1e69df888 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Berkeley LW Meet-up Saturday October 9
Last month, about 7 people showed up to the Berkeley LW meet-up. To build on that success, we will be meeting on Saturday, October 9 at 7 PM at the Starbucks at 2224 Shattuck Avenue. I'll be there with a sign saying "If you read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, come... |
a04de236-38be-4f2a-802f-d5ea0790e4b2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | How Big is the Field of Artificial Intelligence? (initial findings)
Co-authored with Jonah Sinick.
How big is the field of AI, and how big was it in the past?
This question is relevant to several issues in AGI safety strategy. To name just two examples:
* [**AI forecasting**](http://intelligence.org/2013/05/15/w... |
4953dd31-45ea-41f0-b6c9-eebe50f1c9ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Religion is Good, Actually
This is a casually written post in a series about what I wish someone had told me when I was younger.
I know this one will be controversial, so I have a request: please only vote on this post if you actually read the whole thing. Don't just vote to yell "boo religion" or "yay Gordon" or som... |
9ca06b2e-2dc6-4fd8-90f8-38986d7b96ac | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Training on Documents About Reward Hacking Induces Reward Hacking
This is a blog post reporting some preliminary work from the Anthropic Alignment Science team, which might be of interest to researchers working actively in this space. We'd ask you to treat these results like those of a colleague sharing some thoughts ... |
c3280a95-081e-4c7f-95b9-1de8bdeb7db3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Platform for Project Spitballing? (e.g., for AI field building)
I was chatting with a friend about AI field building projects, but we were frustrated by the fact that we don't know what project ideas already exist and have weak feedback networks, and how inefficient this seems. Thus, I/we would like to know: is there ... |
81297efb-11b3-4103-a7c9-3b18d0302f63 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sleeping Beauty – the Death Hypothesis
Introduction
This post is intended as a contribution to the (already admittedly very large) corpus of discussion surrounding the Sleeping Beauty paradox. The statement of the paradox (which I will simply refer to here as the Paradox) itself is assumed to be known, as it is widel... |
2d6f3b7e-d12d-45b6-bce2-43226415d8ff | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Transformative AI is a process
In discussions, transformative AI is often seen as a certain point in time when an AI system achieves a certain level of performance or capabilities. For example, some people believe(d) that transformative AI will occur when an AI system can pass the Turing test, or when an AI system ca... |
df109b08-a813-4fcb-83d1-a22c76db709e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Energy efficiency of Wright Flyer
*Updated Dec 10, 2020*
The Wright Flyer:
* flew around 0.080-0.18m/kJ
* and moved mass at around .022 – .061 kg.m/J
Details
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The *Wright Flyer* (*Flyer I*) was the first successful plane, built in 1903.[1](https://aiimpacts.org/energy-efficiency-of-wright-flyer/#easy-fo... |
897c910d-7f70-4c49-8120-76a9731f2e3c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Bayesian Overconfidence
I just ran across an interesting working paper by P.J. Healy and D.A. Moore, providing a potenial explanation for several forms of overconfidence.
The abstract:
> We study three distinct measures of overconfidence: (1) overestimation of one’s performance, (2) overplacement of one’s per... |
4d158dfe-9964-4e0e-a155-e36ac5bbea92 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Towards Verifiably Ethical Robot Behaviour
1 Introduction
---------------
It is widely recognised that autonomous systems will need to conform
to legal, practical and *ethical* specifications. For instance,
during normal operation, we expect such systems to fulfill their goals
within a prescribed legal or professio... |
b94fa1f6-eb4f-43c7-8eca-77fbb3e90447 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Twiblings, four-parent babies and other reproductive technology
Two weeks ago I finally published my year-long research project into how to have polygenically screened children. In that post, I explained all the practicalities of embryo screening and how parents can use it right now to make their children smarter, hap... |
abe57c23-6b14-4512-94c3-de413cdddd62 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Recommendation] Steven Universe & cryonics
I've been watching Steven Universe with my fiancee (a children's cartoon on Cartoon Network by Rebecca Sugar), and it wasn't until I got to Season 3 that I realized there's been a cryonics metaphor running in the background since the very first episode. If you want to introd... |
7b5cda11-8bc9-4192-a05a-81db1977017d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | We Don't Really Want Your Participation
At the Singularity Summit yesterday, several speakers alleged that we should "reach out" to artists and poets to encourage their participation in the Singularity dialogue. So at the end of one such session, a woman went up to the audience microphone and said:
"I am an artist. ... |
34d27c60-eaa3-4fa8-be9c-c2be762fb599 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An argument for asexuality
Status quo bias is a cognitive bias which makes a person prefer to maintain the current state of affairs simply because other states of affairs would be different. (Henceforth, I will use the abbreviation "SOA" for "state of affairs").
Suppose the costs of changing the current SOA are high... |
b6e745e3-c440-4a65-9090-c1286be0c4e7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Help come up with better meetup activity descriptions
The current version of the How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup booklet contains descriptions about various games and activities. The problem is, some of these descriptions are quite short and don't really inspire people to try them out. I've been asked to mak... |
dcf217fe-44bd-48bb-92c2-b0ccaad6e152 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Posting now enabled on Less Wrong
Posting is now enabled on Less Wrong, with a minimum karma required of 20 - that is, you must have gotten at least 20 upvotes on your comments in order to publish a post. Or an adminstrator such as myself or Robin (by default you should bother me) can temporarily bless you with posti... |
ad3d8787-3043-4f01-b141-107a6c1b54b6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LDSL#2] Latent variable models, network models, and linear diffusion of sparse lognormals
This post is also available on my Substack.
Where we last left off, I proposed that life cannot be understood through statistics, but rather requires more careful study of individual cases. Yet I don’t think this is actually co... |
55dca17e-9da8-4015-8be3-9914d0720054 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Finite Factored Sets: Applications
We will now discuss several different applications and directions for future work on finite factored sets. We will divide these research directions into three categories: 'Inference,' 'Infinity,' and 'Embedded Agency.'
This post will be much more speculative than the previous posts.... |
09f7dc15-2eaa-4d35-85fd-b1d84230b4a9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Word is Worth 1,000 Pictures
Uber or Walk
Something interesting happened last night. It was approaching 12:30am, and a few hours of house-warming chats had petered down to a natural silence. With empty beer cans sprawled across the coffee table and kitchen counter of the brand new apartment, the three of us decided... |
8296645f-c9d6-4d8b-9e7d-da18a685c530 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Bits of NEFFA
First in-person NEFFA since 2019. Two really nice days, with a third to come. Some bits:
* Lily getting to fire a rubber chicken at Jack in the Green (Morris)
Credit: Ezra
* Couldn't go anywhere without many stops to greet people I hadn... |
368fe3be-e780-4fef-b780-e4ae3fdf8083 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | ""I wonder what pulls the boats," Luna said.
"Whatever pulls the horseless carriages must also pull the boats," a first year said.
"But…but…. You can SEE horses pulling the carriages and you CAN'T SEE anything pulling the boats." Luna said.
Luna's Failed Friendships Counter ticked up to four.
"They're called thestrals,... |
35cfad79-bfa4-4a7c-a701-4705ca71979d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Do Nothing" utility function, 3½ years later?
In AI Alignment: Why It's Hard and Where To Start, at 21:21, Yudkowsky says:
> If we want to have a robot that will let us press the suspend button—just suspend it to disk—we can suppose that we already have a utility function that describes: “Do nothing.” In point in fa... |
ecd81154-55a6-453e-88d5-f71342a37430 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | More GPT-2, the 'writer' of Unicorn AI - Computerphile
We're six paragraphs in and it knows about this point, I've covered the first sentence of this initial paragraph
now it's time to talk about this second sentence of the lead even more surprising to the researchers than the fact that they
spoke English and
it compl... |
566d49e3-80c5-460b-a541-20915cc122dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 'Meta', 'mesa', and mountains
Recently, in a conversation with a coworker, I was trying to describe the rate at which time passed subjectively, with a term that distinguished from the usual objective clock speed constrained only by general relativity and generic human psychology. I ended up saying "meta-rate". That bo... |
a8882c50-bda6-4ccf-8c48-14f9e6d35fdb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Against utility functions
I think we should stop talking about utility functions.
In the context of ethics for humans, anyway. In practice I find utility functions to be, at best, an occasionally useful metaphor for discussions about ethics but, at worst, an idea that some people start taking too seriously and which... |
ce20ae4c-3673-44d5-a8ff-c67184d3f3f3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | FHI Report: Stable Agreements in Turbulent Times
I have just published the linked Technical Report for the Center for the Governance of AI at the Future of Humanity Institute. I have reproduced the Introduction here:
Introduction
============
> This century, advanced artificial intelligence (“Advanced AI”) technolo... |
eeb47e90-4e5f-4b30-b3b5-9832179d9fcf | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Two Strange Facts
Here are two strange facts about matrices, which I can prove but not in a satisfying way.
1. If  and  are symmetric matrices satisfying . If you erase the answer, you're not supposed to ask the same ... |
8481db9b-ba38-4cb1-b7d9-139003f956b0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Once again, a reporter thinks our positions are the opposite of what they are
Perhaps the most accurate media coverage the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) has yet received was [a piece](http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/The-Singularity-in-Playboy.pdf) by legendary science author [... |
60f65f76-d2a5-4242-b081-47724db34093 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Responses to questions on donating to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS
Giles, and some others, have asked questions about donating to one or more of CEA’s sub-organisations. In what follows, I address these questions. I felt it would be clearest for me to mainly cluster questions under general headings, rather than address the... |
c7ee597f-5cd6-4ec6-982b-ec20bea61b6e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to prevent authoritarian revolts?
I was browsing reddit mindlessly when I saw this maybe ~10 posts down from the top of r/all, and I kind of snapped:
I am not a communist. I think violent communist revolt would result in, at the very least, a period of significant loss of life and economic destruction. Successful... |
2a404953-cc2e-4156-81df-927f6765afe4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Generalizing Experimental Results by Leveraging Knowledge of Mechanisms
In a recent post (and papers), Anders Huitfeldt and co-authors have discussed ways of achieving external validity in the presence of “effect heterogeneity.” These results are not immediately inferable using a standard (non-parametric) selection di... |
cd56d091-2708-46c6-971e-134366de7e5e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Feminism and Femininity
Is it feminist to wear lipstick? There are four possible views on the position that feminist thought should take with respect to expressions of conventional femininity in patriarchal societies:
* Expressing femininity is actively good
* Expressing femininity is actively bad
* Women should ... |
e30b9d93-94be-460d-85d0-49fa260fa777 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to be skeptical
Community
The Center For Applied Rationality (CFAR) checklist is a heuristic for assessing the admissibility of one's own testimony.
What of the challenge of evaluating the testimony of others?
Slapping the label of a bias on a situation?
Arguing at the object level by provision of evidence to ... |
34e50f19-b5c2-4a44-afc3-4cc521e86c82 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On "Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths"
Gordon Seidoh Worley
Hey, alkjash! I'm excited to talk about some of David Chapman's work with you. Full disclosure, I'm a big fan of Chapman's in general and also a creator within the meta/post-rationality scene with him (to use some jargon to be introduced very shortly).
You mention... |
2c529c8e-2ba3-45fe-87c7-ddef6e5d3326 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread, Apr. 06 - Apr. 12, 2015
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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Notes for future OT posters:
1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.
2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately... |
4c2db330-86f0-41fe-8a25-93cb487911df | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Unjournal: Evaluations of "Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth", and new hosting space
New set of evaluations
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The Unjournal evaluations of [**Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth**](http://www.nber.org/chapters/c14015), by prominent economists Philippe Aghion, Benjamin F. Jones, ... |
415ee228-fbcc-4db9-8bb1-001df259dd2d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Long-Term Future Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations
Introduction
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Since November, we’ve made **27 grants worth a total of $1,650,795** (with the expectation that we will get up to $220,000 back), reserved $26,500 for possible later spending, and referred two grants worth a total of $120,000 to private ... |
0ff7ac31-0784-4425-b710-8d0665094bee | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens
In recent years, significant performance gains in autoregressive language modeling have been achieved by increasing the number of parameters in Transformer models. This has led to a tremendous increase in training energy cost and resulted in a generation... |
5f05b9dd-77ac-47c4-a8ef-fd5a15bd7d68 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Vancouver rationality practice case: Evaluating Transhumanism
Discussion article for the meetup : Vancouver rationality practice case: Evaluating Transhumanism
WHEN: 26 January 2013 01:00:00PM (-0800)
WHERE: 2505 W broadway, vancouver
Last week, someone brought up the question of whether transhumanism was ... |
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