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c477b5b4-ca9c-4a69-bcee-438d24709ac5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | a guess at my intrinsic values
a guess at my intrinsic values
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here's a short list of my [intrinsic values](what-is-value.html), to the best of my ability to guess using [my method for figuring out what they are](core-vals-exist-selfdet.html):
* **freedom/self-determination** ([with t... |
e166b1c9-29a7-4614-9941-9d068dce205a | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post3194
I've argued that many methods of AI control - corrigibility, amplification and distillation, low impact, etc... - require a partial definition of human preferences to make sense. One idea I've heard for low impact is that of reversibility - asking how hard it is to move the situation back to its original ... |
c8b75656-47a9-49f9-9f4b-abcaec762dec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Selfhood bias
Related: The Blue-Minimizing Robot , Metaethics
Another good article by Federico on his blog studiolo, which he titles Selfhood bias. It reminds me quite strongly of some of the content he produced on his previous (deleted) blog, I'm somewhat sceptical that “Make everyone feel more pleasure and l... |
ae4503db-0aea-4cc1-ab26-c84da9101beb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Competent Elites
Today's post, Competent Elites was originally published on 27 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> People in higher levels of business, science, etc, often really are there because they're significantly more competent than everyone else.
Discuss the post here (rather... |
1c8f5b14-2ac4-49f9-8001-a1c94c7f4969 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Less Wrong Dublin
Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong Dublin
WHEN: 19 January 2013 04:30:59PM (+0000)
WHERE: 28 Dame St Dublin, Co. Dublin
Martin O'Dea would like to talk about his ideas on the Open Ireland Party. Other topics and all welcome. Provisionally I would suggest The Mercantile on Dame... |
7f583bc7-3608-4599-8c2e-558b1b963775 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | How will internet forums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?
GPT-3 seems to be skilled enough to write forum comments that aren't easy to identify as spam. While OpenAI reduces the access to it's API it will likely don't take that long till other companies develop similar API's that are more freely avail... |
13fcceb5-70b8-4a85-b4d9-68e6f1c65505 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is there a flaw in the simulation argument?
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the following "refutation" of the simulation argument? (I know this is a bit long -- my apologies! I also posted an earlier draft several months ago and got some excellent feedback. I don't see a flaw, but perhaps I'm missing something!)
... |
be60692b-c0b7-4e2f-81c9-e8d901b1db97 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Taking Occam Seriously
Paul Almond's site has many philosophically deep articles on theoretical rationality along LessWrongish assumptions, including but not limited to some great atheology, an attempt to solve the problem of arbitrary UTM choice, a possible anthropic explanation why space is 3D, a thorough defense of... |
f690e94f-01eb-43a6-937b-a86072539d5e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ritual Report: Schelling Day
On Sunday, April 14th, the Boston group held our first Schelling Day celebration. The idea was to open up and share our private selves. It was a rousing success.
That doesn't do it justice. Let me try again.
By all the stars, you guys. This was beautiful.
About fifteen peopl... |
bb906394-6510-4790-965c-95d015dd4bb3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Power to Understand "God"
This is Part VI of the Specificity Sequence
“God” is a classic case of something that people should be more specific about. Today’s average college-educated person talking about God sounds like this:
> Liron: Do you believe in God?
> Stephanie: Yeah, I’d say I believe in God, in some s... |
bcef9373-ce5e-4289-8917-8ca9e78daf00 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | ALLFED emergency appeal: Help us raise $800,000 to avoid cutting half of programs
SUMMARY:
ALLFED is making an emergency appeal here due to a serious funding shortfall. Without new support, ALLFED will be forced to cut half our budget in the coming months, drastically reducing our capacity to help build global fo... |
ec15155d-339e-40f1-9cf4-4a9784df379b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is it just me, or has Less Wrong been slow or broken quite often in the past few days?
And is there a way to answer this question automatically, akin to downforeveryoneorjustme.com? |
5e3e98e2-5f82-4dd7-a749-24b6871f282e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Musings of a Layman: Technology, AI, and the Human Condition
The following represents broad and general thoughts on the advancement of technology and development of artificial intelligence. My thoughts on these matters are in their infancy, non-exhaustive, and should not be taken as commentary on the veracity or plaus... |
e6953759-aa0a-422f-8deb-ef3ecdf59906 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Highlights from the ICLR conference: food, ships, and ML security
It’s been an eventful few days at ICLR in the coastal town of Toulon in Southern France, after a pleasant train ride from London with a stopover in Paris for some sightseeing. There was more food than is usually provided at conferences, and I ended up a... |
1416edde-f6a6-4da6-a7a3-37b31d731895 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Measuring and avoiding side effects using relative reachability
A major challenge in AI safety is reliably specifying human preferences to AI systems. An incorrect or incomplete specification of the objective can result in undesirable behavior like [specification gaming](https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/spec... |
b687e02d-3432-46b3-8c4c-7d95640e78c4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How the veil of ignorance grounds sentientism
Epistemic status: Intuition pump/map for navigating ethics
Introduction
In this essay, I argue that John Rawls’ veil of ignorance is not merely a philosophical thought experiment, but a useful and mostly accurate description of reality when viewed through certain theorie... |
1a6c895d-e3ff-47c9-881a-4f1076b58643 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Feed: Last Month's Best Posts
I write a daily rational feed. I write up summaries/teasers for the previous day's article that I found interesting and/or enjoyable. I follow most rationalist blogs as well as LW2.0 and the EA Forum on RSS. The daily feed is posted in the SSC Discord and on my Wordpress Blog ... |
d03e0155-25fb-4f3f-aee2-ded961d687b9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Quantum Russian Roulette
The quantum Russian roulette is a game where 16 people participate. Each of them gets a unique four digit binary code assigned and deposits $50000. They are put to deep sleep using some drug. The organizer flips a quantum coin four times. Unlike in Russian roulette, here only the participant s... |
7a3583c3-5a5d-430b-a818-a8ad6628a1bd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Partial Simulation Extrapolation: A Proposal for Building Safer Simulators
**Introduction**
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This document outlines a proposal for building safer simulators/predictive models, hereafter ‘Partial Simulation Extrapolation’ (PSE). Without requiring Nice Things like flawless interpretability tools or undi... |
099cd6a3-051f-4fc8-be49-23f2099c3798 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why would info worsen altruistic options?
One might expect that a simple estimation would be equally likely to overestimate or underestimate the true value of interest. For instance, a back of the envelope calculation of the number of pet shops in New York City seems as likely to be too high as too low.
Apparently th... |
ed80dbb6-72ce-4fb8-b135-4dddb0823a1d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Bring Back Free-Flow Valves
Over the past ~30y, manufacturers of small inflatables have switched to non-reflow valves. They should switch back to free-flow ones.
Here's what I'm talking about:
See that little line on the valve, on the inside of the ball? In a resting position it's closed. If you squeeze it or bite... |
fa51d547-bf3c-4d91-b99f-76a2b59e2d1f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Denver Area LW June Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Denver Area LW June Meetup
WHEN: 06 June 2017 07:00:00PM (-0600)
WHERE: 4955 South Ulster Street #103, Denver, CO
Casual Meetup in the back room of Darcy's Pub or outside, if the weather is nice and we can have the space. You can find us by ask... |
c7e3d4ab-b243-4055-b709-1e0b2b4a503a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Formal Metaethics and Metasemantics for AI Alignment
A Brief Introduction to MetaEthical.AI
tl;dr: AIXI for Friendliness
[Crossposted from my new blog.]
Abstract: We construct a fully technical ethical goal function for AI by directly tackling the philosophical problems of metaethics and mental content. To simpl... |
12bbc07a-2749-4082-bbdc-14c8751ee3f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Experiment: Be my math tutor?
I'm a CS student at a top university who takes AI x-risk incredibly seriously. While university has given me a lot of fun opportunities to grow, I am not entirely satisfied with the rate at which my skill is improving.
If I want to stop human extinction, I'll need to [go faster](https:/... |
951112b2-8f32-48d6-9db8-4e54af962b2b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [AN #127]: Rethinking agency: Cartesian frames as a formalization of ways to carve up the world into an agent and its environment
Alignment Newsletter is a weekly publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment around the world. Find all Alignment Newsletter resources here. In particular, you can look through... |
7dac9d4b-dc37-4182-a922-f436777d84ee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Autoexperiments
Over the next year I want to try some low-intensity daily experiments to see if they have noticeable and positive effects: Things like cold showers, a gratitude journal, cutting sugar, etc. My working plan is to do one per month for a two-week stretch, to use the other two weeks of the month as the clo... |
99803322-ddc7-47c2-9bf6-cb8932264d21 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dissenting Views
Occasionally, concerns have been expressed from within Less Wrong that the community is too homogeneous. Certainly the observation of homogeneity is true to the extent that the community shares common views that are minority views in the general population.
Maintaining a High Signal to Noise Ratio
T... |
51b98d31-a691-4d13-88cb-1d1fce5f2ba2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Dorset, Ohio
This summary was posted to LW main on August 24th, and has been moved to discussion.
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* Dorset Meetup: 29 August 2012 02:00PM
* Paris Meetup: 01 September 2012 02:00PM
* Berlin Meetup: 04 September 2012 07:30PM
... |
7ae59a70-40e2-4963-9a80-e8aceafed832 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 10. The alignment problem
*Part of the*[*“Intro to brain-like-AGI safety” post series*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/HzcM2dkCq7fwXBej8)*.*
10.1 Post summary / Table of contents
=====================================
In this post, I discuss the alignment problem for brain-like AGIs... |
400d9c98-6246-4b5c-8659-d965524d2af7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | On AutoGPT
The primary talk of the AI world recently is about AI agents (whether or not it includes the question of whether we can’t help but notice we are all going to die.)
The trigger for this was [AutoGPT](https://github.com/Torantulino/Auto-GPT), now number one on GitHub, which allows you to turn GPT-4 (or GPT-... |
27a0e967-8ae9-494a-bb3f-4afae0640c12 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | SlateStarCodex Meetups Everywhere: Analysis
The first round of SlateStarCodex meetups took place from April 4th through May 20th, 2017 in 65 cities, in 16 countries around the world. Of the 69 cities originally listed as having 10 or more people interested, 9 did not hold meetups, and 5 cities that were not on the ori... |
dae54bb9-ca55-4a69-9681-1608c12d2e68 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | [Cause Exploration Prizes] Expanding communication about AGI risks
*This essay was submitted to Open Philanthropy's*[*Cause Exploration Prizes*](https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/cause-exploration-prizes/)*contest (before the deadline). We are uploading some back entries late, but all good-faith entries were c... |
f4c9aea8-b5fe-4d25-8c32-ac5f2a27a5f2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Denver Area LW December Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Denver Area LW December Meetup
WHEN: 06 December 2016 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: Darcy's Pub 4955 S Ulster St Ste 103, Denver, Colorado 80237
Assuming winter doesn't hit us hard and ruin the roads. In the back room if we can get it. There'll... |
3760ec54-63a8-49fd-9e24-4c91a4faaa16 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why Recent Protein Folding Advancements Should Change Your Personal Health Strategy
I'm not a sports person, but anybody can appreciate the wisdom in Gretzky's famous quote "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."
Based on my current age of 47, as well as actuarial tables for US males, I ... |
5605076a-2843-4e49-9f86-f02cdedf8975 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Exploring Finite Factored Sets with some toy examples
Seeing as there is little secondary literature for the [Finite Factored Set](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N5Jm6Nj4HkNKySA5Z/finite-factored-sets) formalism, I thought I’d write up my experience of exploring it through some toy examples that are classic examples ... |
cedbfa70-22a1-4168-858d-4cd53516ad88 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Review: Artifact
Epistemic Status: Alpha tester
Bottom Line: If you are willing to devote the time and attention to a deep strategic game, Artifact will reward you handsomely. I highly recommended those who like such experiences to make the time. If you are not willing to devote the time and attention, you will likel... |
e0854d8b-5a4d-4c93-a4a1-2359b90e2d25 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | ruling out intuitions about materially acausal things
ruling out intuitions about materially acausal things
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i have an intuition — *not just*, and *preceeding*, a reasoned belief — that i have a weird consciousness-observer-soul-thing. i also have an intuition tha... |
7ead4990-ff40-4dff-acea-c5bee35c4709 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Equilibrium of No Free Energy
Follow-up to: Inadequacy and Modesty
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I am now going to introduce some concepts that lack established names in the economics literature—though I don’t believe that any of the basic ideas are new to economics.
First, I want to distinguish betwe... |
ff872c80-25f5-4106-a57c-dfc9fb4f0d4a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Structure of Professional Revolutions
An expert is not merely someone who has memorized data but someone who has internalized the structure of knowledge itself. This is why we call them PhDs—Doctors of Philosophy. Their expertise extends beyond isolated facts to the organizing principles that connect those facts, ... |
af7d970e-b7d5-436c-ab0b-d04fd3800b1f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | A plea for solutionism on AI safety
*[Note for LW: This essay was written mostly for people who are inclined to downplay or dismiss AI risk, which means it has almost no intersection with this audience. Cross-posting it here anyway for feedback and in case you want to point anyone to it.]*
Will AI kill us all?
This ... |
9c96326b-aa5b-493a-a683-595964f60a79 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Cambridge, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Vancouver
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* Philadelphia Meetup: Introduction to drawing: 05 May 2012 02:00PM
* Vancouver Fake Utility Meetup: 06 May 2012 01:00PM
* Washington DC meetup: 13 May 2012 03:00PM
* Brussels meet... |
49df8118-6ba6-4cdb-84dd-67e010803ab3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to deal with fear of failure?
LW has a lot of advice on how to do more things, how to do them better, how to set goals, etc., and I often spend ages reading those, because I’ve been noticing that my life goals are unclear, that I’m not often strategic, and that my productivity clearly could use some improving.
An... |
ecd9ecae-c86c-41bd-9ddc-6ef7c4d9ff0d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | A problem with Timeless Decision Theory (TDT)
According to [Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory](/lw/15z/ingredients_of_timeless_decision_theory/ "Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory"), when you set up a factored causal graph for TDT, "You treat your choice as determining the result of the logical computation,... |
089f8310-3125-4284-8a63-8f32dbb259e2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Implementing Decision Theory
I'm implementing decision theory, in Python. There are three parts to this:
1. An XML language for formally specifying decision theory dilemmas. It can express many dilemmas: Newcomb, Transparent Newcomb, Parfit's Hitchhiker, Death in Damascus, Smoking Lesion, Cosmic Ray, symmetric Priso... |
d72076d3-279c-4b18-bcf0-b658f5b7ee5e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Intriguing properties of neural networks
1 Introduction
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Deep neural networks are powerful learning models that achieve
excellent performance on visual and speech recognition problems
[[9](#bib.bib9), [8](#bib.bib8)].
Neural networks achieve high performance because they can express
arbitrary computa... |
2d0a5e72-3242-4178-9ffc-cd37c4a71443 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Intelligence Explosion analysis draft: From digital intelligence to intelligence explosion
Again, I invite your feedback on this snippet from an [intelligence explosion analysis](/r/discussion/lw/8et/toward_an_overview_analysis_of_intelligence/) Anna Salamon and myself have been working on. This section is less comple... |
2bad01f4-42ca-4674-858d-458749e605e4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What Games These Days?
While I used to play a lot of board games, this is something I've had less time for since having kids. Last week my extended family got together for a vacation, however, which meant a lot more time for gaming! Thinking back, here's what I played over the week, in roughly descending order of time... |
eac2c171-4945-4681-aca5-9ff8a18bf08b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Dealing with Emotional Vampires
Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup (Tel Aviv): Dealing with Emotional Vampires
WHEN: 17 October 2013 08:00:00PM (+0300)
WHERE: 7 Menachem Begin st., Ramat-Gan
We're going to have a meetup on Thursday, October 17t... |
f24ee4ba-6bf8-4e0f-9323-455a330bf4fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk
From this afternoon: here
Our previous recorded discussions are here. |
55425c8f-3b89-42b9-bfaa-d693dfb00e7e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Discrimination Requirements: A Regulatory Review
This article is the fifth in a series of ~10 posts comprising a 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape Review, conducted by the Governance Recommendations Research Program at Convergence Analysis. Each post will cover a specific domain of AI governance (e.g. incid... |
7bf17f37-48e2-4ea7-b5c1-384fce49529c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to write better?
As you will probably have noticed before the end of this question, I’m a relatively mediocre writer. I mean, I’m not that bad, I know a lot of people who are worse at it than I am, but I still often notice a pattern in basically everything I write: exceedingly long and complex sentences, giving ma... |
84dbfa28-0c91-4ef7-bc8a-87266863cf3f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Want to have a CFAR instructor visit your LW group?
Cat, who has volunteered extensively at CFAR (and taught at CFAR), will be visiting many cities in Europe over the coming months.
She is awesome.
Also, the list of cities that she is visiting will probably be determined in the next few days.
If you'd like to hav... |
a23d5518-e27b-47d4-8360-11d7256136cd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Modal combat
Modal combat is a way of studying the special case of the [one-shot prisoner's dilemma](https://arbital.com/p/5py) in which the players are programs which have read access to each other source code. There is a class of such agents, defined by expressions in modal logic, which can do general provability re... |
5f7eec32-5db1-40ed-9fd1-e95986383349 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong |
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8336d3ec-c710-4296-9a93-4bb933a6ad7f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Ethics of brain emulations
Introduction Whole brain emulation (WBE) is an approach to achieve software intelligence by copying the functional structure of biological nervous systems into software. Rather than attempting to understand the high-level processes underlying perception, action, emotions and intelligence, th... |
a31f1c16-b45c-4f81-929c-5a099fcdfc2b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems"
Google DeepMind reports on a system for solving mathematical problems that allegedly is able to give complete solutions to four of the six problems on the 2024 IMO, putting it near the top of the silver-medal category.
Well, actu... |
9ff2e93e-771e-494f-9925-4c5efe037c07 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Logical Inductors Converge to Correlated Equilibria (Kinda)
Logical inductors of "similar strength", playing against each other in a repeated game, will converge to correlated equilibria of the one-shot game, for the same reason that players that react to the past plays of their opponent converge to correlated equilib... |
8cd66a14-cda6-4852-860a-cb6616dd6a0f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Simple and composite partial preferences
Partial preferences are preferences that exist within a human's internal model, eg "this painting is better than that one", "I don't like getting punched", "that was embarrassing", "I'd prefer to fund this charity than that one", and so on.
In order to elicit these partial pre... |
cf7c5a92-683a-4004-90cb-723e2dc0779c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Historical Notes on Charitable Funds
In the EA movement people will sometimes talk about charitable funds as if they are a new idea. For example, the recent Giving What We Can post " why we recommend using expert-led charitable funds" ( forum discussion) opens with:
> Funds are a relatively new way for donors to co... |
49361b53-2910-404f-a934-247608f8aeff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Four levels of understanding decision theory
[Update 2023-06-09: See this comment for some caveats / motivations / context about this post.]
There are multiple levels on which an agent can understand and implement a particular decision theory. This post describes a taxonomy of understanding required for robust cooper... |
38d869b8-58f6-4a54-8d06-c26d59598c5b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Core of the Alignment Problem is...
Produced As Part Of The SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program 2022 Under John Wentworth
Introduction
When trying to tackle a hard problem, a generally effective opening tactic is to Hold Off On Proposing Solutions: to fully discuss a problem and the different facets and a... |
6d12bdee-d3ea-49ce-afa3-a15bae7e5093 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders
Produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Summer 2024 Cohort
0. Summary
To recover all the relevant features from a superintelligent language model, we will likely need to scale sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to billions of features. Us... |
9803cac8-49d1-4324-a905-0af9c19b331e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What Actually Matters Until We Reach the Singularity
TL;DR
1. AI’s capabilities are growing exponentially, possibly 1,000,000× in 10 years.
2. Learn enough coding to harness AI; let it automate heavy lifting.
3. Master conceptual math so you’re not clueless about AI’s advanced reasoning.
4. Broaden your knowledge... |
4268927b-d4e9-45e7-8468-96a6257b0928 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notes on Industriousness
This post examines the virtue of industry (a.k.a. “assiduity,” “enterprise,” “industriousness,” or “productivity”). It explores what others have learned about this virtue, more than my own opinions about it, though I’ve been selective about what I found interesting or credible, according to my... |
5c55b7dc-990f-43d1-8dd1-e2ce8fc66b90 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Stuart Armstrong – Reduced Impact AI and Other Alternatives to Friendliness – CSRBAI 2016
good morning and welcome back to the
Pokemon quilting series and robust and
finish beneficial artificial
intelligence I think be magical Victoire
our first speaker today is is Stewart
Armstrong and Alexander Tomasz fellow at
the ... |
1ad92761-9ad7-4974-b877-591d5abde4b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | November 2017 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out th... |
cba21fe3-e1ee-432f-8d1c-0db901a190dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Atlanta, Austin, Moscow, Ottawa, Vancouver
This summary was posted to LW main on May 10th. The following week's summary is here.
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* London Special Guests: Jaan Tallinn and Michael Vassar of MetaMed : 11 May 2013 01:00PM
* Vancouver M... |
db045394-d80f-4039-a214-6b430acf6f83 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | EA, Psychology & AI Safety Research
Given the enormous role, and immeasurable impact, the field of Psychology has played in the invention and development of Artificial Intelligence, I’m surprised at how little conversation there is about Psychology, and its related sub-disciplines.
So, to rectify that, I thought it m... |
b439d440-5ee8-4aa8-a80f-31342e9ea8f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Daisy-chaining epsilon-step verifiers
Question regarding an alignment problem: one of the key difficulties in alignment is (said by Eliezer Yudkowsky to be) that if "the verifier is broken" (i.e. the human verifier measuring alignment can be fooled by the alien actress) then we cannot be sure that a given alignment ev... |
057333b8-d1e7-4fd0-9f3a-fee1f6256e41 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?
Non-coercive motivation is a motivation system that doesn't rely on forcing yourself, pressuring yourself, shaming or guilting (I explain more of what it means here).
Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?
I sort of want to... |
76ba6080-1e84-48e9-bbac-7dd82beaff0f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | RFC: a tool to create a ranked list of projects in explainable AI
TL; DR
Inspired by a recent post by Neel Nanda on Research Directions, I'm building a tool that extracts projects from ICLR 2025 and uses tournament-like ranking of them based on how impactful they are. You can see them here https://openreview-copilot.e... |
3b18ec10-0499-4709-af64-e22b5f87488c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Book review)
Book review: Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Paul Scharre.
Four Battlegrounds is often a thoughtful, competently written book on an important topic. It is likely the least pleasant, and most frustrating, ... |
8b4142c0-2679-4704-9cc1-82311210a8ad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How many micromorts do you get per UV-index-hour?
I'm trying to get a good estimate of the risks associated with sun exposure.
I'm assuming things scale linearly (the UV index units, which need a name ("UVees"?) are linear).
This may not be a good assumption, but it seems somewhat likely that it would be within the ... |
739fff10-6bb7-4dba-9730-ee4f5c928cd7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Contra Alexander on the Bitter Lesson and IQ
A recent post from Scott Alexander argues in favor of treating intelligence as a coherent and somewhat monolithic concept. Especially when thinking about ML, the post says, it is useful to think of intelligence as a quite general faculty rather than a set of narrow abilitie... |
54742044-a707-4b12-8dfb-db183715a0da | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AIs should learn human preferences, not biases
A new paper by Rebecca Gorman and me, building on her ideas: The dangers in algorithms learning humans' values and irrationalities.
In essence, it is better for AIs at all power and alignment levels to learn human preferences (labelled as preferences) than to learn human... |
11deff6c-70ff-4dd7-adbe-5a9214c9749f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New LW Meetup: Zagreb
This summary was posted to LW Main on July 12th. The following week's summary is here.
New meetups (or meetups with a hiatus of more than a year) are happening in:
* Zagreb LW meetup: 13 July 2013 03:00PM
Other irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups are taking place in:
* Atlanta: Intro t... |
c1dc42fc-7f12-41e8-959e-ae50559c8a67 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Valence series] 4. Valence & Social Status (deprecated)
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UPDATE JUNE 2024: THIS POST IS DEPRECATED!!
THE NEW VERSION IS: Valence & Liking / Admiring
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4.1 Post summary / Table of contents
Part of the Valence series.
(UPDATE JAN 2024: I think this post has some issues, and is at best just a small piec... |
e9cf4161-5743-4eff-a965-e5c890b2722e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Formalizing Objections against Surrogate Goals
I recently had a chance to look into surrogate goals and safe Pareto improvements, two recent proposals for avoiding the realization of threats in multiagent scenarios. In this report, I formalize some objections to these proposals.
EDIT: by discussing objections to SG/S... |
28b755d7-52aa-497f-ab3d-c9bc59b75c3b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Welcome & FAQ!
The AI Alignment Forum was launched in 2018. Since then, several hundred researchers have contributed approximately two thousand posts and nine thousand comments. Nearing the third birthday of the Forum, we are publishing this updated and clarified FAQ.
Minimalist, watercolor sketch of humanity spreadi... |
0de2d638-d280-4121-9e3e-5060859ed109 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : London Science Museum, Aug. 31
Discussion article for the meetup : London Science Museum, Aug. 31
WHEN: 31 August 2011 06:30:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD
We have decided to try different meetup formats and the next 'Science Museum Lates' event for adults, on Wednesday 31st of August ... |
accb65e5-d132-4f9f-a655-4c7475fc07f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cartesian Boundary as Abstraction Boundary
Meta note: this post involves redefining several concepts in ways almost, but not quite, the same as their usual definitions - risking quite a bit of confusion. I'm open to suggestions for better names for things.
Intuition: a model of humans (or AIs, or other agenty things)... |
d84cff76-00ee-417e-8f8e-2090a1cf248f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meta learning to gradient hack
Summary:
I saw some posts (here, here, here and here) discussing whether a neural net can "protect" a subnet from modification by gradient descent. I directly investigate this possibility using meta learning to find a neural network initialization that
* Models the function f(x) = 1
... |
c5ac21a8-19b5-4011-bda8-b4d4b6a4be58 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Slaying the Hydra: toward a new game board for AI
AI Timelines as a Hydra
Think of current timelines as a giant hydra. You can’t exactly see where the head is, and you don’t know exactly if you’re on the neck of the beast or the body. But you do have some sense of what a hydra is, and the difficulty of what you’re in ... |
31c29e4e-1887-4ea9-9bf6-5d8b6b6cf0a6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | GPT-4 is easily controlled/exploited with tricky decision theoretic dilemmas.
**TL;DR: GPT-4 can fall for every decision theoretic adversary and control mechanism discussed in** [**this paper**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05418) **except for a couple which it fails to understand in the first place.**
This post is ... |
6157bd92-bd3c-4095-b2a3-0bb50be919a9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Safely controlling the AGI agent reward function
*In this fifth post in the sequence, I show
the construction a counterfactual planning agent with an
input terminal that can be used to iteratively improve the agent's
reward function while it runs.*
*The goal is to construct an agent which has has no direct incentive... |
0bb0e4a6-cfdf-462c-a7ed-f4f15172bbe3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deceptive Alignment and Homuncularity
NB this dialogue occurred at the very end of 2023, and for various reasons is only being published ~a year later! Keep this in mind while reading.
Key topics covered
* consistent NN-internal deceptive planning (search: goblin, fae, homunc, inner)
* making AI/agents from founda... |
7b515618-92c2-4193-a23d-0a718a7a84b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Short Summary of "Focus Your Uncertainty"
The first piece in the Noticing Confusion Sequence frames the reader as a novice pundit that wants to do good punditry with minimal effort. The fictional reader-as-novice-pundit quickly surmises that there's no math to leverage to estimate which outcomes are likely to occur:... |
46a67528-81d2-4590-a779-1d755d16500f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The (partial) fallacy of dumb superintelligence
In[her opening statement for the Munk debate on AI risk,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skRgYH7oAjc) Melanie Mitchell addressed a proposed example of AGI risk: an AGI tasked with fixing climate change might decide to eliminate humans as the source of carbon emissions. ... |
4f6c613f-a11d-477a-8142-e5846951c3a8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Prisoner's Dilemma? Not So Much
Hannes Rusch argues that the Prisoner's Dilemma is best understood as merely one game of very many:
> only 2 of the 726 combinatorially possible strategically unique ordinal 2x2 games have the detrimental characteristics of a PD and that the frequency of PD-type games in a space... |
370edff5-8823-4705-ad99-a32df0419f19 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Discovering Agents
Work done with Ramana Kumar, Sebastian Farquhar (Oxford), Jonathan Richens, Matt MacDermott (Imperial) and Tom Everitt.
Our DeepMind Alignment team researches ways to avoid AGI systems that knowingly act against the wishes of their designers. We’re particularly concerned about agents which may be p... |
bca00f0a-5fa9-44ab-ac9a-72d7bbfb5ae3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Quantum Advantage in Learning from Experiments
For certain types of problems, quantum computing can provide an exponential speedup for ML algorithms. This is now being tested on actual QC hardware.
This strikes me as particularly concerning for hard take-off scenarios. It's a possible way to train dramatically larg... |
0244721f-4620-411c-aabb-7f9a2fb930a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I
We have a Facebook group for kid stuff, because if we post a mixture of kid things and other stuff FB's algorithm gets very confused about who to show our posts to. While my annual pictures posts mostly cover the visual side, the text posts are only on FB and I don't like that. S... |
78d04062-a1bf-4e12-ac6c-b084898a8fb0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Introducing CADIE
Apparently there is no need to worry about the topic that must not be named anymore, for Google has taken care of everything. Behold the dawning of a new age!
Introducing CADIE
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7151dbe6-2653-4c45-a1f0-e15093bceb6c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK, TED video] Kathryn Schulz on Being Wrong
http://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong.html
Kathryn Schulz is a self-identified "Wrongologist" (in fact, @wrongologist is her user name on Twitter). She has written a popular book ("Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error", web site) and also wri... |
d4fe09ed-0448-410f-96e2-ea580e901544 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | MIRI's "Death with Dignity" in 60 seconds.
Suppose that, like Yudkowsky, you really care about humanity surviving this century but you think that nothing you can do has a decent chance of achieving that.
It's an unfortunate fact of human psychology that, when faced with this kind of situation, people will often do no... |
85c4d7c4-6b74-4b43-ba1f-35d599384f34 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Saint Petersburg. Why rationality?
Discussion article for the meetup : Saint Petersburg. Why rationality?
WHEN: 10 November 2013 04:00:00PM (+0400)
WHERE: Санкт-Петербург, м. Технологический Институт, ул.1-я Красноармейская, дом 15
From 16:00 till 21:30. We will be located in cafe "PMG" - for detailed desc... |
9618f25f-43d1-46f0-b8ad-d32b2f4b0eb7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notes on Gracefulness
This post examines the virtues of gracefulness, poise, composure, savoir-faire and other things in that bailiwick. As with my other posts in this sequence, I’m less interested in breaking new ground and more in gathering and synthesizing whatever wisdom I could find on the subject. I wrote this n... |
be1d6b08-0413-428b-9b67-8ec726c6e18d | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post1838
Summary / Preamble In AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities , Eliezer writes “A cognitive system with sufficiently high cognitive powers, given any medium-bandwidth channel of causal influence , will not find it difficult to bootstrap to overpowering capabilities independent of human infrastructure.” I have lar... |
c121f0bf-f1cd-4a19-84ec-4fb31cc3de06 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | A descriptive, not prescriptive, overview of current AI Alignment Research
*TL;DR: In this project, we collected and cataloged AI alignment research literature and analyzed the resulting dataset in an unbiased way to identify major research directions. We found that the field is growing quickly, with several subfields... |
7ca6bd3b-d1c9-456e-9dcb-1a905f8a4535 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Low legibility of Cognitive Reflection Test dramatically improves performance?
I'm reading Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and I've stopped on this:
> 90% of the students who saw the CRT in normal font made at least one mistake in the test, but the proportion dropped to 35% when the font was barely legible. You re... |
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