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5de3af98-fb2c-4a25-8fdf-b748c3b11a1f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Learning enhancement using "transcranial direct current stimulation"
Article here;
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/science_blog/brainboosting.html
> Recent research in Oxford and elsewhere has shown that one type of brain stimulation in particular, called transcranial direct current stimulation or TDCS, can be used... |
ca3c2d47-ee20-4cc7-9840-574ee0b61227 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | February gwern.net newsletter
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ec47efe8-ac7f-4455-b4d7-df624659ecde | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty on Less Wrong
Tl;dr: Articles on LW are, if unchecked (for now by you), heavily distorting a useful view (yours) on what matters.
[This is (though in part only) a five-year update to Patrissimo’s article Self-Improvement or Shiny Distraction: Why Less Wrong is anti-Instru... |
65f288aa-f60f-46a4-b1c9-1535c9ca823d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nothing wastes resources like saving them
Imagine you find yourself in possession of a diamond mine. However you don’t like diamonds very much; you think they are vastly overvalued compared to important resources such as soil. You are horrified that people waste good soil in their front gardens where they are growing ... |
84e520a3-cc9b-4b9e-836f-d8268535708a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Memory transmission in small groups and large networks: An empirical study.
https://doi.or g/10.3758/s13423-021-02021-9
BRIEFREPORT
Memorytransmissioninsmallgroupsandlargenetworks:An
empiricalstudy
VaelGates1·JordanW.Suchow2·ThomasL.Griffiths3
Accepted:26September2021
©ThePsychonomicSociety,Inc.2021
Abstract
When people... |
27ca593f-1ba3-40c4-920b-7b2f994cfafe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity
If I understand the Singularitarian argument espoused by many members of this community (eg. Muehlhauser and Salamon), it goes something like this:
1. Machine intelligence is getting smarter.
2. Once an intelligence becomes suffic... |
e818bb7f-c27a-481e-a706-60078b522320 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Soup design: Everyone likes it, but few know how
Soup design: Everyone likes it, but few know how
Everyone likes good design. But I think that people generally underestimate its importance. Most people don't know how to design, just like most people don't know how to cook.
Design blindness
The key point is that many... |
7bcca781-ed52-4175-acf7-bceb311ae0e3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Book Review: Who We Are and How We Got Here
It's rare to read a popular science book that's both factually accurate and engaging, but David Reich offers an excellent example of how to do that.
The book explores the newly emerging field of ancient DNA. Using techniques that are less than a decade old, we can now sequ... |
9d9bade8-b232-429b-9a91-55dce583147b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Breaking Newcomb's Problem with Non-Halting states
Note: I dug around quite a bit and haven't found anyone who previously discussed this, but if it's been talked about previously somewhere links would be appreciated.
Epistemic Status: Interesting Conjecture, I think my logic is all sound but please check me
I think I... |
272a1204-a7b5-45f4-8a5f-3c424d9ff0ea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Bielefeld, Montpellier, Vancouver
This summary was posted to LW Main on December 28th. The following week's summary is here.
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* Vancouver New Year!: 30 December 2012 01:00PM
* Bielefeld Meetup: 02 January 2013 07:00PM
* Montpellier:... |
14ae2b26-8c8b-4314-9fd0-c50610ebefe0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Keeping Capital is the Challenge
Capital will likely matter more post-AGI. However, the capital you have been able to raise up to this point and may be able to acquire throughout the maturation of AGI will only retain its value if reliable information remains available.
Historically, investing has been grounded in th... |
d50f4468-24f6-4161-9fe2-7f676e41a5c6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learning the foundations of math
I have recently become interested in the foundations of math. I am interested in tracing the fundamentals of math in a path such as: propositional logic -> first order logic -> set theory -> measure theory. Does anyone have any resources (books, webpages, pdfs etc.) they would like to ... |
d64d4442-292a-475f-ad51-62dd3292d607 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Ottawa LessWrong Weekly Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Ottawa LessWrong Weekly Meetup
WHEN: 28 July 2011 07:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Fox and Feather Pub, 283 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario
Venue: Fox and Feather, upstairs, usually in back room #1 when it's free. Look for the LW sign. New people al... |
25c863dd-7bc3-456c-9565-82268152eee7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - Skill Training Part 2
Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - Skill Training Part 2
WHEN: 12 April 2015 04:00:00PM (+1000)
WHERE: 272 Wyndham St, Alexandria
Since we didn't cover everything we could have, this month we'll be following up with a further look a... |
39dcc185-02f3-424b-9a1c-b63cb664be77 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread - Summer 2025
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. This is... |
0ade668a-24c5-40ce-b766-983a2b20f164 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "We (Zvi Mowshowitz and Vladimir Slepnev) are happy to announce the results of the third round of the AI Alignment Prize, funded by Paul Christiano. From April 15 to June 30 we received entries from 12 participants, and are awarding $10,000 to two winners.We are also announcing the fourth round of the prize, which will... |
de94befb-96d8-4f8a-80ea-86084219c75a | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post3311
Find all Alignment Newsletter resources here . In particular, you can sign up , or look through this spreadsheet of all summaries that have ever been in the newsletter. The newsletter now has exactly 1,000 subscribers! It's a perfect time to take the 3-minute survey if you haven't already -- just think of... |
d741ced0-2ad2-42b2-bf6b-b8eecfc97f39 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Duploish Marble Runs
As a kid, Legos were much more interesting than Duplos: at the smaller scale you could build much more complex things. Until Nora is older, however, we're back to Duplos. Julia recently got a set of Duplo-compatible marble run pieces [1], however, which have been a lot of fun. They stay together b... |
1e0bc81e-365c-4e2c-933b-89f77b72e3d5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Clarifying the Postmodernism Debate With Skeptical Modernism
One of the greatest challenges with attempting to discuss post-modernism is figuring out exactly what claims are being made. For a start, many of the figures typically associated with post-modernism didn't label themselves as post-modernist, so it isn't as u... |
e9d4098f-0335-432a-b424-384d87d3411f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Freedom and Privacy of Thought Architectures
I don't work in cyber security, so others will have to teach me.
I'm interested in the question of how AI systems can become private. How to make communications with an AI system as protected as the confessional. Some AI capabilities are throttled not for public interest r... |
3297b482-4fa5-47b8-95c9-8b1b2b0a2539 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Can we make Drake-like Fermi estimates of expected distance to the next planet with primitive, sentient or self-improving life?
I expect everyone here has an opinion on the Drake Equation. (Comment if I'm wrong.) And that's because it is an easy story to remember and spread. Never mind its glaring inadequacy or the sy... |
822599c8-92c6-4bf1-8b88-7d48f672abd6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Another treatment of Direct Instruction getting more into the technical details of the theory
[NOTE: This was a discussion post asking if anyone would mind giving feedback on a very rough draft in progress.
If you are downvoting it because you do not want to see discussion posts asking for feedback like this, then by... |
b0287d5f-25a1-451b-afd0-9daf90c7b409 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Example decision theory problem: "Agent simulates predictor"
Some people on LW have [expressed interest](/lw/5pf/what_were_losing/46mm) in what's happening on the [decision-theory-workshop](https://groups.google.com/group/decision-theory-workshop/) mailing list. Here's an example of the kind of work we're trying to do... |
0dc4f110-76a1-4f82-a878-c8feb886eb7e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Thought experiment
Meta-tag for thought experiments. |
1a454297-94ba-4c8f-888e-555cb27f394f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Harms and possibilities of schooling
To explore better possibilities for nurturing new minds, and to care about the problem in the first place, it helps to remember what's wrong with what we do to new minds. John Taylor Gatto speaks about this from experience and insight: Seven Lessons Taught in School, 1991
(If you'... |
74bcd0ed-11ea-41bb-bb14-3c1b51d70cc9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LifeKeeper Diaries: Exploring Misaligned AI Through Interactive Fiction
TL;DR
We built an interactive storytelling website to explain misaligned objectives to our moms and you should check it out.
Introduction
During a recent hackathon, we created an interactive narrative experience that illustrates a crucial concep... |
e910b23b-f5ac-4d68-a840-7ddabb224ffb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Fermi paradox of human past, and corresponding x-risks
Based on known archaeological data, we are the first technological and symbol-using civilisation on Earth (but not the first tool-using species).
This leads to an analogy that fits Fermi’s paradox: Why are we the first civilisation on Earth? For example, flight w... |
19417f2e-5cf3-4f3f-bc37-9c47f86c76de | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Microsoft Plans to Invest $10B in OpenAI; $3B Invested to Date | Fortune
Unpaywalled
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Excerpts
> If all goes according to OpenAI’s financial plans, Microsoft will close a $10 billion investment deal into the artificial intelligence startup before the end of this month,... |
12b76b64-ee7f-4660-8f83-16fb328d7f80 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | In Defense of Psycho-Conservatism
I'm experimenting in putting some of my rationality-adjacent posts on LessWrong. The Schelling place for comments is LessWrong.
Also, it seems like people prefer content mirroring over linkposts. Is there a standard way to do that or is it just copy-pasting? |
6516d08e-79ee-4a2b-bc4a-ec207f52e0cb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open thread, Mar. 2 - Mar. 8, 2015
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
----------------------------------------
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 b... |
284fb32d-356e-4802-a383-30fbd973d321 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Could we go another route with computers?
Computers now are mostly semiconductors doing logic operations. There are, of course, other parts, but they are mostly structural, not doing actual computation.
But imagine computer history took a different route: you could buy different units with different physics doing dif... |
ec6fe252-5d0d-4a02-a13a-76865471eeaf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Russian x-risks newsletter, summer 2019
This is the first Russian x-risks newsletter, which will present news about Russia and global catastrophic risks from the last 3 months.
Given the combination of high technological capabilities, poor management, high risk tolerance and attempts to catch up with West and China i... |
98a87347-49b6-4e21-82d0-7405ddd854bd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Loneliness
Loneliness is an inevitable part of the human condition, no matter your culture or set of relationships. You have to spend time alone. And sometimes, you'll spend time not only alone, but undistracted. The work is done for the day. You have no plans. There are no pressing errands or chores. You are not tire... |
aa87b73a-64eb-4839-a505-af001937436d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | November 2012 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. I find that exposure to LW ideas makes me less likely to enjoy some entertainment media that is otherwise quite popular, and finding media recommended by LWers is a good way to mitigate this. Post... |
5ede25e4-df65-4fba-a77a-f7c6ce653e3a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Official Less Wrong Redesign: View defaults for new users
Following along from Louie's post and the discussion around it…
How should new visitors to Lesswrong see posts and comments ordered and filtered? (Assume we'll address the new visitors should be introduced to the site issue.) These will remain settings that ar... |
783ceddf-179c-4563-89ae-b3b18735ccac | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Soares, Tallinn, and Yudkowsky discuss AGI cognition
This is a collection of follow-up discussions in the wake of Richard Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s first three conversations ([1 and 2](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7im8at9PmhbT4JHsW/ngo-and-yudkowsky-on-alignment-difficulty), [3](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hw... |
32dc821f-f8d4-42bb-9b52-9263041c68c1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Project idea: an iterated prisoner's dilemma competition/game
Epistemic effort: mostly just thinking out loud. I spend a few dozen minutes thinking about this myself, and then decided to write this up.
After watching this video by Veritasium about game theory I am wondering whether more people having an understanding... |
9298dccc-9007-41c9-9f56-7074d7170f95 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Impact of India-Pakistan nuclear war on x-risk?
Last month I was involved in a conversation thread about what the impact of a hypothetical nuclear war would be on existential risk.
There are many potential nuclear war scenarios which would have varying impacts on existential risk. It's difficult to know where to star... |
46c3b9f5-56ac-4aee-96a4-2e80812eaca2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Don't read news
A lot of people have written about the toxicity of news. This idea, that reading news is something to be avoided, might not be new to you. But today might be a great day for a reminder. I needed a reminder, because I'm tempted... very temped.
I could make the case again, that avoiding news is the thin... |
bd88396e-02cc-43ec-81f0-7f71a824ccf2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Catastrophe Mitigation Using DRL
Previously we derived a regret bound for DRL which assumed the advisor is "locally sane." Such an advisor can only take actions that don't lose any value in the long term. In particular, if the environment contains a latent catastrophe that manifests with a certain rate (such as the po... |
fdd80268-ff71-4c6c-a0c0-bf46048c0c88 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Newcomb's Problem vs. One-Shot Prisoner's Dilemma
Continuation of: http://lesswrong.com/lw/7/kinnairds_truels/i7#comments
Eliezer has convinced me to one-box Newcomb's problem, but I'm not ready to Cooperate in one-shot PD yet. In http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/iterated-tpd.html?cid=129270958#comment-129270958... |
e883d657-c092-4734-844e-3a5f69981b53 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Programmer deception
[Programmer](https://arbital.com/p/9r) deception is when the AI's decision process leads it to optimize for an instrumental goal of causing the programmers to have false beliefs. For example, if the programmers [intended](https://arbital.com/p/6h) to create a [happiness maximizer](https://arbital... |
e273433a-9eb2-4044-b76d-e137566df266 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Cynic Wasps in the Beehive
This essay uses the decentralized nature of beehives as a launching point to explore how language shapes our understanding of systems and power structures. It contrasts the popular misconception of the "Queen Bee" as a central commander with the reality of decentralized chemical communic... |
c9055e9e-5dc4-4cb9-a054-7579bbfdb562 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Socially Graceful Degradation
Prerequisites: Graceful Degradation. Summary of that: Some skills require the entire skill to be correctly used together, and do not degrade well. Other skills still work if you only remember pieces of it, and do degrade well.
Summary of this: The property of graceful degradation is esp... |
e7ed9cd1-336b-4fab-8fcc-ae552e91a8d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Weekly Berkeley Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Weekly Berkeley Meetup
WHEN: 13 July 2011 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 2128 Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
We will meet at the usual Oxford and Center St Starbucks, and depart for a nearby restaurant at 7:20. Feel free to give me a call at 952.217.... |
22fb124d-d933-4476-a3cd-05be780ac413 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs PS3 Review
Growing up we didn't have a video game system and I've never played very much, but a friend found that working from home was not compatible to having their PS3 around, so now we have theirs. I was looking for games at a good level for our kids ( Lily, just turned six, and A... |
9ceb00bb-c48e-4c56-9b1c-d0db4a90ae5d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Observed Pascal's Mugging
When I first read about Pascal's Mugging, it stuck in my brain. I knew that I had seen something like this occur in real life, though I couldn't quite place the specifics at the time. Then it hit me- chain letters are a classical example of this. They promise that if you copy the letter X ... |
a59e4027-aa55-449c-93c3-6629ec4813bf | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | AI timelines and strategies
*AI Impacts sometimes invites guest posts from fellow thinkers on the future of AI. These are not intended to relate closely to our current research, nor to necessarily reflect our views. However we think they are worthy contributions to the discussion of AI forecasting and strategy.*
*Th... |
1b746ea9-1c60-4c3a-8353-2e4cd736b3b4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Integrative Biological Simulation, Neuropsychology, and AI Safety
Introduction
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Bostrom’s orthogonality thesis states, under certain weak assumptions, that the intelligence of an agent
and its goal structure are independent variables [[Bostrom2014](#bib.bibx3)]. The orthogonality
thesis is a useful conc... |
9fd01cd0-3a4f-47cc-bdf7-d2d03915ea67 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI-Plans.com - a contributable compendium
Hello, we’re working on https://ai-plans.com .
Ideas behind the site:
Right now, alignment plans are spread all over the place and it’s difficult for a layperson, or someone unfamiliar with the field to get an idea of what is the current plan for making AGI or even the ... |
a0f76176-5329-4538-a727-ba84feeaff44 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Recruiting for esports experiment
I am interested in conducting an experiment involving learning & teaching gaming. I am recruiting either 6 or 12 participants to attempt to learn a video game intensively for around 2 weeks. This is not paid either way (I am not paying for volunteers, and you are not paying for coachi... |
e182a08b-e86c-4166-9cc6-99bcea63b84d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article, "Normative Theories of Rational Choice: Rivals to Expected Utility"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-normative-nonutility/
I thought this looked like it may be of interest to people here. |
4a21d48b-da0a-4830-ac77-937facec5458 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Girl Intercorrupted
#### This is a 4-of-13 chapter sample of “A Girl Corrupted by the Internet is the Summoned Hero?!” The remainder is available at [Gumroad](http://gumroad.com/l/GirlCorrupted) and [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Corrupted-Internet-Summoned-Hero-ebook/dp/B01B2BP726) .
### **Table of Contents**
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af5e99ed-7b36-487d-935a-f1c113b2a93e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My decomposition of the alignment problem
Epistemic staus: Exploratory
Summary: In this post I will decompose the alignment problem into subproblems and frame existing approaches in terms of their relations to the subproblems. I will try to place a larger focus on the epistemic process as opposed to results of this p... |
61a9b1ed-6499-4202-be18-1acaa403f402 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Paper] Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks Communication Scale, similar to Torino scale
We (Alexey Turchin and David Denkenberger) have a new paper out where we suggest a scale to communicate the size of global catastrophic and existential risks.
For impact risks, we have the Torino scale of asteroid danger wh... |
17ffc317-e044-458a-b90d-6453abfc2f8c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Learning Rewards from Linguistic Feedback.
Learning Rewards from Linguistic Feedback
Theodore R. Sumers,1Mark K. Ho,2Robert D. Hawkins,2
Karthik Narasimhan,1Thomas L. Griffiths1,2
1Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
fsumers,... |
8d9c9e8c-344a-4e97-a43a-0ae746b94153 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Plan
This is a high-level overview of the reasoning behind my research priorities, written as a Q&A.
What’s your plan for AI alignment?
Step 1: sort out our fundamental confusions about agency
Step 2: ambitious value learning (i.e. build an AI which correctly learns human values and optimizes for them)
Step 3:... |
9069aa97-5ff6-41d4-98e3-c36ee1d10d81 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My story / owning one's reasons
This is my first post. I've lurked for quite some time and just recently took the opportunity to join this week. I doubt that anything I post will be groundbreaking, but one thought has been developing that I thought I could at least try writing about. I'd appreciate suggestions regardi... |
59d02d82-8b43-45e3-8111-82bc4a09d05c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Broad Picture of Human Values
I have two strong intuitions about human values that'd seemed utterly irreconcilable to me, up until recently.
* On the one hand, human values are clearly inchoate, unstable messes of niche heuristics and preferences that often contradict each other and can change on a dime. A twenty-yea... |
f12e4340-c6eb-4e6e-ad1d-d609150ffe64 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Many Worlds against Simulation?
Lets assume few things:
1. Many Worlds is real.
2. All identical consciousnesses measures as 1 in anthropics . So if we have set of consciousness: 1xA,1xB and 1000000xC, it is still 1/3 chance, to perceive being C.
Now say some intelligent being (i.e. human) starts another human b... |
1a75f682-ecdb-49d8-b6ad-3e7a18267a39 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How I Got So Much GHT
With Good Heart Week nearing its end and my schedule unlikely to let me write another post, I have one last one to share about how I managed to earn as much GHT as I did.
As of this writing I'm in the top 5. I've been as high as #3 but currently I'm sitting at #4. How did I do it?
Well, to star... |
e631dc61-6a3f-4a83-9d7a-dd17b073bd51 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Gricean communication and meta-preferences
There's a bit of an analogy between communication and value learning that I've been thinking about recently.
Communication:
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By "Gricean communication," I mean [Paul Grice's model of communication as actions based on recursive modeling](https://plato.stanford.... |
43e0d851-6f30-42cd-96d4-a8ba22699bef | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later - Buterin
Many rationalists are interested in blockchain. This article describes important mathematical problems related to blockchain, and potential solutions to cooperation problems and philanthropy via mechanism design (quadratic voting, quadratic funding). |
14c6a536-7ebc-405b-8011-11ebaeb091a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : SF Meetup: Cooking
Discussion article for the meetup : SF Meetup: Cooking
WHEN: 06 March 2017 06:15:15PM (-0800)
WHERE: 1045 Mission St., SF
We'll be meeting to cook and eat food together!
Here's how this works: I send out a planning doc on the mailing list (bayarealesswrong on Google Groups) to recruit 3... |
1e2a544b-dd83-40ef-897f-4f0b3ef4d878 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Creating better infrastructure for controversial discourse
Currently there are three active forks of Lesswrong; Itself, the alignment forum and the EA forum. Can adding a new fork that is more focused on good discourse on controversial/taboo topics be a good idea?
I am an Iranian, and have a fair share of experience... |
b1050e46-4f04-43b0-8a9e-e1af1ed2dc36 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationalists don't care about the future
Related to Exterminating life is rational.
ADDED: Standard assumptions about utility maximization and time-discounting imply that we shouldn't care about the future. I will lay out the problem in the hopes that someone can find a convincing way around it. This is the sort of... |
27281853-affa-497a-b6a2-3f665a4776cf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When is correlation transitive?
It's a well-known property of correlation that it's not transitive in general. If X,Y,Z are three real-valued random variables such that ρ(X,Y)>0 and ρ(Y,Z)>0, it doesn't have to be the case that ρ(X,Z)>0.
Nevertheless, there are some circumstances under which correlation is transitive... |
d75fa2f8-50d9-4828-8288-5f9e8a48494b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Interview with a0nfw
\*\*Interview with a0nfw, on 3/18/22\*\*
\*\*0:00:02.3 Vael:\*\* Alright. So my first question is, can you tell me about what area of AI you work on in a few sentences?
\*\*0:00:08.7 Interviewee:\*\* Yes. More recently I\'ve been working on AI for mathematical reasoning and applications in navig... |
59831aa1-b6b0-41f4-a9ca-d19b8abf308a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What are some arguments why AI safety might be less important?
## Notes
Some recommended pieces are in **bold**.
Some of these arguments are substantially better than others. Additionally, some pieces are arguing *for* the importance of AI safety, while discussing counterarguments.
The title of this document may be... |
bda79125-7bfe-4196-bcb7-0a0225306258 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are some ways to do a PhD without an educational institution
Is it possible to get a PhD from one of the research institutions, for example the PhD residency is pretty good initiative but hard to get into.
What are some examples of getting a PhD the non-traditional way.
Nadia Eghbal posted a blog about this h... |
55947367-433d-470a-90f5-258331b4bd63 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reducing Risks of Astronomical Suffering (S-Risks): A Neglected Global Priority
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0567644d-aa42-4e12-a77c-5f314bef0579 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Integrating disagreeing subagents
In my previous post, I suggested that akrasia involves subagent disagreement - or in other words, different parts of the brain having differing ideas on what the best course of action is. The existence of such conflicts raises the question, how does one resolve them?
In this post I w... |
c93a387d-8554-407f-82ef-054623b8ef77 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | If you're an AI Safety movement builder consider asking your members these questions in an interview
I've been doing interviews with aspiring members of the Australian & New Zealand AIS community recently (about 35 so far) and I've arrived at the following set of questions (steps 1 - 3) as being pretty effective for u... |
521e02a3-4ddf-40cd-bfa5-fc46b236b5e5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Is Causality in the Map or the Territory?
steve2152 [brought up a great example](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mZy6AMgCw9CPjNCoK/computational-model-causal-diagrams-with-symmetry?commentId=JF9jmPNkNkH8yJX9g):
> Consider a 1kΩ resistor, in two circuits. The first circuit is the resistor attached to a 1V [voltage] s... |
cd2f902c-f212-4fd1-a49a-88d6462a81c5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Runtime-Safety-Guided Policy Repair
1 Introduction
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Data-driven methods such as imitation learning have been successful in learning control policies for complex control tasks [[4](#bib.bib4), [10](#bib.bib10)].
A major shortcoming that impedes their widespread usage in the field is that the learnt po... |
47d02418-1bf2-4d15-818d-61f778a5fcea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What’s the Deal with Elon Musk and Twitter?
At the end of long saga well-covered in hilarious fashion by Matt Levine, Elon Musk has purchased Twitter.
He then began doing things.
One of them was to tweet ‘fresh baked bread and pastries are some of the great joys of life.’ On that I hope we can all agree.
His other ... |
ddfd26dd-d3cc-43ca-b56d-e5d6c609d294 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | April 2015 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the o... |
c7590aac-a6b9-47ad-84f8-09405c8aa0f7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Viruses and DRACOs in the Valley of Death in medical research.
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c574c52e-e5b5-49ff-a5e6-4f315822872f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Agentic GPT simulations: a risk and an opportunity
Epistemic status: highly speculative, I would love it if someone could flesh out these ideas more.
I think it's fair to characterise GPT as an adaptation executor rather than a fitness maximizer. It doesn't appear to be intrinsically agentic or to plan anything to ac... |
62f168cf-eaac-48ea-81fe-8c0c112e4041 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Logical uncertainty and Mathematical uncertainty
There is a significant difference between uncertainty about mathematical truths in cases where there isn't a known procedure for checking whether a mathematical claim is true or false, versus when there is but you do not have the computational resources to carry it out.... |
c6fe83e5-52ea-4f92-b888-956d30d3dfd7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Scattered thoughts on what it means for an LLM to believe
I had a 2-hour mini-sprint with Max Heitmann (a co-founder of Aether) and Miles Kodama about whether large language models (LLMs) or LLM agents have beliefs, and the relevance of this to AI safety.
The conversation was mostly free-form, with the three of us bo... |
832fce52-8785-431d-a185-c3283f65f20b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Science of Deep Learning - a technical agenda
I have written down a long list of alignment ideas that I’d be interested in working on. The ideas roughly boil down to “To make progress on alignment, we need to understand Deep Learning models and the process by which they arrive at their final parameters in much more de... |
5c2c7dac-3807-4b7e-b1b8-6e4eea2a7e91 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Ontology of Systemic Failures: Dragons, Bullshit Mountain, and the Cloud of Doom
Core Claim
I assert that a lot of value can be achieved by categorizing systemic failures into four broad categories.
For the sake of pithiness, I will name them "bugs", "dragons", "bullshit mountain", and "the cloud of doom".
A Bug ... |
ffe3a5ee-e940-4c1a-b213-9dc577b14da1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Normal" is the equilibrium state of past optimization processes
Orienting around the ideas and conclusions involved with AI x-risk can be very difficult. The future possibilities can feel extreme and far-mode, even when we whole-heartedly affirm their plausibility.
It helps me to remember that everything around me t... |
cd4f07a0-c7d0-4ef0-b97e-a91404d67eed | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [AN #145]: Our three year anniversary!
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 **[this spreadsheet](https://docs.google... |
cc115c30-0132-426d-9070-40e5e393eba1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Berkeley LW meetup - CFAR test session
Discussion article for the meetup : Berkeley LW meetup - CFAR test session
WHEN: 04 June 2014 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: Berkeley, CA
CFAR is gearing up for a workshop this weekend, and they expect to hold at least one rationality training session Wednesday night (June... |
3fa65d40-3093-45cc-9d3d-07ff25e2df93 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | a rough sketch of formal aligned AI using QACI
a rough sketch of formal aligned AI using QACI
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in this post, i put forth some of my current thoughts about the shape of a formal aligned AI using [QACI](qaci.html) for its decision — "decision" in the singular here, as this... |
0c9239db-de18-4667-a2f5-8710e1c292f9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Synthetic Media and The Future of Film
It was long believed that the first jobs to be obsoleted by AI would be lawyers and accountants, as those seemed the prime targets. After all, creativity has hardly been the forte of computers for the past half-century, being almost exclusively the product of human effort. Howeve... |
27879b61-5192-4658-9ff4-ab5ace6f9a45 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is “Earning to Give” a Bad Framework?
Among the effective altruists, there are two main camps regarding the most effective way to do good with your career. One is to direct your work specifically at an EA-aligned organization, something like a specific charity or company producing a product that directly saves or impr... |
2aa4bf13-7696-4f19-9e90-8d90290bd392 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Welcome and Open Thread June 2019
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, you can put it here.
Also, if you are new to LessWrong and want to introduce yourself, this is the place to do it. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and co... |
e8cfe136-cbd2-4429-8905-4ef91c37c2c7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Closed] Agent Foundations track in MATS
In MATS Winter 2023, I'm going to mentor scholars who want to work on the learning-theoretic agenda. This was not part of the original announcement, because (due to logistical reasons) I joined the programme in the last moment.
Apply here.
See here for more details about the ... |
9427caf9-ea79-4b0b-887b-95779cd2200b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/distill | Distill Scientific Journal | Visualizing Weights
This article is part of the [Circuits thread](/2020/circuits/), an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks.
[Curve Circuits](/2020/circuits/curve-circuits/)
[Branch Speciali... |
e2c1b718-07d1-4a0f-9aae-13b2dc105c7d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Food4Me - personalised nutrition initiative
I stumbled on this project during my research: food4me.org
The complete mapping of the human genome sequence in 2000 introduced the possibility of individualised medicine, including personalised nutrition. During this time the field of “nutrigenomics” emerged, which exa... |
3dc80abf-ca93-4c48-9701-ec7a0f1d649a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | What is the alternative to intent alignment called?
Paul defines intent alignment of an AI A to a human H as the criterion that A is trying to do what H wants it to do. What term do people use for the definition of alignment in which A is trying to achieve H's goals (whether or not H intends for A to achieve H's goals... |
8ee67991-47cf-49be-96ba-3216a42f6394 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Map-Territory Distinction Creates Confusion
LessWrong isn't exactly founded on the map-territory model of truth, but it's definitely pretty core to the LessWrong worldview. The map-territory model implies a correspondence theory of truth. But I'd like to convince you that the map-territory model creates confusion ... |
e78bf654-52f4-4cc7-9549-23e35b28a98d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Monster in Our Heads
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think it is not an exaggeration to say that many people I know in this community hate the idea of powerful, unaligne... |
e6365cf4-a152-4dbe-bf61-8a159966e362 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims
Recently, Ben Pace wrote a well-intentioned blog post mostly based on complaints from 2 (of 21) Nonlinear employees who 1) wanted more money, 2) felt socially isolated, and 3) felt persecuted/oppressed.
Of relevance, one has accused the majority of her previ... |
2bfaa20e-f3cb-42c2-91ea-60cd38851b95 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Metasurvey: predict the predictors
*By Katja Grace, 12 May 2016*
As I mentioned earlier, we’ve been making a survey for AI researchers.
The survey asks when AI will be able to do things like build a lego kit according to the instructions, be a surgeon, or radically accelerate global technological development. It a... |
c8ea544a-3eb9-4861-979c-4a0dbe7b6cd6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Ambitious vs. narrow value learning
Suppose I’m trying to build an AI system that “learns what I want” and helps me get it. I think that people sometimes use different interpretations of this goal. At two extremes of a spectrum of possible interpretations:
* The AI learns my preferences over (very) long-term outcomes... |
69977bb2-55d0-478c-b4e0-70bc398ae87a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | align your latent spaces
> I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
— Richard Feynman
Here is a simplified diagram of the mind of someone reading English text and writing English text in response:
Here is a simplified diagram of the mind of someone fluent in ... |
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