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89730c2a-e3af-4bae-b0de-cb7565fd1cbb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Open Questions in Creating Safe Open-ended AI: Tensions Between Control and Creativity
1 Introduction
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Artificial life (ALife) and artificial intelligence (AI) have largely developed independently as fields.
Statistical machine learning (ML), including deep
learning, has driven much progress in moder... |
91ce5605-9023-4db2-9f97-ba851f5ccb0c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Owen Cotton-Barratt: What does (and doesn't) AI mean for effective altruism?
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*In this 2017 talk, The Future of Humanity Institute's* [*Owen Cotton-Barratt*](https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/team/owen-cotton-barratt/) *discusses what strategy effective altruists ought to adopt with regards to the development of advanced a... |
bf1555e9-ba13-4e0a-b15c-64b270a05735 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Good job opportunities for helping with the most important century
Yes, this is my first post in almost a year. I’m no longer prioritizing this blog, but I will still occasionally post something.
I wrote ~2 years ago that it was hard to point to concrete opportunities to help the most important century go well. That’... |
c9d247d3-1ffb-4f8d-9cc1-75f64c06ca98 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | What happens to variance as neural network training is scaled? What does it imply about "lottery tickets"?
Daniel Kokotajlo [asks](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wFJqi75y9eW8mf8TR/does-the-lottery-ticket-hypothesis-suggest-the-scaling) whether the lottery ticket hypothesis implies the scaling hypothesis.
The way I s... |
41ba3268-831d-4a2c-be1a-73dc5ab8ba7c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Importance of Goodhart's Law
This article introduces Goodhart's law, provides a few examples, tries to explain an origin for the law and lists out a few general mitigations.
Goodhart's law states that once a social or economic measure is turned into a target for policy, it will lose any information content that h... |
3d9a4c86-bbc4-475b-b84d-8776c22c202d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Derivative
The derivative of $y$ with respect to $x$ describes the [https://arbital.com/p/-rate](https://arbital.com/p/-rate) at which $y$ changes, given a change in $x$. In particular, we consider how tiny changes in one variable affect another variable. To take the derivative of a [https://arbital.com/p/-3jy](https:... |
3a380066-f72e-46a5-9968-62ef480eab1e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Please steelman the accusations of election fraud
Trump has accused several states of faking votes to help Joe Biden win the election. Meanwhile, Mitch Mcconnel is allowing Republican congressman to take either position on the issue (heresay). Popular fringe members of the Republican party Ted Cruz and Jim Jordan have... |
51a0e809-c2fd-4ee6-86fb-a3318fbd1e62 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Alignment Newsletter #39
Happy New Year!
Find all Alignment Newsletter resources [here](http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/). In particular, you can [sign up](http://eepurl.com/dqMSZj), or look through this [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PwWbWZ6FPqAgZWOoOcXM8N_tUCuxpEyMbN1NYYC02aM/edit?u... |
3691f5d1-500d-4999-845a-0132d72e6e71 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Fear of Common Knowledge
Followup to: Belief in Belief
One of those insights that made me sit upright and say "Aha!" From The Uncredible Hallq:
> Minor acts of dishonesty are integral to human life, ranging from how we deal with casual acquaintances to writing formal agreements between nation states. Steven P... |
ab1a39fb-3e67-4fd6-85b9-88bd0a5f35f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Quotes Thread February 2016
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:
* Provide sufficient information (URL, title, date, page number, etc.) to enable a reader to find the place where you read the quote, or its original source if available. Do not quote with only a name.
* Post al... |
7a8b35b5-9082-47b9-8cee-5194a53e86fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | debating buying NVDA in 2019
Alice: You saw GPT-2, right?
Bob: Of course.
Alice: It's running on GPUs using CUDA. OpenAI will keep scaling that up, and other groups will want to do the same thing.
Bob: Right.
Alice: So, does this mean we should buy Nvidia stock?
Bob: I'm not sure. Nvidia makes the hardware used n... |
d309004b-b8dc-4b89-a502-7fbe6ac683ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Significant Portion of COVID-19 Transmission Is Presymptomatic
Epistemic status: Not quite settled science, but preprints seem to agree.
Strong evidence points to presymptomatic sources as a major source of COVID-19 infections, possibly the majority. The exact proportion is environment-dependent; awareness and publ... |
c6f3efb4-0ed8-439d-97a2-e9a24f5ec8dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How To Do Patching Fast
This post outlines an efficient implementation of Edge Patching that massively outperforms common hook-based implementations. This implementation is available to use in my new library, AutoCircuit, and was first introduced by Li et al. (2023).
What is activation patching?
I introduce new term... |
3b0fc070-0814-4497-8d60-6e73df916ce3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | General alignment properties
AIXI and the genome are both ways of specifying intelligent agents.
1. Give AIXI a utility function (perhaps over observation histories), and hook it up to an environment, and this pins down a policy.[1]
2. Situate the genome in the embryo within our reality, and this eventually grows... |
d8d1a4e0-3c31-40c6-a5d3-91f8aaf19551 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Tulpa References/Discussion
There have been a number of discussions here on LessWrong about "tulpas", but it's been scattered about with no central thread for the discussion. So I thought I would put this up here, along with a centralized list of reliable information sources, just so we all stay on the same page.
Tul... |
8a368698-f9ed-4534-ac7f-f6114a883981 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Petition: Off topic area
Petition: LW should introduce a dedicated off topic area
Why?
1) I want to discuss various topics with people who are both intelligent and rationalist, and i know of no other place where to do it.
2) If find that rationality is getting boring in itself. I need to use it on some... |
ebd58a55-6b5c-47ba-afb8-50cc02639950 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : First Meetup- Cleveland and Akron, Ohio
Discussion article for the meetup : First Meetup- Cleveland and Akron, Ohio
WHEN: 17 November 2012 08:03:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Cleveland, OH
I'm posting on behalf of someone who got in touch with me on the Ohio listserv. He is looking for people active in the Cleveland... |
9a06d9ae-2b3d-42a3-a5bd-12cdc5f99b16 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On not diversifying charity
A common belief within the Effective Altruism movement that you should not diversify charity donations when your donation is small compared to the size of the charity. This is counter-intuitive, and most people disagree with this. A Mathematical Explanation of Why Charity Donations Shouldn'... |
7fdb1366-d4f5-4f3f-bf6e-a0456b7f80b5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are you working on? December 2011
This is the sixth bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:
What are you working on?
Here are some guidelines:
* Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but... |
b39aea49-e801-48c7-9379-be379e13cb0b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Women- Crowdsourced research on Cognitive biases and gender
In the last LW Women post, it was mentioned, and I agree, that a two-way conversation is more productive, and presents varied viewpoints better than a one-way lecture. To that end, I am making this post an experiment in crowdsourcing research to LW. Instea... |
3229ecbe-6ee5-4149-acb1-4e35e25a46f9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Polarization is Not (Standard) Bayesian
TLDR: Standard rational models can explain many aspects of polarization. But not all. Ideological sorting implies that our beliefs often evolve in predictable ways, violating the “martingale property” of Bayesian belief-updating. Rational models need to reckon with this.
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501e94c0-6158-45b3-baa8-be9c978618b3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Preference synthesis illustrated: Star Wars
EDIT: this post is intended to be mainly about preference ordering synthesis, not Star Wars.
This is my ordering of the core Star Wars movies:
* The Empire Strikes Back > Return of the Jedi >= The Last Jedi > Rogue One > A New Hope = The Rise of Skywalker > The Force Awak... |
8910975a-aec4-47df-8a7a-df93e83629fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dangerous Virtual Worlds
Once, I played a virtual reality game where robots attack you and you shoot them. This was a very fun and compelling experience despite being rather basic. In fact, it was too compelling -- the experience was so intense that I had to stop playing, as I thought that if things got significantly ... |
37eb7e7f-fb1f-42b4-8a91-6413d8760f94 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Study Group Facebook Page
Update: There is now an online sign up to groups with workflowy, based on subject and current ability. You do not have to be signed up to Facebook to join a group, but do add an email address so that the group can contact you: https://workflowy.com/shared/cf1fd9ca-885f-c1b9-c2e8-e3a315f70... |
8ee7a6b3-ced7-45a8-b7e3-4cb1fea8ca98 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Boston Megameetup July 13-14
On the weekend of July 13-14, Harvard High-Impact Philanthropy will be hosting a rationalist megameetup. Everyone who can make the trip is strongly encouraged to come. We'll meet at the Harvard Science Center in room B-10 at noon on both days. Crash space is available; comment or send me a... |
ecc3b05f-e141-4cfb-a9ee-0436b2b182bb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Concerns Surrounding CEV: A case for human friendliness first
I am quite new here so please forgive the ignorance (I'm sure there will be some) of these questions, but I am all of about half way through reading CEV and I just simply cannot read any further without formal clarification from the lw community. That being... |
6020cf5e-5641-4e7e-a4a5-e7d944e2a3be | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup Tip: Conversation Starters
Summary
If you're running or attending meetups a lot, it's helpful to have a short list of conversation starters ready. Conversation starters, sometimes called icebreaker questions, are questions that everyone can answer. They aren't deeply personal, but you do learn something new abo... |
09df8563-d31f-4e1a-b12c-e393d79d6095 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A Low-Cost Ethics Shaping Approach for Designing Reinforcement Learning Agents
1 Introduction
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As AI systems become part of our lives and sometimes make decisions related to life-or-death consequences such as clinical decision making [[Bennett and Hauser2013](#bib.bibx9)], awareness should be raised ... |
ba316fa2-7285-4c15-bcc9-1e225f6fdfc1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What (feasible) augmented senses would be useful or interesting?
The BrainPort is a device which allows blind people to have their sight restored (partially) by sending signals through electrodes that rest on the tongue.
> The signals are sent to the tongue via a "lollipop," an electrode array about nine square cent... |
765b6c44-c6fc-423a-83c9-a02f8aceb616 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What's Your Best AI Safety "Quip"?
Motivated by thinking gay rights were advanced by asking "When did you choose to be straight?" Which emphasised that what isn't a choice and doesn't harm others shouldn't be proscribed. Here, we're seeking a memetic way of framing the fact that the alignment problem is unsolved.
Aut... |
128b769f-9a63-4092-9b5e-53826b7ac398 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Fighting the evil influence of Facebook (but keeping the good bits): a manifesto and how-to guide
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b935cac7-39cf-45e0-ad64-75b73785574a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lifeguards
1
Many readers will be familiar with Peter Singer’s Drowning Child experiment:
> On your way to work, you pass a small pond. On hot days, children sometimes play in the pond, which is only about knee-deep. The weather’s cool today, though, and the hour is early, so you are surprised to see a child splashin... |
9bde7544-8930-4d53-941b-0b3b318d85d9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Montreal Less Wrong/Effective Altruism - 8, 760 hours: Setting goals for 2015
Discussion article for the meetup : Montreal Less Wrong/Effective Altruism - 8, 760 hours: Setting goals for 2015
WHEN: 08 January 2015 07:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 1720 st denis montreal
The end of a year is the perfect time to rev... |
38e64646-450b-493d-bdba-0dc0873763e7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What did you change your mind about in the last year?
Seems like a good New Year activity for rationalists, so I thought I'd post it early instead of late.
Here are some steps I recommend:
* Go looking through old writings and messages.
* If you keep a journal, go look at a few entries from throughout the last ... |
4c177ed3-44b1-4f2c-8cd0-1473902247d3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How do you think about mildly technical people trying to advance science and technology?
If you were, say 22, had free time, enough money, and decent curiosity and technical skills (but less than spectacular) what would you do? I could get a PhD. I could try and do something with more upside—maybe startups. But what o... |
b6500050-de8a-46fe-bfda-e75d5772cc36 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Atlanta: Problems With Friendly AI: A (non-technical) MIRI Book Review
Discussion article for the meetup : Atlanta: Problems With Friendly AI: A (non-technical) MIRI Book Review
WHEN: 12 April 2014 07:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 491 Lindbergh Place NE Apt 618 Atlanta, GA 30324
At this meetup, we'll be looking ... |
0cc1576d-4ff6-4805-9d52-50f23ec5f721 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Inconsistent Beliefs and Charitable Giving
There is common tendency in human life to act in ways contrary to what we believe.
The classic example is the German people under Nazi rule, most of whom likely thought of themselves as good people—the kind of people who would help their neighbors even at risk to themselves,... |
1e9fd545-a995-4dcb-9dfb-226df8871799 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 21 on 21
This is a linkpost for https://amirbolous.com/posts/21/
Today, I turn 21. Here are 21 reflections for 21 years.
1. The highest ROI thing you can invest in early on is learning to be an independent thinker. The world is full of noise. It's impossible to drown out it all out, but it's possible to pick out th... |
70e7d322-79f4-41bb-a86f-45f99daa222f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] TED Talk on Perceived Value
Rory Sutherland, an ad man (who missed his calling as a comedian), gives this talk on perceived value versus "real" value, and comes down in favor of more of the first. He also dabbles in history, status, behavioral economics, and the importance of user interface design. |
8febe736-27e2-4c78-9435-3509f57178db | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems
I want to draw attention to a new paper, written by myself, David "davidad" Dalrymple, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Sanjit Seshia, Steve Omohundro, Christian Szegedy, Ben Goldhaber, Nora Ammann, Alessandro Abate, Joe Hal... |
bd4bc042-68fa-4cfb-87df-d038bd16a74b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Training Regime Day 21: Executing Intentions
Introduction
It is written about the first of the Twelve Virtues:
> Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer.
The main flaw of the Twelve Virtues is that they are epistemic in nature.
It is written about the first of the ap... |
93610eec-fa25-4e1b-8af4-37f4035ee8c0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Seeking ethical rules-of-thumb for comparison
Rules-of-thumb are handy, in that they let you use a solution you've figured out beforehand without having to take the time and effort to re-derive it in the heat of the moment. They may not apply in all situations, they may not provide the absolutely maximally best answer... |
e5cddb7a-570a-4221-b6f2-ed306b119a5a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Quantilizers maximize expected utility subject to a conservative cost constraint
Summary: this post reframes ideas from "Learning a concept using only positive examples" and "The AI, the best human advisor" in terms of a strong constraint for conservative behavior, and shows that quantilizers are optimal under this co... |
44cf4e76-b700-49fb-b5f4-46885ac43f9e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Evolution from distinction difference
If we have norms such that each copy of a common behavior must to be a tiny step away from from its parent, rather than a giant step or no step, this would seem to make culture much more amenable to gradient descent via evolution than it otherwise would be.
Is the latter somehow ... |
b531e15c-cf3d-4c21-9187-d822416d6d8b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | A rough idea for solving ELK: An approach for training generalist agents like GATO to make plans and describe them to humans clearly and honestly.
GATO is the most general agent we currently know about. It's a general-purpose model with transformer architecture. GATO can play atari games, speak to humans, and classify... |
9ef5406f-8269-4963-9612-f8e684548314 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Wielding civilization
(cross-posted from my blog, Sunday Stopwatch)
The other day, I was walking home on an empty road and a bus drew past me. It got me thinking about the differences in our speeds. I could never compete with the bus on speed. Not only because the bus has a big engine, but also because of the context... |
71f45c69-7a45-4452-8f78-11963e112dc2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How do the side effects of Novavax compare to other COVID-19 vaccines?
I'm curious whether Novavax has the same side-effects of the mRNA vaccines where normal side-effects often involve the person being feeling too sick to do anything and having fever the next day. Unfortunately, most sources I find while googling are... |
e4671c33-930d-4f98-b4d4-18a834f4cc26 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Toward Safety Cases For AI Scheming
Developers of frontier AI systems will face increasingly challenging decisions about whether their AI systems are safe enough to develop and deploy. One reason why systems may not be safe is if they engage in scheming. In our new report "Towards evaluations-based safety cases for AI... |
e67b30c9-09a6-4973-8c40-b4a2d29f5c8d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AGI in sight: our look at the game board
From our point of view, we are now in the end-game for AGI, and we (humans) are losing. When we share this with other people, they reliably get surprised. That’s why we believe it is worth writing down our beliefs on this.
1. AGI is happening soon. Significant probability of ... |
61649c22-896e-4649-bb54-f00f98268e00 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | An anthropomorphic AI dilemma
*[Metadata: crossposted from <https://tsvibt.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-anthropomorphic-ai-dilemma.html>. First completed January 21, 2023.]*
Either generally-human-level AI will work internally like humans work internally, or not. If generally-human-level AI works like humans, then takeo... |
ff172a46-2fb9-4482-bd0b-20d380e366e3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An alternative approach to superbabies
(Note: This post might be slightly funnily written but it is not a joke but serious and important.)
Me: I think it's possible that we might not need to figure out biotechnological advances for how we can create superbabies through embryo selection or so, but that actually they ... |
88bc7ccd-5400-4951-9859-6a13150fbe18 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | [Linkpost] A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations
*This is a linkpost for* [*https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546708v1*](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.27.546708v1)*.*
> Effective communication hinges on a mutual unders... |
b2822bef-5028-418f-8957-a625e4509637 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | More thoughts on assertions
Response to: The "show, don't tell" nature of argument
Morendil says not to trust simple assertions. He's right, for the certain class of simple assertions he's talking about. But in order to see why, let's look at different types of assertions and see how useful it is to believe them.
S... |
bbcb0d72-36f5-4ed2-ab1d-03f47d586cbb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Serving LLM on Huawei CloudMatrix
AI 2027 Compute Forecast basically completely ignores China for Compute Production section and I don't think it can be justified. This paper from Huawei is a timely reminder. |
2f4d3584-6090-479f-96ad-93689feedccf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | PoMP and Circumstance: Introduction
This is the first part of a series about the Principle of Minimal Privilege, also known as the Principle of Least Authority.
One technique that is quickly trotted out in discussions about making AI safer is just not giving the AI agents access to certain things. A naive suggestion ... |
ad7cb940-fd43-4f1c-9861-064e1c5c0a83 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Power to Be Emotionally Mature
This is Part VII of the Specificity Sequence
When Steve unknowingly lacks an understanding of what his claim that "Uber exploits its drivers" means, we can say that he's being intellectually immature. Similarly, when someone unknowingly lacks an understanding of the cause of an emot... |
0a4c570f-805b-4080-a824-6a5ce00d49fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Quotes: April 2011
You all know the rules:
* Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
* Do not quote yourself.
* Do not quote comments/posts o... |
03b4fdfb-8a59-4c63-bca3-60968f763be3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Beware The Man Of One Study
Aquinas famously said: beware the man of one book. I would add: beware the man of one study.
For example, take medical research. Suppose a certain drug is weakly effective against a certain disease. After a few years, a bunch of different research groups have gotten their hands on it and d... |
cc184f33-3210-4a9c-86b2-ee89e6472bf6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Upcoming LW Changes
Thanks to the reaction to this article and some conversations, I'm convinced that it's worth trying to renovate and restore LW. Eliezer, Nate, and Matt Fallshaw are all on board and have empowered me as an editor to see what we can do about reshaping LW to meet what the community currently needs. T... |
b25083f5-e030-4696-82f7-a3a6a4d3f93c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | How teams went about their research at AI Safety Camp edition 8
AI Safety Camp connects new collaborators worldwide to discuss and decide on a concrete research proposal, gear up online as a team, and try their hand at AI safety research during intensive coworking sprints.
Fourteen teams formed at this year's virtual... |
e9970b68-8e01-4fb8-8c43-d1f5c197432c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | love, not competition
love, not competition
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many people are bemoaning that AI is going to replace them. this includes notably artists, but we can expect it to start covering [mathematicians](https://nitter.net/ScienceStanley/status/1584263426750132224) and, as AI advances, eventually every kind... |
a83697d7-bf26-44cc-a1dd-d7a59e23cb0f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Paper: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs
This post is a copy of the introduction of this [paper](https://owainevans.github.io/awareness_berglund.pdf) on situational awareness in LLMs.
Authors: Lukas Berglund, Asa Cooper Stickland, Mikita Balesni, Max Kaufmann, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak, Daniel Kokotajlo, O... |
7c3cce20-5a7d-47fa-ace9-930a70bb9ca1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | December 2018 Newsletter
**Edward Kmett** [has joined the MIRI team](https://intelligence.org/2018/11/28/miris-newest-recruit-edward-kmett/)! Edward is a prominent Haskell developer who popularized the use of lenses for functional programming, and currently maintains many of the libraries around the Haskell core libra... |
fcdace0c-490c-4f5d-b33f-7172fbcaf164 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Conjoined twins who share a brain/experience?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1874171
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/02/a-piece-of-their-mind/print/ |
6b3ab03c-404a-46c5-bbbd-d3553028966c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | High level discourse structure in ChatGPT: Part 2 [Quasi-symbolic?]
In my previous post I examined a simple pattern of alternation in ChatGPT’s text output, [Of pumpkins, the Falcon Heavy, and Groucho Marx](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZKgDpktMhnyE6Gvcs/of-pumpkins-the-falcon-heavy-and-groucho-marx-high-level). I’v... |
c9f8bea8-be2d-4459-b8e1-b25e2c34b24e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Where's Today's Beethoven?
*Click lower right to download or find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.*
This piece kicks off a short [series](https://www.cold-takes.com/tag/innovationstagnation/) inspired by this question:
> Say that Beethoven was the greatest musician of all time (at least in some parti... |
52232da3-1ab2-4b7c-a836-ff4a84be1276 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Powerful mesa-optimisation is already here
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
Timo Schick, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Roberto Dessì, Roberta Raileanu, Maria Lomeli, Luke Zettlemoyer, Nicola Cancedda, Thomas Scialom
(Submitted: 9 Feb 2023)
> Language models (LMs) exhibit remarkable abilities to solve... |
6ba240e7-aa22-4ae2-b744-04996c22722d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Epistemic Laws of Motion
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0f7693e9-e648-4df8-93e6-5bbd2555cfdf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rediscovery, the Mind's Curare
I'm often apprehensive about writing things that may already have been written, of sharing ideas that may already have been thought of, of saying things that may be cliché or dull or commonplace. I think I can trace this to a fear of being seen as ignorant or uneducated, which itself can... |
4ed6ca7e-3f64-46bd-9c05-ed1b25fd170a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sunday July 19, 1pm (PDT) — talks by Raemon, ricraz, mr-hire, Jameson Quinn
This Sunday at 1pm (PDT), we're running another session of "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors (see here for previous weeks' transcripts).
* Each talk will be 3-5 minutes followed by discussion. Afterwards, we'll have a hangout in... |
b49d4b50-5482-4795-a177-b12cd44ee364 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (27th Feb - 5th Mar 2023)
Supported by Rethink Priorities
This is part of a weekly series summarizing the top posts on the EA and LW forums - you can see the full collection here. The first post includes some details on purpose and methodology. Feedback, thoughts, and corrections are welc... |
b225c309-ba76-45dc-a484-1fac298c59f6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
A fictional legal case about a team of explorers who got trapped in a cave and ate one of their own to survive. Summary:
> From the testimony of the defendants, which was accepted by the jury, it appears that it was Whetmore who first proposed that they might find the nutriment wi... |
3547b96a-dcc5-4c85-b52b-738b3b540fb8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : NYC Solstice
Discussion article for the meetup : NYC Solstice
WHEN: 19 December 2015 05:30:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 2 West 64th Street
Our annual, huge East Coast event. Saturday will be the Solstice Proper - a beforeparty starting at 5:30pm, 2 hours of singalong music starting at 6:30, followed by an afterpart... |
cf2a3343-ac5d-4208-b9b8-c2fb8c3e1e35 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | August gwern.net links
None |
cd99291d-1fd4-4ce0-8428-227a70b806b7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My Trial Period as an Independent Alignment Researcher
In the past two months, I have tried out what is like to be an independent alignment researcher. My goals were to figure out if this path is something I would like to do, whether I'm a good fit, which research areas are most promising for me, and whether I feel li... |
91336f75-8690-4057-8979-38fd01d975b1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Cautious Reinforcement Learning with Logical Constraints
1. Introduction
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an algorithm with no supervision that can be used to train an agent to interact with an unknown environment. The dynamics of the interaction are often assumed to be a Markov Decision Process (MDP... |
aa195e1e-6edd-4ec9-82a4-125749b2970a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Effective Altruism] Promoting Effective Giving at Conferences via Speed Giving Games
Conferences provide a high-impact opportunity to promote effective giving. This is the broad take-away from an experiment in promoting effective giving at two conferences in recent months: the Unitarian Universalist (UU) General Asse... |
a2242fa0-2ddd-4cf7-84cb-d3494337cff8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What is John Wentworth's research agenda?
[John Wentworth's plan](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/3L46WGauGpr7nYubu/the-plan) is to (1) sort out our fundamental confusions about [agency](/?state=5632&question=What%20is%20an%20agent%3F), and (2) do ambitious [value learning](/?state=9RYV&question=What%20is%20value... |
fcf6584a-f267-4105-80ed-b02d0a03c224 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weirdtopias in science fiction
There's "Day Million" and The Age of the Pussyfoot, both by Frederik Pohl, and even they might be more like utopias rather than adequately weird.
"Day Million" is a very short story, with a narration which puts emphasis on how much people like living in that world even though it would m... |
49409229-c920-446c-aaa3-c942065110d9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | 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... |
eb7c8712-ba9b-422e-aaec-e02cc4073cfc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Yale rationality group meeting.
Discussion article for the meetup : Yale rationality group meeting.
WHEN: 05 October 2014 02:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Seminar room K22, Jonathan Edwards College, 68 High Street New Haven, CT 06511
The Yale rationality group will be holding a meeting this Sunday, October 5 at 2... |
f8aa3fd8-67e7-4db6-8f69-f23ec6658699 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Catastrophic Convergence Conjecture
Overfitting the AU landscape
When we act, and others act upon us, we aren’t just changing our ability to do things – we’re shaping the local environment towards certain goals, and away from others.[1] We’re fitting the world to our purposes.
What happens to the AU landscape[2] ... |
182dc163-eeae-4412-8dd7-1c4b0a1e7f37 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Safety Chatbot
Hello World! The AISafety.info team is launching a prototype of the AI Safety Chatbot.
The chatbot uses a dataset of alignment literature to answer any questions related to AI safety that you might have, while also citing established sources. Please keep in mind that this is a very early prototype a... |
8afc9d8a-614e-4b34-912a-f5cefbaf3706 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Logical uncertainty and mathematical uncertainty
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2cbc0e09-b73b-4568-8248-e32c5d7dd4a1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A&I (Rihanna 'S&M' parody lyrics)
Hi all, I wrote lyrics to the tune of Rihanna - S&M that reference a few themes of AI risk, from the point of view of an 'A'-maximizer. I hope you like it — comments welcome :) [edit 2023-05-23: added this intro]
A! A! A! One more!
A! A! A! One more!
A! A! A! A! A! One more!
A! A! A!... |
ae0ec4f8-e266-47dd-bda7-cd6a2bde1343 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notion template for personal predictions
I created a simple Notion template for creating personal predictions. You can set multiple reminders and even embed line charts showcasing the likelihood across time (though this does rely on an external service).
This was created pretty quickly, and the predictions in the tem... |
6ad926b9-3615-49cf-8c92-882a9bf76eb2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Philosophers versus Analytics
By and large, I would bet money that the devoted, experienced, and properly sequenced LWer, is a better philosopher than the average current philosophy majors concentrating in the analytic tradition. I say this because I have regular philosophical conversations with both populations, a... |
b846a7a0-6f64-4999-9c08-e76f36f7f0f6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Misalignment and misuse: whose values are manifest?
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
AI related disasters are often categorized as involving misaligned AI, or misuse, or accident. Where:
* misuse means the bad outcomes were wanted by the people involved,
* misalignment means the bad outcomes were wanted ... |
603a3bdc-e274-4772-9fad-1a02ff22f4f6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A New Formalism, Method and Open Issues for Zero-Shot Coordination
###
1 Introduction
In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), variations of the
*self-play* (SP) regime ([ ])[]tesauro1994td have been successful in producing superhuman policies for two-player zero-sum games such as chess, go, and poker (campbe... |
a9ca5866-d633-417d-bac3-c1a439deabea | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | TAI Safety Bibliographic Database
Authors: Jess Riedel and Angelica Deibel
[Cross-posted to LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4DegbDJJiMX2b3EKm/tai-safety-bibliographic-database)
In this post we present the first public version of our bibliographic database of research on the safety of transformative ar... |
85206a47-5cff-4db9-8344-253ac6fb9e77 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Aggregative Principles of Social Justice
1. Introduction
1.1. Three aggregative principles
This article examines aggregative principles of social justice. These principles state that a social planner should make decisions as if they will face the aggregated personal outcomes of every individual in the population. Di... |
0f849b83-13bb-44fa-9321-49a935337d47 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is a definition, how can it be extrapolated?
What is a definition? Philosophy has, ironically, a large number of definitions of definitions, but three of them are especially relevant to ML and AI safety.
There is the intensional definition, where concepts are defined logically in terms of other concepts (“bachel... |
da3beea9-4fe9-48b2-af5a-f1492690c2be | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup: Social and Board Games
Discussion article for the meetup : Less Wrong Israel Meetup: Social and Board Games
WHEN: 14 April 2015 07:00:00PM (+0300)
WHERE: Google, Electra Tower, 98 Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv
This time we're going to have a social meetup!
It's going to be a game n... |
a13ee505-39cb-42d5-a142-f4c1df440318 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Randomized Zettelkasten Test
Motivation and Method
I read the book How to Take Smart Notes a couple years ago and have tried to keep my notes together in a Zettelkasten ever since. I currently use Obsidian, which contains 2500 individual notes collected over two or three years - some abstract to encourage being hooked... |
3467fb26-47d0-4c93-9d84-8201fb58d30e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Notes on the Mathematics of LLM Architectures
> *From a mathematical point of view, the building and training of a large transformer*
> *language model (LLM) is the construction of a certain function, from some euclidean space to another, that has certain interesting properties. And it may therefore be surprising to... |
01dedf14-d50e-425f-957c-4fd293a70cde | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | A method for empirical back-testing of AI's ability to self-improve
*TL;DR; Train an LLM/AI with text only until 2016, and ask it to come up with AI architecture ideas based on ML research until then to see whether it could come up with the idea of transformers.*
One of the biggest promises of A(G)I is automated and ... |
f9049cf1-d9ea-4b7c-86e7-f5fe8449569c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Muddling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia
Summary: There are historical precedents where bans or crushing regulations stop the progress of technology in one industry, while progress in the rest of society continues. This is a plausible future for AI.
Epistemic Status: My intuition strongly disagrees with other peop... |
d5df0af6-39d0-4ffc-836a-48ec02f08dc0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nitric Oxide Spray... a cure for COVID19??
According to https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/uk-clinical-trial-confirms-sanotize-s-breakthrough-treatment-for-covid-19/
> Patients with a self-administered nasal spray application found to have reduced SARS-CoV-2 log viral load by more than 95% in infected partic... |
325ea74a-b47f-4f22-a516-54861970f294 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Conditional on the first AGI being aligned correctly, is a good outcome even still likely?
Or, what stops someone else from making their own AGI 1-6 months later that doesn’t play nice and ends the world? |
597cb620-0a8d-4cf2-8f50-0ef2cd3dc284 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | It's 'Well, actually...' all the way down
Some people (the “Boubas”) don’t like “chemicals” in their food. But other people (the “Kikis”) are like, “uh, everything is chemicals, what do you even mean?”
The Boubas are using the word “chemical” differently than the Kikis, and the way they’re using it is simultaneously ... |
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