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168c9cda-ebfb-4300-ad1b-2e62c0f14e63 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | AMA: Future of Life Institute's EU Team
Hello everyone,
We, Mark Brakel and Risto Uuk, are the two current members of the Future of Life Institute's (FLI) EU team and we are hiring a new person to our team: [an EU Policy Analyst](https://futureoflife.org/2022/01/31/eu-policy-analyst/)!
We have also announced [severa... |
fc2eb92f-247a-4c04-8dc0-3a5a82c79d67 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | ""It's in the Mirror of Atlantis," Harry said.
"We need Gillyweed," said Luna, "Lots of Gillyweed."
"The Mirror of Atlantis is located at the end of the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side," said Harry.
"What are you waiting for?" said Luna.
"You're not going to ask me how I know these things?" said Harry.
"Why... |
f3ce3593-d63b-4994-8117-b68a084249b7 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post470
The paper is by Ryan Greenblatt, Fabien Roger, Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and David Krueger. This post was written by Fabien and Ryan, and may not reflect the views of Dmitrii and David. Scheming models might try to perform less capably than they are able to ( sandbag ). They might do this to make evaluations ... |
c51b5b65-52e1-4b7a-85e6-12ae00aa4d1c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why consumerism is good actually
“Consumerism” came up in my recent interview with Elle Griffin of The Post. Here’s what I had to say (off the cuff):
> I have to admit, I’ve never 100% understood what “consumerism” is, or what it’s supposed to be. I have the general sense of what people are gesturing at, but it feels... |
11eb16b4-d083-447f-ad77-bcba4730beeb | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "Over the past few years, we have discreetly approached colleagues faced with a choice between job offers, and asked them to estimate the probability that they will choose one job over another. The average confidence in the predicted choice was a modest 66%, but only 1 of the 24 respondents chose the option to which he... |
6dc6bbcb-6e46-4c3f-8859-52d3b614d9c6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Frame Control
Crossposted from my blog
When I mention my dad’s abuse, I mention salient things - physical pain, insults, and controlling behavior. These are “clearly bad” - if I tell you that he often told me I was lazy and would fail horribly at life once I left home, you know it's bad, because it’s concrete, easy t... |
0eae225b-3ae1-4e06-b86e-fd0725d2f94f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Scared about the future of AI
The recent AI advancements have really driven home how close we are to Judgment Day and how much we need to work to prevent total destruction. I am deeply scared for the future. I have trouble enjoying the things I normally enjoy. They only remind me of What's At Stake.
I am currently st... |
d7b8e5c6-e317-4d7f-ae95-1150fdac59f0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Best introductory overviews of AGI safety?
I'm interested what people think are the best overviews of AI risk for various types of people. Below I've listed as many good overviews as I could find (excluding some drafts), splitting based on "good for a popular audience" and "good for AI researchers." I'd also like to h... |
014460a0-2a67-49d2-af05-63227c7ce794 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Assessment of AI safety agendas: think about the downside risk
This is a post-response to The 'Neglected Approaches' Approach: AE Studio's Alignment Agenda.
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You evidently follow a variant of 80000hours' framework for comparing (solving) particular problems in terms of expecte... |
fcc087f4-b162-4c3b-8930-c63ffb610832 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Update from Vancouver
I've wanted to do a more detailed update from Vancouver, as the Post-Mortem on the Craft and the Community on here from a few months ago seems to have inspired Vancouver to get organized more than is true of other rationality communities, and is kickstarting an unprecedented reinvogiration of pas... |
e8e88344-34ba-4133-b883-89b079b7df5b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Superhuman" Isn't Well Specified
Strength
In 1997, with Deep Blue’s defeat of Kasparov, computers surpassed human beings at chess. Other games have fallen in more recent years: Go, Shogi, and Othello[1] among them. AI is superhuman at these pursuits, and unassisted human beings will never catch up. The situation look... |
1c138129-f286-4add-9713-7a4d994a6c4e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | I wanted to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky but he's busy so I simulated him instead
Edit: All of the "Lsusr" lines were written by me. All of the "Eliezer Yudkowsky" lines were written by GPT-3. However the Yudkowsky lines were also cherry picked. I ran several iterations, sometimes modifying my prompts, until I got good... |
af0541d4-7e96-4e5f-9085-2071768f61ed | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [AN #152]: How we’ve overestimated few-shot learning capabilities
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 sprea... |
628726ee-2e64-47bd-a465-b916e0d14f78 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Stanislav Petrov Day
A reminder for everyone: on this day in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.
It occurs to me this time around that there's an interesting relationship here - 9/26 is forgotten, while 9/11 is remembered. Do something charitable, and not patriotic, sometime today. |
b7ab55ff-bfb6-42f9-b586-9c7a0466c397 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Extrapolation Problem
In a previous post I predicted that machine learning is limited by the algorithms it uses (as opposed to hardware or data). This has two big implications:
* Scaling up existing systems will not render human thinking obsolete.
* Replacing the multilayer perceptron with a fundamentally diffe... |
585d26ac-ce08-438b-a4a5-894d7704c357 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
EDIT: Donald Hobson has pointed out a mistake in the reasoning in the section on nucleation. If we know that an area of space-time has a disproportionately high number of observer moments, then it is very likely that these are from long-lived Boltzmann simulations. However, this does... |
260d496a-5c38-4266-9817-205ceb3fa81a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Measuring Optimization Power
**Previously in series**: [Aiming at the Target](/lw/v9/aiming_at_the_target/)
Yesterday I spoke of how "When I think you're a powerful intelligence, and I think I know
something about your preferences, then I'll predict that you'll steer
reality into regions that are higher in your pre... |
d8b3f4a2-8d6c-4188-8eff-d7bd9d257aac | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Newcomb's Problem as an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
The intuitively paradoxical aspect of Newcomb's Problem is that it contains a loop. Your decision determines Omega's prediction, which determines the options you decide between. There are many decision theories that solve this problem, usually leading to one-boxing. ... |
e680f5cd-1f4a-496b-a642-d145cdcc2545 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | March 2020 gwern.net newsletter
None |
496b0569-2a4d-4286-9cfa-dc8bdd46caf7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New Favicon
LW appears to have acquired a new favicon, "<X" in place of the prior "Lw". This change wasn't announced and I don't know what the new icon means. Can someone explain it to me? |
9250e6b3-e695-4ee9-a738-fb8f4080d4d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | UI/UX From the Dark Ages
(Inspired by a spirited discussion on #lesswrong)
You may not realize it, but our existing UI/UX paradigms are mainly from the 1970s, when human-oriented computing was still in dark ages. Menus, forms, check boxes, search bars, file systems, you name it. They are fine tools, polished by decad... |
a22e0f01-a827-4451-b379-93f07f77fb7b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | GiveDirectly, SCI and health outcomes
**What GiveDirectly says:**
>This study documented large, positive, and sustainable impacts across a wide range of outcomes including assets, earnings, food security, ** mental health**, and domestic violence. It found no evidence of impacts on alcohol or tobacco use, crime, ... |
b8302daa-6bd2-4164-9180-fc4c0da0d6b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Extrinsic and Intrinsic Moral Frameworks
The Western intellectual tradition comes from Christianity. Christianity comes from Judaism. Judaism comes from Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism has many ideas recognizable within Christianity.
* Zoroastrianism has a dualistic cosmology of good and evil.
* Zoroastrianism has a... |
2f89dd8a-5534-420a-b307-28fc602959ff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Are there any websites that collate useful psychological study results?
I recently learned there was a study that found that BPD anger behavior is largely mediated by this chain: [shame → anger → anger rumination → BPD behaviors]. The takeaway for me is: notice if there is shame under my anger and try to attend to tha... |
f525cbd0-97ae-4341-992a-81104a5a6f43 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague
Discussion article for the meetup : Czech's first Meetup Prague
WHEN: 26 September 2014 07:30:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Václavské náměstí 778/14, Praha 110 00
Hello, this is going to be first meetup I know about in Czech Republic, specially in Prague. Since I don't know any other rati... |
9a3eff94-7697-4f6b-8512-9213c8c90070 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Far-UVC Light Update: No, LEDs are not around the corner (tweetstorm)
I wrote a tweetstorm on why 222nm LEDs are not around the corner, and given that there has been some discussion related to this on Lesswrong, I thought it was worth reposting here.
People interested in reducing biorisk seem to be super excited abou... |
948192ac-ebea-41ea-abd2-08ea6575cd45 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Melbourne Meetup: Friday 3rd June, 7pm
When: Friday 3rd June, 19:00 (and the first Friday of each following month)
Where: TrikeApps office, lvl 2, 55 Walsh St, West Melbourne 3003 (http://trikeapps.com/contact)
Directions:
Enter the somewhat unfriendly building, climb the stairs to the top (2 floors), and turn left.... |
40394979-5fea-40fb-be2e-0b8c936fca4f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Survey of Multi-agent LLM Evaluations
Disclaimer for LessWrong: This is a project I worked on for a college class. I think it’s useful for people working on evaluations to skim this to get a sense of what types of multi-agent evals exist. Thank you to Xavier Roberts-Gaal for advising me for this project!
Abstract
L... |
44f60edb-70a5-48b4-9b01-dfd0097c901d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Redwood Research is hiring for several roles (Operations and Technical)
[Redwood Research](https://www.redwoodresearch.org/) is a research organization with the mission of aligning superhuman AI. In add... |
34673ab6-2b25-421f-b083-7bf059f24221 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Foom Liability
Robin Hanson suggests, partly in response to calls for a pause in development of AGI, liability rules for risks related to AGI rapidly becoming powerful.
My intuitive reaction was to classify foom liability as equivalent to a near total ban on AGI.
Now that I've found time to think more carefully abou... |
40111ac7-5404-4650-9c72-3651d29e16ca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Alan Carter on the Complexity of Value
It’s always good news when someone else develops an idea independently from you. It's a sign you might be onto something. Which is why I was excited to discover that Alan Carter, Professor Emeritus of the University of Glasgow’s Department of Philosophy, has developed the conce... |
85957ece-2e18-439c-8b39-4d6c476a24d8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cryonics is free
I've been wanting to write a nice post for a few months, but should probably just write one sooner instead. This is a top-level post not because it's a long post, but because it's an important one.
Anyways. Cryonics is pretty much money-free now (ie. subsidized technically)—one of the most affordable... |
d29fce88-1ca8-4d18-af6b-9f22f0215440 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Distinguishing AI takeover scenarios
Epistemic status: lots of this involves interpreting/categorising other people’s scenarios, and could be wrong. We’d really appreciate being corrected if so. [ETA: so far, no corrections.]
TLDR: see the summary table.
In the last few years, people have proposed various AI takeove... |
08d997f5-4181-4154-8180-5035e9215ed9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Evaluating Stability of Unreflective Alignment
This post has an accompanying SPAR project! Apply here if you’re interested in working on this with me.
Huge thanks to Mikita Balesni for helping me implement the MVP. Regular-sized thanks to Aryan Bhatt, Rudolph Laine, Clem von Stengel, Aaron Scher, Jeremy Gillen, Peter... |
e15c47f9-a9db-40f1-b819-441c96fa0745 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The Magnitude of His Own Folly
In the years before I met that [would-be creator of Artificial General Intelligence (with a funded project) who happened to be a creationist](/lw/uc/aboveaverage_ai_scientists/), I would still try to argue with individual AGI wannabes.
In those days, I sort-of-succeeded in convincing o... |
401fe60c-7773-4a88-8f90-b417855dc27c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | First Phoenix, AZ Less Wrong Meetup 4/17 from 12-2pm
Many of my friends and I are frequent readers of Less Wrong and aspiring rationalists, and we'd like to get to know anyone else in the area who is interested in getting together to make the world a little brighter. Absolutely anyone is welcome! (Even if you want to ... |
ba68ca49-7872-4f76-905c-b8574bb0e3c7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An “Optimistic” 2027 Timeline
The following is one possible future in which superhuman AI does NOT happen by the end of this decade. I do not believe that the timeline I present is the most likely path forward. Rather, this is meant primarily as a semi-plausible, less pessimistic alternative timeline than the one pres... |
0906cf82-5e36-4de1-83f2-ae35bf27cedc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups
This summary was posted to LW Main on January 8th. The following week's summary is here.
Irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups are taking place in:
* Palo Alto Meetup: Introduction to Causal Inference: 19 January 2016 06:30PM
* Portland meetup - Dojo style.: 12 January 2016 06:00PM
The remain... |
56d15b21-c0b5-43b2-8067-c37c5dd6dd3a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The CARLIN Method: Teaching AI How to Be Genuinely Funny
> "There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it."
>
> George Carlin
Despite all of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, one challenge has consistently stumped even the most advanced language models: creating genuinely fun... |
03aabdff-a5d2-4c8c-85bf-28cda465433e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How Not to be Stupid: Brewing a Nice Cup of Utilitea
Previously: "objective probabilities", but more importantly knowing what you want
Slight change of plans: the only reason I brought up the "objective" probabilities as early as I did was to help establish the idea of utilities. But with all the holes that seem to n... |
5621f644-8820-4fe9-97d0-a01321998b08 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On Destroying the World
Yesterday I blew up the front page. This was unintentional. I was tricked by one of my friends:
> petrov_day_admin_account September 26, 2020 11:26 AM Hello Chris_Leong,
>
> You are part of a smaller group of 30 users who has been selected for the second part of this experiment. In order for ... |
e8189d6e-0fce-4488-b655-7bdaaf9084bb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Regret, Hindsight Bias and First-Person Experience
Here is an experience that I often have: I'm walking down the street, perfectly content and all of a sudden some memory pops into my stream of consciousness. The memory triggers some past circumstance where I did not act completely admirably. Immediately following thi... |
f19ca8ef-b68e-4a77-adb4-8a759500c411 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Summaries: Alignment Fundamentals Curriculum
The linked document provides my summaries for most core readings and many further readings of [the alignment fundamentals curriculum composed by Richard Ngo](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTm_sT2YQx3mRXQD6J2xD2QJG1c3kHyvX8kQc_IQ0ns/edit), as accessed from July to earl... |
198aebe9-4c2e-4380-a07a-95eaac4a89c3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LessWrong is hiring
LessWrong is looking to hire an additional programmer. Ideally, someone with 5+ years experience who is up for a CTO role, or seems like a strong candidate to grow into such a role.
We're looking for someone excited about our longterm vision. Over the next several years, we want to build a platfor... |
c3823463-eb79-430c-8308-a482f7608bd1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcing the $200k EA Community Choice
Manifund is hosting a $200k funding round for EA community projects, where the grant decisions are made by you. You can direct $100-$800 of funding towards the projects that have helped with your personal journey as an EA. Your choices then decide how $100k in matching will be ... |
f181c4df-9d33-4ac9-9157-3ca364637539 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Another UFO Bet
It's been a little while since this has come up, but I'm hoping there's still interest. I'm offering the best odds yet (50:1).
I'd like to offer another bet similar to Yudkowsky's bet with RatsWrongAboutUAP. Here would be the rules:
* I will pay out immediately upon our agreement to the bet. The oth... |
5b478aae-2131-4b46-a933-f953e8f54fc8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI #51: Altman’s Ambition
[Editor’s note: I forgot to post this to WorldPress on Thursday. I’m posting it here now. Sorry about that.]
Sam Altman is not playing around.
He wants to build new chip factories in the decidedly unsafe and unfriendly UAE. He wants to build up the world’s supply of energy so we can run tho... |
8cdbcc51-0cd5-4005-bad8-347f74e40049 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Explaining inner alignment to myself
Explaining the inner alignment problem to myself in an attempt to gain a gears-level understanding. This post is mostly a distillation of Risks from Learned Optimization, but focusing more on the statistical learning theory perspective. It isn't quite an introduction, more an attem... |
d7bc268a-9194-459a-81e5-09b52cbd00a3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Forces of Blandness and the Disagreeable Majority
There are a few data points that have been making me see “the discourse” differently lately.
1. Large Majorities Dislike Political Correctness.
That’s the title of this Atlantic article that came out in October, and is based on this study from the think tank More... |
7ddfab4a-a77e-458b-8e2d-8f3f027a36ee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Voicing Voice
There is this idea of one’s voice, that a person has a voice which only they are capable of developing and uttering, but this is different than the mere act of saying words out loud or writing words down—though those are two common mediums for voicing one’s voice. Searching around online for this idea of... |
9a2e8838-9a1e-4e2f-8d8b-1588c5bc533e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Artificial Super Intelligence - Will we survive?
a few years ago a friend gave me a
compilation book written by Isaac Asimov
within er was the foundation trilogy the
naked Sun and iRobot each of these
novels moving further back through as a
Los fictional timeline one of the major
themes in iRobot was the free laws of
... |
c8ef910e-6ed6-4058-b0d0-2283fbcc6461 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Curating "The Epistemic Sequences" (list v.0.1)
Summary for regular readers: The epistemic content of The Sequences — i.e., the advice on finding true beliefs — has a different epistemic status than the instrumental content — i.e., the advice on how to behave. Specifically, the epistemic content is based upon techniq... |
10789a0d-8287-4cbd-980c-8f0bf55b06fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Is Not Software
Epistemic Status: This idea is, I think, widely understood in technical circles. I'm trying to convey it more clearly to a general audience. Edit: See related posts like this one by Eliezer for background on how we should use words.
What we call AI in 2024 is not software. It's kind of natural to p... |
0bb697e8-d6a8-4bf1-8fca-9fb42fe6e24b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | tDCS, Neuroscientists' Open Letter To DIY Brain Hackers
"The evidence of harm would be the evidence that you can hurt some cognitive functions with the same stimulation protocols that help another cognitive function. But they're completely correct that we don't have any evidence saying you're definitely hurting yourse... |
ba694bde-c291-42d4-84fe-b32cb4731aee | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | What are the most important papers/post/resources to read to understand more of GPT-3?
I'm way more used to thinking about weird maths or distributed algorithms or abstract philosophical problems than about concrete machine learning architectures. But based on everything I see about GPT-3, it seems a nice idea to lear... |
c170128a-b9ec-420a-b5ae-816e558a6cee | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Interview with New MIRI Research Fellow Luke Muehlhauser
#### Section One: Background and Core Ideas
Q1. [What is your personal background?](https://intelligence.org/feed/?paged=81#WhatIsYour)
Q2. [Why should we care about artificial intelligence?](https://intellig... |
403a33f1-b38c-475d-8dc3-d54aa4fd912c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning with Formally Verified Exploration
1 Introduction
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Guaranteeing that an agent behaves safely during exploration is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning (RL) [[13](#bib.bib13), [1](#bib.bib1)]. Most approaches to the problem are based on stochastic defin... |
d7b9f366-8d4a-4519-8a16-8f786b0c50f6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | How would a language model become goal-directed?
Or what should I read to understand this?
It seems like some people expect descendants of large language models to pose a risk of becoming superintelligent agents. (By ‘descendants’ I mean adding scale and non-radical architectural changes: GPT-N.)
I accept that the... |
3ad0b302-d5e9-4182-85b9-9279be9da1b5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Embedded Agency: Not Just an AI Problem
*Requisite Background: [Embedded Agency Sequence](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/Rm6oQRJJmhGCcLvxh)*
Biology
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Fast forward a few years, and imagine that we have a complete physical model of an e-coli bacteria. We know every function of every gene, kinetics of every reactio... |
670ec247-d0e2-4b51-989b-179cbdd20b25 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Book Recommendations (2)
Yeah, this is a request for further recommendations of or comments on books/book lists.
Previous threads:
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
Book Recomendations
Cognitive Science Books
Great Books of Failure |
0153457a-3f90-45b9-9674-1280520952f2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Answering questions honestly given world-model mismatches
(*This post is superseded by our writeup on* [*Eliciting Latent Knowledge*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/qHCDysDnvhteW7kRd/arc-s-first-technical-report-eliciting-latent-knowledge)*.)*
In a [recent post](https://ai-alignment.com/a-problem-and-three-idea... |
3cec29e2-10be-4079-8e54-1b9eaeef5dbf | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | AI learns to Create ̵K̵Z̵F̵ ̵V̵i̵d̵e̵o̵s̵ Cat Pictures: Papers in Two Minutes #1
dear fellow scholars this is papers in
two minutes with Robert Samuel
Konigsberg miles okay I'm making this
video for a few reasons firstly I've had
a lot of comments from people saying
they'd like me to do videos like Cara
Lee shown ove... |
6cfc8599-207d-405d-bf05-3377aa45ceea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers
Some scholarly fields are very healthy (e.g., physics). Some are fairly unhealthy (e.g., evolutionary psychology, sad to say). Some are outright crazy (e.g., philosophy of religion).
How good or bad is bioethics? How rigorous and truth-tracking is it? How much social be... |
a17ae4f8-f3d1-4b3d-afc8-e2069d536aee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Bedtime reminiscences
Things that I imagine would be cool to do with my kids (if I manage to have some): taking bedtime as a moment to reminisce about the day together.
Recalling enjoyable moments is by itself enjoyable. So ask, what parts of the day did you like? What were some good moments? What about it was enjoya... |
f6e0810e-f969-4117-bfa5-d764830fbd97 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | No option to report spam
I've been seeing quite a bit more spam to the site recently. It might be worthwhile to add an option to report spam instead of the current situation where we can only downvote. |
7ce00e1a-2cdf-4122-99c0-c28ce88fc315 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Enjoying food more: a case study in third options
This was originally going to be a comment on Zvi's excellent "How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT", but it ran rather long, so I expanded it to a top-level post. Hope no one minds.
The issue I took with Zvi's post was that there seemed to be a general assumption being mad... |
fd9ed60d-668f-423d-9035-c2ca5675e478 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post124
Consider the following scenario: We have ideas for training aligned AI, but they’re mostly bad: 90% of the time, if we train an AI using a random idea from our list, it will be misaligned. We have a pretty good alignment test we can run: 90% of aligned AIs will pass the test and 90% of misaligned AIs will ... |
ba0e3a94-3d6e-4d8b-8b2b-bd651d8a86bf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How do I improve at being strategic?
After reading Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic I realized I am not very strategic, and I want to improve. As practice I'm been using the recipe for strategic planning from that post to create a strategy to become more strategic. Specifically, creating a system or framework fo... |
4e14bd20-27c9-4464-9b57-044cd942f050 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | the Insulated Goal-Program idea
*(this post has been written for the first* [*Refine*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7epkkJb3CqDTYgX9/refine-an-incubator-for-conceptual-alignment-research-bets) *blog post day, at the end of the week of readings, discussions, and exercises about epistemology for doing good conceptua... |
78296546-818d-48cf-891e-5899d85fa8bb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Automating Consistency
tldr: Ask models to justify statements. Remove context, ask if statements are true/good. If not, penalise. Apply this again to the justifying statements.
*Status: Just a quick thought. Doubt this is a new idea but I don't think I've encountered it. Happy to delete if it's a duplicate.*
*Mods: ... |
0e216a7e-89c4-4efb-9f85-486eebb428f7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What are the risks of an oracle AI?
One of the arguments for the existential risks of AGI is based on the orthogonality of the system's goals and the instrumental goals it would develop regardless of its stated goals. So isn't the problem having 'goals,' ie specific objectives which are being optimized for by taking a... |
9922d9df-e4de-4821-8b10-1deb2f00be73 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Update 2018-12-06 – All Posts Page, Questions Page, Posts Item rework
First, an FYI – the LessWrong Team will be starting various holiday trips fairly soon. We'll probably still be doing some work and answering intercom, but may be more delayed than usual over the next few weeks.
But, we also have a few more updat... |
a018b198-3aea-4c5f-a1de-cae8bf12f56d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup
WHEN: 16 August 2013 06:30:00PM (+1000)
WHERE: 5/52 Leicester Street, Carlton 3053
Melbourne's regular monthly Social Meetup will be running as normal on Friday evening this week. All welcome from 6:30pm, feel free to arriv... |
690a2ce2-bf9d-48a0-b9a6-95bde1e9a575 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcing the Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety!
Epistemic status: describing fellowships that I am helping with the administration of.
Edit 2021-10-04: Modified to reflect changed eligibility+stipend conditions.
The Future of Life Institute is launching new PhD and postdoctoral fellowships to st... |
d8b2c16a-a4e8-42fa-b33a-a69e2431edd8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Using Brain-Computer Interfaces to get more data for AI alignment
The purpose of this post is to sketch some ways that [Brain Computer Interface](https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/brain-computer-interfaces) (BCI) technology might help with [various AI alignment techniques](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fRsjBseRuvRhMPPE5... |
e2e90c41-18c2-4386-9801-cd1e446a1081 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Using Program Induction to Interpret Transition System Dynamics
1 Introduction
---------------
Learning models of transition systems has been a core concern within machine learning, with applications ranging from system identification of dynamical systems (Schmidt & Lipson, [2009](#bib.bib28)) and inference of huma... |
96721545-a15d-4753-86fc-8b906028aaf2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Let’s set new AI safety actors up for success
Summary:
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* As AI safety enters the mainstream, many new and powerful actors seem to be taking interest in the field
* Some of these actors seem positioned to have an outsized influence on AI risk (e.g., governments that can pass strict regulations or funds lots o... |
dc2df1a7-6b31-4fbe-8dde-2785f0800b01 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notes on Temperance
This post examines the virtue of temperance, drawing mostly from others' insights rather than from my personal views, though I’ve selected material based on what I find credible and interesting. I write as a student of the virtue rather than an expert. I hope to help readers understand temperance a... |
5869c680-94bf-4787-a32b-718797fdecf9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Two kinds of responses
Suppose that you are listening to music, and you reach a song that makes you sad. How do you respond? Here are two ideas:
A) Be sad. Perhaps think about bittersweet memories. Stare into space. Get completely sidetracked and cry a bit. Downgrade your assessment of how good your life is overall. ... |
aad02d14-70fd-4ac7-b564-6f0247441745 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Singularity Mindset
In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. In a growth mindset, people believe that their basic qualities can be modified gradually via dedication and incremental progress. Scott Alexander has cast some doubt on the benefits... |
e2075eb3-42b0-4f4b-90e0-e95c217d58aa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Time & Memory
Epistemic status: fake psychology, no attempt to be correct in details, but maybe something broadly like this happens
Ever had the experience of laughing at something, and then a few minutes later it sort of hits you again and you start laughing again?
Or forget someone's name you just used, and say "i... |
edab6b7e-e280-4c7a-9fc5-bed27d445433 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sunday September 13, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by John Wentworth, Liron and more
This Sunday at 12pm (PT), 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... |
e7de1087-390b-4e51-bdac-bec7461535c8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Asterisk Magazine Issue 03: AI
All the articles from Asterisk's AI special:
============================================
[Matt Clancy and Tamay Besiroglu](https://asteriskmag.com/issues/03/the-great-inflection-a-debate-about-ai-and-explosive-growth) debate whether AI will lead to explosive economic growth
[Jeffrey D... |
1f6bc498-5eb7-405d-85f4-af97581d0629 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Fading Novelty
A core aspect of human experience is our pursuit of novelty. There is something tantalizing about seeking out new pleasures, sensations, and experiences that feels hard-coded into how we operate. “Variety is the spice of life” and all that.
Conversely, things which were once new eventually lose their ... |
5167738d-5a12-42fc-970d-336ffb34f90e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Becoming a gene machine - what should change?
Hello everyone,
After being introduced to the fascinating subject of evolutionary theory by Less Wrong and starting reading The Selfish Gene I have been slowly coming to terms with the mind-blowing revelation that I am simply a machine built to ensure the preservation of ... |
4c7636e9-f0ba-4429-8649-3af81801e525 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | [Crosspost] An AI Pause Is Humanity's Best Bet For Preventing Extinction (TIME)
*Otto Barten is director of the* [*Existential Risk Observatory*](https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/)*, a nonprofit aiming to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate.*
*Joep Meindertsma is founder of PauseAI, a mov... |
4a381dc1-7992-4ed0-a445-d8181d681d84 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open-ended ethics of phenomena (a desiderata with universal morality)
More clarity and context here
The short TLDR version is here
I formulate a desiderata/procedure (called "phenomenal ethics") :
Expanding the action space and autonomy of a maximum of phenomenons (enhancing ecosystemic values, and the means to reac... |
4789f84c-55fc-4b94-8f75-3ae908bdbbcc | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | $20 Million in NSF Grants for Safety Research
After a year of negotiation, the NSF has [announced](https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/safe-learning-enabled-systems) a **$20 million** request for proposals for empirical AI safety research.
[Here is the detailed program description](https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/202... |
413300cd-38bd-47d5-a268-c63bea4cd7e5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Failure modes in a shard theory alignment plan
Thanks to David Udell, Alex Turner, and others for conversations that led to this
Recently in a conversation with David Udell, Nate Soares said:
> [David's summary of shard theory] doesn't yet convince me that you know something i don't about the hopefullness of such a ... |
63212a29-8c4e-419f-9966-44d7e2485c83 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Incentivizing forecasting via social media
Daniel Kokotajlo and I published a post on Incentivizing forecasting via social media on the EA Forum, perhaps of interest to some readers here.
> Summary
> * Most people will probably never participate on existing forecasting platforms which limits their effects on mainst... |
2221383f-f8a8-4ee7-be14-b07c0539c3f1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | The accumulation of knowledge: literature review
*Financial status: This is independent research, now supported by a grant. I welcome* [*financial support*](https://www.alexflint.io/donate.html) *.*
*Epistemic status: This is in-progress thinking.*
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This post is part of a sequence on the accumulation of kno... |
b5ab5543-707d-4060-914c-c42d2d746117 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Welcome to Baltimore LessWrong [Edit With Your Details]
(The following are our suggestions for what kind of information is best to include in the welcome post of your group, feel free to replace them with whatever you think is best)
What kind of events does your group usually run? What does it usually do?
How freque... |
7f5beef3-21cf-49a5-8ac6-8fbabef4eabb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What are Scott Garrabrant and Abram Demski working on?
They are working on fundamental problems like [embeddedness, decision theory, logical counterfactuals](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/i3BTagvt3HbPMx6PN/embedded-agency-full-text-version), and more. A big advance was [Cartesian Frames](https://www.alignmentfo... |
e3df1b0a-5ab4-4d25-a1d8-432a42c740d1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Signaling isn't about signaling, it's about Goodhart
Epistemic status: Fuzzy conjecture in a faintly mathematically flavored way. Clear intuitions about Gears and a conclusion, but nothing like a formal proof or even formal definitions. Anecdotes offered to clarify the intuition rather than as an attempt at data. Plen... |
9b507ed3-b8f8-4ec9-b95d-f762097f8ab3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Characterizing Intrinsic Compositionality in Transformers with Tree Projections
From Twitter
> Transformers become more ‘tree-like’ over the course of training, representing their inputs in a more hierarchical way. The authors find this by projecting transformers into the space of tree-structured networks. [Stanford,... |
e3eb67ec-2054-4ece-8b62-8b0d6e17d08d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 113
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 113.
There is a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com,... |
3e72c6a9-c446-4cb7-8fd0-51fc5fa0cdf4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Allowing a formal proof system to self improve while avoiding Lobian obstacles.
[Epistemic status, can't spot a mistake, but am not confidant that there isn't one, if you find anything please say so. Posting largely because the community value of a new good idea is larger than any harm that might be caused by a flawed... |
22beadb8-a012-425d-897c-e57170d2d820 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | QNR prospects are important for AI alignment research
Attention conservation notice: This discussion is intended for readers with an interest in prospects for knowledge-rich intelligent systems and potential applications of improved knowledge representations to AI capabilities and alignment. It contains no theorems.
... |
64c5a568-6301-4d8d-88e2-74ce810f2d4a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | A breakthrough unfolds - DeepMind: The Podcast (S2, Ep1)
do you remember where you were on the
30th of november 2020
probably not i'd imagine but that date
sticks in my mind because i got a text
from a friend and colleague geneticist
adam rutherford it read have you seen
the news the protein folding problem
exclamatio... |
47721376-dc3c-4246-8062-2fbfc08a6cd0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | I've updated towards AI boxing being surprisingly easy
Specifically because I think that sandboxes like an improved WASM could make it such that conditioned on careful data curation, that side channels have 0 probability to give the AI any information outside of what we give it.
I.e I would predict 0 probability of ... |
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