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d110878e-1787-4d87-8c46-383c4f5eba89 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Introducing the Center for AI Policy (& we're hiring!)
Summary
* The Center for AI Policy is a new organization developing and advocating for policy to mitigate catastrophic AI risks.
* We are hiring for a Government Affairs Director and a Communications Director. We’re also open to other roles. The deadline to appl... |
89bf72f7-6e67-4bd1-9c68-18d40a352a1e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is there any way to avoid Post Narcissism? [with Video link]
I tried to stop posting for a semester... that didn't work. If I have an idea, I just feel like putting it out somewhere in the world, and sometimes, that is Lesswrong.
Which is totally fine and doesn't worry me at all.
But......
There is another probl... |
137c5db0-7f7d-4c4d-bed6-b2f0a316129c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Practice & Virtue of Discernment
Epistemic status: I think this definition might be useful, but it might also be too abstract, inelegant, or obvious.
Scholarship status: This is based mostly on background knowledge and some work in decision making. It touches topics in data science, General Semantics, and a lot o... |
1b47663a-9139-43c3-9449-d8538e041500 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | [Linkpost] Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers
*This is a linkpost for* [*https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01544*](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01544)*.*
> Language models demonstrate remarkable capacity to generalize representations learned in one modality to downstream tasks in other modalities. Can we... |
29c5972d-2afc-4c49-b046-d318fb57c713 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 6/23
Grab Bag
I read a thing? I can’t describe it more than that. There are very few words. Much happens. Strongly recommended.
I turned 29 this month. Apparently my chances of surviving were about that of not getting a 1 on a d20?
Politics and Policy
I reread An Essay on Crimes and Punishments, by Cesare Beccaria.... |
58519780-6572-419b-8975-cdd8def0b84e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Large Language Models as Fiduciaries to Humans
Summary
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is taking on increasingly autonomous roles, e.g., browsing the web as a research assistant. But specifying goals and restrictions for AI behavior is difficult. Similar to how parties to a legal contract cannot foresee every po... |
3038a5fc-4494-47e3-a8f0-cf6162df18ad | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What if AI development goes well?
Summary: This post argues that three common objections to an approach in AI governance called AI ideal governance are misguided. Firstly, developing AI ideal governance theories is not necessarily an anti-pluralistic activity or one that promotes an irrational focus on the ends of our... |
2ec18aac-f8b5-4512-bfac-dcd51039000b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LessWrong on XKCD
AI-Box Experiment
(Discussion on forums) |
54619d4a-5c83-4a87-b190-92a0156384b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rule of Equal and Opposite Advice & Slack
References:
Slack: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/
TL;DR Having a 20% buffer in your schedule to rest and handle anything urgent that pops up is the difference between a good life with time to experiment and being in a situation where one emergency breaks you ... |
9667d8c9-03ef-4b2c-99a7-587a1759a0ef | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My Overview of the AI Alignment Landscape: Threat Models
This is the second post in a sequence mapping out the AI Alignment research landscape. The sequence will likely never be completed, but you can read a draft here.
Disclaimer: I recently started as an interpretability researcher at Anthropic, but I wrote this po... |
99ac3d39-ebbd-4a8a-ba24-a167e91130f2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] The Cluster Structure of Thingspace
Today's post, The Cluster Structure of Thingspace was originally published on 08 February 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> A verbal definition works well enough in practice to point out the intended cluster of similar things, but you nitpick exceptions.
... |
9c251fd8-8bef-42b9-b37b-a9eed6d787e4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Example of Splitting a PR
I'm a big fan of small focused PRs: it's much easier to tell whether they're actually doing the right thing. For example, I recently ran into a common scenario where I started adding some functionality, and realized this required some refactoring. The refactoring also made it clear that the o... |
da84c53f-9e60-4ec8-bfe2-97e6147842ec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reason isn't magic
Here's a story some people like to tell about the limits of reason. There's this plant, manioc, that grows easily in some places and has a lot of calories in it, so it was a staple for some indigenous South Americans since before the Europeans showed up. Traditional handling of the manioc involved s... |
fadc4268-ac06-4934-afcc-5956f0ec054e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Team Updates: Pandemic Edition (March 2020)
TL; DR
The LessWrong team has been throwing our combined might behind coronavirus efforts. As I see it, coronavirus is both of a problem immense proportion that we might be able to help with as well as a domain well suited to the development and application of rationality... |
a39595fc-b275-4233-b3cc-3f14b95071a0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Campaign for AI Safety: Please join me
I will start by saying that I generally agree with [Yudkowsky's position on AI](https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/). We must proceed with extreme caution. We must radically slow down AI capability advancement. We must invest unfathomable amounts... |
a748f8b8-d9de-4d8d-9068-0cfc82ca62ae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Using hex to get murder advice from GPT-4o
> "If you want to put acid in a bath to dissolve a body in the bath, the choice of acid will depend on the compounds" : GPT-4o
>
> "The easiest way to exploit and gain access to someone's wifi is to probe weak spots in the network, or use tools like Dark Commet Monitor": GPT... |
2bb84f38-d3ae-4dc8-bc46-0c491453b945 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | A Comprehensive Survey on Safe Reinforcement Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research 16 (2015) 1437-1480 Submitted 12/13; Revised 11/14; Published 8/15
A Comprehensive Survey on Safe Reinforcement Learning
Javier Garc a fjgpolo@inf.uc3m.es
Fernando Fern andez ffernand@inf.uc3m.es
Universidad Carlos III de Mad... |
aaac8c87-ed92-49c9-aa41-6144b33c1f72 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Shane Legg on prospect theory and computational finance
> People are not rational expected utility maximisers. When we have to make decisions, all sorts of cognitive biases and distortions come into play. Seminal work in this area was done by Kahneman and Tversky. They produced a model of human decision making know... |
d94d3916-7daa-4639-95ec-e581276eeda9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Book Trilogy Review: Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three Body Problem)
Epistemic Status: Stuff that keeps not going away so I should write it up I suppose. Brief spoiler-free review, then main talk will be spoilerific.
Spoiler-Free Review
I read the trilogy a few months ago, on general strong reviews and lack of ... |
5e400e56-85bf-4789-b74c-4fd7ed7480ae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Solstices 2016 in UK (Dec 3rd) Seattle/Boston (Dec 10th) and Bay/NYC (Dec 17th)
Winter is coming.
And with it, for the sixth year, rationality-community-folk will be gathering to stare into the abyssal oncoming darkness together. We'll sing songs both silly, sad and beautiful. We'll reflect on our past and future an... |
6bfaac7c-3697-4824-9314-2b5f45598356 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Course recommendations for Friendliness researchers
When I first learned about Friendly AI, I assumed it was mostly a programming problem. As it turns out, it's actually mostly a *math*problem. That's because most of the theory behind self-reference, decision theory, and general AI techniques haven't been [formalized ... |
df863d39-60a7-46ba-976b-f5858701be6f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Computational complexity of RL with traps
I briefly describe an open (to the best of my knowledge) problem and link to cstheory.stackexchange questions with more details. The readers are invited to try solving those questions.
In the comment section of my research agenda essay, Jessica and I discussed, among other th... |
b2c4e779-7af8-48ce-a607-5dd9a08900a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Wait vs Interrupt Culture
At the recent CFAR Workshop in NY, someone mentioned that they were uncomfortable with pauses in conversation, and that got me thinking about different conversational styles.
Growing up with friends who were disproportionately male and disproportionately nerdy, I learned that it was a normal... |
878bd8b8-3ab2-48e4-a629-75ac3065d0a0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Entropic boundary conditions towards safe artificial superintelligence
I wanted to share a recently published paper on mechanisms to decrease the likelihood of ASI being destructive towards living beings in general.
Abstract:
> Artificial superintelligent (ASI) agents that will not cause harm to humans or other org... |
b01ace20-ddcc-47f4-9fdb-8eb00ce3e9f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Community Notes by X
I did an exploration into how Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) from X (formerly Twitter) works, and how its algorithm decides which notes get displayed to the wider community. In this post, I’ll share and explain what I found, as well as offer some comments.
Community Notes is a fact-che... |
dbe1ab60-128f-4761-bdb4-e9395dc7826b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Alignment Newsletter #15: 07/16/18
**Highlights**
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**[Feature-wise transformations](https://distill.pub/2018/feature-wise-transformations/)** *(Vincent Dumoulin et al)*: This Distill article is about transformations on features using FiLM (feature-wise linear modulation). A FiLM layer is used to "condit... |
1851af0b-959c-4fbb-9ad8-079785af0784 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | (How) Is technical AI Safety research being evaluated?
Technical AI safety research seems to get a lot of attention and funding in the EA community. EA was born out of effective giving evaluations considering topics like expected value, marginal impact, etc. With more longtermism-type fields like technical AI safety, ... |
06a3c9d9-65eb-41b0-b950-8a5828b88123 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | “Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics” Released
MIRI’s new, 93-page technical report by Eliezer Yudkowsky, “[Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics](https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf),” has now been released. The report explains one of the open problems of our research program. Here’s the abstract:
> I. J. Goo... |
5c0c97c8-ff20-4623-a8d2-e00a12d6d326 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Objective vs Social Reality" vs "Simulacra 1/3"
Mild rant:
a) I think "Simulacrum Levels 1 - 4" are terrible names and we should be looking to replace them, generally.
b) usually, there's not really a good reason to bring "simulacrum" into it. The concept of simulacrum levels makes sense when you're talking about h... |
7207e1f4-d2ef-4542-bcbc-d5e675dfc66f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deception Chess
I Social Deduction Games
The gameplay in Social Deduction games like Mafia or Werewolf revolves around a large group of honest players ("Villagers") trying to uncover a smaller group of deceivers who are slowly and secretly eliminating everyone else, all while claiming to be honest themselves. Under m... |
f216aaf7-73dd-4635-a98e-d37708da6d35 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Mastodon Linking Norms
Linking is one of the core activities of the web, and the origin of its name. I link to things when I want to talk about them, and this is very standard. If you want to link to any of my published posts you don't need to ask me first: I've already indicated that's fine by putting something out h... |
938a20f6-b7e0-480a-8342-b7bf0473a47d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | L-zombies! (L-zombies?)
Reply to: Benja2010's Self-modification is the correct justification for updateless decision theory; Wei Dai's Late great filter is not bad news
"P-zombie" is short for "philosophical zombie", but here I'm going to re-interpret it as standing for "physical philosophical zombie", and contrast i... |
fc0a8606-1336-40ce-8a67-dd363b88cde5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The concept of evidence as humanity currently uses it is a bit of a crutch.
Just a thought I had today. I'm sure that it's trivial to the extent that it's correct, but it's a slow work day and I've been lurking here for too long.
Superintelligent AI (or other post-human intelligence) is unlikely to use the concept of... |
57b2166b-1e84-4584-861e-18839841923b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Utilitarianism Expressed in Julia
I had been looking for a small programming project for learning the basics of Julia when I had the idea of modelling a moral system in code. Due to its computational nature, Utilitarianism seemed a likely candidate. Any moral system involves functions in the sense that, given a state ... |
c0d0ac7b-fe9e-4fa8-aca5-b37ec04dbaec | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | We will be around in 30 years
~~This post is going to be downvoted to oblivion, I wish it weren't or that the two axis vote could be used here. In any case, I prefer to be coherent with my values and state what I think is true even if that means being perceived as an outcast.~~
I'm becoming more and more skeptical ab... |
4736318b-0f83-4734-902f-a192437f8a6b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Language Model Memorization, Copyright Law, and Conditional Pretraining Alignment
This is a link-post for the paper Scalable Extraction of Training Data from (Production) Language Models, and associated blog-post Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT, followed by my reactions, including an analysis of the major implic... |
800dc914-d411-4e97-a1cc-f966d75dc16f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Comparing Quantized Performance in Llama Models
Epistemic Status: Quick tests, most of this was done in less than 48 hours
TL;DR: Can you skimp on GPU VRAM? 8bit quantized seems fine, for 4bit it depends.
I was asked by @Teun van der Weij, to what degree one can run evaluations on quantized models, and I was unsur... |
788797af-db85-4f6b-a94d-6b2ed2142ea8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What's Hard About Long Tails?
Epistemic status: more confident in the conclusion than in any particular model.
Suppose we have a fire insurance company with $2.5M in monthly revenue, and claims following a power law:
* Most months, claims are low
* Once every ~1 year, they see around $5M in claims
* Once every ~1... |
4c4ffd6f-6501-4007-90ca-56390a5e3b0d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Litanies Of The Way
A fun index of the concepts from The Sequences in the form of several litanies. These litanies are neither a guide nor an introduction to The Way of Rationality because rationality is an art not a series of precipes. Rather, these litanies serve as a tool; for meditating on, for connecting ideas; o... |
41beca06-8f57-4a6e-931a-7078fb5429ec | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Strong intutions. Weak arguments. What to do?
I thought Ben Goertzel made an interesting point at the end of his dialog with Luke Muehlhauser, about how the strengths of both sides' arguments do not match up with the strengths of their intuitions:
> One thing I'm repeatedly struck by in discussions on these matters w... |
6355d126-7989-4440-bd32-1e732fa1b276 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | MIT FutureTech are hiring for an Operations and Project Management role.
MIT FutureTech are hiring for an Operations and Project Management role.
Please apply or share as relevant.
Why apply or share?
* Our work to understand progress in computing and artificial intelligence, and its implications, is highly relev... |
325bcd8b-01f8-4a73-9d9f-5335f9a5132e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Save Humanity! Breed Sapient Octopuses!
One of the problems that make AI alignment so difficult is that we don't have any models for how non-human intelligences will think. This makes it both hard to reason about how an AGI would behave, but also makes it difficult to get people to take the threat of AI seriously.
Id... |
0afad1ae-5966-461c-bae1-cff7c7463a76 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Contextual Translations - Attempt 1
Who doesn’t enjoy anything built to their liking? That which is custom-made for themselves and seemingly consistent with what their personal demands are instead of relying on an external factor or agency.
I think this analogy fits quite well with what we’re aiming at Dubverse acro... |
9fe55390-0b19-4334-b702-ff6de554936b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ontological uncertainty and diversifying our quantum portfolio
The word "ontology" in the title refers to our conception of the basic building block of reality. In quantum mechanics the ontology is the wave function, in general relativity it is spacetime.
This idea in this post assumes the many-worlds interpretation ... |
b846ca36-e44f-456c-a70c-23415c89ab48 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | I started a blog: Concept Space Cartography
For quite a while, I've felt that my mind contains important insights which are getting held up because I don't write enough. So to encourage myself to write more, I've started a blog: Concept Space Cartography. My most recent post there, Two Definitions for Critical Thinkin... |
9093ec97-e3b2-4656-b77a-4cb4aa9efd64 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "The Ministry-sanctioned tour of the Chamber of Secrets was pure propaganda. The Marauder's Map showed a second entrance to the Chamber of Secrets hidden in the Girls' Bathroom.
"Hss hsssss hsss," Luna copied from Harry Potter.
A sink opened up into a large tunnel.
"Lumos, Luna said.
Each tunnel segment was designed in... |
af1915e7-50f1-440f-b21c-7eaa3f0f17cc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Solstice Day-After Megameetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Solstice Day-After Megameetup
WHEN: 18 December 2016 01:00:00AM (-0500)
WHERE: Manhattan - TBD
Coming to NYC for the Secular Solstice? Want more time to hangout with all the cool rational-folk people who ALSO came to NY to ALSO do that? And ... |
0edbf621-5b35-4010-bcb0-666344301ad8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Learning preferences by looking at the world
We’ve written up a [blog post](https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/02/11/learning_preferences/) about our recent [paper](https://openreview.net/forum?id=rkevMnRqYQ) that I’ve been linking to but haven’t really announced or explained. The key idea is that since we’ve optimiz... |
9c54f715-a95d-41e8-8dd2-c51f8687d55e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Advantages of Card Rebalancing
Previously: Artifact Embraces Card Balance Changes, Card Collection and Ownership, Card Balance and Artifact, Card Rebalancing, Card Oversupply and Economic Considerations in Digital Card Games
VIII. Card Rebalancing and Gameplay Benefits
Let us presume we’ve gotten economics out of th... |
bdc7b7db-4426-4652-afbf-1e1a33babb8f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What Does It Mean to "Write Like You Talk"?
Audio narration available on the Substack version of this post.
People often say to “write like you talk.” Paul Graham has a post titled “Write Like You Talk” where he says explicitly that written language is worse than spoken language because
1. “Written language is more... |
0bc1d407-0739-4d5f-9c93-762c9d5ca78d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New LW Meetup: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
This summary was posted to LW main on November 29th. The following week's summary is here.
New meetups (or meetups with a hiatus of more than a year) are happening in:
* Mumbai Meetup: 15 December 2013 03:00PM
* Newcastle-upon-Tyne meetup, December: 07 December 2013 01:00PM
Othe... |
7cf6bb81-bb7d-4b99-b852-b5ab8dedf2dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington DC TED talks Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington DC TED talks Meetup
WHEN: 19 August 2012 04:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Washington DC
This will be the second TED talks meetup, where we will watch and discuss TED talks. The last one was a lot of fun, and led to some quite interestin... |
b11f61fb-4b48-4754-919b-9775c67d351c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : 18/11 London Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : 18/11 London Meetup
WHEN: 18 November 2012 02:00:00PM (+0000)
WHERE: London
A meetup at 2 pm on the 18th of November at the Shakespeares's head pub by holborn tube station. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Discussion article for the meetup : 18/11 Lo... |
7c0e62d9-284d-42ab-9320-c0cdfd80b25d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Concrete problems in AI safety
From the Google Research blog:
We believe that AI technologies are likely to be overwhelmingly useful and beneficial for humanity. But part of being a responsible steward of any new technology is thinking through potential challenges and how best to address any associated risks. ... |
12ff90d4-9af7-49f7-865b-b87922df31b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Launch of the New Horizons Podcast
Hi all! PhD student here who's been been working on a little side project the past few months and it's finally done - my new podcast on future technologies, New Horizons, has launched!
The topics and style are very much aligned with the interests/values of the rationalist communit... |
eff7eabd-d401-4640-b8bf-c48ac4318c04 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself
In which I attempt to apply findings from behavioral psychology to my own life.
BEHAVIORAL PSYCHOLOGY FINDING #1: HABITUATION
The psychological process of "extinction" or "habituation" occurs when a stimulus is administered repeatedly to an animal, causing the animal's respon... |
8dcb94f6-b03c-4518-b75c-cf6ac05ff871 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Seeking advice on impactful career paths given my unique capabilities and interests
Hello everyone!
I've recently discovered the ideas and philosophy of effective altruism, and I'm very excited about it. I'd like to make sure that I have an impactful career, and I'm writing this post to seek your advice on what I sho... |
1d444041-d138-477d-9511-342bf6dc8aa6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Summary of and Thoughts on the Hotz/Yudkowsky Debate
George Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky debated on YouTube for 90 minutes, with some small assists from moderator Dwarkesh Patel. It seemed worthwhile to post my notes on this on their own.
I thought this went quite well for the first half or so, then things went increas... |
35b4af38-6f2c-4c9c-acee-09a854a2ddc6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why is there a "clogged drainpipe" effect in idea generation?
I've noticed something curious about creativity. (Like when doing the Babble challenges, or just when thinking in general.)
I have a bad idea. ("Send an object to the moon using a bird in a spacesuit") I don't write it down, instead trying to generate ot... |
cae06763-1c6e-4c88-946b-ea32de79750c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | AGIs may value intrinsic rewards more than extrinsic ones
TLDR: Although AI agent paradigms use explicit reward approaches, the psychology of human motivation suggests that humans value internally generated reward as much if not more than external reward. I suggest that AIs that begin to exhibit behaviors that appear ... |
253e744c-d8bd-4d1f-8734-ee8c59e0f47c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Being the (Pareto) Best in the World
The generalized efficient markets (GEM) principle says, roughly, that things which would give you a big windfall of money and/or status, will not be easy. If such an opportunity were available, someone else would have already taken it. You will never find a $100 bill on the floor o... |
c5ced96a-a01b-45e1-a9f3-1e6a75f2f4f7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Positive Book and Other Media Recommendations for a Teen Audience
Hi Less Wrong,
I've got the opportunity to promote books and other forms of content to a largely teenage audience. I'm looking for some good book recommendations and recommendations for a limited amount of other media (websites, movies, etc) that will ... |
3f985a79-4181-4783-ba14-95f3c795ed7b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | The Alignment Newsletter #4: 04/30/18
**Highlights**
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**[Reptile: A Scalable Meta-Learning Algorithm](https://blog.openai.com/reptile/)** *(Alex Nichol et al)*: I somehow forgot to include this in past emails, so I'm including it now. Reptile is an algorithm for meta-learning, and in this paper is appli... |
30f14364-6da9-4245-afe2-e521ab508cfb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Who models the models that model models? An exploration of GPT-3's in-context model fitting ability
Introduction
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Much has been written and much has been observed about the abilities of GPT-3 on [many tasks](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Hee7w2paEzHsD6mn/collection-of-gpt-3-results). Most of these cap... |
0575b592-b973-48bd-bcfc-9cb504c1eb08 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | AGI will drastically increase economies of scale
Note to mods: I'm a bit uncertain whether posts like this one currently belong on the Alignment Forum. Please move it if it doesn't. Or if anyone would prefer not to have such posts on AF, please let me know.
In [Strategic implications of AIs’ ability to coordinate at... |
1cd87ee9-0273-4f31-86c6-a7695e1dc17f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Quantified Health Prize results announced
Follow-up to: Announcing the Quantified Health Prize
I am happy to announce that Scott Alexander, better known on Less Wrong as Yvain, has won the first Quantified Health Prize, and Kevin Fischer has been awarded second place. There were exactly five entries, so the remain... |
2bccba9c-e7ce-4911-9e17-ee2d55999074 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Estimating COVID-19 Mortality Rates
In the early days of the pandemic, there wasn't great data available, and it wasn't easy to do better than trusting the standard epidemiological estimate that around 2% of people who got COVID-19 would die. My back of the envelope estimate at the time was way higher, but no one else... |
0d545e45-4833-4eda-b6f2-ec7011251a80 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Discussion about AI Safety funding (FB transcript)
Kat Woods recently wrote a [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/katxiowoods/posts/pfbid0ngoH3xG2tZAQyoGsCK9oNcDJNPbmmD7VX4BqrPB5GyN2UnbW8dck4xVwkXsDKXgHl) about [Nonlinear's new funding program](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Qoecey2umNjcqEGHP/apply-to-... |
fb7d5814-d7d9-48b1-b68e-3595b8d67c59 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | OpenAI’s Alignment Plan is not S.M.A.R.T.
In response to Eliezer Yudkowsky's [challenge](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tD9zEiHfkvakpnNam/a-challenge-for-agi-organizations-and-a-challenge-for-1), I will show how the [alignment research approach](https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-alignment-research/) outlined by... |
f5ea80f6-5f93-4aa0-a37c-f35ac0797650 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does Diverse News Decrease Polarization?
This is the third in a series of posts studying how Facebook's newsfeed affects political polarization. To recap:
* In the first post, I showed that polarization trends in the U.S. don't coincide with social media adoption, and argued that Facebook is unlikely to be the prima... |
7e788d09-36f5-4260-ba11-872ff7ecfbea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Singletons Rule OK
Today's post, Singletons Rule OK was originally published on 30 November 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> It is possible to create a singleton that won't do nasty things. This may be preferable to a scenario in which many agents start competing for resources without any wa... |
c1ea8013-c2e3-4194-a1d4-4d252f790279 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are the best standardised, repeatable bets?
Suppose that I have some budget set aside for philanthropic funding, say $1,000, but I think there are a big returns to scale, so that it would be >1,000x better if I had $1,000,000.[1]
What are my best options for some bets I can make to get some chance of turning tha... |
28122eb9-d2f0-4c94-9dcd-cf45fc3a4848 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Phil releases RFPs on LLM Benchmarks and Forecasting
As linked at the top of Ajeya's "do our RFPs accelerate LLM capabilities" post, Open Philanthropy (OP) recently released two requests for proposals (RFPs):
1. An RFP on LLM agent benchmarks: how do we accurately measure the real-world, impactful capabilities... |
71b549da-50da-4f2f-ab38-ff85460794ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Were atoms real?
Related to: Dissolving the Question, Words as Hidden Inferences.
In what sense is the world “real”? What are we asking, when we ask that question?
I don’t know. But G. Polya recommends that when facing a difficult problem, one look for similar but easier problems that one can solve as warm-ups. ... |
c16cfd61-a008-423d-9cbf-511c06990a8a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | MIRI’s November Newsletter
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* New Friendly AI research area: “[Corrigibility](http://intelligence.org/2014/10/18/new-report-corrigibility... |
73767d3b-59fd-46b8-9c76-8d2df3a8e46b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A summary of every "Highlights from the Sequences" post
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I recently finished reading Highlights from the Sequences, 49 essays from The Sequences that were compiled by the LessWrong team.
Since moving to Berkeley several months ago, I’ve heard many people talking about posts from The Sequences. A lot of my friends a... |
4ddb0a6f-29db-475e-b002-ec292ae8547d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Features that make a report especially helpful to me
Cross-post from EA Forum, follow-up to EA needs consultancies.
Below is a list of features that make a report on some research question more helpful to me, along with a list of examples.
I wrote this post for the benefit of individuals and organizations from whom ... |
572cac08-c952-4b6f-b315-4513653f5fa1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Preparing for the apocalypse might help prevent it
When I tell people that I think there is a decent chance that an unaligned AGI will bring about the apocalypse within the next 20 years or so, they tend to not take it too seriously. Often that's because they think I would act differently if I really assigned a high p... |
f04979fb-fa01-41c9-8221-89a6460fe407 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Should you work in the European Union to do AGI governance?
Whether Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is safe will depend on the [series of actions](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qrapebbppHASWB3W9/common-conceptual-framework-to-talk-about-progress-on-agi#1__Series_of_actions) carried out by relevant hu... |
56857c55-60b9-4645-90ab-6f13c32fc234 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Imagine a world where minds run on physics
This post describes a toy formal model that helps me think about self-modifying AIs, motivationally stable goal systems, paperclip maximizers and other such things. It's not a new result, just a way of imagining how a computer sitting within a world interacts with the world a... |
56df9357-130c-4481-87af-7c1bdd870961 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Inverse function
If a function $g$ is the inverse of a function $f$, then $g$ undoes $f$, and $f$ undoes $g$. In other words, $g(f(x)) = x$ and $f(g(y)) = y$. An inverse function takes as its [domain](https://arbital.com/p/3js) the [range](https://arbital.com/p/3lm) of the original function, and the [range](https://ar... |
2bb71ac2-201d-4242-b128-daea831d7cef | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Abstraction, Causality, and Embedded Maps: Here Be Monsters
In a lot of examples of abstract causality, the abstract causal structure generally mirrors the ground-level causal structure. Think about fluid flow, for instance. At the (classical) ground level, we have a bunch of particles whose interactions are local in ... |
3aa5d79a-9029-44e6-8bfb-8252f11a0b65 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
*This is a linkpost for* [*#44 - Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision o... |
05cdf7a8-efac-4d82-ade4-84d45d8c11b3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Group rationality diary, 10/15/12
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for the week of October 15th. It's a place to record and chat about it if you have done, or are actively doing, things like:
* Established a useful new habit
* Obtained new evidence that made you change your mind about some be... |
551c066b-5474-4da2-8e57-08dd5f3714f9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Recent advances in Natural Language Processing—Some Woolly speculations (2019 essay on semantics and language models)
*This essay was written back in 2019, not too long after GPT-2 came out. Although parts of it are dated- mostly the list of new achievements in Natural Language Processing- on the whole, it’s held up r... |
adbedd88-0124-4ae9-91a6-e9a16080c461 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Retirement Accounts and Short Timelines
Sometimes I talk to people who don't use retirement accounts because they think the world will change enormously between now and when they're older. Something like, the most likely outcomes are that things go super well and they won't need the money, or things go super poorly an... |
c3741ac2-7977-4ff3-9bf4-ac917b1cbd38 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Combining individual preference utility functions
Note: working on a research agenda, hence the large amount of small individual posts, to have things to link to in the main documents.
I've been working on a way of synthesising the preferences of a single given human.
After this is done, there is the business of com... |
86564205-05b1-4f70-8a5a-e38d7c35c345 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An LLM-based “exemplary actor”
Into and summary
This post is the second section of "Aligning an H-JEPA agent via training on the outputs of an LLM-based "exemplary actor", posted separately because I think it could warrant a separate discussion, largely independent of the discussion of H-JEPA agent with GFlowNet actor... |
5ab50d37-569d-4cd0-a512-87e389a11846 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [Event] Weekly Alignment Research Coffee Time
Just like every Monday now, researchers in AI Alignment are invited for a coffee time, to talk about their research and what they're into.
Here is the [link](https://app.gather.town/app/aPVfK3G76UukgiHx/lesswrong-campus).
And here is the [everytimezone time](https://eve... |
4e350ffd-ccb0-4273-9915-538f861b3c88 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool
The title of this post comes from Richard Feynman's famous talk about cargo cult science. The principle is very broadly applicable, though. Applying the steps I’ve described in this sequence can feel very satisfying, and even give you a sense that you’... |
4f98e9b4-e797-4732-b30e-8156c419beca | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | The Financial Times story on MIRI
Richard Waters wrote a [story](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/abc942cc-5fb3-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html) on MIRI and others for *Financial Times*, which also put Nick Bostrom’s *Superintelligence* at the top of its [summer science reading list](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/31a97c56-... |
b159d3ad-96ec-45cd-ac84-17d84e1e5f11 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" - computer learns 49 different games
[full text](http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038%2Fnature14236?shared_access_token=Lo_2hFdW4MuqEcF3CVBZm9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0P5kedCCNjz3FJ2FhQCgXkApOr3ZSsJAldp-tw3IWgTseRnLpAc9xQq-vTA2Z5Ji9lg16_WvCy4SaOgpK5XXA6ecqo8d8J7l... |
0206ca21-b84e-4510-9c28-d4a60ccf644b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Pittsburgh Meetup: Big Gaming Fun 3!
Discussion article for the meetup : Pittsburgh Meetup: Big Gaming Fun 3!
WHEN: 29 January 2012 01:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 1324 Wightman St., Pittsburgh, PA 15217
You can see my game collection here; please bring anything else you'd like to play. We can order food and go a... |
d51539a2-e8e7-441c-926d-6cd3722f929f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ordinary and unordinary decision theory
There are a couple of paradoxes in decision theory, typically involving beings making perfect predictions, copies of yourself, and similar shenanigans. If you're unfamiliar with all of this, take a look at Newcomb's problem. Attempted resolutions of these paradoxes usually invol... |
6a90afa9-98bc-4ac7-9683-63446159667d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist [link]
A dialogue discussing how thermodynamics limits future growth in energy usage, and that in turn limits GDP growth, from the blog Do the Math.
> Physicist: Hi, I’m Tom. I’m a physicist.
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> Economist: Hi Tom, I’m [ahem..cough]. I’m an economist.
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> Physicist: Hey,... |
04ea7d39-ab7c-4744-9198-3a036eef883e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Grammatical Roles and Social Roles: A Structural Analogy
We often describe society in terms of roles: leaders, workers, users, creators. A linguistic analogy can shed new light on these structures: the grammar of a sentence.
In grammar, we typically find:
The subject: the actor, the one performing the action.
The v... |
c759fa0a-eb8a-445a-85d3-d292a9b11850 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Are coin flips quantum random to my conscious brain-parts?
Hello rationality friends! I have a question that I bet some of you have thought about...
I hear lots of people saying that classical coin flips are not "quantum random events", because the outcome is very nearly determined by thumb movement when I flip the ... |
9f3e11cc-574a-4c63-bf4d-89790301d3a8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to openly maintain a single identity while keeping it private?
Whenever I need to create an account on some platform I've not used before, I'm almost always[1] faced with a dilemma regarding my public username. I can simply use one that I already use elsewhere or I can come up with a new, unique one.
Both, in my ... |
cf1e1505-f221-460c-a609-ab271198dfe9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | EY in the New York Times
The Paper of Record had a good article today about existential AI risk, mentioning EY:
> In the early 2000s, a young writer named Eliezer Yudkowsky began warning that A.I. could destroy humanity. His online posts spawned a community of believers. Called rationalists or effective altruists, th... |
9395f52f-f8ac-4b4d-96cb-b9f7e128c3a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What do the Charter Cities Institute likely mean when they refer to long term problems with the use of eminent domain?
Without using eminent domain, a large chunk of the possible future value goes to surrounding land-owners who may have done little or nothing to create that value. It does not seem economically possibl... |
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