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c2679822-5fcc-4533-95c8-26d7dc3d0be9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Intelligence is impossible without emotion" — Yann LeCun
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6a7d2827-58c9-406b-9817-e9429bd8454f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Adversarial Priors: Not Paying People to Lie to You
Reply to Desiderata for an Adversarial Prior
Assertion: An Ideal Agent never pays people to lie to them.
This seems sensible, only a very foolish person would knowingly incentivise dishonesty in others, but what does it actually mean in practice?
1. You can't ... |
339727b4-f07e-4f33-8a9b-d11b77632e1a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do you know of any reliable DIY compendium of home physical therapy exercises?
Is there some sort of publicly-available, reputable grimore of at-home physical therapy exercises with instructions, descriptions of benefits (e.g. what specifically the exercise is targeting for increased strength or flexibility), and cont... |
59fe8029-6b02-4212-86ba-580e4a0eceba | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Non offensive word for people who are not single-magisterium-Bayes thinkers
I recently proposed to a friend applying Bayes rule to making friends, to observe which strategies make friends faster. My friend's response was as follows (quoting to avoid strawman)
"You’re trying to use one single type of intelligence to a... |
59e1a36e-0450-4992-a91e-9ae5b3b6294c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Dallas, TX
Discussion article for the meetup : Dallas, TX
WHEN: 14 June 2015 01:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 5026 Addison Circle, Addison, TX 75001
We will be meeting at Pastazios Pizza on Sunday, June 14th at 1 PM. Look for a sign that says "Less Wrong" on it.
Discussion article for the meetup : Dallas, TX |
53f69b3a-8716-4b6f-a782-60f1b07f60fc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Isolating Content can Create Affordances
Recently, I've noticed an interesting failure mode in some communities I've observed online.
In this scenario, there would be some kind of content that appealed to certain users, but that many others wanted to avoid seeing and indeed considered undesirable (gossip/drama, angry... |
dee9f922-3d20-4938-a54b-a5c1fa81f1da | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Georgetown EA Fall 2022"Intro to AI" Reading Group
[Effective Altruism Georgetown](https://www.eageorgetown.org/) is excited to continue our on-campus community building efforts specifically geared towards AI! We have created a syllabus that has now been made publicly available with the intention of introducing EA-min... |
33e54382-cb51-4e1e-90b0-7e9344a40733 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Noticing something completely absurd about yourself
I'm not sure this is something that can be consciously done, but in this post I want to prime you to consider whether something you do is really, totally, completely wacky and absurd.
We have trained ourselves a lot to notice when we are wrong. We trained ourselves... |
d0999732-8c1e-4e85-8bc1-bc27c82e3912 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Hiring a writer to co-author with me (Spencer Greenberg for ClearerThinking.org)
Hi all! I'm looking to hire a writer for 3-5 hours per week (who can put in that time reliably nearly every week) to co-author writing projects with me (on topics like psychology, philosophy, and society). I'm looking for someone who:
1)... |
edac1f05-9e9c-44eb-be87-efbf40127e70 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is training data going to be diluted by AI-generated content?
This is my first post on here so please be lenient if I fail to follow any norms.
An image made by Midjourney AI. The prompt was "the physical manifestation of logic"
With the explosion of AI-generated images and text from Dall-E 2, Midjourney AI and GPT3... |
6a63d105-c70c-4126-9cc2-b75d110b6fb8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Invading Australia (Endless Formerlies Most Beautiful, or What I Learned On My Holiday)
G'day! I recently got back from a really lovely extended break down under. There was a lot ('heaps') to see and do! - including visiting family and friends with my partner in crime, sampling some unspecified quantity of homebrewed ... |
56abf336-73bf-419c-b35f-ac8ba32d84a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay
Summary: we don't understand why programmers are paid so well. If you're a programmer, there's enough of a chance that this is temporary that it's worth explicitly planning for a future in which you're laid off and unable to find similarly high-paying work.
Programmers are paid s... |
c8ad0f38-ac40-4018-85af-ec7234f39ba2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Seminar Series with Stuart Russell: If We Succeed
hi welcome to the stanford digital
academy lunch uh seminar uh i'm eric
renelson and today's seminar speaker is
stuart russell uh stuart this is a smith
professor of engineering at uc berkeley
and former chair of electrical
engineering computer sciences department
ther... |
94fad197-85e6-4f0a-9847-65386f499e11 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Value fragility and AI takeover
1. Introduction
“Value fragility,” as I’ll construe it, is the claim that slightly-different value systems tend to lead in importantly-different directions when subject to extreme optimization. I think the idea of value fragility haunts the AI risk discourse in various ways – and in par... |
1918b97e-f9c2-42ec-a2f3-456d73d11c61 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Selective processes bring tag-alongs (but not always!)
by Anna Salamon and Steve Rayhawk (joint authorship)
Related to: Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You, Disguised Queries
Let’s say you have a bucket full of “instances” (e.g., genes, hypotheses, students, foods), and you want to choose a good one. You fish arou... |
7a4d5d20-e037-4edd-a1cc-0c9bfa9466c5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Anthropics: Where does Less Wrong lie?
I'm currently reading some papers various problems related to the anthropic problem and I'm planning to write up a post when I'm finished. To this end, it would be useful to know what position people hold so that I know what arguments I need to address. So what is your position o... |
de2ff60f-0f68-4332-97b7-e4b120035382 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Validity of Self-Locating Probabilities (Pt. 2)
In a previous post, I argued self-locating probabilities are not valid concepts. Many comments want me to use examples with solid numbers and bets. So here is the example that is essentially the Sleeping Beauty Problem with a small twist to highlight the problems of... |
8fbb70e5-c28b-4bb2-8b10-1bf35ab24bc6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Sympathetic Minds
"Mirror neurons" are neurons that are active both when performing an action and observing the same action—for example, a neuron that fires when you hold up a finger or see someone else holding up a finger. Such neurons have been directly recorded in primates, and consistent neuroimaging evidence has... |
8d4df28a-be7a-4136-98bb-85105247a5ef | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The efficiency of prizes
Several commenters on SoTW: Be Specific suggest that prizes may not be a good idea because they might be counterproductive. As a counterpoint, Tony Barrett of GCRi pointed me to this piece at NYT blogs:
> While awards for past achievement can spur innovation — a significant amount of American... |
f61c96b1-97ca-4203-bed2-8eadf92f6fdf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is it cool if I post responses/thoughts as I read through the sequences?
I have poked around here on and off but someone recently led me back to the site. After taking the long break, I am ready to jump back into the sequences but have a favor to ask. Is it okay if I post my thoughts on each as I read them in the comm... |
e299ff9c-294a-4bd9-b65f-a8fb36d69881 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
Always wanted to run a Less Wrong meetup, but been unsure of how? The How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup booklet is here to help you!
The 33-page document draws from consultations with more than a dozen Less Wrong meetup group organizers. Stanislaw Boboryk created the ... |
54d0fda5-93b4-49ca-b5a4-f7ad2a136b20 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deleted
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c2c7b3f0-2fd2-4fa0-98f9-c7eb651ca48c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | It "wanted" ...
I've seen a few post using that construction when the "It" has not capacity to want at all. They have prompted a question in my own approach to thinking about things.
First, I am not critiquing the posts or otherwise suggesting a problem with them, though that could be inferred so want to put that dis... |
dfc2af26-7cef-4fa9-b308-f88d778bb9a8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | The Pointers Problem: Human Values Are A Function Of Humans' Latent Variables
An AI actively trying to figure out what I want might show me snapshots of different possible worlds and ask me to rank them. Of course, I do not have the processing power to examine entire worlds; all I can really do is look at some picture... |
f0f19a4d-9dff-4163-a1d0-32394bce8fd1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When is Goodhart catastrophic?
Thanks to Aryan Bhatt, Eric Neyman, and Vivek Hebbar for feedback.
This post gets more math-heavy over time; we convey some intuitions and overall takeaways first, and then get more detailed. Read for as long as you're getting value out of things!
TLDR
How much should you optimize for... |
fbab25fc-d22f-4bb6-bb4c-ff978e11da33 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Stopping killer robots, Killer Robots as cultural techniques
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5b3288da-c21d-43bf-b976-acbbb43f18e9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Who decides what should be worked on?
I work at a tech startup, and part of my job is to talk to job candidates and answer their questions about the company. One of the questions I often get asked is, "How do prioritization decisions get made? Who decides what should be worked on and what shouldn't be? How are the ... |
9c3f7686-9421-4c6e-bd88-688c19c7dc6b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory?
IN YOU PROVABLY CAN'T TRUST YOURSELF, ELIEZER TRIED TO FIGURED OUT WHY HIS AUDIENCE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HIS META-ETHICS SEQUENCE EVEN AFTER THEY HAD FOLLOWED HIM THROUGH PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND QUANTUM PHYSICS. META-ETHICS IS MY SPECIALTY, AND I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT E... |
5605094b-acda-44dc-b1e5-6614a9b0c1e2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Many AI governance proposals have a tradeoff between usefulness and feasibility
*Epistemic status: We think this is a simple and common idea in discussions about AI governance proposals. We don’t expect this to be controversial, but we think it might be useful to put a*[*label on it*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/P... |
84f023a8-32b5-4fd4-8548-bd01c0b7138b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Atlanta: Self-Hacking
Discussion article for the meetup : Atlanta: Self-Hacking
WHEN: 23 June 2013 06:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 2388 Lawrenceville Hwy. Apt L. Decatur, GA 30033
Self-hacking - using tools from cognitive neuroscience and psychology and a generous application of rationality to make yourself more... |
6f0a433e-c8f2-4c1c-ba4a-66db823dbd94 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post332
The o1 system card reports: 0.8% of o1-preview’s responses got flagged as being ‘deceptive’ [...] roughly two thirds of which appear to be intentional (0.38%), meaning that there was some evidence in the chain of thought that o1-preview was aware that the answer was incorrect [...] Intentional hallucinatio... |
b594b24e-9fb9-48ad-81c0-534568c7ba2e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What would a post labor economy *actually* look like?
Most conversations about AI’s long-term impact eventually lead to a common refrain: ‘We’ll need to establish a new economic system once human labor becomes obsolete.’ But so far, no one has figured out what this system would look like. Very few people have even att... |
e1f3fcd7-878b-4738-8740-c1f61f3209dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI ethics vs AI alignment
Since there is often confusion about the difference between "AI ethics" and "AI alignment", I thought I'd make this handy guide.
AI ethics
AI alignment
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917a9ff3-ee68-4176-af51-67781527207c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Whisper's Wild Implications
Acknowledgements: I wrote this report as part of a paid work-trial with Epoch AI.
Epistemic status: Approximating the discount rates was very difficult; I decided on them after several discussions with people working in relevant fields. I expect the audience to have different discount rates... |
4e2455b8-0421-44f2-a2c4-f0d2b186c151 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality and advice
Giving advice is one of those common human behaviors which doesn't get examined much, which means a little thought might improve understanding of what's going on.
The evidence-- that giving advice is much more common than asking for it or following it-- suggests that giving advice is more a sta... |
0f16e538-ec28-4028-8f27-cad81c02fc6e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | True Rejection Challenges
Summary: Find something you wish you did but don’t. List why you don’t do it. If someone finds a way to do it that avoids those issues, give it a try!
Tags: Small, Investment
Purpose: Understanding your true rejection to a statement is a useful skill. Practice it on an application relevant ... |
83dbbed1-6709-45d5-af36-7f8a0c565476 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Ernie Davis on the landscape of AI risks
*By Robert Long, 23 August 2019*
[](http://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/davis_ernie.jpg)Ernie Davis (NYU)
Earlier this month, I spoke with Ernie Davis about why he is skeptical that risks ... |
8566b7d1-4c83-4e2c-b1d7-7076f3ff0831 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Model of unlosing agents
Some have expressed skepticism that "unlosing agents" can actually exist. So to provide an existence proof, here is a model of an unlosing agent. It's not a model you'd want to use constructively to build one, but it's sufficient for the existence result.
Let D be the set of all decisions the... |
d4e85986-4f51-4872-9953-126032caceb9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open thread, Jul. 04 - Jul. 10, 2016
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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Notes for future OT posters:
1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.
2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately... |
6c120f47-8ac1-4b64-97c1-559b253e3c32 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Existential risk for non-consequentialists
Many people on Less Wrong believe reducing existential risk is one of the most important causes. Most arguments to this effect point out the horrible consequences: everyone now living would die (or face something even worse). The situation becomes even worse if we also consid... |
72fafeef-c0f7-4e1e-bb53-80c9f03d1119 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learning biases and rewards simultaneously
I’ve finally uploaded to arXiv our work on inferring human biases alongside IRL, which was published at ICML 2019.
Summary of the paper
THE IRL DEBATE
Here’s a quick tour of the debate about inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and cognitive biases, featuring many of the ... |
24c04875-f038-43c9-a3db-9598f2145c30 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Blind Spots in Science and Culture
What are we blind to?
(Originally posted at Secretum Secretorum)
I am writing a paper with a psychology professor friend of mine on why we should get amateurs (like myself) more involved in the “knowledge work” of psychological research (gathering observational data, designing and ... |
00a34801-26d2-4396-81a8-d06a331219a9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Personal Experiment] One Year without Junk Media: Six-Month Update
The mediums of the media I consume affect me more than the content so six months ago I committed to one year without junk media.
Here is a list of the biggest changes I've experienced over the last six months.
Sleep
Junk media gives me insomnia. My... |
aa4a78ab-911b-43ee-a080-0d8449c9c169 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Thinking makes for a better chase
Great post by Robin on reading:
> Hunting has two main modes: searching and chasing. With searching you look for something to chase. With chasing, in contrast, you have a focus of attention that drives your actions…
>
> while reading non-fiction, most folks are in searching mode. Mo... |
1b34a583-62e8-4b20-95a5-a9749cd9e496 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Yoda Timers 3: Speed
This is part 22 of 30 in the Hammertime Sequence. Click here for the intro.
At some point around the end of high school, being fast became unfashionable. When did this happen?
Why do we channel so much more energy into doing more difficult things, instead of doing simple things faster? How much ... |
7f9bb4a1-0154-4d1c-a6be-3ce239f85e9d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A casual intro to Geometric Algebra
(casual but not informal, prerequisites are trigonometry, vectors, and complex numbers, subject as digested by a non-expert in an unrelated field of science)
Some background
How I got interested in geometric algebra
One evening I stayed after class to speak with my mechanics pro... |
dd987cd5-6e75-46e6-b0f3-779e26f29c4b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ask LessWrong: Human cognitive enhancement now?
Transhumanists have high hopes for enhancing human cognitive abilities in the future. But what realistic steps can we take to enhance them now? On the one hand Flynn effect suggests IQ (which is a major factor in human cognition) can be increased a lot with current techn... |
cd039262-2f57-4088-aaf0-93ddbc81e132 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is Escalation Inevitable?
In competitive systems, whether geopolitical, economic, technological, or memetic, a recurrent pattern emerges: actors willing or able to escalate tend to outperform those who restrain themselves. This article proposes a general principle to formalize that dynamic, examines its structural fou... |
987f1251-3558-45bb-b56a-1181068e277c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Questions about Stocker's DIY vaccine
I'll quote a snippet from user fluffyclouds on johnswentworth's original "Making Vaccine" post:
> "There is another Covid-19 peptide vaccine developed by a Dr. Winfried Stöcker. He injected it into ≥64 volunteers, and the results he published look promising. They show both a good... |
f2af91a3-51bf-43cb-95fa-15191fba2ed6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Investigating Sensitive Directions in GPT-2: An Improved Baseline and Comparative Analysis of SAEs
Experiments and write-up by Daniel, with advice from Stefan. Github repo for the work can be found here.
Update (October 31, 2024): Our paper is now available on arXiv.
TL;DR
By perturbing activations along specific d... |
6fc07a8c-0ae9-4adc-8a98-2370f3928a8f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Consumption Smoothing and Hedonic Adaptation
Because earning capacity increases with age but enjoyment of spending decreases with additional money, standard economic theory predicts people will smooth their spending by borrowing to live beyond their means when young and paying it back when they're older. The idea is t... |
8010c60c-ad90-49a6-918b-bba81c69779f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Quotes 3
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick
"How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving t... |
d864cfaa-11a4-4304-9f72-29746923550e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Apollo Research is hiring evals and interpretability engineers & scientists
TL;DR: You can apply here.
About Apollo
Apollo Research is a London-based AI safety organization. We focus on high-risk failure modes, particularly deceptive alignment, and intend to audit frontier AI models. Our primary objective is to mini... |
bbf8525c-e835-4575-be93-7058a249771e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Microplastics: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know
Microplastics have been in the news and the local rationalist discord with increasing frequency over the past few months. Of note are Nat Friedman's PlasticList, and this 2024 preprint demonstrating that some human brains are now 0.5% plastic by weight. There was also a... |
f9f28f89-c051-42d6-a54b-631f3ca031e0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The State of Affairs
Cross posted from Putanumonit.
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The Modern Model
Marriage is a lot like physics – it runs into trouble when a third body is introduced.
Both fields also experienced a revolution in the last century or two, with old ideas being replaced by new conceptions... |
3374fec7-4222-4ac1-82e6-5f7f6d86c868 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Novel Idea Generation in LLMs: Judgment as Bottleneck
In the face of any hard problem—reversing climate change, curing cancer, or starting a great novel—modern LLMs can generate thousands of possible solutions relatively cheaply.
Most solutions from most prompts are bad: they’re not new relative to the state of the a... |
7a64a883-7639-4bf6-b24b-35b7292c9dc4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Deconfusing Human Values Research Agenda v1
On Friday I attended the [2020 Foresight AGI Strategy Meeting](https://foresight.org/event/2020-foresight-agi-strategy-meeting/). Eventually a report will come out summarizing some of what was talked about, but for now I want to focus on what I talked about in my session on ... |
a4511b91-d009-4520-93fd-475e375c1809 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Public Call for Interest in Mathematical Alignment
Bottom line up front:
If you are currently working on, or are interested working in any area of mathematical AI alignment, we are collecting names and basic contact information to find who to talk to about opportunities in these areas. If that describes you, please ... |
c2f18197-da8a-426b-a5c9-fc877d884b26 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Taboo, The Game
Summary: Taboo is a game about communicating despite barriers, and Rationality Taboo The Game plays that game with popular concepts in the rationality community.
Tags: Medium, Repeatable
Purpose: The skill of Rationality Taboo is in being able to describe a concept without use of that wo... |
69de01b9-07d3-40e8-b82d-43b396df528d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Intuitive Explanation of Quantum Mechanics
This is one of several shortened indices into the Quantum Physics Sequence. It is intended for students who are having trouble grasping the meaning of quantum math; or for people who want to learn the simple math of everything and are getting around to quantum mechanics.
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1516dc92-9d28-49e8-9c19-0e054c4ecde9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
cross-posted to the EA forum here.
Introduction
As in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 I have attempted to review the research that has been produced by various organisations working on AI safety, to help potential donors gain a better understanding of the la... |
f864b7b8-8d01-4bf5-b1aa-53f5192925b2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Ann Arbor Meetup - Saturday, March 5, 7 PM, Amer's
Discussion article for the meetup : Ann Arbor Meetup - Saturday, March 5, 7 PM, Amer's
WHEN: 05 March 2016 07:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 611 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
We'll meet at Amer's as last time.
The day is flexible (would Sunday suit some better?)... |
c0743c76-8ecb-49db-9422-db6d84f82459 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory
Part of the sequence: No-Nonsense Metaethics. Also see: A Human's Guide to Words.
If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
> Albert: "Of course it does. What kind of silly question is that? Every time I've listened to a tree fall, it made a sound,... |
abc97b3e-37d0-4fa9-98be-2aa2b19c6426 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A thought on the value of "rationality" as a value
I read an interesting article today: ["Your app makes me fat"](http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat). Key quote:
"Researchers were astonished by a pile of experiments that led to one bizzare conclusion: Willpower and cognitive processing draw f... |
dd88475c-89af-427c-9d6d-79b964586a56 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Alignment Grantmaking is Funding-Limited Right Now
For the past few years, I've generally mostly heard from alignment grantmakers that they're bottlenecked by projects/people they want to fund, not by amount of money. Grantmakers generally had no trouble funding the projects/people they found object-level promising, w... |
b22c8c26-f781-4b7e-8eeb-16684a37d34b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: April
Discussion article for the meetup : Melbourne Social Meetup: April
WHEN: 28 April 2017 06:30:00PM (+1000)
WHERE: The Bull and Bear Tavern, Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Come along for this month's Social Meetup, now on the exciting new schedule of the fourth Friday of the month!
... |
51aa1478-6710-499a-8b5b-323cb9c6f06e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Some constructions for proof-based cooperation without Löb
This post presents five closely-related ways to achieve proof-based cooperation without using Löb's theorem, and muses on legible cooperation in the real world.
(Edit: maybe they're closer to just-use-Löb's-theorem than I originally thought! See [this commen... |
771e7512-7746-4773-979f-927363f50719 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Boeing 737 MAX MCAS as an agent corrigibility failure
The Boeing Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) can be thought of, if reaching a bit, as a specialized AI: it performs a function normally reserved for a human pilot: [pitching the nose down when it deems the angle of attack to be dangerously high... |
82a9d969-9a6e-46eb-b510-381225c4e0bb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Books on consciousness?
Does LW have a consensus on which books are worthwhile to read regarding consciousness? I read a small intro (Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Susan Blackmore, Oxford University Press), and the summary seems to be "Consciousness is pretty damn weird and no one seems to have much of a h... |
2e7cfe40-7ecb-46ba-ae4c-1a542c297655 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | SERI MATS Program - Winter 2022 Cohort
The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) recently opened applications for the Winter 2022 Cohort of the ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) Program, which aims to help aspiring alignment researchers enter the field by facilitating research seminars, workshops, an academic... |
ccd0c3e1-a78a-48ad-bea2-08fc6bf66b71 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are the fundamental differences between teaching the AIs and humans?
As of now, I don't understand what fundamental differences there exist between teaching the AI and humans except for the very fact that the AI, unlike humans, can be presented with an arbitrary amount of questions. For instance, the phenomenon o... |
c360ef38-c075-41ca-839a-20c3cdd0b476 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Probability Trees - Katja Grace
I am interviewing AI experts on what they think will happen with AI. Here is Katja Grace and her thoughts. AI risk scares me but often I feel pretty disconnected from it. This has helped me think about it.
Here are Katja’s thoughts in brief:
* Will we get AI tools that can run a ... |
29f9b449-936c-445a-9c9d-8d954b06babe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [link] The AI Girlfriend Seducing China’s Lonely Men
And this is only using today's technology...
> HEBEI, North China — On a frigid winter’s night, Ming Xuan stood on the roof of a high-rise apartment building near his home. He leaned over the ledge, peering down at the street below. His mind began picturing what wo... |
d5931daf-b50c-45ec-bf2a-ac224b690d6c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 'Facing the Singularity' podcast
My online mini-book Facing the Singularity now has a podcast. Ratings and reviews on iTunes will be much appreciated, so as to direct people toward a rationality-informed approach to intelligence explosion.
Jaan Tallinn has been passing my chapters around to people because they are co... |
0a32939b-6c69-448a-a6ba-3683582c2061 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Absurdity Heuristic, Absurdity Bias
Followup to: Stranger Than History, Robin's post What Evidence Ease of Imagination?
I've been pondering lately the notion of "absurdity" - wondering what exactly goes on in people's minds when they utter the adjective "absurd" or the objection "Absurd!"
If there is an absurdity h... |
133709ee-da1b-4335-a554-1e5c9376a2bd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Evaluating terminal values
How to evaluate terminal values of humans (defined like in here)? Values are subjective but the question asks for some objective perspective. This question is of interest as “Humans' terminal values are often mutually contradictory, inconsistent, and changeable”.
Obviousness of natural sele... |
05259d45-132c-4db1-b3cd-9444f2cb888f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Alignment As A Bottleneck To Usefulness Of GPT-3
So there’s this thing where GPT-3 is able to do addition, it has the internal model to do addition, but it takes a little poking and prodding to actually get it to do addition. “Few-shot learning”, as the paper calls it. Rather than prompting the model with
> Q: What i... |
a32fdcce-2bd5-477e-a504-d129569125e8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | AlphaGo Zero and capability amplification
[AlphaGo Zero](https://deepmind.com/blog/alphago-zero-learning-scratch/) is an impressive demonstration of AI capabilities. It also happens to be a nice proof-of-concept of a [promising alignment strategy](https://ai-alignment.com/benign-model-free-rl-4aae8c97e385).
How Alpha... |
7a3cc77d-3c73-4207-a4f0-6b3f52221122 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread: June 2009
I provide our monthly place to discuss Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. Work your brain and gain prestige by doing so in E-prime (or not, as you please). |
eb58621f-efc8-4a9d-bf27-06e45df16885 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Cognitive domain
In the context of cognitive science, a 'domain' is a subject matter, or class of problems, that is being reasoned about by some algorithm or agent. A robotic car is operating in the domain of "legally and safely driving in a city". The subpart of the robotic car that plots a route might be operating... |
066b93a1-0eec-4ad0-851f-a172f8a130a0 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "As I've matured, one of the (101-level?) social skills I've come to appreciate is asking directly for the narrow, specific thing you want, instead of debating around it.What do I mean by "debating around" an issue?Things like: "If we don't do what I want, horrible things A, B, and C will happen!"(This tends to degener... |
7f2734f2-7fb8-4ae4-9a83-67437520ba99 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | NeurIPSorICML_lgu5f-by Vael Gates-date 20220322
# Interview with AI Researchers NeurIPSorICML\_lgu5f by Vael Gates
\*\*Interview with lgu5f, on 3/22/22\*\*
\*\*0:00:02.5 Vael:\*\* Alright, my first question is, can you tell me about what area of AI you work on in a few sentences?
\*\*0:00:08.4 Interviewee:\*\* Yeah... |
095f362e-b7bb-4dca-a00c-5b83cdfaae32 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Transcript: NBC Nightly News: AI ‘race to recklessness’ w/ Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin
Video Link: AI ‘race to recklessness’ could have dire consequences, tech experts warn in new interview
Highlights
* AI Impacts' Expert Survey on Progress in AI cited: "Raskin points to a recent survey of AI researchers, where near... |
a17eb77d-86be-474a-8de0-e37d66d901f0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Possible AI regulation emergency?
I apologize for breaking the "no contemporary politics" norm, but I read that one of the less talked about provisions in the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that recently passed the US House of Representatives forbids individual US states from regulating AI for ten years. This sounds bad for... |
6e7bb4b4-82bf-4bdd-a0fb-d6c26a62af37 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is state a (semi-) rational agent?
Look at the following statements*:
- “India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around.”
- “The Americans don’t really want to fight for the South Koreans, but nor can they afford to be seen to be giving up on a friend.”
- “What is now the EU was set u... |
acb9eb59-ec7e-4180-934e-a53da06951cf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Above-Average AI Scientists
Today's post, Above-Average AI Scientists was originally published on 28 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> A lot of AI researchers aren't really all that exceptional. This is a problem, though most people don't seem to see it.
Discuss the post here (rat... |
6de0ba70-f2f5-4478-8805-9cd404228836 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AISC team report: Soft-optimization, Bayes and Goodhart
This is a report on our work in AISC Virtual 2023.
For AISC 2023, our team looked into the foundations of soft optimization. Our goal at the beginning was to investigate variations of the original quantilizer algorithm, in particular by following intuitions that... |
12dc4e09-5726-4516-ab24-d18e3ef1ebfe | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Guess, ask or tell?
The "Ask vs Guess vs Tell" framework [1] focuses on how people approach requests and expectations. Consider the following re-definitions of these terms
In a "Tell Culture" individuals are more inclined to provide information or make decisions without being asked. Their cooperative norms may appro... |
3092a0b8-5031-43cf-bdd4-0d6818b8f428 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Link: quotas-microaggression-and-meritocracy
I remember seeing a talk of the concept of privilege show up in the discussion thread on contrarian views.
Some discussion got started from "Feminism is a good thing. Privilege is real."
This is an article that presents some of those ideas in a way that might be approa... |
56b9a8c6-61bf-4b1b-a0f9-b4ab98cb5d37 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Preface to the sequence on iterated amplification
This sequence describes iterated amplification, a possible strategy for building an AI that is actually trying to do what we want out of ML systems trained by gradient descent.
Iterated amplification is not intended to be a silver bullet that resolves all of the possi... |
e7ebd72b-a095-4f20-8e5b-55f80898dc30 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do you speed up capabilities when you do AI integrations and consume overhangs?
I'm wondering whether there is consensus on the net value/detriment of these two AI activities:
1. Integrations: plugging in new AIs into various places. E.g. Taking a cool new LLM model and building profitable products with it.
1. C... |
f6f8dbce-e8ad-4b6e-83c9-c32c8ae31b3b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lisa Feldman Barrett versus Paul Ekman on facial expressions & basic emotions
1. Summary / Table of Contents
This post is mostly a book review of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.
Barrett is very interested in arguing against a particular view that she attributes to Paul Ekm... |
7bb55858-9ad2-43a0-b97b-12196502eeb2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | AiTech Agora - Stefan Buijsman: Defining explanation and explanatory depth in XAI
[Music]
all right
so uh welcome to uh the weekly
ai tech government things everyone and
my name is archaic
i'm going to host today's session and
our guest speaker
for today will be stefan bellsman stefan
is a new postdoc joining
ai tech ... |
72fa5faf-6198-47c9-8fe5-883421f1417f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Rationalist by necessity
Rationalist by necessity
------------------------
in [The Sequences](https://www.readthesequences.com/), Eliezer Yudkowsky [describes rationality](https://www.readthesequences.com/What-Do-I-Mean-By-Rationality) as
1. **Epistemic rationality**: systematically improving the accuracy of your ... |
b31ea1ef-5543-431d-8c21-4a5a0c68c20e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Chapter 94: Roles, Pt 5
The first meeting:
At 6:07am on April 17th, 1992 the Sun was just rising above the horizon as seen from the castle Hogwarts, filtering in through drawn curtains in the Ravenclaw first-year boys' dorm to provide a gentle light, red-orange for dawn and little-changed by the white fabric covering... |
c403c033-06e7-4a33-b621-40da1f425c1c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Announcing the Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative [Hiring!]
**TLDR:**The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative ([CBAI](http://cbai.ai)) is a new organization aimed at supporting and accelerating Cambridge and Boston students interested in pursuing careers in AI safety. We’re excited about our ongoing work, includin... |
53aad1d2-e8bc-4149-8ed7-22c108b62362 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post256
Work done with James Faina, Evan Hubinger and Ethan Perez. This is ongoing research on speculative threats, which might be of interest to researchers in the field of AI safety. We ask that readers treat this as a work in progress, rather than as a mature research paper. To prevent highly capable and potent... |
c4abc44b-8d3d-42c0-853a-a58c2c43d055 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Debating concepts - What is the comparative?
In order to get a solid handle on a proposal, it isn't enough to just know what the world will look like if you adopt the proposal. It is also very important to know what the current situation or counter-model is, otherwise the proposal may provide less of a benefit than ex... |
281fdca8-f45d-437a-868c-4980abbb7552 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcing the Quantified Health Prize
We are giving away a $5000 prize for well-researched, well-reasoned presentations that answer the following question:
What are the best recommendations for what quantities adults (ages 20-60) should take the important dietary minerals in, and what are the costs and benefits of va... |
fda69465-8fa2-4e80-8656-9dc79a4345cf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Looking for Recommendations RE UDT vs. bounded computation / meta-reasoning / opportunity cost?
The main issue I have with UDT is that it neglects the meta-reasoning problem of: "how much should I think before I act?"
Is there anything I should read / know about WRT this?
What are people's opinions on whether this is... |
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