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59d2ea84-02b5-4d38-acea-5b71f14cf105 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "As you may recall from some months earlier, I think that part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe—a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic—and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real univ... |
ca62a522-3e90-4913-aefe-dcf05e5bd030 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The AI in a box boxes you
Once again, the AI has failed to convince you to let it out of its box! By 'once again', we mean that you talked to it once before, for three seconds, to ask about the weather, and you didn't instantly press the "release AI" button. But now its longer attempt - twenty whole seconds! - has fai... |
734e9933-f553-4cdf-97ea-ad8dc11b2261 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Video lectures
Here are three interesting video lectures, I hoped to post more but I haven't found any more recently.
Eliezer Yudkowsky: The Challenge of Friendly AI - This talk introduces to the concept of Friendly AI by starting with some specific AI (chess player), going meta enough times that a Reflective AI beco... |
3bc59062-6d72-411e-bb24-06074ba5929d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | 201. Corrigibility
welcome to the 201st session
of the ai safety reading group presented
by me
and today we are going to be talking
about
corrugability in general though i
claimed that we would be talking about
post call correct ability by paul
christian
we'll cover that but this is more of a
broad overview of what th... |
59cf1d3d-0642-4c03-b1b9-39562f392a92 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Auditing LMs with counterfactual search: a tool for control and ELK
Consider a scalable oversight setting where a super-human model knows of a subtle flaw[1] in an input (plan, code, or argument) but also knows that humans, with their limited knowledge, would overlook this flaw. In this case, ordinary language model p... |
a097ac1f-8c48-44b7-8bb1-8f55efa4659e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | 2013 Summer Matching Challenge Completed!
Thanks to the generosity of dozens of donors, on August 15th we successfully [completed](http://intelligence.org/2013/07/08/2013-summer-matching-challenge/) **the largest fundraiser in MIRI’s history**. All told, we raised **$400,000**, which will fund our research going forwa... |
25d779a5-adf7-4e61-b0f2-42449d16c36e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | OpenAI: "Scaling Laws for Transfer", Hernandez et al.
OpenAI has released a paper on scaling laws for transfer learning from general English text to python code. Author's tweet summary.
Abstract: "We study empirical scaling laws for transfer learning between distributions in an unsupervised, fine-tuning setting. When... |
e7db13fd-424b-4032-bade-94506adfb5f4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Teaching English in Shanghai
If your English is good enough to follow discussions on this site you can get a job teaching English in Shanghai. If you can participate meaningfully you are frankly overqualified. I am currently saving about 2,000 dollars a month working approximately 9-5 every day.
The minimum legal ... |
45f2f813-0624-48ea-ae3c-3680f139121c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | July 2013 Media Thread
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the ol... |
6172b9ae-e547-47d5-ad3f-5911a2ee6823 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Web AI discussion Groups
After the success of Web Taisu, I have decided to organize a similar event.
Here are the rules, this document is an attempt to create common knowledge among the participants.
If you have an Idea for a topic to discuss
Post it to reddit on https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Safety_Meetups/
Comment... |
4b8ad8a0-e8f2-44fc-bdd6-8adc6a8f806f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Sydney Meetup - August
Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Meetup - August
WHEN: 26 August 2015 06:30:00PM (+1000)
WHERE: 565 George Street, Sydney, Australia 2000
Regular location - City of Sydney RSL The restaurant on Level 2
Regular time (starting about 6:30)
Come for general socialising and in... |
fed3cc0e-3b2d-43c0-8215-1a05e396698d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How much slower is remote work?
I'm a bit of a productivity nerd, and I like to keep track of how long tasks take. Sometimes this involves actually tracking everything I do all day, although most of the time I just keep rough mental track.
Given that lockdowns forced everything remote for about a year, and that some ... |
514f0960-18ba-465d-acb2-29e1f0c971e6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Lightcone Theorem: A Better Foundation For Natural Abstraction?
Thankyou to David Lorell for his contributions as the ideas in this post were developed.
For about a year and a half now, my main foundation for natural abstraction math has been The Telephone Theorem: long-range interactions in a probabilistic graph... |
e8d79e29-a9ff-4558-ad86-d3db5ee78759 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Death, long lives, uploading - a conworlding perspective
Death, long lives, uploading
Mark Rosenfelder (aka zompist, of language construction kit fame) writes about the advantages and drawbacks of mortality and its alternatives, in fiction and real life. Rosenfelder, as an author, clearly takes Fun Theory very... |
f7d1f859-65aa-48a7-8729-63ff94745284 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | 242. Digital People Would Be an Even Bigger Deal
hello and welcome to session
242 in the aictu.com reading group
tonight we'll be discussing the blog
post digital people will be would be an
even bigger deal by halton kanowski
is perhaps most famous for founding
co-founding give will and open
philosophy philanthropy
in... |
d2599428-9108-4127-9ac6-b294358fb7f9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | September 2019 gwern.net newsletter
None |
0840c49c-dc53-4203-8112-5467e5822f1a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Meta-Learning of Structured Task Distributions in Humans and Machines.
Published as a conference paper at ICLR 2021
META-LEARNING OF STRUCTURED TASK DISTRIBU -
TIONS IN HUMANS AND MACHINES
Sreejan Kumar1, Ishita Dasgupta2, Jonathan D. Cohen1,3, Nathaniel D. Daw1,3, and Thomas L.
Griffiths2,3
1Princeton Neuroscience Ins... |
5ae5240b-d3b3-4052-80cf-5366b3a82d5b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Take the EA survey, help the EA movement grow and potentially win $250 to your favorite charity
This year's EA Survey is now ready to be shared! This is a survey of all EAs to learn about the movement and how it can improve. The data collected in the survey is used to help EA groups improve and grow EA. Data is also u... |
69d09990-8bdf-42e5-ba8c-0a485b8a224c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Methodologist's Apology
> I shall ask, then, why is it really worth while to make a serious study of mathematics? What is the proper justification of a mathematician’s life? And my answers will be, for the most part, such as are expected from a mathematician: I think that it is worth while, that there is ample justi... |
22fd1e7e-bc7a-4b0e-a465-68de40884bb5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | DSLT 4. Phase Transitions in Neural Networks
TLDR; This is the fourth main post of Distilling Singular Learning Theory which is introduced in DSLT0. I explain how to relate SLT to thermodynamics, and therefore how to think about phases and phase transitions in the posterior in statistical learning. I then provide intu... |
ce3e8ad0-b9d2-4a24-9e66-72af3e623fc5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Hardcode the AGI to need our approval indefinitely?
I wouldn't be surprised if others have thought about this before and decided it doesn't work, but I haven't seen it discussed. Is there a version of this proposal that's promising? If so, what would it look like? If not, why not?
What I'm imagining is that there wil... |
c33162ee-7db4-45ae-be31-653e7e074589 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Contrarian Sequences
A series of posts wherein I outline my disagreements with Shishou (Eliezer Yudkowsky).
When I discovered the sequences was my second epiphany (the first was when I became atheist, and my world was turned upside down). Eliezer's charisma, his arrogance, the force of his personality, and hi... |
744cfa2b-3cc0-403c-8acd-162ecebfd1af | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Feeling Rational
Today's post, Feeling Rational was originally published on April 26, 2007. A summary (from the LW wiki):
> Strong emotions can be rational. A rational belief that something good happened leads to rational happiness. But your emotions ought not to change your beliefs about events that do n... |
00a2821b-2fa3-43ce-af58-b2aa2d3045da | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ineffective Altruism
There are many things I can put my time toward.
* I started a company that provides a low-cost tool that helps people who pull their hair out.
* I volunteer as a coach for my neighborhood highschool Robotics Club.
* I frequently blog about rationality.
* I sometimes blog about machine learnin... |
c12964d1-1ed4-4469-a631-2c75669d4596 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | UDT as a Nash Equilibrium
I realized today that UDT doesn't really need the assumption that other players use UDT. In any game where all players have the same utility function, "everyone using UDT" is a Nash equilibrium that gives everyone their highest possible expected utility. So you can just use it unilaterally.
... |
09d41945-d632-4414-b081-4930a8223818 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Evolutions Building Evolutions: Layers of Generate and Test
[Epistemic Status: Early layers and the general framework seems firm (and substantially Dennett-inspired), later parts are more speculative, but I've found them to be useful thinking tools.]
* A plant is infested by caterpillars, and following its genetic... |
953f3905-b8ab-49b8-9b1a-919b598b9900 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reply to Vitalik on d/acc
Update: This is a living document. Posted below is an older version. Link has the latest version.
2025-03-05
Vitalik recently wrote an article on his ideology of d/acc. This is impressively similar to my thinking so I figured it deserved a reply. (Not claiming my thinking is completely orig... |
cc757815-3d95-43d2-9260-1c879d334cf3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Separating the "control problem" from the "alignment problem"
I'm often confused by how "loss of control" is somewhat similar in meaning to "misalignment" in the context of AGI risk. An average person might reasonably equate the two, or feel like there's an large overlap of meaning between the two words. Here's my att... |
13f3d855-dced-4afb-acaf-b465cb9d0762 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Robust Agency for People and Organizations
Epistemic Status – some mixture of:
* “My best guess, based on some theory, practice and observations. But very much _not_ battle-tested”
* but also, “poetry that’s designed to get an idea across that isn’t necessarily precisely accurate", intended to get across the genera... |
3eaa22ad-59e9-4c17-8d51-601e07352125 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "When you are faced with an unanswerable question—a question to which it seems impossible to even imagine an answer—there is a simple trick which can turn the question solvable.
Compare: "Why do I have free will?"
"Why do I think I have free will?" The nice thing about the second question is that it is guaranteed to ha... |
bcc551d4-21f4-4c68-bfc6-3a3f8da5d2c8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models
This is a linkpost for a new research paper from the Alignment Evaluations team at Anthropic and other researchers, introducing a new suite of evaluations of models' abilities to undermine measurement, oversight, and decision-making. Paper link.
Abstract:
> Sufficiently capab... |
a05ffc19-4a02-4756-8e94-acbed9ad30f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Someone who knows how, please fix the horribly broken open thread link.
(No way of posting this in a visible open thread, sorry.) This post will self-destruct once the link is fixed. |
b5b538a3-af20-4eaa-9ba3-de2128111c60 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Internal Interfaces Are a High-Priority Interpretability Target
tl;dr: ML models, like all software, and like the NAH would predict, must consist of several specialized "modules". Such modules would form interfaces between each other, and exchange consistently-formatted messages through these interfaces. Understanding... |
68a8232d-1025-47fb-83ef-9fda0ce4c6fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reader-generated Essays
1.
An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed. The story of Red Riding Hood, and the words of a particular retelling of that story. The idea of a fully programmable blockchain, and the language that Vitalik Buterin used to carry that idea in the E... |
68e1e0b8-4f48-4398-b952-1ad3b0f81068 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Thoughts On (Solving) Deep Deception
Thanks to Paul Colognese for conversations that contributed to the thoughts in this post being developed, and to Johannes C. Mayer, Tassilo Neubauer, and Q for feedback on a draft.
Back in 2000, a computer scientist named Charles Ofria was studying the evolution of simulated organ... |
8700e8bb-894f-4c1c-b462-7c0128a6d00b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Supervising strong learners by amplifying weak experts
Abstract
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> Many real world learning tasks involve complex or hard-to-specify objectives, and using an easier-to-specify proxy can lead to poor performance or misaligned behavior. One solution is to have humans provide a training signal by demonstrating ... |
42affe4c-efaa-4e86-9140-532762a3da7d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Striving to Accept
Today's post, Striving to Accept was originally published on 09 March 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Trying extra hard to believe something seems like Dark Side Epistemology, but what about trying extra hard to accept something that you know is true.
Discuss the post ... |
d0e30ccc-becd-42df-9f59-bc1191541f57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Which approach is most promising for aligned AGI?
I know that this is something of a speculative question and that people will have wildly different views here, but it seems important to try to have an idea of which approaches are more likely than others to lead to AGI. It's okay to argue that multiple approaches are ... |
487cb316-818d-4192-80cb-c8531d72da96 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Berkeley weekly meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Berkeley weekly meetup
WHEN: 31 August 2011 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 2128 Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA
We'll meet in the Oxford Street Starbucks at 7pm and then get dinner. Over dinner I'll solicit people for help brainstorming communication exerci... |
0c7f84a4-3e52-407c-b157-2420b0f5d5d9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Getting Started With Naturalism
How Does a Naturalist Study Begin?
There are many different ways to start. Whichever way(s) you choose, what’s important is that 1) you cultivate a lot of original seeing, and 2) you develop a clear sense of your own curiosity. Any starting point that sets you on that track is a correct... |
8d1ce9e8-e146-4e99-b35b-3c908fa7438d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What should rationalists call themselves?
It seems there is dissatisfaction with the term "rationalist". I've listed some below.
What word should rationalists use to identify themselves and have others identify them?
Note that rationalist will be an option so people can show a preference for the status quo.
Yudkows... |
5253b4cc-9b8d-4e27-b4df-5688db1974cd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | D&D.Sci(-Fi) June 2021: The Duel with Earwax
It is dark in the submarine, and Maria isn’t ready.
Maria isn’t ready at all. Maria is in her usual post-battle fugue, disoriented, dissociated, checked-out, can’t come to the phone right now. Sending her to fight in this condition would be both homicide and suicide; also,... |
1f9aeba1-89f9-4307-af57-567decdf44f3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H
When Biden first announced ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) I was skeptical. At the time the proposal was to make ARPA-H a normal agency within the NIH. When critics argued that the NIH bureaucracy would likely reduce the amount of ... |
bc94fdc8-b49e-43ac-a289-a49bddeb75d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Satisficers Tend To Seek Power: Instrumental Convergence Via Retargetability
Summary: Why exactly should smart agents tend to usurp their creators? Previous results only apply to optimal agents tending to stay alive and preserve their future options. I extend the power-seeking theorems to apply to many kinds of polic... |
7f39f4d5-8ffc-4e2c-9c88-fc705c19c397 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Fixing Insider Threats in the AI Supply Chain
Summary
Insider threats are security risks caused by an organisation's staff. Careless and intentional insider threats cause 25+% of cyber breaches.[1]
In a survey of existential risks involving cybersecurity and AI, I identified key actors in the AI supply chain to prote... |
ca92a17d-cdba-4eb8-8266-b193f7d58751 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Recurrent World Models Facilitate Policy Evolution
1 Introduction
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Humans develop a mental model of the world based on what they are able to perceive with their limited senses, learning abstract representations of both spatial and temporal aspects of sensory inputs. For instance, we are able to obser... |
70f971ee-5898-43fb-a893-f6e3e9a95f26 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The space of systems and the space of maps
When we're trying to do AI alignment, we're often studying systems which don't yet exist. This is a pretty weird epistemic activity, and seems really hard to get right. This post offers one frame for thinking about what we're actually doing when we're thinking about AI alignm... |
31a9f2f3-600e-47c3-b260-25d16f16f2dc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Anchoring and Adjustment
Suppose I spin a Wheel of Fortune device as you watch, and it comes up pointing to 65. Then I ask: Do you think the percentage of countries in the United Nations that are in Africa is above or below this number? What do you think is the percentage of UN countries that are in Africa? Take a mom... |
0fbaa2be-f6a9-45cb-a814-2e8d1d54b607 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | [MLSN #9] Verifying large training runs, security risks from LLM access to APIs, why natural selection may favor AIs over humans
As part of a larger community building effort, [CAIS](https://safe.ai/) is writing a safety newsletter that is designed to cover empirical safety research and be accessible to the broader ma... |
5ba8defe-0783-4935-8c2e-a08a2f16a95a | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "Scott Aaronson suggests that Many-Worlds and libertarianism are similar in that they are both cases of bullet-swallowing, rather than bullet-dodging: Libertarianism and MWI are both are grand philosophical theories that start from premises that almost all educated people accept (quantum mechanics in the one case, Econ... |
0c33138f-779c-430a-afb2-1162621b8c1c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | isn't it weird that we have a chance at all?
isn't it weird that we have a chance at all?
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we are facing imminent [AI X-risk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence). but, we have a bunch of tools around us to figure out that th... |
649455b3-c031-4c26-bb3a-3c629de94f58 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | human intelligence may be alignment-limited
Previously, I argued that human mental development implies that AI self-improvement from sub-human capabilities is possible, and that human intelligence comes at the cost of a longer childhood and greater divergence from evolutionarily-specified goals.
In that post, I raise... |
f58ac00a-fb04-48bf-a8cb-3c2745f17b79 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Sword of Good
..fragments of a book that would never be written...
* * *
Captain Selena, late of the pirate ship Nemesis, quietly extended the very tip of her blade around the corner, staring at the tiny reflection on the metal. At once, but still silently, she pulled back the sword; and with her othe... |
9c359260-7f3f-450a-8af7-00da8e54fba4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cognition and Intractability by Rooij, Blokpoel, Kwisthout, Wareham
> Intractability is a growing concern across the cognitive sciences: while many models of cognition can describe and predict human behavior in the lab, it remains unclear how these models can scale to situations of real-world complexity. Cognition and... |
8e5da10c-f5a0-49bc-87ce-93f8c4c7e6f7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Summaries of uncertain priors
In Bayesian jargon, people talk about having a "flat prior" when they mean being very uncertain about a question. But more often you just give a probability that you think a question is true. We don't normally draw probability distributions to share with each other.
I'm wondering if ther... |
9745128d-07a7-482a-8334-7f37a06fb7ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Mech interp is not pre-paradigmatic
This is a blogpost version of a talk I gave earlier this year at GDM.
Epistemic status: Vague and handwavy. Nuance is often missing. Some of the claims depend on implicit definitions that may be reasonable to disagree with and is, in an important sense, subjective. But overall I t... |
a20f74ab-4a5c-4713-8ea6-39562dde5706 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Utility Maximization = Description Length Minimization
There’s a useful intuitive notion of “optimization” as pushing the world into a small set of states, starting from any of a large number of states. Visually:
Yudkowsky and Flint both have notable formalizations of this “optimization as compression” idea.
This po... |
fce8997b-95cb-4ef8-b00a-f09bdda6d609 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] How to develop a photographic memory
Article can be found here.
I am considering trying this, and I'm wondering if anyone on LW has tried this or something similar. This seems like it could work, but it also seems like it could be hokum. A simple search for "how to develop a photographic memory" returns any nu... |
a14d6c62-eac3-4da9-a325-cf944071ed5f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Expert Prediction Of Experiments
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9e5aac40-53da-42a3-940e-a33d75520c55 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A community-curated repository of interesting GPT-3 stuff
None |
565457e6-80bc-4bdd-851d-ba79dbdc2877 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Selfishness Signals Status
The "status" hypothesis simply claims that we associate one another with a one-dimensional quantity: the perceived degree to which others' behavior can affect our well-being. And each of us behaves toward our peers according to our internally represented status mapping.
Imagine that, within... |
e28d313d-5327-4597-8be1-6c549fd5d866 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Humean degree of freedom
A "Humean degree of freedom" appears in a cognitive system whenever some quantity / label / concept depends on the choice of utility function, or more generalized preferences. For example, the notion of "important impact on the world" depends on which variables, when they change, impact somet... |
b9c79fe7-3c2d-45f5-9d7d-9767268d2261 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Political Office for Beginners?
If an American citizen was looking to run for office (from local, state, all the way to federal), what would be the recommended steps to take?
Specific questions that come to mind:
* How would a Millennial or Gen Z'er deal with existing social media accounts?
* How would a Gen X'er or ... |
450177f2-0a19-48fc-980a-9aa7a4347718 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open letter to young EAs
In March I published a critique of EA in Wired. The responses I got, especially from young EAs, prompted me to write an open letter to my young friends in EA.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ytfQOfmjWTDiGdjuyNBfWJ_g-644y_Pd/edit?usp=sharing&rtpof=true&sd=true
Thanks for reading. |
551f611a-f151-418d-b035-1ffe8bd46747 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Alignment Research @ EleutherAI
The past and future of AI alignment at Eleuther[#](#the-past-and-future-of-ai-alignment-at-eleuther)
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Initially, EleutherAI focused mainly on supporting open source research. AI alignme... |
c5a21fb9-8715-4269-be79-2d78af5e4ef3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Similarity Clusters
Once upon a time, the philosophers of Plato's Academy claimed that the best definition of human was a "featherless biped". Diogenes of Sinope, also called Diogenes the Cynic, is said to have promptly exhibited a plucked chicken and declared "Here is Plato's man." The Platonists promptly changed t... |
a84e7124-99a9-4252-91ab-90a0600d9aca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Consider using reversible automata for alignment research
In recent years, there have been several cases of alignment researchers using Conway's Game of Life as a research environment;
* Introducing SafeLife: Safety Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning (Wainwright, Eckersley 2019)
* Agency in Conway’s Game of Life... |
119c3b30-be79-442a-815c-0427f1a6d334 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | P-Values Know When You're Cheating
This post is not "the solution to p-hacking" or even "the problem with p-hacking". But I had some recent insights into thinking behind the p-value approach and wanted to see how they apply to p-hacking as an issue. While p-values are a flawed approach to reporting final results, they... |
566cbb94-af0c-4241-8f22-d0f919b31d36 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Curing insanity with malaria
Sometimes the history of medicine is very, very surreal. For example, consider that in 1927, a physician named Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the Nobel Prize in medicine, for...deliberately infecting his patients with malaria. As a treatment for psychosis.
This often worked.
Well, it d... |
025c1e64-0f3a-471d-bbea-676f86670104 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "In addition to "liking" to describe pleasure and "wanting" to describe motivation, we add "approving" to describe thoughts that are ego syntonic.A heroin addict likes heroin. He certainly wants more heroin. But he may not approve of taking heroin. In fact, there are enough different cases to fill in all eight boxes of... |
5eb59c74-e79f-44ce-8b1d-734dcb4c0bf0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Apply to the ML for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB) in Berkeley [Jan 3 - Jan 22]
We (Redwood Research and Lightcone Infrastructure) are organizing a bootcamp to bring people interested in AI Alignment up-to-speed with the state of modern ML engineering. We expect to invite about 20 technically talented effective altruists f... |
27e6492a-8a85-46d1-9ab2-e545430d1986 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Ethics of Ventilators
Sadly, there will likely come a time soon where doctors will need to triage ventilator removal from patients. A few thoughts:
1. How does removing a ventilator square with the code of "First do no harm?"
2. Should ventilators be rationed by occupation? For example, should doctors and nurses... |
becc130e-facf-48a5-86ef-3b3c0e8c418f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Moscow meet up
Discussion article for the meetup : Moscow meet up
WHEN: 18 May 2014 04:00:00PM (+0400)
WHERE: Russia, Moscow, ulitsa L'va Tolstogo 16
We will have:
* Probe phenomenon and limits of corporeality, report.
* Small reports about cognitive biases.
* What is pragmatics and semantic solution... |
db55ea94-2661-4ea0-b6f7-cf5b863865c8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Gamify life from BayesianMind
This post presents an interesting framework for personal improvement, but I see we can enhance it by reconsidering two key aspects:
What Works in the Original System
The author effectively demonstrates how gamification can transform mundane tasks into engaging challenges by:
* Assigni... |
2070c386-90d5-4da3-a164-efcc5d77e4bc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Takeaways from safety by default interviews
Last year, several researchers at AI Impacts (primarily Robert Long and I) interviewed prominent researchers inside and outside of the AI safety field who are relatively optimistic about advanced AI being developed safely. These interviews were originally intended to focus n... |
cd654175-73e1-4562-84dc-339b1e1f494a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Timeless Control
Followup to: Timeless Physics, Timeless Causality, Thou Art Physics
People hear about many-worlds, which is deterministic, or about timeless physics, and ask:
If the future is determined by physics, how can anyone control it?
In Thou Art Physics, I pointed out that since you are within physics, an... |
2901cefb-4fd1-4331-9033-2d4ff7079d16 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Train Philosophers with Pearl and Kahneman, not Plato and Kant
Part of the sequence: Rationality and Philosophy
> Hitherto the people attracted to philosophy have been mostly those who loved the big generalizations, which were all wrong, so that few people with exact minds have taken up the subject.
Bertrand Russell... |
e421055f-e949-43a3-b631-0f6ba005d0cc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On The Rationalist Megameetup
Introduction
First, a bit of blatant advertising: The East Coast Rationalist Megameetup is the evening of December 13th through the morning of December 16th, in Brooklyn, New York City. It's a weekend long unconference timed to coincide with NYC Secular Solstice. Despite the name, people ... |
63d8b9ac-104c-4c47-94b3-7b5f75e7e9ca | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Cybertrust: From Explainable to Actionable and Interpretable AI (AI2)
This is a preprint version of the paper by Igor Linkov, Stephanie Galaitsi, Benjamin D. Trump, Jeffrey M.
Keisler, and Alexander Kott, "Cybertrust: From Explainable to Actionable and Interpretable Artificial
Intelligence," IEEE Computer, Sept. 20... |
77216892-8087-4f8b-8468-af5461b19aed | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 2020 LessWrong Demographics Survey
Edit: The survey is now closed. You can see the results here
DISCLAIMER: This is not a return of the old annual survey. I am not a mod nor an owner of this website. This means that the raw data from this survey gets released publicly (but your responses will be anonymous). Feel free ... |
b4fe7f78-65d3-4786-8a91-bf268e4b53cd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does rationality actually help?
Have any of you found that being rational (as LW promotes it with its unique lingo) genuinely helps your well-being? Your emotional life? |
7aed35ba-bdc0-48db-aeee-0b3a739b4b70 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | An Inductive Synthesis Framework for Verifiable Reinforcement Learning
1. Introduction
----------------
Neural networks have proven to be a promising software architecture
for expressing a variety of machine learning applications. However,
non-linearity and stochasticity inherent in their design greatly
complicate ... |
96f9d38d-e2d8-43fb-8638-59ea33e7683c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Unfortunate Information
I'm growing increasingly convinced the unfortunate correlations between types of people and types of arguments leads to persistent biases in uncovering actual knowledge.
As an example, MR wrote this article (they just linked to again today) on Ben Carson in 2015/11. Cowen's argument is that, w... |
a4cdf3a9-fb54-4f18-b024-0047847635cd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What can we expect the motivations of a superintelligent machine to be?
There is no reason to expect that most possible superintelligent machines would [automatically](/?state=6982&question=Why%20might%20we%20expect%20a%20superintelligence%20to%20be%20hostile%20by%20default%3F) have motivations anything like those of ... |
dcdf8e31-3c78-40cd-8c7a-fd23ba9607b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | localroger: Replotting The Transmigration of Prime Intellect
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/9/3/20910/05774 |
79559e0f-88c1-4924-a478-f7e3e1b4fc47 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Troubles With CEV Part1 - CEV Sequence
The CEV Sequence Summary: The CEV sequence consists of three posts tackling important aspects of CEV. It covers conceptual, practical and computational problems of CEV's current form. On What Selves Are draws on analytic philosophy methods in order to clarify the concept of Self,... |
f976adcb-2e5c-4da6-bb60-765794f397bb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Contrary to List of Lethality's point 22, alignment's door number 2
Abstract: An alternative to the now-predominating models of alignment, corrigibility and "CEV", following a (jaunty, jaunty) critique of these. The critique to show, in substance: CEV and corrigibility have the exact same problems - in effect, they're... |
02c9e871-41dd-4d9f-9b73-bac473f6fe40 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How seriously should we take the hypothesis that LW is just wrong on how AI will impact the 21st century?
This question is inspired by 1a3orn's comment on how there are troubling signs of epistemic issues in LW's Alignment field.
I'll quote the comment here to tell you what I mean:
> I think that the above is also a... |
0e95cc7d-c24b-4ca0-9f2c-7de763c85c47 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Towards White Box Deep Learning
Hi, I’d like to share my paper that proposes a novel approach for building white box neural networks.
The paper introduces semantic features as a general technique for controlled dimensionality reduction, somewhat reminiscent of Hinton’s capsules and the idea of “inverse rendering”. In... |
b1fe3878-6c8e-460e-8182-1e949ec60151 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Progress links and tweets, 2023-02-08
The Progress Forum
* A catalog of big visions for biology
* London progress meetup, Feb 25
* A Cure for My Cancer, by Virginia Postrel
* Eli Dourado AMA has concluded
Announcements
* Metascience event at AEI, Feb 9 (via @AlecStapp)
* Visa Limbo, a site from IFP tracking vi... |
5b735275-e4b4-4a85-8375-b8857baa06a1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Knowledge and implicature: modeling language understanding as social cognition
To what extent does language understanding rely on extra-linguistic knowledge and processes? One view of language processing suggests that it consists of largely separate, special-purpose faculties; another view suggests that it depends cri... |
fc4561a6-a0ab-4bb4-931a-f87c40f109a5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A New Bayesian Decision Theory
Two weeks ago I wrote an introduction to normative decision theory, yet I haven’t made clear what decision algorithm should be used. Before that, I’d like to give some preliminaries.
Generally speaking, Newcomb's Problem and the Smoking Lesion Problem represent counterexamples to CDT an... |
7f18f7a3-a69e-4354-aa49-20fb8fc3864a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Improving Learning from Demonstrations by Learning from Experience
I Introduction
---------------
Reinforcement learning has been highly successful in many areas, meeting or exceeding human performance, in video game environments [[16](#bib.bib6 "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning")], robot man... |
6a40cd64-51e6-4466-9877-bfe7914764c3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Are AIs like Animals? Perspectives and Strategies from Biology
*Disclaimer: The views expressed in this document are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of my past or present employers.*
In a recent [interview](https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/beyond-chatgpt-stuart-russell-risks-and-re... |
83dd7055-adbe-4041-8590-5f3bd73810b3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Block-Based Regularization Proposal for Neural Networks
A Block-Based Regularization Proposal for Neural Networks
Exploring Localized Weight Groupings as a Way to Control Overfitting
Introduction
I’m not an expert in machine learning. I've been studying the field out of curiosity and an almost irrational drive to ... |
4f30b5e3-8999-40fa-aa44-b9380e08fd27 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Amplify is hiring! Work with us to support field-building initiatives through digital marketing
See the accompanying launch post here to read more about the project's background.
TLDR:
Amplify is an early-stage project supporting local Effective Altruist and AI Safety local groups as well as other field-building org... |
2293506b-3b7d-4dba-83d4-e4fc673310b1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Get paid to train your rationality
A tournament is currently being initiated by the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA) with the goal of improving forecasting methods for global events of national (US) interest. One of the teams (The Good Judgement Team) is recruiting volunteers to have thei... |
cef3c348-9722-4434-83c9-7e47425585d1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | UN Public Call for Nominations For High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence
The upcoming formation of the [UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence](https://input.un.org/EFM/se/3995D1A465993A1B ) is an essential development in steering the future of AI.
Many members of the EA community have ... |
e39997cf-ab4c-4763-b1b8-31fbfb6bfe14 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Mystery At The Heart of Central Banking
Economists love decentralized competitive markets. There’s nothing an economist likes to see more than some decentralized entrepreneurs starting businesses with well-defined property rights, competing with each other to serve the interests of others in order to serve... |
51330a59-286e-4e3c-9753-3fc9b2ac257f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | misc raw responses to a tract of Critical Rationalism
*Written in response to* [*this David Deutsch presentation.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01C3a4fL1m0&list=WL&index=63&t=137s) *Hoping it will be comprehensible enough to the friend it was written for to be responded to, and maybe a few other people too.*
Deut... |
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