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200aba7f-b0a9-4352-b5f0-ae967794c215 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 2017 AI Safety Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Summary: I review a significant amount of 2017 research related to AI Safety and offer some comments about where I am going to donate this year. Cross-posted from here upon request.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (... |
571520a4-1b17-4cb4-9735-0264a2548dea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LINK-How we make our depression worse
http://www.alternet.org/print/books/youre-making-your-depression-worse-self-help-bringing-us-down
TL;DR:
> only a human being can feel bad about feeling bad
results in a positive feedback loop pushing people into depression. |
67d45fbe-4ddc-4910-8e9d-1e2c50f3b67b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI scares and changing public beliefs
The opportunity
I, for one, am looking forward to the the next public AI scares.
There's a curious up-side to the reckless deployment of powerful, complex systems: they scare people. This has the potential to shift the landscape of the public debate. It's an opportunity the AGI s... |
5ec1ca67-e9b0-4e7b-89fa-0af63cfad8a2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are the boundaries?
Computer science and information theory were separate from physics. Not anymore. People realized that information had to be physical and this had profound consequences, especially in the form of quantum information/computation.
Psychology and economics were separate. Not anymore. People reali... |
5329edc0-12ec-4ee8-b37a-03d9534410cb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Text Steers Vision
Textual Steering Vectors Can Improve Visual Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models
TL;DR: We discovered the possibility of using steering vectors from text-only models to enhance visual reasoning in multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). The technique is simple: extract textual representations for conc... |
66411417-d10b-47ee-a758-8f3f5fe867a3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Self-Anchoring
Today's post, Self-Anchoring was originally published on 22 October 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Related to contamination and the illusion of transparancy, we "anchor" on our own experience and underadjust when trying to understand others.
Discuss the post here (rather t... |
45e703bc-a7bc-4e0c-aa27-a5f464853f25 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Adaptation Executors and the Telos Margin
Thank you to Justis Mills for feedback on a draft of this post.
You'll often hear this bit of wisdom: "Humans are not utility optimizers, but rather adaptation executors." At first glance, it seems to be pretty self-explanatory. Humans are not effectively described by the opt... |
90edcc5c-f9d5-4799-a749-821da8867fa2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Longmont Sparkfun Soldering Competition Field Trip
Discussion article for the meetup : Longmont Sparkfun Soldering Competition Field Trip
WHEN: 28 April 2012 11:00:00AM (-0600)
WHERE: 1555 S Hover Rd Longmont, Colorado 80501
Sparkfun is sponsoring a Soldering Competition from 11am to 5pm April 28 in Longm... |
2cefd7e4-2b40-431f-a61c-1f01f721d026 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | BBE W1: HMCM and Notetaking Systems
HMCM and Notetaking Systems
BBE W1C1
(Build a Better Exobrain Week 1, Commentary 1)
Back in the old days, when the internet was bad for notetaking, some obsessive notetaker named Lion Kimbro wrote a Document.
A long, long time after that, the document came up on some LessWrong t... |
7b7d19ff-7479-428a-96e2-21b78daf3b30 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | False Laughter
Followup to: Politics and Awful Art
There's this thing called "derisive laughter" or "mean-spirited laughter", which follows from seeing the Hated Enemy get a kick in the pants. It doesn't have to be an unexpected kick in the pants, or a kick followed up with a custard pie. It suffices that the Hate... |
144d893f-378e-4b72-a6cf-e53f6d23a8a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Workshop: data analysis for software engineers
I'm giving a hands-on workshop: Data analysis for software engineers this coming Saturday, in central London+online.
The material is based on my book Evidence-based Software Engineering which discusses what is known about software engineering, based on all the publicly a... |
2ad366fc-a693-4b2b-a6d8-c422e10dee6d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learn and practice using the Circle of Competence with exercises
None |
725284ed-6a42-4e1b-91e0-3d44ee64a900 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Because of LayerNorm, Directions in GPT-2 MLP Layers are Monosemantic
I think that this has been stated implicitly in various comments and lesswrong posts, but I haven't found a post which makes this point clearly, so thought I would quickly write one up!
To get the most out of this, you should probably be pretty fam... |
21e3501b-c33b-4820-91eb-2a8b9f1938b4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Generalization of the Solomonoff Induction to Accuracy - Is it possible? Would it be useful?
I appreciate Solomonoff's success in generalizing Occam razor from just selecting the simplest hypothesis/model to adding probabilities to each of them.
But for instance the postion (motion) of any body (x, y, z) can be fit ... |
afb855a7-e824-4df7-a114-08ed1af932f4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Designing Normative Theories for Ethical and Legal Reasoning: LogiKEy Framework, Methodology, and Tool Support
1 Introduction
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The *explicit representation-of and reasoning-with ethical and legal knowledge* capacitates ethical intelligent systems with
increasing levels of autonomy in their decision m... |
3a770bce-31a9-4710-bc28-eab1d9b714a5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Penn State, Madison WI, Pittsburgh, Melbourne, Canberra, and Cambridge
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* Penn State University: NEW Meetup starting!: 22 October 2011 02:00PM
* Madison Monday Meetup: 24 October 2011 06:30AM
* Pittsburgh Meetup: Big Gaming Fun!: 25 ... |
214840f3-12d2-43b3-8ea4-4b2fa7045c36 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Connectomics seems great from an AI x-risk perspective
Context
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Numerous people are in a position to accelerate certain areas within science or technology, whether by directing funds and resources, or by working in the area directly. But which areas are best to accelerate?
One possible consideration (among ot... |
b1f123e0-c4c8-4187-aabc-b7b0edb2b2de | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is there a way to test your personal COVID vaccine response? How do corticosteroids impact response?
Anyone have insight on (1) Whether there is a way to test how effective an immune response you had to the vaccine or (2) the extent to which inhaled glucocorticoids (specifically Symbicort) impact the effectiveness of... |
a5c64284-15d1-433d-8bd7-67c1e31e26f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Joy in Discovery
Today's post, Joy in Discovery was originally published on 21 March 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> It feels incredibly good to discover the answer to a problem that nobody else has answered. And we should enjoy finding answers. But we really shouldn't base our joy on the f... |
7c654ef6-14a5-43e2-8e0e-e4a7d200e581 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open thread for December 17-23, 2013
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here. |
bf0a9ddf-a438-49ce-8ac2-8eb90bc3404c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | I'm making a ttrpg about life in an intentional community during the last year before the Singularity
Hi there! I'm Thomas Eliot. You may remember me from the Bay Area Rationalist Community, or the one in New York, or the one in Melbourne.
I'm writing a semi-autobiographical roleplaying called THE SINGULARITY WILL ... |
148263ad-8e96-40a1-93d6-2b03200a628e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | I Think Eliezer Should Go on Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is the only popular mainstream news host who takes AI safety seriously. I am being entirely serious. For those of you who don't know, Glenn Beck is one of the most trusted and well-known news sources by American conservatives.
Over the past month, he has produced tw... |
0038bb98-43d9-4c3b-a108-689ac522132c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Chain of Thought Imitation with Procedure Cloning.
1 Introduction
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The idea of learning by imitation in autonomous agents closely resembles how humans (especially children) learn in real life — by watching and mimicking how someone else performs a certain task ([schaal1999imitation,](#bib.bib1) ). Wh... |
463783e6-338d-49cb-bc77-b54610c73648 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Request for Alignment Research Project Recommendations
Recent lists of alignment research projects such as Richard Ngo's list of conceptual research projects and Neel Nanda's list of future research directions for understanding grokking and phase changes have been tremendously useful for me as a beginner in the field.... |
1992a045-08f5-4bd9-a1ce-02ec14e4286b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/agisf | AGI Safety Fund | What are some arguments for AI safety being less important?
Notes[[a]](#cmnt1)[[b]](#cmnt2)[[c]](#cmnt3)[[d]](#cmnt4)
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Some of these arguments are substantially better than others, and some of the pieces here are rebuttals to worse arguments. Some of the best a... |
3c6434b6-a8d8-43c7-b317-c4ec71d19f23 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Let’s go meta: Grammatical knowledge and self-referential sentences [ChatGPT]
Language is a medium that humans use for sharing thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. In order to do so it has to be embedded in some physical medium, whether sound, visual signs, of physical gestures. But the thoughts, attitudes, and feelings... |
9b722638-8201-4edd-afc9-f672adfd2597 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nutrition is Satisficing
Reason for writing: I didn't see a clear, unambiguous explanation of this concept when I did a search on LW.
Epistemic status: Confident, but this is a normative claim, not a descriptive one. Skip if you hate normies.
Eat plenty of vegetables. Drink plenty of water. Get enough protein.
For ... |
f38fbcd3-e3a7-421e-a980-e565afdd9bb6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Summary: Existential risk from power-seeking AI by Joseph Carlsmith
Within our lifetimes we might witness the deployment of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems with the ability to run companies, push forward political campaigns and advance science. The basic concern is that these AI systems could pursue goal... |
4613185d-6f03-406e-a87b-c96c0215f7e0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Topological Fixed Point Exercises
This is one of three sets of fixed point exercises. The first post in this sequence is [here](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mojJ6Hpri8rfzY78b/fixed-point-theorems), giving context.
**1.** (1-D Sperner's lemma) Consider a path built out of n.mjx-chtml {display: inline-block; line-he... |
0d33049e-210c-48e2-a513-ba31010789c9 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post1861
This is the fifth post in a sequence of posts that describe our models for Pragmatic AI Safety. Dan Hendrycks (an author of this post), Nicholas Carlini, John Schulman, and Jacob Steinhardt previously wrote Unsolved Problems in ML Safety (2021), which lays out some of the most promising areas of research ... |
9c96073b-3808-400d-bd4b-aa1e433f3af2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | AI & Antitrust: Reconciling Tensions Between Competition Law and Cooperative AI Development | Yale Journal of Law & Technology
Yale Journal of Law & Technology
Volume 23, Spring 2021
AI & ANTITRUST : RECONCILING TENSIONS BETWEEN
COMPETITION LAW AND COOPERATIVE AI DEVELOPMENT
Shin-Shin Hua1 & Haydn Belfiel... |
f4beb1fa-607a-44ce-95e5-4bd57f307ef6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Practicing my Handwriting in 1439
Tyler Cowen’s latest Bloomberg column on the dangers of AI predicts, among other things, that AI will disrupt the current high status and earnings of “wordcels” and “ideas people.”
> The larger theme is becoming evident: AI will radically disrupt power relations in society.
>
> AI m... |
fcf28259-befd-4dea-8b8a-3b8ce22b6a07 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open & Welcome Thread December 2021
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invite... |
d58cafde-cc3c-4815-a2b4-774001f6be28 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reflections on Being 30
Epistemic Status: Personal
I haven’t written a lot of personal stuff here recently, because I’ve been doing a lot more private contemplation, and been busy with life things. (Nonprofit and baby, among other things.) But I thought I might want to put out some thoughts about what growing in mat... |
3fc4b046-f585-48de-b6ea-317bea9c15eb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | War on Cancer II
Epistemic status: This isn’t medical advice. To the extent that it’s advice it’s health policy advice. I’m no domain expert. If you are faced with the prospect of cancer, consult with multiple experts.
Introduction
Richard Nixon declared the war against cancer in 1971. Beau Biden, the son of Joe Bi... |
6dd2804e-b43c-4109-9455-5b962c41b031 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Does the lottery ticket hypothesis suggest the scaling hypothesis?
The [lottery ticket hypothesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635), as I (vaguely) understand it, is that artificial neural networks tend to work in the following way: When the network is randomly initialized, there is a sub-network that is already dece... |
d7cd6d55-c394-47ff-aa37-3b93e0a23bba | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Emergence of Addictive Behaviors in Reinforcement Learning Agents
1 Introduction
---------------
A necessary requirement for both current and emerging forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the need for robust specification of objectives to the AI agent. Currently, a prominent framework for goal-based control of ... |
9cfc1744-c979-4813-b7cc-43c302c26ef5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Physical Therapy Sucks (but have you tried hiding it in some peanut butter?)
The worst part about physical therapy is not knowing if it’s working. The timescale for improvement is dreadfully long and the day-to-day changes are imperceptible.
65% of people who start physical therapy fail to adhere to their prescribed ... |
78abdc21-475e-460c-a48d-23e1f377f673 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What can we do now to prepare for AI sentience, in order to protect them from the global scale of human sadism?
I've heard various sources say that a distressingly large proportion of what people do with ChatGPT can be called 'depraved' in some way. Most recently in a FHI [podcast episode](https://open.spotify.com/epi... |
ae159464-dca4-4342-bfc3-f4868020e54c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Why small phenomenons are relevant to morality
*Follow-up to* [*this post*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ncv5b2sjLtyi9oKGz/optionality-approach-to-ethics)
One thing that seems important to me is that optionality implies a sort of high-level game theory :
It is good that we are in a complex environment wi... |
1b972bc9-ccaf-4785-ad3d-2435c438624c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything
Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing. They are disappointing on the level of ‘people think they have to be misconfigured to be this bad,’ and p... |
e7203421-c254-45fc-8924-63bcd19497d7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why not be awful?
I was going over the Sequences on metaethics, and it was leaving a bad taste in my mouth. The examples are all about killing or saving children (both of which are far outside my personal experience). The assumption is that the participants in a discussion about metaethics are, in fact, moral in the... |
b6127560-ff35-4d28-bdb3-d7a9b964df57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Death by Red Tape
Contains spoilers for the worldbuilding of Vernor Vinge's "Zones of Thought" universe.
Based on Eliezer's vision of the present from 1900.
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In the Zones of Thought universe, there is a cycle of civilization: civilizations rise from stone-age technology, grad... |
15579110-5072-4413-81af-593255ec2d4d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Learning a Prior over Intent via Meta-Inverse Reinforcement Learning.
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60dd8500-99b5-4917-91a6-100693f5e53c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Climbing the Hill of Experiments
A better anything can be achieved with simple tests at low costs.
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Background
People often settle for "good enough" and "if it ain't broke don't fix it" in their personal lives, opting not to make any effort to improve said things because eith... |
b7856200-72a9-43a7-a6f6-0a5d2801bc99 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sunday September 27, 12:00PM (PT) — talks by Alex Flint, Alex Zhu and more
This Sunday at 12pm (PT), we're running another session of "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors (see here for previous weeks' transcripts).
* For the first hour, we will have a series of lightning talks each lasting about 5 minutes ... |
3e1375f3-df8e-432c-aa08-e7e097f8f4d3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cambridge Meetup: Talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky: Recursion in rational agents
Discussion article for the meetup : Talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky: Recursion in rational agents: Foundations for self-modifying AI
WHEN: 17 October 2013 04:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Stata Center room 32-123 Cambridge, MA
On October 17th from 4:00-5:3... |
2dcc889c-62fb-497f-b872-705e2e320ef8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dealing with infinite entropy
A major concession of the introduction post was limiting our treatment to finite sets of states. These are easier to reason about, and the math is usually cleaner, so it's a good place to start when trying to define and understand a concept.
But infinities can be important. It seems quit... |
92e22302-a330-4dce-bd64-9bcc3af39c4b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What societies have ever had legal or accepted blackmail?
Robin Hanson's post History of Blackmail only mentions cases where blackmail was illicit or illegal. Have there ever been any societies, large or small, where blackmail was widely accepted? |
caaca029-424c-4936-9a9b-b16cf093e977 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An argument that animals don't really suffer
I ended up reading this article about animal suffering by this Christian apologist called William Craig. Forgive the source, please.
> In his book Nature Red in Tooth and Claw, Michael Murray explains on the basis of neurological studies that there is an ascending th... |
ec9c4966-3ac8-4c18-9edb-846dc0ec2d6f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | “X distracts from Y” as a thinly-disguised fight over group status / politics
1. Introduction
There’s a popular argument that says:
> It’s bad to talk about whether future AI algorithms might cause human extinction, because that would be a distraction from the fact that current AI algorithms are right now causing or ... |
1d471af9-79f8-4207-821f-5ec4019ab448 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Natural Language Inference in Context -- Investigating Contextual Reasoning over Long Texts
1 Introduction
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Natural languages are powerful tools for reasoning. In NLP, natural language inference (NLI) has attracted surging research interests snli:emnlp2015; williams-etal-2018-broad; ch2019abductive. ... |
7d34faa6-49ee-4a88-bcf3-fd32fcd6f0ed | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Some motivations to gradient hack
While taking part in the SERI MATS Program I wrote a post on gradient hacking, which is a theoretical phenomenon where a mesa-optimizer might deliberately attempt to influence its own training process via its outputs and thinking process. Gradient hacking seems most dangerous in the c... |
6cc24bbe-13f8-4b51-8561-0d1a18df02a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Two books by Celia Green
Celia Green is a figure who should interest some LW readers. If you can imagine Eliezer, not as an A.I. futurist in 2000s America, but as a parapsychologist in 1960s Britain - she must have been a little like that. She founded her own research institute in her mid-20s, invented psychological t... |
d9e5c824-0caf-4fce-9f81-6309fec2f3a3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Forget Everything (Statistical Mechanics Part 1)
EDIT: I somehow missed that John Wentworth and David Lorell are also in the middle of a sequence have written one post on this same topic here. I will see where this goes from here! This sequence will continue!
Introduction to a sequence on the statistical thermodynami... |
427ebe3f-aa01-4d36-b13d-26a4b2dc75ae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Solar Blackout Resistance
Many houses have solar panels, but in a power outage almost all of them shut down. Especially with serious blackouts like Texas had or like Europe may have this winter, getting even minimal power during an outage is valuable. Designing residential grid-tied rooftop solar so that it only worke... |
60fb785c-d9ee-4001-a522-61fa80cab3ea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] "Prediction Audits" for Nate Silver, Dave Weigel
Nate Silver (the NYT quantitative political analyst) and Dave Weigel (the Slate columnist) have started a good tradition, listing their worst predictions of 2011. (Silver also listed his best.)
If any other pundits are doing the same, link them here. |
aec40b71-8caf-4b8a-9372-efdaf17d0109 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why is it important whether governments or industry projects are better at keeping secrets?
None |
e75a39db-403d-4d00-9a14-5681675400da | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | 2013 in Review: Operations
It’s been 8 months since our [big strategic shift](http://intelligence.org/2013/04/13/miris-strategy-for-2013/) to a focus on Friendly AI research. What has worked well? What hasn’t? What have we learned? In this and several upcoming posts, I’ll provide a **qualitative and personal self-revi... |
04f28956-02ba-4b35-9a73-a3742614707b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationalist Hobbies
This is a place to talk about hobbies that teach rationality lessons. I'll start with a few:
Programming - Lets you practice math and logic, and gain an intuitive understanding of computation. Also teaches that sometimes you can't argue with reality, but you can fix it. (Also suggested recently by... |
851a05f2-2374-4925-b987-836ab6428b52 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Perils of Generalizing from One's Social Group
I see people make statements of the form, "In my experience with people I encounter, X is correlated with ...". The problem is, there's an excellent chance that the people they deal with are very unrepresentative of the population they want to generalize about, and I rar... |
fc9a9707-0625-4b94-b581-5d99054ae2b5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Day Without Defaults
Author's note: this post was written on Sunday, Oct. 19th. Its sequel will be written on Sunday, Oct. 27th.
Last night, I went to bed content with a fun and eventful weekend gone by. This morning, I woke up, took a shower, did my morning exercises, and began eat breakfast before making the com... |
1db9e47c-77ea-43aa-a449-2fbd46a70fcc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | RAIN: Your Language Models Can Align Themselves without Finetuning - Microsoft Research 2023 - Reduces the adversarial prompt attack success rate from 94% to 19%!
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07124
Abstract:
> Large language models (LLMs) often demonstrate inconsistencies with human preferences. Previous resear... |
c659a687-ae9c-4091-a761-531d124e32f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How/would you want to consume shortform posts?
The LessWrong team might be putting more work into the shortform concept in the next couple weeks. I wanted to check in about what specific features people might want for that.
Right now, some users set up "shortform feed" posts, which are a hacky way to give yourself a ... |
52751387-7f05-4a66-8c8a-ddd786726f65 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Corrigibility = Tool-ness?
Goal of This Post
I have never seen anyone give a satisfying intuitive explanation of what corrigibility (in roughly Eliezer’s sense of the word) is. There’s lists of desiderata, but they sound like scattered wishlists which don’t obviously point to a unified underlying concept at all. There... |
7179545a-1991-4bac-81df-dff129241d2b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Valproic acid, a drug for brain plasticity
NPR reports on a study giving volprioc acid to adults and training them on pitch (singing):
> Hensch is studying a drug which might allow adults to learn perfect pitch by recreating this critical period in brain development. Hensch says the drug, valprioc acid, allows... |
319a4809-dadf-46a7-b764-47d4a0d5ec78 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Better to be testably wrong than to generate nontestable wrongness
Abstract: Test the world-models [at least somewhat] scientifically by giving others and yourself opportunity to generate straightforwardly and immediately testable factual predictions from the world-model. Read up facts to make sure you are not wrong b... |
33bb24f8-2e6c-4ba8-b17c-01b54150a7a9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington, D.C.: CFAR Related Discussion (Parkour Postponed)
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: CFAR Related Discussion (Parkour Postponed)
WHEN: 31 August 2014 03:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery
Weather permitting, we will be meeting at the Navy Memorial to practice el... |
b53951f7-dd3e-477f-82f2-9f85ca3b9edc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Zero-based karma coming through
Our friends at Tricycle will push through a zero-based karma system (no self-voting possible) sometime this evening. At present this will only cover future posts/comments - they may go back and revise history some time in the indefinite future (or not), but apparently that would be ove... |
37f8d3ae-5405-4cf9-918e-cf9bf3f68116 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Tech behemoths form artificial-intelligence nonprofit
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873acd98-8543-4998-87c8-a9144a5b8fbe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Population After a Catastrophe
This was written in my role as researcher at CEARCH, but any opinions expressed are my own. I will check comments on the EA Forum version more often.
This report uses population dynamics to explore the effects of a near-existential catastrophe on long-term value.
Summary
* Global pop... |
94379b8b-0638-4e54-b22e-3ef866a24385 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Who is marketing AI alignment?
What individuals or organizations are actively working on the "marketing" of AI alignment, particularly doing work such as:
* Establishing AI alignment as a recognized and respected academic field.
* Building the infrastructure to make alignment research more accessible and attractiv... |
a4d17155-4576-4783-a934-0a36b273b397 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How does a Living Being solve the problem of Subsystem Alignment?
So, a Living Being is composed of multiple parts who act pretty much on tandem except extreme situations like Cancer, how does that work? |
f983a8e5-c670-44b7-8c7e-3f52b0730251 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Northern Virginia: Nonviolent Communication
Discussion article for the meetup : Northern Virginia: Nonviolent Communication
WHEN: 15 September 2011 07:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Ballston Commons Mall
NVC is still the most popular meetup topic, and there were attendance issues last week for reasons that seem un... |
858b9b74-e924-466d-bbed-6558a8003e55 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | On Developing a Mathematical Theory of Interpretability
If the trajectory of the deep learning paradigm continues, it seems plausible to me that in order for applications of low-level interpretability to AI not-kill-everyone-ism to be truly reliable, we will need a much better-developed and more general theoretical an... |
d99674cb-eee1-43e0-9f13-1448a03e4f20 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | New Report: Botworld
Today MIRI releases a new technical report: “[Botworld 1.0](https://intelligence.org/files/Botworld.pdf)” (pdf) by [recent hires](http://intelligence.org/2014/03/13/hires/) Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein. The re... |
24de6978-f982-40e1-901a-405e6711be86 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [NSFW] The Fuzzy Handcuffs of Liberation
Picture the following situation:
You're in bed with a hot woman. Your clothes are off and so are hers. You (consentually) tie her wrists and ankles to the bed so you can have your way with here. She tells you to do whatever you want with her. And you think to yourself…
This i... |
0ba50ee2-a92a-495c-87fe-0ecb63d4a176 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open thread, 18-24 August 2014
Previous open thread
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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.
3. Open Threads should be posted i... |
89f5341b-a247-4831-92f7-429b64f7d5d4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My take on Vanessa Kosoy's take on AGI safety
Confidence level: Low
Vanessa Kosoy is a deep fountain of knowledge and insights about AGI safety, but I’ve had trouble understanding some aspects of her point of view. Part of the problem is just pedagogy, and part of it (I will argue) is that she has some different unde... |
d38d383b-3376-4ddd-b98e-27c4fe4e75ce | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Craft & The Community - A Post-Mortem & Resurrection
Epistemic status: Broad, well-developed speculation.
Preface
To my knowledge, this essay contains the most comprehensive list of criticisms of the rationality community to date. Understandably, some people may take this as a rejection of the community as a who... |
7650f406-f1d2-451d-ada6-02b0a90d326a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Has LessWrong Ever Backfired On You?
Several weeks ago I wrote a heavily upvoted post called Don't Be Afraid of Asking Personally Important Questions on LessWrong. I thought it would only be due diligence if I tried to track users on LessWrong who have received advice on this site and it's backfired. In other words, t... |
ac2f64a6-1e32-46e6-9f56-675bd9577ce8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Isomorphisms don't preserve subjective experience... right?
I've seen a couple discussions about brain/CNS uploads and there seems to be a common assumption that it would be conscious in the way that we are conscious. I've even seen some anthropic principle-esque arguments that we are likely in a simulation because th... |
02f65ac9-ec2e-48bf-8500-5b91e7e27646 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Programming Languages For AI
Firstly a chess analogy
Suppose that you were part of a team trying to build a chess playing program. Your team has not yet had the fundamental insight of min-max search with approximate evaluations. While you definitely want some people on the team thinking hard about the abstract nature ... |
75874285-8ffb-4ef0-9671-c78ecc2d31f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Clothing For Men
Nothing fundamentally rational about this post, but it is instrumental. It will be useful to those that want to dress better. It's already been discussed that dressing well improved one's social life; I wanted to put it in one place how to reach that.
TL,DR
* The point of dressing well is to look c... |
7434ca70-2ad2-4461-a0f9-3f74e7505602 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Public Donation List or Putting Peer Pressure to Good Use
The recent top level post encouraging people to donate in support of Luke had a lot of a comments saying that it helped remind them to donate at all, simply by bringing it to their attention. I think this is a useful function, and the more people that publicly ... |
50212a15-a290-4f8f-b4ef-3ff8592ff493 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Overview of Formal Epistemology (links)
The branch of philosophy called formal epistemology has very similar interests to those of the Less Wrong community. Formal epistemologists mostly work on (1) mathematically formalizing concepts related to induction, belief, choice, and action, and (2) arguing about the found... |
a1d6e6fe-c70f-4b21-b728-3e89a39eb64e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Thoughts on the impact of RLHF research
In this post I’m going to describe my basic justification for working on RLHF in 2017-2020, which I still stand behind. I’ll discuss various arguments that RLHF research had an overall negative impact and explain why I don’t find them persuasive.
I'll also clarify that I don't ... |
949c6e13-f57a-4ea9-9a19-2cb10f04aaad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread, Jul. 13 - Jul. 19, 2015
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... |
a7be0b77-63d5-4906-a4cc-0dd8169b8f00 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Disjunctions, Antipredictions, Etc.
Followup to: Underconstrained Abstractions
Previously:
> So if it's not as simple as just using the one trick of finding abstractions you can easily verify on available data, what are some other tricks to use?
There are several, as you might expect...
Previously I talked about ... |
c0a78f7b-485a-4199-93f2-5718553ee00d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Concrete Takeaways Post-CFAR
Concrete Takeaways:
[So I recently volunteered at a CFAR workshop. This is part five of a five-part series on how I changed my mind. It's split into 3 sections: TAPs, Heuristics, and Concepts. They get progressively more abstract. It's also quite long at around 3,000 words, so feel free t... |
6f4f435a-b5bf-42d7-8cb4-d7358448a5fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Selfish preferences and self-modification
One question I've had recently is "Are agents acting on selfish preferences doomed to having conflicts with other versions of themselves?" A major motivation of TDT and UDT was the ability to just do the right thing without having to be tied up with precommitments made by your... |
c947a8d8-1ae5-4fcc-bdcc-8e94a51ae78a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Allais Malaise
**Continuation of**: [The Allais Paradox](/lw/my/the_allais_paradox/), [Zut Allais!](/lw/mz/zut_allais/)
Judging by the comments on Zut Allais, I failed to emphasize the points that needed emphasis.
**The problem with the Allais Paradox is the incoherent *pattern* 1A > 1B, 2B > 2A.** If you need $2... |
b441c838-a6c7-4249-9e3d-8e78bc27b3d9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Munich Meetup, Saturday September 10th, 2PM
Discussion article for the meetup : Munich Meetup, Saturday September 10th, 2PM
WHEN: 10 September 2011 02:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Munich Central Station, Coffee Fellows cafe, Bahnhofsplatz 2, First floor.
I will be there with a Lesswrong sign. If you can't find it... |
84547703-fe00-419a-b95f-6a2610e6abad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Preventing s-risks via indexical uncertainty, acausal trade and domination in the multiverse
TL;DR: Benevolent superintelligence could create many copies of each suffering observer-moment and thus “save” any observer from suffering via induced indexical uncertainty.
A lot of suffering has happened in the human (and a... |
f17f4c16-2248-412e-bc91-b344fcd91899 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future - no human examples or curation required.
In this paper, we explore if AI can improve its forecasts via self-play and real-world outcomes:
- Dataset: 12,100 questions and outcomes from Polymarket (politics... |
97f7236e-fbd8-4b35-bd38-e3ae11101f56 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "The sentence “snow is white” is true if and only if snow is white.—Alfred Tarski To say of what is, that it is, or of what is not, that it is not, is true.—Aristotle, Metaphysics IVWalking along the street, your shoelaces come untied. Shortly thereafter, for some odd reason, you start believing your shoelaces are unti... |
236d359d-1aae-46c7-a161-228ecd575a18 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reviews of the book 'The Alignment Problem'
Related: Goodreads – The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
The book 'The Alignment Problem' was published on October 6th, 2020.
Brian Christian posted on Facebook:
> TODAY IS THE DAY!
>
> After four years, a hundred interviews, 4,528 git commits, 1,057... |
9548f42b-7c6b-4889-ab84-75243a5d9354 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Could LLMs Help Generate New Concepts in Human Language?
Concepts are the central part of language. I would argue that concepts serve as condensed linguistic representations of concrete or abstract entities, aimed at enhancing the precision and efficiency of thinking and communication.
I found it fascinating to ponde... |
12c05b3c-52ad-411d-8494-b1b6c3f9ffef | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | AI alignment
The "alignment problem for [advanced agents](https://arbital.com/p/2c)" or "AI alignment" is the overarching research topic of how to develop [sufficiently advanced machine intelligences](https://arbital.com/p/7g1) such that running them produces [good](https://arbital.com/p/3d9) outcomes in the real worl... |
7085456f-fe11-4864-be79-49a5ce93d063 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Review of A Map that Reflects the Territory
I had read about lesswrong.com on Scott Aaaronon's blog but never read it. Then there was an offer to review A Map that Reflects the Territory which (as you prob know) is a collection of lesswrong essays.
I originally had just a link to my review, which I still have in thi... |
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