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57c5cdbe-f88b-4d1c-b16a-27d1c8a6c621 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Director: Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels.
1 Introduction
---------------
Artificial agents have achieved remarkable performance on reactive video games (mnih2015dqn, badia2020agent57) or board games that last for a few hundred moves (silver2017alphago).
However, solving complex control problems can require ... |
0bee04d0-81ec-417b-9215-eca2b8cded81 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Utility Indifference
Utility indi erence
Stuart Armstrong,
stuart.armstrong@stx.oxon.org
2010
1 The motivating scenario
Consider an AI that follows its own motivations. We're not entirely sure what
its motivations are, but we would prefer that the AI cooperate with humanity;
or, failing that, that we can destroy it be... |
0717f00b-ecee-4e6f-8828-6c61d86f6bf2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Defining Optimization in a Deeper Way Part 2
We have successfully eliminated the concepts of **null actions and nonexistence** from our definition of optimization. We have also eliminated the concept of **repeated action**. We are halfway there, and now have to eliminate **uncertainty** and **absolute time**. Then we ... |
7794a2f9-e84a-4e78-8054-1408de2071fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Munchkining for Fun and Profit, Ideas, Experience, Successes, Failures
A munchkin is someone who follows the letter of the rules of a game while breaking their spirit, someone who wins by exploiting possibilities that others don't see, reject as impossible or unsporting, or just don't believe can possibly work.
If yo... |
df5a0561-ec1f-401d-9715-403bea009bbc | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | ChatGPT: "An error occurred. If this issue persists..."
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time playing with ChatGPT over the last couple of days. Most of the time it responds to a prompt instantly or very quickly. Sometimes, though, there is a noticeable delay. Some of those times the delay is relatively long, 10s o... |
b5de0c95-bc96-4b4a-ba44-e653b1609e3d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Some arguments against a land value tax
To many people, the land value tax (LVT) has earned the reputation of being the "perfect tax." In theory, it achieves a rare trifecta: generating government revenue without causing deadweight loss, incentivizing the productive development of land by discouraging unproductive spe... |
d1382296-fd17-4114-8d91-c96dc83b0142 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell
I'm not sure if this post is very on-topic for LW, but we have many folks who understand Haskell and many folks who are interested in Löb's theorem (see e.g. Eliezer's picture proof), so I thought why not post it here? If no one likes it, I can always just move it to my own blog.
A... |
72b9548f-92fe-4f00-9500-82f201887c9a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Emotion-Informed Valuation Mechanism for Improved AI Alignment in Large Language Models
Introduction
A key challenge in improving model alignment is enabling these models to understand and respond properly to the emotional and contextual aspects of human communication. This post presents an emotion-informed valuation ... |
4abbaedb-5920-42a0-b05a-bf13793b0da9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 50 Ways To Leave Your Therapist: Termination and why it's important
I've heard a number of people talk negatively about professionals they feel stuck with. "I feel like my dentist is judging me for not flossing enough", "I don't feel like I can be honest with my doctor", "I wish my hair stylist didn't ask so many ques... |
10767039-3f8b-446a-91fb-4438eb0215ac | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | The case for long-term corporate governance of AI
**Summary**
===========
In this post, we define the term “long-term corporate governance of AI” and argue that:
* Corporate governance is an important area of long-term AI governance.
* Despite its importance, the corporate governance of AI is relatively neglected ... |
45c14f8f-7e91-417e-906b-57375f4b63af | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | No. Impending AGI doesn't make everything else unimportant.
*I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was. How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed. And I would go along a... |
3dc0cc9e-816f-4d3b-929f-4bfc5930518e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Sandor Veres on autonomous agents
 Professor [Sandor Veres](http://sheffield.ac.uk/acse/staff/smv/index) was born and educated in Hungary as applied mathematician. He completed his PhD in dynamical modelling of stochastic system... |
c888b146-fbff-455c-8819-ae23eaeedbc5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] The Cryopreservation of Kim Suozzi
http://www.alcor.org/blog/?p=2716
> With the inevitable end in sight – and with the cancer continuing to spread throughout her brain – Kim made the brave choice to refuse food and fluids. Even so, it took around 11 days before her body stopped functioning. Around 6:00 am on T... |
c2598f66-2e5b-4c5c-b97e-6ebc23a858b1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Intense World Theory of Autism
The first section is well-written and reliable, because I didn't write it, it's a book excerpt. The rest of the post is more prone to errors and speculations; you can skip it if you're not into that kind of stuff—I read a few books and articles about autism, but I'm definitely not an... |
6aa7a94d-760c-4727-bb85-0288f7718f53 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Trace: Goals and Principles
In terms of research, I decided to devote the month of February mainly to foundations and tools. One project was to come up with a notation/language/framework which matches the way I’ve been thinking about computation - i.e. DAGs with symmetry and “clouds” representing DAG-structure-as-data... |
72962261-ab79-4f64-9bb6-e2ff1f920d72 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Using GPT-N to Solve Interpretability of Neural Networks: A Research Agenda
Tl;dr We are attempting to make neural networks (NN) modular, have GPT-N interpret each module for us, in order to catch mesa-alignment and inner-alignment failures.
Completed Project
=================
Train a neural net with an added loss t... |
4b51273f-40ee-49cd-9856-43f028649d38 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | From Capuchins to AI's, Setting an Agenda for the Study of Cultural Cooperation (Part2)
Today's writings are shaded dark green, the rest was also in Part1.
This is a multi-purpose essay-on-the-making, it is being written aiming at the following goals 1) Mandatory essay writing at the end of a semester studying "Cognit... |
1ececb7c-dd06-4a5c-9b81-8b0d8217fc81 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Chapter 3: What's an Object?
In the real world, there are no "objects" in the way we get used to feeling them. While working with computers, we map "objects" to bytes by compiling programs. And we use "object" word for different stuff: variables, functions, etc. If you will look from the physics point on your chair, t... |
85407722-f736-4873-a675-9319616b32f9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | Will there be a discontinuity in AI capabilities?
While researchers agree that AI capabilities could increase quickly, there are still debates around whether the increase would take the form of [a continuous rise or of a (seemingly) discontinuous jump.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progres... |
830c2c25-24a8-4b89-9d74-ca7825725ce0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Alignment Metastrategy
I call "alignment strategy" the high-level approach to solving the technical problem[1]. For example, value learning is one strategy, while delegating alignment research to AI is another. I call "alignment metastrategy" the high-level approach to converging on solving the technical problem in... |
ca70b1b3-2346-4362-b876-4597592220f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Online Optimal Philanthropy Meetup: Tue 10/9, 8pm ET
How can we do the most good in the world? What impact can we have, and what's the impact on us?? What are the best charities? How can we evaluate them? Online discussion via g+ hangout, Tuesday October 9th, 8pm ET (Boston time).
https://plus.google.com/u/0/event... |
8efdbd0f-b246-4aec-b2d4-bfc3debe35b4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly Non-Covid News #1 (10/13/22)
This is the non-Covid part of what would previously have been the weekly Covid post. About half of the content written for the post this week is being withheld for topic-level future posts, both with longer time horizons (e.g. policy roundups don’t need to be weekly and should benef... |
4a830c98-f655-44cc-aee3-3539dcecf038 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Timeline of AI safety
[Here](https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_AI_safety) is a timeline of AI safety that I originally wrote in 2017. The timeline has been updated several times since then, mostly by Vipul Naik.
Here are some highlights by year from the timeline since 2013:
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85e33ec2-0790-49ec-b009-d913d9e29552 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream
Produced while being an affiliate at PIBBSS[1]. The work was done initially with funding from a Lightspeed Grant, and then continued while at PIBBSS. Work done in collaboration with @Paul Riechers, @Lucas Teixeira, @Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel, an... |
73ec4346-7d1d-44fe-adb9-e035f393f932 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Risk, as Seen on Snapchat
The news tiles on Snapchat are utter drivel. Looking at my phone, today's headlines are: "Zendaya Pregnancy Rumors!", "Why Hollywood Won't Cast Lucas Cruikshank", and "The Most Dangerous Hood in Puerto Rico". Essentially, Snapchat news is the Gen-Z equivalent of the tabloid section at a Wa... |
6e068d3a-0567-4615-a0e7-b572d26a4d15 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Chapter 98: Roles, Final
Sunday, April 19th, 6:34pm.
Daphne Greengrass walked quietly toward the Greengrass room below the Slytherin dungeons, the privilege of an Ancient House; on her way to drop off her trunk from the Hogwarts Express, before she joined the other students for dinner. The whole private area had been... |
057d4bd7-252b-418c-90f8-6514efa70c33 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Apply to the Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship by October 14th!
Applications are now open for the 2025 Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship! Fellows will receive up to $40,000 per year plus tuition fees, alongside many other benefits. Applicants should be enrolled or are about to be enrolled in a PhD programme at an accredited u... |
7aeb8f3f-80fa-43f0-bf25-7383f49431fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Frontier AI Regulation
This paper is about (1) "government intervention" to protect "against the risks from frontier AI models" and (2) some particular proposed safety standards. It's by Markus Anderljung, Joslyn Barnhart (Google DeepMind), Jade Leung (OpenAI governance lead), Anton Korinek, Cullen O'Keefe (OpenAI), J... |
0edd0891-37ed-46ad-913a-cda5dd8613d0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Strategic Goal Pursuit and Daily Schedules
In the post Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic, Anna Salamon writes:
> there are clearly also heuristics that would be useful to goal-achievement (or that would be part of what it means to “have goals” at all) that we do not automatically carry out. We do not automatica... |
30cf186e-058f-4e3c-a8eb-791787a4bb1f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Normal system of provability logic
Between the modal systems of provability, the normal systems distinguish themselves by exhibiting nice properties that make them useful to reason.
A normal system of provability is defined as satisfying the following conditions:
1. Has **necessitation** as a rule of inference. That... |
9503f2cc-3e2b-4abb-9ab2-3a085b3560b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Best open-source textbooks (goal: make them collaborative)?
I'm looking for online open-source / generously licensed textbooks, papers or tutorials.
Think of stuff like: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
Why? I'm currently running https://chimu.sh --a collaborative learning platform. Quick explanation: Chim... |
1fcb48eb-07c3-42c1-821b-f59b634740a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Site Redesign Bug] Discussion post are duplicated in the main site.
Here the canonical url of this post.
Here is the "main" url of this post.
And here is the draft url of this post (which by the way kept the first version).
Main posts don't look affected.
I discovered it by clicking through the link available thr... |
e845e857-ae98-4894-ad2c-ecf2255d960e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | In notation
In mathematics, the notation $x \in X$ (where $\in$ is written "\in" in [https://arbital.com/p/5xw](https://arbital.com/p/5xw)) means that $X$ is a [set](https://arbital.com/p/3jz) and $x$ is an element of that set.
# Examples
$r \in \mathbb{R}$ means that $r$ is a [real number](https://arbital.com/p/4bc... |
b1007718-da39-487b-82c8-ab09e945fc2c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Why "AI alignment" would better be renamed into "Artificial Intention research"
"AI alignment" has the application, the agenda, less charitably the activism, right in the name. It is a lot like "[Missiology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missiology)" (the study of how to proselytize to "the savages") which had to evol... |
dbf99107-81c4-481f-b2e1-9246e6051ea7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Agency: What it is and why it matters
[ETA: I'm deprioritizing completing this sequence because it seems that other people are writing good similar stuff. In particular, see e.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality-is-the-tiger-and-agents-are-its-teeth and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pdJQY... |
65746c59-df02-4288-9419-07d94950e074 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Avoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1
hi I just finished recording a new video
for computerphile where I talk about
this paper concrete problems in AI
safety I'll put a link in the doobly-doo
to the computer file video when that
comes out here's a quick recap of that
before we get into ... |
72a58698-fc13-4aa3-8a78-682248bdbe76 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Maybe Theism Is OK -- Part 2
In response to: The uniquely awful example of theism
And Maybe Theism Is OK
Finally, I think I understand where gim and others are coming from when they made statements that I thought represented overly intolerant views of religious belief. I think that a good summary of the source of th... |
9bb17c34-8e72-4990-8971-552ef7b652fd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Import AI 334: Better distillation; the UK's AI taskforce; money and AI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this (and comment on posts!) please subscribe.
[Subscribe now](https://importai.substack.com/subscribe)
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dae51f1c-9feb-44da-812f-f1d29ff6f845 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deepmind Plans for Rat-Level AI
Demis Hassabis gives a great presentation on the state of Deepmind's work as of April 20, 2016. Skip to 23:12 for the statement of the goal of creating a rat-level AI -- "An AI that can do everything a rat can do," in his words. From his tone, it sounds like this is more a short-term, ... |
e8bb7a4b-6c4e-41fd-8c85-472a6ba81dbb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : LW-cologne meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : LW-cologne meetup
WHEN: 28 November 2015 05:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Marienweg 43, 50858
Monthly Cologne meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : LW-cologne meetup |
b82e8842-a820-4978-bb8e-7d029f6784d7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI
FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI
FrontierMath presents hundreds of unpublished, expert-level mathematics problems that specialists spend days solving. It offers an ongoing measure of AI complex ... |
d589e2e7-d766-427c-a68e-df595d07ac80 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Adventure: a new Utopia story
For an introduction to why writing utopias is hard, see here. For a previous utopian attempt, see here. This story only explores a tiny part of this utopia.
The Adventure
The cold cut him off from his toes, then fingers, then feet, then hands. Clutched in a grip he could not unclenc... |
c92f2953-7cc1-4d37-869c-406a4208b4c9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What To Do: Environmentalism vs Friendly AI (John Baez)
> In a comment on my last interview with Yudkowsky, Eric Jordan wrote:
>
> John, it would be great if you could follow up at some point with your thoughts and responses to what Eliezer said here. He’s got a pretty firm view that environmentalism would be a waste... |
efee061c-fed7-4dcb-b803-ba6c0da4c415 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Would this solve the (outer) alignment problem, or at least help?
(Here's the Google Docs version, which I typically update first)
ALBUM-WMC: Aligning lAGI[1] using Bayesian Updating of its Moral Weights & Modelling Consciousness
This document outlines a set of related ideas concerning the challenge of defining and i... |
5ddb34bc-b87c-4b64-8eb5-d6c0f976e1c2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Safely and usefully spectating on AIs optimizing over toy worlds
Consider an AI that is trying to achieve a certain result in a toy world running on a computer. Compare two models of what the AI is and what it's trying to do: first, you could say the AI is a physical program on a computer, which is trying to cause the... |
4f1ebee7-f000-4a1f-b5a6-199ec98a7ac8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Shallow Review of Consistency in Statement Evaluation
Overview
Most existing forecasting or evaluation platform questions are for very clearly verifiable questions:
* "Who will win the next election?"
* "How many cars will Tesla sell in 2030?"
* “How many jelly beans are in this jar?”
But many of the questions we... |
7a5f5b08-19a4-42fe-b765-8859ca52f266 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Towards a Bayesian model for Empirical Science
The aim of this post is to explore if we can create a model for doing Empirical Science that better incorporates Bayesian ideas.
The Current Model Of Doing Science
Imagine you are a Good Scientist. You know about p-hacking and the replication crisis. You want to follow ... |
e3b501ea-119e-4cff-a9a1-81769ae13e25 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationalism before the Sequences
I'm here to tell you a story about what it was like to be a rationalist decades before the Sequences and the formation of the modern rationalist community. It is not the only story that could be told, but it is one that runs parallel to and has important connections to Eliezer Yudkows... |
806b654b-9d49-49f7-af25-1a76bd253d73 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | International Conflict X-Risk in the Era of COVID-19
Jeremy Hussel had a great comment pointing out something which is easy to forget - major disasters often have multiple quasi-independent causes. Many things go wrong all at once, and any safeguards are overwhelmed by the repeated issues. COVID-19 could clearly be on... |
087c028e-76c1-40b6-8b2c-4405f126115b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI researchers announce NeuroAI agenda
Last week, 27 highly prominent AI researchers and neuroscientists released a preprint entitled Toward Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence: Catalyzing the NeuroAI Revolution. I think this report is definitely worth reading, especially for people interested in understanding and... |
e10f945a-0b37-4b43-99fd-d23bd1ae396a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Probabilistic Tiling (Preliminary Attempt)
We know a decent amount about how to get tiling in proof-based environments where the objective is for the AI to achieve a goal, or to write an AI to achieve a goal, or to write an AI that writes an AI that achieves a goal, and so on, as long as the chain of deferral is finit... |
8a1acc52-3dd1-484d-9214-109d134d5934 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Can submarines swim?
*[Note: This was written for a general audience; most of it is probably too basic for LessWrong. Thanks to the commenters who critiqued the original draft, this is the revised and published version.]*
Did any science fiction predict that when AI arrived, it would be unreliable, often illogical, a... |
9d30b644-6fe7-45fe-b64d-31d25d86f417 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ego syntonic thoughts and values
Related to: Will your real preferences please stand up?
Last week I read a book in which two friends - let's call them John and Lisa so I don't spoil the book for anyone who wanders into it - got poisoned. They only had enough antidote for one person and had to decide who lived and wh... |
c3a30a68-b5f5-41c9-9a92-ea0644540a09 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post82
In this post, I'll list all the areas of control research (and implementation) that seem promising to me. This references framings and abstractions discussed in Prioritizing threats for AI control . First, here is a division of different areas, though note that these areas have some overlaps: Developing and... |
372c40ba-473b-4c4d-897f-e269ab87b67a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | New paper: “Delegative reinforcement learning”
[](https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1xa7UpGGODl6mszNWkA4XQGPyeopsNuWu)MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy has written a new paper, “[Delegative rei... |
3cd60d96-a592-4bcf-b962-b5d50892a648 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | No Ultimate Goal and a Small Existential Crisis
tl;dr There is no ultimate goal. That may seem to imply nihilism, but it doesn't. This is fine, but in novel situations, I don't know what to do, because I don't know which goal to choose, because there is no ultimate goal.
4 year olds frequently ask "why?". Often repea... |
8c3eda8a-7cfa-4c84-a933-cd2aa194f915 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Toy problem: increase production or use production?
There is a class of problems that I noticed comes up again and again in various scenarios. Abstractly, you can formulate it like this: given a time limit, how much time should you spend increasing your production capacity, and then how much time should you use your p... |
8664afe7-656f-4570-b875-831aebac7fbd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Questionable Narratives of "Situational Awareness"
This is my analysis of narratives present in Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" essay series. In the post, I argue that Aschenbrenner uses dubious, propaganda-esque, and nationalistic narratives, and flawed argumentation overall, which weakens his essay's... |
d35b660f-388e-4a22-af99-16df5767eb2c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Heads I Win, Tails?—Never Heard of Her; Or, Selective Reporting and the Tragedy of the Green Rationalists
Followup to: What Evidence Filtered Evidence?
In "What Evidence Filtered Evidence?", we are asked to consider a scenario involving a coin that is either biased to land Heads 2/3rds of the time, or Tails 2/3rds of... |
ce4df310-8b4a-4141-b807-133c44b9a763 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | A one-question Turing test for GPT-3
> "Amy": Sorry Mike, I entered the wrong number. I hope this was a beautiful misunderstanding. I am very sorry for the trouble I have caused you.
>
> Me: No trouble at all, hope you are well!
>
> "Amy": It is fate that we meet each other. Please forgive me for my mistake. My name... |
cacc2a14-c2a5-42b2-9229-31cbe8605972 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Realism and Rationality
Format warning: This post has somehow ended up consisting primarily of substantive endnotes. It should be fine to read just the (short) main body without looking at any of the endnotes, though. The endnotes elaborate on various claims and distinctions and also include a much longer discussion o... |
443ee1ab-0dd4-4c51-97e6-26b1f0e5fd49 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Quick Note on AI Scaling Asymptotes
Two months ago, DeepMind announced their new Chinchilla paper. The headline result was that you could get much better performance with the same computational budget, by training a smaller model for longer:
However, it seems to have been mostly unnoticed that the "scaling law" the... |
e0508b85-7a3a-4b21-987c-e35baf52afc5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | EIS VII: A Challenge for Mechanists
Part 7 of 12 in the Engineer’s Interpretability Sequence.
Thanks to Neel Nanda. I used some very nicely-written code of his from here. And thanks to both Chris Olah and Neel Nanda for briefly discussing this challenge with me.
MI = “mechanistic interpretability”
Given a networ... |
aae9fd1c-0eec-4a09-98cb-300108c50593 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Analytic Perspective on AI Alignment
This is a perspective I have on how to do useful AI alignment research. Most perspectives I’m aware of are constructive: they have some blueprint for how to build an aligned AI system, and propose making it more concrete, making the concretisations more capable, and showing that... |
7d8e808f-1747-410b-81fc-b136d309c466 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Would you pursue software engineering as a career today?
I recently left a career in copywriting. While my background is largely in the creative space (writing, designing, branding, marketing, etc.), I’m also a former business owner with an affinity for problem solving. I don’t have much tech experience, but being “cr... |
9b063eda-2da5-4ee9-802e-7ce638d04c7a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Harnessing Your Biases
Theoretically, my 'truth' function, the amount of evidence I need to cache something as 'probably true and reliable' should be a constant. I find, however, that it isn't. I read a large amount of scientific literature every day, and only have time to investigate a scant amount of it in practice.... |
34a4e19f-73ac-4e0a-b5ac-2a01efe9ea0f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Knowledge Transfer Between Artificial Intelligence Systems
1 Introduction
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Knowledge transfer between Artificial Intelligent systems has been the subject of extensive discussion in the literature for more than two decades [Gorban:DAN:1991](#bib.bib1) , [Hinton:NC:1991](#bib.bib2) , [Pratt:ANIP:1992](... |
82a66d18-1527-4cfa-ac17-c1fa6099569d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Teaching to Compromise
I was reading interview with Giscard d'Estaing about drafting of European Constitution and a this section stood out:
> The session which was not good was the Youth Convention. It’s bizarre, it’s strange. Firstly, it was not young in spirit. [Laughs] That was what they’d been chosen for. It cons... |
2f5f129d-2acf-4d6e-9555-e72813097ae0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Sleeping Beauty Problem and The Doomsday Argument Can Be Explained by Perspective Inconsistency
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b266c899-dcd6-4be4-bd82-a457b58c04bf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Psycho-cybernetics: experimental notes
This post is a series of missives and notes I took while reading a popularization of cybernetics concepts as applied to self-help that was hugely influential in the self help field when first published in 1960. I am unsure if these notes will be of any interest to others. This is... |
0b6b1a84-0180-49e8-aed9-76cb83aef619 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | just enough spoilers for
just enough spoilers for *a fire upon the deep* to read a yudkowsky fanfic
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[*The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover*](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The-Finale-of-the-Ultimate-Meta-Mega-Crossover) is a... |
cba4df46-f511-4254-a5a7-70775363cf58 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Book review: The Geography of Thought
Book review: The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why, by Richard E. Nisbett.
It is often said that travel is a good way to improve one's understanding of other cultures.
The Geography of Thought discredits that saying, by being full of ex... |
738c9a16-94cc-4d2c-8937-80fe230c9422 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Tools versus agents
In his critique of the Singularity Institute, Holden Karnofsky presented a distinction between an AI functioning as a tool versus one functioning as an agent. In his words, a tool AI would
> (1) Calculate which action A would maximize parameter P, based on existing data set D. (2) Summarize this c... |
b1106d90-1d86-4e8e-b7c1-b113bc3213e8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What do coherence arguments actually prove about agentic behavior?
(edit: discussions in the comments section have led me to realize there have been several conversations on LessWrong related to this topic that I did not mention in my original question post.
Since ensuring their visibility is important, I am listing... |
8e342085-04ab-4d70-917e-4d646ad6f19d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are the good rationality films?
I run a weekly sequences-reading meetup with some friends, and I want to add a film-component, where we watch films that have some tie-in to what we've read.
I got to talking with friends about what good rationality films there are. We had some ideas but I wanted to turn it to Les... |
50c06475-4828-4317-8af4-9475ea5c1846 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ethics and rationality of suicide
I was saddened to learn of the recent death by suicide of Chris Capel, known here as pdf23ds. I didn't know him personally, but I was an occasional reader of his blog. In retrospect, I regret not having ever gotten into contact with him. Obviously, I don't know that I could have preve... |
8a94737e-ef63-4588-bb72-ea821ba562e5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Chinese Researchers Crack ChatGPT: Replicating OpenAI’s Advanced AI Model
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14810d5f-9c3f-46c9-b6cf-0d4bef99a0f4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Despair about AI progressing too slowly
*Cross-posted from the EA Forum:* [*https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kGkQtj6vjcrrAjK38/despair-about-ai-progressing-too-slowly*](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kGkQtj6vjcrrAjK38/despair-about-ai-progressing-too-slowly)
***Summary:** This is a personal and hi... |
3047f10b-f6af-444a-b1ab-83eb2e7a2038 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Introduction to Modern Dating: Strategic Dating Advice for beginners
Heads up: This is not really a post about rationality. That said, there are few times in your life when you are more prone to biases and emotional overrides than when you engage in dating.
We are emotional creatures above all. Knowing principles o... |
43955a29-ceff-436e-98ef-f64db5656f68 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | On Learning Intrinsic Rewards for Policy Gradient Methods.
1 Introduction
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One of the challenges facing an agent-designer in formulating a sequential decision making task as a Reinforcement Learning (RL) problem is that of defining a reward function. In some cases a choice of reward function is clear... |
598debbe-2824-4b10-9b61-b9cd6aff185f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What Would it Take to "Prove" a Speculative Cause?
Follow up to: Why I'm Skeptical About Unproven Causes (And You Should Be Too)
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My previous essay Why I'm Skeptical About Unproven Causes (And You Should Be Too) generated a lot of discussion here and on the Effective Altruist blog. Some related questions that came... |
dd07470d-4669-4e3d-86f9-01716d3d586f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Universal Planning Networks
1 Introduction
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| An overview of the UPN, which embeds a gradient descent planner (GDP) in the action-selection process. We demonstrate transfer to different, harder control tasks, including morphological (yellow point robot to ant) and topological... |
1b0fd09f-52c2-4835-9f57-8637deeeca6e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | LOVE in a simbox is all you need
***L**earning **O**ther's **V**alues or **E**mpowerment in simulation sandboxes is all you need*
TL;DR: We can develop self-aligning DL based AGI by improving on the brain's dynamic alignment mechanisms (empathy/altruism/love) via safe test iteration in simulation sandboxes.
AGI is... |
7c031106-07f3-483e-8d50-0470e366e7f3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : First Sydney 2012 meetup.
Discussion article for the meetup : First Sydney 2012 meetup.
WHEN: 18 January 2012 06:00:00PM (+1100)
WHERE: 22 The Promenade,, Sydney NSW 2000 (James Squire Brewhouse)
[All advice for improving location/time would be appreciated, especially location, which has not worked out ama... |
36ff834d-c2b3-4113-9ac0-52a9657f46fa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The counting argument for scheming (Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of "Scheming AIs")
This is Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of my report “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?”. There’s also a summary of the full report here (audio here). The summary covers most of the main points and technical ter... |
1597c96d-1a0b-4786-b211-cd7440bba965 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Lopsided Lives Argument For Hedonism About Well-being
1 Introduction
(Crosspost of this).
A warning: This is going to get very complicated. The various different models of well-being end up producing weird and counterintuitive conclusions. This is probably the topic that I have spent the most time thinking abou... |
d0f497cd-9676-476d-9de9-33ccb94232ca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Human sexuality as an interesting case study of alignment
This is cross-posted from my personal blog
Epistemic status: mostly interesting questions.
Here I want to bring attention to what I think is an extremely impressive case of evolution's ability to 'align' humans in the wild: the development of human sexuality.... |
20481829-3c03-481c-823a-b0fe006d01b4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Book Review] Altered Traits
Proponents of meditation claim it causes long-term beneficial changes to a person's mind. Does it? Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by science journalist Daniel Goleman and neuroscientist Richard (Richie) Davidson attempts to answer this que... |
904eb5ac-cd34-40cb-b8bc-97a441e97174 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Can Generalized Adversarial Testing Enable More Rigorous LLM Safety Evals?
Thanks to Zora Che, Michael Chen, Andi Peng, Lev McKinney, Bilal Chughtai, Shashwat Goel, Domenic Rosati, and Rohit Gandikota.
TL;DR
In contrast to evaluating AI systems under normal "input-space" attacks, using "generalized," attacks, which ... |
83867553-5efb-48d1-bd4c-e0aeb9f8ab7c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | You're in Newcomb's Box
**Part 1: Transparent Newcomb with your existence at stake**
Related: [Newcomb's Problem and Regret of](/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/) [Rationality](/lw/nc/newcombs_problem_and_regret_of_rationality/)
Omega, a wise and trustworthy being, presents you with a one-time-only ... |
1a199879-254e-4a3f-a99c-4cdbf2127a24 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Replicating the replication crisis with GPT-3?
I am getting worried that people are having so much fun doing interesting stuff with GPT-3 and AI Dungeon that they're forgetting how easy it is to fool yourself. Maybe we should think about how many different cognitive biases are in play here? Here are some features that... |
2529be27-9efa-43c2-b112-be5a58437a1c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The next AI winter will be due to energy costs
Summary: We are 3 orders of magnitude from the Landauer limit (calculations per kWh). After that, progress in AI can not come from throwing more compute at known algorithms. Instead, new methods must be develloped. This may cause another *AI winter*, where the rate of pro... |
a6a16d0c-2abd-4bbb-87a6-8b25080a1c42 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meeting the Dragon in Your Garage.
Suppose you observe the following dialogue:
A: If we do X we observe Y.
B: We tried X and we did not observe Y.
A: Apparently, you did not do X correctly.
B: Apparently, there is no Y. The reports of Y are just mistakes in the experiment.
There are many people joining both posit... |
da70bf4f-2371-45ce-a829-769ba03d2fa6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Exciting New Interpretability Paper!
There's a pretty exciting new interpretability paper, which hasn't really received the requisite attention because it's not billed as such.
This paper modifies the transformer architecture so that a forward pass minimizes a specifically engineered energy function.
According to t... |
0fcb0a8e-c369-4bef-aa14-e5e51991c80d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Relative complement
The relative complement of two sets $A$ and $B$, denoted $A \setminus B$, is the set of elements that are in $A$ while not in $B$.
Formally stated, where $C = A \setminus B$
$$x \in C \leftrightar... |
c282d53b-6963-4ab0-bcf7-4dae9b9afeb6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | (2009) Shane Legg - Funding safe AGI
Above is a link to an interesting blog post by Shane Legg. It was written before he started DeepMind, and he earns a hell of a lot of points for accomplishing a lot of the insanely ambitious goals set out in the post.
This part is particularly interesting:
> The impression I get... |
b23c8404-1396-4c4e-b184-95e6e73b5a28 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Availability
Today's post, Availability was originally published on 06 September 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Availability bias is a tendency to estimate the probability of an event based on whatever evidence about that event pops into your mind, without taking into account the ways in w... |
4af87ca3-8248-4cde-b4b6-62f50c2861e7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI #44: Copyright Confrontation
The New York Times has thrown down the gauntlet, suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Others are complaining about recreated images in the otherwise deeply awesome MidJourney v6.0. As is usually the case, the critics misunderstand the technology involved, complain abou... |
fe61f58c-0a6d-425c-9b7d-3f979722c4d8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks
Executive Summary
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen rapid advancements in recent years, raising concerns among AI experts, policymakers, and world leaders about the potential risks posed by advanced AIs. As with all powerful technologies, AI must be handled... |
11c37909-a655-4d44-a27e-26bf3f3aacae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Impossibility Proof Relevant to the Shutdown Problem and Corrigibility
The Incompatibility of a Utility Indifference Condition with Robustly Making Sane Pure Bets
Summary
It is provably impossible for an agent to robustly and coherently satisfy two conditions that seem desirable and highly relevant to the shutd... |
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