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5da3e594-2eee-412f-9706-ce13058633d8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A Unified Bellman Optimality Principle Combining Reward Maximization and Empowerment
1 Introduction
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In reinforcement learning [Sutton1998](#bib.bib61) (RL), agents identify policies to collect as much reward as possible in a given environment. Recently, leveraging parametric function approximators ... |
beeac37c-96bc-4224-aef9-d8cf2631c518 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why artificial optimism?
Optimism bias is well-known. Here are some examples.
* It's conventional to answer the question "How are you doing?" with "well", regardless of how you're actually doing. Why?
* People often believe that it's inherently good to be happy, rather than thinking that their happiness level shoul... |
9a151168-15d0-4874-a403-3edc7f1c4d8a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated
Behavior cloning (BC) is, put simply, when you have a bunch of human expert demonstrations and you train your policy to maximize likelihood over the human expert demonstrations. It’s the simplest possible approach under the broader umbrella of Imitation Learning, which also includes m... |
28ca3bcd-283c-41ec-9f42-8b43dd723b94 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | 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 p... |
ba9afe0d-c4f2-4a47-961e-ee671c655035 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is there a widely accepted metric for 'genuineness' in interpersonal communication?
... And if you don't believe there is one on LW or elsewhere, what what you consider to be the ideal?
'genuineness' here refers to all the positive qualities we associate with the word 'genuine' such as truthfulness, completeness ... |
c970e4a6-bbec-490d-ad29-fb1e850d5503 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Cascades, Cycles, Insight...
**Followup to**: [Surprised by Brains](/lw/w4/surprised_by_brains/)
*Five sources of discontinuity: 1, 2, and 3...*
**Cascades** are when one thing leads to another. Human brains are effectively discontinuous with chimpanzee brains due to a whole bag of design improvements, even tho... |
bb461126-7be8-428e-a764-50a242ecc8a0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Impact stories for model internals: an exercise for interpretability researchers
*Inspired by Neel's* [*longlist*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/uK6sQCNMw8WKzJeCQ/a-longlist-of-theories-of-impact-for-interpretability)*; thanks to* [*@Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/users/nicholas-goldow... |
f4bdab66-085e-467a-8742-727994ca93e3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Applied Rationality Exercises
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00bb4fc1-bb55-4633-a182-b0214db4614e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Not another bias!
Behavioural economics has significantly advanced our understanding of human behaviour, shedding light on how it frequently diverges from the traditional economic model predictions of the homo economicus. There is however a growing sense, that the marginal returns of finding and investigating biases h... |
b321f46f-b523-4723-a821-aa6145220e9d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Tale of Two Restaurant Types
While I sort through whatever is happening with GPT-4, today’s scheduled post is two recent short stories about restaurant selection.
YE OLDE RESTAURANTE
Tyler Cowen says that restaurants saying ‘since year 19xx’ are on net a bad sign, because they are frozen in time, focusing on being... |
3541c0aa-0cdd-4779-8497-de26fb077b84 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Political philosophy and/versus political action, not to mention arguing
I found an essay with so much good stuff in it that I was in danger of exceeding my quote quota, so I'm putting more quotes here:
"Awareness of what is first-best is a condition of being able to aim at second-best."
"What would be nice, then, w... |
298a8779-c2e0-4359-a5ce-2133942e5ba5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Agent Foundations track in MATS
In MATS Winter 2023, I'm going to mentor scholars who want to work on the [learning-theoretic agenda](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZwshvqiqCvXPsZEct/the-learning-theoretic-agenda-status-2023). This was not part of the original announcement, because (due to logistical reasons) I joine... |
e526cce3-1ab0-4613-9b45-fa84087b1540 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Is Coronavirus active in Summer?
It seems like the corona virus has spread mostly in cold climates on the northern hemisphere (in winter) and there are very few (confirmed) cases in Africa, South America and Australia. On the one hand the first two probably don't have the capabilities for testing on a large scale, bu... |
7ad55889-2e92-47c1-b0da-4369682e311b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Inaugural Canberra meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Inaugural Canberra meetup
WHEN: 12 February 2014 07:30:00PM (-0800)
WHERE: CSIT Building, Acton ACT 2601, Australia
(I'm posting this on behalf of my lurker friend.)
WHEN: 12 February 2014 07:30:00PM(+1100) WHERE: CSIT Building, Blg 108, North ... |
5356349f-1360-4403-ac52-d6e743fd0ea9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Collective Identity
Thanks to Simon Celinder, Quentin Feuillade--Montixi, Nora Ammann, Clem von Stengel, Guillaume Corlouer, Brady Pelkey and Mikhail Seleznyov for feedback on drafts. This post was written in connection with the AI Safety Camp.
Executive Summary:
This document proposes an approach to corrigibility... |
13cf29b5-ea91-42ae-9a7d-51c52e35ba5b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Preface to the sequence on value learning
This is a meta-post about the upcoming sequence on Value Learning that will start to be published this Thursday. This preface will also be revised significantly once the second half of the sequence is fully written.
Purpose of the sequence
The first part of this sequence wil... |
b69c1028-a57b-4083-b70b-b351b1f4a50f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Group rationality diary, 5/14/12
Background: I and many other attendees at the CFAR rationality minicamp last weekend learned a lot about applied rationality, and made big personal lists of things we wanted to try out in our everyday lives. I think that a regular (weekly or maybe semi-weekly) post where people menti... |
bed62a41-fb86-45fa-97c7-5c1b5b29e460 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Small Berkeley meetup at Zendo
Discussion article for the meetup : Small Berkeley meetup at Zendo
WHEN: 20 June 2012 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: berkeley, ca
There will be another Berkeley meetup at my home, Zendo. The theme will be "calibration games". We've done calibration games before but this time I hav... |
88a8faaa-f486-4cfa-a86a-bde3af6d758c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | AI-Relevant Regulation: CPSC
### Preface
This post is part of a series exploring existing approaches to regulation that seem relevant for thinking about governing AI.
The goal of this series is to provide a brief overview of a type regulation or a regulatory body so others can understand how they work and glean insi... |
3e823c3f-d2af-48d4-bf45-356839a57601 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Collaborate on HPMOR blurbs; earn chance to win three-volume physical HPMOR
Collaborate on HPMOR blurbs; earn chance to win three-volume physical HPMOR.
> I intend to print at least one high-quality physical HPMOR and release the files. There are printable texts which are being improved and a set of covers ... |
a694fb94-f2d4-4886-8c48-53afdbf4a499 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Melbourne practical rationality meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Melbourne practical rationality meetup
WHEN: 04 November 2011 07:00:00PM (+1100)
WHERE: 55 Walsh St, West Melbourne VIC 3003, Australia
Practical rationality, as distinct from socialising and rationality outreach. Look for a social ... |
b89c47d5-1c5c-4b76-918e-1729aa128364 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] NYTimes essay on willpower, based on an upcoming Baumeister book
A surprisingly good New York Times essay on willpower / ego depletion:
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
As it turns out, the essay is based on an upcoming Roy F. Baumeister book, "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength", which w... |
2483f34c-8a28-4e04-86c3-e9cda997cf8a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Alignment - Path to AI as ally, not slave nor foe
More thoughts resulting from my previous post
I'd like to argue that rather than trying hopelessly to fully control an AI that is smarter than we are, we should rather treat it as an independent moral agent, and that we can and should bootstrap it in such a way that i... |
39b027e4-6a5e-4eec-b7eb-2ea5c47e9614 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Longtermist implications of aliens Space-Faring Civilizations - Introduction
Crossposted on the EA Forum.
Over the last few years, progress has been made in estimating the density of intelligent life in the universe (e.g., Olson 2015, Sandberg 2018, Hanson 2021). Bits of progress have been made in using these results... |
dd995686-cf25-42b6-8f7a-0e072c42fdb9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Moral Alignment: An Idea I'm Embarrassed I Didn't Think of Myself
Back in February, I attended the Bay Area EA Global as I have every year since they started having them. I didn't have a solid plan for what to do there this year, though, so I decided to volunteer. That means I only attended the sessions where I was on... |
bd5b03a4-f9c5-45c8-bbfa-aa409814d197 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | All images from the WaitButWhy sequence on AI
Lots of people seem to like visual learning. I don't see much of an issue with that. People who have fun with thinking tend to get more bang for their buck.
It seems reasonable to think that that Janus's image of neural network shoggoths makes it substantially easier for ... |
48617302-7031-47d2-840a-0d450631abfd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Nice Guys Finish First" - Youtube Video of selected reading (by Dawkins) from The Selfish Gene
Check it out here.
Brief summary: Dawkins demonstrates a classic "Prisoner Dilemma AI tournament". No big surprise to us today, but at the time the revelation that Tit for Tat is one of -- if not *the* -- most effective st... |
ff41623b-2d62-439d-a6bb-9f5c85267951 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Opportunity to to learn more about AI Innovation & Security Policy
Note: Sharing this workshop since LW has a lot of people interested in testing their fit for AI Governance. Sorry if this too spammy for this forum, feel free to let me know if so.
If you're interested in a job tackling tough problems at the inters... |
53d86605-58db-4ee5-871e-1c779c00f955 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Any systems to rate more abstract things?
We have many in place to give us aggregated reviews on books (example: goodreads), films (imdb), restaurants (yelp), places (tripadvisor), apps, etc... Yet it seems like there's no such thing for abstract yet important stuffs like theories (e.g. Maslow hierarchy), techniques (... |
5ba54a6d-bab0-4874-83bc-2151a54b4e9a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Entangled Equilibria and the Twin Prisoners' Dilemma
In this post, I present a generalization of Nash equilibria to non-CDT agents. I will use this formulation to model mutual cooperation in a twin prisoners' dilemma, caused by the belief that the other player is similar to you, and not by mutual prediction. (This pos... |
b47551ca-f926-46f2-99e8-544899819fcf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Shh, don't tell the AI it's likely to be evil
If you haven't been online in the past week: ChatGPT is OpenAI's new fine-tuned language model that is really much better at doing all sorts things that you'd expect. Here's it debugging some code, or writing awful-sounding Seinfeld episodes, or (my favorite) writing a ver... |
599ea652-3e80-4765-a47f-b23ca4006354 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Can LessWrong provide me with something I find obviously highly useful to my own practical life?
When I meet new people, I often like to figure out how I can be useful in a really short amount of time, just by talking.
Example:
Often this will involve evangelizing some items from a short list of technologies that h... |
a0a7268e-59a3-440f-ac8c-14739d2585ac | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Atlanta June meetup - Hacking Motivation
Discussion article for the meetup : Atlanta June meetup - Hacking Motivation
WHEN: 08 June 2014 07:03:20PM (-0400)
WHERE: 2388 Lawrenceville Hwy. Unit L. Decatur, GA 30033
Oge says:
I recently read “The Motivation Hacker” by Nick Winter, a book which summarizes the... |
302ae94c-5e49-4386-b660-e5f3029d23e0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | post proposal: Attraction and Seduction for Heterosexual Male Rationalists
It seems there's some interest in PUA and attraction at Less Wrong. Would that subject be appropriate for a front-page post? I've drafted the opening of what I had in mind, below. Let me know what you think, and whether I should write the full ... |
0bce4ac5-3440-4df0-8f4c-7a4e44aa9293 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Project "MIRI as a Service"
One theoretically possible way to greatly speed-up alignment research is to upload the minds of alignment researchers (with their consent, of course). Ideally, we would upload MIRI and some other productive groups, create thousands of their copies, and speed them up by orders of magnitude. ... |
aa80334c-1a32-4d45-8775-c907afbce22b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Mountaineer's Fallacy
I'm sure this has a name, but I can't remember it. So I have given it a new name. The Mountaineer's Fallacy.
The Mountaineer's Fallacy is the suggestion that climbing Mount Everest is a good start on a trip to the moon.
In one sense, you are making progress on a key metric: distance from th... |
dc08ec6d-e26a-45a0-bfef-64cde0bec962 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An Ontology for Strategic Epistemology
In order to apply game theory, we need a model of a strategic interaction. And that model needs to include data about what agents are present, what they care about, and what policies they can implement. Following the same aesthetic as the Embedded Agency sequence, I think we can ... |
89296cbf-f685-495c-961e-0fb1ef23d720 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Making the "stance" explicit
Often, when people explain the behavior of an AI system, there is one of Daniel Dennett’s stances implicit in their explanation. I think that when this happens implicitly, it can often lead to misleading claims and sloppy reasoning. For this reason, I feel it can be really valuable to be d... |
6f6fb8c8-6080-4cf9-828c-dad132f06295 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Have You Tried Hiring People?
The purpose of this post is to call attention to a comment thread that I think needs it.
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seed:
Wait, I thought EA already had 46$ billion they didn't know where to spend, so I should prioritize direct work over earning to give? https://80000hour... |
ef875ab4-4d14-46b4-acbc-f1218d5ab21a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Jason Silva on AI safety
Just an FYI that Jason Silva, a "performance philosopher" who is quickly gaining popularity and audience, seems to have given little thought to, or not been exposed to the proper arguments for, or is unconvinced by, the existential threat of AGI. But of course, perhaps this optimism is what ha... |
207a1629-f53e-47b7-938a-8f99d1107e57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nozick's Dilemma: A Critique of Game Theory
Introduction to Non-Cooperative Game Theory
One of the most interesting applications of game theory and decision theory in general are the so-called “non-zero-sum games”. In these games, we have payoffs that do not cancel out between players, as in a zero-sum game, and it i... |
3a09ebd2-655f-43e5-9759-2b6d07b21d9d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Agents Over Cartesian World Models
Thanks to Adam Shimi, Alex Turner, Noa Nabeshima, Neel Nanda, Sydney Von Arx, Jack Ryan, and Sidney Hough for helpful discussion and comments.
Abstract
We analyze agents by supposing a Cartesian boundary between agent and environment. We extend partially-observable Markov decision ... |
b154224f-2d1c-46d5-a60d-b3b6e184baaf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Self-programming through spaced repetition
Spaced repetition software is a flashcard memorization technology based on the spacing effect. Personally, I think of it as a way of engineering dispositions, a form of self-programming. More concretely, I find that spaced repetition is helpful for
* internalizing knowledge ... |
b45dd701-9683-42b0-8d3f-161e5185159e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : London meetup: thought experiments
Discussion article for the meetup : London meetup: thought experiments
WHEN: 29 September 2013 02:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: LShift, Hoxton Point, 6 Rufus St, London, N1 6PE
NB note the change of location!
We are so good at providing reasons for our decisions after the fact ... |
b88fa363-8491-470d-ba13-e5e0280d4a57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why do we enjoy music?
Enjoying music doesn't seem to have any obvious purpose. Sure you can argue it strengthens social bonds, but why specifically sounds arranged in patterns through time over anything else?
At least with humor you can say it's about identifying the generating function of some observation which is ... |
a34a404c-232c-4117-839d-a12068382de7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Sharing the World with Digital Minds
**Note:** This is "Draft version 1.1" of this paper. If I learn that a later draft has been released, I'll edit this post to include it. If you learn of a later draft, please let me know!
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*Written by* [*Carl Shulman*](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/carl_shulman) ... |
672be506-7e2e-483c-b783-6133b8ba5772 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Feelings
A Brief History
"Reason alone can never be a motive to any action of the will… it can never oppose passion in the direction of the will… The reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them"
These words were written by David Hume's A... |
7efda1b8-e82c-408d-9204-4954995b6cb2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Requirements for a Basin of Attraction to Alignment
TL;DR: It has been known for over a decade that that certain agent architectures based on Value Learning by construction have the very desirable property of having a basin of attraction to full alignment, where if you start sufficiently close to alignment they will c... |
2002dcbc-0b0a-403a-953a-d98189476f5d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | is gpt-3 few-shot ready for real applications?
This is a lengthy reply to [@the-moti](https://tmblr.co/mWXtvJ3Sr0NPLUIFhgtxxnA)‘s post [here](https://the-moti.tumblr.com/post/625378774714908672/nostalgebraist-all-the-gpt-3-excitementhype-im). Creating a new post to limit thread length, and so I can crosspost to LW.... |
f969cfc9-89f8-462e-8090-5f741b52d73b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Singlethink
I remember the exact moment when I began my journey as a rationalist.
It was not while reading Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman or any existing work upon rationality; for these I simply accepted as obvious. The journey begins when you see a great flaw in your existing art, and discover a drive to improve... |
011cb084-c563-4101-973a-29d255783b7a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Explorative Questions towards Argumentation + GitHub
I am interested in the potential of automated reasoning and how this is done in groups. Since LessWrong has done such a good job of promoting and demonstrating feasible rationality, I am asking for insight as to how this could work with 'dialogue' or reasoned debate... |
5deb25af-331f-46f7-80a8-a04399b23257 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Don't Get Distracted by the Boilerplate
Author’s Note: Please don’t get scared off by the first sentence. I promise it's not as bad as it sounds.
There’s a theorem from the early days of group theory which says that any continuous, monotonic function which does not depend on the order of its inputs can be transformed... |
9bc4f605-7c05-4fcd-a8db-e888f57bc344 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Should there be more people on the leaderboard?
I'm wondering what the optimal number of people on the leaderboard would be. I suspect that people who appear on the leaderboard post more often because they want to remain on it. The other advantage, is that if the leaderboard seems in reach, more people will compete to... |
4db5b9c0-c5e9-434f-bd79-0fcda96d37b7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are some of bizarre theories based on anthropic reasoning?
Doomsday argument and simulation argument are quite bizarre for most people. But these are not the only strange theories one can come up with when employing anthropics.
Some examples:
It is likely to have an unusual high IQ.
Perhaps brain works in a wa... |
388d8b34-7389-43b3-b371-50b796bda9f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcement: Legacy karma imported
Hey Everyone,
I finally got around to properly importing the old karma from LessWrong 1.0. Your vote-weight and the karma displayed on your profile should now reflect all the contributions you made to LessWrong over the years.
We might change this around again at some future point... |
7aec60c4-fc8b-4201-aca7-bcabc28a67b3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | European Master's Programs in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and related fields
While there is no shortage of detailed information on master’s degrees, we think that there is a lack of perspectives from students that have actually completed the program and experienced the university.
Therefore we decided ... |
cd41a6fc-cb29-43c1-aac5-bcf7050d4fc4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Horrible LHC Inconsistency
Today's post, Horrible LHC Inconsistency was originally published on 22 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> An illustration of inconsistent probability assignments.
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
This post is par... |
ac5f69ed-5179-4f52-b908-0a2bb95816d4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When can I be numerate?
I recently started working in a setting making physical products, where I discovered that I had a whole nother section of my brain purposed for physical interactions between things and when things might fall on other things or melt or fall apart or shatter or scar or any number of other things.... |
cbae435f-18bb-4f92-aa15-5ab660c3908e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Who is your favorite rationalist?
Light reading about 'Rationalist Heroes'.
I am not sure how useful people find having personal heroes. I would argue that they are definitely useful for children. Perhaps I haven't really grown up enough yet (growing up without a father possibly contributed), but I like to have some ... |
e4194a36-25f4-40a9-a057-1a3a9faaeb38 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | AI Impacts Quarterly Newsletter, Apr-Jun 2023
*Every quarter, we have a newsletter with updates on what’s happening at AI Impacts, with an emphasis on what we’ve been working on. You can see past newsletters* [*here*](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/t/newsletter) *and subscribe to receive more newsletters and other blogpos... |
5a90eb30-57d8-4309-aeec-5740126c55fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | President of European Commission expects human-level AI by 2026
On May 20, during her speech at the Annual EU Budget Conference 2025, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, stated:
> When the current budget was negotiated, we thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expe... |
f160cf7e-4b3e-4025-8c5b-a34bd3f0aaae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Multidisciplinary Approach to Alignment (MATA) and Archetypal Transfer Learning (ATL)
Abstract
Multidisciplinary Approach to Alignment (MATA) and Archetypal Transfer Learning (ATL) proposes a novel approach to the AI alignment problem by integrating perspectives from multiple fields and challenging the conventional... |
0bbc889e-1226-45f4-82c0-1c4df84c74ae | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Large Language Models Suggest a Path to Ems
TL:DR:
* Whole brain emulation from first principles isn't happening
* LLMs are pretty good/human like
+ This suggests neural nets are flexible enough to implement human like cognition despite alien architecture used
* Training a (mostly) human shaped neural net on brain ... |
6a4d0722-3dfd-49ce-946c-754c4c0a06fd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | your terminal values are complex and not objective
a lot of people seem to want [terminal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_and_intrinsic_value) (aka intrinsic aka axiomatic) [values](https://carado.moe/what-is-value.html) (aka ethics aka morality aka preferences aka goals) to be *simple and elegant*, and to... |
29777ec8-830c-44ab-8e10-79e2b9656a25 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Bayesian computational models for inferring preferences
Bayesian Computational Models for Inferring Preferences
by ARCHIVES
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE
Owain Rhys Evans OF TECHNOLOGY
B.A., Columbia University in the City of New York (2008) OCT 15 2015
LIBRARIES
Submitted to the Department of Philosophy
in Partial Fulfillm... |
5df56e78-dd63-483e-886e-1dfef5ad0ab3 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "I spoke yesterday of my conversation with a nominally Orthodox Jewish woman who vigorously defended the assertion that she believed in God, while seeming not to actually believe in God at all.
While I was questioning her about the benefits that she thought came from believing in God, I introduced the Litany of Tarski—... |
4236704a-ec3a-4f68-a227-b6bac7f52312 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | CHAI internship applications are open (due Nov 13)
[CHAI](https://humancompatible.ai/) internship applications have just opened, [apply here](https://boards.greenhouse.io/centerforhumancompatibleartificialintelligence/jobs/4358062002) by Nov 13th! The internship might be a good fit if you want to get research experien... |
488eeeb8-bd5b-4d4a-b742-7c532f9d1de6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Hammertime Day 5: Comfort Zone Expansion
This is part 5 of 30 in the Hammertime Sequence. Click here for the intro.
It would be hypocritical of me to write a post of my usual form to teach Comfort Zone Expansion. Instead, I’ll explain why the Disney song How Far I’ll Go is a triumphant call to exploration, and leave ... |
a53ab478-cd06-470e-b689-d9bec4fdb5ae | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | AI community building: EliezerKart
Having good relations between the various factions of AI research is key to achieving our common goal of a good future. Therefore, I proposal an event to help bring us all together: EliezerKart! It is a [go karting competition](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoKartingWit... |
033ac074-bc06-44b5-bc7a-63c9d6cc47b9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Advanced agent properties
summary(Technical): Advanced machine intelligences are the subjects of [AI alignment theory](https://arbital.com/p/2v): agents sufficiently advanced in various ways to be (1) dangerous if mishandled, and (2) [relevant](https://arbital.com/p/6y) to our larger dilemmas for good or ill.
"Advan... |
033d4b68-52c1-4d48-a2da-6d4e20c2dc06 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Just Top Post
Long ago, every email would be read on its own, so writers would include a bit of the previous message to remind people what they were talking about:
On Fri, Apr 10 Pat wrote:
> I miss you a lot!
I'll miss you too.
> Are you still planning to visit in February?
I hope so!
Some people would be lazy... |
da12a39f-7075-4adf-ae13-fedb43cd18e4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Waitbutwhy article on the history and future of space exploration, SpaceX and more
Epic work, it's always fascinates me when author explores the topic so deep, that doesn't know where to begin, so finally starts with the whole history of the universe or the existence of human race.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/0... |
458cb565-7742-4507-bf49-7110afe20c63 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Good books about overcoming coordination problems?
The questions I mostly frequently ask myself are "How does anything good scale?" and "How is anything good and large-scale sustained?"
The most trivial answer to this is "Markets and incentives!" which is not wrong, but also seems like an underwhelming answer. Market... |
47e7ba6c-4d2f-41b7-afdc-3aaf4f3b2463 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why IQ shouldn't be considered an external factor
This is a sort-of response to this post.
"Things under your control" (more generally, free will) is an ill-defined concept: you are an entity within physics; all of your actions and thoughts are fully determined by physical processes in your brain. Here, I will assume... |
cee89232-8070-46ba-a7da-f43df587cdad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | reflecting on criticism
This post is a reflection on criticism raised by a brief critique of reduction. I've thought it would be too big for a comment so here it goes...
I've read all of the posts from Reductionism 101 and Joy in the Merely Real and enjoyed my time. But I think that a brief critique of reduction was... |
673515c1-99b2-4f98-8a51-c53a1320b991 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | There are no "bad people"
When I help friends debug their intrinsic motivation, here's a pattern I often bump into:
> Well, if I don't actually start working soon, then I'll be a bad person.
Or, even more worrying:
> Well they wanted me to just buckle down and do the work, and I really didn't want to do it then, wh... |
89f471d1-95af-4317-824f-4905f81755f2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | An example of self-fulfilling spurious proofs in UDT
Benja Fallenstein was [the first to point out](/lw/2l2/what_a_reduction_of_could_could_look_like/2f7w) that spurious proofs pose a problem for UDT. Vladimir Nesov and orthonormal [asked](/lw/axl/decision_theories_a_semiformal_analysis_part_i/64ey) for a formalizatio... |
ddf9be4c-b969-42c6-85b7-24a861192bea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The unspoken but ridiculous assumption of AI doom: the hidden doom assumption
Epistemic Status: Strawman (but maybe also Steelman?)
Advocates for AI existential safety (a.k.a. "AI doomers"), have long been fear-mongering about AGI. Reasonable people have long pointed out how ridiculous the existence of AGI would be. ... |
7e71fb88-4826-4c14-9ad3-133c0ecdf654 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Beyond Kolmogorov and Shannon
This post is the first in a sequence that will describe [James Crutchfield's Computational Mechanics](http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs/CalcEmergTitlePage.htm) framework. We feel this is one of the most theoretically sound and promising approaches towards understanding Transformer... |
010e10e1-264e-4db0-8ded-81a3c5cf16f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Changes to my workflow
About 18 months ago I made a post here on my workflow. I've received a handful of requests for follow-up, so I thought I would make another post detailing changes since then. I expect this post to be less useful than the last one.
For the most part, the overall outline has remained pretty stabl... |
29504343-52e5-4f62-a886-b781b1f23fc0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Against Boltzmann mesaoptimizers
1. I'm effectively certain that a weakly defined version of "mesaoptimizers"- like a component of a network which learns least squares optimization in some context- is practically reachable by SGD.
2. I'm pretty sure there exists some configuration of an extremely large neural networ... |
389b87a5-bb38-4ef5-b276-0f243ab90933 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Who is available for contract work? (A la the Hacker News "Who Wants To Be Hired" threads)
The intention of this thread is similar to the "Hacker News Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer" threads.
Please lead with either AVAILABLE FOR PROJECTS or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.
... |
48ab1824-83ad-4eb6-bd8b-2abf259dc083 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington DC Short Talks Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington DC Short Talks Meetup
WHEN: 16 March 2014 03:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC 20001, USA
We'll be meeting to listen to/give short talks.
If you didn't sign up to give a talk, but want to, do it ... |
58830fac-83d0-4245-9e9b-b8393d14e205 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Good Posture - Muscles & Self-Awareness.
(A version appears here: What is a good posture?)
Posture = The position of your body.
All of it.
At any time.
A good posture contributes to proper functioning of our living machine.
With a good posture the body is well-positioned and comfortable. A bad posture mea... |
2351e3f5-b766-4be9-8285-cfb4d125853b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does the Higgs-boson exist?
> What do scientists mean when they say that something exists? Every time I give a public lecture, someone will come and inform me that black holes don’t exist, or quarks don’t exist, or time doesn’t exist. Last time someone asked me “Do you really believe that gravitational waves exist?”
... |
00c9d543-9e33-4c8c-9227-830db83b11df | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On not getting swept away by mental content
There’s a specific subskill of meditation that I call “not getting swept away by the content”, that I think is generally valuable.
It goes like this. You sit down to meditate and focus on your breath or whatever, and then a worrying thought comes to your mind. And it’s a re... |
8eb19aed-f002-4087-a721-dc4e16bd686d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Coursera Behavioural Neurology Course
Coursera is running a course on behavioural neurology here: https://www.coursera.org/course/neurobehavior
Any LWers that to want the associated study group should visit ##patrickclass on irc.freenode.net or email patrick.robotham2@gmail.com .
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509fa900-2b88-4a07-bd46-a11587e61ade | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Tragedy of the Commons
This problem was originally seen in a manga chapter. I will describe the canon (form it appeared in the manga (with a few adjustments)) form, and a general form of the problem. I couldn't solve the problem in the little time I spent to think of it (before continuing with the manga), so it flagg... |
3e0b08ab-84e4-4382-8fbe-308c9794ee57 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Brain Breakthrough! It's Made of Neurons!
In an amazing breakthrough, a multinational team of scientists led by Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal announced that the brain is composed of a ridiculously complicated network of tiny cells connected to each other by infinitesimal threads and branches.
The multinationa... |
935b4706-b526-4d9b-8492-d3dfc428f97b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sea Monsters
Alice: Hey Bob, how's it going?
Bob: Good. How about you?
Alice: Good. So... I stalked you and read your blog.
Bob: Haha, oh yeah? What'd you think?
Alice: YOU THINK SEA MONSTERS ARE GOING TO COME TO LIFE, END HUMANITY, AND TURN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE INTO PAPER CLIPS?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!
Bob: Oh boy. Thi... |
e93eefb0-e1ca-4021-bbce-b9fe0b6817d7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Linkpost] Generalization in diffusion models arises from geometry-adaptive harmonic representation
This is a linkpost for https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02557.
> we show that two denoisers trained on non-overlapping training sets converge to essentially the same denoising function. As a result, when used for image gene... |
0a66147a-121b-4c3d-8ccb-efebef645cdf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does Impedance Matter?
Traditionally, you plug an electric instrument into an amp. Amps are big and heavy, however, so if you are already planning to play with a PA and monitors you might like to connect your instrument directly to the PA. There are two main downsides to this:
* In many styles of music you use an am... |
1cf2d09e-fb4a-47ab-961b-8db4fc972f0f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Mutant Game - Rounds 91 to 247
A Very Social Bot contains the following payload:
def payload(self) :
# put a personal word here to guarantee no tie during cooperation: myUniqueWord
# put what you want to play for the showdown
# no line after 'def payload(self)' should have less than 8 ... |
7f9adee9-bee1-4f5e-af07-3feed55e4b31 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | An embedding decoder model, trained with a different objective on a different dataset, can decode another model's embeddings surprisingly accurately
(via twitter)
Seems pretty relevant to the Natural Categories hypothesis.
P.S.
My current favorite story for "how we solve alignment" is
1. Solve the natural categor... |
ce2c181d-7c64-4a1f-b13c-1ec0edc44eb9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My Thoughts on Takeoff Speeds
Epistemic Status: Spent a while thinking about one subset of the arguments in this debate. My thoughts here might be based on misunderstanding the details of the arguments, if so, I apologize.
There is a debate going on within the AI risk community about whether or not we will see “gradu... |
0d1dc147-d071-4101-af05-6607600da052 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AGI Morality and Why It Is Unlikely to Emerge as a Feature of Superintelligence
By A. Nobody
Introduction
A common misconception about artificial general intelligence is that high intelligence naturally leads to morality. Many assume that a superintelligent entity would develop ethical principles as part of its cogn... |
29ea770a-0957-4c8c-9c20-79f671d2aeff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Applications Open for Impact Accelerator Program for Experienced Professionals
High Impact Professionals (HIP) is excited to announce that applications are now open for the next round of our Impact Accelerator Program (IAP). The IAP is a 6-week program designed to equip experienced (mid-career/senior) professionals (n... |
cccc50f1-9be6-4a0f-8769-571cf95f7286 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : London Social Meetup (and AskMeAnything about the CFAR workshop)
Discussion article for the meetup : London Social Meetup (and AskMeAnything about the CFAR workshop)
WHEN: 27 October 2013 02:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Shakespears's Head, Africa House, 64-68 Kingsway, London WC2B 6BG, UK
LessWrong London are ha... |
ca9e001b-7a61-49ad-9bf0-863be4b9037f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ai Cone of Probabilties - what aren't we talking about?
Just a quick thought. It’s intriguing how often we frame the future in terms of present and past motivators—trade, money, ownership, equality, you name it. All of it’s fair game, considering we’re still human, at least for now.
If we try to sketch out possible f... |
e43c9152-1af8-469b-b15d-3b3f9bce0da5 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Shielding Atari Games with Bounded Prescience
1. Introduction
----------------
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) combines neural network architectures
with reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms and,
capitalising on recent advances in both technologies,
has been successfully employed in many areas of
artificial int... |
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