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e95cddf8-8627-4ca1-9571-3f2c487f0330 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Talos Principle
Dear members of Less Wrong, this is my very first contribution to your society and I hope that you might help me to get out of my confusion.
Back a few months ago, I tested for the first time a video game created by Croteam Studio which is called 'The Talos Principle'.
At the time, i was as... |
407c4c6d-2278-4bcc-975e-ff2698d451cc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | You have a place to stay in Sweden, should you need it.
If anyone here is in trouble of any kind, and finds themselves in Sweden with no place to stay, or in need of other help, I want to help you. Send me an email at johan.domeij@gmail.com for further contact.
I am posting this now due to the ongoing conflict in Ukr... |
4f7b6a2f-4226-4f0f-af68-59777dd8fc92 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Behavioural statistics for a maze-solving agent
Summary: Understanding and controlling a maze-solving policy network analyzed a maze-solving agent's behavior. We isolated four maze properties which seemed to predict whether the mouse goes towards the cheese or towards the top-right corner:
In this post, we conduct a ... |
a5f475eb-7f7e-4269-8a5f-94eec6e942ed | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Theoretical Neuroscience For Alignment Theory
*This post was written under Evan Hubinger’s direct guidance and mentorship, as a part of the* [*Stanford Existential Risks Institute ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) program*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/FpokmCnbP3CEZ5h4t/ml-alignment-theory-program-under-evan... |
b285bff5-88c9-4caa-8fbf-3f6c8dfc472c | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Eric Michaud on the Quantization Model of Neural Scaling, Interpretability and Grokking
Eric is a PhD student in the Department of Physics at MIT working with Max Tegmark on improving our scientific/theoretical understanding of deep learning -- understanding what deep neural networks do internally and why they work so... |
696024a7-c378-4185-9a2b-2339e7317972 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "1. A group wants to try an activity that really requires a lot of group buy in. The activity will not work as well if there is doubt that everyone really wants to do it. They establish common knowledge of the need for buy in. They then have a group conversation in which several people make comments about how great the... |
ec61fa9d-1d12-44fa-8cb3-a066445bc580 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Should reasonably healthy people still take Paxlovid?
Should a non-immunocompromised, fairly healthy person in their late 30s take Paxlovid if they get one of the currently circulating strains of Omicron?
How would that answer change if:
* Their symptoms are fairly mild (bad cold)
* They have a high enough BMI to ... |
f45769b9-c91a-4c15-b6d0-7b72ee38572e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Seattle, Diseased Thinking and evidence on parenting
Discussion article for the meetup : Seattle, Diseased Thinking and evidence on parenting
WHEN: 15 January 2012 04:00:00PM (-0800)
WHERE: 950 N 72nd St, Seattle 98103
We haven't had a serious-ish meetup in a while, so I'd like to do that this Sunday. Wali... |
6509d0f2-af4b-437d-8e5b-1bea15e20669 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Topological metaphysics: relating point-set topology and locale theory
The following is an informal exposition of some mathematical concepts from Topology via Logic, with special attention to philosophical implications. Those seeking more technical detail should simply read the book.
There are, roughly, two ways of d... |
e64bcbc8-9b8a-40d7-a5cd-695056baa26d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Claude 4, Opportunistic Blackmail, and "Pleas"
In the recently published Claude 4 model card:
> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail... |
0f129922-c84c-4ece-adc9-e7ee0076362f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Conversation Halters
Related to: Logical Rudeness, Semantic Stopsigns
While working on my book, I found in passing that I'd developed a list of what I started out calling "stonewalls", but have since decided to refer to as "conversation halters". These tactics of argument are distinguished by their being attempts t... |
f129b11f-725c-4004-8e68-6b5b4f921ea4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Practical Pitfalls of Causal Scrubbing
**TL;DR:** We evaluate Causal Scrubbing (CaSc) on synthetic graphs with known ground truth to determine its reliability in confirming correct hypotheses and rejecting incorrect ones. First, we show that CaSc can accurately identify true hypotheses and quantify the degree to which... |
b60c9f8b-0357-475c-9d7c-562ce1e7a417 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Review: LOVE in a simbox
Blog post review: LOVE in a simbox.
Jake Cannell has a very interesting post on LessWrong called LOVE in a simbox is all you need, with potentially important implications for AGI alignment. (LOVE stands for Learning Other's Values or Empowerment.)
Alas, he organized it so that the most align... |
57fc1feb-5209-487b-8a99-352645cd2276 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Testing ChatGPT for cell type recognition
Biologists (including myself) often need to identify types of cells based on their gene expression. For example, if I’m differentiating stem cells to make an ovarian organoid, and I perform single cell RNA sequencing, I might want to check the data to see which ovarian cell ty... |
a3a766d5-b40e-4eed-8e48-91d3ea98882b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Analyzing how SAE features evolve across a forward pass
This research was completed for the Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) summer 2024 iteration. The team was supervised by @Stefan Heimersheim (Apollo Research). Find out more about the program and upcoming iterations here.
TL,DR: We look for related... |
4eb06a71-1e44-4b18-985d-2f84d689a6ab | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Program Search and Incomplete Understanding
*epistemic status: crystallizing a pattern*
When trying to solve some foundational AI problem, there is a series of steps on the road to implementation that goes something like this (and steps may be skipped):
First, there is developing some philisophical solution to the p... |
dc86fde3-fd31-4627-8b6e-9b634ecbb4c8 | LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct | LessWrong | "Since curiosity is an emotion, I suspect that some people will object to treating curiosity as a part of rationality. A popular belief about “rationality” is that rationality opposes all emotion—that all our sadness and all our joy are automatically anti-logical by virtue of being feelings. Yet strangely enough, I can... |
9f2ec88f-2106-40d1-a1dd-685cc1da0b9c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Stockholm: When to stop making a decision
Discussion article for the meetup : Stockholm: When to stop making a decision
WHEN: 07 October 2016 03:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Lindstedtsvägen 3, Room 1537
We'll run monthly meetups starting with this one. This talk is the start of a series on decision analysis for ... |
b86ce17e-2950-41c4-bfa4-6ebf8598319c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My Bitcoin Thesis @2022 - Part 1
Note that this is a pure educational post. Opinions expressed in this post are mine and mine only! they are definitely not financial advice. Even though potential future investment was a motivation for me to look into bitcoin, I neither recommend nor oppose investing in bitcoin. Always... |
6a230efb-c24c-411a-bade-a2dc5b0d16a2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Sam Altman: "Planning for AGI and beyond"
*(OpenAI releases a blog post detailing their AGI roadmap. I'm copying the text below, though see the linked blog post for better formatted version)*
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Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—[benefi... |
ed00bda0-e56c-46f4-98b1-47ca4442bb68 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Seek Mistakes in the Space Between Math and Reality
Epistemic status: Cranky grumbling about the kids these days and all of their math and how they are using it wrong
Note: I'll be using a few examples as foils below. This isn't intended as criticism of those foils, it's because they provide good examples of what I ... |
bec0d368-8bb7-4e51-987e-bc376f87bd26 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post3890
A putative new idea for AI control; index here . During a workshop with MIRI at the FHI, I defined indifference via reward signals, saying something along the lines of "we can do it with proper utilities, but its more complicated". I then never got round to defining them in terms of utilities. I'll do tha... |
c68e4c00-c74d-4367-888d-dd2722bd8a3d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Logical Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence
When I try to introduce the subject of advanced AI, what’s the first thing I hear, more than half the time?
“Oh, you mean like the Terminator movies / The Matrix / Asimov’s robots!”
And I reply, “Well, no, not exactly. I try to avoid the logical fallacy o... |
a9a26935-7e88-4d2b-a3dd-c53f357de783 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Vector semantics and the (in-context) construction of meaning in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”
Cross posted from New Savanna.
Whatever else I have been interested over a long and varied intellectual career, I have always been interested in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.” I have been interested in the mind and culture, and “Kub... |
8b727da2-7723-4491-af24-5d09aeed096d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A plan for Pascal's mugging?
The idea is to compare not the results of actions, but the results of decision algorithms. The question that the agent should ask itself is thus:
"Suppose everyone1 who runs the same thinking procedure like me uses decision algorithm X. What utility would I get at the 50th percentile (not... |
fef54006-f504-438b-9e1f-a22150dffd33 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Ontology, lost purposes, and instrumental goals
A putative new idea for AI control; index here.
An underdefined idea connected with the challenge of getting an AI to safely move a strawberry onto a plate.
Now, specifying something in the physical world like that is a great challenge; you have to define ontologies an... |
64e627bd-a9f0-4a4c-b555-71f0b2ed10ed | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Stacked Laptop Monitor
A few weeks ago I broke my laptop's screen and was speculating on whether putting a portable monitor above the screen would do what I wanted. The hope was that it would let me set up a laptop where both my wrists and neck were in comfortable positions. It does!
The monitor is a 1080p model... |
df9945b3-fef8-4b1d-a0ae-b887298ecda3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Linguistic mechanisms for less wrong cognition
I'm working on a conlang (constructed language) and would like some input from the Less Wrong community. One of the goals is to investigate the old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis regarding language affecting cognition. Does anyone here have any ideas regarding linguistic mechan... |
af949a95-577c-4af3-96c1-a5ab854392d3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Literature on memetics?
In certain circles, it's common to talk about memes as entities, in a metaphorical and handwaving way. But it seems to me that thinking rigorously and precisely about memes in the framework of "memes::genes, memeplexes::infectious agents, minds::hosts" actually has a lot of explanatory and pred... |
24634065-efb2-4122-a9b2-7b89ba0e6e96 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment
1 Introduction
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1.1 Motivations
Contemporary AI models can be difficult to understand, predict, and control. These problems can lead to significant harms when AI systems are deployed, and might produce truly devastating results if fut... |
a62c3349-ad0b-4c64-930b-06bd72446d32 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Don't Influence the Influencers!
*This post was written under Evan Hubinger’s direct guidance and mentorship, as a part of the* [*Stanford Existential Risks Institute ML Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) program*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FpokmCnbP3CEZ5h4t/ml-alignment-theory-program-under-evan-hubinger)*.*
**T... |
a35c71f1-fc16-4e40-a4a1-b5e7bb292631 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Art and Science of Intuition Pumping
Epistemic status: exploratory
What is “intuition pumping”? I had seen the term used on LW, probably used it myself, without wondering that much what “intuition pumps” even are. Pure pedagogical illustrations? Mere rhetorical devices? Subtle epistemic tools? My intuition about ... |
65b4ea3c-7145-4c04-9712-861aa5d44f92 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Artificial V/S Organoid Intelligence
AI is a very controversial topic these days, but I can't help but ask, what's the deal with OI[1], does it have any powerful effects on the future, and can it compete with AI?
1. ^
Organoid Intelligence is, I quote "an emerging multidisciplinary field working to develop biolo... |
bd0ebe42-a7b5-4ba7-835f-e932b1f484b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread April 25 - May 1, 2016
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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Notes for future OT posters:
1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.
2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately b... |
9214627a-96dc-41ca-ac06-cb047ff25c13 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : West LA Meetup - "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA Meetup - "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences"
WHEN: 12 September 2012 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 10850 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064
... |
0d8faff5-5303-4b03-9294-1b27995e8e79 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Basics of Bayesian learning
See also: the “preliminaries” section in this SLT intro doc.
Introduction
This is a preliminary post for the series on “distilling PDLT without physics”, which we are working on joint with Lauren Greenspan. The first post in this series is my post on the “Laws of large numbers” (another p... |
593124ce-0858-42ab-bb39-7077f0e7975b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Science" as Curiosity-Stopper
Imagine that I, in full view of live television cameras, raised my hands and chanted abracadabra and caused a brilliant light to be born, flaring in empty space beyond my outstretched hands. Imagine that I committed this act of blatant, unmistakeable sorcery under the full supervision of... |
e22ef12c-fb55-4f2f-ac8c-c521b8e080ae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Where's the first benign agent?
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523eb08c-116d-4f82-a5fb-5de02c2c4c6e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Responsive safety in reinforcement learning by pid lagrangian methods
Responsive Safety in Reinforcement Learning by PID Lagrangian Methods
Adam Stooke1 2Joshua Achiam1 2Pieter Abbeel1
Abstract
Lagrangian methods are widely used algorithms
for constrained optimization problems, but their
learning dynamics exhibit osci... |
8f400d8d-6071-4cce-8120-aab3d83e217b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Quixey Challenge - Fix a bug in 1 minute, win $100. Refer a winner, win $50.
Hiring is so hard that we spent a man-month creating a sub-startup to do it. The product is the Quixey Challenge which is running today until 7pm PST (GMT-8).
Benefits of playing:
* You can learn something from our craftsmanship of the alg... |
6fdbf7fe-f369-4526-854b-bcdc51d68f44 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] - No evidence of intelligence improvement after working memory training
This article critically examines previous studies that showed a link between working memory training (specifically via n-back training) and fluid intelligence, finding that the results may not have been as positive as reported owing to a nu... |
f3e01baf-f58b-4334-91d0-e0ce06520cfe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Cambridge, MA Sunday meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Cambridge, MA Sunday meetup
WHEN: 09 October 2011 09:37:25PM (-0400)
WHERE: MIT Stata Center 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA; room 261
We will be meeting in the MIT Stata center. We will have someone posted at the entrance to let people in for... |
8bfc0be5-1b33-436f-a69f-fa384a1da642 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Against Love Languages
The other day, a friend on facebook shared a post on love languages and asked their friends what their's were. I said that this did not fit my ontology for affection in a deep romantic relationship, and when someone asked me what ontoloy I used, I gave this short response (copied here so I can l... |
b8e27d30-b292-4d96-9c7a-21ea5d77ee5e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Kevin Kelly's "103 Bits of Advice," Expanded
Kevin Kelly, who arguably has written one of the most influential essays regarding the internet and the creator economy, "1,000 True Fans", published "103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known" on his 70th birthday. In the simple article, he gives practical advice, philosophica... |
a0b3ea1c-8261-41cf-945a-59182c0f8a5e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | A Rationale-Centric Framework for Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning
1 Introduction
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Recent work finds that natural artefacts (Gururangan et al., [2018](#bib.bib1 "Annotation artifacts in natural language inference data")) or spurious patterns (Keith et al., [2020](#bib.bib10 "Text and causal inferen... |
d6da103c-205b-4bd8-b06a-f32bbb7120ba | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A History of the Future, 2025-2040
This is an all-in-one crosspost of a scenario I originally published in three parts on my blog, No Set Gauge. Links to the originals:
* A History of the Future, 2025-2027
* A History of the Future, 2027-2030
* A History of the Future, 2030-2040
Thanks to Luke Drago, Duncan Mc... |
b0886653-15ef-4ada-ac84-0faf013d89d8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Consider trying Vivek Hebbar's alignment exercises
Vivek Hebbar recently developed a list of alignment problems. I think more people should try them. I'm impressed with how well they (a) get people to focus on core problems, (b) encourage people to come up with their own ideas, (c) encourage people to notice and artic... |
94cb33ed-3b16-411d-a5ba-dd2697bc530f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Large Language Models as Corporate Lobbyists, and Implications for Societal-AI Alignment
Note: This post represents my personal views and not necessarily those of Stanford University, Brooklyn Investment Group, or any other person or organization. Nothing herein is investment or financial advice.
See the latest [draf... |
80bbcea0-0297-4848-a808-a620a0240bdb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AISN #24: Kissinger Urges US-China Cooperation on AI, China's New AI Law, US Export Controls, International Institutions, and Open Source AI
Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
Subscribe here to receive future ... |
a8c57d47-7036-48cd-bee9-33c10a1397ac | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Responsible/fair AI vs. beneficial/safe AI?
The responsible/fair AI community (exemplified by Timnit Gebru) doesn't seem to get along very well with the EA-aligned beneficial/safe AI community.
Where can I find resources on their relationship and philosophical differences? Besides Gebru, who are some major thinkers i... |
17b6f468-a78e-4eb9-adda-498b1c4da076 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Understanding understanding
How does 'understanding' a problem work, and when do we feel like we understood an explanation or proof? Having an opaque long formal proof often feels insufficient, similarly some arguments feel unsatisfying because they contain many subjectively arbitrary choices.
An explanation is a seq... |
c8671221-707e-40d8-9e3c-01adbcacf567 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Tracking Compute Stocks and Flows: Case Studies?
*Posted in my personal capacity*
The AGI governance community has recently converged on compute governance[[1]](#fn-CuAumK5LmAopyfEXJ-1) as a promising lever for reducing existential risks from AI.
One likely building block for any maximally secure compute governanc... |
66d802cf-df9d-4116-ab6a-b2dd918c3393 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Evaluating Oversight Robustness with Incentivized Reward Hacking
This work was supported by the Effective Ventures Foundation USA through their EA Funds program. It was started as part of the MATS (ML Alignment and Theory Scholars) program, with mentorship from Julian Michael and research management by McKenna Fitzger... |
03ca17df-6971-428d-8ae5-cacb7e17c853 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | CDT=EDT=UDT
*Epistemic status: I no longer endorse the particular direction this post advocates, though I'd be excited if someone figured out something that seems to work. I still endorse most of the specific observations.*
So... what's the deal with counterfactuals?
Over the past couple of years, I've been writing ... |
678e4cb2-3c89-4b17-947a-8a2134897f2f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Precognition
It’s almost impossible to predict the future. But it’s also unnecessary, because most people are living in the past. All you have to do is see the present before everyone else does.
To be less pithy, but more clear: Most people are slow to notice and accept change. If you can just be faster than most peo... |
2e86344b-7720-4919-a4c9-20f1ec414ff0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Mental Models
Related: Fake explanation, Guessing the teachers password, Understanding your understanding, many more
The mental model concept gets used so frequently and seems so intuitively obvious that I debated whether to bother writing this. But beyond the basic value that comes from unpacking our intuitions, it ... |
c36f8faa-46b3-4dff-bad2-da8d636a7246 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Spend Money on Ergonomics
Warning: This is an applied rationality post, about rationality applied to a specific area of life, not a generalized rationality post.
Ergonomics is incredibly important. Sadly, so many of us in the techno-geek cluster ignore well-defined best practices of ergonomics and develop the infamou... |
8ce23b01-0ebc-47f0-83c0-467503724034 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | General intelligence: what is it, what makes it hard, and will we have it soon?
Timothy Lillicrap, a staff research scientist at DeepMind and (among other things) a member of the team that trained AI agents to play games like Go at a superhuman level, recently gave a talk at Harvard's ML Foundations seminar. The talk ... |
f4d544af-7eeb-4d87-a6e2-c6f7c447a9d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 43-46
Discussion article for the meetup : Durham/RTLW HPMoR discussion, ch. 43-46
WHEN: 09 March 2013 11:30:00AM (-0500)
WHERE: 726 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham NC 27701
Discussion of HPMoR chapters 43-46, i.e., The Humanism Chapters !!!eleven!.
Meetup will proceed as follows:
... |
79649b22-9df9-4725-817a-342691ae3654 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | App and book recommendations for people who want to be happier and more productive
If somebody asks you the same question more than ten times, that’s probably a sign it’s time to write a blog post about it. So after being asked by far more than ten people about what books and resources I recommend, both for EAs more b... |
4f322898-53e7-44fe-9959-0ee4f0c74847 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Kostas Tsiakas - Designing Human-AI interactions using Explainable and Human-in-the-Loop AI
postdoc
id
hcd
since january
uh first of all thank you very much for
having me
because it's a good opportunity for me
to introduce myself
so in today's
talk
i will
discuss about
designing human a human ai interactions
using hum... |
3160cd97-f6a9-4998-9696-556412b504bf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Goodhart's Curse and Limitations on AI Alignment
I believe that most existing proposals for aligning AI with human values are unlikely to succeed in the limit of optimization pressure due to Goodhart's curse. I believe this strongly enough that it continues to surprise me a bit that people keep working on things that ... |
921b0f25-dba4-4cd8-ab38-d6b3389b9fee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Image generation and alignment
There isn't a lot of talk about image models (e.g. Dall-E and StableDiffusion) on LW in the context of alignment, especially compared to LLMs. Why is that? Some hypotheses:
* LLMs just happened to get some traction early, and due to network effects, they are the primary research vehic... |
5ba6cbb6-194e-4b11-a18a-b57349b5c9a7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Multi-Principal Assistance Games.
1 Introduction
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The growing presence of AI systems that collaborate and coexist with humans in society highlights the emerging need to ensure that the actions of AI systems benefit society as a whole. This question is formalized as the value alignment problem in the ... |
2abc8bf5-2538-490c-9f57-3fc5d7fdf77c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What happens to existing life sentences under LEV?
Presumably they get offered longevity treatments since they already get healthcare. Are they locked up until the end of time? For 100 years? |
8b69ede7-d518-488f-ba3e-7fd015af6985 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Athena Rationality Workshop - June 7th-10th at EA Hotel
For the past few months, Matt Goldenberg has been in charge of teaching applied rationality at the EA hotel. And honestly, we’ve been quite impressed by the quality. Matt has been a great teacher, and some of us felt like we wanted to delve deeper into his ma... |
db5b92f1-7905-46d1-b041-c7139fbafcdc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
A new popular science book on existential risks and mass extinctions from Annalee Newitz, the founding editor of io9.com
It probably won't display the same rigour as Global Catastrophic Risks (Bostrom, Cirkovic et al.), but that was publis... |
31175660-7593-4564-b9b2-af17ad245906 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Chicago, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, Sydney
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups in:
* Second Copenhagen meetup: 26 May 2012 05:00PM
* Less Wrong Sydney -Social: 31 May 2012 06:00PM
* Pittsburgh: Making Beliefs Pay Rent: 01 June 2012 06:00PM
* First Berlin meetup: ... |
b48d983b-13c9-48cf-ac3b-5af7980dddc6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Roland Siegwart on autonomous mobile robots
 Roland Siegwart (born in 1959) is a Professor for Autonomous Systems and Vice President Research and Corporate Relations at [ETH Zurich](https://www.ethz.ch/en.html). After stud... |
9189f687-22dd-41f8-a760-0bd5e602af2f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learning as closing feedback loops
Epistemic status: Just a pattern I've observed from my own learning experiences and advice I've encountered about learning. I am not qualified and the essay is not properly justified - it's meant to be more like a source of ideas on things to try[1]. I would be happy to work on this ... |
43083b22-866e-4e0f-8fad-d54051cbb42e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Wants You (to submit essays and articles on the future of government AI policy)
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a body created by Congress to study the impact of advances in AI on US national security has put out a call for essays... |
4aaca53b-dc30-4668-a89f-ae5e10692e0e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reflections on rationality a year out
Edited for concreteness.
Exactly one year ago, LessWrong helped me change my mind about something important.
Since then, my life has been changing very rapidly, as a direct result of the rationalist community. I got in touch with other rationalists in person, which made my soc... |
596db704-a2da-4292-8350-dca51595a89c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Epistemology Volume of "A Map That Reflects the Territory" Set - My Personal Commentary
Intro
This post compiles my personal comments on the Epistemology book from the Lesswrong 2018 bookset. I put almost no effort into making it legible or relevant to anyone else.
A sketch of good communication
* For research, we ... |
f7ce9497-7f23-4b03-825a-0d021f7a293e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? From Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell
An interesting video on mind uploading from almost 2 years ago, focusing on explaining the concept to the wider world. It's fairly simplified, as expected of a video that has to cross large inferential distances, and the Kurzgesagt channel is bas... |
08c8bec9-e0e1-4754-babb-d2e6804c54af | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | DeepMind x UCL RL Lecture Series - Approximate Dynamic Programming [10/13]
hi everyone and welcome back to our 10th
lecture on reinforcement learning today
we're going to be talking a lot more
about approximate dynamic programming
and the frame the algorithm that you've
seen in the
last few lectures especially in mode... |
98689a13-2220-4d28-80f7-b0aed5dae2b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Creating Welfare Biology: A Research Proposal
[This idea came out of an ACE research workshop. I would like to thank Zach Groff and Mark Budolfson for brainstorming this idea with me, as well as ACE for offering me the opportunity to think of it.]
[Crossposted with no modifications from my blog.]
Many people in the ... |
ef1768b8-52ab-4a6a-ab29-7b571732caf1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Singularity Summit 2012, discuss it here
How was it? Which speakers delivered according to expectations?
Which topics were left unresolved?
Were any topics resolved?
Whatever you have to say about it, say it here.
Suggestion: if you are going to comment, mention "I was there" just so we know who was or wasn't. |
08ed28c6-74c1-4492-994b-304317e99978 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Aligned AI as a wrapper around an LLM
In my previous post Are extrapolation-based AIs alignable? I argued that an AI trained only to extrapolate some dataset (like an LLM) can't really be aligned, because it wouldn't know what information can be shared when and with whom. So to be used for good, it needs to be in the ... |
eafd5076-06a2-4089-a563-08297669b238 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat
I have written about coordination problems from various points of view in the past (biology, economics, sociology, political science) but this time I am about to focus not on the theory, but on the practice.
Jean Monnet was one of the founding fathers of the European Union. One ma... |
5a12e14b-8f97-4fe0-87b3-a122a00c5517 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Touching the Old
I'm in Oxford right now, for the Global Catastrophic Risks conference.
There's a psychological impact in walking down a street where where any given building might be older than your whole country.
Toby Ord and Anders Sandberg pointed out to me an old church tower in Oxford, that is a thousand years... |
b7052cb2-d351-4c4d-b2ef-49c5173425c7 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Alignment Newsletter #50
Find all Alignment Newsletter resources [here](http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/). In particular, you can [sign up](http://eepurl.com/dqMSZj), or look through this [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PwWbWZ6FPqAgZWOoOcXM8N_tUCuxpEyMbN1NYYC02aM/edit?usp=sharing) of al... |
7e30da06-bcc8-4464-a410-b6cd0966eb31 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What didn’t happen
I have a secret fiction blog, which I intermittently mean to publish things on, but apparently haven’t now in over ten years, which seems like a reasonable point at which to make it less secret. Here is the start. It’s not very long.
Here is an excerpt inspired by events leading to my first kiss (n... |
23f7c9ad-bade-4f94-b55c-bcb6694a9585 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Recent AI control brainstorming by Stuart Armstrong
MIRI recently sponsored Oxford researcher Stuart Armstrong to take a solitary retreat and brainstorm new ideas for AI control. This brainstorming generated 16 ne... |
33d414ab-ee4f-443f-9422-9c47089961ab | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] The Parable of Hemlock
Today's post, The Parable of Hemlock was originally published on 03 February 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Socrates is a human, and humans, by definition, are mortal. So if you defined humans to not be mortal, would Socrates live forever?
Discuss the post here (ra... |
4aa57fa2-b163-437b-b4c1-d86ab28ecef7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do No Harm? Navigating and Nudging AI Moral Choices
TL;DR: How do AI systems make moral decisions, and can we influence their ethical judgments? We probe these questions by examining Llama's 70B (3.1 and 3.3) responses to moral dilemmas, using Goodfire API to steer its decision-making process. Our experiments reveal t... |
1f12f053-10a3-47c4-a857-1eead1ee1c8d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How many words do we have and how many distinct concepts do we have?
In another message, I suggested that, given how many cultures we have to borrow from, that our language may include multiple words from various sources that apply to a single concept.
An example is Reality, or Existence, or Being, or Universe, or Co... |
7eaa564a-96b1-4913-ba8f-21e11624da5b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Full Transcript: Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Bankless podcast
This podcast has gotten a lot of traction, so we're posting a full transcript of it, lightly edited with ads removed, for those who prefer reading over audio.
Intro
Eliezer Yudkowsky: [clip] I think that we are hearing the last winds start to blow, the fabr... |
989699b2-6c2e-4c37-b999-94099abda6ff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Welcome to Effective Altruism San Diego [Edit With Your Details]
(The following are our suggestions for what kind of information is best to include in the welcome post of your group, feel free to replace them with whatever you think is best)
What kind of events does your group usually run? What does it usually do?
H... |
575e2c8a-7a72-4b34-8888-3b1f387cdf61 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dissected boxed AI
> This potato only generates 1.1 volts of electricity. I literally do not have the energy to lie to you - GLaDOS (Portal 2)
In reading about proposals about AI Boxing, one thought immediately comes to mind: Why would we want the risk of having an Unfriendly AI turned on in the first place? After al... |
46ecee16-2b77-4986-bc4a-805419693339 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Epistemic modesty and how I think about AI risk
[This is a direct cross-post from a Facebook post of mine and was originally intended for the people who read what I write on Facebook, which is largely why this is written as a "for the record" statement of my personal viewpoints. That's probably not how I would have wr... |
54683ef6-8253-402c-9719-9c44be3a0614 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Summarizing the Sequences Proposal
As I mentioned here, a large number of the sequence posts have not ever been summarized, and doing so would help the sequence rerun efforts, as well as helping to organize all of EY's posts transplanted to Less Wrong from Overcoming Bias. It might even be a first step towards the pro... |
51abc877-a6c3-4ccb-a82b-fdc3530b3fcc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Raising safety-consciousness among AGI researchers
Series: How to Purchase AI Risk Reduction
Another method for purchasing AI risk reduction is to raise the safety-consciousness of researchers doing work related to AGI.
The Singularity Institute is conducting a study of scientists who decided to either (1) stop rese... |
2bca8dcc-3727-4a71-9ce5-d72ed84160a4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong: The Math of Bayes' Theorem
Discussion article for the meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong: The Math of Bayes' Theorem
WHEN: 21 July 2013 06:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 2388 Lawrenceville Hwy. Apt L. Decatur, GA 30033
Agenda:
* Introductions, and meet and greet for new members.
* Mini-presentation:... |
74348469-2d6b-46da-a29b-0c07176b80e8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Morality as Cooperation Part II: Theory and Experiment
This is a Part II of a long essay. Part I introduced the concept of morality-as-cooperation (MAC), and discussed how the principle could be used to understand moral judgements in human societies. Part III will discuss failure modes.
Part II: Theory and Experimen... |
464e0ef3-8797-4ac7-b467-8c617d794793 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Mathematical Reason You should have 9 Kids
In this post I propose a curious genetic question that can be modeled with a remarkably simple answer. If you have children, what is the probability that every allele in your genome is present in at least one of your children? In other words, if you have children, what ... |
f2414977-61ce-4d51-871e-25015cc53186 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | against "AI risk"
Why does SI/LW focus so much on [AI-FOOM](http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/FOOM) disaster, with apparently much less concern for things like
* bio/nano-tech disaster
* Malthusian upload scenario
* highly destructive war
* bad memes/philosophies spreading among humans or posthumans and overriding our ... |
aa2882dc-12b0-4841-98df-d6cd6dfa9c68 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What are the most pressing issues in short-term AI policy?
Cullen O'Keefe and I [agree](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9cx8TrLEooaw49cAr/i-m-cullen-o-keefe-a-policy-researcher-at-openai-ama#vi6ahY6FGcnTTbsNN) that people working in short-term AI policy ought to do more explicit cause prioritization. I think... |
adfbad79-33df-496f-88cd-8ab047c37c98 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Eternal Sunshine of the Rational Mind
What if you could choose which memories and associations to retain and which to discard? Using that capability rationally (whatever that word means to you) would be a significant challenge -- and that challenge has just come one step closer to being a reality.
> Dr. Fenton had al... |
869abfa3-4d3f-4d7e-a3cc-bf1231018e68 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | PIBBSS Fellowship: Bounty for Referrals & Deadline Extension
*Crossposted to* [*LessWrong*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8uxbDaWBuygSfiuES/pibbss-fellowship-bounty-announcement-and-deadline-extension)
*TL;DR: 500 USD bounty for successful applicants referrals*
Background
==========
The **PIBBSS Summer Research F... |
16919ad0-9b4f-40bb-ae09-f266edd70f61 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Goals vs. systems
Interesting post on Scott Adams' blog about goals vs. systems.
Goals: States you are trying to achieve.
Systems: Strategies you always follow.
Scott claims that following goals instead of systems is failing to see the forest for the trees, kind of. |
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