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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Life, struggle, and the psychological fallout from COVID I have a friend in the effective altruism community who is facing an unusually slippery and disheartening struggle at the moment. This person is a long-time contributor to the community, and is held up as exemplary by other community members. Due to their integr...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
Language Models can be Utility-Maximising Agents 1 minute takeaways ------------------ * It's actually pretty easy to train and run a language model to function as an agent for a specific task, rather than as a [non-agentic simulator](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators) * The [resulting agen...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Glide Meditations: A Statement of Intent Have you ever experienced that feeling where you finally got an opportunity to do something you think you wanted to do, but now that you have the opportunity to do that thing, you're actually super apprehensive about it? The first time I experienced that feeling, it was caused...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs
Other
Surveying Safety-relevant AI Characteristics Surveying Safety-relevant AI Characteristics Jos´e Hern ´andez-Orallo Universitat Polit `ecnica de Val `encia, Spain Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, UK jorallo@dsic.upv.esFernando Mart ´ınez-Plumed Universitat Polit `ecnica de Val `encia, Spain fmartinez@d...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[AN #84] Reviewing AI alignment work in 2018-19 Find all Alignment Newsletter resources here. In particular, you can sign up, or look through this spreadsheet of all summaries that have ever been in the newsletter. I'm always happy to hear feedback; you can send it to me by replying to this email. This is the summary...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Less Wrong views on morality? Do you believe in an objective morality capable of being scientifically investigated (a la Sam Harris *or others*), or are you a moral nihilist/relativist? There seems to be some division on this point. I would have thought Less Wrong to be well in the former camp.   Edit: There seems t...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Irrational Upvotes "This premise is VERY flawed" (found here) is the sole author-supplied content of a comment.  There are no supporting links or additional content, only a one-sentence quote of the "offending" premise. Yet, it has four upvotes. This is a statement that can be made about any premise.  It is backed b...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Hello, is it you I'm looking for? Hi Sorry if diving in with my question is a breach of your etiquette, but I have a kind of burning question I was hoping some of you guys could help me with. I've been reading the core texts and clicking around but can't quite figure out if this has been covered before. Does anyone ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Optimizing Rationality T-shirts Thanks again for all the feedback on the first set of Rationality slogan t-shirts, which Intentional Insights developed as part of our  broader project of promoting rationality to a wide audience. As a reminder, the t-shirts are meant for aspiring rationalists to show their affiliation ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Circular Preferences Don't Lead To Getting Money Pumped Edit: for reasons given in the comments, I don't think the question of what circular preferences actually do is well defined, so this an answer to a wrong question.   If I like Y more than X, at an exchange rate of 0.9Y for 1X, and I like Z more than Y, at an e...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Launching Lightspeed Grants (Apply by July 6th) Lightspeed Grants provides fast funding for projects that help humanity flourish among the stars. The application is minimal and grant requests of any size ($5k - $5M) are welcome. Budget is $5M for this grant round, and (probably) more in future rounds. Applications clo...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
'Preferences in AI: An Overview' [link] Those interested in AI preferences may appreciate this recent review: Domshlak et al., Preferences in AI: An overview
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Cryptocurrency taxation in the UK Mostly out of curiosity, I've been looking into how cryptocurrency is taxed in the UK. It's not easy to get what I consider to be a full answer, but here's my current understanding, as far as I felt like looking into it. HMRC's internal cryptoassets manual is available but I didn't fe...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Desiderata for Normalizers This work originated at MIRI Summer Fellows and originally involved Pasha Kamyshev, Dan Keys, Johnathan Lee, Anna Salamon, Girish Sastry, and Zachary Vance. I was asked to look over two drafts and some notes, clean them up, and post here. Especial thanks to Zak and Pasha for drafts on which ...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs
Blogs
February 2017 Newsletter | | | --- | | Following up on a post outlining some of the reasons MIRI researchers and OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano are [pursuing different research directions](https://agentfoundations.org/item?id=1129), Jessica Taylor has written up the key [motivations for MIRI’s highly reliable age...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Anchor Weights for ML In the previous post, I talked about several "anchors" that we could use to think about future ML systems, including current ML systems, humans, ideal optimizers, and complex systems. In fact, I think we should be using all of these anchors (and any others we can think of) to reason about future...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Against Being Against Growth (Cross-posted from my personal website - this is mostly meant for me to link when people argue against growth at me, so it may not be as relevant here, where most people are pro-growth) It is inconsistent to be against growth or to advocate for social systems because you think they will ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Is there a reasonable reading according to which Baric, Shi et al 2015 isn't gain-of-function research? From the A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence by Baric, Shi et al: > Wild-type SARS-CoV (Urbani), mouse-adapted SARS-CoV (MA15) and chimeric SARS-like CoVs were c...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
QAPR 5: grokking is maybe not *that* big a deal? [Thanks to support from Cavendish Labs and a Lightspeed grant, I've been able to restart the Quintin's Alignment Papers Roundup sequence.] Introduction Grokking refers to an observation by Power et al. (below) that models trained on simple modular arithmetic tasks wou...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Yet more UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up (Edit: I am not the user RatsWrongAboutUAP.) I'm offering a new bet along similar lines to Yudkowsky's bet with the user RatsWrongAboutUAP in this thread last month. My bet has these similarities (here added explicitly after some confusion in the comments): * I will pay out i...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
AISN #50: AI Action Plan Responses Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required. In this newsletter, we cover AI companies’ responses to the federal government’s request for information on the development of an AI Action...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Split Personality Training: Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens Produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program -  Winter 2024-25 Cohort **Epistemic status**: I received positive feedback when I presented this idea to people at EAG, and my MATS mentor Evan Hubinger suggested I m...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Building an civilisation scale OODA loop for the problem of AGI You can break down our civilizations reaction to the problem of AGI into a massive decentralized OODA loop. Each part of the OODA loop is not one person but an aggregate of many people and organisations. My current major worry is that we do not have a r...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Do you want to do a debate on youtube? I'm looking for polite, truth-seeking participants. I am testing a new debate format and am looking for people to debate any of the following (or make a case for other things): * Policy decisions * EA Cause prioritisation * What should/will happen in Taiwan/Ukraine/Gaza * US...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Eliezer's Post Dependencies; Book Notification; Graphic Designer Wanted I'm going to try and produce summaries of the quantum physics series today or tomorrow. Andrew Hay has produced a neat graph of (explicit) dependencies among my Overcoming Bias posts - an automatically generated map of the "Followup to" structure...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
December 2015 Media Thread This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out th...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[Link] Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts—Stephen Wolfram Writings This is a link post for: Faster than Light in Our Model of Physics: Some Preliminary Thoughts—Stephen Wolfram Writings
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Select Agent Specifications as Natural Abstractions Introduction ============ The Preference Fulfillment Hypothesis (PFH) asserts that [“Humans have an innate motivation ('preference fulfillment', PF) to fulfill the preferences of those they care about"](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kf6sKZudduhJmykTg/the-preferenc...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Is a Purely Rational World a Technologically Advanced World? What would our world be today if humans had started off with a purely rational intelligence? It seems as though a dominant aspect of rationality deals with risk management.  For example, an irrational person might feel that the thrill of riding a zip line f...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Utility versus Reward function: partial equivalence A reward function is defined over past sequences of actions and observations. When the agent chooses an action, and gets an observation, they receive a reward that is a function of that observation and all previous observations and actions. A utility function is def...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
International cooperation vs. AI arms race **Summary** I think there's a decent chance that governments will be the first to build artificial general intelligence (AI). International hostility, especially an [AI arms race](http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/AI_arms_race), could exacerbate risk-taking, hostile motivation...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Jade Leung and Seth Baum: The role of existing institutions in AI strategy --- *AI is very likely to make a huge impact on our world, especially as it grows more powerful than it is today. It’s hard for us to know exactly how that impact will look, but we do know many of the actors most likely to be involved. As AI g...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
The reward engineering problem Today we usually train reinforcement learning agents to perform narrow tasks with simple goals. We may eventually want to train RL agents to behave “well” in open-ended environments where there is no simple goal. Suppose that we are trying to train an RL agent A. In each episode, A int...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Logic Programming approaches for routing fault-free and maximally-parallel Wavelength Routed Optical Networks on Chip (Application paper) 1 Introduction --------------- Since photons move faster than electrons in the matter, and they dissipate lower power in the process, the new technology of silicon photonics is a...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
The Paradox of Expert Opinion > *The best-informed opinions tend to be the most selection-biased ones.* > > If you want to know whether string theory is true and you're not able to evaluate the technical arguments yourself, who do you go to for advice? Well, seems obvious. Ask the experts. They're likely the most i...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
aisafety.community - A living document of AI safety communities Thanks to plex for co-authoring the post (co-authors are currently not reflected in EA Forum when crossposted from LessWrong).  The AI Safety Communities logo, by DALL-E 2 The AI safety field has been rapidly growing over the last few years, and more and...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Would a more deadly virus have induced greater compliance with US lockdown restrictions? Relative to other pandemics and our initial fears, Covid has a low infection fatality rate (IFR). The IFR varies between societies depending on age and obesity distributions, such that it was more severe in the US than in India. E...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
QNR prospects are important for AI alignment research ***Attention conservation notice:** This discussion is intended for readers with an interest in prospects for knowledge-rich intelligent systems and potential applications of improved knowledge representations to AI capabilities and alignment. It contains no theore...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Open thread, Dec. 05 - Dec. 11, 2016 If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here. ---------------------------------------- Notes for future OT posters: 1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag. 2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately before; refresh the ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Reflections on Premium Poker Tools: Part 4 - Smaller things that I've learned Previous posts: * Part 1 - My journey * Part 2 - Deciding to call it quits * Part 3 - What I've learned In the previous post, I talked about what I've learned. That post focused on bigger things. But there were a lot of smaller, more mi...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
"Can't Say No" Spending The remarkable observation that medical spending has zero net marginal effect is shocking, but not completely unprecedented. According to Spiegel in "Too Much of a Good Thing: Choking on Aid Money in Africa", the Washington Center for Global Development calculated that it would require $3,521 ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
My computational framework for the brain (See comment here for some updates and corrections and retractions. —Steve, 2022) By now I've written a bunch of blog posts on brain architecture and algorithms, not in any particular order and generally interspersed with long digressions into Artificial General Intelligence. ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Heroin, not window opening It seems that heroin is a better example of the problem discussed here than window opening. Basically, the challenge is that if the AI can make you accept a potent heroin injection, you'll agree this was a good idea - but if it doesn't, you won't.
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Excuse me, would you like to take a survey? Related to: Practical Rationality Questionnaire Here among this community of prior-using, Aumann-believing rationalists, it is a bit strange that we don't have any good measure of what the community thinks about certain things. I no longer place much credence in raw majori...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize ($250k Prize Pool) TL;DR: We’re launching the Inverse Scaling Prize: a contest with $250k in prizes for finding zero/few-shot text tasks where larger language models show increasingly undesirable behavior (“inverse scaling”). We hypothesize that inverse scaling is often a sign of a...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Open thread, Mar. 14 - Mar. 20, 2016 If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here. Notes for future OT posters: 1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag. 2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately before; refresh the list-of-threads page ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
My current uncertainties regarding AI, alignment, and the end of the world As I read the interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI alignment problems, I had a couple of thoughts of my own. These are poorly researched, and maybe poorly formulated. I intend to think more about them, but I thought this might be a good place...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
What questions about the future would influence people’s actions today if they were informed by a prediction market? I'm looking for questions that would be useful to many individuals and would influence their decisions today (not questions for those working on shaping the long term future of Earth originating life)....
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Meetup : Berkeley: Implementation Intentions Discussion article for the meetup : Berkeley: Implementation Intentions WHEN: 05 March 2014 07:00:00PM (-0800) WHERE: 2030 Addison, 3rd floor, Berkeley, CA Hello all, next week's meetup will be about implementation intentions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implementation...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Incoherence of unbounded selfishness Unbounded agentic selfishness isn't possible unless you can unboundedly index on and retrocausally compress "self". Otherwise future "you" is just this animal walking around, and how do you specify them in particular for good things to happen to? In practice, evil people do this by...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Higher Risk of Nuclear War With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, nuclear war is still very unlikely, but I'd guess it's the most likely it's been in my lifetime. It's worth thinking through how this impacts any disaster plans you might have: * What would you do if you got an incoming ICBM alert? Are there supplies y...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[Fiction] It's a strange feeling, to be free Related to: Philosophical zombies, How an algorithm feels from the inside, Fake utility function DISCLAIMER 1: English is not my native language. Trying to compose fiction in a learned language is not an easy task: I tried to respect the style of the literary works I read ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
GiveWell and the problem of partial funding
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs
Other
Stable Agreements in Turbulent Times: A Legal Toolkit for Constrained Temporal Decision Transmission TECHNICAL REPORT Stable Agreements in Turbulent Times: A Legal Toolkit for Constrained Temporal Decision Transmission Cullen O’Keefea J.D. Candidate, Class of 2019, Harvard Law School Research Affiliate, Center for the...
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LDJnr/LessWrong-Amplify-Instruct
LessWrong
"I particularly remember one scene from Bill Maher's "Religulous". I can't find the exact quote, but I will try to sum up his argument as best I remember. Christians believe that sin is caused by a talking snake. They may have billions of believers, thousands of years of tradition behind them, and a vast literature of ...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube
Youtube Transcripts
Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile So, should we do a video about the three laws of robotics, then? Because it keeps coming up in the comments. Okay, so the thing is, you won't hear serious AI researchers talking about the three laws of robotics because they don't work. They never worked. So I th...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[SEQ RERUN] Entropy, and Short Codes Today's post, Entropy, and Short Codes was originally published on 23 February 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):   > You use a short word for something that you won't need to describe often, or a long word for something you'll need to describe often. This can result in in...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Governing High-Impact AI Systems: Understanding Canada’s Proposed AI Bill. April 15, Carleton University, Ottawa Join us this April 15th for a panel discussion, keynote address by the founder of the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, and networking mixer on the governance of AI Systems in the Canadian context, held by EA C...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
«Boundaries», Part 1: a key missing concept from utility theory *This post has been recorded as part of the LessWrong Curated Podcast, and can be listened to on* [*Spotify*](https://open.spotify.com/episode/73rKuCaxCaAbLqNIvRVi99)*,* [*Apple Podcasts*](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boundaries-part-1-a-key-miss...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
A very crude deception eval is already passed I was thinking about possible evals that would tell us when we're getting to models that are capable of deception. One not-very-good idea I had was just to measure zero-shot understanding of relevant deception scenarios in a language model. I don't think this tells us very...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
Shared Autonomy via Hindsight Optimization I Introduction --------------- Robotic teleoperation enables a user to achieve their intended goal by providing inputs into a robotic system. In direct teleoperation, user inputs are mapped directly to robot actions, putting the burden of control entirely on the user. Howe...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[link] The surprising downsides of being clever “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden see here Did you know The surprising downsides of being clever? Is Happiness And Intelligence: Rare Combination? There are longitudinal studies which seem to imply this:...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Slightly against aligning with neo-luddites To summarize, * When considering whether to delay AI, the choice before us is not merely whether to accelerate or decelerate the technology. We can choose what type of regulations are adopted, and some options are much better than others. * Neo-luddites do not fundamental...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
What will 2040 probably look like assuming no singularity? I'm looking for a list such that for each entry on the list we can say "Yep, probably that'll happen by 2040, even conditional on no super-powerful AGI / intelligence explosion / etc." Contrarian opinions are welcome but I'm especially interested in stuff that...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Luck I: Finding White Swans Quoth the Master, great in Wisdom, to the Novice: "Ye, carry with thee all thy days a cheque folded up in your wallet.  For there may be many situations in which thou shalt have need of it." And the Novice, of high intelligence but lesser wisdom, replied, saying unto the Master: "Of what s...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Longtermists Should Work on AI - There is No "AI Neutral" Scenario **Summary:** If you’re a longtermist (i.e you believe that most of the moral value lies in the future), and you want to prioritize impact in your career choice, **you should strongly consider either working on AI directly,** or working on things that ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Should we be kind and polite to emerging AIs? I’ve adopted the habit of engaging with chat-ish AIs / digital assistants in a polite, considerate tone (e.g. with “please” and “thank you”) as a general[1] policy. I am doing this not because I believe such machines have feelings I might hurt or expectations of civility ...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Disentangling arguments for the importance of AI safety *Note: my views have shifted significantly since writing this post. I now consider items 1, 2, 3, and 6.2 to be different facets of one core argument, which I call the "second species" argument, and which I explore in depth in [this report](https://www.alignmentf...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Spending Update 2022 Every few years (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014) I like to look over our spending and write something up publicly. General advantages of being public here: * This gives something I can point people to if they have questions about some aspect of how we handle money. * Since almost everything we do eith...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
The Hidden Status Game in Hospital Slacking Why do highly-paid hospital workers slack off and complain so often? Most would say "because they can" or "they're just lazy" or "it's a tough job, stress release." But I suspect there's a deeper status game at play - one that may illuminate broader patterns of institutional...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
[Hebbian Natural Abstractions] Mathematical Foundations TL;DR: We showed how Hebbian learning with weight decay could enable a) feedforward circuits (one-to-many) to extract the first principal component of a barrage of inputs and b) recurrent circuits to amplify signals which are present across multiple input streams...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Against lone wolf self-improvement LW has a problem. Openly or covertly, many posts here promote the idea that a rational person ought to be able to self-improve on their own. Some of it comes from Eliezer's refusal to attend college (and Luke dropping out of his bachelors, etc). Some of it comes from our concept of r...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Transformer Mech Interp: Any visualizations? After getting to the the part of a demo (one of Neel Nanda's interp demos) where they talk about the idea of a Logit Lens, and Layer Attribution, I have a bit of trouble visualizing it as I could have for simpler concepts (e.g. residual streams, which were indeed drawn as m...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Not a Meetup May 22 in Cambridge, MA I enjoyed some of the conversations at the last Cambridge (MA) meetup, particularly towards the end, but I will be in California for the next couple of Cambridge meetups (though I hope to meet some of the LW community there). I spend a lot of my time sitting and working on my lapt...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
[AN #172] Sorry for the long hiatus! Listen to this newsletter on [The Alignment Newsletter Podcast](http://alignment-newsletter.libsyn.com/). Alignment Newsletter is a publication with recent content relevant to AI alignment. Find all Alignment Newsletter [resources here](http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/)...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv
Arxiv
A Simplified Variant of Gödel's Ontological Argument 1 Introduction --------------- Gödel’s (GoedelNotes) ontological argument has attracted significant, albeit controversial, interest among philosophers, logicians and theologians \parencitesobel2004logic. In this article I present a simplified variant of Gödel’s a...
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LessWrong
Reversed stupidity sometimes provides useful information In his recent CATO article, Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence, Eliezer writes: > To psychoanalyze these people’s flaws, even correctly, and even if they constitute a numerical majority of the people talking about “quantum,” says nothing at all about whethe...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
You should go to ML conferences This is a second kind of obvious point to make, but if you are interested in AI, AI safety, or cognition in general, it is likely worth going to top ML conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICML or ICLR. In this post I cover some reasons why, and some anecdotal stories. 1. Parts of AI alignme...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Are HEPA filters likely to pull COVID-19 out of the air? Could hospitals install HEPA filters in common spaces and run them 24/7 to decrease COVID-19 spread?
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Thoughts on Robin Hanson's AI Impacts interview There was already a LessWrong Post [here](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ktDKfKqukTPRiuEPM/robin-hanson-on-the-futurist-focus-on-ai). I started writing this as a comment there, but it got really long, so here we are! For convenience, [here is the link to interview trans...
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LessWrong
An Educational Curriculum I'm a CS student graduating next year, my education has been pretty crap, due to personal problems, and my school curriculum being pretty bad (we never met the requisite depth in any of the courses we did, and skimmed over a lot). After graduation, I want to take a few years (I'm thinking 3 ...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Offering public comment in the Federal rulemaking process This is a short linkdump of useful resources in the event you are planning to make a public comment on the AI standards. In the main these recommendations are intuitive: it helps to be an expert; identify exactly what document you are referring to; speak direct...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Infinite Possibility Space and the Shutdown Problem This post is a response to the recent Astral Codex Ten post, “[CHAI, Assistance Games, And Fully-Updated Deference](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/chai-assistance-games-and-fully-updated)”. A brief summary of the context, for any readers who are not subscribe...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Comments on Allan Dafoe on AI Governance Financial status: This is independent research, now supported by a grant. Epistemic status: Views here are almost entirely my own. ---------------------------------------- There are some think pieces that lay out a bunch of perspectives with which we might think about a thin...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Open thread, Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2015 If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here. ---------------------------------------- Notes for future OT posters: 1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag. 2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one. (Immediately...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum
Effective Altruism Forum
Beyond Simple Existential Risk: Survival in a Complex Interconnected World **This is the script of a talk I gave at EAGx Rotterdam, with some citations and references linked throughout. I lay out the argument challenging the relatively narrow focus EA has in existential risk studies, and in favour of more methodologic...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Fun With The Tabula Muris (Senis) A very cool project, sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, was the Tabula Muris and the Tabula Muris Senis — a single-cell gene expression “atlas” of the mouse, and then mice at various ages from 3 months (young adulthood) to 27 months (near the end of their lifespan.) There’s...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum
Alignment Forum
Thoughts on "AI safety via debate" Geoffrey Irving, Paul Christiano, and Dario Amodei of OpenAI have recently published "AI safety via debate" ([blog post](https://blog.openai.com/debate/), [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899)). As I read the paper I found myself wanting to give commentary on it, and LW seems lik...
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LessWrong
Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI Singularity Institute desperately needs someone who is not me who can write cognitive-science-based material. Someone smart, energetic, able to speak to popular audiences, and with an excellent command of the science. If you’ve been reading Less Wrong for the last few months, you probably ju...
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LessWrong
Rationality is winning - or is it? I feel a bit silly writing an post about connotations on a rationalist website, but I really love the quote "Rationality (is/is not) winning". I see a few different ways of interpreting it: * "Rationality is winning" - results are more important than following a particular ritual o...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Please vote for a title for an upcoming book MIRI is conducting a survey to determine the best title for an upcoming book. Please consider voting on it to help us find out which title you would like best. Click here to take survey
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LessWrong
A very crude deception eval is already passed I was thinking about possible evals that would tell us when we're getting to models that are capable of deception. One not-very-good idea I had was just to measure zero-shot understanding of relevant deception scenarios in a language model. I don't think this tells us very...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
App-Based Disease Surveillance After COVID-19 With the smartphone apps for location and contact tracing being normalized for fighting coronavirus, it opens up space for using the same techniques to fight other diseases. HIV, Syphilis, and drug resistant gonorrhea are obvious candidates because they do not have non-hu...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Timelines to Transformative AI: an investigation Cross-posted on the EA Forum.  This post is part of a series by Convergence Analysis’ AI Clarity team.  Justin Bullock and Elliot Mckernon have recently motivated AI Clarity’s focus on the notion of transformative AI (TAI). In an earlier post, Corin Katzke introduced ...
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LessWrong
[Beta] Post-Read-Status on Lessestwrong Over on Lessestwrong.com (our sometimes-staging-site), we're trying out an update to how post items display on the frontpage. Posts that you've read now appear slightly grey. The goal is to make it so you can tell when you've read a post at a glance, without making it feel like ...
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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 progr...
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trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k
LessWrong
Meetup : Berkeley: Dungeons & Discourse Discussion article for the meetup : Berkeley: Dungeons & Discourse WHEN: 06 March 2013 07:00:00PM (-0800) WHERE: Berkeley, CA This week's meetup is about Scott's philosophy RPG Dungeons and Discourse. Here is the comic strip that inspired Dungeons & Discourse: http://dresden...
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StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong
LessWrong
Did Bengio and Tegmark lose a debate about AI x-risk against LeCun and Mitchell? ![](https://res.cloudinary.com/lesswrong-2-0/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/mirroredImages/CA7iLZHNT5xbLK59Y/v4qfoiqhqvtcbtczd8va)On June 22nd, there was a “Munk Debate”, facilitated by the Canadian Aurea Foundation, on the question whethe...
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awestover/filtering-for-misalignment
Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results
id: post2453 Realistic tales of doom must weave together many political, technical, and economic considerations into a single story. Such tales provide concrete projections but omit discussion of less probable paths to doom. To rectify this, here are some concrete, less realistic tales of doom; consider them fables, n...
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LessWrong
Where is human level on text prediction? (GPTs task) I look at graphs like these (From the GPT-3 paper), and I wonder where human-level is: Gwern seems to have the answer here:  > GPT-2-1.5b had a cross-entropy validation loss of ~3.3 (based on the perplexity of ~10 in Figure 4, and log2(10)=3.32). GPT-3 halved that...