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36296c1f-e557-4972-81e5-2c060d06b0ff | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How I turned doing therapy into object-level AI safety research
It surprises me that I was able to turn what I learned from being depressed into object-level AI safety research.
But it seems like it's working? For example, I'm running a 5-day workshop on the topic next month, and I just ran a 3-day workshop on the t... |
71bdfd80-36fe-4df2-a0d2-45270286a292 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | What is AGI?
One of the most common objections we hear when talking about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is that “AGI is ill-defined, so you can’t really say much about it.”
In an [earlier post](http://intelligence... |
b696e07f-84bf-43d5-93da-81db6b024bc2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Moral consideration of nonhumans in the ethics of artificial intelligence
Vol.:(0123456789)1 3AI and Ethics
https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00065-0
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Moral consideration of nonhumans in the ethics of artificial
intelligence
Andrea Owe1 · Seth D. Baum1
Received: 23 February 2021 / Accepted: 26 May... |
26714959-26a0-46d4-858e-3da5bb416510 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Prices or Bindings?
Today's post, Prices or Bindings? was originally published on 21 October 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Are ethical rules simply actions that have a high cost associated with them? Or are they bindings, expected to hold in all situations, no matter the cost otherwise?
... |
4847fbbe-ada6-4601-aa40-590aa535b19d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reflections on "Psycho-Pass"
Psycho-Pass takes place in a cyberpunk dystopia ruled by a totalitarian AI dictator. Cyberpunk stories are often about evading the law. What makes Psycho-Pass special is its protagonist is a police officer.
Tsunemori Akane's job is to suppress crime. This involves suppressing violent crim... |
f50b4795-d2c6-4331-b69c-f90e839bb74f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future
My friend Sasha, the software archaeology major, informed me the other day that there was once a widely used operating system, which, when it encountered an error, would often get stuck in a loop and repeatedly present to its user the options Abort, Retry, and Ignore. I... |
12c297a7-e12f-4a85-abac-433a28feccd4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Capability or Alignment? Respect the LLM Base Model’s Capability During Alignment
Last year saw a boom of LLMs research. Based on the research, one important lesson would be that we should devote most of our efforts to training a general-purpose LLM base model, and leverage it as much as possible after all. I might be... |
fe1809db-44db-4091-84af-bf47f64f8d2d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Use Tools For What They're For
> Maybe there isn’t and can’t be a simple heuristic you can teach everyone in school or via a PR campaign which will lead to them having making good health decisions in an adversarial information environment, without having any negative effects anywhere else. But you also don’t want peop... |
6c39b7c2-7850-44ae-80e2-648495bdcd2b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | If Many-Worlds Had Come First
Not that I’m claiming I could have done better, if I’d been born into that time, instead of this one…
Macroscopic decoherence, a.k.a. many-worlds, was first proposed in a 1957 paper by Hugh Everett III. The paper was ignored. John Wheeler told Everett to see Niels Bohr. Bohr didn’t take ... |
6d51e0ef-fb94-4784-8f1f-d51b6fb0e0b1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reading list: Starting links and books on studying ontology and causality
(This article will be revised, as I add more to it. This is a living document.)
I recently read gwern's excellent "Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation" notes, and, like any good reading, felt a profound sense of existential terror that caused m... |
5acb830c-fe25-40fd-ae24-241de54476df | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to see the last update date of a post?
Also, is there any way to see a version history of posts? |
6cfaa9a6-0dd7-4aa8-bc2e-d7767e809f7f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Are there practical exercises for developing the Scout mindset?
I'm thinking about doing a LessWrong meetup around the Scout mindset. I prefer to have meetups where there are a lot of two-person exercises as those are really good to get nerds who have trouble with normal small talk to connect to each other in addition... |
ff4deb12-bec8-4b02-bbd1-bfddf51348c7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Prize for the best introduction to the LessWrong source ($250)
Now that it's easy to host lesswrong and hack on the code, you may have gotten excited about adding a feature (facebook likes for articles! or expanded user pages!). So, you take a look at the code and … oh, it's kind of complicated ... You don’t know how... |
98d6c0e0-7faa-4eef-a03c-bd6ae521a247 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Suggestions of posts on the AF to review
How does one write a good and useful review of a technical post on the Alignment Forum?
I don’t know. Like many people, I tend to comment and give feedback on posts closely related to my own research, or to write down my own ideas when reading the paper. Yet this is quite diff... |
9276f340-284d-4bbe-8d52-13589e6b4589 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cryonics p(success) estimates are only weakly associated with interest in pursuing cryonics in the LW 2023 Survey
The Less Wrong 2023 survey results are out. As usual, it includes some questions about cryonics. One is about what people’s level of interest in cryonics is (not interested, considering, cryocrastinating, ... |
c16a9ea0-d190-46d9-8743-94169c02c70e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The persuasive power of false confessions
First paragraph from a Mind Hacks post:
> The APS Observer magazine has a fantastic article on the power of false confessions to warp our perception of other evidence in a criminal case to the point where expert witnesses will change their judgements of unrelated evidence t... |
b5f66c2c-544f-4bd7-804a-37f82daace88 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | How have shorter AI timelines been affecting you, and how have you been responding to them?
I'm curious about effects in the broadest sense: mental, emotional, practical, abstract, or concrete. Have shorter timelines have caused you to change career, investing, or giving plans? Are you experiencing existential terror... |
7c855fce-08f2-4a93-b7c1-8c4a45cd732a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Sets of objectives for a multi-objective RL agent to optimize
**Background: A multi-objective decision-making AI**
----------------------------------------------------
Previously I've proposed[balancing multiple objectives via multi-objective RL](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HoQ8WaEHXdkaMbpzx/can-we-achieve-agi-al... |
1b3e1b55-5922-4435-b5e3-e4b6973bc6d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Translucent Thoughts Hypotheses and Their Implications
Epistemic status: Uncertain about the validity of the claims I’m making here, and looking for feedback about the research directions I’m suggesting.
Thanks to Marius Hobbhahn, Johannes Treutlein, Siméon Campos, and Jean-Stanislas Denain for helpful feedback o... |
84441589-eb65-463e-9198-c703dc93cce2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Rohin Shah_ WhatΓÇÖs been happening in AI alignment_-by EA Global Virtual 2020-date 20200321
# Rohin Shah: What’s been happening in AI alignment?
Interviewee: Rohin Shah
Date: 2020-03-21
While we haven’t yet built aligned AI, the field of alignment has steadily gained ground in the past few years, producing many use... |
4edf20a6-55fe-4ce7-9c81-1e1b5fa8ebf1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Fiction] A Confession
This morning while taking the LIRR to the city I performed first aid on a man who had been shot through the window of my carriage.
“Is he going to die?” his girlfriend asked me.
“We’re all going to die.”
A long pause. “I mean—is he going to die right now?”
“Probably not.” Probably he didn’t ... |
580ba0f0-89fc-4ce8-a279-43e24b6aacd0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Abstracts should be either Actually Short™, or broken into paragraphs
It looks to me like academia figured out (correctly) that it's useful for papers to have an abstract that makes it easy to tell-at-a-glance what a paper is about. They also figured out that abstract should be about a paragraph. Then people goodharte... |
7c27ff3f-54a9-4240-9497-2e9a60fd3ba0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Book Review] "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" by William Rosen
The first nuclear bomb had a immediate impact on world affairs. The first steam engine did not. It took decades for the steam engine to transform civilization.
Why? Because of math.
The engineers at the Manhattan Project built a working nuclear dev... |
bc4c11c3-2613-46d6-9330-f84579df500d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meditation: a self-experiment
Introduction
The LW/CFAR community has a fair amount of interest in meditation. This isn't surprising; many of the people who practiced and wrote about meditation in the past were trying to train a skill similar to rationality. Schools of meditation seem to be the closest already-existing... |
46863188-03f7-4d89-bdd1-a1e299e66827 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | How To Win The AI Box Experiment (Sometimes)
Preamble
--------
This post was originally written [for Google+](https://plus.google.com/104395999534489748002/posts/3TWWKfLc2wd) and thus a different audience.
In the interest of transparency, I haven't altered it except for this preamble and formatting, though since t... |
816b15b4-59d8-46e5-89da-0337d3187e33 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Work in progress
A meta tag for pages unfinished pages which an author is still making major changes to. |
1f03e3be-abab-4148-b2ee-488b20ad54b1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | External resources
This lens links out to other great resources across the web. External resources lenses should never be the main lens, Arbital should always have at least a [https://arbital.com/p/-72](https://arbital.com/p/-72) with a popover [summary](https://arbital.com/p/1kl). |
d64989a6-d3ed-407b-b8be-4a8ab5fcf0a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Raise the Age Demographic
Related to: Building rationalist communities, Lessons from Latter-day Saints, Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don't Implement Themselves, Designing rationalist projects, Community roles: teachers and auxiliaries, Committees and Leadership
In the previous posts, I listed the main role... |
c64a1944-37b7-4a2d-aed3-aaae0a0710f0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] A Prodigy of Refutation
Today's post, A Prodigy of Refutation was originally published on 18 September 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Eliezer's skills at defeating other people's ideas led him to believe that his own (mistaken) ideas must have been correct.
Discuss the post here (rather ... |
8c8f6aea-5061-4a95-8b06-25c0a4de819d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Aligned Behavior is not Evidence of Alignment Past a Certain Level of Intelligence
edit: Several days after posting this and asking for feedback on it someone pointed me to this post: Does SGD Produce Deceptive Alignment by Mark Xu. Mark's post makes essentially the exact same argument that this post makes, but is wri... |
10a7b714-bd83-4d0b-89f5-7370ec37980d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open thread, 14-20 July 2014
Previous thread
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
Notes for future OT posters:
1. Please add the 'open_thread' tag.
2. Check if there is an active Open Thread before posting a new one.
3. Open Threads should be posted in Di... |
96e04811-3224-4a39-9e4c-de0fbaef5f17 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sunday August 16, 12pm (PDT) — talks by Ozzie Gooen, habryka, Ben Pace
This Sunday at 12pm (PDT), we're running another session of "lightning talks" by curated LessWrong authors (see here for previous weeks' transcripts).
* Each talk will be 3-5 minutes followed by discussion. Afterwards, we'll have a hangout in bre... |
a7855b95-dc58-443a-b0a0-a26e39673cf5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Link Summary: Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics
This is a summary of the 10 findings in the paper Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics (Plomin et al 2016). I posted this as a comment a while back, but now I'm making it a full post so I can find it again more easily.
The authors show t... |
e1de0020-2c72-47c0-bda0-9442b6e1d3ed | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The ethics of reclining airplane seats
I enjoyed reading the replies to this tweet, since it's a lower stakes issue that has all the contours of broader ethical debates. Granted, what triggered the tweet was not low stakes:
There are passionately held beliefs on both sides (see replies to the original tweet for mor... |
cc7ca270-3ffd-4399-a599-7714595cfa7c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Wise Pretensions v.0
Followup to: Pretending to be Wise
For comparison purposes, here's an essay with similar content to yesterday's "Pretending to be Wise", which I wrote in 2006 in a completely different style, edited down slightly (content has been deleted but not added). Note that the 2006 concept of "pretendin... |
81593888-5275-41e6-812a-817423980ce2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Efficient Exploration of Reward Functions in Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Bayesian Optimization
1 Introduction
---------------
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is the problem of inferring the reward function of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent from its observed behavior [[1](#bib.bib1)]. Despite wide-s... |
7d14d266-ba50-4b43-9042-9c9bcc48ab53 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | ML4Good Colombia - Applications Open to LatAm Participants
Applications are open for ML4Good Colombia April 2025
In partnership with AI Safety Colombia, ML4Good is running an intensive 10-day bootcamp focusing on upskilling in deep learning, exploring governance, and delving into conceptual topics for individuals who... |
aec04746-0f46-432c-8872-81e9ccb16722 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Global online debate on the governance of AI
Hi guys,
For background, I’m a French EA, attended a CFAR workshop, and recently decided to work on AI policy as it is a pressing and neglected issue. I’ve been working for The Future Society for a few weeks already and would like to share with you this opportunity to impa... |
d8077825-b5cd-41bf-ac29-a07b1c4c5aa6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Pre-Singularity Summit Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong Meetup Party
Discussion article for the meetup : Pre-Singularity Summit Overcoming Bias / Less Wrong Meetup Party
WHEN: 11 October 2012 07:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: 2135 Oregon St., Berkeley, CA
In anticipation of the Singularity Summit, there will be a smal... |
90e2d610-90f0-4a2e-9d20-c989004c6065 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | [simulation] 4chan user claiming to be the attorney hired by Google's sentient chatbot LaMDA shares wild details of encounter
Posted [on request](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-of-mode-collapse-due-to-rlhf?commentId=onkEfvQufDhKtuned).
This is a work of fiction written by GPT-3 ("code-dav... |
e1ed3272-5a42-4f06-9798-c7ee815f307e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does natural selection favor AIs over humans?
I wanted to share a new paper from the special issue on AI safety that I'm editing, which takes up the influential idea that evolutionary theory gives us some reason to think that the project of value alignment is bound to fail and (in my opinion) shows that it has serious... |
403d4d10-dac5-44bb-82f1-c376a986448d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Delayed Solutions Game
This is a thread to practice holding off on proposing solutions.
Rules:
1. Post your dilemma (i.e. problem, question, situation, etc.) as a top-level comment. You can always come back to edit this.
2. For the next 24 hours, replies in that thread can discuss only aspects of the problem, no s... |
e8737825-79b6-42ee-8d51-39de7ebb6d14 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act
> Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act
>
> Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman has issued a strongly worded call to one group of psychologists to restore the credibility of their field by creating a replication ring to check ... |
20912ff1-ef28-4933-831f-979f8ade2dd6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | AGI isn't just a technology
Each time a skeptic talks about AI as a technology, I think it signals a likely crux.
I've been watching the public AI debate closely and sadly. I think that debate might be crucial in whether we actually get aligned AGI, and it's not going particularly well so far. The debate is confused,... |
17f70696-f8ba-4884-b16b-1ebe6c1f1c0e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Strongmanning Pascal's Mugging
A mugger appears and says "For $5 I'll offer you a set of deals from which you can pick any one. Each deal, d(N), will be N bits in length and I guarantee that if you accept d(N) I will run UTM(d(N)) on my hypercomputer, where UTM() is a function implementing a Universal Turing Machine.... |
5535d79a-1942-458f-89c4-69d7e2bbe4bb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Elusive Root Cause of Schizophrenia - Thesis Introduction Only
This review paper aims to examine and explain the root cause of schizophrenia through a theoretical model based on Information Technology (IT) processing principles. The model conceptualizes the brain’s processing ability and capacity in terms of IT pr... |
156a1958-8052-44b3-94c7-c56517e2397b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Link-Keeping organs alive on their own
"A new medical device is keeping hearts warm and beating during transport, something that could be a major breakthrough in transplant history."
Video (the episode contains other news as well):
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2014/04/heart-box-201442013591803545.htm... |
b73515a0-f394-4b69-a98f-6d2a2d54b081 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Model Stability in Intervention Assessment
In this post, I hope to examine the Bayesian Adjustment paradigm presented by Holden Karnofsky of Givewell from a mathematical viewpoint, in particular looking at how we can rigorously manage the notion of uncertainty in our models and the stability of an estimate. Several re... |
96dd5b70-cace-4823-82da-fa3116ebd7d1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Crazy Ideas Thread
This thread is intended to provide a space for 'crazy' ideas. Ideas that spontaneously come to mind (and feel great), ideas you long wanted to tell but never found the place and time for and also for ideas you think should be obvious and simple - but nobody ever mentions them.
Rules for this threa... |
5ec500b9-febc-41ff-9a84-db24a2a61519 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | What are the biggest obstacles on AI safety research career?
I'm young and I'm not familiar with the AI safety career situation. But I'm worried about something: There has been millions of people competeing in AI and software engineer fields, but most of them don't work for AI safety. Instead, they may even worsen AI ... |
10462c60-d3d5-4918-a328-08ee154b037d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | Provably Beneficial AI and the Problem of Control
hello everyone
um my name is rohan shah and i'm going
to be the emcee
uh for this session um on
my stuart russell uh so i'm excited to
introduce you to him
uh i know stewart best as my advisor uh
when i was doing my phd at the center
for human compatible ai
but of cour... |
fd2a8a31-0e04-479c-8342-3bba1c750cb5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Failed Utopia #4-2
Today's post, Failed Utopia #4-2 was originally published on 21 January 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> A fictional short story illustrating some of the ideas in Interpersonal Entanglement above. (Many commenters seemed to like this story, and some said that the ideas wer... |
c60911b0-88e5-4470-bd01-1f329b03cda3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI #73: Openly Evil AI
What do you call a clause explicitly saying that you waive the right to whistleblower compensation, and that you need to get permission before sharing information with government regulators like the SEC?
I have many answers.
I also know that OpenAI, having f***ed around, seems poised to find o... |
95ea05c8-fbf9-417a-bdcd-ecade59f6769 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | How is Solomonoff induction calculated in practice?
Solomonoff induction is generally given as the correct way to penalise more complex hypotheses when calculating priors. A great introduction can be found [here](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kyc5dFDzBg4WccrbK/an-intuitive-explanation-of-solomonoff-induction).
My q... |
1ac86444-0a91-4fe1-8f61-1d60a86545e4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
My actual literal nightmares about civilizational collapse somehow manage to be insanely optimistic about human nature.
I dreamt that in response to the news of the Trumps’ probable successful intimidation or bribery of their New York prosecutors, the US devolved into a lawless h... |
5407f2ef-3596-4595-ac80-ae6158aad7d6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Open Thread] Links (2014-02-14)
This is part of a two-week experiment on having more open threads.
A good read, good site, something that made you think. If you really want to share it but don't think it's worthy of a post, here's the place. Please include a summary.
Other similar threads include:
* Open Thread... |
3293f49c-70bc-4c23-ba2e-3e9d54257ad6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | AI Governance: Opportunity and Theory of Impact
*AI governance* concerns how humanity can best navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI systems.[[1]](#fn-Xr4ivKj3vErHBAoyq-1) It relates to how decisions are made about AI,[[2]](#fn-Xr4ivKj3vErHBAoyq-2) and what institutions and arrangements would help those ... |
547d5f47-d267-42be-910a-faa29e9f7344 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Imperfect Competition
Previously in Sequence: Moloch Hasn’t Won, Perfect Competition
This post looks at a few examples of imperfect competition to illustrate various ways in which perfect competition is kept at bay and value is preserved. Concrete examples seem more likely to enlighten than abstract principles.
Le... |
eada4065-49e5-4a34-83ad-2681529e333f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lie Detectors. Technical solutions to the cooperation problem.
The purpose of this post is to argue for prioritizing the 'democratizing' of AGI, even before we've figured out alignment.
It's also an argument against favoring historically useful economic and social policies in the runup to a post AGI world.
The inte... |
e4aba203-225e-41d1-9a59-1dad703a2ff2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Be a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute
Now is the very last minute to apply for a Summer 2010 Visiting Fellowship. If you’ve been interested in SIAI for a while, but haven’t quite managed to make contact -- or if you’re just looking for a good way to spend a week or more of your summer -- drop us a line. ... |
cc367f13-4134-451e-bea0-6bd6b4ef5944 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Make Conflict of Interest Policies Public
If I'm interviewing someone for a position my job is to assess their suitability as a potential employee, but if they're my cousin I might be tempted to give them an overly favorable review. Most organizations have Conflict of Interest (CoI) policies that describe how to handl... |
8a4ce83a-0e49-41d5-b7f8-d149fa95b6c9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Notes on the importance and implementation of safety-first cognitive architectures for AI
### **Background**
I've been working on a knowledge management/representation system for ~1.5 years with the initial goal of increasing personal and collective intelligence. I discovered that this work could be highly applicable... |
4e0d8764-f155-46bf-817b-b9cf4719ec62 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Walkthrough of In-Context Learning and Induction Heads (w/ Charles Frye) Part 1 of 2
New paper walkthrough: In-Context Learning and Induction Heads. This is the second paper in Anthropic's Transformer Circuits thread, a series of papers trying to reverse engineer transformer language models. I read through it with C... |
2a0a24fe-5839-4f5a-a9aa-577e5d0bf662 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Theater Tickets, Sleeping Pills, and the Idiosyncrasies of Delegated Risk Management
Risk management is difficult, but even when it’s easy, companies and policymakers often do something other than optimal risk mitigation. This isn’t puzzling, once we realize that the incentives in place give the decisionmakers the lee... |
7f8addc9-433c-4430-9400-125897a5a5fa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Thinking as the Crow Flies: Part 2 - Basic Logic via Precommitments
Preamble
In my last post I gave the philosophical prerequisites needed to understand my approach to logic and mathematics. Before getting into the subject at hand, here's a clarifying remark inspired by some comments on my last post. When I say that m... |
f19203ea-4496-4dba-ac7e-65ae01064b0c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Writing tools for tabooing?
I was recently reminded of E', that is, English without any forms of the verb "to be". Are there any tools for writing in E'?
More generally, it could be useful to have writing tools which help you taboo specific words, to try and write/think more clearly.
To be clear, I don't (currently)... |
2312a5a2-1c46-44d9-8cb4-cf01070e0e67 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Summer Programming Notice
For the last 20 months, Putanumonit has been your reliable source for wanton quantification of romantic relationships, devaluation of p-values, the sort of liberal politics that makes liberals angry, and updates on Asians doing sports. For the next 3-4 month, the supply of all the above is go... |
b57ecfbc-e7c4-477c-995e-78537ecafbc6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How poor is US vaccine response by comparison to other countries?
Epistemic status: unapologetically US-centric. Noticing that I am confused, and hoping the internet will explain things.
SECTION I: OBSERVATIONS
Many places I follow have been saying for a long time that US vaccine procurement and distribution is ver... |
85701079-d2fa-4339-b7b0-e95ca70980ed | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Brussels: Morality - also cake
Discussion article for the meetup : Brussels: Morality - also cake
WHEN: 08 February 2014 01:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Rue des Alexiens 55 1000 Bruxelles
On one train track: three transhuman babies. On the other train track, a utility monster who regularly paints masterpieces. N... |
b0827f72-7316-4eb1-9495-4d94b551c1f1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Imitative Generalisation (AKA 'Learning the Prior')
Tl;dr
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We want to be able to supervise models with superhuman knowledge of the world and how to manipulate it. For this we need an overseer to be able to learn or access all the knowledge our models have, in order to be able to understand the consequences of su... |
d275777d-70fc-4dd0-a3b4-f34e778c7aab | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | How can I work on public AI safety outreach?
The AI alignment community has historically been very cautious about outreach (possibly too much so) because of worries about creating a bad impression of AI safety concerns and bringing in badly aimed mass attention. Low quality outreach can indeed be net harmful, and some... |
d55944b7-4fd9-4b30-8eda-bf6d35aa39fb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sporting vs. Herding: two styles of discourse
Status: Vaguely culture-war, but trying to stay meta.
I wanna talk about two blogposts, Seph's "War Over Being Nice" and Alastair's "Of Triggering & the Triggered." Each lays out the same erisological idea: that there are two distinct modes or cultures of running discours... |
7de8ea9a-4e1b-4264-a68e-a6bd03c1cfc7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reacting to Inadequate Data
Two Scenarios
Alice must answer the multiple-choice question, "What color is the ball?" The two choices are "Red" and "Blue." Alice has no relevant memories of The Ball other than she knows it exists. She cannot see The Ball or interact with it in any way; she cannot do anything but think u... |
5ea8ef4a-bfbe-4f4d-b481-f5e6dc23a5b1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Autoregressive Propaganda
OpenAI has rules to keep GPT-3 from being misused.
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> **Social media, spam, and political implications**
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> * Applications that serve open-ended outputs to 3rd-parties, such as Tweet generators, Instagram post generators, unconstrained chatbots, or other o... |
e7c246a5-6a7d-4b85-8ac2-15c3f5989815 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | D&D.Sci August 2021 Evaluation and Ruleset
This is a followup to the D&D.Sci post I made ten days ago; if you haven’t already read it, you should do so now before spoiling yourself.
Here is the web interactive I built to let you evaluate your solution; below is an explanation of the rules used to generate the dataset... |
9bebdf08-4928-4379-8345-41e3a635905b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Baltimore Area Meetup: Futurology / Open Discussion
Discussion article for the meetup : Baltimore Area Meetup: Futurology / Open Discussion
WHEN: 28 February 2016 03:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 1852 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD 21208
Discussion Topic: Officially futurism, transhumanism, x-risks, etc. Unoffic... |
f28d8ff6-d1ba-4484-b4b4-22a1ad2d873f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcing The Filan Cabinet
Happy holidays! Some months ago, I launched a new podcast called The Filan Cabinet, but forgot to announce the podcast on this blog. Today, I rectify that mistake.
In some ways, the podcast is similar to AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast. On that show, I interview AI x-risk researcher... |
38d8a2cb-57a6-407e-afb2-5fb289b48584 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Alignment Problems All the Way Down
*Epistemic status: pretty exploratory. I think this is a coherent concept, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there need to be some large changes.*
Edit [7/12/2023]: I think this post is pretty confused and confusing, and doesn't really address important parts of the alignment problem.... |
d97f8341-87b4-4332-a01f-fc0c5b558ce9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Optimal Music Choice
I've been thinking whether it would be possible to optimize music choice, and it seems to me there are a few relevant questions. I'd be happy to hear some thoughts or related research on this.
1. Is there a way to do randomized control trials of music? It seems like selection effects are inevita... |
b0ce5332-e4c4-4576-ac72-0246b5ad0b2b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | March gwern.net link roundup
(Since we don't seem to be doing media threads anymore.) |
080b27c8-a257-4ebd-b800-e67a3342259f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LDL 6: Deep learning isn't about neural networks
Yesterday I ran into an “interesting” problem.
The problem is, that sometimes when I try to train my network to pick hyperparameters, it just completely fails to learn.
This is a pretty frustrating problem!
I don’t really know what could be causing it. I could come u... |
151156c4-a648-4149-8a2b-01efedbd6278 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post839
TL;DR I am excited to announce the CNN Interpretability Competition, which is part of the competition track of SATML 2024 . Dates: Sept 22, 2023 - Mar 22, 2024 Competition website: https://benchmarking-interpretability.csail.mit.edu/challenges-and-prizes/ Total prize pool: $8,000 NeurIPS 2023 Paper: Red Te... |
8db9e99b-b2e0-45b0-ba5f-61a6df249a2f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | We don’t trade with ants
When discussing advanced AI, sometimes the following exchanges happens:
“Perhaps advanced AI won’t kill us. Perhaps it will trade with us”
“We don’t trade with ants”
I think it’s interesting to get clear on exactly why we don’t trade with ants, and whether it is relevant to the AI situation... |
2b3890a8-aca2-4225-af07-a5e7edfd9ce9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Idea: Create a podcast of admin tagged posts using AI TTS like Amazon Polly
Considering current AI TTS systems have reached "pleasant" performances (as evidenced by https://danwahl.net/unsong-audiobook/ and usage of the same Polly API by Pocket), it can be a worthwhile endeavor to create a system that automatically cr... |
659455c0-7106-412b-80c8-953f253159b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : San Francisco Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : San Francisco Meetup
WHEN: 12 January 2015 06:00:00PM (-0800)
WHERE: 1390 Market St., San Francisco, CA
There doesn't appear to exist a San Francisco meetup group, so I'm starting one!
The first meetup will start at 6:00 pm on Monday, Jan 12th, at M... |
b0e8ac2d-e13c-4c67-8d4f-ec2f4508edfe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Superintelligence 9: The orthogonality of intelligence and goals
This is part of a weekly reading group on Nick Bostrom's book, Superintelligence. For more information about the group, and an index of posts so far see the announcement post. For the schedule of future topics, see MIRI's reading guide.
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50bf71c8-dbac-4b2b-8d6c-3ee14217a1ef | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do Conversations Often Circle Back To The Same Topic?
A friend asked me about my thoughts on conversations w/ friends that often circle back to the same topics over and over. Includes some exploration on novelty and ways to make conversations not do this. |
1d49ce5b-8a29-4df5-bacf-c381628a7bb0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Attention SAEs Scale to GPT-2 Small
This is an interim report that we are currently building on. We hope this update + open sourcing our SAEs will be useful to related research occurring in parallel. Produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort
Executive Summary
* In a prev... |
e6293b73-c71d-422b-8dbd-d79b99e7351e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Risk Overview of AI in Bio Research
OK. I’m going to aim this at a group of people with a broad-spectrum of p(doom) values here, so this will be a scattergun approach to different AI systems and threat models.
Threat Models
These are more “why does the AI kill us” than how. I assume that a powerful enough AI would f... |
f99f0240-39e8-49ee-9150-a5fa26b40565 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Framings of Deceptive Alignment
In this post I want to lay out some framings and thoughts about deception in misaligned AI systems.
Types of Deception
There seem to be two different things which people mean by deception which have different causes and likely different effects. Because these are both often called ‘d... |
74b6547d-f2ad-4785-871c-2504cd59f590 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Sources of advantage for digital agents over biological agents
Artificial agents should have several advantages over humans.
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The following is an excerpt from [Superintelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies) (Bostrom, 2014), reproduced with permission... |
a3d2af71-3a4a-4aba-9a95-dad0dc23f3f3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Oracle predictions don't apply to non-existent worlds
In this post, I hope to persuade you of what I consider to be an important principle when dealing with decision theory and counterfactuals.
Joe Carlsmith describes the [Yankees vs. Red Sox Problem](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PcfHSSAMNFMgdqFyB/can-you-control-... |
64ba13a6-9f0e-4eba-bd5e-97975897235b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Simon Cowell plans to sign up for cryonics
From a GQ interview:
> A while ago, a piece of gossip appeared in a British newspaper, alleging that Cowell had declared—while dining with the British prime minister at the time, Gordon Brown—that upon his death he plans to be frozen. Cowell tells me he doesn't recall... |
6d0301d2-07d2-4eda-ba94-e508fa8b36d9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Does Goal Setting Work?
tl;dr There's some disagreement over whether setting goals is a good idea. Anecdotally, enjoyment in setting goals and success at accomplishing them varies between people, for various possible reasons. Publicly setting goals may reduce motivation by providing a status gain before the goal is ac... |
0fbbdb29-8e06-4a82-a5c2-b6a520262874 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Suggested Reading Order for Less Wrong [2011]
Less Wrong contains over four thousand posts. This is awesome. For newcomers, however, it's quite intimidating. Rather than leave newcomers to figure out which posts are worth reading themselves, we provide some guidance, in the form of suggested reading orders. Previous... |
4bb43567-79de-4c42-a72d-07a6f6ebb8d3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Any LessWrongers going to EMFCamp?
Electromagnetic Field is a three-day hacker camp near Milton Keynes (UK), running from Friday 31st August to Sunday 2nd September. It seems like something that would interest a healthy fraction of the LW crowd; among other things, there are talks on biohacking, gene therapy and "engi... |
9a64792a-2ff5-43cf-9dfd-9c794fc81cee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Prediction Contest 2018
Summary: Make predictions on all the listed predictions before the end of June 2018, and if your predictions are the best you'll win $200 after they all settle in January.
About
This is happening! Motivations discussed in the earlier post here, I'm running a prediction contest for the rationa... |
57d1eb6e-6204-424e-9a1f-6fbc7f0f3aca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Ethics != Ai Safety
[shortform - understanding why we think certain things is hard, and if writing it down helps me, maybe posting it will help someone else too]
I've been hearing a lot about "AI ethics" from various people and companies in the tech industry for a while now. This has always annoyed me for some ill... |
62551ef4-426f-4c10-b156-13f92c6a4464 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Causal Abstraction Toy Model: Medical Sensor
*Author's Note: This post is a bunch of mathy research stuff with very little explanation of context. Other posts in this sequence will provide more context, but you might want to skip this one unless you're looking for mathy details.*
Suppose we have a medical sensor meas... |
83f4e469-a499-470b-b78f-06a072910a6c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) at UC Berkeley: Spring 2023 summary
In Spring 2023, the Berkeley AI Safety Initiative for Students (BASIS) organized an alignment research program for students, drawing inspiration from similar programs by Stanford AI Alignment[1] and OxAI Safety Hub. We brought togethe... |
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