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cb823abb-9b77-435d-9f8a-259d0588577a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
Today's post, 3 Levels of Rationality Verification was originally published on 15 March 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> How far the craft of rationality can be taken, depends largely on what methods can be invented for verifying it. Tests seem usefully s... |
7ba47aaf-0ee6-4b17-abbb-b091c1f2cc11 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Academia as a happy place?
A conversation between pchvykov and jow on alternative research environments. This post is based on an audio transcript that we have edited with the help of Claude. We planned this as an experiment for ourselves in "thinking in public". Also, pchvykov is now organizing a "mindful research" r... |
3469207d-3e3a-41f7-adca-156c8de41718 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Understanding and avoiding value drift
I use [the shard theory of human values](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iCfdcxiyr2Kj8m8mT/the-shard-theory-of-human-values) to clarify what value drift is, how it happens, and how it might be avoided by a highly intelligent agent—even if that agent doesn't have any control over ... |
439b7d4b-7c34-460a-9c7d-225cbcc73c58 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Agentic Mess (A Failure Story)
**This story is also available** [**as a YouTube video**](https://youtu.be/6edrFdkCEUE)**.**
A network of specialized open-source agents emerges
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Developed by open-source communities, “agentic” AI systems like AutoGPT and BabyAGI begin... |
0ce253ff-fe06-436f-b72e-0eafa3f4f8b9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality outreach vs. rationality teaching
Epistemic status: Exploratory and in testing
I'm reasonably confident there are a lot of smart/curious people who would like to learn rationality, that is, how to think better and correlate the contents of your mind better to reality.
Framing rationalist outreach as esta... |
59cd24a6-5332-48d8-ab68-164958a20006 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : LW Cologne meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : LW Cologne meetup
WHEN: 26 September 2015 05:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Marienweg 43, 50858 Köln
The next cologne meetup will be next Saturday (9/26), which is incidentially Petrov day (http://lesswrong.com/lw/jq/926_is_petrov_day/), 5 pm at my house (Marie... |
ee41b96f-3c51-4d6d-8599-19069935b308 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong Meetup: How to Increase Your Brainpower
Discussion article for the meetup : Atlanta Lesswrong Meetup: How to Increase Your Brainpower
WHEN: 23 February 2014 07:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: 491 Lindbergh Place NE Apt 618 Atlanta, GA 30324
Dual N-back, transcranial electrical stimulation, nootrop... |
4df8af92-2aec-4a98-b293-6a43eb808798 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Language models are not inherently safe
*Giving my take on a popular*[[1]](#fnq63qsorwxs)*topic;* [*writing a thousand ways to Rome*](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q924oPJzK92FifuFg/write-a-thousand-roads-to-rome)*. Broad lines likely right, less sure of details.*
For some time I've had the thought "intelligent age... |
bcc9272f-7400-496f-9d5d-abbb794f9f39 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | The MAGICAL Benchmark for Robust Imitation
The MAGICAL Benchmark for Robust Imitation
Sam Toyer Rohin Shah Andrew Critch Stuart Russell
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
{sdt,rohinmshah,critch,russell}@berkeley.edu
Abstract
Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms ... |
39550f54-fa52-4cf5-8e73-74d8d3567605 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Impossibility results for unbounded utilities
Some people think that they have unbounded utility functions. This isn't necessarily crazy, but it presents serious challenges to conventional decision theory. I think it probably leads to abandoning probability itself as a representation of uncertainty (or at least any ho... |
a76eab8f-bc6f-4283-9c35-6e2409f625a0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My intentions for my metaethics sequence
Recently a friend of mine told me that he and a few others were debating how likely it is that I've 'solved metaethics.' Others on this site have gotten the impression that I'm claiming to have made a fundamental breakthrough that I'm currently keeping a secret, and that's what... |
dc27c3bc-e7de-4f18-8fb6-30d59f23a72b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | DeepMind’s generalist AI, Gato: A non-technical explainer
Summary
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DeepMind’s recent paper, [*A Generalist Agent*](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/A%20Generalist%20Agent/Generalist%20Agent.pdf), catalyzed a wave of discourse regarding the speed at which current artificial intelligence systems are... |
23acab76-9ef5-4864-b5ee-1684661ccd2c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Cryo with magnetics added
This is great, by using small interlocking magnetic fields, you can keep the water in a higher vibrational state, allowing a "super-cooling" without getting crystallization and cell rupture
Subzero 12-hour Nonfreezing Cryopreservation of Porcine Heart in a Variable Magnetic Field
"invented ... |
9ff59f48-e094-47f7-8adb-aac2b78ad82c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Desiderata for an AI
I think a main focus of alignment work should be on redesigning AI from the ground up. In doing so, I think we should keep in mind a set of desirable characteristics to aim for in a better AI.
Most of my ideas here aren't original to me, so I'll add some links to sources. For lots more background... |
4cf9fb8c-c290-4022-b255-553989e9c4a5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Gradient descent doesn't select for inner search
TL;DR: Gradient descent won't select for inner search processes because they're not compute & memory efficient.
Slightly longer TL;DR: A key argument for mesa-optimization is that as we search over programs, we will select for "search processes with simple objectives",... |
296ee9da-3f6e-4047-a8bb-296b97e9d119 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | An appraisal of the Future of Life Institute AI existential risk program
Summary: This is a small post to thank the Future of Life Institute for setting up their AI existential risk community, as well as the Vitalik Buterin PhD and postdoc fellowships.
A couple of years ago the Future of Life Institute set up a comm... |
3285173a-1188-4fbd-b901-2556d88b9aef | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post3706
A putative new idea for AI control; index here . Previously , I presented a model in which a “rationality module” kept track of two things: how well a human was maximising their actual reward, and whether their preferences had been overridden by AI action. The second didn’t integrate well into the first, ... |
6980ee9b-f426-46d2-9b7c-8fa114f44557 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Inescapably Value-Laden Experience—a Catchy Term I Made Up to Make Morality Rationalisable
A short one, just to clarify a term (I invented) that gets thrown around here a bit. It fits into a broadly Utilitarian view, but addresses Hume's problem of "No 'ought' from 'is'". Keen to hear if what I've defined here already... |
99eb293e-31b1-42ad-922b-61627b8f2775 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Opinions on Interpretable Machine Learning and 70 Summaries of Recent Papers
**[Peter Hase](https://peterbhase.github.io/)**
UNC Chapel Hill
**[Owen Shen](https://owenshen24.github.io/)**
UC San Diego
With thanks to [Robert Kirk](https://robertkirk.github.io/) and [Mohit Bansal](https://www.cs.unc.edu/~mbans... |
90605357-b597-4475-8408-3d28366567f8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Friendly AI Society
Summary: AIs might have cognitive biases too but, if that leads to it being in their self-interest to cooperate and take things slow, that might be no bad thing.
The value of imperfection
When you use a traditional FTP client to download a new version of an application on your computer, it dow... |
0cd6b0ec-39d5-4eeb-bcdf-76b8a792d197 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | From Comments on Accountability Sinks
There was a lot of comments on the original article about accountability sinks. People seem to feel strongly about human judgement being replaced by formal processes. So let’s dive in into the comments!
Ben Pace writes:
> I liked reading these examples; I wanted to say, it initi... |
35a5ba7d-ed34-4385-b768-e88630e0300d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learning By Writing
I have very detailed opinions on lots of topics. I sometimes get asked how I do this, which might just be people making fun of me, but I choose to interpret it as a real question, and I’m going to sketch an answer here.
You can think of this as a sort of sequel to Minimal-Trust Investigations. Tha... |
f0b0a124-d377-4746-867a-b94587fa47c2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts
Today's post, Marginally Zero-Sum Efforts was originally published on April 11, 2007. A summary (from the LW wiki):
> After a point, labeling a problem as "important" is a commons problem. Rather than increasing the total resources devoted to important problems, resources are t... |
6282dfce-ae96-46f1-b220-6ded5ad5db92 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | WHO Biological Risk warning
An hour ago the World Health Organization warned that there is an 'extremely serious' situation and 'huge biological risk' after a lab containing virus samples falls into control of Sudan fighters. #safety #ai #biosecurity
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830e69b6-73d9-4f29-be4f-a7590ad4cd76 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Hard Problem of Magic
One of the hardest unsolved problems of metaphysics is that of magic.
Magic exists -- self-evidently. Yet modern science leaves it less and less room to hide within the causally-interlocked world of the physical. We have come a long way from Descartes' belief that the pineal gland is that wh... |
41d8033a-692b-453f-a9ae-b088fdd46c21 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What's the best approach to curating a newsfeed to maximize useful contrasting POV?
In Superforecasters, Tetlock describes one superforecaster as having built a collection of automated scripts and sources to get useful information from a variety of different sources and different perspectives. This seems very useful a... |
1521b01e-b5a0-44ab-9307-1577fcb621cb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Current themes in mechanistic interpretability research
*This post gives an overview of discussions - from the perspective and understanding of the interpretability team at Conjecture - between mechanistic interpretability researchers from various organizations including Conjecture, Anthropic, Redwood Research, OpenAI... |
362462aa-eb2b-46d7-b1de-0e18caabac98 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Problems as dragons and papercuts
Original post: http://bearlamp.com.au/problems-as-dragons-and-papercuts/
When I started trying to become the kind of person that can give advice, I went looking for dragons.
I figured if I didn't know the answers that meant the answers were hard, they were big monsters with hidden w... |
ea81946a-caaf-43d2-9d9b-d38c534af532 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Golden Mean of Scientific Virtues
I recently discovered this nice post on the scientific virtues by slimemoldtimemold.
Overall, I enjoyed it, and I find it pushes nicely against some recurrent memes about science and scientists (and innovation in general) in the general culture.
Yet in doing so, it also reinforc... |
58d86644-5e9f-441b-8f18-50ba21431a75 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Starting an Egan High School
In late 2023 I read Brandon Hendrickson’s book review of Kieran Egan’s book The Educated Mind on ACX. I’m a teacher and it lit a fire in me. I spent 2024 cycling with my young family and while I kept reading some Egan-related things, I didn’t really “work on it”. At some point in that year... |
390275b3-460d-44f4-872f-8b47a7ecbe1f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Top-Down and Bottom-Up Logical Probabilities
**I.**
I don't know very much model theory, and thus I don't fully understand [Hutter et al.'s logical prior, detailed here](http://www.hutter1.net/publ/problogics.pdf), but nonetheless I can tell you that it uses a *very* top-down approach. About 60% of what I mean is th... |
2bfffe58-77f0-4e3b-b3a3-9b11a02df422 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Positive vs. Normative Rationality
[Epistemic Status: Highly speculative/experimental. Playing around with ideas on rationality. Extremely interested in input, criticism, or other perspectives]
I.)
Throughout the 20th century the University of Chicago school of thought seems to have generated the most po... |
238af9e7-a672-43bd-b2e8-6a6b437c0925 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The value of low-conscientiousness people on teams
[Apologies in advance if I sound like I'm over-generalizing high-conscientiousness or low-conscientiousness people. This is mostly from my own experience, so I'm sure I'm wrong on some counts and may, in fact, be over-generalizing at times. Ohh, and also apologies to... |
99ff8e6b-722e-49c2-8c0f-d8bda2547afb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/agentmodels | Tutorial: Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs | Modeling Agents with Probabilistic Programs
---
layout: chapter
title: Dynamic programming
description: Exact enumeration of generative model computations + caching.
status: stub
is_section: false
hidden: true
---
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e6ec3ddb-8270-43f4-8252-2fc8fda413b3 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Group orbits partition
Let $G$ be a [https://arbital.com/p/-3gd](https://arbital.com/p/-3gd), [acting](https://arbital.com/p/3t9) on the set $X$.
Then the [orbits](https://arbital.com/p/group_orbit) of $X$ under $G$ form a [partition](https://arbital.com/p/set_partition) of $X$.
# Proof
We need to show that every el... |
eb079188-817f-4a97-a74b-89cc32696859 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Announcing the Technical AI Safety Podcast
Please comment if you use an obscure podcast app and I'll try to set it up for my feed. I'll have at least spotify, apple podcasts, and stitcher up shortly. EDIT: spotify, pocketcasts, stitcher, and apple podcasts are live. google podcasts is simply timegated at this point un... |
0d411eb2-8841-42de-8ee4-c2c9765822df | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Writing Prompts
Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Writing Prompts
WHEN: 09 November 2014 02:00:00PM (-0600)
WHERE: 206 S. Cedar St., Urbana, IL
In honor of RaNoWriMo, let's do a few writing prompts - 15 minutes of just sitting down and writing the first page of somethi... |
aa6df7c1-890b-400e-9cb1-6e07014dd3a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Strategic High Skill Immigration
How to improve the global economy, increase strategic stability, and safeguard the far future.
Part 1: The current situation: shifting balance of power
When trying to help people at scale, it is often prudent to go beyond direct interventions and to seek equilibria which are in the lo... |
64c4e845-7064-47d2-9bfb-0b3194c678b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lots of Hooks
The entryway had gotten pretty messy, with a lot of things scattered on the horizontal surfaces. We decided to put up some hooks, to move things onto the vertical services. I used some trim that I'd saved from an earlier project, cut it to width, screwed it into studs, and attached hooks:
This also ... |
2b98f488-c396-4923-a718-7f075f7228d0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rational Animations' Script Writing Contest
Cross-posted to the EA Forum.
Edit: The deadline has been removed! So you can continue to send scripts.
Introduction
I'm announcing a script writing contest for the Rational Animations YouTube channel. Write scripts of 2500 words maximum about a topic of longtermist relev... |
ef03130a-d610-4a78-9cf7-2af82b419463 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The case against "The case against AI alignment"
So I read this other post which talked about possible S-risk from an AI being aligned to human values. It contains the following statement:
> Whoever controls the AI will most likely have somebody whose suffering they don’t care about, or that they want to enact, or th... |
8f70aa86-181f-467f-b17b-65422ae4a8f2 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Reinforcement, Preference and Utility
**Followup to:** [Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Standard Introduction](/lw/dux/reinforcement_learning_a_nonstandard_introduction/)
A reinforcement-learning agent is interacting with its environment through the perception of observations and the performance of actions.
We descr... |
c0c04678-efc3-418b-b031-90f753824d2d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is your timelines for ADI (artificial disempowering intelligence)?
Most AI researchers think we are still a long ways off from AGI. However, I think this can be distracting.
AGI includes the ability to do everything that humanity can do, such as:
* Juggle objects of various unexpected shapes
* Do the dishes i... |
1912f685-3f37-47de-8c1f-62ec36b0c0ac | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | re: Yudkowsky on biological materials
I was asked to respond to this comment by Eliezer Yudkowsky. This post is partly redundant with my previous post.
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> Why is flesh weaker than diamond?
When trying to resolve disagreements, I find that precision is important. Tensile stren... |
9bf426c6-90ca-48bb-ad71-bbd22e610ba4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Judge Overturns Transportation Mask Mandate
A federal judge has overturned the transportation mask mandate, saying the CDC overstepped its authority. The Biden administration is adhering to this ruling. It intends to appeal, but is not being loud about that.
Mask mandates are lifted on planes. This happened in-flight... |
65965271-be56-4659-a1d2-cc894c5333d1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Consistency Mystery
There is a strange bias that affects every human even if they believe the opposite.
For some reason, the reality we inhabit appears absolutely consistent and perfectly integrated. Everything happens for a precise reason, affecting everything else through an unbroken chain of logical connections... |
76bda00c-d539-48b8-9af7-53f6bc972f76 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | An overview of some promising work by junior alignment researchers
We’re all familiar with [ELK](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qHCDysDnvhteW7kRd/arc-s-first-technical-report-eliciting-latent-knowledge), [natural abstractions](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cy3BhHrGinZCp3LXE/testing-the-natural-abstraction-hypothesi... |
8f3d682c-f835-4b71-a20e-9ebcf92ea9db | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Open Thread, May 16-31, 2012
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here. |
402ace26-52df-4965-ab61-df9b4eca1baa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Extending the stated objectives
A putative new idea for AI control; index here.
> A system that is optimizing a function of n variables, where the objective depends on a subset of size k<n, will often set the remaining unconstrained variables to extreme values; if one of those unconstrained variables is actually some... |
5eff9b5e-50dd-4f51-8323-25071e3c87b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When a status symbol loses its plausible deniability, how much power does it lose?
For example, assuming Harvard is mostly a status symbol, if that became common knowledge, how much would the quality of its applicants drop? |
7f4846d3-8680-4fe2-8987-47ebd6350aad | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Nomic
Discussion article for the meetup : Urbana-Champaign: Nomic
WHEN: 19 January 2014 02:00:00PM (-0600)
WHERE: 40.109545,-88.227318
Ever played Nomic? Neither have I. But I am curious to see what LessWrongers will make of it.
Coordinates are: 40.109545,-88.227318 Meetup will be held i... |
bacb0afa-9123-46f5-b21a-57fa6f5c2181 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why didn't people (apparently?) understand the metaethics sequence?
There seems to be a widespread impression that the metaethics sequence was not very successful as an explanation of Eliezer Yudkowsky's views. It even says so on the wiki. And frankly, I'm puzzled by this... hence the "apparently" in this post's title... |
233c54a8-4adb-4fa2-82e7-05f32629b208 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI labs' requests for input
AI labs sometimes publicly ask for input on their actions, their products, and the future of AI. See OpenAI's Democratic inputs to AI and ChatGPT Feedback Contest, and maybe bug bounty programs for security vulnerabilities (OpenAI, Google, Meta). I'd like to collect these; please reply with... |
bd050810-46ff-473f-8a9c-a720cb39cc6b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Risk and Safety in the age of COVID
Intro:
When analyzing the dangers of COVID or proposing policies to combat it, there is a utilitarian cost-benefit framing which is implicitly assumed. Perhaps the best example of this is the Micro Covid calculator. Every action has a cost and benefit associated with it and the goal... |
156d2f1f-185c-47c4-8479-59688412b818 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Practical Argument for Free Will
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c94e9c2b-2ecb-42fb-b116-69bdc2011693 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post293
Developers of frontier AI systems will face increasingly challenging decisions about whether their AI systems are safe enough to develop and deploy. One reason why systems may not be safe is if they engage in scheming . In our new report "Towards evaluations-based safety cases for AI scheming" , written in... |
07179361-212c-4f47-bc25-80c9a00412ab | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | China's Petition System: It Looks Like Democracy — But It Isn't
In most democracies,
the very way people file complaints tells you how well their government works.
You can vote.
You can sue.
You can organize, lobby, or protest.
But in China?
You write a physical letter to Beijing,
then pray someone reads it.
This i... |
73ff541f-6f21-4f9e-89bd-e45683ab2416 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Utrecht: Famine, Affluence and Morality
Discussion article for the meetup : Utrecht: Famine, Affluence and Morality
WHEN: 22 March 2014 07:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Oudegracht 158, Utrecht
At the last meetup we decided to have biweekly meetups on Saturday evenings. We will see if this turns out to be convenien... |
a918cf00-1b36-416b-8456-bb15cdbedd13 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Holden Karnofsky Interview about Most Important Century & Transformative AI
Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of [Open Philanthropy](http://www.openphilanthropy.org/) and co-founder of [GiveWell](http://www.givewell.org/). He is also the author of the always interesting [Cold Takes](https://www.cold-takes.com/) blog.
Th... |
a0a0c205-1f6b-48fe-b60c-ea9a47f6d0ea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Rationality Vienna
Discussion article for the meetup : Rationality Vienna
WHEN: 15 February 2014 03:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Vienna, Reichsratstraße 17
Manuel will talk about Universal Artificial Intelligence, which is the theory of perfectly rational agents. It claims to once-and-for-all define what rationa... |
d07502a0-4162-4fcc-85be-c23ac7d0b3c1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How I accidentally discovered the pill to enlightenment but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Main post: http://bearlamp.com.au/how-i-accidentally-discovered-the-pill-to-enlightenment-but-i-wouldnt-recommend-it/
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Brief teaser:
Eastern enlightenment is not what you think. I mean, may... |
df058ee3-f7e1-49f0-a57a-eb1d8223c820 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [SEQ RERUN] Serious Stories
Today's post, Serious Stories was originally published on 08 January 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
> Stories and lives are optimized according to rather different criteria. Advice on how to write fiction will tell you that "stories are about people's pain" and "every scene m... |
bc0cb95c-17a7-43f3-a430-e61004cb8bbb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Vote counting bug?
I've just noticed that the number of votes shown on my recent alignment forum post seems to actually correspond to the number of votes it's received on Less Wrong, rather than just counting the alignment forum votes. Not sure if this is intentional, but for me it makes the feature less useful. Not a... |
1bfd8814-2ddd-499c-a61e-c14b56d6e187 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Seeing the Schema
For the past month or two, I've been regularly playing a mental rotation game, available here. In the game, the task is to find which two of the six displayed block objects are identical under rotation. I'm not the best at mental rotation, so I figured I'd try and get better at it. But while I've got... |
aa26d58d-7750-476a-bf39-e70bdcf6e4aa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Are ethical asymmetries from property rights?
These are some intuitions people often have:
* You are not required to save a random person, but you are definitely not allowed to kill one
* You are not required to create a person, but you are definitely not allowed to kill one
* You are not required to create a happ... |
bb16841e-4cfe-4ecf-8b2d-f859602a3d14 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Curriculum of Ascension
Not sure whether this belongs here or not, but there are plenty of fiction posts here. This is sort of halfway between a story and a worldbuilding document, based on many ideas I've learned from here and from adjacent spaces. Hopefully it will be interesting or useful to somebody.
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a7274971-c4e7-470c-b536-a988e3c126e5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Press Your Luck (3/3)
This is the third in a three part sequence, examining the scenario in which software development organisations might knowingly take a significant risk of unintentionally launching an AI program into inadequately supervised or controlled self-improvement, by comparing the scenario to the 'press yo... |
145f1c4d-def4-4610-a92d-a1bbeb202bd5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Punt Trip
Discussion article for the meetup : Punt Trip
WHEN: 16 June 2012 12:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Cambridge_UK
Come join the Cambridge LessWrong group for a free punt trip up the beautiful river Cam. A Smörgåsbord of discussion, fun, food and learning to punt.
Meet at the Great Gate of Trinity College,... |
529ba9c7-724c-40c8-9ceb-0b57c08e6084 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Attention is not Explanation
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ab7c5540-5e25-48d5-8394-b8083d25f825 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | We can all be high status
Extension of Give praise.
This is part analysis, part a heartfelt story of my engagement with the LW/EA community. I usually don't like to kick up dust, but I've decided to write an honest representation of my feelings, here and there possibly sacrificing accuracy. Adjust your interpretation... |
b494e522-3168-43ce-a5f1-770b26d3dc0b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On Voting for Third Parties
Cross Posted on my blog, By Way of Contradiction.
Anti-Trigger Warning: There is not really any politics in this post. I doubt it will kill your mind.
If your favorite candidate in an election is a third party candidate, should you vote for him?
This question has confused me. I have cha... |
c16f3f6f-3c46-41a9-b2dd-360d9a8cda16 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Case Against Education: Foundations
An Introduction: The Case Against Education
We’ll now focus more on the book and its data, reasoning and arguments, and related questions. There’s a lot to address, starting with the foundations of Bryan’s analysis. Rather than write one novella-long post, I’ll be going through... |
234bf2e1-64d4-45d5-a665-1199ad822c34 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | 'Concept'
In the context of Artificial Intelligence or machine learning, a 'concept' is something that identifies thingies as being inside or outside of the boundary. For example, a neural network has learned the 'picture of a cat' concept if it can reliably distinguish pictures of cats from pictures of noncats. Tha... |
d3699ef8-d94b-4c80-ac3c-d49b0a9f1836 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | test
test
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bb8cc4d8-bd4d-464b-ac79-7d35b600b7f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why don't long running conversations happen on LessWrong?
Here is how things currently work:
* Someone writes a post.
* It lingers around the front page for a few days. During this time, conversations emerge in the comments section.
* After a few days, the post no longer persists on the front page and conversation... |
e6650c70-316a-4801-8feb-923acb101005 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI alignment for mental health supports
Initial Draft on 23 February
Goals
As an affiliate member of Cajal.org, I[1] would like to introduce a novel application of AI alignment as a tool for diagnosing, visualising, predicting, preventing and improving mental health symptoms in human users.
Motivations
Glob... |
4f243f90-154d-47b5-9503-c30579901fe1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Storytelling Makes GPT-3.5 Deontologist: Unexpected Effects of Context on LLM Behavior
TL;DR
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When prompted to make decisions, do large language models (LLMs) show power-seeking behavior, self-preservation instincts, and long-term goals? [Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations](https... |
1c505634-5206-4102-8418-7a1bebf9bb50 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A novel about life extension
People here will probably disagree with much of this, still it's interesting how longevity is becoming a popular culture meme
http://boingboing.net/2011/09/07/the-postmortal-very-creepy-thriller-about-a-cure-for-aging.html |
a5f1eaad-1eac-4869-b4a7-404fb8cdc35b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | ARC is hiring theoretical researchers
**The Alignment Research Center’s Theory team is starting a new hiring round for researchers with a theoretical background. Please apply** [**here**](https://jobs.lever.co/alignment.org/617488b1-d742-4990-a037-b7f0e2ba68c9/apply)**.**
What is ARC’s Theory team?
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d93a2be4-f127-4f66-9804-b00f5ea6e109 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | what does it mean to value our survival?
what does it mean to value our survival?
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let's say that i want to continue living, or that i want everyone currently on earth to continue living. what *does* that value look like, in a formalized format?
in my [goal-program framework... |
a9d3b493-19b6-4cec-b4da-53c29360f1b0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Babble, Learning, and the Typical Mind Fallacy
This is an essay I wrote originally just for myself about Babble and decided to post on my personal blog at a whim. The post is messy and digresses more than I'd like, but writing my thoughts down clarified my own thinking on the topic enough that I figured they might hel... |
05c4cef0-fb49-4791-bbe9-7fb63fb8bb53 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Consider Joining the UK Foundation Model Taskforce
A few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.”
A few weeks ago, he was appointed head of the UK Foundation Model Taskforce, and given 100 million pounds to dedicate to AI safety, to universal accla... |
37d710f6-51cc-45c5-9504-ebc44a249f80 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Upcoming workshop on Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria
This workshop will address the technical and institutional questions of how to safeguard human interests after AI surpasses human abilities.
This workshop will build on many domains, including political theory, cooperative AI, economics, mechanism design, histor... |
d5cd93ca-74d9-4f11-8d5e-176e510cae1e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Densing Law of LLMs
Authors: Chaojun Xiao, Jie Cai, Weilin Zhao, Guoyang Zeng, Xu Han, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun.
Abstract (bolding mine):
> Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a milestone in artificial intelligence, and their performance can improve as the model size increases. However, this scaling brings ... |
8e36c9dd-e50e-43ad-a5d7-df0969796f56 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lives of the Cambridge polymath geniuses
Link to full-size image
Delicious Facts
Russell
* Grandfather was British prime minister
* Told Virginia Woolf his devotion to serious intellectual work came to an end when “my passions got hold of me”
* Met Lenin on a visit to Russia. This visit turned him against the Ru... |
c43cae8e-a26e-4684-ae58-0adacc762838 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | "Do X because decision theory" ~= "Do X because bayes theorem"
Decision theory is an extremely low-level tool for governing your interactions with other people, in the same way that physics is an extremely low-level tool for winning knife fights. Actual human behavior usually involves complex multi-agent interactions,... |
f68f2c15-a7b0-4ba9-b725-0fbe2855acec | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Tom Griffiths on Cognitive Science and AI
[](http://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/tomgriffiths.jpg)Tom Griffiths
*This is a guest post by Finan Adamson, 8 September 2016*
[Prof. Tom Griffiths](http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/t... |
7ef978ea-db41-45db-9527-d356d77f2e13 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI risk, executive summary
MIRI recently published "Smarter than Us", a 50 page booklet laying out the case for considering AI as an existential risk. But many people have asked for a shorter summary, to be handed out to journalists for example. So I put together the following 2-page text, and would like your opinion ... |
44e5bd5b-5e52-4011-b2fc-861d22cec8a4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Minimization of prediction error as a foundation for human values in AI alignment
I've mentioned in posts twice (and previously in several comments) that I'm excited about predictive coding, specifically the idea that the human brain either is or can be modeled as a hierarchical system of (negative feedback) control s... |
1da3c0d1-6c36-491e-a2f1-75abc1312e25 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How BoMAI Might fail
This post is me looking at 1905.12186.pdf and giving some ideas on how it might fail.
Firstly, I would like to point out that I think the design in this paper does buy you some amount of marginal safety when dealing with slightly superhuman AI's, and that it still gives opportunity to perhaps ge... |
19bd8af2-1d76-4a3a-9155-7a208a6bc289 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dreams of AI Design
After spending a decade or two living inside a mind, you might think you knew a bit about how minds work, right? That’s what quite a few AGI wannabes (people who think they’ve got what it takes to program an Artificial General Intelligence) seem to have concluded. This, unfortunately, is wrong.
Ar... |
05d90f0e-be1e-444b-bcbf-b83b0ebaf415 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Math 2
Do you work with math on a fairly routine basis? Do you have little trouble grasping new mathematical ideas that use language you already know? Having this requisite would be typical of a computer programmer, a physical engineer, or someone else who routinely works with mathematically-structured ideas. At th... |
1e127d88-1988-422a-9d5c-8315c4fefd38 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | “Dirty concepts” in AI alignment discourses, and some guesses for how to deal with them
*Meta: This is a short summary & discussion post of* [*a talk on the same topic by Javier Gomez-Lavin*](https://youtu.be/B9Ujr6uKmpc)*, which he gave as part of the* [*PIBBSS*](https://pibbss.ai) *speaker series. The speaker series... |
e3f96440-e655-4783-be9d-bc8436a942b1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models
**TL;DR:**We show sycophancy is a general behavior of RLHF’ed AI assistants in varied, free-form text-generation settings, extending previous results. Our experiments suggest these behaviors are likely driven in part by imperfections in human preferences–both humans ... |
6d27a7e4-3332-44db-afa7-446fe26486a5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Solution to the free will homework problem
At the last meetup of our local group, we tried to do Eliezer's homework problem on free will. This post summarizes what we came up with.
Debates on free will often rely on questions like "Could I have eaten something different for breakfast today?". We focused on the subpro... |
8f37478c-11b0-4d90-98e1-cd40c6596312 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Alarms Are Better Than Chivvying
Lily recently told me that she wanted to be a big kid, and we talked about what that could mean. She decided she wanted to be fully responsible for getting ready and going to school in the morning. The biggest challenge was going to be timing: normally I walk her through the process, r... |
cbed4163-1dc2-4596-b9da-1db437d98583 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The Lesson To Unlearn
> The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn't something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades.
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3b12eeb0-6d69-471c-99b9-37a50cbf2cbf | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Manifold Predicted the AI Extinction Statement and CAIS Wanted it Deleted
*Crosspost from* [*https://news.manifold.markets/p/manifold-predicted-the-ai-extinction*](https://news.manifold.markets/p/manifold-predicted-the-ai-extinction)
History may look back on CAIS’s AI risk statement as a pivotal moment IF we survive ... |
1d1bea1e-cec2-4e31-941a-3ef7d34d2816 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Smoking Lesion Steelman
It seems plausible to me that any example I've seen so far which seems to require causal/counterfactual reasoning is more properly solved by taking the right updateless perspective, and taking the action or policy which achieves maximum expected utility from that perspective. If this were the r... |
6e8eaba9-49e2-4546-90b5-b5d6b8cdcbcc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weak vs Quantitative Extinction-level Goodhart's Law
This post overlaps with our recent paper Extinction Risk from AI: Invisible to Science?.
tl;dr: With claims such as "optimisation towards a misspecified goal will cause human extinction", we should be more explicit about the order of quantifiers (and the quantities... |
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