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c75cde0a-e878-44f8-99e1-53d0777d1906 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks
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1 Introduction
The study of adversarial examples is often motivated in terms of the danger posed by an attacker whose goal is to cause model prediction errors by making a small change to the model’s input.
Such an attacker could make a self-driving car react to a ph... |
8cb59aa4-b573-4db7-89d8-fb7d4fe44d14 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The selfish reason to write something for Ada Lovelace Day
Last October there was a discussion post on Ada Lovelace Day, and it met with something of a lukewarm reception. Fair enough. There are legitimate criticisms of this particular blogosphere event, and people are welcome to subscribe to those criticisms, or not,... |
255a9303-2c64-45dc-8375-e683a4e82240 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : West LA—Behold Moloch! Beware of Moloch!
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA—Behold Moloch! Beware of Moloch!
WHEN: 06 August 2014 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 11066 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
How to Find Us: Go into this Del Taco. We will be in the back room.
Parking is free in the lot out f... |
a4da3b3e-673d-4f31-ad91-7651e9e13640 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | UNU swarm intel picks SB exact score
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4d4c043e-9c90-4cf2-84e4-d9f9672b7e69 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [AN #68]: The attainable utility theory of impact
Find all Alignment Newsletter resources [here](http://rohinshah.com/alignment-newsletter/). In particular, you can [sign up](http://eepurl.com/dqMSZj), or look through this [spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PwWbWZ6FPqAgZWOoOcXM8N_tUCuxpEyMbN1NYYC02a... |
aab8f069-c561-462d-8b5b-116afb78324a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | The prior of a hypothesis does not depend on its complexity
Many thanks to Unknowns for inventing the [scenario](/lw/2lr/the_importance_of_selfdoubt/2i0k?c=1) that led to this post, and to Wei Dai for helpful discussion.
Imagine you subscribe to the universal prior. Roughly, this means you assign credence 2^-k to ea... |
92c6518e-3667-4a96-9ed9-93c431603ece | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Negative visualization, radical acceptance and stoicism
In anxious, frustrating or aversive situations, I find it helpful to visualize the worst case that I fear might happen, and try to accept it. I call this “radical acceptance”, since the imagined worst case is usually an unrealistic scenario that would be extremel... |
8340f457-30d3-47e6-8d45-e0638d3df13e | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/aisafety.info | AI Safety Info | What projects are CAIS working on?
The [Center for AI Safety (CAIS)](https://www.safe.ai/)[^kix.iggljs5ofkpf] is a San Francisco-based research non-profit that "focuses on mitigating high-consequence, societal-scale risks posed by AI". It pursues [technical research](https://www.safe.ai/research#technical-ml-research)... |
2c105348-1466-4884-95a7-d0e27f8690a8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What is the maximum number of COVID-19 tests which could be performed until the end of the year?
When it comes to testing capability, something has to be the bottleneck, perhaps reagents. What is the theoretical limit for the number of tests? Can tests be recycled?
If we reduce the number of covid cases to a low coun... |
2e6670e5-f29e-4b61-9138-83d783a62cea | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Beware of Fake Alternatives
Summary: many of us might occasionally find ourselves in situations where we’re considering taking action A, but decide against it because some option B seems superior. This is a good way to go only if B is an actual alternative (we’re actually going to do it), and not a fake alternative (i... |
ca2234a2-8442-4f3f-b253-c484dd1ef6db | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Analysis of Global AI Governance Strategies
We analyze three prominent strategies for governing transformative AI (TAI) development: Cooperative Development, Strategic Advantage, and Global Moratorium. We evaluate these strategies across varying levels of alignment difficulty and development timelines, examining their... |
23a32e35-b2b9-4cd5-9ea8-94102d84ecf6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arbital | Arbital | Cognitive uncontainability
[Vingean unpredictability](https://arbital.com/p/9g) is when an agent is cognitively uncontainable because it is smarter than us: if you could predict in advance exactly where [Deep Blue](https://arbital.com/p/) would move, you could play chess at least as well as Deep Blue yourself by doing... |
1917570a-b52f-4580-9b85-e9ac7377c699 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Power-Seeking AI and Existential Risk
Summary
For my MLSS project, I created this distillation of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?” which was originally written in 2021 by Joe Carlsmith, an analyst at Open Philanthropy. After a while, Stephen McAleese contacted me and proposed to re-edit it and upload it as a... |
955104ae-8207-4868-b0dc-d8f7227589e0 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Abstraction is Bigger than Natural Abstraction
**This is an entry for the [Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NZz3Das7jFdCBN9zH/announcing-the-open-philanthropy-ai-worldviews-contest).**
The most promising direction for "[steering cognition *at all*](https://www.lesswr... |
f6dc3be1-7dfc-43ec-8003-77cba00bee81 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | QACI blobs and interval illustrated
QACI blobs and interval illustrated
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this post attempts to explain [QACI](qaci.html) and notably the question and answer blobs and the question-answer interval.
let's say we view a particular way the world could be as a giant causal [DAGs](http... |
672ad6be-2b15-436d-87cc-6b37ec970a9f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When is pair-programming superior to regular programming?
When doing software development there are many choices that can affect your productivity. There are choices about how a company works. One of those is doing pair-programming over doing solo-programming. We recently had a consultant at our company who claimed th... |
a2c76356-7f41-4b72-b14b-952a61561279 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Where's my magic sword?
When performing first aid, you must never leave a patient until you have passed them off to someone more qualified than yourself. This is a corollary to primum non nocere (first do no harm). Helping someone and then abandoning them can be worse than just being a bystander.
Once upon a time, wh... |
33370837-c066-4608-92f7-2e5113afacb7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Independence Dividends
Our oldest is in third grade, and sings in the school chorus. It's after school on Wednesdays, which is fine. Except on half-day Wednesdays it's before school, which is less fine. Instead of needing to be to school at 8am she needs to be there at 7:15. She really likes chorus, and feels strongly... |
6464d8c5-3b0b-4d4a-9bc2-a470764ed940 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups: Austin, Chicago, Cincinnati/Columbus, Cleveland/Akron, Durham, London, Moscow, Paderborn, Salt Lake City, Washington DC
This summary was posted to LW main on Nov 16th, and has been moved to discussion. The following week's summary is here.
There are upcoming irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups... |
bac65a68-a24c-47cd-a832-afad6685ec2c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup
WHEN: 16 May 2012 07:00:00PM (-0700)
WHERE: 2128 Oxford St, Berkeley, CA
We will meet at 7:00pm at the Oxford St Starbucks. This will be a big meetup.
Discussion article for the meetup : Big Berkeley Meetup |
26a7ff60-9ebf-4fd5-9824-4e1fa05c0ee1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Basics of Handling Disagreements with People
Epistemic Status: This is a collection of useful heuristics I’ve gathered from a wide range of books and workshops, all rather evidence-based (robustness varies). These techniques are designed to supplement basics of rationalist discourse, helping facilitate interactions—mo... |
ca0ea8ae-9d11-4c1a-8896-94846ff1bdae | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to Build New Countries à la 1729?
Originally published here.
How do you build a country? Is that even something you build? We don’t know but we may have to, and this essay will explain how to achieve that.
We live in a world where it might be faster and cheaper to start a new country than for the FDA to approve... |
dd3f391b-86aa-4938-9ef8-3c906bb2440b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weekly LW Meetups
This summary was posted to LW Main on August 15th. The following week's summary is here.
Irregularly scheduled Less Wrong meetups are taking place in:
* [Atlanta] MIRIxAtlanta - Decision Theory 2: 17 August 2014 06:00PM
* Bratislava: 18 August 2014 06:00PM
* Helsinki Book Blanket Meetup: 16 Augu... |
51c508f8-6d62-473c-b817-ff093cf92f8a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy
Previously: Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists
Based Beff Jezos, the founder of effective accelerationism, delivered on his previous pledge, and did indeed debate what is to be done to navigate into the future with a highly Worthy Opponent in Connor Leahy.
The moderator a... |
9bc4da16-9062-4001-91a3-90fb93908c9c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Welcome to Philadelphia SSC Meetup [Edit With Your Details]
(The following are our suggestions for what kind of information is best to include in the welcome post of your group, feel free to replace them with whatever you think is best)
What kind of events does your group usually run? What does it usually do?
How fr... |
472a6f8f-4ccd-41d3-ba75-d56a18d3137f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-19
Links
* The first images from the JWST look amazing. See also this comparison with Hubble
* Helion Energy is hiring. “Clean, continuous energy for 1 cent per kilowatt-hour”
* Lant Pritchett on the difference between anti-poverty programs and poverty reduction. To paraphrase Rut... |
65b9e039-f503-4bf2-85b4-3e812cb91ede | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Less Wrong articles categorized by reading difficulty
One thing that could help new users dive into Less Wrong would be to make some reading recommendations based on reading difficulty. (I'm including some things not hosted on LessWrong.com when they're very LessWrong-ish and written by leading LessWrong authors.) For... |
a6630dd5-d487-4ff8-beda-33971648f9a8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Caution when interpreting Deepmind's In-context RL paper
Lots of people I know have had pretty strong reactions to the recent Deepmind paper, which claims to have gotten a transformer to learn an RL algorithm by training it on an RL agent's training trajectories. At first, I too was pretty shocked -- this paper seemed... |
387591b8-9e0e-4fb9-89d8-13fcbcd1df39 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Honest Friends Don't Tell Comforting Lies
I originally wrote this blog post on a night when I counselled my friends to stop counting the deaths that occured every second while they were unable to stop them. I prefaced my advice by telling them I understood that they wouldn't have wanted to hear any comfort that could ... |
afa1de3d-e90d-4336-af92-0ed7ad2965c5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Compendium of problems with RLHF
Epistemic status: This post is a distillation of many comments/posts. I believe that my list of problems is not the best organization of sub-problems. I would like to make it shorter, and simpler, because cool theories are generally simple unified theories, by identifying only 2 or 3 m... |
5938fe15-08a4-4e1d-9f9e-bbfefdf2b1dd | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Cake, or death!
Here we'll look at the famous cake or death problem teasered in the [Value loading/learning](/r/discussion/lw/f32/value_loading/) post.
Imagine you have an agent that is uncertain about its values and designed to "learn" proper values. A formula for this process is that the agent must pick an action ... |
207c05bc-daa1-4ba6-8bcd-fc20c7a39b16 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | US Congress introduces CREATE AI Act for establishing National AI Research Resource
The leaders[[1]](#fnbxarn7myebw) of the [AI Caucus](https://artificialintelligencecaucus-eshoo.house.gov) within the US House have just introduced legislation for the Creating Resources for Every American To Experiment with Artificial ... |
b20e12cf-590c-414b-adfc-6e052cc8b941 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup: Apr 2016
Discussion article for the meetup : MelbLW Social Meetup: Apr 2016
WHEN: 15 April 2016 06:30:00PM (+1000)
WHERE: Bull and Bear Tavern, 347 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
The LessWrong Melbourne Social Meetup is on again, this Friday!
Facebook event page: https://www.faceb... |
1b5196bb-93d1-441a-8cb4-1f6974ab834c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Building a Community Institution In Five Hours A Week
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2208a83f-9d52-4f44-a260-8382ed7de6e9 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
I.
A group of Manhattan Project physicists created a tongue-in-cheek mythology where superintelligent Martian scouts landed in Budapest in the late 19th century and stayed for about a generation, after which they decided the planet was unsuitabl... |
d609add0-079d-48a8-a2e3-49489ebf6b9d | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | To open-source or to not open-source, that is (an oversimplification of) the question.
*\*\*\* This an edited and expanded version of*[*a post I made on X*](https://x.com/justinbullock14/status/1708678966800728120?s=46) *in response to*[GovAI’s new report“Open-Sourcing Highly Capable Foundation Models”](https://www.go... |
2fbb799e-42be-4d7b-baca-8150598c5402 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Identity crafting
I spend a LOT of time on what I'll call "identity crafting". It's probably my most insidious procrastination tactic--far worse than, say, Facebook or Reddit.
What do I mean by "identity crafting"? Here are some examples:
* Brainstorming areas of my life where I want to improve (e.g. social ski... |
81e6b7ec-b4c5-4a55-99fe-84cc79c71007 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | UK Government publishes "Frontier AI: capabilities and risks" Discussion Paper
Ahead of next week's AI Safety Summit, the UK government has published a discussion paper on the capabilities and risks of AI. The paper comes in three parts and can be found here. See here for the press release announcing the publication o... |
8d0fb85e-ea98-4d85-9668-4886dbd137e2 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post739
Thanks to Ryan Greenblatt for the original description of the ideas and hopes, and to Erik Jenner, Jean-Stanislas Denain, Nate Thomas, Ryan Greenblatt, and Buck Shlegeris for useful discussions and feedback on the draft of this post. Here’s a simple safety intervention: train a probe on your AI to tell you... |
8d217a7f-f2dd-421c-83f8-4e2069c8c59b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | BBE W1: Personal Notetaking Desiderata Walkthrough
Personal Notetaking Desiderata Walkthrough
(Build a Better Exobrain Week 1, Project 1)
A key step I took in becoming a better notetaker was listing out what I was looking for. That's what I'm going to try to walk readers through today. So take out your current favori... |
d87cb0c3-2c23-4fb9-8051-b0796c305dd2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Learnday
I've been toying with the idea of creating a 10-day cycle of themed days.
( Why not weekly? I suspect the slight inconvenience of misaligned calendars keeps concerns clearly separate and prevents practices from collecting unrelated cultural baggage. )
I took a mini-sabbath yesterday, effectively themed "Sla... |
348e63e5-05b8-4b7f-8a37-4d6db8ac7ce1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [minor] Separate Upvotes and Downvotes Implimented
It seems that if you look at the column on the right of the page, you can see upvotes and downvotes separately for recent posts. The same [n, m] format is displayed for recent comments, but it doesn't seem to actually sync with the score displaying on the comment. Thi... |
985b09b8-05eb-434a-a8ca-fafaf44eb378 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | ‘Maximum’ level of suffering?
Is there a maximum level of suffering that could intentionally be achieved? Say there were a malevolent superintelligence in this universe that planned to create Matrioshka brains & maximise humanity’s suffering.
Could it rapidly expand one’s pain centres, with the effect of increasing t... |
e2f858c0-2fa6-400f-adb4-afaefefce427 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A hierarchy of truth
In this article I want to offer a framework for thinking about truth. I’m not offering a metaphysical theory - I’ll leave that to academic philosophers - but a useful way of relating to the different truth claims people make in everyday life.
As a rationalist thinking about truth, I have often fo... |
05867527-da9e-4abf-b3cb-fad436696bd7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | EDT solves 5 and 10 with conditional oracles
Introduction and motivation
The starting point for this post is a comment I wrote on Paul's post on EDT vs CDT:
> One argument for CDT over EDT that you didn’t mention in this post: Suppose you live in a deterministic universe and know your own source code. Suppose you are... |
85756579-215d-4d5a-8504-e8fca8bd7ac5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Consider paying for literature or book reviews using bounties and dominant assurance contracts
Cross-posted to the EA Forum here.
In September 2021, a LessWrong pilot program paid $500 for high-quality book reviews related to "science, history, and rationality." They got 36 submissions (they don't say how many were r... |
92d0080c-e27f-4dfc-832c-200f09fe6ae6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why associative operations?
None |
3bb87a0e-0db4-45fb-b2ee-f0ca8fd530bf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Framework for Internal Debugging
When I'm debugging myself or others for unproductive behavioral, emotional, or mental patterns (hereby referred to as patterns) , I use this quasi-linear framework to make sure that I don't miss any critical steps and the issue stays solved. I've used this framework successfully with... |
788c503c-fd3a-40ad-b16b-7ff71c754e6f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Misgeneralization as a misnomer
Here's two different ways an AI can turn out [unfriendly](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BSee6LXg4adtrndwy/what-does-it-mean-for-an-agi-to-be-safe):
1. You somehow build an AI that cares about "making people happy". In training, it tells people jokes and buys people flowers and offers... |
2ecd6030-c060-4db0-ab10-2ea4ac4e8986 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A defense of formal philosophy
Gregory Wheeler has written an eloquent new defense of formal philosophy.
Quotes:
> ...formal epistemology is an interdisciplinary research program that includes work by philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, statisticians, psychologists, operations researchers, and economi... |
180b8957-07d1-4d74-a185-24b91a757b2a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What are the best resources for examining the evidence for anthropogenic climate change?
A while back I was researching the evidence for evolution. It's not that I didn't initially believe in evolution or understand natural selection, but it's just that I didn't really understand the full breadth of the evidence and p... |
588feefc-1189-424f-b55d-421a47df2b7f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Lazy Hasselback Pommes Anna
Do you have an insatiable hunger for potatoes? Do you have a fully-sated hunger for complicated recipes and having to cook all the time? This version of Pommes Anna, simplified and altered to an extent that will make French people cry, might be the recipe for you!
I try to eat unreasonab... |
a039451f-fea7-4733-ab9b-e4fc26037ee1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/special_docs | Other | Learning with catastrophes
A *catastrophe* is an event so bad that we are not willing to let it happen even a single time. For example, we would be unhappy if our self-driving car *ever* accelerates to 65 mph in a residential area and hits a pedestrian.
Catastrophes present a theoretical challenge for traditional mac... |
5721fc12-1645-4fcf-afa0-9796e6619ca6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Introducing the Fund for Alignment Research (We're Hiring!)
*Cross-posted to the* [*EA Forum*](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gNHjEmLeKM47FDdqM/introducing-the-fund-for-alignment-research-we-re-hiring-1)
The [Fund for Alignment Research](https://alignmentfund.org/) (FAR) is hiring research engineers and co... |
e0ae8c23-3a48-4372-a62f-4dea4c1c0137 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century
I’ve been writing about tangible things we can do today to help the most important century go well. Previously, I wrote about helpful messages to spread and how to help via full-time work.
This piece is about what major AI companies can do (and no... |
df4662ef-94a8-4302-80d6-b88e5dda5ccc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | This Territory Does Not Exist
Response to: Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences), Belief in the Implied Invisible, and No Logical Positivist I
I recently decided that some form of strong verificationism is correct - that beliefs that don't constrain expectation are meaningless (with some caveats). Afte... |
32984dfd-c84e-4d99-9af6-abd91f4dd333 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | MIRI May Newsletter: Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics and Other Publications
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a710ee9f-5888-4287-bbf6-71be9522d2b5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why is it so hard to change people's minds? Well, imagine if it wasn't...
Epistemic status: Tying together the great works of others into something less great
I think the mind's defenses against change in its beliefs are a form of anti-parasitism.
Society commonly bemoans the difficulty in changing people's minds. W... |
ac5cd4a1-e8d5-4219-9d6d-0e9892ba155f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI #32: Lie Detector
Can you tell if an AI is lying to you? A new paper claims that we essentially can do exactly that, at least under the right conditions. Another paper claims we can inject various sentiments into responses, getting the AI to do what we wish. Interpretability is making progress. It is exciting to th... |
795b8610-b750-4b3e-92b7-f73c346cda09 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Some ideas for follow-up projects to Redwood Research’s recent paper
Disclaimer: I originally wrote this list for myself and then decided it might be worth sharing. Very unpolished, not worth reading for most people. Some (many?) of these ideas were suggested in the paper already, I don’t make any claims of novelty.
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2e4b1254-467d-469a-97ba-ccc91d11481b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | 265. Discovering Language Model Behaviors With Model-Writen Evaluations
hello and welcome to session 265 in the
AI safety.com reading group tonight
we'll be discussing the article
discovering language model behaviors
with model written evaluations by Ethan
Paris and others
this is a work done by anthropic one of
the f... |
2cec503a-525b-47dd-8be8-03c106d15de9 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Successif: Join our AI program to help mitigate the catastrophic risks of AI
**Successif is excited to announce our technical AI safety and AI governance services. This post focuses exclusively on our AI program. For more information on our general program or on our organization, please** [refer to our last post here]... |
2555732e-526d-4edb-b1f0-3c73528b7c21 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Letter to a Sonoma County Jail Cell
I don't know if this will go over well on LessWrong. It is not written in the preferred neutral tone of voice. But it seemed like it was worth saying, and I thought it was worth sharing here. |
f4c37d24-27a0-438c-9ab9-5942e89d70ee | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/youtube | Youtube Transcripts | How to Keep Improving When You're Better Than Any Teacher - Iterated Distillation and Amplification
hi today we're going to talk about
iterated distillation and amplification
so let's say we want to play go and we
want to be really good at it so we're
trying to create a function which if
we're given a go board in ... |
5367e448-77f0-4077-a7c7-9f2e946d9859 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | If there was a millennium equivalent prize for AI alignment, what would the problems be?
If someone were to create one or a number of huge (e.g 1 to 10 million dollar) prizes for solving important problems related to AI alignment, it might have a decent chance of focusing a lot of researchers on the topic, which might... |
31f24e91-b20d-42fb-9f4a-97a85dbb6bbe | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/eaforum | Effective Altruism Forum | Announcement: You can now listen to the “AI Safety Fundamentals” courses
**The** [**AI Safety Fundamentals**](https://aisafetyfundamentals.com/) **courses are one of the best ways to learn about AI safety and prepare to work in the field.**
[BlueDot Impact](https://www.bluedotimpact.org/) facilitates the courses seve... |
c0a24b11-698b-4829-a638-9c1f5655cc5a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Valence series] Appendix A: Hedonic tone / (dis)pleasure / (dis)liking
A.1 Post summary / Table of contents
Part of the Valence series.
I talked about hedonic tone, a.k.a. pleasure or displeasure, a.k.a. liking or disliking (these terms aren’t exactly synonymous, as discussed in §A.4 below) already in the series, in... |
05effad7-4ed3-4d73-9f9a-8f90531f298d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The heterogeneity of human value types: Implications for AI alignment
Note: This essay was originally posted on EA Forum here on Sept 16. I’d welcome comments from LessWrong readers and AI Alignment Forum experts. I have posted some related essays on EA Forum about the importance for AI alignment of considering corpor... |
e6ffec83-c8b3-4eb1-a310-c4c706826984 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Help figuring out my sexuality?
(Not sure if this is really a "lesswrong thing", but this seemed like as good a place as any for something like this).
I'm a late-twenties male, have only had one (female) sexual partner. For reasons, we never successfully had regular, vaginal sex. I've been single for the past 4 years... |
adf5133b-bb29-4cf0-b20e-e38ce7c18517 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How to eliminate cut?
The purpose of this post isn't to convince you that cut elimination is important. See, for example, the nLab article. Rather, the purpose of this post is to (semi-formally) prove cut elimination in a way that I at least find easy to understand. I have consulted existing sources (such as these lec... |
066ac841-e079-4005-8328-04d086ac0770 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Empirical philosophy and inversions
A regular installment. Index is here.
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This post is in large part a linkpost for an excellent talk on experimental philosophy, given by Ned Block (don't be put off by the title): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lHHxcxurhQ . Apologies to tho... |
d64f5e16-9b66-47ed-ac19-16641907c629 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Principled vs. Pragmatic Morality
One reason why conversations about morality are often unproductive is that there are two seperate conversations that often get mixed together. The first is principled morality: How ought perfect, incorruptible beings with no false beliefs act, further assuming the absence of any side-... |
03e07ff5-9b36-4c5f-912f-6766fb6ece6e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationality Quotes February 2013
Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply:
* Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be upvoted or downvoted separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them ... |
89b34754-1ee4-42cd-af01-dce801003952 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [LINK] People become more utilitarian in VR moral dilemmas as compared to text based.
A new study indicates that people become more utilitarian (save more lives) when viewing a moral dilemma in a virtual reality situation, as compared to reading the same situation in text.
ABSTRACT.
> Although research in moral psyc... |
22f435c1-d433-40a5-a0c7-766c8089c829 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | On the plausibility of a “messy” rogue AI committing human-like evil
There can be an inherent illogic to human evil. In AI safety, it is important to consider whether a rogue AI agent is capable of committing this type of evil, and if so, what kind of agent might pose a risk of doing so. I draw on work from Corin Katz... |
84e74b94-b643-401f-9b8e-7e18bea1fc2f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you're deferring to
It's fashionable these days to ask people about their AI timelines. And it's fashionable to have things to say in response.
But relative to the number of people who report their timelines, I suspect that only a small fraction have put in the effort to form... |
981de7c6-179f-4272-a2ed-8bd16ac0e941 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | New Year's Predictions Thread
I would like to propose this as a thread for people to write in their predictions for the next year and the next decade, when practical with probabilities attached. I'll probably make some in the comments. |
ba9e903d-2b6f-4e41-aec3-14f9a7ad7f7c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Really Fresh Baking
Many baked goods are much better when they still have their cooking warmth. Some foods, like pizza, are nearly always served this way, but others are only done this way occasionally. Several companies have used this to offer a much tastier product than you'd normally get:
* Midwest Airlines cho... |
0f58d1f8-0ca5-45d4-bdb5-3d68d0e9cddf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Update to the list of apps that are useful to me
on the 22 August 2015, I wrote an apps list of useful apps, in the comments were a number of suggestions which I immediately tried. This is an update. Original can be found at this link:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mnm/a_list_of_apps_that_are_useful_to_me_an... |
6eb06685-b478-4628-b556-6cbab2acf92f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | AIXI and Existential Despair
It has been observed on Less Wrong that a physical, approximate implementation of AIXI is unable to reason about its own embedding in the universe, and therefore is apt to make certain mistakes: for example, it is likely to destroy itself for spare parts, and is unable to recognize itself ... |
775ac25a-f499-4dc6-a45f-5558ccea61da | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Alignment Newsletter #20
This week's newsletter is pretty light, I didn't find much. On one of the two days I checked, [Arxiv Sanity](http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/) had *no* recommendations for me at all, when usually it has over five.
**Highlights**
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**[Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning](h... |
045ff2df-8d7f-4ccf-8807-35b1273b839e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Actually, Othello-GPT Has A Linear Emergent World Representation
Note that this work has since been turned into a paper and published at BlackboxNLP. I think the paper version is more rigorous but much terser and less fun, and both it and this sequence of blog posts are worth reading in different ways
Epistemic Statu... |
c5f13a75-5aac-4d22-8d35-406756532cf5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The two-tiered society
On AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu
Here is Claude.ai's summary of Daron Acemoglu's main ideas from the podcast:
> * Historically, major productivity improvements from new technologies haven't always translated into benefits for workers. It depends ... |
4a4c24ad-7c73-4b2c-936b-53a11e57f895 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Severance and the Ethics of the Conscious Agents
***Severance Spoilers!***
Nick Bostrom talks about coherent, extrapolated ethics as the goal of AI alignment, specifically to avoid calcification from our current moral code, which likely contains many things future generations would find unethical, just as we would pr... |
aadd1338-505f-4058-8894-5ef242ee7b82 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington, D.C.: Argument from Silence
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington, D.C.: Argument from Silence
WHEN: 04 January 2015 03:00:00PM (-0500)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery
Because of the late posting of the announcement, we are postponing the Meta Meetup to next week to give people more p... |
494f188c-29fa-4649-bdea-c6310dc329e8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Social status hacks from The Improv Wiki
I can't remember how I found this, just that I was amazed at how rational and near-mode it is on a topic where most of the information one usually encounters is hopelessly far.
LessWrong wiki link on the same topic: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Status
> The Improv Wiki
>
>... |
f815df78-e7f0-4eed-a784-1310921022aa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI as a Civilizational Risk Part 6/6: What can be done
Fix or destroy social media
One of the critical positive developments is the potential of Elon Musk to buy Twitter. The acquisition happened as the essay was being finalized. Positive effects that can happen are cracking down on bots and re-vamping moderation to... |
c4e70429-d88e-48ff-bc81-c57652766952 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Freeze Dried Raspberry Truffles
I've historically found a lot of "raspberry flavored" things pretty disappointing. Raspberry lollypops? Raspberry slush? Anything with raspberry extract? Even raspberry jam is a lot worse than just squishing up some frozen raspberries because a lot of the best raspberry flavors are lost... |
46d8487e-48a3-48ba-aad9-e509b7d26bb8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Introducing Corrigibility (an FAI research subfield)
Benja, Eliezer, and I have published a new technical report, in collaboration with Stuart Armstrong of the Future of Humanity institute. This paper introduces Corrigibility, a subfield of Friendly AI research. The abstract is reproduced below:
> As artificially int... |
47be0459-24ae-4d47-bed0-5c21cf811f1b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Durham NC meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Durham NC meetup
WHEN: 28 March 2013 07:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: 706 9th St., Durham NC 27705
Meet at Francesca's at 7 for:
* rationality checklist revisitation and customization
* discussion of ongoing projects
* chai if you want!
Discussion article... |
233336e7-6831-46ef-854f-2cb3db3112fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sam Altman's sister claims Sam sexually abused her -- Part 4: Timeline, continued
Previous posts (which you should read first)
This post is the 4th post in a series of 11 posts about the claims of Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman. Annie has claimed that Sam sexually abused her for about 9 years as a child, and that s... |
4026b438-b182-46d7-87b6-58f0972e8f1b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Value drift threat models
Say that we train a highly competent AGI using some mix of RL & supervised learning, and some novel algorithmic improvements, optimize it to itself optimize for one or several helpfulness benchmarks (maybe optimizing on some assistance game or using techniques described in diamond alignment),... |
579b10a6-c6cf-4598-aec1-115d160ea366 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Asymptotic Logical Uncertainty: Uniform Coherence
EDIT: This post is out of date, the new, better definition is here.
This post is part of the Asymptotic Logical Uncertainty series. Here, I give a concrete proposal for a definition of Uniform Coherence, as mentioned here.
This is only a proposal for a definition. It... |
aed26919-aa72-48df-a383-f5c1f965cd93 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Help improve reasoning evaluation in intelligence organisations
Cross-posted from the EA Forum.
TL;DR - My research group at the University of Melbourne is working to improve methods for evaluating quality of reasoning, particularly for use within government intelligence organisations. We’re conducting a study to com... |
e8ec616a-9118-4fb5-896a-0aa551e5a50a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LLMs for online discussion moderation
If we have better discussions, we'll make better decisions.
This is, perhaps, a pretty obvious idea.
Most online discussion takes place in virtual cesspits – Facebook, Twitter, the comments sections of news articles, etc. Social media and the ideological bubbles it promotes hav... |
85d1173a-8088-4d7a-9f60-68273a355d63 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Interview with Cool Earth
An interview with the people of Cool Earth, a charity I investigated and ultimately recommended as a relatively good one while visiting GWWC last summer.
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34dcf7bf-530a-4d72-ab99-a8b36aefc82f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | April Fools: Announcing: Karma 2.0
Ever since we started work on the new LessWrong, improving the karma system has been top priority for us.
We started giving users a higher vote-weight when they themselves had accumulated enough karma, and have plans to implement various more complicated schemes, such as Eigenkarma.... |
fbdfd323-ed21-4868-b4fa-a80d8d3caa80 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong |
Collective Aligned Systems
I mainly talk about a system alignment in depth being aligned to one person. This is because I find collective alignment a lot more problematic. Problems include things like founder effects, edit wars and monopolies.
Collective alignment is in some ways easier from the “agent alignment” ph... |
52f6544d-7274-4a63-8957-83b85fc3d2f6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Some abstract, non-technical reasons to be non-maximally-pessimistic about AI alignment
I basically agree with Eliezer’s picture of things in the [AGI interventions post](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CpvyhFy9WvCNsifkY/discussion-with-eliezer-yudkowsky-on-agi-interventions).
But I’ve seen some readers rounding off ... |
84ee390f-a106-4669-8a3f-63b1eb459992 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Could degoogling be a practice run for something more important?
Andrew Critch's recent threat model ends with the following:
> We humans eventually realize with collective certainty that the companies have been trading and optimizing according to objectives misaligned with preserving our long-term well-being and exi... |
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