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8a8f8cb9-bfc9-4719-9364-8fe9289ce27f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Response to Holden’s alignment plan
This work was supported by the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth. You can support my work directly here.
I will give a short presentation of this work followed by discussion on Saturday (Dec 24) at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern. RSVP here.
Outline
* This is a r... |
2a544da2-6afa-426b-94a5-fd25a5347d0c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do Fandoms Need Awfulness?
Stephen Bond, "Objects of Fandom":
> ...my theory is that for something to attract fans, it must have an aspect of truly monumental badness about it.
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> Raiders of the Lost Ark is a robust potboiler, tongue-in-cheek, very competently done. I think it's enjoyable, but even among those who ... |
0abf1b24-12c8-407e-bdfb-dc1ff5ce3056 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Sam Harris and Eliezer Yudkowsky on “AI: Racing Toward the Brink”
MIRI senior researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky was recently invited to be a guest on Sam Harris’ “[Waking Up](https://samharris.org/podcast/)” podcast. Sam is a neu... |
597f5a32-c7c6-4d0a-8007-e8765f0b3a46 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | How I Lost 100 Pounds Using TDT
Background Information: Ingredients of Timeless Decision Theory
Alternate Approaches Include: Self-empathy as a source of “willpower”, Applied Picoeconomics, Akrasia, hyperbolic discounting, and picoeconomics, Akrasia Tactics Review
Standard Disclaimer: Beware of Other-Optimizing
Tim... |
ed1b3368-1a9f-475b-a2d1-24bdd33a9407 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
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79dd8f7c-bac0-4e68-b69f-acefdc0769cd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Causality and Moral Responsibility
Followup to: Thou Art Physics, Timeless Control, Hand vs. Fingers, Explaining vs. Explaining Away
I know (or could readily rediscover) how to build a binary adder from logic gates. If I can figure out how to make individual logic gates from Legos or ant trails or rolling ping-pong... |
8693e0a0-44ca-4263-b5f2-e783ff21ac5d | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | 99% shorter
I listen to podcasts while doing chores or at the gym, and often feel like I'm learning something but then can't really remember anything afterwards. So for the past ~month I've been doing an experiment where I write brief summaries of them afterwards, usually same-day but sometimes a bit later. Generally ... |
45048a46-9f84-49a5-9312-fdaf9a6b16a6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Sunday 8th 2pm PT: Scott Garrabrant's Office Hours / Cartesian Frames
Sunday Nov 8th at 2pm, Scott Garrabrant will be in his Walled Garden office at 2pm to host discussion and questions about Cartesian Frames. There won't be a formal lecture, but stop by to chat, ask questions or explore related ideas.
You can find h... |
dec5d399-3dbd-4529-8aed-fc5e6c021cca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LINK: Google research chief: 'Emergent artificial intelligence? Hogwash!'
The Register talks to Google's Alfred Spector:
Google's approach toward artificial intelligence embodies a new way of designing and running complex systems. Rather than create a monolithic entity with its own modules for reasoning about certain... |
f8201c72-0a80-4ad7-994b-f393711f31e1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] "Improper Nouns" by siderea
The post:
* siderea | Improper Nouns [p/a/s, Patreon]
Interestingly, 'improper nouns' – as described by the post – is itself an example of the phenomena it describes (as 'improper noun' is itself an existing term):
> There's a thing you probably have encountered and maybe haven't... |
550a2496-aaf2-4286-878e-df38e9a17e47 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The underappreciated value of original thinking below the frontier
When is it more valuable to do original thinking? Probably the most common assumption/implied advice here is that it's pointless to try to come up with anything original until you've consumed the entire field and can work on the frontier of knowledge. ... |
cb1d12a6-bfd4-4df9-aab0-adc038f6d86f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Framing Practicum: Bistability
This is a framing practicum post. We’ll talk about what bistability is, how to recognize bistability in the wild, and what questions to ask when you find it. Then, we’ll have a challenge to apply the idea.
Today’s challenge: come up with 3 examples of bistability which do not resemble a... |
58b51750-0246-4b2b-88c0-4b04a157f134 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Confessions of a Transhumanist: On Life in Known Space
This is a post about my personal history with transhumanism and world saving. |
de6c2a9d-b86c-4e18-a17e-fc083d4b7858 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : West LA Meetup 02-08-2012
Discussion article for the meetup : West LA Meetup 02-08-2012
WHEN: 08 February 2012 07:00:00PM (-0800)
WHERE: 10850 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064
When: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Wednesday, February 8th.
Where: The Westside Tavern in the upstairs Wine Bar (all ages welcome), locate... |
1004e9f0-edb8-48b7-9619-1f453110fba6 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | PIBBSS Fellowship 2025: Bounties and Cooperative AI Track Announcement
We're excited to announce that the PIBBSS Fellowship 2025 now includes a dedicated Cooperative AI track, supporting research that advances our understanding of cooperation in artificial intelligence systems. We are also announcing 300 USD bounties ... |
ea880c49-9f1e-485c-a520-718b9e5409a7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Toronto Meetup
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952b39ca-fe06-4778-a776-347daa92e955 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Models of Value of Learning
I generally subscribe to the signalling model of higher education: “education” is mostly about signalling how smart and diligent you are, rather than actually learning useful skills. Under this model, higher education doesn’t produce new human capital, it just makes it more obvious who has ... |
5c094cc7-7431-4f0c-a057-e3648186618c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Bratislava Meetup IV.
Discussion article for the meetup : Bratislava Meetup IV.
WHEN: 24 June 2013 06:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Malewill Cafe, Uršulínska 9, Bratislava
We will see each other at Malewill café.
Because of many new members, this time the meetup will be unstructured -- the goal is to meet each o... |
8b1c577e-4cd0-4a59-9ed9-3bf6bde1cd01 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Forecast With GiveWell
Update: The Prize Pool has increased to $3,500!
Thank you to donors Anton Makiievskyi, Ryan Kidd, @Austin, and @Saul Munn, who contributed via Manifund.
A total prize pool of $3,500 will be awarded for comments on eligible questions made before January 1, 2025. Get started here.
* Ten prizes... |
17b74bd3-8d2b-49c0-afda-1c6ebacb6b48 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Which are the useful areas of AI study?
I'm stuck wondering on a peculiar question lately - which are the useful areas of AI study? What got me thinking is the opinion occasionally stated (or implied) by Eliezer here that performing general AI research might likely have negative utility, due to indirectly facilitati... |
bbd427ec-521c-425d-b0b7-9e0ef66184f6 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Inverse scaling can become U-shaped
**Edit**: Here's a [great comment by Ethan Perez](https://www.alignmentforum.org/editPost?postId=LvKmjKMvozpdmiQhP&key=7f6ea8c7c618187a899886ef6cc6f8) that caveats this result, that I'd recommend reading for context.
This is a paper by folks at Quoc Le's team at Google that examine... |
31efd2aa-d9ed-442e-8f66-ffa77486b7b5 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | AI Alignment Writing Day Roundup #2
Here are some of the posts from the AI Alignment Forum writing day. Due to the participants writing 34 posts in less than 24 hours (!), I'm re-airing them to let people have a proper chance to read (and comment) on them, in roughly chronological order.
1) Computational Model: Causa... |
f237593d-c734-4924-9758-e370eadaf852 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Request for proposals for projects in AI alignment that work with deep learning systems
As part of our work on reducing potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for projects working with deep learning systems that could help us understand and make progress on AI ali... |
4ed4360d-5674-40ac-9525-18ffcf570c62 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The unreasonable effectiveness of plasmid sequencing as a service
Note: thank you Mark Budde, cofounder and CEO of Plasmidsaurus, and Maria Konovalova, a growth/marketing/talented-person at Plasmidsaurus, for talking to me for this article! Also thank you to Eryney Marrogi, who helped answer some of my dumb questions ... |
14b41a5d-c4ba-4913-9e4a-67c91c3ab4fe | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Practical Advice Backed By Deep Theories
Once upon a time, Seth Roberts took a European vacation and found that he started losing weight while drinking unfamiliar-tasting caloric fruit juices.
Now suppose Roberts had not known, and never did know, anything about metabolic set points or flavor-calorie associations—all... |
5fdf36f7-3e72-4a9f-9258-1c30910916f2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Argument from Crisis and Pessimism Bias
Many people have argued that the public seems to have an overly negative view of society's development. For instance, this survey shows that the British public think that the crime rate has gone up, even though it has gone down. Similarly, Hans Rosling points out that the pu... |
673622c8-97eb-4a82-b83b-e789fc86d210 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong |
Moral differences in mediocristan
Scott Alexander writes:
> Utilitarianism agrees that we should give to charity and shouldn’t steal from the poor, because Utility, but take it far enough to the tails and we should tile the universe with rats on heroin. Religious morality agrees that we should give to charity and sh... |
0eaceeee-eaba-4976-97c7-27a00bb9ea8f | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Building brain-inspired AGI is infinitely easier than understanding the brain
*Epistemic status: Trying to explain why I have certain intuitions. Not sure whether people will find this obvious vs controversial.*
Part 1: Brains probably do some useful things in utterly inscrutable ways
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5772f57a-f8ae-422c-acd9-3e7ee53fcaa1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | School Has It Backwards
Life isn't about getting to the right answers; it's about discovering the right questions.
Crossposted from Curious Human.
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In school, we're constantly being asked questions and instantly rewarded when we find the right answers. We're praised in class ... |
71ac4111-682e-4bff-b29b-05cde016f59a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Against most, but not all, AI risk analogies
I personally dislike most AI risk analogies that I've seen people use. While I think analogies can be helpful for explaining concepts to people and illustrating mental pictures, I think they are frequently misused, and often harmful. At the root of the problem is that analo... |
ad186004-aaf9-4322-bbb5-6eea1cf75b77 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Absolutely Winning Bridge Hands
In bridge the best you can do is commit to take all the cards and then follow through. Even better if you do this without the help of a trump suit. Playing today I was curious: what fraction of hands are "absolutely winning" for 7NT, in that they'll let you make this contract no matter ... |
5d1e1d0c-05c6-440d-8dfc-47298f6d2416 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | State of the Solstice (NYC Event upcoming)
(For the time being, I'm posting this in both Main and in Discussion, to increase visibility. If it ends up getting promoted I may remove this one if people think I should)
> Every year people mock the Rationalist Solstice Ritual. And every year I read the discussions, nod, ... |
e03cdc3e-7ee1-4e86-b032-25a55d392750 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Locality of goals
Introduction
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Studying goal-directedness produces two kinds of questions: questions about goals, and questions about being directed towards a goal. Most of my previous posts focused on the second kind; this one shifts to the first kind.
Assume some goal-directed system with a known goal... |
bd07fff2-ab4e-43ec-a58d-d273c30b105b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Intake Rumble Spew
Too much reading. Eyes unfocused and tired
Too little writing. Fingers still and ready
Libraries of words. Burst
Across the fibre. Pulse
Down the copper. Flux.
Signal demuxed at the demarc
Thus the Internet was routed
The LAN shouts, packets whorl and twirl
Dancing into my desktop's NIC
96 ... |
6a96dfde-dc0a-4678-98c0-0ba34de43792 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Not exactly the trolley problem
An unusual incident. Are you obligated to be on the side of the plane with the crocodile if the other passengers are overbalancing the plane? To push other passengers over to the side with the crocodile? |
f9bea024-6fc1-49c0-a4ee-b7d8d32a7d3a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | [Link] Did AlphaStar just click faster?
This is a linkpost for: https://medium.com/@aleksipietikinen/an-analysis-on-how-deepminds-starcraft-2-ai-s-superhuman-speed-could-be-a-band-aid-fix-for-the-1702fb8344d6.
tl;dr: AlphaStar clicked at a rate of 1000+ Actions Per Minute for five second periods, and a rate 1500+ APM... |
44ea7a3e-3281-4415-941d-63bc400e989f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A taxonomy of Cruxes
[Crossposted to Musings and Rough Drafts]
This is a quick theoretical post. I have little idea if this is interesting to others. Plus this is super finicky to read, but I don't know what to do about that.
In this post, I want to outline a few distinctions between different kinds of cruxes. Somet... |
cd54f8ee-ed2f-4ac7-a2d2-d22deb61c077 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Weird characters in the Sequences
When the sequences were copied from Overcoming Bias to Less Wrong, it looks like something went very wrong with the character encoding. I found the following sequences of HTML entities in words in the sequences:
’ê d?tre
Å« M?lamadhyamaka
... |
c4d791cb-3187-4695-acf4-b648f5ecc1c8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | GPT-3 Catching Fish in Morse Code
Mostly non-serious and slightly silly, with some potentially interesting bits for people who are into language models.
TLDR: The current version of GPT-3 has a strong tendency to encode mangled versions of a specific phrase when asked to write morse code in zero-shot situations. Thi... |
ac05a824-2c68-4b0a-be48-3adcdbd9fe96 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Notes on Judgment and Righteous Anger
This post examines the virtues of judgment and righteous anger. It is meant mostly as an exploration of what other people have learned about these virtues, rather than as me expressing my own opinions about them, though I’ve been selective about what I found interesting or credibl... |
db8a1327-d2d5-472a-bd33-6d2d92de9ec2 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Has anyone explored deliberate infection with milder coronavirus strains for cross-immunity?
None |
d292b0e2-eab5-4755-89b7-ac0a94b69aee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : LessWrong Hamburg - 4
Discussion article for the meetup : LessWrong Hamburg - 4
WHEN: 31 March 2014 07:00:00PM (+0100)
WHERE: Michaelisstr.18, Hamburg
We will be at yet another location chosen by Sam: Ristorante Buon Giorno, Michaelisstraße 18, 20459 Hamburg next to station Stadthausbrücke quickly reachable... |
853a9019-0f4a-4579-a430-ef431f5ba66f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Knowledge Base 1: Could it increase intelligence and make it safer?
This series of posts presents the idea of building a knowledge database that allows for the collection and exchange of reliable information between people, computers, and between people and computers. It also discusses how this database could increase... |
8c2d4a7c-0412-4dbb-9db4-25a45beabdd1 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Google AI integrates PaLM with robotics: SayCan update [Linkpost]
Back in April, Google AI announced [SayCan](https://say-can.github.io/), a project which integrated a language model (FLAN) with robotics in order to produce a robot which could follow instructions. For example, cleaning up a mess in a kitchen. ([LessWr... |
a30bec1d-6dea-4ef3-bbe8-2fb278586e82 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Maximal Ventilation
At this point, one of the things I'm most concerned about with covid-19 is breathing air that has been recently breathed by other people. Six foot distancing would be pretty good if it quickly settled out of the air, but it's looking more like it can stay suspended in the air for extended periods.
... |
f40180a1-8016-4c8c-ad44-92634253c91e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Intelligent behaviour across systems, scales and substrates
Tl;dr
In an earlier post, I introduced a metaphor for thinking about the epistemic landscape of AI alignment, and then described three epistemic strategies for making progress on the alignment problem.
In this post, I will double-click on the third strategy... |
a4ab807d-aed2-4462-ba13-786ddc708835 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Liability regimes in the age of AI: a use-case driven analysis of the burden of proof
1 Introduction
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AI-based systems have the potential to bring some benefits and opportunities to our societies, generating and transforming new products and services in multiple application domains. In recent years, ... |
aeadebd8-ef0a-4d36-8768-ea5bea098cfc | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Do we have a plan for the "first critical try" problem?
In list of lethalities, it seems that the two biggest ones are:
* A.3 We need to get alignment right on the 'first critical try' at operating at a 'dangerous' level of intelligence, where unaligned operation at a dangerous level of intelligence kills everybody ... |
ea7fe8d2-b86d-4d38-ae36-8381e9ba053f | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Maxent and Abstractions: Current Best Arguments
This post is not-very-distilled and doesn’t contain much background; it’s intended for people who already have the context of at least these four posts. I’m putting it up mainly as a reference for people who might want to work directly on the math of natural abstractions... |
9453fee5-b240-4d63-b514-b9e85919c296 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post1381
( This post is an elaboration on “tractability of discrimination” as introduced in section III of Can we efficiently explain model behaviors? For an overview of the general plan this fits into, see Mechanistic anomaly detection and Finding gliders in the game of life .) Background We’d like to build AI sy... |
304650e0-11e3-48b4-888a-06ba8cfb3ec8 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Evaluating Agents without Rewards
1 Introduction
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Reinforcementlearning(RL)hasenabledagentstosolvecomplextasksdirectlyfromhigh-dimensionalimageinputs,suchaslocomotion(heess2017parkour),roboticmanipulation(akkaya2019rubiks),andgameplaying(mnih2015dqn, silver2017alphago).However,manyofthesesuccessesare... |
29b0dc82-e920-44b6-8de6-527e42032ccf | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Paid research assistant position focusing on artificial intelligence and existential risk
Yale Assistant Professor of Political Science Allan Dafoe is seeking Research Assistants for a project on the political dimensions of the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence. The project will involve explo... |
01549de7-e94e-4ac6-a0c8-3ddd9c0fd89a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Social Science in its epistemological context
Seeds of Science has kindly published my essay “Prediction and control in natural and social systems”. This short essay : i) address and contextualize the modest predictive success of Social Science and ii) describes what kind of scientific intervention on the human societ... |
5f6ef737-53cd-4c83-9380-dd2aaa334b79 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Heading off a near-term AGI arms race
I know people have talked about this in the past, but now seems like an important time for some practical brainstorming here. Hypothetical: the recent $15mm Series A funding of Vicarious by Good Ventures and Founders Fund sets off a wave of $450mm in funded AGI projects of approxi... |
6650f168-f21c-4063-99e9-d4eb5f1ecbd7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Informed consent bias in RCTs?
The problem of published research findings not being reliable has been discussed here before.
One problem with RCTs that has received little attention is that, due to informed consent laws and ethical considerations, subjects are aware that they might be receiving sham therapy. This d... |
9e60d06c-c491-40a6-a242-f7c8e3cd82f7 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Dress Up For Secular Solstice
I argue below that 1) fashion norms are good, even purely within the rationalist community and 2) Secular Solstice should have an unofficial attire norm: a slightly dressy black base layer with shiny accents (shiny jewelry, reflective material, metallic colors, etc; see examples in the ma... |
67d30aa3-d512-463a-9f45-145208bad2ca | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What wiki-editing features would make you use the LessWrong wiki more?
The LessWrong wiki does not seem as well used as it should be. I guess this is a lack of editors.
@Vladimir_Nesov made a good point that many standard wiki-editing features are missing which makes the prospect unappealing.
> The point is that abs... |
24270a68-d238-4b9c-b0d4-8de5f88fde87 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Immortality or death by AGI
AKA My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
TL;DR: I made a model which takes into account AI timelines, the probability of AI going wrong, and probabilities of dying from other causes. I got that the main “end states” for my life are either dying from AGI due to a lack of AI safet... |
0e4f5ec0-9856-488a-add1-b3140d94abeb | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Book review: Human Compatible
Book review: Human Compatible, by Stuart Russell.
Human Compatible provides an analysis of the long-term risks from
artificial intelligence, by someone with a good deal more of the
relevant prestige than any prior author on this subject.
What should I make of Russell? I skimmed his be... |
e7740144-e435-434d-a924-caa8e1408095 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
1 Introduction
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Scalable sequence prediction models (Graves, [2014](#bib.bib135 "Generating sequences with recurrent neural networks"); Vaswani et al., [2017](#bib.bib130 "Attention is all you need"); Child et al., [2019](#bib.bib131 "Generating long s... |
faa5515e-eb62-4f93-aa7e-a55c5eb93de3 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A Visualization of Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence
Through a series of diagrams, this article will walk through key concepts in Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence. The book is full of heavy content, and though well written, its scope and depth can make it difficult to grasp the concepts and mentally hold them together.... |
f97903fd-b2c3-4a40-9fa1-ab00c83af2a0 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Simulation of technological progress (work in progress)
I've made a model/simulation of technological progress, that you can download and run on your laptop.
My goal is to learn something about intelligence explosions, takeoff speeds, discontinuities, human-level milestones, AGI vs. tools, bottlenecks, or something e... |
265c0e30-ee7a-41da-843d-fe4aa22e2454 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Why is medical advice all caution and no info?
Wordpress now offers me free images of whatever I'm talking about. This is presumably an illustration of how the world doesn't necessarily become a better place if you tell everyone they urgently need to seek medical help for something you won't tell them anything more ab... |
c048a8b6-1e7e-46be-b71a-0d946661178b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW Dev question: FB-style tagging?
As LW is an intellectual **community** where people get to know each other and know "who knows what, who's working on what" it seems like something like tagging people FB-style in specific posts/comments is a very low-hanging fruit. (Of course you should be able to silence people fro... |
35da765f-0e2a-4d5f-b169-5b78e97a025b | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Secular Therapy Project
> The purpose of the Secular Therapy Project is to help connect non-religious or secular persons who need mental health services with outstanding mental health professionals, such as psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, and others. Using our system is simple and requires very little inform... |
8f832762-21de-43cd-b8bd-04b45ee0f8d8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What social trigger-action plans did you implement?
Trigger-Action Plan, as opposed to Trigger-Action Pattern means the mental algorithm was voluntarily implemented.
Social TAP means the trigger originates from a social interaction. For example "starting a discussion" is a social trigger, whereas "opening a door" is ... |
c9b8aced-890f-4bdf-8624-b2762a3e6458 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What topics are appropriate for LessWrong?
For example, what would be inappropriately off topic to post to LessWrong discussion about?
I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ. (Perhaps it'd be worth adding one.) The closest I could find was this:
> What is Less Wrong?
>
> Less Wrong is an online community for discussi... |
88172cb6-d6a6-4428-ba33-8f8aa6520160 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | We've failed: paid publication , pirates win.
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93912c43-b621-4285-b4d5-4b9581659aee | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Baltimore Area / UMBC Weekly Meetup
WHEN: 06 November 2016 09:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: Performing Arts and Humanities Bldg Room 456, 1000 Hilltop Cir, Baltimore, MD 21250
Meeting is on 4th floor of the Performing Arts and Humanities Buil... |
7c2e8125-3047-46eb-bb93-5e4e399186f1 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Washington DC fun and games meetup
WHEN: 05 May 2013 03:00:00PM (-0400)
WHERE: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC 20001, USA (courtyard)
We'll be meeting to hang out and play games.
Discussion article for the meetup : Washingto... |
5adb017d-7d74-4a80-8dc2-d5048a20612a | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | What does your web of beliefs look like, as of today?
Every few months, I post a summary of my beliefs to my blog. This has several advantages:
1. It helps to clarify where I'm "coming from" in general.
2. It clears up reader confusion arising from the fact that my beliefs change.
3. It's really fun to look back o... |
e77e794a-0aab-4485-8e36-6246558f5b66 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Brain-like AGI project "aintelope"
Steven Byrnes called for a brain-like AGI research agenda, and three guys from the Hamburg EA community listened.
We are excited about Steven's five-star program 15.2.1.2 "Reverse-engineer human social instincts," and kicked off work a few weeks ago in June. We familiarized ourselv... |
5d3379d4-9a59-441a-9d0b-c49303244e36 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Map of maps of interesting fields
I love seeing cool visualizations (maps) of interesting intellectual fields. I’m also a big fan of making lists!
Accordingly, I compiled a bunch of maps of fields that I thought were interesting. Please comment if you know of more such maps, and I’ll include them.
Scott Alexander’... |
f2e29f3a-564f-4708-a9cc-baeb4b31bc5b | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | Iteration Fixed Point Exercises
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b565a53d-5230-4b9c-9bd0-5d88ecf4f7fd | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Inequality is inseparable from markets
Cross posted to The Good blog
I think prices are often really good at allocating resources efficiently. I also think that utility is roughly the log of income and we have a duty to make sure that no one lives in poverty. It would be great if there was no tradeoff between these ... |
3ada213d-76ac-47a2-a43c-4095ba33958e | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Max Tegmark's new Time article on how we're in a Don't Look Up scenario [Linkpost]
https://time.com/6273743/thinking-that-could-doom-us-with-ai/
Max Tegmark has posted a Time article on AI Safety and how we're in a "Don't Look Up" scenario.
In a similar manner to Yudkowsky, Max went on Lex Fridman and has now poste... |
8cf3b5d4-38a8-43af-baee-31540c372c27 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | My May 2023 priorities for AI x-safety: more empathy, more unification of concerns, and less vilification of OpenAI
I have a mix of views on AI x-risk in general — and on OpenAI specifically — that no one seems to be able to remember, due to my views not being easily summarized as those of a particular tribe or social... |
19933719-a624-42ed-a604-e46524ccd522 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/arxiv | Arxiv | Categorizing Wireheading in Partially Embedded Agents
1 Introduction
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The term wireheading originates from experiments where an electrode is inserted into a rodent’s brain to directly stimulate “reward” [[Olds and Milner1954](#bib.bibx16)]. Compulsive self-stimulation from electrode implants has also... |
1d665823-1101-44f9-9117-df2001b1f633 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Limits of and to (artificial) Intelligence
(AI is not exempt from the Limits of Reasoning)
Over the past few years there has been a lot of talk about the chances and risks of AI, but like with any hype there has been too little about the limits and costs.
Historically the talked-about limits were technical and due to... |
ee83cd68-526f-498f-8584-a69d52bc3236 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | A closer look at program based UDT
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7860b239-0535-4cba-82bd-984971ee5117 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Deleted
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9cb1d8f8-3ec0-449d-aac6-d59751e2d2f4 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Funny Anecdote of Eliezer From His Sister
This comes from a podcast called 18Forty, of which the main demographic of Orthodox Jews. Eliezer's sister (Hannah) came on and talked about her Sheva Brachos, which is essentially the marriage ceremony in Orthodox Judaism. People here have likely not seen it, and I thought it... |
4c0ae091-5495-4e25-995e-ed252c265a38 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post38
What if getting strong evidence of scheming isn't the end of your scheming problems, but merely the middle? In most of our research and writing on AI control, we’ve emphasized the following situation: The AI developer is deploying a model that they think might be scheming, but they aren’t sure. The objectiv... |
4a201152-7ebd-4d2e-975d-e07d6a4991bb | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Rationalist Clue
(not by Parker Bros., or, for that matter, Waddingtons)
A response to: 3 Levels of Rationality Verification
Related to: Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
It's a classic who-dun-it…only instead of using an all-or-nothing process of elimination driven by dice rolls and lucky guesses, players must... |
b497f6fb-1108-4a5b-9298-fc0f0aa859b8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | more on predicting agents
Suppose you want to predict the behavior of an agent. I stand corrected. To make the prediction, as a predictor you need:
* observations of the agent
* the capacity to model the agent to a sufficient degree of accuracy
"Sufficient accuracy" here is a threshold on, for example, KL dive... |
f6197e0c-b67b-41fb-9a5b-7f4667084b71 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Proposal for improving the global online discourse through personalised comment ordering on all websites
This is a description of a project I’ve been thinking about making in the last few weeks. I’m looking for feedback and collaborators. [BetterDiscourse] name is provisional.
Updated on 9 Dec 2023: Completely overha... |
9e475185-b7f1-4818-87ba-5edd9f691cf8 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Apologizing is a Core Rationalist Skill
There’s this narrative about a tradeoff between:
* The virtue of Saying Oops, early and often, correcting course rather than continuing to pour oneself into a losing bet, vs
* The loss of social status one suffers by admitting defeat, rather than spinning things as a win or a... |
58f81e9f-cb01-412b-8716-cef39d54b9aa | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Not every accommodation is a Curb Cut Effect: The Handicapped Parking Effect, the Clapper Effect, and more
In the fields of user experience and accessibility, everyone talks about the curb cut effect: Features that are added as accommodations for people with disabilities sometimes become widely useful and beloved. But... |
6336c45c-74d3-4c39-bbe3-538f9cba9035 | awestover/filtering-for-misalignment | Redwood Research: Alek's Filtering Results | id: post1240
Part 8 of 12 in the Engineer’s Interpretability Sequence . As AI safety researchers, we care a lot about deceptive alignment. So what is it? Hubinger et al. (2019) write: If the mesa-optimizer has an objective that extends across parameter updates, then it will be incentivized to avoid being modified, as ... |
2e61924a-d21d-4073-8496-461efd57cb78 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Double Tongue Whistling
I can whistle about seven notes per second, which corresponds to a reel at 105bpm. [1] While this isn't a problem for whistling basslines it's slightly too slow for melodies at contra dance speed (~110-122bpm). I want to figure out how to whistle faster, and I know there are people who whistle ... |
4b62784e-5517-4db0-b0c8-c58ce8faee2c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Meetup : Stockholm meetup
Discussion article for the meetup : Stockholm meetup
WHEN: 09 October 2011 02:00:00PM (+0200)
WHERE: Café Tabac (Stora Nygatan 46, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden)
Where there are nerds there are Swedes, and LessWrong is no exception. Let's meet up!
The first event, as normal, will be more ... |
7cc30969-5287-4f37-a4d5-9e8ac00ea221 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Causal graphs and counterfactuals
A problem that's come up with my definitions of stratification.
Consider a very simple causal graph:
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In this setting, A and B are both booleans, and A=B with 75% probability (independently about whether A=0 or A=1).
Suppose I now want to compute the counterfactual: suppose I ass... |
58f0d5c3-2f80-4054-bed2-14c7770e3849 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Main vs. Discussion
Posts on this forum are now divided into two categories: Main and Discussion. Both are shown on the front page, but only Main posts have a preview; Discussion posts are shown only by title.
The rationale for making this change is that I would like this forum to provide a place for doing research a... |
34f8fb4f-804f-488e-b951-09e7bc41d047 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Reflections on Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig twice in 2019. I wrote reflections on many of the chapters as I went through the second time. I posted them to a Goodreads book group at the time, but I've decided to collect them here as well (un... |
d0addfbc-9569-4943-b421-68c6ab9423fe | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/alignmentforum | Alignment Forum | [Intro to brain-like-AGI safety] 6. Big picture of motivation, decision-making, and RL
6.1 Post summary / Table of contents
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*Part of the*[*“Intro to brain-like-AGI safety” post series*](https://www.alignmentforum.org/s/HzcM2dkCq7fwXBej8)*.*
Thus far in the series, [Post #1](https... |
3a190cab-0705-410e-b713-c506bff6101a | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/lesswrong | LessWrong | Introducing AI Alignment Inc., a California public benefit corporation...
We are a new nonprofit grassroots organization getting started in the space at https://alignmentproblem.org with a focus on the defense industry and the nascent psychotherapeutic approach to LLM fine-tuning. As a fun way to get started on this f... |
d31151e4-a654-4586-83c5-810b200831b4 | StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset/blogs | Blogs | Index of Transcripts
Volunteers at [MIRI Volunteers](http://mirivolunteers.org/) and elsewhere have helpfully transcribed several audio/video recordings related to MIRI’s work. This post is a continuously updated index of those transcripts.
All transcripts of Singularity Summit talks are available [here](http://inte... |
a66488c9-34ec-46ec-b077-6812d060471c | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | The Case for The EA Hotel
Epistemic Status: I strongly believe all the things I’m writing here. These are mostly heuristics and mental models rather than hard data, which I think is necessary for a project so young. I’m trying to make a strong case for the EA hotel, not a balanced one (although it will probably be bal... |
c8a6a4a1-c3e8-459a-9751-36f77b9fad22 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | LW 2.0 Open Beta Live
The LW 2.0 Open Beta is now live; this means you can create an account, start reading and posting, and tell us what you think.
Four points:
1) In case you're just tuning in, I took up the mantle of revitalizing LW through improving its codebase some time ago, and only made small amounts of prog... |
9e9384f7-6a35-4b11-9bc7-dd9480949094 | trentmkelly/LessWrong-43k | LessWrong | Subversion Strategy Eval: Can language models statelessly strategize to subvert control protocols?
We recently released Subversion Strategy Eval: Can language models statelessly strategize to subvert control protocols?, a major update to our previous paper/blogpost, evaluating a broader range of models (e.g. helpful-o... |
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