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2:19

[Linkpost] “Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/16

This is a linkpost for https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/04/us-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-announces-expansion-us-ai-safetyU.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced today additional members of the executive leadership team of the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI), which is housed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Raimondo named Paul Christiano as Head of AI Safety, Adam Russell as Chief Vision Officer, Mara Campbell as Acting Chief Operating

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15:37

[Linkpost] “Essay competition on the Automation of...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/16

This is a linkpost for https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/essay-competition-on-the-automationWith AI Impacts, we’re pleased to announce an essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy. Submissions are due by July 14th. The first prize is $10,000, and there is a total of $25,000 in prizes available. Submit an entry via this form.The full announcement text is reproduced here: BackgroundAI is likely to automate more and more categories of thinking with time.By default, the direction the world

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29:41

“My experience using financial commitments to...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/16

About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of financial penalty. The specific one I tried is Forfeit, which I liked the look of because it's relatively simple, you set single tasks which you have to verify you have completed with a photo.I’m generally pretty sceptical of productivity systems, tools for thought, mindset shifts, life hacks and so on. But this one I have found to be really shockingly effective, it has been about the biggest positive

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“Monthly Roundup #17: April 2024” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/16

As always, a lot to get to. This is everything that wasn’t in any of the other categories.Bad News You might have to find a way to actually enjoy the work. Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI): Sustained great work often demands enjoying the process for its own sake rather than only feeling joy in the end result. Time is mostly spent between results, and hard to keep pushing yourself to get to the next level if you’re not having fun while doing so. Yeah. This matches my experience in

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2:04

“Anthropic AI made the right call” by bhauth

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/16

I've seen a number of people criticize Anthropic for releasing Claude Opus, with arguments along the lines of: Anthropic said they weren't going to push the frontier, but this release is clearly better than GPT-4 in some ways! They're betraying their mission statement! I think that criticism takes too narrow a view. Consider the position of investors in AI startups. If OpenAI has a monopoly on the clearly-best version of a world-changing technology, that gives them a lot of pricing power on a

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5:49

[Linkpost] “A High Decoupling Failure” by Maxwell...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/15

This is a linkpost for https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/a-high-decoupling-failureHigh-decoupling vs low-decoupling or decoupling vs contextualizing refers to two different cultural norms, cognitive skills, or personal dispositions that change the way people approach ideas.High-decouplers isolate ideas from each other and the surrounding context. This is a necessary practice in science which works by isolating variables, teasing out causality and formalizing claims into carefully delineated

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8:13

“Reconsider the anti-cavity bacteria if you are...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/15

Many people in the rational sphere have been promoting Lumina/BCS3-L1, a genetically engineered bacterium, as an anti-cavity treatment. However, none have brought up a major negative interaction that may occur with a common genetic mutation.In short, the treatment works by replacing lactic acid generating bacteria in the mouth with ones that instead convert sugars to ethanol, among other changes. Scott Alexander made a pretty good FAQ about this. Lactic acid results in cavities and teeth

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“Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2020” by jefftk

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/14

Another round of liberating kid posts from Facebook. For reference, in 2020 Lily turned 6 and Anna turned 4. (Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me" could mean either of us.) 2020-01-01 We went to the movies, and brought our own popcorn. When I passed the popcorn to Lily during the movie she was indignant, saying that we weren't supposed to bring in our own food. She ate one piece, but then said it wasn't ok and wouldn't eat more. When the movie

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4:53

“Prompts for Big-Picture Planning” by Raemon

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/14

During my metastrategy workshop, Day Two was focused on taking a step back and asking "okay, wait, what am I actually doing and why?". Choosing what area to focus, and what your mid-level strategy is for achieving it, determine at least as much (and I think often much more) of the value you create, than how well you operationally succeed.If you're going to pivot to a plan that's 10x better than your current plan, it'll probably be because you considered a much wider swath of possible-plan-space.This

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4:14

“Things Solenoid Narrates” by Solenoid_Entity

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/13

I spend a lot of time narrating various bits of EA/longtermist writing.The resulting audio exists in many different places. Surprisingly often, people who really like one thing don't know about the other things. This seems bad.[1]A few people have requested a feed to aggregate 'all Solenoid's narrations.' Here it is. (Give it a few days to be up on the big platforms.) I'll update it ~weekly.[2] Solenoid NarratesAnd here's a list of things I've made or am working on, shared in the hope that more

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[Linkpost] “Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/13

This is a linkpost for https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2024/04/12/nuking-the-moon/In 1957, Nobel laureate microbiologist Joshua Lederberg and biostatician J. B. S. Haldane sat down together imagined what would happened if the USSR decided to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon. (Maybe they read a recent United Press article about the rumored USSR plans.)The Cold War was on, Sputnik had recently been launched, and the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution was coming up – a good time for an

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[Linkpost] “MIRI’s April 2024 Newsletter” by Harlan,...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/13

This is a linkpost for https://intelligence.org/2024/04/12/april-2024-newsletter/The MIRI Newsletter is back in action after a hiatus since July 2022. To recap some of the biggest MIRI developments since then: MIRI released its 2024 Mission and Strategy Update, announcing a major shift in focus: While we’re continuing to support various technical research programs at MIRI, our new top priority is broad public communication and policy change. In short, we’ve become increasingly pessimistic that

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13:34

“UDT1.01: Plannable and Unplanned Observations...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/12

Time to introduce some more concepts. If an observation is "any data you can receive which affects your actions", then there seem to be two sorts of observations. A plannable observation is the sort of observation where you could plan ahead of time how to react to it. A unplanned observation is the sort which you can't (or didn't) write a lookup-table style policy for.Put another way, if a policy tells you how to map histories of observations to actions, those "histories" are the plannables

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“Generalized Stat Mech: The Boltzmann Approach” by...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/12

This article contains more than 100 uses of logical or mathematical notation, so an audio narration would be too hard to follow. You'll find a link to the original text in the episode description. --- First published: April 12th, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/keGhMbnLNdTAHa4bv/generalized-stat-mech-the-boltzmann-approach --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“A D&D.Sci Dodecalogue” by abstractapplic

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2024/04/12

Below is some advice on making D&D.Sci scenarios. I’m mostly yelling it in my own ear, and you shouldn’t take any of it as gospel; but if you want some guidance on how to run your first game, you may find it helpful.1. The scoring function should be fair, transparent, and monotonicD&D.Sci players should frequently be confused, but about how to best reach their goals, not the goals themselves. By the end of the challenge, it should be obvious who won[1].2. The scoring function should be

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9:12

“Announcing Atlas Computing” by miyazono

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/12

Atlas Computing is a new nonprofit working to collaboratively advance AI capabilities that are asymmetrically risk-reducing. Our work consists of building prototypes and building an ecosystem around @davidad's Safeguarded AI (formerly referred to as the Open Agency Architecture).We formed in Oct 2023, and raised nearly $1M, primarily from the Survival and Flourishing Fund and Protocol Labs. We have no physical office, and are currently only Evan Miyazono (CEO) and Daniel Windham (software lead), but

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48:45

“A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/12

This was originally posted on Nathaniel's and Nuno's substacks (Pending Survival and Forecasting Newsletter, respectively). Subscribe here and here! Discussion is also occurring on the EA Forum here (couldn't link the posts properly for technical reasons).Introduction. When the Effective Altruism, Bay Area rationality, judgemental forecasting, and prediction markets communities think about risk, they typically do so along rather idiosyncratic and limited lines. These overlook relevant insights and

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41:03

“How I select alignment research projects” by Ethan...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/11

Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Youtube VideoRecently, I was interviewed by Henry Sleight and Mikita Balesni about how I select alignment research projects. Below is the slightly cleaned up transcript for the YouTube video. IntroductionsHenry Sleight: How about you two introduce yourselves?Ethan Perez: I'm Ethan. I'm a researcher at Anthropic and do a lot of external collaborations with other people, via the Astra Fellowship and SERI MATS

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6:31

“D&D.Sci: The Mad Tyrant’s Pet Turtles [Evaluation...

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/10

This is a followup to the D&D.Sci post I made ten days ago; if you haven’t already read it, you should do so now before spoiling yourself.Here is the web interactive I built to let you evaluate your solution; below is an explanation of the rules used to generate the dataset (my full generation code is available here, in case you’re curious about details I omitted). You’ll probably want to test your answer before reading any further. Ruleset Turtle TypesThere are three types of turtle present in

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“RTFB: On the New Proposed CAIP AI Bill” by Zvi

LessWrong (30+ Karma) ·

2024/04/10

A New Bill Offer Has Arrived Center for AI Policy proposes a concrete actual model bill for us to look at. Here was their announcement: WASHINGTON – April 9, 2024 – To ensure a future where artificial intelligence (AI) is safe for society, the Center for AI Policy (CAIP) today announced its proposal for the “Responsible Advanced Artificial Intelligence Act of 2024.” This sweeping model legislation establishes a comprehensive framework for regulating advanced AI systems, championing

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