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[HUMAN VOICE] "Social status part 1/2: negotiations over object-level preferences" by Steven Byrnes Apr 05, 2024

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[HUMAN VOICE] "Acting Wholesomely" by OwenCB Apr 05, 2024

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The Story of “I Have Been A Good Bing” Apr 01, 2024

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Rationality is Systematized Winning, so rationalists should win. We’ve tried saving the world from AI, but that's really hard and we’ve had … mixed results. So let's start with something that rationalists should find pretty easy: Becoming Cool!
I don’t mean, just, like, riding a motorcycle and breaking hearts level of cool. I mean like the first kid in school to get a Tamagotchi, their dad runs the ice cream truck and gives you free ice cream and, sure, they ride a motorcycle. I mean that kind of feel-it-in-your-bones, I-might-explode-from-envy cool.
The eleventh virtue is scholarship, so I hit the ~books~ search engine on this one. Apparently, the aspects of coolness are:

Confidence
Playing an instrument
Low average kinetic energy

I’m afraid that (1) might mess with my calibration, and Lightcone is committed to moving quickly which rules out (3), so I guess that leaves (2). I [...]
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April 1st, 2024
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The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject Apr 01, 2024

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TL;DR
Tacit knowledge is extremely valuable. Unfortunately, developing tacit knowledge is usually bottlenecked by apprentice-master relationships. Tacit Knowledge Videos could widen this bottleneck. This post is a Schelling point for aggregating these videos—aiming to be The Best Textbooks on Every Subject for Tacit Knowledge Videos. Scroll down to the list if that's what you're here for. Post videos that highlight tacit knowledge in the comments and I’ll add them to the post. Experts in the videos include Stephen Wolfram, Holden Karnofsky, Andy Matuschak, Jonathan Blow, George Hotz, and others.
What are Tacit Knowledge Videos?
Samo Burja claims YouTube has opened the gates for a revolution in tacit knowledge transfer. Burja defines tacit knowledge as follows:
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction, like the ability to create great art or assess a startup. This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual [...]
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March 31st, 2024
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[HUMAN VOICE] "Deep atheism and AI risk" by Joe Carlsmith Mar 20, 2024

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[HUMAN VOICE] "My Clients, The Liars" by ymeskhout Mar 20, 2024

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[HUMAN VOICE] "Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk" by Akash, hath Mar 10, 2024

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[HUMAN VOICE] "CFAR Takeaways: Andrew Critch" by Raemon Mar 10, 2024

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Many arguments for AI x-risk are wrong Mar 09, 2024

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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.The following is a lightly edited version of a memo I wrote for a retreat. It was inspired by a draft of Counting arguments provide no evidence for AI doom, although the earlier draft contained some additional content. I personally really like the earlier content, and think that my post covers important points not made by the published version of that post.
Thankful for the dozens of interesting conversations and comments at the retreat.
I think that the AI alignment field is partially founded on fundamentally confused ideas. I’m worried about this because, right now, a range of lobbyists and concerned activists and researchers are in Washington making policy asks. Some of these policy proposals seem to be based on erroneous or unsound arguments.[1]
The most important takeaway from this essay is that [...]
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March 5th, 2024
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Tips for Empirical Alignment Research Mar 07, 2024

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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.TLDR: I’ve collected some tips for research that I’ve given to other people and/or used myself, which have sped things up and helped put people in the right general mindset for empirical AI alignment research. Some of these are opinionated takes, also around what has helped me. Researchers can be successful in different ways, but I still stand by the tips here as a reasonable default.
What success generally looks like
Here, I’ve included specific criteria that strong collaborators of mine tend to meet, with rough weightings on the importance, as a rough north star for people who collaborate with me (especially if you’re new to research). These criteria are for the specific kind of research I do (highly experimental LLM alignment research, excluding interpretability); some examples of research areas where this applies are e.g. scalable oversight [...]
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February 29th, 2024
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