Team Lead for LessWrong
The Alignment Forum is supposed to be a very high signal-to-noise place for Alignment content, where researchers can trust that all content they read will be material they're interested in seeing (even at the expense of some false negatives).
Hi,
I'm afraid there isn't at this time, very unfortunately.
Curated. A parable explaining a probability lesson that many would benefit from – what's not to love? I like the format, I found the dialog/parable amusing rather than dry, and I think the point is valuable (and due to the format, memorable). I'll confess that I think this post will have me looking at blends of different forecasts more carefully, especially as regards to actual decision-making (particular regarding AI forecasts which are feeling increasingly relevant to decision-making these day).
Ugh, is this your homework? Will approve this in case someone feels like answering, but maybe try GPT/Bing
The hard part to me now seems to be in crafting some kind of useful standard rather than one in hindsight makes us go "well that sure have everyone a false sense of security".
I do like this post a lot, unfortunately it doesn't seem to resonate with many people.
I want to push back on anyone downvoting this because it's sexist, dehumanizing, and othering (rather than just being a bad model). I am sad if a model/analogy has those negative effect, but supposing the model/analogy in fact held and was informative, I think we should be able to discuss it. And even the possibility that something in the realm of gender relations has relevant lessons for Alignment seems like we should be able to discuss it.
Or alternatively stated, I want to push for Decoupling norms here.
Curated. This post feels timely and warranted given the current climate. I think we, in our community, were already at some risk of throwing out our minds a decade ago, but it was less when it was easy to think timelines were 30-60 years. That allowed more time for play. Now as there's so much evidence of imminence and there are more people doing more things, AI x-risk isn't a side interest for many but a full-time occupation, yes, I think we're almost colluding in creating a culture that doesn't allow time for play. I like that this post makes the case for pushing back.
Further, this post points at something I want to reclaim for the spirit of LessWrong, something I feel like use to be more palpable than now. Random posts about There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically) or random voting theory posts felt rooted in this kind play – the raw interest and curiosity of the author rather than some urgent importance of the topic. The concerns I have that make me want to boost the default prominence of rationality and world modeling posts (see LW Filter Tags (Rationality/World Modeling now promoted in Latest Posts) is not that I don't like the AI posts, but in large part that I want to see more of the playful posts of yore.
People should be thinking about:
Personally, if you working with cutting edge LLMs, you need to pass a high burden of proof/reasoning that this is good. Incentives like prestige, salary, and "meaning" means ought to question oneself pretty hard when doing the equivalent of entering the nuclear bombs or conventional arms manufacturing industries (especially during war times).
The monthly Open & Welcome thread is a good general place for questions, otherwise you could make a top level question post about it.