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Concrete Steps to Get Started in Transformer Mechanistic Interpretability

Neel Nanda25 Dec 2022 22:21 UTC

54 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

It’s time to worry about online privacy again

Malmesbury25 Dec 2022 21:05 UTC

66 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

[Hebbian Natural Abstractions] Mathematical Foundations

Samuel Nellessen and Jan

25 Dec 2022 20:58 UTC

15 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(www.snellessen.com)

[Question] Oracle AGI—How can it escape, other than security issues? (Steganography?)

RationalSieve25 Dec 2022 20:14 UTC

3 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

YCombinator fraud rates

Xodarap25 Dec 2022 19:21 UTC

56 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

How evolutionary lineages of LLMs can plan their own future and act on these plans

Roman Leventov25 Dec 2022 18:11 UTC

39 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Accurate Models of AI Risk Are Hyperexistential Exfohazards

Thane Ruthenis25 Dec 2022 16:50 UTC

30 points

38 comments9 min readLW link

ChatGPT is our Wright Brothers moment

Ron J25 Dec 2022 16:26 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

The Meditation on Winter

Raemon25 Dec 2022 16:12 UTC

58 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

I’ve updated towards AI boxing being surprisingly easy

Noosphere8925 Dec 2022 15:40 UTC

8 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

Take 14: Corrigibility isn’t that great.

Charlie Steiner25 Dec 2022 13:04 UTC

15 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Simplified Level Up

jefftk25 Dec 2022 13:00 UTC

12 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Hyperfinite graphs ~ manifolds

Alok Singh25 Dec 2022 12:24 UTC

11 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Inconsistent math is great

Alok Singh25 Dec 2022 3:20 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

A hundredth of a bit of extra entropy

Adam Scherlis24 Dec 2022 21:12 UTC

83 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Shared reality: a key driver of human behavior

kdbscott24 Dec 2022 19:35 UTC

126 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

Contra Steiner on Too Many Natural Abstractions

DragonGod24 Dec 2022 17:42 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Three reasons to cooperate

paulfchristiano24 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

82 points

14 comments10 min readLW link

(sideways-view.com)

Practical AI risk I: Watching large compute

Gustavo Ramires24 Dec 2022 13:25 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Non-Elevated Air Purifiers

jefftk24 Dec 2022 12:40 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Case for Chip-Backed Dollars

AnthonyRepetto24 Dec 2022 10:28 UTC

0 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

List #3: Why not to assume on prior that AGI-alignment workarounds are available

Remmelt24 Dec 2022 9:54 UTC

4 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

List #2: Why coordinating to align as humans to not develop AGI is a lot easier than, well… coordinating as humans with AGI coordinating to be aligned with humans

Remmelt24 Dec 2022 9:53 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

List #1: Why stopping the development of AGI is hard but doable

Remmelt24 Dec 2022 9:52 UTC

6 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

The case against AI alignment

andrew sauer24 Dec 2022 6:57 UTC

115 points

110 comments5 min readLW link

Content and Takeaways from SERI MATS Training Program with John Wentworth

RohanS24 Dec 2022 4:17 UTC

28 points

3 comments12 min readLW link

Löb’s Lemma: an easier approach to Löb’s Theorem

Andrew_Critch24 Dec 2022 2:02 UTC

30 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Durkon, an open-source tool for Inherently Interpretable Modelling

abstractapplic24 Dec 2022 1:49 UTC

29 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Issues with uneven AI resource distribution

User_Luke24 Dec 2022 1:18 UTC

3 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

(temporal.substack.com)

Loose Threads on Intelligence

Shoshannah Tekofsky24 Dec 2022 0:38 UTC

11 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] If you factor out next token prediction, what are the remaining salient features of human cognition?

shminux24 Dec 2022 0:38 UTC

9 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is “Argument Mapping” Not More Common in EA/Rationality (And What Objections Should I Address in a Post on the Topic?)

HarrisonDurland23 Dec 2022 21:58 UTC

10 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Fear [Fiction]

Yitz23 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

To err is neural: select logs with ChatGPT

VipulNaik23 Dec 2022 20:26 UTC

22 points

2 comments38 min readLW link

AISER—AIS Europe Retreat

Carolin23 Dec 2022 19:03 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Two Truths and a Prediction Market

Screwtape23 Dec 2022 18:52 UTC

21 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

ChatGPT understands, but largely does not generate Spanglish (and other code-mixed) text

Milan W23 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

15 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

On sincerity

Joe Carlsmith23 Dec 2022 17:13 UTC

70 points

6 comments42 min readLW link

Epigenetics of the mammalian germline

Metacelsus23 Dec 2022 15:21 UTC

37 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

Boston Solstice Songs

jefftk23 Dec 2022 13:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Are there any reliable CAPTCHAs? Competition for CAPTCHA ideas that AIs can’t solve.

MrThink23 Dec 2022 12:52 UTC

5 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

“Search” is dead. What is the new paradigm?

shminux23 Dec 2022 10:33 UTC

15 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

one-shot AI, delegating embedded agency and decision theory, and one-shot QACI

Tamsin Leake23 Dec 2022 4:40 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

Article Review: Discovering Latent Knowledge (Burns, Ye, et al)

Robert_AIZI22 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC

13 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

Let’s think about slowing down AI

KatjaGrace22 Dec 2022 17:40 UTC

546 points

183 comments38 min readLW link 3 reviews

(aiimpacts.org)

Some Notes on the mathematics of Toy Autoencoding Problems

Spencer Becker-Kahn22 Dec 2022 17:21 UTC

16 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

December 2022 updates and fundraising

AI Impacts22 Dec 2022 17:20 UTC

39 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Covid 12/22/22: Reevaluating Past Options

Zvi22 Dec 2022 16:50 UTC

30 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

China Covid #4

Zvi22 Dec 2022 16:30 UTC

50 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Racing through a minefield: the AI deployment problem

HoldenKarnofsky22 Dec 2022 16:10 UTC

38 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

(www.cold-takes.com)