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Manifold Halloween Hackathon

Austin ChenOct 23, 2023, 10:47 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Open Source Replication & Commentary on Anthropic’s Dictionary Learning Paper

Neel NandaOct 23, 2023, 10:38 PM

93 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

The Shutdown Problem: An AI Engineering Puzzle for Decision Theorists

EJTOct 23, 2023, 9:00 PM

79 points

22 comments LW link

(philpapers.org)

AI Alignment [Incremental Progress Units] this Week (10/22/23)

Logan ZoellnerOct 23, 2023, 8:32 PM

22 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

z is not the cause of x

hrbigelowOct 23, 2023, 5:43 PM

6 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Some of my predictable updates on AI

Aaron_ScherOct 23, 2023, 5:24 PM

32 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

Programmatic backdoors: DNNs can use SGD to run arbitrary stateful computation

Fabien Roger and Buck

Oct 23, 2023, 4:37 PM

107 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Machine Unlearning Evaluations as Interpretability Benchmarks

NickyP and Nandi

Oct 23, 2023, 4:33 PM

33 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

VLM-RM: Specifying Rewards with Natural Language

ChengCheng, David Lindner and Ethan Perez

Oct 23, 2023, 2:11 PM

20 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(far.ai)

Contra Dance Dialect Survey

jefftkOct 23, 2023, 1:40 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Which LessWrongers are (aspiring) YouTubers?

Mati_RoyOct 23, 2023, 1:21 PM

22 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is an “anti-Occamian prior”?

ZaneOct 23, 2023, 2:26 AM

35 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety is Dropping the Ball on Clown Attacks

trevorOct 22, 2023, 8:09 PM

75 points

82 comments34 min readLW link

The Drowning Child

Tomás B.Oct 22, 2023, 4:39 PM

25 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Timaeus

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden

Oct 22, 2023, 11:59 AM

188 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Into AI Safety—Episode 0

jacobhaimesOct 22, 2023, 3:30 AM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(into-ai-safety.github.io)

Thoughts On (Solving) Deep Deception

JozdienOct 21, 2023, 10:40 PM

72 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Best effort beliefs

Adam ZernerOct 21, 2023, 10:05 PM

14 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

How toy models of ontology changes can be misleading

Stuart_ArmstrongOct 21, 2023, 9:13 PM

42 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Soups as Spreads

jefftkOct 21, 2023, 8:30 PM

22 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Which COVID booster to get?

SameerishereOct 21, 2023, 7:43 PM

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act

Zack_M_DavisOct 21, 2023, 3:22 PM

265 points

56 comments13 min readLW link 2 reviews

How to find a good moving service

Ziyue WangOct 21, 2023, 4:59 AM

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Apply for MATS Winter 2023-24!

utilistrutil, Ryan Kidd and LauraVaughan

Oct 21, 2023, 2:27 AM

104 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Can we isolate neurons that recognize features vs. those which have some other role?

Joshua ClancyOct 21, 2023, 12:30 AM

4 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Muddling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey HeningerOct 20, 2023, 9:25 PM

88 points

10 comments8 min readLW link

What’s Hard About The Shutdown Problem

johnswentworthOct 20, 2023, 9:13 PM

98 points

33 comments4 min readLW link

Holly Elmore and Rob Miles dialogue on AI Safety Advocacy

Bird Concept, Robert Miles and Holly_Elmore

Oct 20, 2023, 9:04 PM

162 points

30 comments27 min readLW link

TOMORROW: the largest AI Safety protest ever!

Holly_ElmoreOct 20, 2023, 6:15 PM

105 points

26 comments2 min readLW link

The Overkill Conspiracy Hypothesis

ymeskhoutOct 20, 2023, 4:51 PM

26 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

I Would Have Solved Alignment, But I Was Worried That Would Advance Timelines

307thOct 20, 2023, 4:37 PM

122 points

33 comments9 min readLW link

Internal Target Information for AI Oversight

Paul CologneseOct 20, 2023, 2:53 PM

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

On the proper date for solstice celebrations

jchanOct 20, 2023, 1:55 PM

16 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Are (at least some) Large Language Models Holographic Memory Stores?

Bill BenzonOct 20, 2023, 1:07 PM

11 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Mechanistic interpretability of LLM analogy-making

SergiiOct 20, 2023, 12:53 PM

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(grgv.xyz)

How To Socialize With Psycho(logist)s

SableOct 20, 2023, 11:33 AM

37 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

Revealing Intentionality In Language Models Through AdaVAE Guided Sampling

jdpOct 20, 2023, 7:32 AM

119 points

15 comments22 min readLW link

Features and Adversaries in MemoryDT

Joseph Bloom and Jay Bailey

Oct 20, 2023, 7:32 AM

31 points

6 comments25 min readLW link

AI Safety Hub Serbia Soft Launch

DusanDNesicOct 20, 2023, 7:11 AM

64 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Announcing new round of “Key Phenomena in AI Risk” Reading Group

DusanDNesic and Nora_Ammann

Oct 20, 2023, 7:11 AM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Unpacking the dynamics of AGI conflict that suggest the necessity of a premptive pivotal act

Eli TyreOct 20, 2023, 6:48 AM

63 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

Genocide isn’t Decolonization

robotelvisOct 20, 2023, 4:14 AM

33 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(messyprogress.substack.com)

Trying to understand John Wentworth’s research agenda

johnswentworth, habryka and David Lorell

Oct 20, 2023, 12:05 AM

93 points

13 comments12 min readLW link

Boost your productivity, happiness and health with this one weird trick

ajc586Oct 19, 2023, 11:30 PM

9 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

A Good Explanation of Differential Gears

Johannes C. MayerOct 19, 2023, 11:07 PM

48 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Evening Wiki(pedia) Workout

mcintOct 19, 2023, 9:29 PM

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

New roles on my team: come build Open Phil’s technical AI safety program with me!

Ajeya CotraOct 19, 2023, 4:47 PM

83 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Infinite tower of meta-probability

fryolysisOct 19, 2023, 4:44 PM

6 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

A NotKillEveryoneIsm Argument for Accelerating Deep Learning Research

Logan ZoellnerOct 19, 2023, 4:28 PM

−6 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

Knowledge Base 5: Business model

iwisOct 19, 2023, 4:06 PM

−4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

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