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Focus on existential risk is a distraction from the real issues. A false fallacy

Nik Samoylov30 Oct 2023 23:42 UTC

−19 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Will releasing the weights of large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents?

jefftk30 Oct 2023 18:22 UTC

47 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Linkpost] Two major announcements in AI governance today

Angélina30 Oct 2023 17:28 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.whitehouse.gov)

Grokking Beyond Neural Networks

Jack Miller30 Oct 2023 17:28 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Response to “Coordinated pausing: An evaluation-based coordination scheme for frontier AI developers”

Matthew Wearden30 Oct 2023 17:27 UTC

5 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Jailbreak and Guard Aligned Language Models with Only Few In-Context Demonstrations

Zeming Wei30 Oct 2023 17:22 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Biden-Harris Executive Order on AI

beren30 Oct 2023 15:20 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Alignment [progress] this Week (10/29/2023)

Logan Zoellner30 Oct 2023 15:02 UTC

15 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

ryan_greenblatt30 Oct 2023 14:51 UTC

123 points

9 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Tristan W30 Oct 2023 11:15 UTC

171 points

39 comments3 min readLW link

(www.whitehouse.gov)

GPT-2 XL’s capacity for coherence and ontology clustering

MiguelDev30 Oct 2023 9:24 UTC

6 points

2 comments41 min readLW link

Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius discuss interpretability

Mateusz Bagiński, Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius Bushnaq

30 Oct 2023 5:50 UTC

112 points

7 comments21 min readLW link

Multi-Winner 3-2-1 Voting

Yoav Ravid30 Oct 2023 3:31 UTC

14 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

math terminology as convolution

bhauth30 Oct 2023 1:05 UTC

34 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Grokking, memorization, and generalization — a discussion

Kaarel and Dmitry Vaintrob

29 Oct 2023 23:17 UTC

75 points

11 comments23 min readLW link

Comp Sci in 2027 (Short story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)

sudo29 Oct 2023 23:09 UTC

223 points

27 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

(nitter.net)

Mathematically-Defined Optimization Captures A Lot of Useful Information

J Bostock29 Oct 2023 17:17 UTC

19 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Clarifying the free energy principle (with quotes)

Ryo 29 Oct 2023 16:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

A new intro to Quantum Physics, with the math fixed

titotal29 Oct 2023 15:11 UTC

117 points

24 comments17 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

My idea of sacredness, divinity, and religion

Kaj_Sotala29 Oct 2023 12:50 UTC

41 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

The AI Boom Mainly Benefits Big Firms, but long-term, markets will concentrate

Hauke Hillebrandt29 Oct 2023 8:38 UTC

−1 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

What’s up with “Responsible Scaling Policies”?

habryka and ryan_greenblatt

29 Oct 2023 4:17 UTC

99 points

9 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Experiments as a Third Alternative

Adam Zerner29 Oct 2023 0:39 UTC

48 points

21 comments5 min readLW link

Comparing representation vectors between llama 2 base and chat

Nina Panickssery28 Oct 2023 22:54 UTC

36 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Vaniver’s thoughts on Anthropic’s RSP

Vaniver28 Oct 2023 21:06 UTC

46 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:12 UTC

25 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

Regrant up to $600,000 to AI safety projects with GiveWiki

Dawn Drescher28 Oct 2023 19:56 UTC

33 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Shane Legg interview on alignment

Seth Herd28 Oct 2023 19:28 UTC

66 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AI Existential Safety Fellowships

mmfli28 Oct 2023 18:07 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Hub Serbia Official Opening

DusanDNesic and Tanja T

28 Oct 2023 17:03 UTC

55 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

 Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress

Algon28 Oct 2023 15:48 UTC

36 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(managing-ai-risks.com)

[Question] ELI5 Why isn’t alignment easier as models get stronger?

Logan Zoellner28 Oct 2023 14:34 UTC

3 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Truthseeking, EA, Simulacra levels, and other stuff

Elizabeth and Vaniver

27 Oct 2023 23:56 UTC

45 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Do you believe “E=mc^2” is a correct and/or useful equation, and, whether yes or no, precisely what are your reasons for holding this belief (with such a degree of confidence)?

l8c27 Oct 2023 22:46 UTC

12 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Value systematization: how values become coherent (and misaligned)

Richard_Ngo27 Oct 2023 19:06 UTC

109 points

49 comments13 min readLW link

Techno-humanism is techno-optimism for the 21st century

Richard_Ngo27 Oct 2023 18:37 UTC

88 points

5 comments14 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Sanctuary for Humans

Nikola Jurkovic27 Oct 2023 18:08 UTC

22 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Wireheading and misalignment by composition on NetHack

pierlucadoro27 Oct 2023 17:43 UTC

34 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

We’re Not Ready: thoughts on “pausing” and responsible scaling policies

HoldenKarnofsky27 Oct 2023 15:19 UTC

200 points

33 comments8 min readLW link

Aspiration-based Q-Learning

Clément Dumas and Jobst Heitzig

27 Oct 2023 14:42 UTC

38 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

Linkpost: Rishi Sunak’s Speech on AI (26th October)

bideup27 Oct 2023 11:57 UTC

85 points

8 comments7 min readLW link

(www.gov.uk)

ASPR & WARP: Rationality Camps for Teens in Taiwan and Oxford

Anna Gajdova27 Oct 2023 8:40 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] To what extent is the UK Government’s recent AI Safety push entirely due to Rishi Sunak?

Stephen Fowler27 Oct 2023 3:29 UTC

23 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Bayesian Punishment

Rob Lucas27 Oct 2023 3:24 UTC

1 point

1 comment6 min readLW link

Online Dialogues Party — Sunday 5th November

Ben Pace27 Oct 2023 2:41 UTC

28 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

OpenAI’s new Preparedness team is hiring

leopold26 Oct 2023 20:42 UTC

60 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Fake Deeply

Zack_M_Davis26 Oct 2023 19:55 UTC

33 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

Symbol/Referent Confusions in Language Model Alignment Experiments

johnswentworth26 Oct 2023 19:49 UTC

127 points

51 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Unsupervised Methods for Concept Discovery in AlphaZero

aog26 Oct 2023 19:05 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] Nonlinear limitations of ReLUs

magfrump26 Oct 2023 18:51 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link