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1. A Sense of Fairness: Deconfusing Ethics

RogerDearnaley17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC

15 points

8 comments15 min readLW link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

On the lethality of biased human reward ratings

Eli Tyre and johnswentworth

17 Nov 2023 18:59 UTC

48 points

10 comments37 min readLW link

Coup probes: Catching catastrophes with probes trained off-policy

Fabien Roger17 Nov 2023 17:58 UTC

85 points

7 comments14 min readLW link

On Lies and Liars

Gabriel Alfour17 Nov 2023 17:13 UTC

33 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Classifying representations of sparse autoencoders (SAEs)

Annah17 Nov 2023 13:54 UTC

15 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

R&D is a Huge Externality, So Why Do Markets Do So Much of it?

Maxwell Tabarrok17 Nov 2023 13:14 UTC

15 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

On excluding dangerous information from training

ShayBenMoshe17 Nov 2023 11:14 UTC

23 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

The dangers of reproducing while old

garymm17 Nov 2023 5:55 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.garymm.org)

I put odds on ends with Nathan Young

KatjaGrace17 Nov 2023 5:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Debate helps supervise human experts [Paper]

habryka17 Nov 2023 5:25 UTC

29 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

A to Z of things

KatjaGrace17 Nov 2023 5:20 UTC

64 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

On Tapping Out

Screwtape17 Nov 2023 3:23 UTC

45 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

Eliciting Latent Knowledge in Comprehensive AI Services Models

acabodi17 Nov 2023 2:36 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Some Rules for an Algebra of Bayes Nets

johnswentworth and David Lorell

16 Nov 2023 23:53 UTC

69 points

30 comments14 min readLW link

How much to update on recent AI governance moves?

habryka and So8res

16 Nov 2023 23:46 UTC

109 points

4 comments29 min readLW link

New LessWrong feature: Dialogue Matching

jacobjacob16 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC

106 points

22 comments3 min readLW link

Towards Evaluating AI Systems for Moral Status Using Self-Reports

Ethan Perez and Robbo

16 Nov 2023 20:18 UTC

45 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Social Dark Matter

[DEACTIVATED] Duncan Sabien16 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC

282 points

112 comments34 min readLW link

AI #38: Let’s Make a Deal

Zvi16 Nov 2023 19:50 UTC

44 points

2 comments55 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Forecasting AI (Overview)

jsteinhardt16 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC

35 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

We Should Talk About This More. Epistemic World Collapse as Imminent Safety Risk of Generative AI.

Joerg Weiss16 Nov 2023 18:46 UTC

11 points

2 comments29 min readLW link

Intelligence in systems (human, AI) can be conceptualized as the resolution and throughput at which a system can process and affect Shannon information.

AiresJL16 Nov 2023 17:46 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Life on the Grid (Part 2)

rogersbacon16 Nov 2023 17:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

The impossibility of rationally analyzing partisan news

RationalDino16 Nov 2023 16:19 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

We are Peacecraft.ai!

MadHatter16 Nov 2023 14:15 UTC

15 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

A dialectical view of the history of AI, Part 1: We’re only in the antithesis phase. [A synthesis is in the future.]

Bill Benzon16 Nov 2023 12:34 UTC

6 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] How much fraud is there in academia?

ChristianKl16 Nov 2023 11:50 UTC

23 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Learning coefficient estimation: the details

Zach Furman16 Nov 2023 3:19 UTC

36 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(colab.research.google.com)

[Question] AI Safety orgs- what’s your biggest bottleneck right now?

Kabir Kumar16 Nov 2023 2:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

My critique of Eliezer’s deeply irrational beliefs

Jorterder16 Nov 2023 0:34 UTC

−33 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Extrapolating from Five Words

Gordon Seidoh Worley15 Nov 2023 23:21 UTC

40 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

In Defense of Parselmouths

Screwtape15 Nov 2023 23:02 UTC

46 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

Life on the Grid (Part 1)

rogersbacon15 Nov 2023 22:37 UTC

12 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

Glomarization FAQ

Zane15 Nov 2023 20:20 UTC

24 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Testbed evals: evaluating AI safety even when it can’t be directly measured

joshc15 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC

70 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

EA/ACX/LW November Santa Cruz Meetup

madmail15 Nov 2023 18:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

New report: “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?”

Joe Carlsmith15 Nov 2023 17:16 UTC

79 points

26 comments30 min readLW link

Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure.

ReaderM15 Nov 2023 16:36 UTC

89 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

AISN #26: National Institutions for AI Safety, Results From the UK Summit, and New Releases From OpenAI and xAI

aogara, Corin Katzke, allison huang and Dan H

15 Nov 2023 16:07 UTC

12 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

‘Theories of Values’ and ‘Theories of Agents’: confusions, musings and desiderata

Mateusz Bagiński and Nora_Ammann

15 Nov 2023 16:00 UTC

34 points

8 comments24 min readLW link

Experiences and learnings from both sides of the AI safety job market

Marius Hobbhahn15 Nov 2023 15:40 UTC

109 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

Good businesses create epistemic monopolies

Logan Kieller15 Nov 2023 14:04 UTC

−2 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

A conceptual precursor to today’s language machines [Shannon]

Bill Benzon15 Nov 2023 13:50 UTC

24 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Should Advanced Placement High School classes discuss Israel-Palestine? If so, how? If not, why? Who should make this decision?

Gesild Muka15 Nov 2023 4:50 UTC

−1 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Reinforcement Via Giving People Cookies

Screwtape15 Nov 2023 4:34 UTC

65 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Incidental polysemanticity

Victor Lecomte, Kushal Thaman, tmychow and Rylan Schaeffer

15 Nov 2023 4:00 UTC

43 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

LLMs May Find It Hard to FOOM

RogerDearnaley15 Nov 2023 2:52 UTC

11 points

30 comments12 min readLW link

Linearity Fallacies

hippo15 Nov 2023 2:23 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

SIA Is Just Being a Bayesian About the Fact That One Exists

omnizoid14 Nov 2023 22:55 UTC

2 points

5 comments4 min readLW link