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Cheap Model → Big Model design

Maxwell Peterson19 Nov 2023 22:50 UTC

15 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network

Burny19 Nov 2023 21:41 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Alignment is Hard: An Uncomputable Alignment Problem

Alexander Bistagne19 Nov 2023 19:38 UTC

−6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

New paper shows truthfulness & instruction-following don’t generalize by default

joshc19 Nov 2023 19:27 UTC

60 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

In favour of a sovereign state of Gaza

Yair Halberstadt19 Nov 2023 16:08 UTC

8 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

My Criticism of Singular Learning Theory

Joar Skalse19 Nov 2023 15:19 UTC

84 points

56 comments12 min readLW link

“Why can’t you just turn it off?”

Roko19 Nov 2023 14:46 UTC

48 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Spaciousness In Partner Dance: A Naturalism Demo

LoganStrohl19 Nov 2023 7:00 UTC

78 points

6 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

When Will AIs Develop Long-Term Planning?

PeterMcCluskey19 Nov 2023 0:08 UTC

18 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Killswitch

Junio18 Nov 2023 22:53 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Superalignment

Douglas_Reay18 Nov 2023 22:37 UTC

−4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Predictable Defect-Cooperate?

quetzal_rainbow18 Nov 2023 15:38 UTC

7 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

I think I’m just confused. Once a model exists, how do you “red-team” it to see whether it’s safe. Isn’t it already dangerous?

[deleted]18 Nov 2023 14:16 UTC

21 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Camp 2024

Linda Linsefors18 Nov 2023 10:37 UTC

15 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(aisafety.camp)

Post-EAG Music Party

jefftk18 Nov 2023 3:00 UTC

14 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Letter to a Sonoma County Jail Cell

[deleted]18 Nov 2023 2:24 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

1. A Sense of Fairness: Deconfusing Ethics

RogerDearnaley17 Nov 2023 20:55 UTC

19 points

10 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

95 points

9 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

On Lies and Liars

Gabriel Alfour17 Nov 2023 17:13 UTC

31 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

71 points

8 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

On Tapping Out

Screwtape17 Nov 2023 3:23 UTC

52 points

14 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

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

101 points

48 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

How much to update on recent AI governance moves?

habryka and So8res

16 Nov 2023 23:46 UTC

112 points

5 comments29 min readLW link

New LessWrong feature: Dialogue Matching

Bird Concept16 Nov 2023 21:27 UTC

107 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

Duncan Sabien (Inactive)16 Nov 2023 20:00 UTC

390 points

133 comments34 min readLW link 2 reviews

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!

[deleted]16 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

37 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

−34 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

56 points

12 comments10 min readLW link 1 review

Life on the Grid (Part 1)

rogersbacon15 Nov 2023 22:37 UTC

12 points

4 comments9 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)