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The national security dimension of OpenAI’s leadership struggle

Mitchell_PorterNov 20, 2023, 11:57 PM

3 points

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3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What will you think about the Current Thing in a year?

mike_hawkeNov 20, 2023, 10:39 PM

21 points

11 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Metaculus Introduces New Forecast Scores, New Leaderboard & Medals

ChristianWilliamsNov 20, 2023, 8:33 PM

15 points

4 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

[Question] “Useless Box” AGI

CagoNov 20, 2023, 7:07 PM

1 point

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Advice on choosing an alcohol rehab center?

Slingshot9271Nov 20, 2023, 6:46 PM

2 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Agent Boundaries Aren’t Markov Blankets. [Unless they’re non-causal; see comments.]

abramdemskiNov 20, 2023, 6:23 PM

82 points

39 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

Navigating emotions in an uncertain & confusing world

Orpheus16Nov 20, 2023, 6:16 PM

42 points

26 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

ZviNov 20, 2023, 3:30 PM

272 points

118 votes

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166 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

OpenAI Staff (including Sutskever) Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns

Seth HerdNov 20, 2023, 2:20 PM

52 points

15 votes

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28 comments1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

David VargaNov 20, 2023, 1:09 PM

11 points

7 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] OpenAI’s Interim CEO’s views on AI x-risk

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 20, 2023, 1:00 PM

9 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

A Girardian interpretation of the Altman affair, it’s on my to-do list

Bill BenzonNov 20, 2023, 12:21 PM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How did you integrate voice-to-text AI into your workflow?

ChristianKlNov 20, 2023, 12:01 PM

28 points

6 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

Short film adaptation of the essay “The Simple Truth” [eng sub]

bayesyatinaNov 20, 2023, 11:42 AM

18 points

10 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

For Civilization and Against Niceness

Gabriel AlfourNov 20, 2023, 10:56 AM

49 points

38 votes

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14 comments8 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

“Optimists always win!” is the biggest survivorship bias

Yunfan YeNov 20, 2023, 8:53 AM

8 points

8 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others from OpenAI join Microsoft

OzyrusNov 20, 2023, 8:23 AM

58 points

25 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Emmett Shear to be interim CEO of OpenAI

Max HNov 20, 2023, 5:40 AM

21 points

13 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.theverge.com)

[Question] Where can I learn about algorithmic transformation of AI prompts?

denyeverywhereNov 20, 2023, 4:35 AM

0 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Extreme website and app blocking

tbenthompsonNov 20, 2023, 3:53 AM

8 points

6 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(tbenthompson.com)

Am I going insane or is the quality of education at top universities shockingly low?

ChrisRumanovNov 20, 2023, 3:53 AM

26 points

16 votes

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30 comments2 min readLW link

Residential Demolition Tooling

jefftkNov 20, 2023, 3:20 AM

16 points

4 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Aaron Silverbook on anti-cavity bacteria

DanielFilanNov 20, 2023, 3:06 AM

31 points

11 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Cheap Model → Big Model design

Maxwell PetersonNov 19, 2023, 10:50 PM

15 points

4 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

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

BurnyNov 19, 2023, 9:41 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

“Benevolent [ie, Ruler] AI is a bad idea” and a suggested alternative (not author)

the gears to ascensionNov 19, 2023, 8:22 PM

22 points

12 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.palladiummag.com)

Alignment is Hard: An Uncomputable Alignment Problem

Alexander BistagneNov 19, 2023, 7:38 PM

−5 points

9 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(github.com)

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

joshcNov 19, 2023, 7:27 PM

60 points

33 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

In favour of a sovereign state of Gaza

Yair HalberstadtNov 19, 2023, 4:08 PM

8 points

13 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

My Criticism of Singular Learning Theory

Joar SkalseNov 19, 2023, 3:19 PM

83 points

52 votes

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56 comments12 min readLW link

“Why can’t you just turn it off?”

RokoNov 19, 2023, 2:46 PM

48 points

46 votes

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25 comments1 min readLW link

Spaciousness In Partner Dance: A Naturalism Demo

LoganStrohlNov 19, 2023, 7:00 AM

78 points

22 votes

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6 comments19 min readLW link 1 review

Altman firing retaliation incoming?

trevorNov 19, 2023, 12:10 AM

50 points

47 votes

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23 comments5 min readLW link

When Will AIs Develop Long-Term Planning?

PeterMcCluskeyNov 19, 2023, 12:08 AM

18 points

7 votes

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5 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Killswitch

JunioNov 18, 2023, 10:53 PM

2 points

2 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Superalignment

Douglas_ReayNov 18, 2023, 10:37 PM

−4 points

10 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Predictable Defect-Cooperate?

quetzal_rainbowNov 18, 2023, 3:38 PM

7 points

3 votes

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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?

FTPickleNov 18, 2023, 2:16 PM

21 points

11 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Camp 2024

Linda LinseforsNov 18, 2023, 10:37 AM

15 points

9 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(aisafety.camp)

Post-EAG Music Party

jefftkNov 18, 2023, 3:00 AM

14 points

4 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Letter to a Sonoma County Jail Cell

MadHatterNov 18, 2023, 2:24 AM

9 points

13 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

1. A Sense of Fairness: Deconfusing Ethics

RogerDearnaleyNov 17, 2023, 8:55 PM

17 points

10 votes

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8 comments15 min readLW link

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceCNov 17, 2023, 8:42 PM

192 points

93 votes

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75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

On the lethality of biased human reward ratings

Eli Tyre and johnswentworth

Nov 17, 2023, 6:59 PM

48 points

18 votes

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10 comments37 min readLW link

Coup probes: Catching catastrophes with probes trained off-policy

Fabien RogerNov 17, 2023, 5:58 PM

93 points

31 votes

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9 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

On Lies and Liars

Gabriel AlfourNov 17, 2023, 5:13 PM

31 points

25 votes

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4 comments14 min readLW link

(cognition.cafe)

Classifying representations of sparse autoencoders (SAEs)

AnnahNov 17, 2023, 1:54 PM

15 points

7 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

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

Maxwell TabarrokNov 17, 2023, 1:14 PM

15 points

8 votes

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14 comments3 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

On excluding dangerous information from training

ShayBenMosheNov 17, 2023, 11:14 AM

23 points

11 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

The dangers of reproducing while old

garymmNov 17, 2023, 5:55 AM

23 points

6 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.garymm.org)

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