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Testing for consequence-blindness in LLMs using the HI-ADS unit test.

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Nov 24, 2023, 11:35 PM

25 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Epoch is hiring an ML Distributed Systems Senior Researcher

merilalama and Jaime Sevilla Molina

Nov 24, 2023, 10:33 PM

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

Article Discussion And Free Pizza—St Paul

25HourNov 24, 2023, 9:02 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why focus on schemers in particular (Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 24, 2023, 7:18 PM

8 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

Surviving and Shaping Long-Term Competitions: Lessons from Net Assessment

Gentzel and ihavenoahidea

Nov 24, 2023, 6:18 PM

5 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense

So8resNov 24, 2023, 5:37 PM

197 points

84 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

The Limitations of GPT-4

p.b.Nov 24, 2023, 3:30 PM

27 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-11-24: Bottlenecks of aging, Starship launches, and much more

jasoncrawfordNov 24, 2023, 3:25 PM

40 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What’s the evidence that LLMs will scale up efficiently beyond GPT4? i.e. couldn’t GPT5, etc., be very inefficient?

M. Y. ZuoNov 24, 2023, 3:22 PM

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Sapience, understanding, and “AGI”

Seth HerdNov 24, 2023, 3:13 PM

15 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Insulate your ideas

Logan KiellerNov 24, 2023, 2:08 PM

18 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Bordeaux, Gironde, France – irregular ACX Meetup 2023-12-09

vi21maobk9vpNov 24, 2023, 11:17 AM

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] A Question For People Who Believe In God

yanni kyriacosNov 24, 2023, 5:22 AM

3 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] First and Last Questions for GPT-5*

Mitchell_PorterNov 24, 2023, 5:03 AM

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

4. A Moral Case for Evolved-Sapience-Chauvinism

RogerDearnaleyNov 24, 2023, 4:56 AM

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Detecting What’s Been Seen

jefftkNov 24, 2023, 3:30 AM

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Help to find a blog I don’t remember the name of

JavierCCNov 23, 2023, 10:49 PM

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What did you change your mind about in the last year?

mike_hawkeNov 23, 2023, 8:53 PM

41 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

A few Superhuman examples of Superaligned Superintelligence from Google Bard (Thanksgiving 2023)

bionicles and bionalexhoward

Nov 23, 2023, 7:06 PM

−9 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

Prepsgiving, A Convergently Instrumental Human Practice

JenniferRMNov 23, 2023, 5:24 PM

39 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

AI #39: The Week of OpenAI

ZviNov 23, 2023, 3:10 PM

67 points

8 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaleyNov 23, 2023, 7:39 AM

21 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

2. AIs as Economic Agents

RogerDearnaleyNov 23, 2023, 7:07 AM

9 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s research journal

Thomas Kwa and Adrià Garriga-alonso

Nov 23, 2023, 5:11 AM

79 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Never Drop A Ball

ScrewtapeNov 23, 2023, 4:15 AM

101 points

8 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Possible OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough and DeepMind’s AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs

BurnyNov 23, 2023, 3:16 AM

37 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Boston Secular Solstice: Call for Singers and Musicans

jefftkNov 23, 2023, 2:40 AM

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My Mental Model of Infohazards

MadHatterNov 23, 2023, 2:37 AM

8 points

34 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Saturating the Difficulty Levels of Alignment

Johannes C. MayerNov 23, 2023, 12:39 AM

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Sacramento LW/ACX Meetup

mcintNov 22, 2023, 11:52 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough—Reuters

Jonathan YanNov 22, 2023, 11:17 PM

18 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Foresight Institute: 2023 Progress & 2024 Plans for funding beneficial technology development

Allison DuettmannNov 22, 2023, 10:09 PM

24 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

AISC project: TinyEvals

Jett JaniakNov 22, 2023, 8:47 PM

22 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The proposal to add a ``Last Judge″ to an AI, does not remove the urgency, of making progress on the ``what alignment target should be aimed at?″ question.

ThomasCederborgNov 22, 2023, 6:59 PM

1 point

0 comments18 min readLW link

Neither Copernicus, Galileo, nor Kepler had proof

Meow PNov 22, 2023, 6:41 PM

4 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

ZviNov 22, 2023, 5:30 PM

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Altman returns as OpenAI CEO with new board

Seth HerdNov 22, 2023, 4:04 PM

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A taxonomy of non-schemer models (Section 1.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 22, 2023, 3:24 PM

13 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

AI debate: test yourself against chess ‘AIs’

Richard WillisNov 22, 2023, 2:58 PM

26 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Public Call for Interest in Mathematical Alignment

DavidmanheimNov 22, 2023, 1:22 PM

90 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

How “Pinky Promise” diplomacy once stopped a war in the Middle East

positivesumNov 22, 2023, 12:03 PM

15 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(tryingtruly.substack.com)

Alignment, conflict, powerseeking

Oliver SourbutNov 22, 2023, 9:47 AM

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Bias] Restricting freedom is more harmful than it seems

lsusrNov 22, 2023, 9:44 AM

17 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Portable Chargers are Great

jefftkNov 22, 2023, 2:50 AM

21 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Atlantis: Berkeley event venue available for rent

Jonas VNov 22, 2023, 1:47 AM

45 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much should e-signatures have to cost a country?

FlorianHNov 21, 2023, 10:45 PM

5 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

My first conversation with Annie Altman

RemmeltNov 21, 2023, 9:58 PM

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(open.spotify.com)

Userscript to always show LW comments in context vs at the top

Vlad SitaloNov 21, 2023, 5:53 PM

44 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Dialogue on the Claim: “OpenAI’s Firing of Sam Altman (And Shortly-Subsequent Events) On Net Reduced Existential Risk From AGI”

johnswentworth and Ruby

Nov 21, 2023, 5:39 PM

73 points

84 comments11 min readLW link

AI Alignment [progress] this Week (11/19/2023)

Logan ZoellnerNov 21, 2023, 4:09 PM

18 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

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