Si­tu­a­tional aware­ness (Sec­tion 2.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith26 Nov 2023 23:00 UTC
10 points
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AXRP Epi­sode 26 - AI Gover­nance with Eliz­a­beth Seger

DanielFilan26 Nov 2023 23:00 UTC
13 points
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Solv­ing Two-Sided Ad­verse Selec­tion with Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Matchmaking

Saul Munn26 Nov 2023 20:10 UTC
16 points
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(www.brasstacks.blog)

Wikipe­dia is not so great, and what can be done about it.

euserx26 Nov 2023 19:13 UTC
0 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Help me solve this prob­lem: The basilisk isn’t real, but peo­ple are

canary_itm26 Nov 2023 17:44 UTC
−19 points
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Twin Cities ACX Meetup—De­cem­ber 2023

Timothy M.26 Nov 2023 17:32 UTC
1 point
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Spaced rep­e­ti­tion for teach­ing two-year olds how to read (In­ter­view)

Chipmonk26 Nov 2023 16:52 UTC
46 points
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(chipmonk.substack.com)

Paper out now on cre­a­tine and cog­ni­tive performance

Fabienne26 Nov 2023 10:58 UTC
57 points
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Why Q*, if real, might be a game changer

shminux26 Nov 2023 6:12 UTC
5 points
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Mo­ral Real­ity Check (a short story)

jessicata26 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC
138 points
44 comments21 min readLW link
(unstableontology.com)

Ac­count­ing for Fore­gone Pay

jefftk26 Nov 2023 3:30 UTC
11 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

A thought ex­per­i­ment to help per­suade skep­tics that power-seek­ing AI is plausible

jacobcd5225 Nov 2023 23:26 UTC
1 point
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Cor­rigi­bil­ity or DWIM is an at­trac­tive pri­mary goal for AGI

Seth Herd25 Nov 2023 19:37 UTC
16 points
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On “slack” in train­ing (Sec­tion 1.5 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith25 Nov 2023 17:51 UTC
1 point
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An­nounc­ing New Begin­ner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKee25 Nov 2023 15:57 UTC
64 points
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Fer­til­ity as Metascience

Maxwell Tabarrok25 Nov 2023 15:42 UTC
20 points
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(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Re­ac­tion to “Em­pow­er­ment is (al­most) All We Need” : an open-ended alternative

Ryo 25 Nov 2023 15:35 UTC
9 points
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How Microsoft’s ruth­less em­ployee eval­u­a­tion sys­tem an­nihilated team col­lab­o­ra­tion.

positivesum25 Nov 2023 13:25 UTC
3 points
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(tryingtruly.substack.com)

What are the re­sults of more parental su­per­vi­sion and less out­door play?

juliawise25 Nov 2023 12:52 UTC
215 points
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A sim­ple treach­er­ous turn demonstration

nikola25 Nov 2023 4:51 UTC
22 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The two para­graph ar­gu­ment for AI risk

CronoDAS25 Nov 2023 2:01 UTC
18 points
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Good­hart’s Law Ex­am­ple: Train­ing Ver­ifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Chris_Leong25 Nov 2023 0:53 UTC
27 points
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(arxiv.org)

Some thoughts on CBDC

PixelatedPenguin25 Nov 2023 0:32 UTC
−1 points
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Test­ing for con­se­quence-blind­ness in LLMs us­ing the HI-ADS unit test.

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)24 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC
25 points
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Epoch is hiring an ML Distributed Sys­tems Se­nior Researcher

24 Nov 2023 22:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion And Free Pizza—St Paul

25Hour24 Nov 2023 21:02 UTC
1 point
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Why fo­cus on schemers in par­tic­u­lar (Sec­tions 1.3 and 1.4 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith24 Nov 2023 19:18 UTC
8 points
0 comments22 min readLW link

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

24 Nov 2023 18:18 UTC
4 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

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

So8res24 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC
203 points
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The Limi­ta­tions of GPT-4

p.b.24 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC
26 points
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Progress links di­gest, 2023-11-24: Bot­tle­necks of ag­ing, Star­ship launches, and much more

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2023 15:25 UTC
40 points
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(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. Zuo24 Nov 2023 15:22 UTC
9 points
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Sapi­ence, un­der­stand­ing, and “AGI”

Seth Herd24 Nov 2023 15:13 UTC
15 points
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In­su­late your ideas

Logan Kieller24 Nov 2023 14:08 UTC
25 points
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(logankieller.substack.com)

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

vi21maobk9vp24 Nov 2023 11:17 UTC
5 points
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[Question] A Ques­tion For Peo­ple Who Believe In God

yanni kyriacos24 Nov 2023 5:22 UTC
3 points
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[Question] First and Last Ques­tions for GPT-5*

Mitchell_Porter24 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC
15 points
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4. A Mo­ral Case for Evolved-Sapi­ence-Chau­vinism

RogerDearnaley24 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC
10 points
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De­tect­ing What’s Been Seen

jefftk24 Nov 2023 3:30 UTC
23 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

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

JavierCC23 Nov 2023 22:49 UTC
3 points
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[Question] What did you change your mind about in the last year?

mike_hawke23 Nov 2023 20:53 UTC
41 points
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An Idea on How LLMs Can Show Self-Serv­ing Bias

Bruce W. Lee23 Nov 2023 20:25 UTC
6 points
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A few Su­per­hu­man ex­am­ples of Su­per­al­igned Su­per­in­tel­li­gence from Google Bard (Thanks­giv­ing 2023)

23 Nov 2023 19:06 UTC
−9 points
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Preps­giv­ing, A Con­ver­gently In­stru­men­tal Hu­man Practice

JenniferRM23 Nov 2023 17:24 UTC
35 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

AI #39: The Week of OpenAI

Zvi23 Nov 2023 15:10 UTC
67 points
8 comments28 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC
21 points
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2. AIs as Eco­nomic Agents

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:07 UTC
9 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s re­search journal

23 Nov 2023 5:11 UTC
79 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Never Drop A Ball

Screwtape23 Nov 2023 4:15 UTC
62 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

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

Burny23 Nov 2023 3:16 UTC
37 points
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