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Si­tu­a­tional aware­ness (Sec­tion 2.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 26, 2023, 11:00 PM
10 points
5 comments8 min readLW link

AXRP Epi­sode 26 - AI Gover­nance with Eliz­a­beth Seger

DanielFilanNov 26, 2023, 11:00 PM
14 points
0 comments66 min readLW link

Solv­ing Two-Sided Ad­verse Selec­tion with Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Matchmaking

Saul MunnNov 26, 2023, 8:10 PM
16 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

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

euserxNov 26, 2023, 7:13 PM
0 points
27 comments16 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

canary_itmNov 26, 2023, 5:44 PM
−19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Twin Cities ACX Meetup—De­cem­ber 2023

Timothy M.Nov 26, 2023, 5:32 PM
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

Spaced rep­e­ti­tion for teach­ing two-year olds how to read (In­ter­view)

ChipmonkNov 26, 2023, 4:52 PM
48 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(chipmonk.substack.com)

Paper out now on cre­a­tine and cog­ni­tive performance

FabienneNov 26, 2023, 10:58 AM
59 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Why Q*, if real, might be a game changer

ShmiNov 26, 2023, 6:12 AM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Mo­ral Real­ity Check (a short story)

jessicataNov 26, 2023, 5:03 AM
149 points
45 comments21 min readLW link1 review
(unstableontology.com)

Ac­count­ing for Fore­gone Pay

jefftkNov 26, 2023, 3:30 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Cor­rigi­bil­ity or DWIM is an at­trac­tive pri­mary goal for AGI

Seth HerdNov 25, 2023, 7:37 PM
19 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

On “slack” in train­ing (Sec­tion 1.5 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 25, 2023, 5:51 PM
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing New Begin­ner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKeeNov 25, 2023, 3:57 PM
74 points
3 commentsLW link

Fer­til­ity as Metascience

Maxwell TabarrokNov 25, 2023, 3:42 PM
20 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

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

Ryo Nov 25, 2023, 3:35 PM
9 points
3 comments5 min readLW link

How Microsoft’s ruth­less em­ployee eval­u­a­tion sys­tem an­nihilated team col­lab­o­ra­tion.

positivesumNov 25, 2023, 1:25 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(tryingtruly.substack.com)

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

juliawiseNov 25, 2023, 12:52 PM
228 points
31 comments5 min readLW link

A sim­ple treach­er­ous turn demonstration

Nikola JurkovicNov 25, 2023, 4:51 AM
22 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

The two para­graph ar­gu­ment for AI risk

CronoDASNov 25, 2023, 2:01 AM
19 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law Ex­am­ple: Train­ing Ver­ifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Chris_LeongNov 25, 2023, 12:53 AM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Some thoughts on CBDC

PixelatedPenguinNov 25, 2023, 12:32 AM
−1 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

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 link1 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 link1 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 link1 review