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Situational awareness (Section 2.1 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithNov 26, 2023, 11:00 PM

10 points

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5 comments8 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 26 - AI Governance with Elizabeth Seger

DanielFilanNov 26, 2023, 11:00 PM

14 points

5 votes

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0 comments66 min readLW link

Solving Two-Sided Adverse Selection with Prediction Market Matchmaking

Saul MunnNov 26, 2023, 8:10 PM

16 points

11 votes

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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

13 votes

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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

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Twin Cities ACX Meetup—December 2023

Timothy M.Nov 26, 2023, 5:32 PM

1 point

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1 comment1 min readLW link

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

Chris LakinNov 26, 2023, 4:52 PM

48 points

29 votes

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9 comments5 min readLW link

(chipmonk.substack.com)

Paper out now on creatine and cognitive performance

FabienneNov 26, 2023, 10:58 AM

61 points

37 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

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

ShmiNov 26, 2023, 6:12 AM

5 points

12 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Moral Reality Check (a short story)

jessicataNov 26, 2023, 5:03 AM

152 points

101 votes

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45 comments21 min readLW link 1 review

(unstableontology.com)

Accounting for Foregone Pay

jefftkNov 26, 2023, 3:30 AM

11 points

2 votes

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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

13 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

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

Joe CarlsmithNov 25, 2023, 5:51 PM

1 point

4 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing New Beginner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKeeNov 25, 2023, 3:57 PM

83 points

32 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Fertility as Metascience

Maxwell TabarrokNov 25, 2023, 3:42 PM

20 points

15 votes

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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

6 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

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

positivesumNov 25, 2023, 1:25 PM

3 points

10 votes

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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

107 votes

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31 comments5 min readLW link

A simple treacherous turn demonstration

Nikola JurkovicNov 25, 2023, 4:51 AM

22 points

13 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

The two paragraph argument for AI risk

CronoDASNov 25, 2023, 2:01 AM

19 points

11 votes

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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

10 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Some thoughts on CBDC

PixelatedPenguinNov 25, 2023, 12:32 AM

−1 points

2 votes

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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

8 votes

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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

2 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

Article Discussion And Free Pizza—St Paul

25HourNov 24, 2023, 9:02 PM

1 point

1 vote

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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

2 votes

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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

2 votes

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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

204 points

110 votes

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84 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

The Limitations of GPT-4

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

27 points

16 votes

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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

16 votes

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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

11 points

8 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Sapience, understanding, and “AGI”

Seth HerdNov 24, 2023, 3:13 PM

17 points

5 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

Insulate your ideas

Logan KiellerNov 24, 2023, 2:08 PM

20 points

15 votes

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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

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1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] A Question For People Who Believe In God

yanni kyriacosNov 24, 2023, 5:22 AM

3 points

6 votes

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38 comments1 min readLW link

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

Mitchell_PorterNov 24, 2023, 5:03 AM

20 points

10 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

4. A Moral Case for Evolved-Sapience-Chauvinism

RogerDearnaleyNov 24, 2023, 4:56 AM

10 points

7 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Detecting What’s Been Seen

jefftkNov 24, 2023, 3:30 AM

23 points

7 votes

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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 votes

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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

20 votes

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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

5 votes

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1 comment17 min readLW link

Prepsgiving, A Convergently Instrumental Human Practice

JenniferRMNov 23, 2023, 5:24 PM

39 points

17 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

AI #39: The Week of OpenAI

ZviNov 23, 2023, 3:10 PM

67 points

32 votes

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8 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaleyNov 23, 2023, 7:39 AM

21 points

24 votes

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5 comments8 min readLW link

2. AIs as Economic Agents

RogerDearnaleyNov 23, 2023, 7:07 AM

9 points

7 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s research journal

Thomas Kwa and Adrià Garriga-alonso

Nov 23, 2023, 5:11 AM

79 points

37 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Never Drop A Ball

ScrewtapeNov 23, 2023, 4:15 AM

107 points

61 votes

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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

49 votes

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25 comments2 min readLW link

Boston Secular Solstice: Call for Singers and Musicans

jefftkNov 23, 2023, 2:40 AM

16 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My Mental Model of Infohazards

MadHatterNov 23, 2023, 2:37 AM

8 points

17 votes

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34 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

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