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The ‘Neglected Approaches’ Approach: AE Studio’s Alignment Agenda

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Trent Hodgeson and Marc Carauleanu

Dec 18, 2023, 8:35 PM

187 points

74 votes

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23 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

The Shortest Path Between Scylla and Charybdis

Thane RuthenisDec 18, 2023, 8:08 PM

50 points

21 votes

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8 comments5 min readLW link

OpenAI: Preparedness framework

Zach Stein-PerlmanDec 18, 2023, 6:30 PM

70 points

30 votes

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23 comments4 min readLW link

(openai.com)

[Valence series] 5. “Valence Disorders” in Mental Health & Personality

Steven ByrnesDec 18, 2023, 3:26 PM

45 points

15 votes

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13 comments13 min readLW link

Discussion: Challenges with Unsupervised LLM Knowledge Discovery

Seb Farquhar, Vikrant Varma, zac_kenton, gasteigerjo, Vlad Mikulik and Rohin Shah

Dec 18, 2023, 11:58 AM

149 points

57 votes

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21 comments10 min readLW link

Interpreting the Learning of Deceit

RogerDearnaleyDec 18, 2023, 8:12 AM

30 points

11 votes

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14 comments9 min readLW link

Talk: “AI Would Be A Lot Less Alarming If We Understood Agents”

johnswentworthDec 17, 2023, 11:46 PM

58 points

21 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

∀: a story

Richard_NgoDec 17, 2023, 10:42 PM

40 points

30 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Reviving a 2015 MacBook

jefftkDec 17, 2023, 9:00 PM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Common-Sense Case For Mutually-Misaligned AGIs Allying Against Humans

Thane RuthenisDec 17, 2023, 8:28 PM

29 points

16 votes

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7 comments11 min readLW link

The Limits of Artificial Consciousness: A Biology-Based Critique of Chalmers’ Fading Qualia Argument

Štěpán LosDec 17, 2023, 7:11 PM

−6 points

5 votes

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9 comments17 min readLW link

What makes teaching math special

ViliamDec 17, 2023, 2:15 PM

45 points

20 votes

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27 comments11 min readLW link

The predictive power of dissipative adaptation

dr_sDec 17, 2023, 2:01 PM

56 points

25 votes

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14 comments19 min readLW link

Linkpost: Francesca v Harvard

LinchDec 17, 2023, 6:18 AM

5 points

11 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

(www.francesca-v-harvard.org)

The Serendipity of Density

jefftkDec 17, 2023, 3:50 AM

40 points

19 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Bounty: Diverse hard tasks for LLM agents

Beth Barnes and Megan Kinniment

Dec 17, 2023, 1:04 AM

49 points

27 votes

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31 comments16 min readLW link

2022 (and All Time) Posts by Pingback Count

RaemonDec 16, 2023, 9:17 PM

53 points

21 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

“Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity

Thane RuthenisDec 16, 2023, 8:08 PM

192 points

97 votes

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34 comments5 min readLW link

A visual analogy for text generation by LLMs?

Bill BenzonDec 16, 2023, 5:58 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

cold aluminum for medicine

bhauthDec 16, 2023, 2:38 PM

42 points

19 votes

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4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Scalable Oversight and Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Compatible approaches to the same problem

Ansh Radhakrishnan, Buck, ryan_greenblatt and Fabien Roger

Dec 16, 2023, 5:49 AM

76 points

27 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision

leogaoDec 16, 2023, 5:39 AM

55 points

19 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Pope Francis shares thoughts on responsible AI development

corruptedCatapillarDec 16, 2023, 3:49 AM

15 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.vatican.va)

Current AIs Provide Nearly No Data Relevant to AGI Alignment

Thane RuthenisDec 15, 2023, 8:16 PM

132 points

89 votes

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157 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Agglomeration of ‘Ought’

DavidAndresBloomDec 15, 2023, 7:07 PM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment11 min readLW link

Predicting the future with the power of the Internet (and pissing off Rob Miles)

WriterDec 15, 2023, 5:37 PM

23 points

12 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Progress links digest, 2023-12-15: Vitalik on d/acc, $100M+ in prizes, and more

jasoncrawfordDec 15, 2023, 3:52 PM

20 points

7 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

“AI Alignment” is a Dangerously Overloaded Term

RokoDec 15, 2023, 2:34 PM

108 points

69 votes

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100 comments3 min readLW link

[Valence series] 4. Valence & Social Status (deprecated)

Steven ByrnesDec 15, 2023, 2:24 PM

35 points

11 votes

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19 comments11 min readLW link

Contra Scott on Abolishing the FDA

Maxwell TabarrokDec 15, 2023, 2:00 PM

46 points

25 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

[Paper] Trajectories through semantic spaces in schizophrenia and the relationship to ripple bursts

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvDec 15, 2023, 1:37 PM

3 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.pnas.org)

Takeaways from a Mechanistic Interpretability project on “Forbidden Facts”

Tony Wang, Miles Wang and kaivu

Dec 15, 2023, 11:05 AM

34 points

17 votes

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8 comments10 min readLW link

Refinement of Active Inference agency ontology

Roman LeventovDec 15, 2023, 9:31 AM

16 points

7 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

EU policymakers reach an agreement on the AI Act

tlevinDec 15, 2023, 6:02 AM

78 points

39 votes

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7 comments7 min readLW link

Where Does Adversarial Pressure Come From?

quetzal_rainbowDec 14, 2023, 10:31 PM

17 points

9 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Epoch wise critical periods, and singular learning theory

Garrett BakerDec 14, 2023, 8:55 PM

16 points

3 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

OpenAI Superalignment: Weak-to-strong generalization

DalmertDec 14, 2023, 7:47 PM

25 points

10 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Applications for EA Global are still open!

Eli_NathanDec 14, 2023, 7:10 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Personal Development System: Winning Repeatedly and Growing Effectively With The BIG4

Paul RohdeDec 14, 2023, 6:49 PM

13 points

7 votes

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0 comments33 min readLW link

(blog.paul-rohde.com)

Introducing The ‘From Big Ideas To Real-World Results’: A Series for Effective Personal Development

Paul RohdeDec 14, 2023, 6:49 PM

13 points

8 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(blog.paul-rohde.com)

Talking With People Who Speak to Congressional Staffers about AI risk

EneaszDec 14, 2023, 5:55 PM

32 points

10 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.thebayesianconspiracy.com)

Bayesian Injustice

Kevin DorstDec 14, 2023, 3:44 PM

124 points

59 votes

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10 comments6 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

AI #42: The Wrong Answer

ZviDec 14, 2023, 2:50 PM

67 points

23 votes

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6 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some for-profit AI alignment org ideas

Eric HoDec 14, 2023, 2:23 PM

87 points

53 votes

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19 comments9 min readLW link

Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces

mwatkinsDec 14, 2023, 1:10 PM

115 points

57 votes

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31 comments14 min readLW link

Categorical Organization in Memory: ChatGPT Organizes the 665 Topic Tags from My New Savanna Blog

Bill BenzonDec 14, 2023, 1:02 PM

0 points

6 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Moral Mountains

Adam ZernerDec 14, 2023, 10:40 AM

8 points

3 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Update on Chinese IQ-related gene panels

Lao MeinDec 14, 2023, 10:12 AM

70 points

28 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Red Line Ashmont Train is Now Approaching

jefftkDec 14, 2023, 2:50 AM

23 points

13 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Various AI doom pathways (and how likely they are)

Logan ZoellnerDec 14, 2023, 12:54 AM

1 point

8 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)

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