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A Crisper Explanation of Simulacrum Levels

Thane RuthenisDec 23, 2023, 10:13 PM

92 points

13 comments13 min readLW link

Hyperbolic Discounting and Pascal’s Mugging

Andrew Keenan RichardsonDec 23, 2023, 9:55 PM

9 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

AISN #28: Center for AI Safety 2023 Year in Review

Dan HDec 23, 2023, 9:31 PM

30 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

“Inftoxicity” and other new words to describe malicious information and communication thereof

Jáchym FibírDec 23, 2023, 6:15 PM

−1 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

AI’s impact on biology research: Part I, today

octopoctaDec 23, 2023, 4:29 PM

31 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

AI Girlfriends Won’t Matter Much

Maxwell TabarrokDec 23, 2023, 3:58 PM

42 points

22 comments2 min readLW link

(maximumprogress.substack.com)

The Next Right Token

jefftkDec 23, 2023, 3:20 AM

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Fact Finding: Do Early Layers Specialise in Local Processing? (Post 5)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

Dec 23, 2023, 2:46 AM

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Fact Finding: How to Think About Interpreting Memorisation (Post 4)

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

Dec 23, 2023, 2:46 AM

22 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Trying to Mechanistically Understanding Early MLPs (Post 3)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

Dec 23, 2023, 2:46 AM

10 points

1 comment16 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Simplifying the Circuit (Post 2)

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Neel Nanda, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

Dec 23, 2023, 2:45 AM

25 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Fact Finding: Attempting to Reverse-Engineer Factual Recall on the Neuron Level (Post 1)

Neel Nanda, Senthooran Rajamanoharan, János Kramár and Rohin Shah

Dec 23, 2023, 2:44 AM

106 points

10 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

Measurement tampering detection as a special case of weak-to-strong generalization

ryan_greenblatt, Fabien Roger and Buck

Dec 23, 2023, 12:05 AM

57 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

How does a toy 2 digit subtraction transformer predict the difference?

Evan AndersDec 22, 2023, 9:17 PM

12 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

(evanhanders.blog)

Thoughts on Max Tegmark’s AI verification

Johannes C. MayerDec 22, 2023, 8:38 PM

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Idealized Agents Are Approximate Causal Mirrors (+ Radical Optimism on Agent Foundations)

Thane RuthenisDec 22, 2023, 8:19 PM

75 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

AI safety advocates should consider providing gentle pushback following the events at OpenAI

civilsocietyDec 22, 2023, 6:55 PM

16 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

“Destroy humanity” as an immediate subgoal

Seth AhrenbachDec 22, 2023, 6:52 PM

3 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

Synthetic Restrictions

nano_brascaDec 22, 2023, 6:50 PM

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Review Report of Davidson on Takeoff Speeds (2023)

Trent KannegieterDec 22, 2023, 6:48 PM

37 points

11 comments38 min readLW link

The problems with the concept of an infohazard as used by the LW community [Linkpost]

Noosphere89Dec 22, 2023, 4:13 PM

75 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

(www.beren.io)

Employee Incentives Make AGI Lab Pauses More Costly

Nikola JurkovicDec 22, 2023, 5:04 AM

28 points

12 comments3 min readLW link

The LessWrong 2022 Review: Review Phase

RobertMDec 22, 2023, 3:23 AM

58 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

The absence of self-rejection is self-acceptance

ChipmonkDec 21, 2023, 9:54 PM

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(chipmonk.substack.com)

A Decision Theory Can Be Rational or Computable, but Not Both

StrivingForLegibilityDec 21, 2023, 9:02 PM

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Most People Don’t Realize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work

Thane RuthenisDec 21, 2023, 8:02 PM

159 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Pseudonymity and Accusations

jefftkDec 21, 2023, 7:20 PM

52 points

20 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn’t Distracted from Current Harms from AI

Erich_GrunewaldDec 21, 2023, 5:24 PM

26 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

“Alignment” is one of six words of the year in the Harvard Gazette

Nikola JurkovicDec 21, 2023, 3:54 PM

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(news.harvard.edu)

AI #43: Functional Discoveries

ZviDec 21, 2023, 3:50 PM

52 points

26 comments49 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Rating my AI Predictions

Robert_AIZIDec 21, 2023, 2:07 PM

22 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(aizi.substack.com)

AI Safety Chatbot

markov and Robert Miles

Dec 21, 2023, 2:06 PM

61 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

On OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework

ZviDec 21, 2023, 2:00 PM

51 points

4 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Prediction Markets aren’t Magic

SimonMDec 21, 2023, 12:54 PM

90 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Why is capnometry biofeedback not more widely known?

riceissaDec 21, 2023, 2:42 AM

20 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

My best guess at the important tricks for training 1L SAEs

Arthur ConmyDec 21, 2023, 1:59 AM

37 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Seattle Winter Solstice

a7xDec 20, 2023, 8:30 PM

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How Would an Utopia-Maximizer Look Like?

Thane RuthenisDec 20, 2023, 8:01 PM

32 points

23 comments10 min readLW link

Succession

Richard_NgoDec 20, 2023, 7:25 PM

159 points

48 comments11 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Metaculus Introduces Multiple Choice Questions

ChristianWilliamsDec 20, 2023, 7:00 PM

4 points

0 comments LW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Brighter Than Today Versions

jefftkDec 20, 2023, 6:20 PM

16 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Gaia Network: a practical, incremental pathway to Open Agency Architecture

Roman Leventov and Rafael Kaufmann Nedal

Dec 20, 2023, 5:11 PM

22 points

8 comments16 min readLW link

On the future of language models

owencbDec 20, 2023, 4:58 PM

105 points

17 comments LW link

[Valence series] Appendix A: Hedonic tone / (dis)pleasure / (dis)liking

Steven ByrnesDec 20, 2023, 3:54 PM

18 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Matrix completion prize results

paulfchristianoDec 20, 2023, 3:40 PM

42 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

[Question] What’s the minimal additive constant for Kolmogorov Complexity that a programming language can achieve?

Noosphere89Dec 20, 2023, 3:36 PM

11 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Legalize butanol?

bhauthDec 20, 2023, 2:24 PM

39 points

20 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

A short dialogue on comparability of values

cousin_itDec 20, 2023, 2:08 PM

27 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Inside View, Outside View… And Opposing View

chaosmageDec 20, 2023, 12:35 PM

21 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Heuristics for preventing major life mistakes

SK2Dec 20, 2023, 8:01 AM

28 points

2 comments3 min readLW link