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[Question] How do you feel about LessWrong these days? [Open feedback thread]

jacobjacob5 Dec 2023 20:54 UTC

101 points

272 comments1 min readLW link

Critique-a-Thon of AI Alignment Plans

Iknownothing5 Dec 2023 20:50 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Arguments for/against scheming that focus on the path SGD takes (Section 3 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith5 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC

10 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D’Angelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post)

mrtreasure5 Dec 2023 18:40 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(pastebin.com)

Studying The Alien Mind

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI and NicholasKees

5 Dec 2023 17:27 UTC

76 points

10 comments15 min readLW link

Deep Forgetting & Unlearning for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasper5 Dec 2023 16:48 UTC

109 points

29 comments13 min readLW link

On ‘Responsible Scaling Policies’ (RSPs)

Zvi5 Dec 2023 16:10 UTC

48 points

3 comments37 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We’re all in this together

Tamsin Leake5 Dec 2023 13:57 UTC

68 points

65 comments2 min readLW link

(carado.moe)

A Socratic dialogue with my student

lsusr5 Dec 2023 9:31 UTC

36 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Neural uncertainty estimation review article (for alignment)

Charlie Steiner5 Dec 2023 8:01 UTC

74 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

Analyzing the Historical Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardt5 Dec 2023 6:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Some open-source dictionaries and dictionary learning infrastructure

Sam Marks5 Dec 2023 6:05 UTC

45 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

The LessWrong 2022 Review

habryka5 Dec 2023 4:00 UTC

115 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

Bands And Low-stakes Dances

jefftk5 Dec 2023 3:50 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Accelerating science through evolvable institutions

jasoncrawford4 Dec 2023 23:21 UTC

19 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk

Akash and hath

4 Dec 2023 23:08 UTC

289 points

23 comments16 min readLW link

Open Thread – Winter 2023/2024

habryka4 Dec 2023 22:59 UTC

35 points

160 comments1 min readLW link

Interview with Vanessa Kosoy on the Value of Theoretical Research for AI

WillPetillo4 Dec 2023 22:58 UTC

35 points

0 comments35 min readLW link

2023 Alignment Research Updates from FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean

4 Dec 2023 22:32 UTC

18 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(far.ai)

What’s new at FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean

4 Dec 2023 21:18 UTC

40 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(far.ai)

n of m ring signatures

DanielFilan4 Dec 2023 20:00 UTC

49 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Mechanistic interpretability through clustering

Alistair Fraser4 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Agents which are EU-maximizing as a group are not EU-maximizing individually

Mlxa4 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC

3 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Planning in LLMs: Insights from AlphaGo

jco4 Dec 2023 18:48 UTC

8 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

Non-classic stories about scheming (Section 2.3.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith4 Dec 2023 18:44 UTC

9 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

6. The Mutable Values Problem in Value Learning and CEV

RogerDearnaley4 Dec 2023 18:31 UTC

12 points

0 comments49 min readLW link

Updates to Open Phil’s career development and transition funding program

abergal and Bastian Stern

4 Dec 2023 18:10 UTC

28 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Valence series] 1. Introduction

Steven Byrnes4 Dec 2023 15:40 UTC

87 points

14 comments15 min readLW link

South Bay Meetup 12/9

David Friedman4 Dec 2023 7:32 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Hashmarks: Privacy-Preserving Benchmarks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul Bricman4 Dec 2023 7:31 UTC

12 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

A call for a quantitative report card for AI bioterrorism threat models

Juno4 Dec 2023 6:35 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

FTL travel summary

Isaac King4 Dec 2023 5:17 UTC

1 point

3 comments3 min readLW link

Disappointing Table Refinishing

jefftk4 Dec 2023 2:50 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

the micro-fulfillment cambrian explosion

bhauth4 Dec 2023 1:15 UTC

54 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Nietzsche’s Morality in Plain English

Arjun Panickssery4 Dec 2023 0:57 UTC

73 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Meditations on Mot

Richard_Ngo4 Dec 2023 0:19 UTC

52 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

The Witness

Richard_Ngo3 Dec 2023 22:27 UTC

103 points

4 comments14 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Does scheming lead to adequate future empowerment? (Section 2.3.1.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith3 Dec 2023 18:32 UTC

9 points

0 comments17 min readLW link

[Question] How do you do post mortems?

matto3 Dec 2023 14:46 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The benefits and risks of optimism (about AI safety)

Karl von Wendt3 Dec 2023 12:45 UTC

−11 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Book Review: 1948 by Benny Morris

Yair Halberstadt3 Dec 2023 10:29 UTC

41 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

Quick takes on “AI is easy to control”

So8res2 Dec 2023 22:31 UTC

26 points

49 comments4 min readLW link

Sherlockian Abduction Master List

Cole Wyeth2 Dec 2023 22:10 UTC

10 points

31 comments7 min readLW link

The goal-guarding hypothesis (Section 2.3.1.1 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith2 Dec 2023 15:20 UTC

8 points

1 comment15 min readLW link

The Method of Loci: With some brief remarks, including transformers and evaluating AIs

Bill Benzon2 Dec 2023 14:36 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Taking Into Account Sentient Non-Humans in AI Ambitious Value Learning: Sentientist Coherent Extrapolated Volition

Adrià Moret2 Dec 2023 14:07 UTC

26 points

31 comments42 min readLW link

Out-of-distribution Bioattacks

jefftk2 Dec 2023 12:20 UTC

66 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

After Alignment — Dialogue between RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd

2 Dec 2023 6:03 UTC

15 points

2 comments25 min readLW link

List of strategies for mitigating deceptive alignment

joshc2 Dec 2023 5:56 UTC

34 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What is known about invariants in self-modifying systems?

mishka2 Dec 2023 5:04 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link