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

Bird ConceptDec 5, 2023, 8:54 PM
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Cri­tique-a-Thon of AI Align­ment Plans

IknownothingDec 5, 2023, 8:50 PM
12 points

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

Joe CarlsmithDec 5, 2023, 6:48 PM
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In defence of He­len Toner, Adam D’An­gelo, and Tasha McCauley (OpenAI post)

peterrDec 5, 2023, 6:40 PM
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Study­ing The Alien Mind

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI and NicholasKees
Dec 5, 2023, 5:27 PM
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Deep For­get­ting & Un­learn­ing for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasperDec 5, 2023, 4:48 PM
127 points

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On ‘Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Poli­cies’ (RSPs)

ZviDec 5, 2023, 4:10 PM
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We’re all in this together

Tamsin LeakeDec 5, 2023, 1:57 PM
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A So­cratic di­alogue with my student

lsusrDec 5, 2023, 9:31 AM
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Neu­ral un­cer­tainty es­ti­ma­tion re­view ar­ti­cle (for al­ign­ment)

Charlie SteinerDec 5, 2023, 8:01 AM
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An­a­lyz­ing the His­tor­i­cal Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardtDec 5, 2023, 6:30 AM
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Some open-source dic­tio­nar­ies and dic­tio­nary learn­ing infrastructure

Sam MarksDec 5, 2023, 6:05 AM
46 points

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The LessWrong 2022 Review

habrykaDec 5, 2023, 4:00 AM
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Bands And Low-stakes Dances

jefftkDec 5, 2023, 3:50 AM
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Ac­cel­er­at­ing sci­ence through evolv­able institutions

jasoncrawfordDec 4, 2023, 11:21 PM
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Speak­ing to Con­gres­sional staffers about AI risk

Orpheus16 and hath
Dec 4, 2023, 11:08 PM
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Open Thread – Win­ter 2023/​2024

habrykaDec 4, 2023, 10:59 PM
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In­ter­view with Vanessa Kosoy on the Value of The­o­ret­i­cal Re­search for AI

WillPetilloDec 4, 2023, 10:58 PM
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2023 Align­ment Re­search Up­dates from FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean
Dec 4, 2023, 10:32 PM
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What’s new at FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean
Dec 4, 2023, 9:18 PM
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n of m ring signatures

DanielFilanDec 4, 2023, 8:00 PM
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Mechanis­tic in­ter­pretabil­ity through clustering

Alistair FraserDec 4, 2023, 6:49 PM
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Agents which are EU-max­i­miz­ing as a group are not EU-max­i­miz­ing individually

MlxaDec 4, 2023, 6:49 PM
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Plan­ning in LLMs: In­sights from AlphaGo

jcoDec 4, 2023, 6:48 PM
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Non-clas­sic sto­ries about schem­ing (Sec­tion 2.3.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithDec 4, 2023, 6:44 PM
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6. The Mutable Values Prob­lem in Value Learn­ing and CEV

RogerDearnaleyDec 4, 2023, 6:31 PM
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Up­dates to Open Phil’s ca­reer de­vel­op­ment and tran­si­tion fund­ing program

abergal and Bastian Stern
Dec 4, 2023, 6:10 PM
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[Valence se­ries] 1. Introduction

Steven ByrnesDec 4, 2023, 3:40 PM
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South Bay Meetup 12/​9

David FriedmanDec 4, 2023, 7:32 AM
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Hash­marks: Pri­vacy-Pre­serv­ing Bench­marks for High-Stakes AI Evaluation

Paul BricmanDec 4, 2023, 7:31 AM
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A call for a quan­ti­ta­tive re­port card for AI bioter­ror­ism threat models

JunoDec 4, 2023, 6:35 AM
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FTL travel summary

Isaac KingDec 4, 2023, 5:17 AM
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Dis­ap­point­ing Table Refinishing

jefftkDec 4, 2023, 2:50 AM
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the micro-fulfill­ment cam­brian explosion

bhauthDec 4, 2023, 1:15 AM
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Niet­zsche’s Mo­ral­ity in Plain English

Arjun PanicksseryDec 4, 2023, 12:57 AM
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Med­i­ta­tions on Mot

Richard_NgoDec 4, 2023, 12:19 AM
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The Witness

Richard_NgoDec 3, 2023, 10:27 PM
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Does schem­ing lead to ad­e­quate fu­ture em­pow­er­ment? (Sec­tion 2.3.1.2 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithDec 3, 2023, 6:32 PM
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[Question] How do you do post mortems?

mattoDec 3, 2023, 2:46 PM
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The benefits and risks of op­ti­mism (about AI safety)

Karl von WendtDec 3, 2023, 12:45 PM
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Book Re­view: 1948 by Benny Morris

Yair HalberstadtDec 3, 2023, 10:29 AM
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Quick takes on “AI is easy to con­trol”

So8resDec 2, 2023, 10:31 PM
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The goal-guard­ing hy­poth­e­sis (Sec­tion 2.3.1.1 of “Schem­ing AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithDec 2, 2023, 3:20 PM
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The Method of Loci: With some brief re­marks, in­clud­ing trans­form­ers and eval­u­at­ing AIs

Bill BenzonDec 2, 2023, 2:36 PM
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Tak­ing Into Ac­count Sen­tient Non-Hu­mans in AI Am­bi­tious Value Learn­ing: Sen­tien­tist Co­her­ent Ex­trap­o­lated Volition

Adrià MoretDec 2, 2023, 2:07 PM
26 points

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Out-of-dis­tri­bu­tion Bioattacks

jefftkDec 2, 2023, 12:20 PM
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After Align­ment — Dialogue be­tween RogerDear­naley and Seth Herd

RogerDearnaley and Seth Herd
Dec 2, 2023, 6:03 AM
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List of strate­gies for miti­gat­ing de­cep­tive alignment

joshcDec 2, 2023, 5:56 AM
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[Question] What is known about in­var­i­ants in self-mod­ify­ing sys­tems?

mishkaDec 2, 2023, 5:04 AM
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2023 Unoffi­cial LessWrong Cen­sus/​Survey

ScrewtapeDec 2, 2023, 4:41 AM
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