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[Question] For fun: How long can you hold your breath?

exanovaDec 6, 2023, 11:36 PM

1 point

3 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Mathematics As Physics

Nox MLDec 6, 2023, 10:27 PM

−2 points

9 votes

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10 comments5 min readLW link

The counting argument for scheming (Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe CarlsmithDec 6, 2023, 7:28 PM

10 points

3 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

On Trust

johnswentworthDec 6, 2023, 7:19 PM

42 points

35 votes

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26 comments4 min readLW link

Originality vs. Correctness

alkjash and habryka

Dec 6, 2023, 6:51 PM

60 points

20 votes

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17 comments25 min readLW link

Proposal for improving the global online discourse through personalised comment ordering on all websites

Roman LeventovDec 6, 2023, 6:51 PM

35 points

14 votes

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21 comments6 min readLW link

Google Gemini Announced

Jacob G-WDec 6, 2023, 4:14 PM

54 points

26 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

(blog.google)

Based Beff Jezos and the Accelerationists

ZviDec 6, 2023, 4:00 PM

90 points

45 votes

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29 comments12 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bucket Brigade: Likely End-of-Life

jefftkDec 6, 2023, 3:30 PM

16 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why Yudkowsky is wrong about “covalently bonded equivalents of biology”

titotalDec 6, 2023, 2:09 PM

45 points

96 votes

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41 comments16 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Metaculus Launches Chinese AI Chips Tournament, Supporting Institute for AI Policy and Strategy Research

ChristianWilliamsDec 6, 2023, 11:26 AM

10 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

Minimal Viable Paradise: How do we get The Good Future(TM)?

Nathan YoungDec 6, 2023, 9:24 AM

9 points

5 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Anthropical Paradoxes are Paradoxes of Probability Theory

Ape in the coatDec 6, 2023, 8:16 AM

55 points

18 votes

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18 comments5 min readLW link

Digital humans vs merge with AI? Same or different?

Nathan Helm-Burger and mishka

Dec 6, 2023, 4:56 AM

21 points

6 votes

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11 comments7 min readLW link

EA Infrastructure Fund’s Plan to Focus on Principles-First EA

LinchDec 6, 2023, 3:24 AM

27 points

8 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

In defence of Helen Toner, Adam D’Angelo, and Tasha McCauley

peterrDec 6, 2023, 2:02 AM

25 points

15 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

(pastebin.com)

Some quick thoughts on “AI is easy to control”

Mikhail SaminDec 6, 2023, 12:58 AM

15 points

9 votes

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10 comments7 min readLW link

ACX Corvallis, OR

kenakoferDec 6, 2023, 12:23 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Multinational corporations as optimizers: a case for reaching across the aisle

sudo-nymDec 6, 2023, 12:14 AM

9 points

7 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bird ConceptDec 5, 2023, 8:54 PM

108 points

38 votes

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286 comments1 min readLW link

Critique-a-Thon of AI Alignment Plans

IknownothingDec 5, 2023, 8:50 PM

12 points

5 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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

Joe CarlsmithDec 5, 2023, 6:48 PM

10 points

3 votes

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0 comments23 min readLW link

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

peterrDec 5, 2023, 6:40 PM

6 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(pastebin.com)

Studying The Alien Mind

Quentin FEUILLADE--MONTIXI and NicholasKees

Dec 5, 2023, 5:27 PM

80 points

47 votes

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10 comments15 min readLW link

Deep Forgetting & Unlearning for Safely-Scoped LLMs

scasperDec 5, 2023, 4:48 PM

127 points

54 votes

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30 comments13 min readLW link

On ‘Responsible Scaling Policies’ (RSPs)

ZviDec 5, 2023, 4:10 PM

49 points

13 votes

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3 comments37 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We’re all in this together

Tamsin LeakeDec 5, 2023, 1:57 PM

69 points

62 votes

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65 comments2 min readLW link

A Socratic dialogue with my student

lsusrDec 5, 2023, 9:31 AM

36 points

32 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

Neural uncertainty estimation review article (for alignment)

Charlie SteinerDec 5, 2023, 8:01 AM

74 points

20 votes

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3 comments11 min readLW link

Analyzing the Historical Rate of Catastrophes

jsteinhardtDec 5, 2023, 6:30 AM

16 points

11 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Some open-source dictionaries and dictionary learning infrastructure

Sam MarksDec 5, 2023, 6:05 AM

46 points

16 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

The LessWrong 2022 Review

habrykaDec 5, 2023, 4:00 AM

115 points

41 votes

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43 comments4 min readLW link

Bands And Low-stakes Dances

jefftkDec 5, 2023, 3:50 AM

20 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Accelerating science through evolvable institutions

jasoncrawfordDec 4, 2023, 11:21 PM

19 points

8 votes

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9 comments6 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk

Orpheus16 and hath

Dec 4, 2023, 11:08 PM

312 points

125 votes

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25 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

Open Thread – Winter 2023/2024

habrykaDec 4, 2023, 10:59 PM

35 points

13 votes

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160 comments1 min readLW link

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

WillPetilloDec 4, 2023, 10:58 PM

37 points

13 votes

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0 comments35 min readLW link

2023 Alignment Research Updates from FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean

Dec 4, 2023, 10:32 PM

18 points

6 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(far.ai)

What’s new at FAR AI

AdamGleave and EuanMcLean

Dec 4, 2023, 9:18 PM

41 points

17 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(far.ai)

n of m ring signatures

DanielFilanDec 4, 2023, 8:00 PM

51 points

24 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

Mechanistic interpretability through clustering

Alistair FraserDec 4, 2023, 6:49 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

MlxaDec 4, 2023, 6:49 PM

3 points

2 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Planning in LLMs: Insights from AlphaGo

jcoDec 4, 2023, 6:48 PM

8 points

5 votes

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10 comments11 min readLW link

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

Joe CarlsmithDec 4, 2023, 6:44 PM

9 points

3 votes

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0 comments20 min readLW link

6. The Mutable Values Problem in Value Learning and CEV

RogerDearnaleyDec 4, 2023, 6:31 PM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments49 min readLW link

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

abergal and Bastian Stern

Dec 4, 2023, 6:10 PM

28 points

12 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

[Valence series] 1. Introduction

Steven ByrnesDec 4, 2023, 3:40 PM

99 points

31 votes

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16 comments16 min readLW link 2 reviews

South Bay Meetup 12/9

David FriedmanDec 4, 2023, 7:32 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Paul BricmanDec 4, 2023, 7:31 AM

12 points

4 votes

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6 comments16 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

JunoDec 4, 2023, 6:35 AM

12 points

6 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

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