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[Question] Why Carl Jung is not popular in AI Alignment Research?

MiguelDevMar 17, 2023, 11:56 PM

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[Event] Join Metaculus for Forecast Friday on March 24th!

ChristianWilliamsMar 17, 2023, 10:47 PM

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Meetup Tip: The Next Meetup Will Be. . .

ScrewtapeMar 17, 2023, 10:04 PM

44 points

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The Power of High Speed Stupidity

robotelvisMar 17, 2023, 9:41 PM

33 points

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(messyprogress.substack.com)

Retrospective on ‘GPT-4 Predictions’ After the Release of GPT-4

Stephen McAleeseMar 17, 2023, 6:34 PM

26 points

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“Carefully Bootstrapped Alignment” is organizationally hard

RaemonMar 17, 2023, 6:00 PM

265 points

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[Question] Are nested jailbreaks inevitable?

judsonMar 17, 2023, 5:43 PM

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Ethical AI investments?

Justin wilsonMar 17, 2023, 5:43 PM

25 points

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New economic system for AI era

ksme shoMar 17, 2023, 5:42 PM

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On some first principles of intelligence

Macheng_ShenMar 17, 2023, 5:42 PM

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Essential Behaviorism Terms

RivkaMar 17, 2023, 5:41 PM

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Vector semantics and “Kubla Khan,” Part 2

Bill BenzonMar 17, 2023, 4:32 PM

2 points

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Super-Luigi = Luigi + (Luigi—Waluigi)

AlexeiMar 17, 2023, 3:27 PM

16 points

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Survey on intermediate goals in AI governance

MichaelA and MaxRa

Mar 17, 2023, 1:12 PM

25 points

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GPT-4 solves Gary Marcus-induced flubs

JakubKMar 17, 2023, 6:40 AM

57 points

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(docs.google.com)

[Question] Are the LLM “intelligence” tests publicly available for humans to take?

nimMar 17, 2023, 12:09 AM

7 points

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Donation offsets for ChatGPT Plus subscriptions

Jeffrey LadishMar 16, 2023, 11:29 PM

53 points

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3 comments3 min readLW link

The algorithm isn’t doing X, it’s just doing Y.

Cleo NardoMar 16, 2023, 11:28 PM

53 points

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Announcing the ERA Cambridge Summer Research Fellowship

Nandini ShiralkarMar 16, 2023, 10:57 PM

11 points

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Gradual takeoff, fast failure

Max HMar 16, 2023, 10:02 PM

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Conceding a short timelines bet early

Matthew BarnettMar 16, 2023, 9:49 PM

134 points

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Attribution Patching: Activation Patching At Industrial Scale

Neel NandaMar 16, 2023, 9:44 PM

45 points

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(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] Will 2023 be the last year you can write short stories and receive most of the intellectual credit for writing them?

lcMar 16, 2023, 9:36 PM

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Is it a bad idea to pay for GPT-4?

nemMar 16, 2023, 8:49 PM

24 points

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Are AI developers playing with fire?

marcusarvanMar 16, 2023, 7:12 PM

6 points

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[Question] When will computer programming become an unskilled job (if ever)?

lcMar 16, 2023, 5:46 PM

36 points

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[Appendix] Natural Abstractions: Key Claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Erik Jenner and Leon Lang

Mar 16, 2023, 4:38 PM

48 points

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Natural Abstractions: Key Claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Leon Lang and Erik Jenner

Mar 16, 2023, 4:37 PM

246 points

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On the Crisis at Silicon Valley Bank

ZviMar 16, 2023, 3:50 PM

59 points

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9 comments41 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What literature on the neuroscience of decision making can you recommend?

quetzal_rainbowMar 16, 2023, 3:32 PM

3 points

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[Question] What organizations other than Conjecture have (esp. public) info-hazard policies?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Mar 16, 2023, 2:49 PM

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[Question] Is there an analysis of the common consideration that splitting an AI lab into two (e.g. the founding of Anthropic) speeds up the development of TAI and therefore increases AI x-risk?

tchauvinMar 16, 2023, 2:16 PM

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A chess game against GPT-4

Rafael HarthMar 16, 2023, 2:05 PM

24 points

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ChatGPT getting out of the box

qbolecMar 16, 2023, 1:47 PM

6 points

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[Question] Are funds (such as the Long-Term Future Fund) willing to give extra money to AI safety researchers to balance for the opportunity cost of taking an “industry” job?

Malleable_shapeMar 16, 2023, 11:54 AM

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Three levels of exploration and intelligence

Q HomeMar 16, 2023, 10:55 AM

9 points

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3 comments21 min readLW link

Here, have a calmness video

Kaj_SotalaMar 16, 2023, 10:00 AM

111 points

46 votes

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Wittgenstein’s Language Games and the Critique of the Natural Abstraction Hypothesis

Chris_LeongMar 16, 2023, 7:56 AM

16 points

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Red-teaming AI-safety concepts that rely on science metaphors

catubcMar 16, 2023, 6:52 AM

5 points

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[ASoT] Some thoughts on human abstractions

leogaoMar 16, 2023, 5:42 AM

42 points

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How I Run Solstice, Step by Step

maiaMar 16, 2023, 3:23 AM

44 points

15 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

(particularvirtue.blogspot.com)

GPT-4 Multiplication Competition

dandelion4Mar 16, 2023, 3:09 AM

11 points

5 votes

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Want to predict/explain/control the output of GPT-4? Then learn about the world, not about transformers.

Cleo NardoMar 16, 2023, 3:08 AM

107 points

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[Question] Is it worth avoiding detailed discussions of expectations about agency levels of powerful AIs?

David JohnstonMar 16, 2023, 3:06 AM

11 points

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Why self-improvement?

Adam ZernerMar 16, 2023, 2:49 AM

12 points

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[Question] What is a good comprehensive examination of risks near the Ohio train derailment?

1a3ornMar 16, 2023, 12:21 AM

17 points

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Write a Book?

jefftkMar 16, 2023, 12:10 AM

45 points

19 votes

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(www.jefftk.com)

AI Safety − 7 months of discussion in 17 minutes

Zoe WilliamsMar 15, 2023, 11:41 PM

25 points

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How well did Manifold predict GPT-4?

David CheeMar 15, 2023, 11:19 PM

49 points

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80k podcast episode on sentience in AI systems

RobboMar 15, 2023, 8:19 PM

15 points

6 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

(80000hours.org)

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