AI Takeover Sce­nario with Scaled LLMs

simeon_c16 Apr 2023 23:28 UTC
42 points
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My ex­pe­rience get­ting fund­ing for my biolog­i­cal research

Metacelsus16 Apr 2023 22:53 UTC
71 points
10 comments5 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Top les­son from GPT: we will prob­a­bly de­stroy hu­man­ity “for the lulz” as soon as we are able.

shminux16 Apr 2023 20:27 UTC
65 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

On ur­gency, pri­or­ity and col­lec­tive re­ac­tion to AI-Risks: Part I

Denreik16 Apr 2023 19:14 UTC
−10 points
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Effi­cient Learn­ing: Memorization

Alvin Ånestrand16 Apr 2023 17:58 UTC
4 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Mechanis­ti­cally in­ter­pret­ing time in GPT-2 small

16 Apr 2023 17:57 UTC
68 points
6 comments21 min readLW link

La Crosse, WI Ra­tion­al­ity Meetup

Daniel Uebele16 Apr 2023 17:33 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

The Soul of the Writer (on LLMs, the psy­chol­ogy of writ­ers, and the na­ture of in­tel­li­gence)

rogersbacon16 Apr 2023 16:02 UTC
11 points
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(www.secretorum.life)

Pos­si­bi­liz­ing vs. actualizing

TsviBT16 Apr 2023 15:55 UTC
31 points
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Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion by AI through eco­nomic power

ChristianKl16 Apr 2023 12:15 UTC
8 points
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Bit Flip

Charlie Sanders16 Apr 2023 7:30 UTC
−2 points
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Dou­ble-nega­tion as framing

Stuart Johnson16 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
25 points
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[Link/​cross­post] [US] NTIA: AI Ac­countabil­ity Policy Re­quest for Comment

Kyle J. Lucchese16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Who is test­ing AI Safety pub­lic out­reach mes­sag­ing?

yanni kyriacos16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC
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Fea­tures of Emacs that I only re­cently discovered

EmacsScrub16 Apr 2023 6:57 UTC
12 points
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ACX meetup in Prague (16th of May)

Jiří Nádvorník16 Apr 2023 6:25 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Smar­tyHead­erCode: anoma­lous to­kens for GPT3.5 and GPT-4

AdamYedidia15 Apr 2023 22:35 UTC
71 points
18 comments6 min readLW link

Open-source LLMs may prove Bostrom’s vuln­er­a­ble world hypothesis

Roope Ahvenharju15 Apr 2023 19:16 UTC
1 point
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[linkpost] Elon Musk plans AI start-up to ri­val OpenAI

Hatfield15 Apr 2023 19:06 UTC
11 points
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(www.ft.com)

FLI re­port: Poli­cy­mak­ing in the Pause

Zach Stein-Perlman15 Apr 2023 17:01 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(futureoflife.org)

Reflec­tive jour­nal en­tries us­ing GPT-4 and Ob­sidian that de­mand less willpower.

Solenoid_Entity15 Apr 2023 12:45 UTC
55 points
24 comments7 min readLW link

An ex­am­ple ele­va­tor pitch for AI doom

laserfiche15 Apr 2023 12:29 UTC
2 points
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AI as Con­tact with our Col­lec­tive Unconscious

Scott Broock15 Apr 2023 2:11 UTC
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The Truth About False

Thoth Hermes15 Apr 2023 1:01 UTC
−21 points
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(thothhermes.substack.com)

The ‘ pe­ter­todd’ phenomenon

mwatkins15 Apr 2023 0:59 UTC
180 points
50 comments38 min readLW link

[Question] Con­cave Utility Question

Scott Garrabrant15 Apr 2023 0:14 UTC
54 points
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List of re­quests for an AI slow­down/​halt.

Cleo Nardo14 Apr 2023 23:55 UTC
46 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[linkpost] “What Are Rea­son­able AI Fears?” by Robin Han­son, 2023-04-23

Arjun Panickssery14 Apr 2023 23:26 UTC
26 points
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“Do X be­cause de­ci­sion the­ory” ~= “Do X be­cause bayes the­o­rem”

lc14 Apr 2023 20:57 UTC
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LLMs and hal­lu­ci­na­tion, like white on rice?

Bill Benzon14 Apr 2023 19:53 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

GPT-4 is eas­ily con­trol­led/​ex­ploited with tricky de­ci­sion the­o­retic dilem­mas.

scasper14 Apr 2023 19:39 UTC
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On Car­ing about our AI Progeny

PeterMcCluskey14 Apr 2023 19:32 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Moder­a­tion notes re: re­cent Said/​Dun­can threads

Raemon14 Apr 2023 18:06 UTC
50 points
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What we’ve learned so far from our tech­nolog­i­cal temp­ta­tions project

Richard Korzekwa 14 Apr 2023 17:46 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readLW link
(aiimpacts.org)

[Question] How does con­scious­ness in­ter­act with ar­chi­tec­ture?

FinalFormal214 Apr 2023 15:56 UTC
5 points
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Iqisa: A Library For Han­dling Fore­cast­ing Datasets

niplav14 Apr 2023 15:16 UTC
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What’s this prob­a­bil­ity you’re re­port­ing?

14 Apr 2023 15:07 UTC
19 points
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Nav­i­gat­ing AI Risks (NAIR) #1: Slow­ing Down AI

simeon_c14 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC
11 points
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(navigatingairisks.substack.com)

[Question] What would the FLI mora­to­rium ac­tu­ally do?

ChristianKl14 Apr 2023 13:14 UTC
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Re­search Re­port: In­cor­rect­ness Cascades

Robert_AIZI14 Apr 2023 12:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(aizi.substack.com)

The self-un­al­ign­ment problem

14 Apr 2023 12:10 UTC
144 points
22 comments10 min readLW link

AI Safety Europe Re­treat 2023 Retrospective

Magdalena Wache14 Apr 2023 9:05 UTC
43 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the differ­ence be­tween Wis­dom and Ra­tion­al­ity?

Yoav Ravid14 Apr 2023 6:22 UTC
8 points
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Shap­ley Value At­tri­bu­tion in Chain of Thought

leogao14 Apr 2023 5:56 UTC
101 points
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A fresh­man year dur­ing the AI midgame: my ap­proach to the next year

Buck14 Apr 2023 0:38 UTC
146 points
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Against AI Un­der­stand­ing and Sen­tience: Large Lan­guage Models, Mean­ing, and the Pat­terns of Hu­man Lan­guage Use

Jonathan Yan13 Apr 2023 23:29 UTC
−1 points
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(philsci-archive.pitt.edu)

At­tributes of suc­cess­ful professors

electroswing13 Apr 2023 20:38 UTC
13 points
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Fi­nan­cial Times: We must slow down the race to God-like AI

trevor13 Apr 2023 19:55 UTC
103 points
17 comments16 min readLW link
(www.ft.com)

R0 Is Not Counterfactual

jefftk13 Apr 2023 19:50 UTC
33 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Sub­scripts for Probabilities

niplav13 Apr 2023 18:32 UTC
66 points
9 comments5 min readLW link