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[Question] How could I mea­sure the nootropic benefits testos­terone in­jec­tions may have?

shapeshifterMay 18, 2023, 9:40 PM
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In­ves­ti­gat­ing Fabrication

LoganStrohlMay 18, 2023, 5:46 PM
112 points

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14 comments16 min readLW link

Microsoft and Google us­ing LLMs for Cybersecurity

PhosphorousMay 18, 2023, 5:42 PM
6 points

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The Benev­olent Billion­aire (a pla­gia­rized prob­lem)

Ivan OrdonezMay 18, 2023, 5:39 PM
8 points

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Notes from the LSE Talk by Raghu­ram Ra­jan on Cen­tral Bank Balance Sheet Expansions

PixelatedPenguinMay 18, 2023, 5:34 PM
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We Shouldn’t Ex­pect AI to Ever be Fully Rational

OneManyNoneMay 18, 2023, 5:09 PM
19 points

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31 comments6 min readLW link

Rel­a­tive Value Func­tions: A Flex­ible New For­mat for Value Estimation

ozziegooenMay 18, 2023, 4:39 PM
20 points

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Some back­ground for rea­son­ing about dual-use al­ign­ment research

Charlie SteinerMay 18, 2023, 2:50 PM
126 points

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The Un­ex­pected Clanging

Chris_LeongMay 18, 2023, 2:47 PM
14 points

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AI #12:The Quest for Sane Regulations

ZviMay 18, 2023, 1:20 PM
77 points

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[Cross­post] A re­cent write-up of the case for AI (ex­is­ten­tial) risk

TimseyMay 18, 2023, 1:13 PM
6 points

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Deon­tolog­i­cal Norms are Unimportant

Bentham's BulldogMay 18, 2023, 9:33 AM
−15 points

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8 comments10 min readLW link

Col­lec­tive Identity

NicholasKees, ukc10014 and Garrett Baker
May 18, 2023, 9:00 AM
59 points

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12 comments8 min readLW link

Ac­ti­va­tion ad­di­tions in a sim­ple MNIST network

Garrett BakerMay 18, 2023, 2:49 AM
26 points

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[Question] What are the limits of the weak man?

ymeskhoutMay 18, 2023, 12:50 AM
9 points

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What Yann LeCun gets wrong about al­ign­ing AI (video)

blake8086May 18, 2023, 12:02 AM
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Let’s use AI to harden hu­man defenses against AI manipulation

Tom DavidsonMay 17, 2023, 11:33 PM
35 points

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Im­prov­ing the safety of AI evals

JustinShovelain and Elliot Mckernon
May 17, 2023, 10:24 PM
13 points

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7 comments7 min readLW link

Pos­si­ble AI “Fire Alarms”

Chris_LeongMay 17, 2023, 9:56 PM
15 points

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AI Align­ment in The New Yorker

Eleni AngelouMay 17, 2023, 9:36 PM
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ACI #3: The Ori­gin of Goals and Utility

Akira PyinyaMay 17, 2023, 8:47 PM
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What if they gave an In­dus­trial Revolu­tion and no­body came?

jasoncrawfordMay 17, 2023, 7:41 PM
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DCF Event Notes

jefftkMay 17, 2023, 5:30 PM
22 points

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Hi­a­tus: EA and LW post summaries

Zoe WilliamsMay 17, 2023, 5:17 PM
14 points

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[Question] When should I close the fridge?

lemonhopeMay 17, 2023, 4:56 PM
11 points

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Play Re­grantor: Move up to $250,000 to Your Top High-Im­pact Pro­jects!

Dawn DrescherMay 17, 2023, 4:51 PM
26 points

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Eisen­hower’s Atoms for Peace Speech

Orpheus16May 17, 2023, 4:10 PM
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Creat­ing a self-refer­en­tial sys­tem prompt for GPT-4

OzyrusMay 17, 2023, 2:13 PM
3 points

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GPT-4 im­plic­itly val­ues iden­tity preser­va­tion: a study of LMCA iden­tity management

OzyrusMay 17, 2023, 2:13 PM
21 points

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Some quotes from Tues­day’s Se­nate hear­ing on AI

Daniel_EthMay 17, 2023, 12:13 PM
66 points

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Why AGI sys­tems will not be fa­nat­i­cal max­imisers (un­less trained by fa­nat­i­cal hu­mans)

titotalMay 17, 2023, 11:58 AM
5 points

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3 comments15 min readLW link

Con­flicts be­tween emo­tional schemas of­ten in­volve in­ter­nal coercion

Richard_NgoMay 17, 2023, 10:02 AM
43 points

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[Question] Is there a ‘time se­ries fore­cast­ing’ equiv­a­lent of AIXI?

Solenoid_EntityMay 17, 2023, 4:35 AM
12 points

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$300 for the best sci-fi prompt

RomanSMay 17, 2023, 4:23 AM
40 points

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30 comments2 min readLW link

New User’s Guide to LessWrong

RubyMay 17, 2023, 12:55 AM
148 points

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Are AIs like An­i­mals? Per­spec­tives and Strate­gies from Biology

Jackson EmanuelMay 16, 2023, 11:39 PM
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0 comments21 min readLW link

A Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Anal­y­sis of a GridWorld Agent-Si­mu­la­tor (Part 1 of N)

Joseph BloomMay 16, 2023, 10:59 PM
36 points

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A TAI which kills all hu­mans might also doom itself

Jeffrey HeningerMay 16, 2023, 10:36 PM
7 points

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Brief notes on the Se­nate hear­ing on AI oversight

DizietMay 16, 2023, 10:29 PM
77 points

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$500 Bounty/​Prize Prob­lem: Chan­nel Ca­pac­ity Us­ing “Insen­si­tive” Functions

johnswentworthMay 16, 2023, 9:31 PM
40 points

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Progress links and tweets, 2023-05-16

jasoncrawfordMay 16, 2023, 8:54 PM
14 points

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AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve

petersalibMay 16, 2023, 8:53 PM
28 points

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24 comments20 min readLW link

Nice in­tro video to RSI

Nathan Helm-BurgerMay 16, 2023, 6:48 PM
12 points

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[In­ter­view w/​ Zvi Mow­show­itz] Should we halt progress in AI?

fowlertmMay 16, 2023, 6:12 PM
18 points

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AI Risk & Policy Fore­casts from Me­tac­u­lus & FLI’s AI Path­ways Workshop

_will_May 16, 2023, 6:06 PM
11 points

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[Question] Why doesn’t the pres­ence of log-loss for prob­a­bil­is­tic mod­els (e.g. se­quence pre­dic­tion) im­ply that any util­ity func­tion ca­pa­ble of pro­duc­ing a “fairly ca­pa­ble” agent will have at least some non-neg­ligible frac­tion of over­lap with hu­man val­ues?

Thoth HermesMay 16, 2023, 6:02 PM
2 points

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De­ci­sion The­ory with the Magic Parts Highlighted

moridinamaelMay 16, 2023, 5:39 PM
175 points

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We learn long-last­ing strate­gies to pro­tect our­selves from dan­ger and rejection

Richard_NgoMay 16, 2023, 4:36 PM
87 points

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Pro­posal: Align Sys­tems Ear­lier In Training

OneManyNoneMay 16, 2023, 4:24 PM
18 points

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Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 2

DaystarEldMay 16, 2023, 4:22 PM
24 points

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