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The Army of Jakoths (a parable)

MikkWMay 21, 2023, 10:48 PM

−6 points

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A&I (Rihanna ‘S&M’ parody lyrics)

nahojMay 21, 2023, 10:34 PM

−2 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Book review)

PeterMcCluskeyMay 21, 2023, 9:19 PM

25 points

12 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Gender Vectors in ROME’s Latent Space

XodarapMay 21, 2023, 6:46 PM

14 points

8 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Weight by Impact

VaniverMay 21, 2023, 2:37 PM

29 points

7 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

 [outdated] My current theory of change to mitigate existential risk by misaligned ASI

mesaoptimizerMay 21, 2023, 1:46 PM

32 points

11 votes

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8 comments6 min readLW link

(mesaoptimizer.com)

Babble on growing trust

qbolecMay 21, 2023, 1:19 PM

13 points

2 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

Elevator Positioning

jefftkMay 21, 2023, 11:30 AM

15 points

7 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Transformer Architecture Choice for Resisting Prompt Injection and Jail-Breaking Attacks

RogerDearnaleyMay 21, 2023, 8:29 AM

9 points

3 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Jeff Clune advertising a postdoc on twitter...and asking where he should target his posts

Joyee ChenMay 21, 2023, 1:02 AM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Running Sound for Yourself

jefftkMay 20, 2023, 10:10 PM

11 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

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Job Opening: SWE to help build signature vetting system for AI-related petitions

Ethan Ashkie and Andrew_Critch

May 20, 2023, 7:02 PM

52 points

17 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

My Kind of Pragmatism

Nora BelroseMay 20, 2023, 6:58 PM

38 points

21 votes

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11 comments3 min readLW link

Colors Appear To Have Almost-Universal Symbolic Associations

Thoth HermesMay 20, 2023, 6:40 PM

−33 points

13 votes

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4 comments7 min readLW link

(thothhermes.substack.com)

Twiblings, four-parent babies and other reproductive technology

GeneSmithMay 20, 2023, 5:11 PM

192 points

88 votes

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33 comments6 min readLW link

P-zombies, Compression and the Simulation Hypothesis

RussellThorMay 20, 2023, 11:36 AM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

The possible shared Craft of deliberate Lexicogenesis

TsviBTMay 20, 2023, 5:56 AM

64 points

19 votes

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5 comments61 min readLW link

Buying Tall-Poppy-Cutting Offsets

trevorMay 20, 2023, 3:59 AM

23 points

10 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

(www.overcomingbias.com)

Seeing Ghosts by GPT-4

Christopher KingMay 20, 2023, 12:11 AM

−13 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s the best way to streamline two-party sale negotiations between real humans?

Isaac KingMay 19, 2023, 11:30 PM

15 points

9 votes

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21 comments1 min readLW link

Trust develops gradually via making bids and setting boundaries

Richard_NgoMay 19, 2023, 10:16 PM

135 points

78 votes

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12 comments4 min readLW link

Confusions and updates on STEM AI

Eleni AngelouMay 19, 2023, 9:34 PM

23 points

12 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

GPT as an “Intelligence Forklift.”

boazbarakMay 19, 2023, 9:15 PM

49 points

35 votes

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27 comments3 min readLW link

Idea: medical hypotheses app for mysterious chronic illnesses

riceissaMay 19, 2023, 8:49 PM

64 points

29 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

A flaw in the A.G.I. Ruin Argument

Cole WyethMay 19, 2023, 7:40 PM

1 point

7 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

(colewyeth.com)

We are misaligned: the saddening idea that most of humanity doesn’t intrinsically care about x-risk, even on a personal level

Christopher KingMay 19, 2023, 4:12 PM

3 points

17 votes

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5 comments2 min readLW link

Do Deadlines Make Us Less Creative?

lynettebyeMay 19, 2023, 3:41 PM

44 points

22 votes

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6 comments4 min readLW link

Two Axes of Contra Bands

jefftkMay 19, 2023, 2:20 PM

2 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Is Effective Volunteering Possible?

David BravoMay 19, 2023, 12:41 PM

13 points

9 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

Mr. Meeseeks as an AI capability tripwire

Eric ZhangMay 19, 2023, 11:33 AM

37 points

23 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

The Compleat Cybornaut

ukc10014, Jozdien and NicholasKees

May 19, 2023, 8:44 AM

66 points

34 votes

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2 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] What if we’re not the first AI-capable civilization on Earth?

RomanSMay 19, 2023, 7:50 AM

−14 points

12 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Resolving internal conflicts requires listening to what parts want

Richard_NgoMay 19, 2023, 12:04 AM

71 points

33 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

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

shapeshifterMay 18, 2023, 9:40 PM

10 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Investigating Fabrication

LoganStrohlMay 18, 2023, 5:46 PM

112 points

39 votes

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14 comments16 min readLW link

Microsoft and Google using LLMs for Cybersecurity

PhosphorousMay 18, 2023, 5:42 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

The Benevolent Billionaire (a plagiarized problem)

Ivan OrdonezMay 18, 2023, 5:39 PM

8 points

9 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

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

PixelatedPenguinMay 18, 2023, 5:34 PM

1 point

1 vote

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We Shouldn’t Expect AI to Ever be Fully Rational

OneManyNoneMay 18, 2023, 5:09 PM

19 points

8 votes

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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

7 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

Some background for reasoning about dual-use alignment research

Charlie SteinerMay 18, 2023, 2:50 PM

126 points

48 votes

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22 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

The Unexpected Clanging

Chris_LeongMay 18, 2023, 2:47 PM

14 points

12 votes

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22 comments2 min readLW link

AI #12:The Quest for Sane Regulations

ZviMay 18, 2023, 1:20 PM

77 points

35 votes

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12 comments64 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

TimseyMay 18, 2023, 1:13 PM

6 points

7 votes

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0 comments19 min readLW link

Deontological Norms are Unimportant

Bentham's BulldogMay 18, 2023, 9:33 AM

−15 points

8 votes

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8 comments10 min readLW link

Collective Identity

NicholasKees, ukc10014 and Garrett Baker

May 18, 2023, 9:00 AM

59 points

21 votes

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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

8 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

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

ymeskhoutMay 18, 2023, 12:50 AM

9 points

6 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

What Yann LeCun gets wrong about aligning AI (video)

blake8086May 18, 2023, 12:02 AM

0 points

5 votes

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(www.youtube.com)

Let’s use AI to harden human defenses against AI manipulation

Tom DavidsonMay 17, 2023, 11:33 PM

35 points

17 votes

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7 comments24 min readLW link

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