Time and En­ergy Costs to Erase a Bit

DaemonicSigil6 May 2023 23:29 UTC
24 points
32 comments7 min readLW link

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

Eric Neyman6 May 2023 20:31 UTC
459 points
14 comments15 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Long Covid Risks: 2023 Update

Elizabeth6 May 2023 18:20 UTC
70 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Is “red” for GPT-4 the same as “red” for you?

Yusuke Hayashi6 May 2023 17:55 UTC
9 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

The Broader Fos­sil Fuel Community

Jeffrey Heninger6 May 2023 14:49 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing Norovirus Prevalence

jefftk6 May 2023 11:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Align­ment as Func­tion Fitting

A.H.6 May 2023 11:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments12 min readLW link

My preferred fram­ings for re­ward mis­speci­fi­ca­tion and goal misgeneralisation

Yi-Yang6 May 2023 4:48 UTC
24 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

You don’t need to be a ge­nius to be in AI safety research

Claire Short6 May 2023 2:32 UTC
13 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Nat­u­ral­ist Collection

LoganStrohl6 May 2023 0:37 UTC
66 points
7 comments15 min readLW link

Do you work at an AI lab? Please quit

Nik Samoylov5 May 2023 23:41 UTC
−29 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Ex­plain­ing “Hell is Game The­ory Folk The­o­rems”

electroswing5 May 2023 23:33 UTC
57 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

Sleep­ing Beauty – the Death Hypothesis

Guillaume Charrier5 May 2023 23:32 UTC
0 points
6 comments5 min readLW link

Orthog­o­nal’s For­mal-Goal Align­ment the­ory of change

Tamsin Leake5 May 2023 22:36 UTC
68 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(carado.moe)

A smart enough LLM might be deadly sim­ply if you run it for long enough

Mikhail Samin5 May 2023 20:49 UTC
16 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

What Ja­son has been read­ing, May 2023: “Pro­topia,” com­plex sys­tems, Daedalus vs. Icarus, and more

jasoncrawford5 May 2023 19:54 UTC
25 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

CHAT Di­plo­macy: LLMs and Na­tional Security

JohnBuridan5 May 2023 19:45 UTC
25 points
6 comments7 min readLW link

Linkpost for Ac­cursed Farms Dis­cus­sion /​ de­bate with AI ex­pert Eliezer Yudkowsky

gilch5 May 2023 18:20 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

Reg­u­late or Com­pete? The China Fac­tor in U.S. AI Policy (NAIR #2)

charles_m5 May 2023 17:43 UTC
2 points
1 comment7 min readLW link
(navigatingairisks.substack.com)

Kingfisher Live CD Process

jefftk5 May 2023 17:00 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

What can we learn from Bayes about rea­son­ing?

jasoncrawford5 May 2023 15:52 UTC
21 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why not use ac­tive SETI to pre­vent AI Doom?

RomanS5 May 2023 14:41 UTC
13 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Emer­gent Goal-Like Be­hav­ior in Large Lan­guage Models us­ing Ex­per­i­men­tal Economics

phelps-sg5 May 2023 11:15 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Monthly Shorts 4/​23

Celer5 May 2023 7:20 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(keller.substack.com)

[Question] What is it like to be a com­pat­i­bil­ist?

tslarm5 May 2023 2:56 UTC
8 points
72 comments1 min readLW link

Tran­script of a pre­sen­ta­tion on catas­trophic risks from AI

RobertM5 May 2023 1:38 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

How to get good at programming

Ulisse Mini5 May 2023 1:14 UTC
39 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

An Up­date On The Cam­paign For AI Safety Dot Org

yanni kyriacos5 May 2023 0:21 UTC
−11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A brief col­lec­tion of Hin­ton’s re­cent com­ments on AGI risk

Kaj_Sotala4 May 2023 23:31 UTC
143 points
9 comments11 min readLW link

Robin Han­son and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGrace4 May 2023 22:20 UTC
39 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Who reg­u­lates the reg­u­la­tors? We need to go be­yond the re­view-and-ap­proval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC
122 points
29 comments13 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Re­cur­sive Mid­dle Man­ager Hell: AI Edition

VojtaKovarik4 May 2023 20:08 UTC
30 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

AI risk/​re­ward: A sim­ple model

Nathan Young4 May 2023 19:25 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Google “We Have No Moat, And Nei­ther Does OpenAI”

Chris_Leong4 May 2023 18:23 UTC
61 points
28 comments1 min readLW link
(www.semianalysis.com)

Try­ing to mea­sure AI de­cep­tion ca­pa­bil­ities us­ing tem­po­rary simu­la­tion fine-tuning

alenoach4 May 2023 17:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

[Linkpost]Trans­former-Based LM Sur­prisal Pre­dicts Hu­man Read­ing Times Best with About Two Billion Train­ing Tokens

Curtis Huebner4 May 2023 17:16 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Clar­ify­ing and pre­dict­ing AGI

Richard_Ngo4 May 2023 15:55 UTC
129 points
42 comments4 min readLW link

[Cross­post] AI X-risk in the News: How Effec­tive are Re­cent Me­dia Items and How is Aware­ness Chang­ing? Our New Sur­vey Re­sults.

otto.barten4 May 2023 14:09 UTC
5 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AI #10: Code In­ter­preter and Ge­off Hinton

Zvi4 May 2023 14:00 UTC
80 points
7 comments78 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Ad­vice for in­ter­act­ing with busy people

Severin T. Seehrich4 May 2023 13:31 UTC
66 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

We don’t need AGI for an amaz­ing future

Karl von Wendt4 May 2023 12:10 UTC
18 points
32 comments5 min readLW link

Has the Sym­bol Ground­ing Prob­lem just gone away?

RussellThor4 May 2023 7:46 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Opinion merg­ing for AI control

David Johnston4 May 2023 2:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Un­der­stand­ing why illu­sion­ism does not deny the ex­is­tence of qualia

Mergimio H. Doefevmil4 May 2023 2:13 UTC
0 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

[New] Re­jected Con­tent Section

4 May 2023 1:43 UTC
65 points
21 comments5 min readLW link

How MATS ad­dresses “mass move­ment build­ing” concerns

Ryan Kidd4 May 2023 0:55 UTC
62 points
9 comments3 min readLW link

Mov­ing VPS Again

jefftk4 May 2023 0:30 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Prizes for ma­trix com­ple­tion problems

paulfchristiano3 May 2023 23:30 UTC
163 points
51 comments1 min readLW link
(www.alignment.org)

Align­ment Re­search @ EleutherAI

Curtis Huebner3 May 2023 22:45 UTC
40 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(blog.eleuther.ai)

«Boundaries/​Mem­branes» and AI safety compilation

Chipmonk3 May 2023 21:41 UTC
53 points
17 comments8 min readLW link