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South Bay ACX/LW Meetup

ISMay 8, 2023, 11:55 PM

2 points

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H-JEPA might be technically alignable in a modified form

Roman LeventovMay 8, 2023, 11:04 PM

12 points

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2 comments7 min readLW link

All AGI Safety questions welcome (especially basic ones) [May 2023]

steven0461May 8, 2023, 10:30 PM

33 points

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44 comments2 min readLW link

Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe CarlsmithMay 8, 2023, 9:53 PM

295 points

112 votes

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25 comments36 min readLW link 1 review

Annotated reply to Bengio’s “AI Scientists: Safe and Useful AI?”

Roman LeventovMay 8, 2023, 9:26 PM

18 points

7 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(yoshuabengio.org)

Are healthy choices effective for improving live expectancy anymore?

Christopher KingMay 8, 2023, 9:25 PM

4 points

7 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

LeCun’s “A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence” has an unsolved technical alignment problem

Steven ByrnesMay 8, 2023, 7:35 PM

140 points

60 votes

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37 comments15 min readLW link

Product Endorsement: Apollo Neuro

ElizabethMay 8, 2023, 7:00 PM

46 points

27 votes

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28 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Acausal trade naturally results in the Nash bargaining solution

Christopher KingMay 8, 2023, 6:13 PM

3 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Inference Speed is Not Unbounded

OneManyNoneMay 8, 2023, 4:24 PM

35 points

21 votes

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32 comments16 min readLW link

[Crosspost] Unveiling the American Public Opinion on AI Moratorium and Government Intervention: The Impact of Media Exposure

otto.bartenMay 8, 2023, 2:09 PM

7 points

6 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Thriving in the Weird Times: Preparing for the 100X Economy

Lucie Philippon and Charbel-Raphaël

May 8, 2023, 1:44 PM

23 points

21 votes

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16 comments2 min readLW link

Housing and Transit Roundup #4

ZviMay 8, 2023, 1:30 PM

25 points

16 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Dance Profit Sharing

jefftkMay 8, 2023, 1:10 PM

11 points

3 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

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How “AGI” could end up being many different specialized AI’s stitched together

titotalMay 8, 2023, 12:32 PM

9 points

6 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

What does it take to ban a thing?

qbolecMay 8, 2023, 11:00 AM

66 points

35 votes

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18 comments5 min readLW link

Solomonoff’s solipsism

Mergimio H. DoefevmilMay 8, 2023, 6:55 AM

−13 points

7 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

A technical note on bilinear layers for interpretability

Lee SharkeyMay 8, 2023, 6:06 AM

59 points

25 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[Question] Is EDT correct? Does “EDT” == “logical EDT” == “logical CDT”?

Vivek HebbarMay 8, 2023, 2:07 AM

13 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

LLM cognition is probably not human-like

Max HMay 8, 2023, 1:22 AM

26 points

13 votes

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15 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] If alignment problem was unsolvable, would that avoid doom?

KinranyMay 7, 2023, 10:13 PM

3 points

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

An artificially structured argument for expecting AGI ruin

Rob BensingerMay 7, 2023, 9:52 PM

91 points

44 votes

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26 comments19 min readLW link

Where “the Sequences” Are Wrong

Thoth HermesMay 7, 2023, 8:21 PM

−15 points

14 votes

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5 comments14 min readLW link

(thothhermes.substack.com)

What’s wrong with being dumb?

Adam ZernerMay 7, 2023, 6:31 PM

14 points

5 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

Categories of Arguing Style : Why being good among rationalists isn’t enough to argue with everyone

Camille Berger May 7, 2023, 5:45 PM

16 points

10 votes

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0 comments23 min readLW link

Self-Administered Gell-Mann Amnesia

krsMay 7, 2023, 5:44 PM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Understanding mesa-optimization using toy models

tilmanr, rusheb, Guillaume Corlouer, Dan Valentine, afspies, mivanitskiy and Can

May 7, 2023, 5:00 PM

46 points

27 votes

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6 comments10 min readLW link

How to have Polygenically Screened Children

GeneSmithMay 7, 2023, 4:01 PM

368 points

160 votes

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128 comments27 min readLW link 1 review

Statistical models & the irrelevance of rare exceptions

patrissimoMay 7, 2023, 3:59 PM

36 points

9 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Let’s look for coherence theorems

ValdesMay 7, 2023, 2:45 PM

25 points

12 votes

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18 comments6 min readLW link

Graphical Representations of Paul Christiano’s Doom Model

Nathan YoungMay 7, 2023, 1:03 PM

9 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

An anthropomorphic AI dilemma

TsviBTMay 7, 2023, 12:44 PM

26 points

13 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Violin Supports

jefftkMay 7, 2023, 12:10 PM

12 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Properties of Good Textbooks

niplavMay 7, 2023, 8:38 AM

50 points

19 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

Against sacrificing AI transparency for generality gains

Ape in the coatMay 7, 2023, 6:52 AM

4 points

7 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

TED talk by Eliezer Yudkowsky: Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence

bayesedMay 7, 2023, 5:45 AM

49 points

31 votes

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36 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Thinking of Convenience as an Economic Term

ozziegooenMay 7, 2023, 1:21 AM

6 points

3 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Corrigibility, Much more detail than anyone wants to Read

Logan ZoellnerMay 7, 2023, 1:02 AM

27 points

10 votes

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3 comments7 min readLW link

Residual stream norms grow exponentially over the forward pass

StefanHex and TurnTrout

May 7, 2023, 12:46 AM

77 points

35 votes

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24 comments9 min readLW link

On the Loebner Silver Prize (a Turing test)

hold_my_fishMay 7, 2023, 12:39 AM

18 points

9 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Time and Energy Costs to Erase a Bit

DaemonicSigilMay 6, 2023, 11:29 PM

24 points

11 votes

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32 comments7 min readLW link

How much do you believe your results?

Eric NeymanMay 6, 2023, 8:31 PM

514 points

235 votes

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18 comments15 min readLW link 4 reviews

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Long Covid Risks: 2023 Update

ElizabethMay 6, 2023, 6:20 PM

69 points

31 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

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

Yusuke HayashiMay 6, 2023, 5:55 PM

9 points

8 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

The Broader Fossil Fuel Community

Jeffrey HeningerMay 6, 2023, 2:49 PM

16 points

12 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Estimating Norovirus Prevalence

jefftkMay 6, 2023, 11:40 AM

16 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Alignment as Function Fitting

A.H.May 6, 2023, 11:38 AM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

My preferred framings for reward misspecification and goal misgeneralisation

Yi-YangMay 6, 2023, 4:48 AM

27 points

10 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

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

Claire ShortMay 6, 2023, 2:32 AM

15 points

28 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Naturalist Collection

LoganStrohlMay 6, 2023, 12:37 AM

71 points

21 votes

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7 comments15 min readLW link

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