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[Link Post] Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly On File Bytes

CapybasiliskJun 3, 2023, 10:45 PM

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Humanity and science are incompatible.

archeonJun 3, 2023, 10:15 PM

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Optimization happens inside the mind, not in the world

azsantoskJun 3, 2023, 9:36 PM

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[Question] What would a post that argues against the Orthogonality Thesis that LessWrong users approve of look like?

Thoth HermesJun 3, 2023, 9:21 PM

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A Double-Feature on The Extropians

Maxwell TabarrokJun 3, 2023, 6:27 PM

59 points

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4 comments1 min readLW link

What exactly does ‘Slow Down’ look like?

Steve MJun 3, 2023, 6:11 PM

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Announcing AISafety.info’s Write-a-thon (June 16-18) and Second Distillation Fellowship (July 3-October 2)

steven0461Jun 3, 2023, 2:03 AM

33 points

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Terry Tao is hosting an “AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning” workshop

junk heap homotopyJun 3, 2023, 1:19 AM

12 points

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(terrytao.wordpress.com)

Upcoming AI regulations are likely to make for an unsafer world

ShmiJun 3, 2023, 1:07 AM

18 points

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The AGI Race Between the US and China Doesn’t Exist.

Eva_BJun 3, 2023, 12:22 AM

33 points

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15 comments7 min readLW link

(evabehrens.substack.com)

Unfaithful Explanations in Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Miles TurpinJun 3, 2023, 12:22 AM

42 points

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[Question] How could AIs ‘see’ each other’s source code?

KennyJun 2, 2023, 10:41 PM

29 points

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Proposal: labs should precommit to pausing if an AI argues for itself to be improved

NickGabsJun 2, 2023, 10:31 PM

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Inference from a Mathematical Description of an Existing Alignment Research: a proposal for an outer alignment research program

Christopher KingJun 2, 2023, 9:54 PM

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Thoughts on Dancing the Whole Dance: Positional Calling for Contra

jefftkJun 2, 2023, 8:50 PM

10 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Advice for Entering AI Safety Research

scasperJun 2, 2023, 8:46 PM

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AI should be used to find better morality

JorterderJun 2, 2023, 8:38 PM

−21 points

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A mind needn’t be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity

So8resJun 2, 2023, 6:00 PM

78 points

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[Question] Are computationally complex algorithms expensive to have, expensive to operate, or both?

Noosphere89Jun 2, 2023, 5:50 PM

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[Replication] Conjecture’s Sparse Coding in Toy Models

Hoagy and Logan Riggs

Jun 2, 2023, 5:34 PM

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Limits to Learning: Rethinking AGI’s Path to Dominance

tangerineJun 2, 2023, 4:43 PM

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The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable?

RemmeltJun 2, 2023, 3:42 PM

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46 comments13 min readLW link

Hallucinating Suction

Johannes C. MayerJun 2, 2023, 2:16 PM

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Winning doesn’t need to flow through increases in rationality

MichelJun 2, 2023, 12:05 PM

11 points

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Product Recommendation: LessWrong dialogues with Recast

Bart BussmannJun 2, 2023, 8:05 AM

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Think carefully before calling RL policies “agents”

TurnTroutJun 2, 2023, 3:46 AM

135 points

67 votes

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38 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Outreach success: Intro to AI risk that has been successful

Michael TontchevJun 1, 2023, 11:12 PM

83 points

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8 comments74 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Open Source LLMs Can Now Actively Lie

Josh LevyJun 1, 2023, 10:03 PM

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Safe AI and moral AI

William D'AlessandroJun 1, 2023, 9:36 PM

−3 points

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0 comments10 min readLW link

AI #14: A Very Good Sentence

ZviJun 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

118 points

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30 comments65 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Four levels of understanding decision theory

Max HJun 1, 2023, 8:55 PM

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Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jennJun 1, 2023, 8:48 PM

438 points

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35 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

(jenn.site)

self-improvement-executors are not goal-maximizers

bhauthJun 1, 2023, 8:46 PM

14 points

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Experimental Fat Loss

johnlawrenceaspdenJun 1, 2023, 8:26 PM

23 points

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Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?

1a3ornJun 1, 2023, 7:36 PM

144 points

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76 comments24 min readLW link 2 reviews

Progress links and tweets, 2023-06-01

jasoncrawfordJun 1, 2023, 7:03 PM

10 points

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(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] When does an AI become intelligent enough to become self-aware and power-seeking?

FinalFormal2Jun 1, 2023, 6:09 PM

1 point

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Uncertainty about the future does not imply that AGI will go well

Lauro LangoscoJun 1, 2023, 5:38 PM

62 points

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11 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] What are the arguments for/against FOOM?

FinalFormal2Jun 1, 2023, 5:23 PM

8 points

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Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

ElizabethJun 1, 2023, 5:10 PM

161 points

92 votes

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85 comments19 min readLW link 2 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

The unspoken but ridiculous assumption of AI doom: the hidden doom assumption

Christopher KingJun 1, 2023, 5:01 PM

−9 points

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Don’t waste your time meditating on meditation retreats!

EternallyBlissfulJun 1, 2023, 4:56 PM

23 points

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[Request]: Use “Epilogenics” instead of “Eugenics” in most circumstances

GeneSmithJun 1, 2023, 3:36 PM

58 points

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Book Club: Thomas Schelling’s “The Strategy of Conflict”

Optimization ProcessJun 1, 2023, 3:29 PM

6 points

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Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes

Chi NguyenJun 1, 2023, 2:30 PM

15 points

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Yes, avoiding extinction from AI is an urgent priority: a response to Seth Lazar, Jeremy Howard, and Arvind Narayanan.

Soroush PourJun 1, 2023, 1:38 PM

17 points

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(www.soroushjp.com)

Work dumber not smarter

lemonhopeJun 1, 2023, 12:40 PM

101 points

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Short Remark on the (subjective) mathematical ‘naturalness’ of the Nanda—Lieberum addition modulo 113 algorithm

carboniferous_umbraculum Jun 1, 2023, 11:31 AM

104 points

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How will they feed us

meijer1973Jun 1, 2023, 8:49 AM

4 points

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“LLMs Don’t Have a Coherent Model of the World”—What it Means, Why it Matters

DavidmanheimJun 1, 2023, 7:46 AM

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