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Project Lawful Audiobook: An Unofficial Fan Production with ElevenLabs AI

AskwhoJul 19, 2023, 11:34 PM

22 points

11 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(askwhocastsai.substack.com)

Using predictors in corrigible systems

porbyJul 19, 2023, 10:29 PM

21 points

5 votes

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6 comments27 min readLW link

mental number lines

bhauthJul 19, 2023, 9:01 PM

10 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Any suggestions for an impactful master’s thesis in Political Science?

Klara Helene NielsenJul 19, 2023, 5:44 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Incident reporting for AI safety

Zach Stein-PerlmanJul 19, 2023, 5:00 PM

22 points

9 votes

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0 comments18 min readLW link

Alignment Grantmaking is Funding-Limited Right Now

johnswentworthJul 19, 2023, 4:49 PM

312 points

145 votes

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68 comments1 min readLW link

Zener Science

ScrewtapeJul 19, 2023, 4:40 PM

16 points

7 votes

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11 comments6 min readLW link

Tallinn, Estonia ACX Summer Meetup

AndrewJul 19, 2023, 4:22 PM

1 point

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Desiderata for an AI

Nathan Helm-BurgerJul 19, 2023, 4:18 PM

9 points

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Valuism—an approach to life for you to consider

spencergJul 19, 2023, 3:23 PM

17 points

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Hedonic Loops and Taming RL

berenJul 19, 2023, 3:12 PM

20 points

8 votes

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14 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] What Caused the Puzzling Decline in Activism Against Policy Violence Towards Black People?

ChristianKlJul 19, 2023, 2:40 PM

12 points

13 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Lisa Feldman Barrett versus Paul Ekman on facial expressions & basic emotions

Steven ByrnesJul 19, 2023, 2:26 PM

31 points

14 votes

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15 comments15 min readLW link

AISN#15: China and the US take action to regulate AI, results from a tournament forecasting AI risk, updates on xAI’s plan, and Meta releases its open-source and commercially available Llama 2

Corin Katzke and Dan H

Jul 19, 2023, 1:01 PM

16 points

6 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Technological solutions to the climate crisis

dominicqJul 19, 2023, 12:39 PM

6 points

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5 comments3 min readLW link

(sundaystopwatch.eu)

Secret Cosmos: Introduction

Al LinkJul 19, 2023, 11:51 AM

−35 points

11 votes

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3 comments14 min readLW link

(allink.substack.com)

Critiques of prominent AI safety organizations: Introduction

Omega.Jul 19, 2023, 6:54 AM

7 points

7 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

House Grocery Spending

jefftkJul 19, 2023, 3:00 AM

13 points

6 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A brief history of computers

Adam ZernerJul 19, 2023, 2:59 AM

73 points

37 votes

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18 comments33 min readLW link

Simple alignment plan that maybe works

IknownothingJul 18, 2023, 10:48 PM

4 points

5 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

Prospera-dump

tailcalledJul 18, 2023, 9:36 PM

11 points

4 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

Tiny Mech Interp Projects: Emergent Positional Embeddings of Words

Neel NandaJul 18, 2023, 9:24 PM

51 points

24 votes

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1 comment9 min readLW link

Quick Thoughts on Language Models

RohanSJul 18, 2023, 8:38 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Still no Lie Detector for LLMs

Daniel Herrmann and ben_levinstein

Jul 18, 2023, 7:56 PM

50 points

24 votes

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3 comments21 min readLW link

Meta announces Llama 2; “open sources” it for commercial use

LawrenceCJul 18, 2023, 7:28 PM

46 points

20 votes

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12 comments1 min readLW link

(about.fb.com)

The Rope Management Theory: A Comprehensive Approach to Modulating Reward Perception and Mitigating Hedonic Adaptation

Eris DiscordiaJul 18, 2023, 5:45 PM

−23 points

7 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

AI Impacts Quarterly Newsletter, Apr-Jun 2023

Harlan and Richard Korzekwa

Jul 18, 2023, 5:14 PM

6 points

3 votes

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(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Clever arguers give weak evidence, not zero

dkl9Jul 18, 2023, 5:07 PM

7 points

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(dkl9.net)

Measuring and Improving the Faithfulness of Model-Generated Reasoning

Ansh Radhakrishnan, tamera, karinanguyen, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

Jul 18, 2023, 4:36 PM

111 points

42 votes

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15 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] Least-problematic Resource for learning RL?

DalcyJul 18, 2023, 4:30 PM

23 points

8 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Charter Cities: why they’re exciting & how they might work

Jackson WagnerJul 18, 2023, 1:57 PM

21 points

10 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

Narrative Theory. Part 6. Artificial Neural Networks

ErisJul 18, 2023, 9:22 AM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Train for incorrigibility, then reverse it (Shutdown Problem Contest Submission)

Daniel_EthJul 18, 2023, 8:26 AM

9 points

10 votes

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The shape of AGI: Cartoons and back of envelope

boazbarakJul 17, 2023, 8:57 PM

33 points

14 votes

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19 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

Predictive history classes

dkl9Jul 17, 2023, 8:48 PM

69 points

31 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Highlights from The Industrial Revolution, by T. S. Ashton

jasoncrawfordJul 17, 2023, 7:02 PM

17 points

6 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament

PeterMcCluskeyJul 17, 2023, 6:04 PM

73 points

26 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

[Interview w/ Rob Miles] The case for taking AI Safety seriously

fowlertmJul 17, 2023, 5:08 PM

17 points

8 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Announcing the Existential InfoSec Forum

calebp99Jul 17, 2023, 5:05 PM

10 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Narrative Theory. Part 4. Neural Darwinism

ErisJul 17, 2023, 4:45 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Sapient Algorithms

ValentineJul 17, 2023, 4:30 PM

86 points

56 votes

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15 comments5 min readLW link

AI safety technical research—Career review

Benjamin HiltonJul 17, 2023, 3:34 PM

14 points

8 votes

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0 comments29 min readLW link

[Question] Conditional on living in a AI safety/alignment by default universe, what are the implications of this assumption being true?

Noosphere89Jul 17, 2023, 2:44 PM

26 points

10 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Thoughts on “Process-Based Supervision” / MONA

Steven ByrnesJul 17, 2023, 2:08 PM

74 points

20 votes

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4 comments23 min readLW link

Proof of posteriority: a defense against AI-generated misinformation

jchanJul 17, 2023, 12:04 PM

33 points

16 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

An Overview of AI risks—the Flyer

Charbel-Raphaël, Jonathan Claybrough and tchauvin

Jul 17, 2023, 12:03 PM

20 points

8 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

[Question] Build knowledge base first, or backchain?

Nicholas KrossJul 17, 2023, 3:44 AM

11 points

4 votes

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A fictional AI law laced w/ alignment theory

MiguelDevJul 17, 2023, 1:42 AM

6 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

AutoInterpretation Finds Sparse Coding Beats Alternatives

HoagyJul 17, 2023, 1:41 AM

57 points

27 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

An upcoming US Supreme Court case may impede AI governance efforts

NickGabsJul 16, 2023, 11:51 PM

57 points

39 votes

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17 comments2 min readLW link

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