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2023 ACX Meetups Everywhere—Newton, MA

duck_master9 Aug 2023 22:47 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-08-09: US adds new nuclear, Katalin Karikó interview, and more

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2023 19:22 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Mech Interp Challenge: August—Deciphering the First Unique Character Model

CallumMcDougall9 Aug 2023 19:14 UTC

34 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Real Meaning of life has been found. Eliezer discovered it in 2000′s.

Jorterder9 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC

−15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Marginal Revolution unofficial birthday party

Derek M. Jones9 Aug 2023 14:35 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Convexity

Jesse Richardson9 Aug 2023 14:09 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A content analysis of the SQ-R questionnaire and a proposal for testing EQ-SQ theory

tailcalled9 Aug 2023 13:51 UTC

9 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Does LessWrong allow exempting posts from being scraped by GPTBot?

mic9 Aug 2023 13:02 UTC

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

If I Was An Eccentric Trillionaire

niplav9 Aug 2023 7:56 UTC

7 points

8 comments26 min readLW link

Modulating sycophancy in an RLHF model via activation steering

Nina Rimsky9 Aug 2023 7:06 UTC

67 points

20 comments12 min readLW link

Open Thread—August 2023

habryka9 Aug 2023 3:52 UTC

18 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

marine cloud brightening

bhauth9 Aug 2023 2:50 UTC

40 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab

nikola9 Aug 2023 1:05 UTC

137 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Acausal Now: We could totally acausally bargain with aliens at our current tech level if desired

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:50 UTC

1 point

5 comments4 min readLW link

Necromancy’s unintended consequences.

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC

−6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

What’s A “Market”?

johnswentworth8 Aug 2023 23:29 UTC

92 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Podcast (+transcript): Nathan Barnard on how US financial regulation can inform AI governance

Aaron Bergman8 Aug 2023 21:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.aaronbergman.net)

What are the flaws in this argument about p(Doom)?

William the Kiwi 8 Aug 2023 20:34 UTC

0 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

A Simple Theory Of Consciousness

SherlockHolmes8 Aug 2023 18:05 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(peterholmes.medium.com)

[Linkpost] Rationally awake

jpc8 Aug 2023 17:59 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(jpc.dev)

Yet more UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up

MoreRatsWrongReUAP8 Aug 2023 17:50 UTC

10 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #18: Challenges of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Microsoft’s Security Breach, and Conceptual Research on AI Safety

aogara8 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

[Question] Beginner’s question about RLHF

FTPickle8 Aug 2023 15:48 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

My Trial Period as an Independent Alignment Researcher

Bart Bussmann8 Aug 2023 14:16 UTC

32 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

4 types of AGI selection, and how to constrain them

Remmelt8 Aug 2023 10:02 UTC

−4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Notice your everything

metachirality8 Aug 2023 2:38 UTC

15 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research

evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

306 points

26 comments18 min readLW link

Perpetually Declining Population?

jefftk8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

48 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do I find all the items on LW that I’ve favorited or upvoted?

Alex K. Chen (parrot)7 Aug 2023 23:51 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A plea for more funding shortfall transparency

porby7 Aug 2023 21:33 UTC

73 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Tips for reducing thinking branching factor

Simon Berens7 Aug 2023 20:21 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

An interactive introduction to grokking and mechanistic interpretability

Adam Pearce and Asma Ghandeharioun

7 Aug 2023 19:09 UTC

23 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(pair.withgoogle.com)

Feedbackloop-first Rationality

Raemon7 Aug 2023 17:58 UTC

175 points

65 comments8 min readLW link

Growing Bonsai Networks with RNNs

ameo7 Aug 2023 17:34 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(cprimozic.net)

[Question] Should I test myself for microplastics?

Augs7 Aug 2023 17:31 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Optimisation Measures: Desiderata, Impossibility, Proposals

mattmacdermott and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

7 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC

35 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Clearer Thinking micro-grants program for 2023

spencerg7 Aug 2023 15:21 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.clearerthinking.org)

What I’ve been reading, July–August 2023

jasoncrawford7 Aug 2023 14:22 UTC

23 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Monthly Roundup #9: August 2023

Zvi7 Aug 2023 13:20 UTC

42 points

25 comments57 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Strengthening the Argument for Intrinsic AI Safety: The S-Curves Perspective

avturchin7 Aug 2023 13:13 UTC

8 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Overview of how AI might exacerbate long-running catastrophic risks

Hauke Hillebrandt7 Aug 2023 11:53 UTC

20 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

(aisafetyfundamentals.com)

The second act: Beginning epistemic rigor at 30

hiAndrewQuinn7 Aug 2023 9:34 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Drinks at a bar

yakimoff7 Aug 2023 2:52 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with Robin Hanson’s Quillette Article On AI

DaemonicSigil6 Aug 2023 22:13 UTC

89 points

33 comments8 min readLW link

Yann LeCun on AGI and AI Safety

Chris_Leong6 Aug 2023 21:56 UTC

37 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

Computational Thread Art

CallumMcDougall6 Aug 2023 21:42 UTC

75 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth

Annapurna6 Aug 2023 20:58 UTC

60 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.science.org)

[Linkpost] Will AI avoid exploitation?

cdkg6 Aug 2023 14:28 UTC

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Reducing the risk of catastrophically misaligned AI by avoiding the Singleton scenario: the Manyton Variant

GravitasGradient6 Aug 2023 14:24 UTC

−6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Rebooting AI Governance: An AI-Driven Approach to AI Governance

Max Reddel6 Aug 2023 14:19 UTC

1 point

1 comment29 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)