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[Question] Boxing

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 2, 2023, 11:38 PM
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Ex­ter­nal ra­tio­nal­ity vs. in­ter­nal rationality

metachiralityAug 2, 2023, 11:29 PM
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When perform­ing a di­men­sion­al­ity re­duc­tion on ten­sors, the trace is of­ten zero.

Joseph Van NameAug 2, 2023, 9:06 PM
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Progress links di­gest, 2023-08-02: Su­per­con­duc­tor edition

jasoncrawfordAug 2, 2023, 8:27 PM
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[Question] What works for ADHD and/​or re­lated things?

TeaTieAndHatAug 2, 2023, 6:37 PM
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[Question] Would you pay for a search en­g­ine limited to ra­tio­nal­ist sites?

ConorAug 2, 2023, 6:06 PM
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The Roots of Progress Blog-Build­ing In­ten­sive: ad­vice for ap­pli­cants, re­quest for support

jasoncrawfordAug 2, 2023, 3:37 PM
9 points

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3 lev­els of threat obfuscation

HoldenKarnofskyAug 2, 2023, 2:58 PM
69 points

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ChatGPT for trans­la­tion

Varshul GuptaAug 2, 2023, 11:57 AM
1 point

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Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal, calebp99, Linch, habryka, Thomas Larsen and Vaniver
Aug 2, 2023, 7:54 AM
81 points

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[Question] Could we breed/​en­g­ineer in­tel­li­gent par­rots?

lemonhopeAug 2, 2023, 7:32 AM
9 points

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An­throp­i­cal Motte and Bailey in two ver­sions of Sleep­ing Beauty

Ape in the coatAug 2, 2023, 7:08 AM
32 points

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so­lar-ther­mal and techno-eco­nomic analysis

bhauthAug 2, 2023, 6:22 AM
21 points

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South Bay ACX/​SSC Meetup @ Whole Foods

allisonaAug 2, 2023, 3:44 AM
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“Is There Any­thing That’s Worth More”

Zack_M_DavisAug 2, 2023, 3:28 AM
64 points

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Bay Win­ter Sols­tice: call for speech pitches!

tcheasdfjklAug 2, 2023, 3:24 AM
9 points

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[Question] What is on­tol­ogy?

Adam ZernerAug 2, 2023, 12:54 AM
28 points

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My cur­rent LK99 questions

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 1, 2023, 10:48 PM
206 points

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Spiral Staircase

Michael SamoilovAug 1, 2023, 9:51 PM
21 points

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Open Mic—Au­gust 2023

Adam ZernerAug 1, 2023, 7:24 PM
8 points

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ARC Evals new re­port: Eval­u­at­ing Lan­guage-Model Agents on Real­is­tic Au­tonomous Tasks

Beth BarnesAug 1, 2023, 6:30 PM
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[Question] When(if ever) are su­per­stim­uli good/​use­ful/​ad­van­ta­geous?

PerhapsAug 1, 2023, 3:50 PM
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AISN #17: Au­to­mat­i­cally Cir­cum­vent­ing LLM Guardrails, the Fron­tier Model Fo­rum, and Se­nate Hear­ing on AI Oversight

Dan HAug 1, 2023, 3:40 PM
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AISN #16: White House Se­cures Vol­un­tary Com­mit­ments from Lead­ing AI Labs and Les­sons from Oppenheimer

Dan H and Corin Katzke
Aug 1, 2023, 3:39 PM
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“Des­per­ate Hon­esty” by Agnes Callard

David GrossAug 1, 2023, 1:34 PM
11 points

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Bar­bieheimer: Across the Dead Reckoning

ZviAug 1, 2023, 1:00 PM
49 points

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Un­tan­gling In­frabayesi­anism: A re­dis­til­la­tion [PDF link; ~12k words + lots of math]

LorxusAug 1, 2023, 12:42 PM
29 points

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What Is Child­hood Sup­posed To Be?

SableAug 1, 2023, 9:51 AM
21 points

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AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman LeventovAug 1, 2023, 9:32 AM
26 points

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What is au­ton­omy, and how does it lead to greater risk from AI?

DavidmanheimAug 1, 2023, 7:58 AM
30 points

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Eval­u­at­ing Su­per­hu­man Models with Con­sis­tency Checks

Daniel Paleka and Lukas Fluri
Aug 1, 2023, 7:51 AM
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[See link to Sept meetup be­low!] San Fran­cisco ACX Meetup “First Satur­day” Au­gust 5, 1 pm

guenaelAug 1, 2023, 3:38 AM
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[Question] Ex­er­cise: Solve “Think­ing Physics”

RaemonAug 1, 2023, 12:44 AM
102 points

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The “pub­lic de­bate” about AI is con­fus­ing for the gen­eral pub­lic and for poli­cy­mak­ers be­cause it is a three-sided de­bate

Adam David LongAug 1, 2023, 12:08 AM
146 points

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The “no sand­bag­ging on check­able tasks” hypothesis

Joe CarlsmithJul 31, 2023, 11:06 PM
61 points

24 votes

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A So­cial His­tory of Truth

VaniverJul 31, 2023, 10:49 PM
67 points

17 votes

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Water­mark­ing con­sid­ered over­rated?

DanielFilanJul 31, 2023, 9:36 PM
19 points

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What The Lord of the Rings Teaches Us About AI Alignment

Jeffrey HeningerJul 31, 2023, 8:16 PM
24 points

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The “spel­ling mir­a­cle”: GPT-3 spel­ling abil­ities and glitch to­kens revisited

mwatkinsJul 31, 2023, 7:47 PM
85 points

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“Build­ing a House” Review

jefftkJul 31, 2023, 7:20 PM
62 points

25 votes

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The Mean­ing of Shog­goth AI Memes

Dan SmithJul 31, 2023, 6:52 PM
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[Question] Is there any ex­ist­ing term sum­ma­riz­ing non-scal­able over­sight meth­ods in outer al­ign­ment?

Allen ShenJul 31, 2023, 5:31 PM
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Lack of So­cial Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue

Zack_M_DavisJul 31, 2023, 4:38 PM
44 points

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Thoughts on shar­ing in­for­ma­tion about lan­guage model capabilities

paulfchristianoJul 31, 2023, 4:04 PM
211 points

118 votes

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Trad­ing off com­pute in train­ing and in­fer­ence (Overview)

Pablo VillalobosJul 31, 2023, 4:03 PM
42 points

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Open Prob­lems and Fun­da­men­tal Limi­ta­tions of RLHF

scasperJul 31, 2023, 3:31 PM
66 points

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“Not Ne­c­es­sar­ily”

Benjamin HendricksJul 31, 2023, 3:19 PM
24 points

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How to find AI al­ign­ment re­searchers to col­lab­o­rate with?

Florian DietzJul 31, 2023, 9:05 AM
2 points

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[Question] Is Kennedy a Nazi?

Pee DoomJul 31, 2023, 8:51 AM
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Is Light Drink­ing Pro­tec­tive?

jefftkJul 31, 2023, 3:00 AM
45 points

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