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Responses to apparent rationalist confusions about game / decision theory

Anthony DiGiovanni30 Aug 2023 22:02 UTC

142 points

20 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Invulnerable Incomplete Preferences: A Formal Statement

SCP30 Aug 2023 21:59 UTC

136 points

39 comments35 min readLW link

Report on Frontier Model Training

YafahEdelman30 Aug 2023 20:02 UTC

122 points

21 comments21 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

An adversarial example for Direct Logit Attribution: memory management in gelu-4l

Can, Yeu-Tong Lau, James Dao and Jett Janiak

30 Aug 2023 17:36 UTC

17 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

A Letter to the Editor of MIT Technology Review

Jeffs30 Aug 2023 16:59 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Biosecurity Culture, Computer Security Culture

jefftk30 Aug 2023 16:40 UTC

103 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Why I hang out at LessWrong and why you should check-in there every now and then

Bill Benzon30 Aug 2023 15:20 UTC

16 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

“Wanting” and “liking”

Mateusz Bagiński30 Aug 2023 14:52 UTC

23 points

3 comments29 min readLW link

Open Call for Research Assistants in Developmental Interpretability

Jesse Hoogland, Daniel Murfet, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Stan van Wingerden

30 Aug 2023 9:02 UTC

56 points

11 comments4 min readLW link

LTFF and EAIF are unusually funding-constrained right now

Linch and calebp99

30 Aug 2023 1:03 UTC

90 points

24 comments15 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Paper Walkthrough: Automated Circuit Discovery with Arthur Conmy

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2023 22:07 UTC

36 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

An OV-Coherent Toy Model of Attention Head Superposition

Lauren Greenspan and keith_wynroe

29 Aug 2023 19:44 UTC

26 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)

moyamo29 Aug 2023 18:28 UTC

77 points

71 comments15 min readLW link

Democratic Fine-Tuning

Joe Edelman29 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC

22 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Should rationalists (be seen to) win?

Will_Pearson29 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC

6 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Frankfurt meetup

sultan29 Aug 2023 18:10 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Istanbul meetup

sultan29 Aug 2023 18:10 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Broken Benchmark: MMLU

awg29 Aug 2023 18:09 UTC

24 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AISN #20: LLM Proliferation, AI Deception, and Continuing Drivers of AI Capabilities

Dan H29 Aug 2023 15:07 UTC

12 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Loft Bed Fan Guard

jefftk29 Aug 2023 13:30 UTC

16 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Dating Roundup #1: This is Why You’re Single

Zvi29 Aug 2023 12:50 UTC

87 points

28 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Neural Recognizers: Some [old] notes based on a TV tube metaphor [perceptual contact with the world]

Bill Benzon29 Aug 2023 11:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Barriers to Mechanistic Interpretability for AGI Safety

Connor Leahy29 Aug 2023 10:56 UTC

63 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Newcomb Variant

lsusr29 Aug 2023 7:02 UTC

25 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Incentives affecting alignment-researcher encouragement

Nicholas Kross29 Aug 2023 5:11 UTC

28 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Anyone want to debate publicly about FDT?

Bentham's Bulldog29 Aug 2023 3:45 UTC

14 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions

Simon Goldstein and Peter S. Park

29 Aug 2023 1:29 UTC

54 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

An Interpretability Illusion for Activation Patching of Arbitrary Subspaces

Georg Lange, Alex Makelov and Neel Nanda

29 Aug 2023 1:04 UTC

77 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI API base models are not sycophantic, at any size

nostalgebraist29 Aug 2023 0:58 UTC

183 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

(colab.research.google.com)

Paradigms and Theory Choice in AI: Adaptivity, Economy and Control

particlemania28 Aug 2023 22:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

[Question] Humanities In A Post-Conscious AI World?

Netcentrica28 Aug 2023 21:59 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

Introducing the Center for AI Policy (& we’re hiring!)

Thomas Larsen28 Aug 2023 21:17 UTC

123 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

(www.aipolicy.us)

[Question] 45% to 55% vs. 90% to 100%

yhoiseth28 Aug 2023 19:15 UTC

5 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

The Evidence for Question Decomposition is Weak

niplav28 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

22 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

ACX Meetup Anywhere, Bratislava, Slovakia

David Varga28 Aug 2023 15:40 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Anthropic Principle Tells Us That AGI Will Not Be Conscious

nem28 Aug 2023 15:25 UTC

2 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

No More Freezer Pucks

jefftk28 Aug 2023 15:20 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The mind as a polyviscous fluid

Bill Benzon28 Aug 2023 14:38 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Who can most reduce X-Risk?

sudhanshu_kasewa28 Aug 2023 14:38 UTC

1 point

12 comments1 min readLW link

Drinks at a bar

yakimoff28 Aug 2023 3:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Dear Self; we need to talk about ambition

Elizabeth27 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC

271 points

28 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

AI pause/governance advocacy might be net-negative, especially without a focus on explaining x-risk

Mikhail Samin27 Aug 2023 23:05 UTC

72 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Will issues are quite nearly skill issues

dkl927 Aug 2023 16:42 UTC

1 point

1 comment3 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Xanadu, GPT, and Beyond: An adventure of the mind

Bill Benzon27 Aug 2023 16:19 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

High level overview on how to go about estimating “p(doom)” or the like

Aryeh Englander27 Aug 2023 16:01 UTC

16 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Trying a Wet Suit

jefftk27 Aug 2023 15:00 UTC

35 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Apply to a small iteration of MLAB in Oxford

RP, MariaK and OliverHayman

27 Aug 2023 14:54 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Apply to a small iteration of MLAB to be run in Oxford

RP, MariaK and OliverHayman

27 Aug 2023 14:21 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Game of Dominance

Karl von Wendt27 Aug 2023 11:04 UTC

24 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong

Bentham's Bulldog27 Aug 2023 1:06 UTC

−12 points

97 comments36 min readLW link