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[Question] Is there any metric measuring ~”proportion of people creating extra value”?

Amal Aug 3, 2023, 10:54 PM

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Hypothetical: what would you do?

JNSAug 3, 2023, 10:39 PM

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Deception Abilities Emerged in Large Language Models

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 3, 2023, 5:28 PM

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Embedding Ethical Priors into AI Systems: A Bayesian Approach

JustausernameAug 3, 2023, 3:31 PM

−5 points

3 comments21 min readLW link

Password-locked models: a stress case for capabilities evaluation

Fabien RogerAug 3, 2023, 2:53 PM

156 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

AI #23: Fundamental Problems with RLHF

ZviAug 3, 2023, 12:50 PM

59 points

9 comments41 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bad Imitation Instruments

jefftkAug 3, 2023, 2:30 AM

21 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Kolmogorov’s theory of Algorithmic Probability

Aidan RockeAug 3, 2023, 12:58 AM

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(keplerlounge.com)

Work culture creep

CrimsonChinAug 3, 2023, 12:38 AM

32 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Boxing

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 2, 2023, 11:38 PM

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

External rationality vs. internal rationality

metachiralityAug 2, 2023, 11:29 PM

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

When performing a dimensionality reduction on tensors, the trace is often zero.

Joseph Van NameAug 2, 2023, 9:06 PM

7 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-08-02: Superconductor edition

jasoncrawfordAug 2, 2023, 8:27 PM

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What works for ADHD and/or related things?

TeaTieAndHatAug 2, 2023, 6:37 PM

7 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would you pay for a search engine limited to rationalist sites?

ConorAug 2, 2023, 6:06 PM

4 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive: advice for applicants, request for support

jasoncrawfordAug 2, 2023, 3:37 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

3 levels of threat obfuscation

HoldenKarnofskyAug 2, 2023, 2:58 PM

69 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

ChatGPT for translation

Varshul GuptaAug 2, 2023, 11:57 AM

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(dubverseblack.substack.com)

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal, calebp99, Linch, habryka, Thomas Larsen and Vaniver

Aug 2, 2023, 7:54 AM

81 points

3 comments50 min readLW link

[Question] Could we breed/engineer intelligent parrots?

lemonhopeAug 2, 2023, 7:32 AM

9 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropical Motte and Bailey in two versions of Sleeping Beauty

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

32 points

56 comments6 min readLW link

solar-thermal and techno-economic analysis

bhauthAug 2, 2023, 6:22 AM

21 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

South Bay ACX/SSC Meetup @ Whole Foods

allisonaAug 2, 2023, 3:44 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

“Is There Anything That’s Worth More”

Zack_M_DavisAug 2, 2023, 3:28 AM

64 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Winter Solstice: call for speech pitches!

tcheasdfjklAug 2, 2023, 3:24 AM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

[Question] What is ontology?

Adam ZernerAug 2, 2023, 12:54 AM

28 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

My current LK99 questions

Eliezer YudkowskyAug 1, 2023, 10:48 PM

206 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Spiral Staircase

Michael SamoilovAug 1, 2023, 9:51 PM

19 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Open Mic—August 2023

Adam ZernerAug 1, 2023, 7:24 PM

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Beth BarnesAug 1, 2023, 6:30 PM

153 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

(evals.alignment.org)

[Question] When(if ever) are superstimuli good/useful/advantageous?

PerhapsAug 1, 2023, 3:50 PM

−7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #17: Automatically Circumventing LLM Guardrails, the Frontier Model Forum, and Senate Hearing on AI Oversight

Dan HAug 1, 2023, 3:40 PM

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

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

3 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

“Desperate Honesty” by Agnes Callard

David GrossAug 1, 2023, 1:34 PM

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(dailynous.com)

Barbieheimer: Across the Dead Reckoning

ZviAug 1, 2023, 1:00 PM

49 points

17 comments41 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

Lorxus1 Aug 2023 12:42 UTC

29 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(docdro.id)

What Is Childhood Supposed To Be?

Sable1 Aug 2023 9:51 UTC

21 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI romantic partners will harm society if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov1 Aug 2023 9:32 UTC

26 points

76 comments13 min readLW link

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

Davidmanheim1 Aug 2023 7:58 UTC

30 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Evaluating Superhuman Models with Consistency Checks

Daniel Paleka and Lukas Fluri

1 Aug 2023 7:51 UTC

21 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[See link to Sept meetup below!] San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday” August 5, 1 pm

guenael1 Aug 2023 3:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Exercise: Solve “Thinking Physics”

Raemon1 Aug 2023 0:44 UTC

102 points

30 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

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

Adam David Long1 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC

146 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

The “no sandbagging on checkable tasks” hypothesis

Joe Carlsmith31 Jul 2023 23:06 UTC

61 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

A Social History of Truth

Vaniver31 Jul 2023 22:49 UTC

64 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Watermarking considered overrated?

DanielFilan31 Jul 2023 21:36 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

What The Lord of the Rings Teaches Us About AI Alignment

Jeffrey Heninger31 Jul 2023 20:16 UTC

24 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

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

mwatkins31 Jul 2023 19:47 UTC

85 points

29 comments20 min readLW link

“Building a House” Review

jefftk31 Jul 2023 19:20 UTC

62 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Meaning of Shoggoth AI Memes

Dan Smith31 Jul 2023 18:52 UTC

−5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link