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Problems with Robin Hanson’s Quillette Article On AI

DaemonicSigilAug 6, 2023, 10:13 PM

89 points

33 comments8 min readLW link

Yann LeCun on AGI and AI Safety

Chris_LeongAug 6, 2023, 9:56 PM

37 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

Computational Thread Art

CallumMcDougallAug 6, 2023, 9:42 PM

76 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

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

AnnapurnaAug 6, 2023, 8:58 PM

60 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.science.org)

[Linkpost] Will AI avoid exploitation?

cdkgAug 6, 2023, 2:28 PM

22 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

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

GravitasGradientAug 6, 2023, 2:24 PM

−6 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

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

utilonAug 6, 2023, 2:19 PM

1 point

1 comment29 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Model-Based Policy Analysis under Deep Uncertainty

utilonAug 6, 2023, 2:07 PM

16 points

1 comment23 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] On being in a bad place and too stubborn to leave.

TeaTieAndHatAug 6, 2023, 11:45 AM

12 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

Safety-First Agents/Architectures Are a Promising Path to Safe AGI

Brendon_WongAug 6, 2023, 8:02 AM

13 points

2 comments12 min readLW link

The Benevolent Ruler’s Handbook (Part 1): The Policy Problem

FCCCAug 6, 2023, 3:46 AM

11 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Exploring the Multiverse of Large Language Models

frankyAug 6, 2023, 2:38 AM

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Aligning my web server with devops practices: part 2 (security)

VipulNaikAug 6, 2023, 1:30 AM

6 points

0 comments19 min readLW link

how 2 tell if ur input is out of distribution given only model weights

dkirmaniAug 5, 2023, 10:45 PM

48 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Summary of Improving Global Decision Making (around AI)

Will_PearsonAug 5, 2023, 6:46 PM

−7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Ground-Truth Label Imbalance Impairs the Performance of Contrast-Consistent Search (and Other Contrast-Pair-Based Unsupervised Methods)

Tom Angsten and Ami Hays

Aug 5, 2023, 5:55 PM

6 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

Seattle Astral Codex Ten Monthly Social

a7xAug 5, 2023, 5:55 PM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

AISafety.info’s Writing & Editing Hackathon

smallsiloAug 5, 2023, 5:14 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Join AISafety.info’s Writing & Editing Hackathon (Aug 25-28) (Prizes to be won!)

smallsiloAug 5, 2023, 2:08 PM

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Stomach Ulcers and Dental Cavities

MetacelsusAug 5, 2023, 2:08 PM

57 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

video games > IQ tests

bhauthAug 5, 2023, 1:27 PM

35 points

46 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Applicability of scaling laws to vision encoding models

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 5, 2023, 11:10 AM

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A Naive Proposal for Constructing Interpretable AI

Chris_LeongAug 5, 2023, 10:32 AM

18 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

ACX Paris Meetup—August 11 2023

PoignardAzurAug 5, 2023, 9:44 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Meet Hyperion on Sunday Aug 6?

duck_masterAug 5, 2023, 4:36 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best published papers from outside the alignment community that are relevant to Agent Foundations?

Stephen FowlerAug 5, 2023, 3:02 AM

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Squiggle Hub

ozziegooen and Slava Matyukhin

Aug 5, 2023, 1:00 AM

49 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Read More Books but Pretend to Read Even More

Arjun PanicksseryAug 5, 2023, 12:07 AM

26 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Sinews of Sudan’s Latest War

Tim LiptrotAug 4, 2023, 6:17 PM

43 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

Private notes on LW?

RaemonAug 4, 2023, 5:35 PM

61 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

When training AI, we should escalate the frequency of capability tests

Hauke HillebrandtAug 4, 2023, 4:07 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Manifund: What we’re funding (weeks 2-4)

Austin ChenAug 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

44 points

2 comments LW link

(manifund.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 4, 2023, 3:29 PM

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Apollo Research is hiring evals and interpretability engineers & scientists

Marius HobbhahnAug 4, 2023, 10:54 AM

25 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has anyone tried creating a YouTube or TikTok series covering the sequences?

Max RossiAug 4, 2023, 12:10 AM

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[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