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

Alex K. Chen (parrot)Aug 7, 2023, 11:51 PM

14 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

A plea for more funding shortfall transparency

porbyAug 7, 2023, 9:33 PM

73 points

26 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Tips for reducing thinking branching factor

Simon BerensAug 7, 2023, 8:21 PM

4 points

1 vote

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6 comments1 min readLW link

An interactive introduction to grokking and mechanistic interpretability

Adam Pearce and Asma Ghandeharioun

Aug 7, 2023, 7:09 PM

23 points

8 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(pair.withgoogle.com)

Feedbackloop-first Rationality

RaemonAug 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

207 points

95 votes

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69 comments8 min readLW link 2 reviews

Growing Bonsai Networks with RNNs

ameoAug 7, 2023, 5:34 PM

21 points

9 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(cprimozic.net)

[Question] Should I test myself for microplastics?

AugsAug 7, 2023, 5:31 PM

9 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Optimisation Measures: Desiderata, Impossibility, Proposals

mattmacdermott and Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

Aug 7, 2023, 3:52 PM

36 points

20 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Clearer Thinking micro-grants program for 2023

spencergAug 7, 2023, 3:21 PM

14 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.clearerthinking.org)

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

jasoncrawfordAug 7, 2023, 2:22 PM

23 points

12 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Monthly Roundup #9: August 2023

ZviAug 7, 2023, 1:20 PM

42 points

15 votes

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25 comments57 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

avturchinAug 7, 2023, 1:13 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

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

Hauke HillebrandtAug 7, 2023, 11:53 AM

20 points

7 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

(aisafetyfundamentals.com)

Drinks at a bar

yakimoffAug 7, 2023, 2:52 AM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Problems with Robin Hanson’s Quillette Article On AI

DaemonicSigilAug 6, 2023, 10:13 PM

89 points

40 votes

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33 comments8 min readLW link

Yann LeCun on AGI and AI Safety

Chris_LeongAug 6, 2023, 9:56 PM

37 points

18 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

Computational Thread Art

CallumMcDougallAug 6, 2023, 9:42 PM

76 points

35 votes

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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

25 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.science.org)

[Linkpost] Will AI avoid exploitation?

cdkgAug 6, 2023, 2:28 PM

22 points

10 votes

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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

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

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

utilonAug 6, 2023, 2:19 PM

1 point

3 votes

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1 comment29 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Model-Based Policy Analysis under Deep Uncertainty

utilonAug 6, 2023, 2:07 PM

16 points

5 votes

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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

12 votes

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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

7 votes

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2 comments12 min readLW link

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

FCCCAug 6, 2023, 3:46 AM

11 points

9 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Exploring the Multiverse of Large Language Models

frankyAug 6, 2023, 2:38 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments5 min readLW link

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

VipulNaikAug 6, 2023, 1:30 AM

6 points

1 vote

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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

49 points

22 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

Summary of Improving Global Decision Making (around AI)

Will_PearsonAug 5, 2023, 6:46 PM

−7 points

2 votes

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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

5 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(drive.google.com)

Seattle Astral Codex Ten Monthly Social

a7xAug 5, 2023, 5:55 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AISafety.info’s Writing & Editing Hackathon

smallsiloAug 5, 2023, 5:14 PM

2 points

1 vote

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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

9 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Stomach Ulcers and Dental Cavities

MetacelsusAug 5, 2023, 2:08 PM

57 points

33 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

video games > IQ tests

bhauthAug 5, 2023, 1:27 PM

35 points

40 votes

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46 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Applicability of scaling laws to vision encoding models

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 5, 2023, 11:10 AM

11 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

A Naive Proposal for Constructing Interpretable AI

Chris_LeongAug 5, 2023, 10:32 AM

18 points

12 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

ACX Paris Meetup—August 11 2023

PoignardAzurAug 5, 2023, 9:44 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Meet Hyperion on Sunday Aug 6?

duck_masterAug 5, 2023, 4:36 AM

1 point

1 vote

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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

9 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing Squiggle Hub

ozziegooen and Slava Matyukhin

Aug 5, 2023, 1:00 AM

49 points

16 votes

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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

42 votes

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12 comments4 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Sinews of Sudan’s Latest War

Tim LiptrotAug 4, 2023, 6:17 PM

43 points

23 votes

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12 comments12 min readLW link

Private notes on LW?

RaemonAug 4, 2023, 5:35 PM

61 points

29 votes

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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

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

Austin ChenAug 4, 2023, 4:00 PM

44 points

21 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Multimodal Neurons in Pretrained Text-Only Transformers

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 4, 2023, 3:29 PM

11 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Apollo Research is hiring evals and interpretability engineers & scientists

Marius HobbhahnAug 4, 2023, 10:54 AM

25 points

15 votes

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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

3 votes

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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

6 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

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