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The Talk: a brief explanation of sexual dimorphism

Malmesbury18 Sep 2023 16:23 UTC

540 points

77 comments16 min readLW link 3 reviews

Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC

338 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC

326 points

250 comments22 min readLW link 2 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

323 points

323 comments34 min readLW link

Sum-threshold attacks

TsviBT8 Sep 2023 17:13 UTC

250 points

55 comments10 min readLW link

(tsvibt.blogspot.com)

UDT shows that decision theory is more puzzling than ever

Wei Dai13 Sep 2023 12:26 UTC

230 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

AI presidents discuss AI alignment agendas

TurnTrout and Garrett Baker

9 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC

222 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceC5 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC

220 points

10 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

The King and the Golem

Richard_Ngo25 Sep 2023 19:51 UTC

205 points

19 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(narrativeark.substack.com)

A Golden Age of Building? Excerpts and lessons from Empire State, Pentagon, Skunk Works and SpaceX

Bird Concept1 Sep 2023 4:03 UTC

188 points

26 comments24 min readLW link 1 review

Defunding My Mistake

ymeskhout4 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC

188 points

41 comments6 min readLW link

How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions

JanB, Owain_Evans and SoerenMind

28 Sep 2023 18:53 UTC

187 points

39 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

There should be more AI safety orgs

Marius Hobbhahn21 Sep 2023 14:53 UTC

182 points

25 comments17 min readLW link

Meta Questions about Metaphilosophy

Wei Dai1 Sep 2023 1:17 UTC

164 points

80 comments3 min readLW link

“Diamondoid bacteria” nanobots: deadly threat or dead-end? A nanotech investigation

titotal29 Sep 2023 14:01 UTC

161 points

79 comments20 min readLW link

(titotal.substack.com)

Sparse Autoencoders Find Highly Interpretable Directions in Language Models

Logan Riggs, Hoagy, Aidan Ewart and Robert_AIZI

21 Sep 2023 15:30 UTC

159 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Cohabitive Games so Far

mako yass28 Sep 2023 15:41 UTC

140 points

146 comments19 min readLW link 2 reviews

(makopool.com)

The smallest possible button (or: moth traps!)

Neil 2 Sep 2023 15:24 UTC

126 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(neilwarren.substack.com)

One Minute Every Moment

abramdemski1 Sep 2023 20:23 UTC

126 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

Paper: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

lberglund, Owain_Evans, Meg, Maximilian Kaufmann, Mikita Balesni, Asa Cooper Stickland and Tomek Korbak

23 Sep 2023 19:55 UTC

125 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Making AIs less likely to be spiteful

Nicolas Macé, Anthony DiGiovanni and JesseClifton

26 Sep 2023 14:12 UTC

118 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

Interpreting OpenAI’s Whisper

EllenaR24 Sep 2023 17:53 UTC

116 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

“X distracts from Y” as a thinly-disguised fight over group status / politics

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2023 15:18 UTC

112 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Would You Work Harder In The Least Convenient Possible World?

Firinn22 Sep 2023 5:17 UTC

109 points

100 comments9 min readLW link 2 reviews

Paper: On measuring situational awareness in LLMs

Owain_Evans, Daniel Kokotajlo, Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak, Asa Cooper Stickland, Meg and Maximilian Kaufmann

4 Sep 2023 12:54 UTC

109 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

PSA: The community is in Berkeley/Oakland, not “the Bay Area”

maia11 Sep 2023 15:59 UTC

108 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

ActAdd: Steering Language Models without Optimization

technicalities, TurnTrout, lisathiergart, David Udell, Ulisse Mini and Monte M

6 Sep 2023 17:21 UTC

105 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Reproducing ARC Evals’ recent report on language model agents

Thomas Broadley1 Sep 2023 16:52 UTC

104 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(thomasbroadley.com)

Explaining grokking through circuit efficiency

Vikrant Varma and Rohin Shah

8 Sep 2023 14:39 UTC

102 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Atoms to Agents Proto-Lectures

johnswentworth22 Sep 2023 6:22 UTC

97 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Closing Notes on Nonlinear Investigation

Ben Pace15 Sep 2023 22:44 UTC

97 points

47 comments11 min readLW link

Announcing FAR Labs, an AI safety coworking space

Ben Goldhaber29 Sep 2023 16:52 UTC

95 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Benchmarks for Detecting Measurement Tampering [Redwood Research]

ryan_greenblatt and Fabien Roger

5 Sep 2023 16:44 UTC

94 points

22 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

(arxiv.org)

Logical Share Splitting

DaemonicSigil11 Sep 2023 4:08 UTC

93 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(pbement.com)

I compiled a ebook of `Project Lawful` for eBook readers

OrwellGoesShopping15 Sep 2023 18:09 UTC

93 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.mikescher.com)

AI #31: It Can Do What Now?

Zvi28 Sep 2023 16:00 UTC

90 points

6 comments40 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Highlights: Wentworth, Shah, and Murphy on “Retargeting the Search”

RobertM14 Sep 2023 2:18 UTC

87 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy & Long-Term Benefit Trust

Zac Hatfield-Dodds19 Sep 2023 15:09 UTC

85 points

26 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

(www.anthropic.com)

[Question] How have you become more hard-working?

Chi Nguyen25 Sep 2023 12:37 UTC

84 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Navigating an ecosystem that might or might not be bad for the world

habryka and kave

15 Sep 2023 23:58 UTC

79 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

Memory bandwidth constraints imply economies of scale in AI inference

Ege Erdil17 Sep 2023 14:01 UTC

79 points

34 comments4 min readLW link

Influence functions—why, what and how

Nina Panickssery15 Sep 2023 20:42 UTC

77 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Find Hot French Food Near Me: A Follow-up

aphyer6 Sep 2023 12:32 UTC

77 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

Have Attention Spans Been Declining?

niplav8 Sep 2023 14:11 UTC

75 points

23 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I

jefftk5 Sep 2023 2:00 UTC

75 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI #30: Dalle-3 and GPT-3.5-Instruct-Turbo

Zvi21 Sep 2023 12:00 UTC

75 points

8 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Luck based medicine: angry eldritch sugar gods edition

Elizabeth19 Sep 2023 4:40 UTC

75 points

14 comments9 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How to talk about reasons why AGI might not be near?

Kaj_Sotala17 Sep 2023 8:18 UTC

73 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

List of how people have become more hard-working

Chi Nguyen29 Sep 2023 11:30 UTC

72 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

High-level interpretability: detecting an AI’s objectives

Paul Colognese and Jozdien

28 Sep 2023 19:30 UTC

72 points

4 comments21 min readLW link