SPAR seeks ad­vi­sors and stu­dents for AI safety pro­jects (Se­cond Wave)

mic14 Sep 2023 23:09 UTC
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“Did you lock it?”

ymeskhout14 Sep 2023 21:10 UTC
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Can I take ducks home from the park?

dynomight14 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
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In­line Plot­ting in iTerm2

jefftk14 Sep 2023 20:30 UTC
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De­stroy­ing the fabric of the uni­verse as an in­stru­men­tal goal.

AI-doom14 Sep 2023 20:04 UTC
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The PUSA Sys­tem- Repost

Jaivardhan Nawani14 Sep 2023 18:40 UTC
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# **An­nounce­ment of AI-Plans.com Cri­tique-a-thon Septem­ber 2023**

Kabir Kumar14 Sep 2023 17:43 UTC
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Cruxes for overhang

Zach Stein-Perlman14 Sep 2023 17:00 UTC
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A The­ory of Laugh­ter—Fol­low-Up

Steven Byrnes14 Sep 2023 15:35 UTC
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Elic­it­ing Credit Hack­ing Be­havi­ours in LLMs

omegastick14 Sep 2023 15:07 UTC
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In­stru­men­tal Con­ver­gence Bounty

Logan Zoellner14 Sep 2023 14:02 UTC
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[Question] In the age of mod­ern AI (LLMs and be­yond), is data still the new oil?

MP14 Sep 2023 13:28 UTC
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AI #29: Take a Deep Breath

Zvi14 Sep 2023 12:00 UTC
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The om­ni­zoid—Heighn FDT De­bate #3: Con­tra om­ni­zoid con­tra me con­tra om­ni­zoid con­tra FDT

Heighn14 Sep 2023 11:52 UTC
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High­lights: Went­worth, Shah, and Mur­phy on “Re­tar­get­ing the Search”

RobertM14 Sep 2023 2:18 UTC
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Un­cov­er­ing La­tent Hu­man Wel­lbe­ing in LLM Embeddings

14 Sep 2023 1:40 UTC
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A Call For Com­mu­nity: Scien­tific Lan­guage Learn­ing is Still Lan­guage Learn­ing

keltan14 Sep 2023 0:32 UTC
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Mech In­terp Challenge: Septem­ber—De­ci­pher­ing the Ad­di­tion Model

CallumMcDougall13 Sep 2023 22:23 UTC
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Linkpost for Jan Leike on Self-Exfiltration

Daniel Kokotajlo13 Sep 2023 21:23 UTC
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MLSN: #10 Ad­ver­sar­ial At­tacks Against Lan­guage and Vi­sion Models, Im­prov­ing LLM Hon­esty, and Trac­ing the In­fluence of LLM Train­ing Data

13 Sep 2023 18:03 UTC
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Ex­pand­ing the Scope of Superposition

Derek Larson13 Sep 2023 17:38 UTC
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Con­tra Yud­kowsky on Epistemic Con­duct for Author Criticism

Zack_M_Davis13 Sep 2023 15:33 UTC
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Ap­ply to lead a pro­ject dur­ing the next vir­tual AI Safety Camp

13 Sep 2023 13:29 UTC
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Is AI Safety drop­ping the ball on pri­vacy?

markov13 Sep 2023 13:07 UTC
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UDT shows that de­ci­sion the­ory is more puz­zling than ever

Wei Dai13 Sep 2023 12:26 UTC
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[Question] Align­ment & Ca­pa­bil­ities: what’s the differ­ence?

johnhalstead13 Sep 2023 11:48 UTC
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Duty to res­cue /​ Non-as­sis­tance à per­sonne en danger

Thomas Sepulchre13 Sep 2023 9:49 UTC
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The Flow-Through Fallacy

Chris_Leong13 Sep 2023 4:28 UTC
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Book re­view: The Im­por­tance of What We Care About (Harry G. Frank­furt)

David Gross13 Sep 2023 4:17 UTC
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Padding the Corner

jefftk13 Sep 2023 1:30 UTC
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[Question] Should an un­der­grad avoid a ca­pa­bil­ities pro­ject?

Double12 Sep 2023 23:16 UTC
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[Linkpost] Con­tra four-wheeled suit­cases, sort of

Gunnar_Zarncke12 Sep 2023 20:36 UTC
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Seek­ing Feed­back on My Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Re­search Agenda

RGRGRG12 Sep 2023 18:45 UTC
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Au­to­mat­i­cally find­ing fea­ture vec­tors in the OV cir­cuits of Trans­form­ers with­out us­ing probing

Jacob Dunefsky12 Sep 2023 17:38 UTC
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Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day

Zvi12 Sep 2023 13:20 UTC
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[Question] Is there some­thing fun­da­men­tally wrong with the Uni­verse?

Caerulea-Lawrence12 Sep 2023 12:02 UTC
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Stu­pidity is also hard

walkthroughwalls12 Sep 2023 2:45 UTC
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Ap­ple Cider Baklava

jefftk12 Sep 2023 2:10 UTC
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How use­ful is Cor­rigi­bil­ity?

martinkunev12 Sep 2023 0:05 UTC
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Con­tra Heighn Con­tra Me Con­tra Func­tional De­ci­sion The­ory

omnizoid11 Sep 2023 19:49 UTC
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Ma­chine Evolution

11 Sep 2023 19:29 UTC
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[Question] Is there a hard copy of the se­quences available any­where?

Cole Wyeth11 Sep 2023 19:01 UTC
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Ama­zon KDP AI con­tent guidelines

ChristianKl11 Sep 2023 18:36 UTC
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A Case for AI Safety via Law

JWJohnston11 Sep 2023 18:26 UTC
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Erdős Prob­lems in Al­gorith­mic Probability

Aidan Rocke11 Sep 2023 16:44 UTC
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PSA: The com­mu­nity is in Berkeley/​Oak­land, not “the Bay Area”

maia11 Sep 2023 15:59 UTC
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A Bat and Ball made me Sad

Darren McKee11 Sep 2023 13:48 UTC
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Fo­cus on the Hardest Part First

Johannes C. Mayer11 Sep 2023 7:53 UTC
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The Promises and Pit­falls of Long-Term Forecasting

GeoVane11 Sep 2023 5:04 UTC
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Log­i­cal Share Splitting

DaemonicSigil11 Sep 2023 4:08 UTC
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