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Jacob on the Precipice

Richard_NgoSep 26, 2023, 9:16 PM

45 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

(narrativeark.substack.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2022

jefftkSep 26, 2023, 8:40 PM

33 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

GPT-4 for personal productivity: online distraction blocker

SergiiSep 26, 2023, 5:41 PM

65 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(grgv.xyz)

ARENA 2.0 - Impact Report

CallumMcDougallSep 26, 2023, 5:13 PM

35 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Mechanistic Interpretability Reading group

1stuserhere and woog

Sep 26, 2023, 4:26 PM

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the CNN Interpretability Competition

scasperSep 26, 2023, 4:21 PM

22 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Making AIs less likely to be spiteful

Nicolas Macé, Anthony DiGiovanni and JesseClifton

Sep 26, 2023, 2:12 PM

118 points

7 comments10 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Mark Zuckerberg confronted about Meta’s Llama 2 AI’s ability to give users detailed guidance on making anthrax—Business Insider

micSep 26, 2023, 12:05 PM

18 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.businessinsider.com)

Enforcing Far-Future Contracts for Governments

FCCCSep 26, 2023, 4:26 AM

−7 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

Carioca Petrov Day

GiskardSep 26, 2023, 12:30 AM

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] A few Alignment questions: utility optimizers, SLT, sharp left turn and identifiability

Igor TimofeevSep 26, 2023, 12:27 AM

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Impact stories for model internals: an exercise for interpretability researchers

jennySep 25, 2023, 11:15 PM

29 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Autonomic Sanity

SableSep 25, 2023, 10:37 PM

20 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

[Question] What is wrong with this “utility switch button problem” approach?

Donald HobsonSep 25, 2023, 9:36 PM

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

You should just smile at strangers a lot

chaosmageSep 25, 2023, 8:12 PM

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

The King and the Golem

Richard_NgoSep 25, 2023, 7:51 PM

190 points

19 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(narrativeark.substack.com)

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat and Ali

Sep 25, 2023, 6:55 PM

3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Welcome to Apply: The 2024 Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety by FLI!

Zhijing JinSep 25, 2023, 6:42 PM

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Evaluating hidden directions on the utility dataset: classification, steering and removal

Annah and shash42

Sep 25, 2023, 5:19 PM

25 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Linkpost: A model of biases as arising from meta-beliefs

JuanGarciaSep 25, 2023, 5:14 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What causes a decision theory to be used?

DagonSep 25, 2023, 4:33 PM

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding strategic deception and deceptive alignment

Marius Hobbhahn, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer and Dan Braun

Sep 25, 2023, 4:27 PM

64 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

(www.apolloresearch.ai)

The Merits of Contrarianism & Why I hate Chatbots. [My Experience with the Ideological Turing Test @ a Less Wrong meetup]

Amina V.Sep 25, 2023, 4:13 PM

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(bimbollectual.com)

Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworthSep 25, 2023, 4:08 PM

336 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

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

Steven ByrnesSep 25, 2023, 3:18 PM

112 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Davis_KingsleySep 25, 2023, 2:55 PM

44 points

8 comments LW link

(twitter.com)

Should Effective Altruists be Valuists instead of utilitarians?

spencerg and AmberDawn

Sep 25, 2023, 2:03 PM

1 point

3 comments6 min readLW link

Feedly Breaks MathML

jefftkSep 25, 2023, 1:40 PM

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Chi NguyenSep 25, 2023, 12:37 PM

82 points

42 comments LW link

Automating Intelligence: A Cursory Glance at How AutoML Brings Precision to AI Development

RoscoHunterSep 25, 2023, 9:39 AM

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Interpreting OpenAI’s Whisper

EllenaRSep 24, 2023, 5:53 PM

116 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Contradiction Appeal Bias

onurSep 24, 2023, 5:03 PM

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

RAIN: Your Language Models Can Align Themselves without Finetuning—Microsoft Research 2023 - Reduces the adversarial prompt attack success rate from 94% to 19%!

Singularian2501Sep 24, 2023, 4:48 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Honor System for Vaccination?

jefftkSep 24, 2023, 11:50 AM

17 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Far-Future Commitments as a Policy Consensus Strategy

FCCCSep 24, 2023, 6:34 AM

7 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Five neglected work areas that could reduce AI risk

CharlotteS and Aaron_Scher

Sep 24, 2023, 2:03 AM

17 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Are the other Rationality: A-Z sequences coming out as books?

caffeinated_dissonanceSep 24, 2023, 12:38 AM

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The Dick Kick’em Paradox

Augs SMSHacksSep 23, 2023, 10:22 PM

−5 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

I designed an AI safety course (for a philosophy department)

Eleni AngelouSep 23, 2023, 10:03 PM

37 points

15 comments2 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

Sep 23, 2023, 7:55 PM

121 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sparse Coding, for Mechanistic Interpretability and Activation Engineering

David UdellSep 23, 2023, 7:16 PM

42 points

7 comments34 min readLW link

[Question] Places to meet interesting middle-aged men?

anon_girl23 Sep 2023 19:06 UTC

18 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders more quickly with informed initialization

Pierre Peigné23 Sep 2023 16:21 UTC

30 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

A quick remark on so-called “hallucinations” in LLMs and humans

Bill Benzon23 Sep 2023 12:17 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Hand-writing MathML

jefftk23 Sep 2023 11:20 UTC

16 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Musk, Starlink, and Crimea

Nicholas / Heather Kross23 Sep 2023 2:35 UTC

−13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Linkpost/Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World

Jacob G-W23 Sep 2023 1:18 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Luck based medicine: inositol for anxiety and brain fog

Elizabeth22 Sep 2023 20:10 UTC

40 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

If influence functions are not approximating leave-one-out, how are they supposed to help?

Fabien Roger22 Sep 2023 14:23 UTC

66 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Modeling p(doom) with TrojanGDP

K. Liam Smith22 Sep 2023 14:19 UTC

−2 points

2 comments13 min readLW link