Me­tac­u­lus Launches 2023/​2024 FluSight Challenge Sup­port­ing CDC, $5K in Prizes

ChristianWilliams27 Sep 2023 21:35 UTC
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Pro­jects I would like to see (pos­si­bly at AI Safety Camp)

Linda Linsefors27 Sep 2023 21:27 UTC
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Towards Bet­ter Mile­stones for Mon­i­tor­ing AI Capabilities

snewman27 Sep 2023 21:18 UTC
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[Question] Is Bjorn Lom­borg roughly right about cli­mate change policy?

yhoiseth27 Sep 2023 20:06 UTC
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(www.sciencedirect.com)

Com­mon­sense Good, Creative Good

jefftk27 Sep 2023 19:50 UTC
44 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Petrov Day [Spoiler Warn­ing]

lsusr27 Sep 2023 19:20 UTC
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The Hid­den Com­plex­ity of Wishes—The Animation

Writer27 Sep 2023 17:59 UTC
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(youtu.be)

MMLU’s Mo­ral Sce­nar­ios Bench­mark Doesn’t Mea­sure What You Think it Measures

corey morris27 Sep 2023 17:54 UTC
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(medium.com)

[Question] What’s your stan­dard for good work perfor­mance?

Chi Nguyen27 Sep 2023 16:58 UTC
30 points
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The Role of Groups in the Pro­gres­sion of Hu­man Understanding

Chris_Leong27 Sep 2023 15:09 UTC
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The Great Disembedding

rogersbacon27 Sep 2023 14:53 UTC
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(www.secretorum.life)

[Question] how do short-timelin­ers rea­son about the differ­ences be­tween brain and AI?

JavierCC27 Sep 2023 8:13 UTC
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[Question] Is there a widely ac­cepted met­ric for ‘gen­uine­ness’ in in­ter­per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion?

M. Y. Zuo27 Sep 2023 5:30 UTC
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Bari­a­tric surgery seems like a no-brainer for most mor­bidly obese people

lc27 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC
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Ja­cob on the Precipice

Richard_Ngo26 Sep 2023 21:16 UTC
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(narrativeark.substack.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2022

jefftk26 Sep 2023 20:40 UTC
33 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

GPT-4 for per­sonal pro­duc­tivity: on­line dis­trac­tion blocker

Sergii26 Sep 2023 17:41 UTC
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(grgv.xyz)

ARENA 2.0 - Im­pact Report

CallumMcDougall26 Sep 2023 17:13 UTC
33 points
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Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Read­ing group

26 Sep 2023 16:26 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the CNN In­ter­pretabil­ity Competition

scasper26 Sep 2023 16:21 UTC
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Mak­ing AIs less likely to be spiteful

26 Sep 2023 14:12 UTC
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[Linkpost] Mark Zucker­berg con­fronted about Meta’s Llama 2 AI’s abil­ity to give users de­tailed guidance on mak­ing an­thrax—Busi­ness Insider

mic26 Sep 2023 12:05 UTC
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(www.businessinsider.com)

En­forc­ing Far-Fu­ture Con­tracts for Governments

FCCC26 Sep 2023 4:26 UTC
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Car­i­oca Petrov Day

Giskard26 Sep 2023 0:30 UTC
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[Question] A few Align­ment ques­tions: util­ity op­ti­miz­ers, SLT, sharp left turn and identifiability

Igor Timofeev26 Sep 2023 0:27 UTC
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Im­pact sto­ries for model in­ter­nals: an ex­er­cise for in­ter­pretabil­ity researchers

jenny25 Sep 2023 23:15 UTC
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Au­to­nomic Sanity

Sable25 Sep 2023 22:37 UTC
20 points
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(affablyevil.substack.com)

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

Donald Hobson25 Sep 2023 21:36 UTC
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You should just smile at strangers a lot

chaosmage25 Sep 2023 20:12 UTC
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The King and the Golem

Richard_Ngo25 Sep 2023 19:51 UTC
159 points
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(narrativeark.substack.com)

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

25 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC
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(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

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

Zhijing Jin25 Sep 2023 18:42 UTC
3 points
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Eval­u­at­ing hid­den di­rec­tions on the util­ity dataset: clas­sifi­ca­tion, steer­ing and removal

25 Sep 2023 17:19 UTC
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Linkpost: A model of bi­ases as aris­ing from meta-beliefs

JuanGarcia25 Sep 2023 17:14 UTC
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[Question] What causes a de­ci­sion the­ory to be used?

Dagon25 Sep 2023 16:33 UTC
8 points
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Un­der­stand­ing strate­gic de­cep­tion and de­cep­tive alignment

25 Sep 2023 16:27 UTC
59 points
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(www.apolloresearch.ai)

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

Amina V.25 Sep 2023 16:13 UTC
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(bimbollectual.com)

In­side Views, Im­pos­tor Syn­drome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC
326 points
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“X dis­tracts from Y” as a thinly-dis­guised fight over group sta­tus /​ politics

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2023 15:18 UTC
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Ama­zon to in­vest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Davis_Kingsley25 Sep 2023 14:55 UTC
44 points
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(twitter.com)

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists be Valuists in­stead of util­i­tar­i­ans?

25 Sep 2023 14:03 UTC
1 point
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Feedly Breaks MathML

jefftk25 Sep 2023 13:40 UTC
15 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

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

Chi Nguyen25 Sep 2023 12:37 UTC
76 points
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Au­tomat­ing In­tel­li­gence: A Cur­sory Glance at How Au­toML Brings Pre­ci­sion to AI Development

RoscoHunter25 Sep 2023 9:39 UTC
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Cat­e­go­riza­tion Hell

UtilityMonster24 Sep 2023 18:18 UTC
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(utilitymonster.substack.com)

In­ter­pret­ing OpenAI’s Whisper

EllenaR24 Sep 2023 17:53 UTC
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Con­tra­dic­tion Ap­peal Bias

onur24 Sep 2023 17:03 UTC
3 points
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RAIN: Your Lan­guage Models Can Align Them­selves with­out Fine­tun­ing—Microsoft Re­search 2023 - Re­duces the ad­ver­sar­ial prompt at­tack suc­cess rate from 94% to 19%!

Singularian250124 Sep 2023 16:48 UTC
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Honor Sys­tem for Vac­ci­na­tion?

jefftk24 Sep 2023 11:50 UTC
17 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Far-Fu­ture Com­mit­ments as a Policy Con­sen­sus Strategy

FCCC24 Sep 2023 6:34 UTC
7 points
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