Four vi­sions of Trans­for­ma­tive AI success

Steven Byrnes17 Jan 2024 20:45 UTC
112 points
22 comments15 min readLW link

AI Dis­clo­sure Bal­lot Ini­ti­a­tive (and vot­ing method)

Aaron Hamlin17 Jan 2024 20:02 UTC
−8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Hatch­ing the Cos­mic Egg (Hymn to Diony­sus)

rogersbacon17 Jan 2024 18:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments9 min readLW link
(www.secretorum.life)

[Question] What do peo­ple col­lo­quially mean by deep breath­ing? Slow, large, or di­aphrag­matic?

VipulNaik17 Jan 2024 18:01 UTC
13 points
8 comments2 min readLW link

AlphaGeom­e­try: An Olympiad-level AI sys­tem for geometry

alyssavance17 Jan 2024 17:17 UTC
45 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmind.google)

On An­thropic’s Sleeper Agents Paper

Zvi17 Jan 2024 16:10 UTC
54 points
5 comments36 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Ped­a­gog­i­cal Guide to Corrigibility

A.H.17 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC
6 points
3 comments16 min readLW link

An In­tro­duc­tion To The Man­delbrot Set That Doesn’t Men­tion Com­plex Numbers

Yitz17 Jan 2024 9:48 UTC
81 points
11 comments9 min readLW link

Vote in the LessWrong re­view! (LW 2022 Re­view vot­ing phase)

habryka17 Jan 2024 7:22 UTC
26 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Co­a­lescer Models

17 Jan 2024 6:39 UTC
16 points
2 comments10 min readLW link

Maybe talk­ing isn’t the best way to com­mu­ni­cate with LLMs

mnvr17 Jan 2024 6:24 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mrmr.io)

D&D.Sci Hyper­sphere Anal­y­sis Part 3: Beat it with Lin­ear Algebra

aphyer16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC
26 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

The weak-to-strong gen­er­al­iza­tion (WTSG) pa­per in 60 seconds

sudo16 Jan 2024 22:44 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

So­cial me­dia al­ign­ment test

amayhew16 Jan 2024 20:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(naiveskepticblog.wordpress.com)

Med­i­cal Roundup #1

Zvi16 Jan 2024 20:30 UTC
57 points
9 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Be­ing nicer than Clippy

Joe Carlsmith16 Jan 2024 19:44 UTC
109 points
23 comments27 min readLW link

How poly­se­man­tic can one neu­ron be? In­ves­ti­gat­ing fea­tures in TinyS­to­ries.

Evan Anders16 Jan 2024 19:10 UTC
12 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(evanhanders.blog)

Ap­ply­ing AI Safety con­cepts to astronomy

Faris16 Jan 2024 18:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments12 min readLW link

Manag­ing catas­trophic mi­suse with­out ro­bust AIs

16 Jan 2024 17:27 UTC
58 points
16 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What are the most com­mon so­cial in­se­cu­ri­ties?

Chipmonk16 Jan 2024 17:24 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Why wasn’t preser­va­tion with the goal of po­ten­tial fu­ture re­vival started ear­lier in his­tory?

Andy_McKenzie16 Jan 2024 16:15 UTC
31 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

[Question] Why are peo­ple un­keen to im­mor­tal­ity that would come from tech­nolog­i­cal ad­vance­ments and/​or AI?

Gabi QUENE16 Jan 2024 14:23 UTC
12 points
41 comments1 min readLW link

Deal­ing with Awkwardness

Jonathan Moregård16 Jan 2024 12:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

The im­pos­si­ble prob­lem of due process

mingyuan16 Jan 2024 5:18 UTC
180 points
63 comments14 min readLW link

New­ton’s law of cool­ing from first principles

Nisan16 Jan 2024 4:21 UTC
23 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Sparse Au­toen­coders Work on At­ten­tion Layer Outputs

16 Jan 2024 0:26 UTC
82 points
9 comments18 min readLW link

Goals se­lected from learned knowl­edge: an al­ter­na­tive to RL alignment

Seth Herd15 Jan 2024 21:52 UTC
40 points
17 comments7 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing REBUS: A Ro­bust Eval­u­a­tion Bench­mark of Un­der­stand­ing Symbols

15 Jan 2024 21:21 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Live Sound: Big-O Improvements

jefftk15 Jan 2024 19:50 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Bias Rep­re­sen­ta­tions in LLMs via Ac­ti­va­tion Steering

DawnLu15 Jan 2024 19:39 UTC
29 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

Sparse MLP Distillation

slavachalnev15 Jan 2024 19:39 UTC
30 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

Re­view of Align­ment Plan Cri­tiques- De­cem­ber AI-Plans Cri­tique-a-Thon Re­sults

Iknownothing15 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC
24 points
0 comments25 min readLW link
(aiplans.substack.com)

[Question] What does it look like for AI to sig­nifi­cantly im­prove hu­man co­or­di­na­tion, be­fore su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

jacobjacob15 Jan 2024 19:22 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Now Ac­cept­ing Player Ap­pli­ca­tions for Band of Blades

Joe Rogero15 Jan 2024 17:58 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Three Types of Con­straints in the Space of Agents

15 Jan 2024 17:27 UTC
26 points
3 comments17 min readLW link

The case for train­ing fron­tier AIs on Sume­rian-only corpus

15 Jan 2024 16:40 UTC
127 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

How to Pro­mote More Pro­duc­tive Dialogue Out­side of LessWrong

sweenesm15 Jan 2024 14:16 UTC
16 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Come and day­dream with me about sci­ence reform

TeaTieAndHat15 Jan 2024 11:09 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC
45 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Even if we lose, we win

Pi Rogers15 Jan 2024 2:15 UTC
23 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

De­tach­ment vs at­tach­ment [AI risk and men­tal health]

Neil 15 Jan 2024 0:41 UTC
14 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

Mak­ing up statis­tics to es­tab­lish pri­or­ity on Land Value Tax vs Earned In­come Tax Credit vs So­cial Me­dia Dy­namic Regulation

Canucklug14 Jan 2024 23:57 UTC
−5 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Is the uni­verse all there is? ‘Ev­i­dence’ for ob­jects out­side the uni­verse...

JonathanHall14 Jan 2024 23:56 UTC
−4 points
27 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] What is the min­i­mum amount of time travel and re­sources needed to se­cure the fu­ture?

Perhaps14 Jan 2024 22:01 UTC
−3 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Gothen­burg LW /​ ACX meetup

Stefan14 Jan 2024 21:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Gothen­burg LW /​ ACX meetup

Stefan14 Jan 2024 21:20 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Hyper­sphere Anal­y­sis Part 2: Non­lin­ear Effects & Interactions

aphyer14 Jan 2024 19:59 UTC
23 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Gen­der Exploration

sapphire14 Jan 2024 18:57 UTC
111 points
25 comments5 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

List of pro­jects that seem im­pact­ful for AI Governance

14 Jan 2024 16:53 UTC
13 points
0 comments13 min readLW link

The Leeroy Jenk­ins prin­ci­ple: How faulty AI could guaran­tee “warn­ing shots”

titotal14 Jan 2024 15:03 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(titotal.substack.com)