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Truth Terminal: A reconstruction of events

crvr.fr and MTorrents

Nov 17, 2024, 11:51 PM

5 points

7 votes

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1 comment7 min readLW link

Which AI Safety Benchmark Do We Need Most in 2025?

Loïc Cabannes and William Ludington

Nov 17, 2024, 11:50 PM

2 points

2 votes

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2 comments8 min readLW link

“The Solomonoff Prior is Malign” is a special case of a simpler argument

David MatolcsiNov 17, 2024, 9:32 PM

131 points

59 votes

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46 comments12 min readLW link

Chess As The Model Game

criticalpointsNov 17, 2024, 7:45 PM

19 points

9 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(eregis.github.io)

The grass is always greener in the environment that shaped your values

Karl FaulksNov 17, 2024, 6:00 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing turntrout.com, my new digital home

TurnTroutNov 17, 2024, 5:42 PM

108 points

52 votes

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33 comments1 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Secular Solstice Songbook Update

jefftkNov 17, 2024, 5:30 PM

14 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Germany-wide ACX Meetup

Fernand0Nov 17, 2024, 10:08 AM

4 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Project Adequate: Seeking Cofounders/Funders

LorecNov 17, 2024, 3:12 AM

5 points

9 votes

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7 comments8 min readLW link

Trying Bluesky

jefftkNov 17, 2024, 2:50 AM

26 points

8 votes

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16 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AXRP Episode 38.1 - Alan Chan on Agent Infrastructure

DanielFilanNov 16, 2024, 11:30 PM

12 points

2 votes

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0 comments14 min readLW link

Cross-context abduction: LLMs make inferences about procedural training data leveraging declarative facts in earlier training data

Sohaib ImranNov 16, 2024, 11:22 PM

36 points

17 votes

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11 comments14 min readLW link

Why We Wouldn’t Build Aligned AI Even If We Could

SnowyiuNov 16, 2024, 8:19 PM

10 points

11 votes

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7 comments10 min readLW link

Which evals resources would be good?

Marius HobbhahnNov 16, 2024, 2:24 PM

51 points

24 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link

OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman and OpenAI blog)

habrykaNov 16, 2024, 6:38 AM

533 points

255 votes

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81 comments51 min readLW link

Using Dangerous AI, But Safely?

habrykaNov 16, 2024, 4:29 AM

17 points

5 votes

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2 comments43 min readLW link

Ayn Rand’s model of “living money”; and an upside of burnout

AnnaSalamonNov 16, 2024, 2:59 AM

236 points

127 votes

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59 comments5 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Epilogue

Gordon Seidoh WorleyNov 16, 2024, 12:57 AM

10 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Making a conservative case for alignment

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins and Trent Hodgeson

Nov 15, 2024, 6:55 PM

208 points

98 votes

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67 comments7 min readLW link

The Case For Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project

Bentham's BulldogNov 15, 2024, 4:03 PM

−4 points

14 votes

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14 comments7 min readLW link

Win/continue/lose scenarios and execute/replace/audit protocols

BuckNov 15, 2024, 3:47 PM

64 points

16 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

Antonym Heads Predict Semantic Opposites in Language Models

Jake WardNov 15, 2024, 3:32 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Proposing the Conditional AI Safety Treaty (linkpost TIME)

otto.bartenNov 15, 2024, 1:59 PM

11 points

6 votes

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9 comments3 min readLW link

(time.com)

A Theory of Equilibrium in the Offense-Defense Balance

Maxwell TabarrokNov 15, 2024, 1:51 PM

25 points

10 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Boston Secular Solstice 2024: Call for Singers and Musicans

jefftkNov 15, 2024, 1:50 PM

22 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

An Uncanny Moat

Adam NewgasNov 15, 2024, 11:39 AM

13 points

6 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.boristhebrave.com)

If I care about measure, choices have additional burden (+AI generated LW-comments)

avturchinNov 15, 2024, 10:27 AM

5 points

2 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

What are Emotions?

Myles HNov 15, 2024, 4:20 AM

5 points

7 votes

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13 comments8 min readLW link

The Third Fundamental Question

ScrewtapeNov 15, 2024, 4:01 AM

66 points

32 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

Dance Differentiation

jefftkNov 15, 2024, 2:30 AM

14 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Breaking beliefs about saving the world

OxidizeNov 15, 2024, 12:46 AM

−1 points

6 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

College technical AI safety hackathon retrospective—Georgia Tech

yixNov 15, 2024, 12:22 AM

44 points

18 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Gwern Branwen interview on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast: “How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory”

Said AchmizNov 14, 2024, 11:53 PM

87 points

37 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Internal music player: phenomenology of earworms

dkl9Nov 14, 2024, 11:29 PM

6 points

3 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Foraging (Ex-)Bandit [Ruleset & Reflections]

abstractapplicNov 14, 2024, 8:16 PM

27 points

8 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Seven lessons I didn’t learn from election day

Eric NeymanNov 14, 2024, 6:39 PM

97 points

64 votes

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33 comments13 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Effects of Non-Uniform Sparsity on Superposition in Toy Models

Shreyans JainNov 14, 2024, 4:59 PM

4 points

5 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

AI #90: The Wall

ZviNov 14, 2024, 2:10 PM

32 points

19 votes

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8 comments42 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Evolutionary prompt optimization for SAE feature visualization

neverix, Daniel Tan, Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

Nov 14, 2024, 1:06 PM

22 points

12 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.0 - Zhijing Jin on LLMs, Causality, and Multi-Agent Systems

DanielFilanNov 14, 2024, 7:00 AM

14 points

4 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI

TamayNov 14, 2024, 6:13 AM

33 points

12 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(epoch.ai)

Concrete Methods for Heuristic Estimation on Neural Networks

Oliver DanielsNov 14, 2024, 5:07 AM

33 points

11 votes

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0 comments27 min readLW link

Heresies in the Shadow of the Sequences

Cole WyethNov 14, 2024, 5:01 AM

19 points

16 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

Thoughts after the Wolfram and Yudkowsky discussion

TahpNov 14, 2024, 1:43 AM

25 points

14 votes

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13 comments6 min readLW link

Neutrality

sarahconstantinNov 13, 2024, 11:10 PM

160 points

84 votes

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27 comments11 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Anvil Shortage

ScrewtapeNov 13, 2024, 10:57 PM

93 points

52 votes

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16 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Using hex to get murder advice from GPT-4o

Laurence FreemanNov 13, 2024, 6:30 PM

10 points

11 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

Confronting the legion of doom.

Spiritus DeiNov 13, 2024, 5:03 PM

−20 points

9 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall? Evaluating Ilya Sutskever’s Recent Claims

garrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

84 points

44 votes

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14 comments8 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

MIT FutureTech are hiring ‍a Product and Data Visualization Designer

peterslatteryNov 13, 2024, 2:48 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments4 min readLW link

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