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DeepSeek beats o1-preview on math, ties on coding; will release weights

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 20, 2024, 11:50 PM

113 points

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26 comments1 min readLW link

Expected Utility, Geometric Utility, and Other Equivalent Representations

StrivingForLegibilityNov 20, 2024, 11:28 PM

10 points

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0 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Green thumb

Pug stankyNov 20, 2024, 9:52 PM

−12 points

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe RogeroNov 20, 2024, 9:32 PM

75 points

35 votes

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13 comments4 min readLW link

(subatomicarticles.com)

China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race

garrisonNov 20, 2024, 6:17 PM

144 points

65 votes

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44 comments5 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Why I Think All The Species Of Significantly Debated Consciousness Are Conscious And Suffer Intensely

Bentham's BulldogNov 20, 2024, 4:48 PM

25 points

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5 comments33 min readLW link

aspirational leadership

dhruvmethiNov 20, 2024, 4:07 PM

2 points

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Zvi’s Thoughts on His 2nd Round of SFF

ZviNov 20, 2024, 1:40 PM

92 points

32 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: the Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaNov 20, 2024, 11:48 AM

16 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(openreview.net)

[Question] What changes should happen in the HHS?

ChristianKlNov 20, 2024, 11:04 AM

0 points

6 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the good rationality films?

Ben PaceNov 20, 2024, 6:04 AM

83 points

33 votes

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54 comments1 min readLW link

Valence Need Not Be Bounded; Utility Need Not Synthesize

LorecNov 20, 2024, 1:37 AM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Value/Utility: A History

LorecNov 19, 2024, 11:01 PM

9 points

5 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

Why Don’t We Just… Shoggoth+Face+Paraphraser?

Daniel Kokotajlo and abramdemski

Nov 19, 2024, 8:53 PM

158 points

64 votes

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58 comments14 min readLW link

Every niche event should also be a meetup

DMMFNov 19, 2024, 8:47 PM

18 points

10 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(danfrank.ca)

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission pushes Manhattan Project-style AI initiative

worseNov 19, 2024, 6:42 PM

56 points

17 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Intrinsic Power-Seeking: AI Might Seek Power for Power’s Sake

TurnTroutNov 19, 2024, 6:36 PM

40 points

18 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(turntrout.com)

Evolution’s selection target depends on your weighting

tailcalledNov 19, 2024, 6:24 PM

23 points

14 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #44: The Trump Circle on AI Safety Plus, Chinese researchers used Llama to create a military tool for the PLA, a Google AI system discovered a zero-day cybersecurity vulnerability, and Complex Systems

Corin Katzke, Julius, andrewz and Dan H

Nov 19, 2024, 4:36 PM

9 points

4 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Jakarta ACX December 2024 Meetup

AudNov 19, 2024, 3:01 PM

1 point

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Visualizing small Attention-only Transformers

WCargoNov 19, 2024, 9:37 AM

4 points

4 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

Americans are fat and sick—and it’s their fault…right?

Declan MolonyNov 19, 2024, 6:41 AM

12 points

12 votes

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6 comments7 min readLW link

Announcing the CLR Foundations Course and CLR S-Risk Seminars

JamesFavilleNov 19, 2024, 1:18 AM

18 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

No Electricity in Manchuria

winstonBosanNov 19, 2024, 1:11 AM

25 points

14 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Looking back on the Future of Humanity Institute—Asterisk

jakeeatonNov 19, 2024, 12:44 AM

48 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Don’t Dismiss on Epistemics

ggexNov 19, 2024, 12:44 AM

8 points

9 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Training AI agents to solve hard problems could lead to Scheming

Marius Hobbhahn and AlexMeinke

Nov 19, 2024, 12:10 AM

61 points

17 votes

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12 comments28 min readLW link

Proactive ‘If-Then’ Safety Cases

Nathan Helm-BurgerNov 18, 2024, 9:16 PM

10 points

3 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Will Orion/Gemini 2/Llama-4 outperform o1

LuigiPaganiNov 18, 2024, 9:15 PM

2 points

4 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

How to use bright light to improve your life.

Nat MartinNov 18, 2024, 7:32 PM

40 points

20 votes

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10 comments10 min readLW link

How likely is brain preservation to work?

Andy_McKenzieNov 18, 2024, 4:58 PM

26 points

10 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

Why imperfect adversarial robustness doesn’t doom AI control

Buck and Claude+

Nov 18, 2024, 4:05 PM

62 points

24 votes

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25 comments2 min readLW link

Ethical Implications of the Quantum Multiverse

Jonah WilbergNov 18, 2024, 4:00 PM

7 points

5 votes

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22 comments6 min readLW link

Reducing x-risk might be actively harmful

MountainPathNov 18, 2024, 2:25 PM

5 points

10 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #24: November 2024

ZviNov 18, 2024, 1:20 PM

44 points

17 votes

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14 comments50 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

A Straightforward Explanation of the Good Regulator Theorem

Alfred HarwoodNov 18, 2024, 12:45 PM

82 points

39 votes

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29 comments14 min readLW link

The Choice Transition

owencb and Raymond Douglas

Nov 18, 2024, 12:30 PM

53 points

15 votes

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4 comments15 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Chat Bankman-Fried: an Exploration of LLM Alignment in Finance

claudia.biancottiNov 18, 2024, 9:38 AM

26 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Proposal to increase fertility: University parent clubs

FluffnuttNov 18, 2024, 4:21 AM

17 points

11 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

A small improvement to Wikipedia page on Pareto Efficiency

Edwin EvansNov 18, 2024, 2:13 AM

8 points

8 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why is Gemini telling the user to die?

BurnyNov 18, 2024, 1:44 AM

13 points

6 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

“It’s a 10% chance which I did 10 times, so it should be 100%”

egor.timatkovNov 18, 2024, 1:14 AM

158 points

125 votes

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59 comments2 min readLW link

The Catastrophe of Shiny Objects

mindprisonNov 18, 2024, 12:24 AM

−11 points

7 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Do Deep Neural Networks Have Brain-like Representations?: A Summary of Disagreements

Joseph EmersonNov 18, 2024, 12:07 AM

9 points

3 votes

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0 comments26 min readLW link

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)

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