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Graceful Degradation

ScrewtapeNov 5, 2024, 11:57 PM

84 points

55 votes

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An alternative approach to superbabies

Towards_KeeperhoodNov 5, 2024, 10:56 PM

48 points

23 votes

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19 comments3 min readLW link

Apply to be a mentor in SPAR!

agucovaNov 5, 2024, 9:32 PM

5 points

3 votes

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Going Beyond “immaturity”

moisentinelNov 5, 2024, 8:51 PM

−3 points

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Intent alignment as a stepping-stone to value alignment

Seth HerdNov 5, 2024, 8:43 PM

37 points

16 votes

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Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging

Abhishaike MahajanNov 5, 2024, 2:51 PM

29 points

11 votes

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(www.owlposting.com)

Winning isn’t enough

JesseClifton and Anthony DiGiovanni

Nov 5, 2024, 11:37 AM

44 points

20 votes

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Anthropic—The case for targeted regulation

anagumaNov 5, 2024, 7:07 AM

11 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

The Shallow Bench

Karl FaulksNov 5, 2024, 5:07 AM

48 points

20 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Using Narrative Prompting to Extract Policy Forecasts from LLMs

Max GhenisNov 5, 2024, 4:37 AM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

ML4Good (AI Safety Bootcamp) - Experience report

JanEbbingNov 5, 2024, 1:18 AM

13 points

8 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Catastrophic Cyber Capabilities Benchmark (3CB): Robustly Evaluating LLM Agent Cyber Offense Capabilities

Jonathan N, abra, Connor Axiotes and Esben Kran

Nov 5, 2024, 1:01 AM

8 points

4 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

(www.apartresearch.com)

[Question] Could orcas be (trained to be) smarter than humans? 

Towards_KeeperhoodNov 4, 2024, 11:29 PM

59 points

30 votes

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Metastatic Cancer Treatment Since 2010: The Success Stories

sarahconstantinNov 4, 2024, 10:50 PM

51 points

14 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Bay Winter Solstice 2024: Speech Auditions

ozymandiasNov 4, 2024, 10:31 PM

32 points

7 votes

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Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link

tailcalledNov 4, 2024, 9:11 PM

43 points

16 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Distributed espionage

margetmagentaNov 4, 2024, 7:43 PM

3 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

GPT-8 may not be ASI

rvzlxax409Nov 4, 2024, 7:31 PM

−2 points

6 votes

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AI timelines don’t account for base rate of tech progress

rvzlxax409Nov 4, 2024, 7:31 PM

−10 points

7 votes

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Update on the Mysterious Trump Buyers on Polymarket

AnnapurnaNov 4, 2024, 7:22 PM

19 points

9 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

[Intuitive self-models] 8. Rooting Out Free Will Intuitions

Steven ByrnesNov 4, 2024, 6:16 PM

75 points

21 votes

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20 comments24 min readLW link

Option control

Joe CarlsmithNov 4, 2024, 5:54 PM

28 points

4 votes

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0 comments54 min readLW link

[Question] Noticing the World

EvolutionByDesignNov 4, 2024, 4:41 PM

4 points

3 votes

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The current state of RSPs

Zach Stein-PerlmanNov 4, 2024, 4:00 PM

23 points

7 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Does the “ancient wisdom” argument have any validity? If a particular teaching or tradition is old, to what extent does this make it more trustworthy?

SpectrumDTNov 4, 2024, 3:20 PM

18 points

12 votes

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A brief history of the automated corporation

owencbNov 4, 2024, 2:35 PM

26 points

8 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

Abstractions are not Natural

Alfred HarwoodNov 4, 2024, 11:10 AM

25 points

13 votes

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[Linkpost] Building Altruistic and Moral AI Agent with Brain-inspired Affective Empathy Mechanisms

Gunnar_ZarnckeNov 4, 2024, 10:15 AM

13 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Context-dependent consequentialism

Jeremy Gillen and mattmacdermott

Nov 4, 2024, 9:29 AM

31 points

9 votes

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6 comments27 min readLW link

Survival without dignity

L Rudolf LNov 4, 2024, 2:29 AM

382 points

220 votes

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29 comments15 min readLW link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Drug development costs can range over two orders of magnitude

rossryNov 3, 2024, 11:13 PM

38 points

6 votes

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0 comments11 min readLW link

Redefining Tolerance: Beyond Popper’s Paradox

mindprisonNov 3, 2024, 10:23 PM

−1 points

7 votes

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Goal: Understand Intelligence

Johannes C. MayerNov 3, 2024, 9:20 PM

14 points

14 votes

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19 comments1 min readLW link

Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting

Simon Lermen and Govind Pimpale

Nov 3, 2024, 7:24 PM

158 points

62 votes

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Why our politicians aren’t Median

Yair HalberstadtNov 3, 2024, 2:03 PM

72 points

35 votes

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Human Biodiversity (Part 4: Astral Codex Ten)

Evan_GaensbauerNov 3, 2024, 4:20 AM

−13 points

18 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(reflectivealtruism.com)

Understanding incomparability versus incommensurability in relation to RLHF

artemiocobbNov 2, 2024, 10:57 PM

1 point

3 votes

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electric turbofans

bhauthNov 2, 2024, 10:50 PM

63 points

34 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Reality as Category-Theoretic State Machines: A Mathematical Framework

Wenitte ApiouNov 2, 2024, 9:04 PM

−8 points

7 votes

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The Median Researcher Problem

johnswentworthNov 2, 2024, 8:16 PM

157 points

130 votes

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70 comments1 min readLW link

Testing “True” Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal

MtryaSamNov 2, 2024, 7:12 PM

9 points

5 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Testing “True” Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal

MtryaSamNov 2, 2024, 7:12 PM

−3 points

3 votes

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Fragile, Robust, and Antifragile Preference Satisfaction

adamShimiNov 2, 2024, 5:25 PM

19 points

9 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

Higher Order Signs, Hallucination and Schizophrenia

Nicolas VillarrealNov 2, 2024, 4:33 PM

4 points

9 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

(nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com)

[Question] Is OpenAI net negative for AI Safety?

Lysandre TerrisseNov 2, 2024, 4:18 PM

4 points

4 votes

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Two arguments against longtermist thought experiments

momom2Nov 2, 2024, 10:22 AM

15 points

9 votes

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5 comments3 min readLW link

Both-Sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

James Stephen BrownNov 2, 2024, 3:04 AM

3 points

30 votes

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15 comments6 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

What can we learn from insecure domains?

Logan ZoellnerNov 1, 2024, 11:53 PM

14 points

15 votes

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21 comments1 min readLW link

Science advances one funeral at a time

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena and Trent Hodgeson

Nov 1, 2024, 11:06 PM

100 points

46 votes

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9 comments2 min readLW link

The Cartesian Crisis

mindprisonNov 1, 2024, 11:02 PM

−5 points

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