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Job Listing: Managing Editor / Writer

Gretta DulebaFeb 21, 2024, 11:41 PM

43 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Pareto Best and the Curse of Doom

ScrewtapeFeb 21, 2024, 11:10 PM

120 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

AISN #31: A New AI Policy Bill in California Plus, Precedents for AI Governance and The EU AI Office

Dan HFeb 21, 2024, 9:58 PM

17 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Analogies between scaling labs and misaligned superintelligent AI

scasperFeb 21, 2024, 7:29 PM

77 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

Extinction Risks from AI: Invisible to Science?

VojtaKovarik, Chris van Merwijk and Ida Mattsson

Feb 21, 2024, 6:07 PM

24 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Extinction-level Goodhart’s Law as a Property of the Environment

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

Feb 21, 2024, 5:56 PM

23 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

Dynamics Crucial to AI Risk Seem to Make for Complicated Models

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

Feb 21, 2024, 5:54 PM

19 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Which Model Properties are Necessary for Evaluating an Argument?

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

Feb 21, 2024, 5:52 PM

18 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Weak vs Quantitative Extinction-level Goodhart’s Law

VojtaKovarik and Ida Mattsson

Feb 21, 2024, 5:38 PM

27 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Dual Wielding Kindle Scribes

mesaoptimizerFeb 21, 2024, 5:17 PM

57 points

18 comments6 min readLW link

A Tale of Two Restaurant Types

ZviFeb 21, 2024, 1:50 PM

15 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Less Wrong automated systems are inadvertently Censoring me

RokoFeb 21, 2024, 12:57 PM

6 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the research speed multiplier of the most advanced current LLMs?

wunanFeb 21, 2024, 12:39 PM

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Jailbreaking GPT-4 with the tool API

mishajwFeb 21, 2024, 11:16 AM

20 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Gut Renovating Another Bathroom

jefftkFeb 21, 2024, 3:00 AM

22 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Thoughts for and against an ASI figuring out ethics for itself

sweenesmFeb 20, 2024, 11:40 PM

6 points

10 comments3 min readLW link

AI #51: Altman’s Ambition

ZviFeb 20, 2024, 7:50 PM

83 points

5 comments38 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Third Gemini

ZviFeb 20, 2024, 7:50 PM

30 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why does generalization work?

Martín SotoFeb 20, 2024, 5:51 PM

43 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

ChatGPT refuses to accept a challenge where it would get shot between the eyes [game theory]

Bill BenzonFeb 20, 2024, 4:55 PM

4 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Inducing human-like biases in moral reasoning LMs

Artyom Karpov, Austin Meek, Bogdan Ionut Cirstea and SCho

Feb 20, 2024, 4:28 PM

23 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #15: February 2024

ZviFeb 20, 2024, 1:10 PM

22 points

7 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Selections From “The Trouble With Being Born”

Arjun PanicksseryFeb 20, 2024, 10:07 AM

23 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Difficulty classes for alignment properties

JozdienFeb 20, 2024, 9:08 AM

34 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Lessons from Failed Attempts to Model Sleeping Beauty Problem

Ape in the coatFeb 20, 2024, 6:43 AM

13 points

16 comments14 min readLW link

flowing like water; hard like stone

lsusr and SilverFlame

Feb 20, 2024, 3:20 AM

27 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Theism Isn’t So Crazy

omnizoidFeb 20, 2024, 3:20 AM

−31 points

11 comments19 min readLW link

[Question] Getting started at distillations: can critique mine?

Joyee ChenFeb 20, 2024, 12:49 AM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Auditing LMs with counterfactual search: a tool for control and ELK

Jacob PfauFeb 20, 2024, 12:02 AM

28 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

Rationalist Storytelling (French)

Camille Berger Feb 19, 2024, 10:25 PM

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Abs-E (or, speak only in the positive)

dkl9Feb 19, 2024, 9:14 PM

29 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Retirement Accounts and Short Timelines

jefftkFeb 19, 2024, 6:50 PM

83 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

How Technical AI Safety Researchers Can Help Implement Punitive Damages to Mitigate Catastrophic AI Risk

Gabriel WeilFeb 19, 2024, 6:00 PM

18 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Protocol evaluations: good analogies vs control

Fabien RogerFeb 19, 2024, 6:00 PM

42 points

10 comments11 min readLW link

When Should Copyright Get Shorter?

Maxwell TabarrokFeb 19, 2024, 4:03 PM

11 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Auto-matching hidden layers in Pytorch LLMs

chanindFeb 19, 2024, 12:40 PM

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

I’d also take $7 trillion

bhauthFeb 19, 2024, 3:31 AM

47 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

On coincidences and Bayesian reasoning, as applied to the origins of COVID-19

viking_mathFeb 19, 2024, 1:14 AM

62 points

28 comments14 min readLW link

Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights

MichaelStJulesFeb 19, 2024, 12:15 AM

9 points

1 comment LW link

Conspiracy Investigation Done Right

ymeskhoutFeb 19, 2024, 12:09 AM

24 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Scientific Method

Andrij “Androniq” GhorbunovFeb 18, 2024, 9:06 PM

24 points

4 comments30 min readLW link

[Question] Weighing reputational and moral consequences of leaving Russia or staying

spzaFeb 18, 2024, 7:36 PM

29 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Things I’ve Grieved

Raemon18 Feb 2024 19:32 UTC

125 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Senses of “knowing” a person

dkl918 Feb 2024 19:13 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Jolly Green Giant Chronicles [ChatGPT]

Bill Benzon18 Feb 2024 17:28 UTC

4 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Intuition for 1 + 2 + 3 + … = −1/12

Shankar Sivarajan18 Feb 2024 16:46 UTC

18 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

No Clickbait—Misalignment Database

Kabir Kumar18 Feb 2024 5:35 UTC

6 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

Idea: NV⁻ Centers for Brain Interpretability

James Camacho18 Feb 2024 5:28 UTC

6 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Celiacs don’t need to live in fear

Jarrah18 Feb 2024 2:30 UTC

16 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

“What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities.” [Rational Animations video]

Jackson Wagner18 Feb 2024 0:57 UTC

40 points

7 comments LW link

(www.youtube.com)