Con­tra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”

Ricki HeicklenFeb 22, 2024, 11:56 PM
186 points
5 comments4 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

AI #52: Oops

ZviFeb 22, 2024, 9:50 PM
50 points
9 comments29 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Embed your sec­ond brain in your first brain

dkl9Feb 22, 2024, 9:46 PM
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

The Gem­ini Incident

ZviFeb 22, 2024, 9:00 PM
80 points
19 comments18 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Some Thoughts On Us­ing Auc­tions For Land Valuation

harsimonyFeb 22, 2024, 7:54 PM
0 points
9 comments9 min readLW link
(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

The Bind­ing of Isaac & Trans­par­ent New­comb’s Prob­lem

suvjectibityFeb 22, 2024, 6:56 PM
−11 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Lan­guage Models Don’t Learn the Phys­i­cal Man­i­fes­ta­tion of Language

Feb 22, 2024, 6:52 PM
39 points
23 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Sora What

ZviFeb 22, 2024, 6:10 PM
47 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Do sparse au­toen­coders find “true fea­tures”?

Demian TillFeb 22, 2024, 6:06 PM
74 points
33 comments11 min readLW link

Every­thing Wrong with Roko’s Claims about an Eng­ineered Pandemic

WitheringWeightsFeb 22, 2024, 3:59 PM
95 points
10 comments16 min readLW link

The One and a Half Gemini

ZviFeb 22, 2024, 1:10 PM
73 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] How do I make pre­dic­tions about the fu­ture to make sense of what to do with my life?

Raj ThimmiahFeb 22, 2024, 11:22 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

How are vol­un­tary com­mit­ments on vuln­er­a­bil­ity re­port­ing go­ing?

Adam JonesFeb 22, 2024, 8:43 AM
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(adamjones.me)

Notes on In­ter­nal Ob­jec­tives in Toy Models of Agents

Paul CologneseFeb 22, 2024, 8:02 AM
16 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

The By­ronic Hero Always Loses

Cole WyethFeb 22, 2024, 1:31 AM
32 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

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?

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

Feb 21, 2024, 5:56 PM
23 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Dy­nam­ics Cru­cial to AI Risk Seem to Make for Com­pli­cated Models

Feb 21, 2024, 5:54 PM
19 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Which Model Prop­er­ties are Ne­c­es­sary for Eval­u­at­ing an Ar­gu­ment?

Feb 21, 2024, 5:52 PM
18 points
2 comments7 min readLW link

Weak vs Quan­ti­ta­tive Ex­tinc­tion-level Good­hart’s Law

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

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

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)