[Question] What are some posthu­man­ist/​more-than-hu­man ap­proaches to defi­ni­tions of in­tel­li­gence and agency? Par­tic­u­larly in ap­pli­ca­tion to AI re­search.

Eli HitonApr 9, 2024, 9:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ophiol­ogy (or, how the Mamba ar­chi­tec­ture works)

Apr 9, 2024, 7:31 PM
67 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Ap­ply to LASR Labs: a Lon­don-based tech­ni­cal AI safety re­search programme

Apr 9, 2024, 5:34 PM
45 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

“De­cen­tral­ized Au­tonomous Ed­u­ca­tion”—Call for Re­view­ers (Seeds of Science)

rogersbaconApr 9, 2024, 2:39 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: The Mad Tyrant’s Pet Tur­tles [Eval­u­a­tion and Rule­set]

abstractapplicApr 9, 2024, 2:01 PM
48 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

Med­i­cal Roundup #2

ZviApr 9, 2024, 1:40 PM
37 points
18 comments16 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Closed] PIBBSS is hiring in a va­ri­ety of roles (al­ign­ment re­search and in­cu­ba­tion pro­gram)

Apr 9, 2024, 8:12 AM
54 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Any ev­i­dence or rea­son to ex­pect a mul­ti­verse /​ Everett branches?

lemonhopeApr 9, 2024, 5:26 AM
9 points
125 comments1 min readLW link

Fer­ment­ing Form

koratkarApr 9, 2024, 2:46 AM
19 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(careerscouting.substack.com)

[Question] Non-ul­ti­ma­tum game problem

numpyNaNApr 8, 2024, 11:25 PM
9 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Pan­demic Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Simulator

jefftkApr 8, 2024, 7:00 PM
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

How We Pic­ture Bayesian Agents

Apr 8, 2024, 6:12 PM
70 points
14 comments7 min readLW link

CEA seeks co-founder for AI safety group sup­port spin-off

agucovaApr 8, 2024, 3:42 PM
18 points
0 commentsLW link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the role of agency in AI x-risk

Corin KatzkeApr 8, 2024, 3:12 PM
10 points
0 commentsLW link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Mea­sur­ing Learned Op­ti­miza­tion in Small Trans­former Models

J BostockApr 8, 2024, 2:41 PM
22 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Can sin­gu­lar­ity emerge from trans­form­ers?

MPApr 8, 2024, 2:26 PM
−3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Gated At­ten­tion Blocks: Pre­limi­nary Progress to­ward Re­mov­ing At­ten­tion Head Superposition

Apr 8, 2024, 11:14 AM
42 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Math-to-English Cheat Sheet

nahojApr 8, 2024, 9:19 AM
54 points
5 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What does it take to trans­fer the knowl­edge to ac­tion?

EL_File4138Apr 8, 2024, 6:23 AM
3 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

Nor­mal­iz­ing Sparse Autoencoders

Fengyuan HuApr 8, 2024, 6:17 AM
22 points
18 comments13 min readLW link

A Dozen Ways to Get More Dakka

DavidmanheimApr 8, 2024, 4:45 AM
134 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

[Cross­post] In­tro­duc­ing the Hyper­man­i­fest: Redefin­ing AI’s Role in Hu­man Con­nec­tion and Interaction

simulacra.exeApr 7, 2024, 5:21 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open: Ele­vate Your Men­tal Wel­lbe­ing with Re­think Wel­lbe­ing’s CBT Program

Inga G.Apr 7, 2024, 2:03 PM
13 points
2 commentsLW link

The Poker The­ory of Poker Night

omarkApr 7, 2024, 9:47 AM
29 points
13 comments9 min readLW link
(www.codeandbugs.com)

Cen­trists are (prob­a­bly) less biased

Kevin DorstApr 7, 2024, 6:40 AM
1 point
2 comments5 min readLW link
(kevindorst.substack.com)

on the dol­lar-yen ex­change rate

bhauthApr 7, 2024, 4:49 AM
50 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

Con­flict in Posthu­man Literature

Martín SotoApr 6, 2024, 10:26 PM
40 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(twitter.com)

“Frac­tal Strat­egy” work­shop report

RaemonApr 6, 2024, 9:26 PM
68 points
23 comments10 min readLW link

The 2nd De­mo­graphic Transition

Maxwell TabarrokApr 6, 2024, 2:10 PM
68 points
17 comments4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

My in­tel­lec­tual jour­ney to (dis)solve the hard prob­lem of consciousness

Charbel-RaphaëlApr 6, 2024, 9:32 AM
49 points
44 comments30 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing Pre­dictabil­ity of Per­sona Evaluations

Apr 6, 2024, 8:46 AM
20 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Pri­vacy and writing

Neil Apr 6, 2024, 8:20 AM
20 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] How does the ever-in­creas­ing use of AI in the mil­i­tary for the di­rect pur­pose of mur­der­ing peo­ple af­fect your p(doom)?

JustausernameApr 6, 2024, 6:31 AM
19 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

Two tools for re­think­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

ArepoApr 6, 2024, 2:55 AM
2 points
0 comments25 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing Whole Brain Emulation

PeterMcCluskeyApr 6, 2024, 2:38 AM
13 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Koan: di­v­in­ing alien datas­truc­tures from RAM activations

TsviBTApr 5, 2024, 6:04 PM
49 points
10 comments21 min readLW link

On the 2nd CWT with Jonathan Haidt

ZviApr 5, 2024, 5:30 PM
27 points
3 comments33 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

End-to-end hack­ing with lan­guage models

tchauvinApr 5, 2024, 3:06 PM
29 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Par­tial value takeover with­out world takeover

KatjaGraceApr 5, 2024, 6:20 AM
89 points
23 comments3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

On Com­plex­ity Science

Garrett BakerApr 5, 2024, 2:24 AM
51 points
19 comments4 min readLW link

Us­ing game the­ory to elect a cen­trist in the 2024 US Pres­i­den­tial Election

Ebenezer DukakisApr 5, 2024, 12:46 AM
−3 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

New re­port: A re­view of the em­piri­cal ev­i­dence for ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI via mis­al­igned power-seeking

Apr 4, 2024, 11:41 PM
31 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Quick ev­i­dence re­view of bulk­ing & cutting

jpApr 4, 2024, 9:43 PM
31 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

LLMs for Align­ment Re­search: a safety pri­or­ity?

abramdemskiApr 4, 2024, 8:03 PM
145 points
24 comments11 min readLW link

On Leif We­nar’s Ab­surdly Un­con­vinc­ing Cri­tique Of Effec­tive Altru­ism

omnizoidApr 4, 2024, 7:01 PM
8 points
2 comments14 min readLW link

Run evals on base mod­els too!

orthonormalApr 4, 2024, 6:43 PM
49 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Fund: Im­pact of our $1M crowd­funded grant to the Cen­ter for Clean En­ergy Innovation

Hauke HillebrandtApr 4, 2024, 4:28 PM
5 points
0 commentsLW link
(lets-fund.org)

The Buck­ling World Hy­poth­e­sis—Vi­su­al­is­ing Vuln­er­a­ble Worlds

Rosco-HunterApr 4, 2024, 3:51 PM
−5 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Can AI Trans­form the Elec­torate into a Ci­ti­zen’s Assem­bly?

Rosco-HunterApr 4, 2024, 3:45 PM
−6 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

AI Discrim­i­na­tion Re­quire­ments: A Reg­u­la­tory Review

4 Apr 2024 15:43 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link