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Release of UN’s draft related to the governance of AI (a summary of the Simon Institute’s response)

Sebastian Schmidt27 Apr 2024 18:34 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Mercy to the Machine: Thoughts & Rights

False Name27 Apr 2024 16:36 UTC

7 points

6 comments17 min readLW link

Constructability: Plainly-coded AGIs may be feasible in the near future

Épiphanie Gédéon and Charbel-Raphaël

27 Apr 2024 16:04 UTC

91 points

15 comments13 min readLW link

So What’s Up With PUFAs Chemically?

J Bostock27 Apr 2024 13:32 UTC

57 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

Link: Let’s Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models by Jacob Pfau, William Merrill & Samuel R. Bowman

Chris_Leong27 Apr 2024 13:22 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Two Vernor Vinge Book Reviews

Maxwell Tabarrok27 Apr 2024 12:14 UTC

17 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction

Andy Arditi, Oscar Obeso, Aaquib111, wesg and Neel Nanda

27 Apr 2024 11:13 UTC

252 points

95 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Plausibility of Getting Early Warning Shots because AIs can’t coordinate?

hmys27 Apr 2024 8:02 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Sphere

Myles H27 Apr 2024 1:49 UTC

6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Exploring the Esoteric Pathways to AI Sentience (Part One)

jeffreycaruso27 Apr 2024 1:02 UTC

−11 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC

68 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

D&D.Sci Long War: Defender of Data-mocracy

aphyer26 Apr 2024 22:30 UTC

44 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You

Screwtape26 Apr 2024 21:58 UTC

190 points

21 comments9 min readLW link

We are headed into an extreme compute overhang

devrandom26 Apr 2024 21:38 UTC

54 points

34 comments2 min readLW link

[Concept Dependency] Edge Regular Lattice Graph

Johannes C. Mayer26 Apr 2024 21:14 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Concept Dependency] Concept Dependency Posts

Johannes C. Mayer26 Apr 2024 20:57 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Wouldn’t weak AI agents provide warning?

Mandatory Topic26 Apr 2024 19:34 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

World models

A*26 Apr 2024 19:11 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Duct Tape security

Isaac King26 Apr 2024 18:57 UTC

72 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

Fundamental Uncertainty: Chapter 8 - When does fundamental uncertainty matter?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC

11 points

4 comments32 min readLW link

Scaling of AI training runs will slow down after GPT-5

Maxime Riché26 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC

42 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Spatial attention as a “tell” for empathetic simulation?

Steven Byrnes26 Apr 2024 15:10 UTC

55 points

12 comments8 min readLW link

Arch-anarchy

Peter lawless 26 Apr 2024 15:05 UTC

−1 points

1 comment25 min readLW link

Breadboarding a Whistle Synth

jefftk26 Apr 2024 15:00 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

An Introduction to AI Sandbagging

Teun van der Weij, Felix Hofstätter and Francis Rhys Ward

26 Apr 2024 13:40 UTC

49 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs seem (relatively) safe

JustisMills25 Apr 2024 22:13 UTC

53 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

Losing Faith In Contrarianism

Bentham's Bulldog25 Apr 2024 20:53 UTC

46 points

44 comments5 min readLW link

Why I stopped being into basin broadness

tailcalled25 Apr 2024 20:47 UTC

16 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 29 - Science of Deep Learning with Vikrant Varma

DanielFilan25 Apr 2024 19:10 UTC

20 points

1 comment63 min readLW link

Improving Dictionary Learning with Gated Sparse Autoencoders

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Arthur Conmy, lewis smith, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

25 Apr 2024 18:43 UTC

63 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

“Why I Write” by George Orwell (1946)

Arjun Panickssery25 Apr 2024 16:02 UTC

59 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(www.orwellfoundation.com)

Knowledge Base 8: The truth as an attractor in the information space

iwis25 Apr 2024 15:28 UTC

−8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Cybersecurity of Frontier AI Models: A Regulatory Review

Deric Cheng and Elliot Mckernon

25 Apr 2024 14:51 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The first future and the best future

KatjaGrace25 Apr 2024 6:40 UTC

106 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

NIH Cancer Myths Myths

belkarx25 Apr 2024 5:43 UTC

15 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

social lemon markets

bhauth25 Apr 2024 2:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Bayesian inference without priors

DanielFilan24 Apr 2024 23:50 UTC

26 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis

Saul Munn24 Apr 2024 22:48 UTC

77 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

(www.lewissociety.org)

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 21:21 UTC

68 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

(fs.blog)

Betadine oral rinses for covid and other viral infections

Elizabeth24 Apr 2024 17:50 UTC

22 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

At last! ChatGPT does, shall we say, interesting imitations of “Kubla Khan”

Bill Benzon24 Apr 2024 14:56 UTC

−3 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Magic by forgetting

avturchin24 Apr 2024 14:32 UTC

14 points

39 comments4 min readLW link

Changes in College Admissions

Zvi24 Apr 2024 13:50 UTC

50 points

11 comments39 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

1-page outline of Carlsmith’s otherness and control series

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 11:25 UTC

22 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

How to use and interpret activation patching

StefanHex and Neel Nanda

24 Apr 2024 8:35 UTC

15 points

7 comments19 min readLW link

AI Generated Music as a Method of Installing Essential Rationalist Skills

keltan24 Apr 2024 7:48 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Electronic Harp Mandolin Prototype

jefftk24 Apr 2024 2:20 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Examples of Highly Counterfactual Discoveries?

johnswentworth23 Apr 2024 22:19 UTC

199 points

110 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there software to practice reading expressions?

lsusr23 Apr 2024 21:53 UTC

37 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Design A School, Part 1

Sable23 Apr 2024 21:50 UTC

56 points

5 comments11 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)