28 Apr 2024 20:05 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

An Unintentional Compliment

abstractapplic and lsusr

28 Apr 2024 20:04 UTC

23 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

List your AI X-Risk cruxes!

Aryeh Englander28 Apr 2024 18:26 UTC

37 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Things I tell myself to be more agentic

DMMF28 Apr 2024 17:44 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(danfrank.ca)

Estimating the Number of Players from Game Result Percentages

Daniel L28 Apr 2024 17:42 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readLW link

The Science Algorithm—AISC 2024 Final Presentation

Johannes C. Mayer28 Apr 2024 14:55 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Aspiration-based designs] Outlook: dealing with complexity

Jobst Heitzig, jossoliver, thomasfinn and Simon Dima

28 Apr 2024 13:06 UTC

13 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

[Aspiration-based designs] 3. Performance and safety criteria, and aspiration intervals

Jobst Heitzig28 Apr 2024 13:04 UTC

10 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

[Aspiration-based designs] 2. Formal framework, basic algorithm

Jobst Heitzig, Simon Dima and Simon Fischer

28 Apr 2024 13:02 UTC

16 points

2 comments16 min readLW link

[Aspiration-based designs] 1. Informal introduction

B Jacobs, Jobst Heitzig, Simon Fischer and Simon Dima

28 Apr 2024 13:00 UTC

40 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Playing Northboro with Lily and Rick

jefftk28 Apr 2024 2:40 UTC

10 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

6 points

5 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

66 points

12 comments13 min readLW link

So What’s Up With PUFAs Chemically?

J Bostock27 Apr 2024 13:32 UTC

57 points

23 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

11 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

191 points

79 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

4 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Exploring the Esoteric Pathways to AI Sentience (Part One)

jeffreycaruso27 Apr 2024 1:02 UTC

−13 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC

53 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

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

aphyer26 Apr 2024 22:30 UTC

41 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

On Not Pulling The Ladder Up Behind You

Screwtape26 Apr 2024 21:58 UTC

174 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

We are headed into an extreme compute overhang

devrandom26 Apr 2024 21:38 UTC

45 points

26 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

10 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

Duct Tape security

Isaac King26 Apr 2024 18:57 UTC

67 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

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

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Apr 2024 18:10 UTC

11 points

2 comments32 min readLW link

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

Maxime Riché26 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC

38 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Spatial attention as a “tell” for empathetic simulation?

Steven Byrnes26 Apr 2024 15:10 UTC

51 points

11 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

41 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs seem (relatively) safe

JustisMills25 Apr 2024 22:13 UTC

51 points

24 comments7 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

Losing Faith In Contrarianism

omnizoid25 Apr 2024 20:53 UTC

40 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, lsgos, Tom Lieberum, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár, Rohin Shah and Neel Nanda

25 Apr 2024 18:43 UTC

62 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

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

Arjun Panickssery25 Apr 2024 16:02 UTC

58 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

−10 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

104 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

NIH Cancer Myths Myths

belkarx and henry

25 Apr 2024 5:43 UTC

15 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

social lemon markets

bhauth25 Apr 2024 2:18 UTC

21 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Bayesian inference without priors

DanielFilan24 Apr 2024 23:50 UTC

25 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis

Saul Munn24 Apr 2024 22:48 UTC

68 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

(www.lewissociety.org)

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Nathan Young24 Apr 2024 21:21 UTC

56 points

16 comments13 min readLW link

(fs.blog)

Is being a trans woman (or just low-T) +20 IQ?

lukehmiles24 Apr 2024 20:04 UTC

14 points

27 comments4 min readLW link