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On Privilege

ShmiMay 18, 2024, 10:36 PM

16 points

26 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Fund me please—I Work so Hard that my Feet start Bleeding and I Need to Infiltrate University

Johannes C. MayerMay 18, 2024, 7:53 PM

22 points

41 votes

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37 comments6 min readLW link

To Limit Impact, Limit KL-Divergence

J BostockMay 18, 2024, 6:52 PM

10 points

6 votes

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1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] Are There Other Ideas as Generally Applicable as Natural Selection

Amin SennourMay 18, 2024, 4:37 PM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Scientific Notation Options

jefftkMay 18, 2024, 3:10 PM

27 points

14 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

“If we go extinct due to misaligned AI, at least nature will continue, right? … right?”

plexMay 18, 2024, 2:09 PM

54 points

26 votes

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23 comments2 min readLW link

(aisafety.info)

What Are Non-Zero-Sum Games?—A Primer

James Stephen BrownMay 18, 2024, 9:19 AM

4 points

4 votes

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7 comments3 min readLW link

DeepMind’s “Frontier Safety Framework” is weak and unambitious

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 18, 2024, 3:00 AM

159 points

56 votes

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14 comments4 min readLW link

International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI: Key Information

Aryeh EnglanderMay 18, 2024, 1:45 AM

39 points

11 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

Goodhart in RL with KL: Appendix

Thomas KwaMay 18, 2024, 12:40 AM

12 points

5 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

AI 2030 – AI Policy Roadmap

LTMMay 17, 2024, 11:29 PM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

MIT FutureTech are hiring for an Operations and Project Management role.

peterslatteryMay 17, 2024, 11:21 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Language Models Model Us

eggsyntaxMay 17, 2024, 9:00 PM

159 points

70 votes

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55 comments7 min readLW link

Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

Joar SkalseMay 17, 2024, 7:13 PM

67 points

30 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

Agency

A*May 17, 2024, 7:11 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

DeepMind: Frontier Safety Framework

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 17, 2024, 5:30 PM

64 points

20 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

Identifying Functionally Important Features with End-to-End Sparse Dictionary Learning

Dan Braun, Jordan Taylor, Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill and Lee Sharkey

May 17, 2024, 4:25 PM

57 points

23 votes

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20 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

AISafety.com – Resources for AI Safety

Søren Elverlin, plex, Bryce Robertson and Melissa Samworth

May 17, 2024, 3:57 PM

84 points

42 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run?

Maxwell TabarrokMay 17, 2024, 11:56 AM

23 points

21 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

My Hammer Time Final Exam

adiosMay 17, 2024, 9:28 AM

10 points

7 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a place to find the most cited LW articles of all time?

keltanMay 17, 2024, 1:20 AM

4 points

3 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

D&D.Sci (Easy Mode): On The Construction Of Impossible Structures

abstractapplicMay 17, 2024, 12:25 AM

34 points

17 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

To an LLM, everything looks like a logic puzzle

Jesse RichardsonMay 16, 2024, 10:21 PM

14 points

8 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

AI Safety Institute’s Inspect hello world example for AI evals

TheManxLoinerMay 16, 2024, 8:47 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(lovkush.medium.com)

Feeling (instrumentally) Rational

MorphismMay 16, 2024, 6:56 PM

14 points

14 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism

Jeffrey HeningerMay 16, 2024, 6:40 PM

100 points

44 votes

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10 comments6 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Ninety-five theses on AI

hamandcheeseMay 16, 2024, 5:51 PM

21 points

8 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

GPT-4o My and Google I/O Day

ZviMay 16, 2024, 5:50 PM

41 points

24 votes

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2 comments37 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AI #64: Feel the Mundane Utility

ZviMay 16, 2024, 3:20 PM

28 points

27 votes

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11 comments47 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AISN #35: Lobbying on AI Regulation Plus, New Models from OpenAI and Google, and Legal Regimes for Training on Copyrighted Data

Dan H and Corin Katzke

May 16, 2024, 2:29 PM

2 points

6 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

FMT: a great opportunity for (soon-to-be) parents

EternallyBlissfulMay 16, 2024, 1:24 PM

13 points

7 votes

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1 comment18 min readLW link

Towards Guaranteed Safe AI: A Framework for Ensuring Robust and Reliable AI Systems

Gunnar_ZarnckeMay 16, 2024, 1:09 PM

51 points

23 votes

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20 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

The Dunning-Kruger of disproving Dunning-Kruger

kromemMay 16, 2024, 10:11 AM

57 points

35 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

A case for fairness-enforcing irrational behavior

cousin_itMay 16, 2024, 9:41 AM

16 points

6 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Podcast: Eye4AI on 2023 Survey

KatjaGraceMay 16, 2024, 7:40 AM

8 points

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Against “argument from overhang risk”

RobertMMay 16, 2024, 4:44 AM

31 points

11 votes

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11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How can I make the most of Less Online/Camp/Manifest?

ErioirEMay 16, 2024, 2:19 AM

13 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming

ElizabethMay 16, 2024, 12:00 AM

122 points

76 votes

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22 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Tackling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Coordination Mechanism

Hector Perez ArenasMay 15, 2024, 11:13 PM

29 points

17 votes

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9 comments6 min readLW link

Introducing Statistical Utility Mechanics: A Framework for Utility Maximizers

J BostockMay 15, 2024, 9:56 PM

12 points

4 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Taming Infinity (Stat Mech Part 3)

J BostockMay 15, 2024, 9:43 PM

11 points

4 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

Let’s Design A School, Part 2.3 School as Education—The Curriculum (Phase 2, Specific)

SableMay 15, 2024, 8:58 PM

24 points

9 votes

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0 comments14 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

“A Paradigm for AI Consciousness”—Seeds of Science call for reviewers

rogersbaconMay 15, 2024, 8:55 PM

7 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Why you should learn a musical instrument

cataMay 15, 2024, 8:36 PM

51 points

24 votes

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23 comments3 min readLW link

Contra Caller Gender III

jefftkMay 15, 2024, 7:40 PM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Instruction-following AGI is easier and more likely than value aligned AGI

Seth HerdMay 15, 2024, 7:38 PM

80 points

34 votes

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28 comments12 min readLW link

Why I’ll Keep My Crummy Drawings—How Generative AI Art Won’t Supplant… Art.

James Stephen BrownMay 15, 2024, 7:30 PM

18 points

8 votes

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7 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How is GPT-4o Related to GPT-4?

Joel BurgetMay 15, 2024, 6:33 PM

10 points

4 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Please don’t take Lumina’s anticavity probiotic

ROMMay 15, 2024, 6:03 PM

13 points

15 votes

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5 comments4 min readLW link

(trevorklee.substack.com)

Was Partisanship Good for the Environmental Movement?

Jeffrey HeningerMay 15, 2024, 5:30 PM

24 points

10 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

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