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[Question] Is CDT with precommitment enough?

martinkunevMay 25, 2024, 9:40 PM

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Complex systems theory in human performance. New model for conceptualizing training, adaptation and long-term development

Matěj NekoranecMay 25, 2024, 8:17 PM

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Blindspot in Sport’s Data-Driven Age

Matěj NekoranecMay 25, 2024, 8:17 PM

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0 comments7 min readLW link

LMSR subsidy parameter is the price of information

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirMay 25, 2024, 6:05 PM

5 points

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Low Fertility is a Degrowth Paradise

Maxwell TabarrokMay 25, 2024, 5:35 PM

7 points

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2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Episode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

Austin ChenMay 25, 2024, 4:15 PM

20 points

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(manifund.substack.com)

Training-time domain authorization could be helpful for safety

domenicrosati, j_we and David Atanasov

May 25, 2024, 3:10 PM

15 points

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4 comments7 min readLW link

Level up your spreadsheeting

angelinahliMay 25, 2024, 2:57 PM

44 points

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11 comments3 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

“Successful language model evals” by Jason Wei

Arjun PanicksseryMay 25, 2024, 9:34 AM

7 points

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(www.jasonwei.net)

[Question] What should the norms around AI voices be?

ChristianKlMay 25, 2024, 6:29 AM

17 points

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Secret US natsec project with intel revealed

Nathan Helm-BurgerMay 25, 2024, 4:22 AM

27 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.politico.com)

Launch & Grow Your University Group: Apply now to OSP & FSP!

agucovaMay 25, 2024, 1:03 AM

3 points

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Computational Mechanics Hackathon (June 1 & 2)

Adam ShaiMay 24, 2024, 10:18 PM

34 points

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5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Request for comments/opinions/ideas on safety/ethics for use of tool AI in a large healthcare system.

bokovMay 24, 2024, 8:53 PM

5 points

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NYU Code Debates Update/Postmortem

David ReinMay 24, 2024, 4:08 PM

27 points

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4 comments10 min readLW link

AI companies aren’t really using external evaluators

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 24, 2024, 4:01 PM

242 points

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15 comments4 min readLW link

The Schumer Report on AI (RTFB)

ZviMay 24, 2024, 3:10 PM

34 points

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3 comments36 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

minutes from a human-alignment meeting

bhauthMay 24, 2024, 5:01 AM

67 points

27 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Talent Needs of Technical AI Safety Teams

yams, Carson Jones, McKennaFitzgerald and Ryan Kidd

May 24, 2024, 12:36 AM

124 points

73 votes

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How to Give Coming AGI’s the Best Chance of Figuring Out Ethics for Us

sweenesmMay 23, 2024, 7:44 PM

1 point

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Mentorship in AGI Safety (MAGIS) call for mentors

Valentin2026 and Joe Rogero

May 23, 2024, 6:28 PM

32 points

16 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Quick Thoughts on Scaling Monosemanticity

Joel BurgetMay 23, 2024, 4:22 PM

28 points

11 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)

The case for stopping AI safety research

catubcMay 23, 2024, 3:55 PM

53 points

52 votes

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38 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] SAE sparse feature graph using only residual layers

Jaehyuk LimMay 23, 2024, 1:32 PM

0 points

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[Question] Are most people deeply confused about “love”, or am I missing a human universal?

SpectrumDTMay 23, 2024, 1:22 PM

13 points

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28 comments3 min readLW link

Executive Dysfunction 101

DaystarEldMay 23, 2024, 12:43 PM

33 points

23 votes

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(daystareld.com)

AI #65: I Spy With My AI

ZviMay 23, 2024, 12:40 PM

28 points

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7 comments43 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What mistakes has the AI safety movement made?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:19 AM

64 points

34 votes

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29 comments12 min readLW link

What should AI safety be trying to achieve?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:17 AM

17 points

10 votes

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1 comment13 min readLW link

What will the first human-level AI look like, and how might things go wrong?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:17 AM

20 points

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2 comments15 min readLW link

Big Picture AI Safety: Introduction

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:15 AM

46 points

27 votes

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7 comments5 min readLW link

Paper in Science: Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress

JanBMay 23, 2024, 8:40 AM

50 points

12 votes

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Power Law Policy

Ben TurtelMay 23, 2024, 5:28 AM

4 points

13 votes

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7 comments6 min readLW link

(bturtel.substack.com)

Why entropy means you might not have to worry as much about superintelligent AI

Ron JMay 23, 2024, 3:52 AM

−26 points

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Quick Thoughts on Our First Sampling Run

jefftkMay 23, 2024, 12:20 AM

29 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

AI Safety proposal—Influencing the superintelligence explosion

MorganMay 22, 2024, 11:31 PM

0 points

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Implementing Asimov’s Laws of Robotics—How I imagine alignment working.

Joshua ClancyMay 22, 2024, 11:15 PM

2 points

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0 comments11 min readLW link

Higher-Order Forecasts

ozziegooenMay 22, 2024, 9:49 PM

45 points

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1 comment3 min readLW link

A Positive Double Standard—Self-Help Principles Work For Individuals Not Populations

James Stephen BrownMay 22, 2024, 9:37 PM

8 points

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3 comments5 min readLW link

A Bi-Modal Brain Model

Johannes C. MayerMay 22, 2024, 8:10 PM

12 points

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Offering service as a sensayer for simulationist-adjacent beliefs.

mako yassMay 22, 2024, 6:52 PM

22 points

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Do Not Mess With Scarlett Johansson

ZviMay 22, 2024, 3:10 PM

65 points

39 votes

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7 comments16 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

How Multiverse Theory dissolves Quantum inexplicability

mrdlmMay 22, 2024, 2:55 PM

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[Question] Should we be concerned about eating too much soy?

ChristianKlMay 22, 2024, 12:53 PM

18 points

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Procedural Executive Function, Part 3

DaystarEldMay 22, 2024, 11:58 AM

21 points

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4 comments23 min readLW link

Cicadas, Anthropic, and the bilateral alignment problem

kromemMay 22, 2024, 11:09 AM

28 points

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Announcing Human-aligned AI Summer School

Jan_Kulveit and Tomáš Gavenčiak

May 22, 2024, 8:55 AM

51 points

19 votes

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(humanaligned.ai)

“Which chains-of-thought was that faster than?”

EmrikMay 22, 2024, 8:21 AM

37 points

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Each Llama3-8b text uses a different “random” subspace of the activation space

tailcalledMay 22, 2024, 7:31 AM

3 points

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ARIA’s Safeguarded AI grant program is accepting applications for Technical Area 1.1 until May 28th

Brendon_WongMay 22, 2024, 6:54 AM

11 points

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(www.aria.org.uk)

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