Rapid ca­pa­bil­ity gain around su­per­ge­nius level seems prob­a­ble even with­out in­tel­li­gence need­ing to im­prove intelligence

6 May 2024 17:09 UTC
48 points
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Ob­ser­va­tions on Teach­ing for Four Weeks

ClareChiaraVincent6 May 2024 16:55 UTC
51 points
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[Question] Orthog­o­nal­ity Th­e­sis bur­den of proof

Donatas Lučiūnas6 May 2024 16:21 UTC
−18 points
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GDP per cap­ita in 2050

Hauke Hillebrandt6 May 2024 15:14 UTC
29 points
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(hauke.substack.com)

an effec­tive ai safety initiative

Logan Zoellner6 May 2024 7:53 UTC
3 points
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Un­cov­er­ing De­cep­tive Ten­den­cies in Lan­guage Models: A Si­mu­lated Com­pany AI Assistant

6 May 2024 7:07 UTC
95 points
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(arxiv.org)

Biorisk is an Un­helpful Anal­ogy for AI Risk

Davidmanheim6 May 2024 6:20 UTC
4 points
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Some Prob­lems with Or­di­nal Op­ti­miza­tion Frame

Mateusz Bagiński6 May 2024 5:28 UTC
9 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Ac­ci­den­tal Elec­tronic Instrument

jefftk6 May 2024 2:10 UTC
15 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Ex­plain­ing a Math Magic Trick

Robert_AIZI5 May 2024 19:41 UTC
99 points
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[Question] Does re­duc­ing the amount of RL for a given ca­pa­bil­ity level make AI safer?

Chris_Leong5 May 2024 17:04 UTC
43 points
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Hay­mar­ket at Clos­ing Time

jefftk5 May 2024 2:40 UTC
15 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

in­tro­duc­tion to can­cer vaccines

bhauth5 May 2024 1:06 UTC
113 points
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(www.bhauth.com)

Some Ex­per­i­ments I’d Like Some­one To Try With An Amnestic

johnswentworth4 May 2024 22:04 UTC
47 points
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In­tro­duc­ing AI-Pow­ered Au­dio­books of Ra­tional Fic­tion Classics

Askwho4 May 2024 17:32 UTC
67 points
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S-Risks: Fates Worse Than Ex­tinc­tion

4 May 2024 15:30 UTC
53 points
2 comments6 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

Shan­non Val­lor’s “tech­nomoral virtues”

David Gross4 May 2024 14:48 UTC
15 points
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Con­served Quan­tities (Stat Mech Part 2)

J Bostock4 May 2024 13:40 UTC
13 points
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If you are as­sum­ing Soft­ware works well you are dead

Johannes C. Mayer4 May 2024 12:54 UTC
0 points
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CCS on com­pound sentences

artkpv4 May 2024 12:23 UTC
6 points
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Now THIS is fore­cast­ing: un­der­stand­ing Epoch’s Direct Approach

4 May 2024 12:06 UTC
63 points
4 comments19 min readLW link

OHGOOD: A co­or­di­na­tion body for com­pute governance

Adam Jones4 May 2024 12:03 UTC
5 points
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(adamjones.me)

My hour of mem­o­ryless lucidity

Eric Neyman4 May 2024 1:40 UTC
375 points
36 comments5 min readLW link
(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Ex­tra Tall Crib

jefftk4 May 2024 0:00 UTC
5 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Get your tick­ets to Man­i­fest 2024 by May 13th!

Saul Munn3 May 2024 23:57 UTC
18 points
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Embodiment

A*3 May 2024 20:06 UTC
4 points
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(Geo­met­ri­cally) Max­i­mal Lot­tery-Lot­ter­ies Exist

Lorxus3 May 2024 19:29 UTC
13 points
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[Question] Were there any an­cient ra­tio­nal­ists?

OliverHayman3 May 2024 18:26 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Key take­aways from our EA and al­ign­ment re­search sur­veys

3 May 2024 18:10 UTC
112 points
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“AI Safety for Fleshy Hu­mans” an AI Safety ex­plainer by Nicky Case

habryka3 May 2024 18:10 UTC
90 points
11 comments4 min readLW link
(aisafety.dance)

AI Clar­ity: An Ini­tial Re­search Agenda

3 May 2024 13:54 UTC
18 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Ap­ply to ESPR & PAIR, Ra­tion­al­ity and AI Camps for Ages 16-21

Anna Gajdova3 May 2024 12:36 UTC
58 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

On pre­cise out-of-con­text steering

Olli Järviniemi3 May 2024 9:41 UTC
9 points
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LLM+Plan­ners hy­bridi­s­a­tion for friendly AGI

installgentoo3 May 2024 8:40 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity Work­shop Hap­pen­ing at ICML 2024!

3 May 2024 1:18 UTC
48 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly newslet­ter for AI safety events and train­ing programs

Bryce Robertson3 May 2024 0:33 UTC
29 points
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CCS: Coun­ter­fac­tual Civ­i­liza­tion Simulation

Morphism2 May 2024 22:54 UTC
3 points
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Let’s De­sign A School, Part 2.1 School as Ed­u­ca­tion—Structure

Sable2 May 2024 22:04 UTC
26 points
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(affablyevil.substack.com)

Why I’m not do­ing PauseAI

kwiat.dev2 May 2024 22:00 UTC
−8 points
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AI #61: Meta Trouble

Zvi2 May 2024 18:40 UTC
29 points
0 comments52 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why is AGI/​ASI Inevitable?

DeathlessAmaranth2 May 2024 18:27 UTC
14 points
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AISN #34: New Mili­tary AI Sys­tems Plus, AI Labs Fail to Uphold Vol­un­tary Com­mit­ments to UK AI Safety In­sti­tute, and New AI Policy Pro­pos­als in the US Senate

2 May 2024 16:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(newsletter.safe.ai)

Ai Salon: Trust­wor­thy AI Fu­tures #1

Ian Eisenberg2 May 2024 16:07 UTC
1 point
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How to write Pseu­docode and why you should

Johannes C. Mayer2 May 2024 15:53 UTC
8 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

AI #62: Too Soon to Tell

Zvi2 May 2024 15:40 UTC
30 points
8 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

White­board Pro­gram Tra­ce­ing: De­bug a Pro­gram Be­fore you have the Code

Johannes C. Mayer2 May 2024 15:30 UTC
3 points
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[Question] Which skin­care prod­ucts are ev­i­dence-based?

Vanessa Kosoy2 May 2024 15:22 UTC
120 points
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Q&A on Pro­posed SB 1047

Zvi2 May 2024 15:10 UTC
74 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are the Ac­tivi­ties that make up your Re­search Pro­cess?

Johannes C. Mayer2 May 2024 15:01 UTC
4 points
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[Question] How do you Select the Right Re­search Ac­i­tivity in the Right Mo­ment?

Johannes C. Mayer2 May 2024 14:45 UTC
6 points
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