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Degeneracies are sticky for SGD

Guillaume Corlouer and Nicolas Macé

Jun 16, 2024, 9:19 PM

56 points

25 votes

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1 comment16 min readLW link

YM’s Shortform

YMJun 16, 2024, 8:57 PM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

“Is-Ought” is Fraught

MiSteR KitttyJun 16, 2024, 5:27 PM

−5 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

The type of AI humanity has chosen to create so far is unsafe, for soft social reasons and not technical ones.

l8cJun 16, 2024, 1:31 PM

−6 points

7 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller

Henry CaiJun 16, 2024, 1:01 PM

7 points

7 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

CIV: a story

Richard_NgoJun 15, 2024, 10:36 PM

99 points

56 votes

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6 comments9 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Yann LeCun: We only design machines that minimize costs [therefore they are safe]

tailcalledJun 15, 2024, 5:25 PM

19 points

13 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

(Appetitive, Consummatory) ≈ (RL, reflex)

Steven ByrnesJun 15, 2024, 3:57 PM

38 points

14 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

Two LessWrong speed friending experiments

mikko and sanyer

Jun 15, 2024, 10:52 AM

52 points

38 votes

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3 comments4 min readLW link

Claude’s dark spiritual AI futurism

jessicataJun 15, 2024, 12:57 AM

22 points

12 votes

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7 comments43 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

[Question] When is “unfalsifiable implies false” incorrect?

VojtaKovarikJun 15, 2024, 12:28 AM

3 points

9 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

MIRI’s June 2024 Newsletter

HarlanJun 14, 2024, 11:02 PM

74 points

27 votes

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20 comments2 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

Language for Goal Misgeneralization: Some Formalisms from my MSc Thesis

GiulioJun 14, 2024, 7:35 PM

10 points

6 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.giuliostarace.com)

Shard Theory—is it true for humans?

RishikaJun 14, 2024, 7:21 PM

71 points

32 votes

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7 comments15 min readLW link

When fine-tuning fails to elicit GPT-3.5′s chess abilities

Theodore ChapmanJun 14, 2024, 6:50 PM

42 points

24 votes

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3 comments9 min readLW link

Results from the AI x Democracy Research Sprint

Esben Kran, jordine and Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier

Jun 14, 2024, 4:40 PM

13 points

7 votes

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0 comments6 min readLW link

Rational Animations’ intro to mechanistic interpretability

WriterJun 14, 2024, 4:10 PM

45 points

20 votes

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1 comment11 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Why keep a diary, and why wish for large language models

DanielFilanJun 14, 2024, 4:10 PM

9 points

7 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

(danielfilan.com)

The Leopold Model: Analysis and Reactions

ZviJun 14, 2024, 3:10 PM

109 points

30 votes

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19 comments57 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Thoughts on Francois Chollet’s belief that LLMs are far away from AGI?

O OJun 14, 2024, 6:32 AM

26 points

12 votes

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17 comments1 min readLW link

Research Report: Alternative sparsity methods for sparse autoencoders with OthelloGPT.

Andrew QuaisleyJun 14, 2024, 12:57 AM

17 points

9 votes

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5 comments12 min readLW link

Slowed ASI—a possible technical strategy for alignment

Lester LeongJun 14, 2024, 12:57 AM

5 points

8 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Conceptual Typography Example

milanroskoJun 14, 2024, 12:39 AM

15 points

15 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Safety isn’t safety without a social model (or: dispelling the myth of per se technical safety)

Andrew_CritchJun 14, 2024, 12:16 AM

357 points

170 votes

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38 comments4 min readLW link

OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors

Joel BurgetJun 13, 2024, 9:28 PM

35 points

20 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

AI #68: Remarkably Reasonable Reactions

ZviJun 13, 2024, 4:30 PM

46 points

27 votes

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11 comments50 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Four Futures For Cognitive Labor

Maxwell TabarrokJun 13, 2024, 12:56 PM

14 points

11 votes

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11 comments4 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Underrated Proverbs

Arjun PanicksseryJun 13, 2024, 12:30 PM

13 points

14 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

[Paper] AI Sandbagging: Language Models can Strategically Underperform on Evaluations

Teun van der Weij, Felix Hofstätter, Ollie J, Sam F. Brown and Francis Rhys Ward

Jun 13, 2024, 10:04 AM

84 points

35 votes

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10 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Probably Not a Ghost Story

George IngebretsenJun 12, 2024, 10:55 PM

27 points

13 votes

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4 comments3 min readLW link

AiPhone

ZviJun 12, 2024, 10:20 PM

63 points

23 votes

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4 comments14 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

microwave drilling is impractical

bhauthJun 12, 2024, 10:16 PM

59 points

32 votes

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19 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Phonosemantic Duplication

bitcoinssgJun 12, 2024, 8:19 PM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

My AI Model Delta Compared To Christiano

johnswentworthJun 12, 2024, 6:19 PM

191 points

92 votes

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74 comments4 min readLW link

AI: 4 levels of impact [micropost]

Mati_RoyJun 12, 2024, 4:58 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Aggregative principles approximate utilitarian principles

Cleo NardoJun 12, 2024, 4:27 PM

28 points

10 votes

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3 comments23 min readLW link

Sticker Shortcut Fallacy — The Real Worst Argument in the World

ymeskhoutJun 12, 2024, 2:52 PM

27 points

23 votes

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15 comments4 min readLW link

(www.ymeskhout.com)

Long-Term Future Fund: May 2023 to March 2024 Payout recommendations

LinchJun 12, 2024, 1:46 PM

40 points

15 votes

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0 comments13 min readLW link

Anthropic’s Certificate of Incorporation

Zach Stein-PerlmanJun 12, 2024, 1:00 PM

115 points

39 votes

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7 comments4 min readLW link

Calculance: A “Core” Ability

milanroskoJun 12, 2024, 7:21 AM

4 points

10 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 33 - RLHF Problems with Scott Emmons

DanielFilanJun 12, 2024, 3:30 AM

34 points

9 votes

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0 comments56 min readLW link

[New Feature] Your Subscribed Feed

Ruby and RobertM

Jun 11, 2024, 10:45 PM

77 points

27 votes

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13 comments4 min readLW link

Open Thread Summer 2024

habrykaJun 11, 2024, 8:57 PM

22 points

7 votes

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99 comments1 min readLW link

Can efficiency-adjustable reporting thresholds close a loophole in Biden’s executive order on AI?

Jemal YoungJun 11, 2024, 8:56 PM

4 points

2 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

“Full Automation” is a Slippery Metric

ozziegooenJun 11, 2024, 7:56 PM

30 points

15 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

AI takeoff and nuclear war

owencbJun 11, 2024, 7:36 PM

80 points

23 votes

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6 comments11 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

[Question] What do people think about the polymarket Eth Etf resolution?

edge_retainerJun 11, 2024, 6:34 PM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Let’s Design A School, Part 3.1: Bringing it all together with the Sieve Model

SableJun 11, 2024, 5:03 PM

13 points

3 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

How to eliminate cut?

jessicataJun 11, 2024, 3:54 PM

22 points

9 votes

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0 comments14 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

my favourite Scott Sumner blog posts

DMMFJun 11, 2024, 2:40 PM

26 points

9 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(danfrank.ca)

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