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Appraising aggregativism and utilitarianism

Cleo NardoJun 21, 2024, 11:10 PM

27 points

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10 comments19 min readLW link

Best-of-n with misaligned reward models for Math reasoning

Fabien RogerJun 21, 2024, 10:53 PM

25 points

13 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

No really, the Sticker Shortcut fallacy is indeed a fallacy

ymeskhoutJun 21, 2024, 10:27 PM

11 points

7 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.ymeskhout.com)

Sarajevo 1914: Black Swan Questions

SebastianG Jun 21, 2024, 9:27 PM

8 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Yudkowsky is too optimistic about how AI will treat humans.

ProfessorFalkenJun 21, 2024, 7:01 PM

0 points

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Juneberry Puffs

jefftkJun 21, 2024, 6:50 PM

15 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Let’s Design a School, Part 3.2 Costs

SableJun 21, 2024, 5:58 PM

8 points

3 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

2022 AI Alignment Course: 5→37% working on AI safety

DewiJun 21, 2024, 5:45 PM

7 points

7 votes

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3 comments3 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on AI Alignment: Using AI to Control AI

eigenvalueJun 21, 2024, 5:44 PM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(github.com)

What distinguishes “early”, “mid” and “end” games?

RaemonJun 21, 2024, 5:41 PM

48 points

25 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

Nuclear War, Map and Territory, Values | Guild of the Rose Newsletter, May 2024

moridinamaelJun 21, 2024, 5:39 PM

18 points

5 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(guildoftherose.org)

AI governance needs a theory of victory

Corin Katzke and Justin Bullock

Jun 21, 2024, 4:15 PM

45 points

17 votes

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8 comments20 min readLW link

(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data

Johannes Treutlein and Owain_Evans

Jun 21, 2024, 3:54 PM

163 points

56 votes

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13 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

On OpenAI’s Model Spec

ZviJun 21, 2024, 1:00 PM

47 points

24 votes

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4 comments30 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Attention Output SAEs Improve Circuit Analysis

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

Jun 21, 2024, 12:56 PM

33 points

19 votes

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3 comments19 min readLW link

“Newton’s laws” of finance

pchvykovJun 21, 2024, 9:41 AM

9 points

7 votes

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3 comments10 min readLW link

Capitalising On Trust—A Simulation

James Stephen BrownJun 21, 2024, 4:43 AM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

″… than average” is (almost) meaningless

jwfiredragonJun 21, 2024, 4:42 AM

16 points

7 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

The Kernel of Meaning in Property Rights

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirJun 21, 2024, 1:12 AM

7 points

8 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Enriched tab is now the default LW Frontpage experience for logged-in users

Ruby and RobertM

Jun 21, 2024, 12:09 AM

46 points

14 votes

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27 comments3 min readLW link

Debate, Oracles, and Obfuscated Arguments

Jonah Brown-Cohen and Geoffrey Irving

Jun 20, 2024, 11:14 PM

44 points

12 votes

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4 comments21 min readLW link

Evaporation of improvements

ViliamJun 20, 2024, 6:34 PM

29 points

14 votes

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27 comments2 min readLW link

Interpreting and Steering Features in Images

Gytis DaujotasJun 20, 2024, 6:33 PM

67 points

30 votes

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6 comments5 min readLW link

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Zach Stein-PerlmanJun 20, 2024, 6:00 PM

75 points

29 votes

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41 comments1 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

[Question] What is going to happen in a case of an AGI era where humans are out of the game?

CipollaJun 20, 2024, 5:44 PM

−2 points

5 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Jailbreak steering generalization

Sarah Ball and Nina Panickssery

Jun 20, 2024, 5:25 PM

41 points

14 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Case studies on social-welfare-based standards in various industries

HoldenKarnofskyJun 20, 2024, 1:33 PM

42 points

13 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

AI #69: Nice

ZviJun 20, 2024, 12:40 PM

65 points

35 votes

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9 comments51 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Niche product design

Itay DreyfusJun 20, 2024, 6:34 AM

3 points

2 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

(productidentity.co)

Data on AI

Robi Rahman, Jaime Sevilla Molina, Pablo Villalobos and Ben Cottier

Jun 20, 2024, 6:31 AM

1 point

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Actually, Power Plants May Be an AI Training Bottleneck.

Lao MeinJun 20, 2024, 4:41 AM

83 points

38 votes

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13 comments2 min readLW link

Proposing the Post-Singularity Symbiotic Researches

Hiroshi YamakawaJun 20, 2024, 4:05 AM

6 points

5 votes

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1 comment12 min readLW link

Week One of Studying Transformers Architecture

JustisMillsJun 20, 2024, 3:47 AM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments15 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

[Question] What are things you’re allowed to do as a startup?

ElizabethJun 20, 2024, 12:01 AM

30 points

14 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong/ACX meetup Transilvanya tour—Alba Iulia

Marius Adrian NicoarăJun 19, 2024, 7:56 PM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Chronic perfectionism through the eyes of school reports

Stuart JohnsonJun 19, 2024, 5:46 PM

13 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Ilya Sutskever created a new AGI startup

harfeJun 19, 2024, 5:17 PM

95 points

50 votes

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35 comments1 min readLW link

(ssi.inc)

Beyond the Board: Exploring AI Robustness Through Go

AdamGleaveJun 19, 2024, 4:40 PM

41 points

12 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(far.ai)

A study on cults and non-cults—answer questions about a group and get a cult score

spencergJun 19, 2024, 2:30 PM

1 point

7 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.guidedtrack.com)

Workshop: data analysis for software engineers

Derek M. JonesJun 19, 2024, 2:20 PM

2 points

5 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE LLM’s WITH CONTINUOUS SELF TRAINING

Escaque 66Jun 19, 2024, 2:17 PM

−11 points

5 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Surviving Seveneves

Yair HalberstadtJun 19, 2024, 1:11 PM

41 points

22 votes

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4 comments11 min readLW link

Self responsibility

EloJun 19, 2024, 10:17 AM

17 points

8 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Gizmo Watch Review

jefftkJun 18, 2024, 8:00 PM

22 points

9 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Boycott OpenAI

PeterMcCluskeyJun 18, 2024, 7:52 PM

164 points

82 votes

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26 comments1 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Loving a world you don’t trust

Joe CarlsmithJun 18, 2024, 7:31 PM

137 points

66 votes

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13 comments33 min readLW link

Book review: the Iliad

philhJun 18, 2024, 6:50 PM

33 points

16 votes

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2 comments14 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

AI Safety Newsletter #37: US Launches Antitrust Investigations Plus, recent criticisms of OpenAI and Anthropic, and a summary of Situational Awareness

Corin Katzke, Alexa Pan, Julius and Dan H

Jun 18, 2024, 6:07 PM

8 points

6 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Suffering Is Not Pain

jbkjrJun 18, 2024, 6:04 PM

36 points

19 votes

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47 comments5 min readLW link

(jbkjr.me)

Lamini’s Targeted Hallucination Reduction May Be a Big Deal for Job Automation

sweenesmJun 18, 2024, 3:29 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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