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In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

owencbJun 25, 2024, 11:52 PM

105 points

2 comments LW link

What is a Tool?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 25, 2024, 11:40 PM

62 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] When do alignment researchers retire?

Jordan TaylorJun 25, 2024, 11:30 PM

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Compute Governance Literature Review

sijarvisJun 25, 2024, 10:41 PM

11 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Computational Complexity as an Intuition Pump for LLM Generality

aribrillJun 25, 2024, 8:25 PM

18 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Failure Modes of Teaching AI Safety

Eleni AngelouJun 25, 2024, 7:07 PM

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Kingfisher Summer Tour 2024

jefftkJun 25, 2024, 6:50 PM

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Incentive Learning vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven ByrnesJun 25, 2024, 5:49 PM

30 points

1 comment28 min readLW link

An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs

Adam KarvonenJun 25, 2024, 3:57 PM

27 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(adamkarvonen.github.io)

Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting

Jacob_HiltonJun 25, 2024, 3:40 PM

156 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Metastrategy get-started guide

TahpJun 25, 2024, 3:04 PM

6 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Labor Participation is an Alignment Risk

alexJun 25, 2024, 2:15 PM

−5 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #19: June 2024

ZviJun 25, 2024, 12:00 PM

28 points

9 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Regularly meta-optimization

Crazy philosopherJun 25, 2024, 6:12 AM

−4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Memetics as an analogy and its implicit connotations

Rachel ShuJun 25, 2024, 5:13 AM

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Mistakes people make when thinking about units

Isaac KingJun 25, 2024, 3:39 AM

74 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Higher-effort summer solstice: What if we used AI (i.e., Angel Island)?

Rachel ShuJun 25, 2024, 1:35 AM

46 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

I’m a bit skeptical of AlphaFold 3

Oleg TrottJun 25, 2024, 12:04 AM

87 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Being hella lost as rationality practice

Rachel ShuJun 24, 2024, 11:50 PM

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A Basic Economics-Style Model of AI Existential Risk

Rubi J. HudsonJun 24, 2024, 8:26 PM

24 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

The Minority Coalition

Richard_NgoJun 24, 2024, 8:01 PM

103 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability

LawrenceC, rajashree, Adrià Garriga-alonso and Jason Gross

Jun 24, 2024, 7:27 PM

97 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Contrapositive Natural Abstraction—Project Intro

Elliot CallenderJun 24, 2024, 6:37 PM

4 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Sparse Features Through Time

Rogan InglisJun 24, 2024, 6:06 PM

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(roganinglis.io)

PSA: Consider alternatives to AUROC when reporting classifier metrics for alignment

rpglover64Jun 24, 2024, 5:53 PM

18 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Paying Russians to not invade Ukraine

djColliderBiasJun 24, 2024, 5:46 PM

9 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis

jake_mendelJun 24, 2024, 4:07 PM

228 points

17 comments11 min readLW link

So you want to work on technical AI safety

gwJun 24, 2024, 2:29 PM

51 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

The Future of Work: How Can Policymakers Prepare for AI’s Impact on Labor Markets?

davidconrad, Arturs and Tillman Schenk

Jun 24, 2024, 2:18 PM

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux

eggsyntaxJun 24, 2024, 12:52 PM

218 points

119 comments7 min readLW link

On Claude 3.5 Sonnet

ZviJun 24, 2024, 12:00 PM

95 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Righteous Victims—A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict

Yair HalberstadtJun 24, 2024, 11:02 AM

53 points

8 comments34 min readLW link

The Living Planet Index: A Case Study in Statistical Pitfalls

Jan_KulveitJun 24, 2024, 10:05 AM

24 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Sci-Fi books micro-reviews

Yair HalberstadtJun 24, 2024, 9:49 AM

44 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

A Step Against Land Value Tax

Blog AltJun 24, 2024, 5:13 AM

9 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

(antematters.substack.com)

Different senses in which two AIs can be “the same”

Vivek Hebbar and Buck

Jun 24, 2024, 3:16 AM

69 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Talk: AI safety fieldbuilding at MATS

Ryan KiddJun 23, 2024, 11:06 PM

26 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

AI Labs Wouldn’t be Convicted of Treason or Sedition

Matthew KhoriatyJun 23, 2024, 9:34 PM

9 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Control Vectors as Dispositional Traits

Gianluca CalcagniJun 23, 2024, 9:34 PM

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [humor]

gwernJun 23, 2024, 9:18 PM

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

[Question] How are you preparing for the possibility of an AI bust?

Nate ShowellJun 23, 2024, 7:13 PM

26 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

A simple text status can change something

nextcallerJun 23, 2024, 6:48 PM

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

35 Interactive Learning Modules Relevant to EAs / Effective Altruism (that are all free)

spencergJun 23, 2024, 5:57 PM

5 points

0 comments LW link

Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists

KatjaGraceJun 23, 2024, 1:50 PM

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2019

jefftkJun 23, 2024, 1:20 PM

23 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Population ethics and the value of variety

cousin_itJun 23, 2024, 10:42 AM

24 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Karma votes: blind to or accounting for score?

cata22 Jun 2024 21:40 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should effective altruism be more “cool”?

jaredmantell22 Jun 2024 20:42 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Meta Alignment: Communication Wack-a-Mole

Bridgett Kay22 Jun 2024 20:12 UTC

16 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(dxmrevealed.wordpress.com)

AI as a computing platform: what to expect

Jonasb22 Jun 2024 19:55 UTC

−3 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(www.denominations.io)