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Activation Pattern SVD: A proposal for SAE Interpretability

Daniel TanJun 28, 2024, 10:12 PM

15 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Podcast: Elizabeth & Austin on “What Manifold was allowed to do”

Austin ChenJun 28, 2024, 10:10 PM

20 points

0 comments LW link

(share.descript.com)

The Incredible Fentanyl-Detecting Machine

sarahconstantinJun 28, 2024, 10:10 PM

156 points

26 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Saving Lives Reduces Over-Population—A Counter-Intuitive Non-Zero-Sum Game

James Stephen BrownJun 28, 2024, 7:29 PM

6 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Mentorship in AGI Safety: Applications for mentorship are open!

Valentin2026 and Joe Rogero

Jun 28, 2024, 2:49 PM

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Contra Acemoglu on AI

Maxwell TabarrokJun 28, 2024, 1:13 PM

48 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Five toy worlds to think about heritability

David Hugh-JonesJun 28, 2024, 1:11 PM

13 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(wyclif.substack.com)

[Question] How do natural sciences prove causation?

Kongo LandwalkerJun 28, 2024, 11:58 AM

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

LessWrong/ACX meetup Transilvanya tour—Sibiu

Marius Adrian NicoarăJun 28, 2024, 11:41 AM

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Bayes’ Theorem: In Search of Gold (Lesson 1)

bayesyatinaJun 28, 2024, 8:39 AM

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

How a chip is designed

YMJun 28, 2024, 8:04 AM

65 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

The Wisdom of Living for 200 Years

Martin SustrikJun 28, 2024, 4:44 AM

25 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

A Generally Intelligent Game

snerxJun 28, 2024, 1:31 AM

−1 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Corrigibility = Tool-ness?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 28, 2024, 1:19 AM

78 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

Situational Awareness

PeterMcCluskeyJun 28, 2024, 1:08 AM

11 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Toward a taxonomy of cognitive benchmarks for agentic AGIs

Ben SmithJun 27, 2024, 11:50 PM

15 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

How Big a Deal are MatMul-Free Transformers?

JustisMillsJun 27, 2024, 10:28 PM

19 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)

Secondary forces of debt

KatjaGraceJun 27, 2024, 9:10 PM

81 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Distillation of ‘Do language models plan for future tokens’

TheManxLoinerJun 27, 2024, 8:57 PM

26 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

how birds sense magnetic fields

bhauthJun 27, 2024, 6:59 PM

51 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Representation Tuning

Christopher AckermanJun 27, 2024, 5:44 PM

35 points

9 comments13 min readLW link

An issue with training schemers with supervised fine-tuning

Fabien RogerJun 27, 2024, 3:37 PM

49 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

AI #70: A Beautiful Sonnet

ZviJun 27, 2024, 2:40 PM

38 points

0 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing

jefftkJun 27, 2024, 2:01 PM

87 points

10 comments LW link

(naobservatory.org)

Cross Robin

jefftkJun 27, 2024, 3:10 AM

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Live Theory Part 0: Taking Intelligence Seriously

SahilJun 26, 2024, 9:37 PM

101 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

Instrumental vs Terminal Desiderata

Max HarmsJun 26, 2024, 8:57 PM

21 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Imbue (Generally Intelligent) continue to make progress

Nathan Helm-BurgerJun 26, 2024, 8:41 PM

18 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(imbue.com)

Tracing the steps

matimissonaJun 26, 2024, 7:22 PM

−8 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Countering AI disinformation and deep fakes with digital signatures

Dave LindberghJun 26, 2024, 6:09 PM

13 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Progress Conference 2024: Toward Abundant Futures

jasoncrawfordJun 26, 2024, 3:39 PM

40 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Schelling points in the AGI policy space

mesaoptimizerJun 26, 2024, 1:19 PM

52 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Bad lessons learned from the debate

bayesyatinaJun 26, 2024, 11:54 AM

8 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Childhood and Education Roundup #6: College Edition

ZviJun 26, 2024, 11:40 AM

28 points

8 comments23 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New fast transformer inference ASIC — Sohu by Etched

lemonhopeJun 26, 2024, 9:56 AM

8 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.etched.com)

Empirical vs. Mathematical Joints of Nature

Elizabeth and Alex_Altair

Jun 26, 2024, 1:55 AM

35 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

My Current Claims and Cruxes on LLM Forecasting & Epistemics

ozziegooenJun 26, 2024, 12:40 AM

11 points

0 comments LW link

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)