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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil

Ivan VendrovJun 8, 2024, 5:05 PM

36 points

18 votes

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14 comments5 min readLW link

(nothinghuman.substack.com)

2. Corrigibility Intuition

Max HarmsJun 8, 2024, 3:52 PM

69 points

26 votes

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10 comments33 min readLW link

Two easy things that maybe Just Work to improve AI discourse

Bird ConceptJun 8, 2024, 3:51 PM

192 points

90 votes

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34 comments2 min readLW link

I made an AI safety fellowship. What I wish I knew.

Ruben CastaingJun 8, 2024, 3:23 PM

12 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Alignment Gaps

kcyrasJun 8, 2024, 3:23 PM

11 points

6 votes

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4 comments8 min readLW link

The Slack Double Crux, or how to negotiate with yourself

Thac0Jun 8, 2024, 3:22 PM

6 points

4 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

The Perils of Popularity: A Critical Examination of LessWrong’s Rational Discourse

BubbaJoeLouisJun 8, 2024, 3:22 PM

−24 points

11 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Status quo bias is usually justified

Amadeus PagelJun 8, 2024, 2:54 PM

10 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(amadeuspagel.substack.com)

Closed-Source Evaluations

JonoJun 8, 2024, 2:18 PM

15 points

8 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Access to powerful AI might make computer security radically easier

BuckJun 8, 2024, 6:00 AM

108 points

65 votes

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14 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Why don’t we just get rid of all the bioethicists?

SableJun 8, 2024, 3:48 AM

12 points

11 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Sev, Sevteen, Sevty, Sevth

jefftkJun 8, 2024, 2:30 AM

17 points

14 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

1. The CAST Strategy

Max HarmsJun 7, 2024, 10:29 PM

48 points

27 votes

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22 comments38 min readLW link

0. CAST: Corrigibility as Singular Target

Max HarmsJun 7, 2024, 10:29 PM

150 points

57 votes

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17 comments8 min readLW link

What is space? What is time?

TahpJun 7, 2024, 10:15 PM

8 points

3 votes

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3 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Question about Lewis’ counterfactual theory of causation

jbkjrJun 7, 2024, 8:15 PM

12 points

3 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Relationships among words, metalingual definition, and interpretability

Bill BenzonJun 7, 2024, 7:18 PM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

Let’s Talk About Emergence

jacobhaimesJun 7, 2024, 7:18 PM

4 points

5 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

D&D.Sci Alchemy: Archmage Anachronos and the Supply Chain Issues

aphyerJun 7, 2024, 7:02 PM

42 points

11 votes

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16 comments3 min readLW link

Natural Latents Are Not Robust To Tiny Mixtures

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 7, 2024, 6:53 PM

61 points

17 votes

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8 comments5 min readLW link

Situational Awareness Summarized—Part 2

Joe RogeroJun 7, 2024, 5:20 PM

12 points

8 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

Frida van Lisa, a short story about adversarial AI attacks on humans

arisAlexisJun 7, 2024, 1:22 PM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments18 min readLW link

Quotes from Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness Paper

ZviJun 7, 2024, 11:40 AM

97 points

38 votes

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10 comments37 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

LessWrong/ACX meetup Transilvanya tour—Cluj Napoca

Marius Adrian NicoarăJun 7, 2024, 5:45 AM

1 point

1 vote

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1 comment1 min readLW link

Is Claude a mystic?

jessicataJun 7, 2024, 4:27 AM

60 points

24 votes

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23 comments13 min readLW link

(unstablerontology.substack.com)

Offering Completion

jefftkJun 7, 2024, 1:40 AM

29 points

17 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Case for Superhuman Governance, using AI

ozziegooenJun 7, 2024, 12:10 AM

30 points

15 votes

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0 comments10 min readLW link

Memorizing weak examples can elicit strong behavior out of password-locked models

Fabien Roger and ryan_greenblatt

Jun 6, 2024, 11:54 PM

58 points

14 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

Response to Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness”

Rob BensingerJun 6, 2024, 10:57 PM

197 points

99 votes

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27 comments3 min readLW link

Scaling and evaluating sparse autoencoders

leogaoJun 6, 2024, 10:50 PM

106 points

30 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Humming is not a free $100 bill

ElizabethJun 6, 2024, 8:10 PM

187 points

102 votes

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6 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

There Are No Primordial Definitions of Man/Woman

ymeskhoutJun 6, 2024, 7:30 PM

11 points

12 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

(ymeskhout.substack.com)

Situational Awareness Summarized—Part 1

Joe RogeroJun 6, 2024, 6:59 PM

21 points

9 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

[Link Post] “Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models”

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)Jun 6, 2024, 6:55 PM

70 points

18 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

(llm-safety-challenges.github.io)

AI #67: Brief Strange Trip

ZviJun 6, 2024, 6:50 PM

49 points

21 votes

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6 comments40 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Human Biological Advantage Over AI

WstewartJun 6, 2024, 6:18 PM

−13 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

An evaluation of Helen Toner’s interview on the TED AI Show

peter_hartreeJun 6, 2024, 5:39 PM

24 points

13 votes

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2 comments30 min readLW link

The Impossibility of a Rational Intelligence Optimizer

Nicolas VillarrealJun 6, 2024, 4:14 PM

−9 points

6 votes

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5 comments14 min readLW link

Immunization against harmful fine-tuning attacks

domenicrosati, j_we and David Atanasov

Jun 6, 2024, 3:17 PM

4 points

2 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

SB 1047 Is Weakened

ZviJun 6, 2024, 1:40 PM

67 points

24 votes

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4 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Weeping Agents

pleiotrothJun 6, 2024, 12:18 PM

27 points

10 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Podcast: Center for AI Policy, on AI risk and listening to AI researchers

KatjaGraceJun 6, 2024, 3:30 AM

9 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Calculating Natural Latents via Resampling

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jun 6, 2024, 12:37 AM

55 points

12 votes

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4 comments10 min readLW link

SAEs Discover Meaningful Features in the IOI Task

Alex Makelov, Georg Lange and Neel Nanda

Jun 5, 2024, 11:48 PM

15 points

8 votes

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2 comments10 min readLW link

Let’s Design A School, Part 2.4 School as Education—The Curriculum (Phase 3, Specific)

SableJun 5, 2024, 9:40 PM

19 points

9 votes

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2 comments12 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

METR is hiring ML Research Engineers and Scientists

XodarapJun 5, 2024, 9:27 PM

5 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(metr.org)

Book review: The Quincunx

cousin_itJun 5, 2024, 9:13 PM

43 points

22 votes

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12 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How should I think about my career?

ChicoJun 5, 2024, 6:11 PM

3 points

3 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #36: Voluntary Commitments are Insufficient Plus, a Senate AI Policy Roadmap, and Chapter 1: An Overview of Catastrophic Risks

Corin Katzke, Julius and Dan H

Jun 5, 2024, 5:45 PM

9 points

3 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

GPT2, Five Years On

Joel BurgetJun 5, 2024, 5:44 PM

34 points

11 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

(importai.substack.com)

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