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Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC

408 points

56 comments43 min readLW link 2 reviews

Universal Basic Income and Poverty

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jul 2024 7:23 UTC

354 points

150 comments9 min readLW link 1 review

80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

274 points

71 comments3 min readLW link

Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment

Marc Carauleanu, Mike Vaiana, Kvee, Diogo de Lucena, Cameron Berg and Trent Hodgeson

30 Jul 2024 16:22 UTC

242 points

53 comments12 min readLW link 2 reviews

Towards more cooperative AI safety strategies

Richard_Ngo16 Jul 2024 4:36 UTC

229 points

134 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and “Cope”

Raemon17 Jul 2024 22:14 UTC

228 points

47 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Superbabies: Putting The Pieces Together

sarahconstantin11 Jul 2024 20:40 UTC

221 points

42 comments10 min readLW link 3 reviews

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

This is already your second chance

Malmesbury28 Jul 2024 17:13 UTC

194 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

Safety consultations for AI lab employees

Zach Stein-Perlman27 Jul 2024 15:00 UTC

183 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires

owencb and Raymond Douglas

11 Jul 2024 9:38 UTC

156 points

33 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

(strangecities.substack.com)

An Extremely Opinionated Annotated List of My Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers v2

Neel Nanda7 Jul 2024 17:39 UTC

144 points

17 comments25 min readLW link 1 review

On saying “Thank you” instead of “I’m Sorry”

Michael Cohn8 Jul 2024 3:13 UTC

138 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

“AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems”

gjm25 Jul 2024 15:58 UTC

133 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

Pantheon Interface

NicholasKees and Sofia Vanhanen

8 Jul 2024 19:03 UTC

129 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

A List of 45+ Mech Interp Project Ideas from Apollo Research’s Interpretability Team

Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, StefanHex and Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill

18 Jul 2024 14:15 UTC

125 points

18 comments18 min readLW link

Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders

Anish Mudide22 Jul 2024 18:45 UTC

118 points

20 comments12 min readLW link

What are you getting paid in?

Austin Chen17 Jul 2024 19:23 UTC

116 points

16 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

(www.approachwithalacrity.com)

You should go to ML conferences

Jan_Kulveit24 Jul 2024 11:47 UTC

112 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

I found >800 orthogonal “write code” steering vectors

Jacob G-W and TurnTrout

15 Jul 2024 19:06 UTC

112 points

20 comments7 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Most smart and skilled people are outside of the EA/rationalist community: an analysis

titotal12 Jul 2024 12:13 UTC

111 points

39 comments14 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Introduction to French AI Policy

Lucie Philippon4 Jul 2024 3:39 UTC

111 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics

jylin04, JackS, Adam Karvonen and Can

2 Jul 2024 9:12 UTC

111 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Dialogue introduction to Singular Learning Theory

Olli Järviniemi8 Jul 2024 16:58 UTC

110 points

16 comments8 min readLW link 1 review

Me, Myself, and AI: the Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs

L Rudolf L, bilalchughtai, Jan Betley, kaivu, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, AlexMeinke, Owain_Evans and Marius Hobbhahn

8 Jul 2024 22:24 UTC

109 points

40 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.

rossry8 Jul 2024 6:05 UTC

106 points

47 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.rossry.net)

Transformer Circuit Faithfulness Metrics Are Not Robust

Joseph Miller, bilalchughtai and William_S

12 Jul 2024 3:47 UTC

104 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

A simple model of math skill

Alex_Altair21 Jul 2024 18:57 UTC

104 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

A Solomonoff Inductor Walks Into a Bar: Schelling Points for Communication

johnswentworth and David Lorell

26 Jul 2024 0:33 UTC

103 points

7 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

Against Aschenbrenner: How ‘Situational Awareness’ constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity

GideonF15 Jul 2024 18:37 UTC

100 points

17 comments21 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Covert Malicious Finetuning

Tony Wang and dannyhalawi

2 Jul 2024 2:41 UTC

98 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

New page: Integrity

Zach Stein-Perlman10 Jul 2024 15:00 UTC

91 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Reflections on Less Online

Error7 Jul 2024 3:49 UTC

90 points

15 comments18 min readLW link

AI #73: Openly Evil AI

Zvi18 Jul 2024 14:40 UTC

89 points

20 comments52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re: Anthropic’s suggested SB-1047 amendments

RobertM27 Jul 2024 22:32 UTC

87 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

(www.documentcloud.org)

Fluent, Cruxy Predictions

Raemon10 Jul 2024 18:00 UTC

86 points

18 comments14 min readLW link 1 review

A simple case for extreme inner misalignment

Richard_Ngo13 Jul 2024 15:40 UTC

86 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Scalable oversight as a quantitative rather than qualitative problem

Buck6 Jul 2024 17:42 UTC

86 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Decomposing the QK circuit with Bilinear Sparse Dictionary Learning

keith_wynroe and Lee Sharkey

2 Jul 2024 13:17 UTC

86 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

3C’s: A Recipe For Mathing Concepts

johnswentworth and David Lorell

3 Jul 2024 1:06 UTC

81 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

Consider the humble rock (or: why the dumb thing kills you)

pleiotroth4 Jul 2024 13:54 UTC

77 points

12 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

On the CrowdStrike Incident

Zvi22 Jul 2024 12:40 UTC

75 points

14 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Interpreting Preference Models w/ Sparse Autoencoders

Logan Riggs and Jannik Brinkmann

1 Jul 2024 21:35 UTC

75 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

LK-99 in retrospect

bhauth7 Jul 2024 2:06 UTC

74 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Multiplex Gene Editing: Where Are We Now?

sarahconstantin16 Jul 2024 20:50 UTC

73 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Yoshua Bengio: Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously

Kvee11 Jul 2024 23:53 UTC

72 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(yoshuabengio.org)

D&D.Sci Scenario Index

aphyer and abstractapplic

23 Jul 2024 2:00 UTC

72 points

1 comment2 min readLW link 1 review

Friendship is transactional, unconditional friendship is insurance

Ruby17 Jul 2024 22:52 UTC

69 points

25 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Analyzing DeepMind’s Probabilistic Methods for Evaluating Agent Capabilities

Axel Højmark, fidgetsinner, Arjun Panickssery, Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer

22 Jul 2024 16:17 UTC

69 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

Indecision and internalized authority figures

Kaj_Sotala6 Jul 2024 10:10 UTC

69 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

An AI Race With China Can Be Better Than Not Racing

niplav2 Jul 2024 17:57 UTC

68 points

36 comments11 min readLW link