[Question] How bad would AI progress need to be for us to think gen­eral tech­nolog­i­cal progress is also bad?

Jim BuhlerJul 9, 2024, 10:43 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

How LLMs Learn: What We Know, What We Don’t (Yet) Know, and What Comes Next

JonasbJul 9, 2024, 9:58 AM
2 points
0 comments16 min readLW link
(www.denominations.io)

WTF is with the In­fancy Gospel of Thomas?!? A deep dive into satire, philos­o­phy, and more

kromemJul 9, 2024, 9:29 AM
18 points
2 comments11 min readLW link

Book Re­view: Safe Enough? A His­tory of Nu­clear Power and Ac­ci­dent Risk

ErickBallJul 9, 2024, 1:12 AM
10 points
0 comments28 min readLW link

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

Jul 8, 2024, 10:24 PM
109 points
37 comments5 min readLW link

Robin Han­son & Liron Shapira De­bate AI X-Risk

LironJul 8, 2024, 9:45 PM
34 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(www.youtube.com)

“The Sin­gu­lar­ity Is Nearer” by Ray Kurzweil—Review

LavenderJul 8, 2024, 9:32 PM
22 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Sam­ple Prevalence vs Global Prevalence

jefftkJul 8, 2024, 9:00 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Ad­vice to ju­nior AI gov­er­nance researchers

Orpheus16Jul 8, 2024, 7:19 PM
66 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Pan­theon Interface

Jul 8, 2024, 7:03 PM
127 points
22 comments6 min readLW link

Launch­ing the AI Fore­cast­ing Bench­mark Series Q3 | $30k in Prizes

ChristianWilliamsJul 8, 2024, 5:20 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

The Golden Mean of Scien­tific Virtues

adamShimiJul 8, 2024, 5:16 PM
12 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Mas­s­ape­qua (Long Is­land), New York, USA – ACX Meetup

Gabriel WeilJul 8, 2024, 5:01 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Dialogue in­tro­duc­tion to Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing Theory

Olli JärviniemiJul 8, 2024, 4:58 PM
102 points
15 comments8 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing The Techno-Hu­man­ist Man­i­festo: A new philos­o­phy of progress for the 21st century

jasoncrawfordJul 8, 2024, 4:33 PM
18 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(blog.rootsofprogress.org)

Re­sponse to Dileep Ge­orge: AGI safety war­rants plan­ning ahead

Steven ByrnesJul 8, 2024, 3:27 PM
27 points
7 comments27 min readLW link

Why not par­li­a­men­tar­i­anism? [book by Ti­ago Ribeiro dos San­tos]

Arturo MaciasJul 8, 2024, 2:57 PM
2 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

Games of My Child­hood: The Troops

Kaj_SotalaJul 8, 2024, 11:20 AM
18 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Towards shut­down­able agents via stochas­tic choice

Jul 8, 2024, 10:14 AM
59 points
11 comments23 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

On scal­able over­sight with weak LLMs judg­ing strong LLMs

Jul 8, 2024, 8:59 AM
49 points
18 comments7 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

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

rossryJul 8, 2024, 6:05 AM
105 points
47 comments11 min readLW link
(blog.rossry.net)

Con­trol­led Creative Destruction

Martin SustrikJul 8, 2024, 4:36 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

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

Michael CohnJul 8, 2024, 3:13 AM
136 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

How can I get over my fear of be­com­ing an em­u­lated con­scious­ness?

James DowdellJul 7, 2024, 10:02 PM
6 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

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

Neel NandaJul 7, 2024, 5:39 PM
137 points
16 comments25 min readLW link

Joint manda­tory dona­tion as a way to in­crease the num­ber of donations

Crazy philosopherJul 7, 2024, 10:56 AM
3 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Ra­tion­al­ity vs Alignment

Donatas LučiūnasJul 7, 2024, 10:12 AM
−14 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

Beyond Bio­mark­ers: Un­der­stand­ing Mul­tis­cale Causality

Matěj NekoranecJul 7, 2024, 9:56 AM
13 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Good­hart’s Law and Emotions

Zero ContradictionsJul 7, 2024, 8:32 AM
1 point
5 comments1 min readLW link
(expandingrationality.substack.com)

Reflec­tions on Less Online

ErrorJul 7, 2024, 3:49 AM
89 points
15 comments18 min readLW link

LK-99 in retrospect

bhauthJul 7, 2024, 2:06 AM
72 points
21 comments3 min readLW link
(www.bhauth.com)

NYU De­bate Train­ing Up­date: Meth­ods, Baselines, Pre­limi­nary Results

samarnesenJul 6, 2024, 6:28 PM
9 points
0 comments20 min readLW link

Scal­able over­sight as a quan­ti­ta­tive rather than qual­i­ta­tive problem

BuckJul 6, 2024, 5:42 PM
86 points
11 comments3 min readLW link

An AI Man­hat­tan Pro­ject is Not Inevitable

Maxwell TabarrokJul 6, 2024, 4:42 PM
39 points
25 comments4 min readLW link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Linkpost] A Case for AI Consciousness

Jul 6, 2024, 2:52 PM
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(philpapers.org)

[Question] Can agents co­or­di­nate on ran­dom­ness with­out out­side sources?

Mikhail SaminJul 6, 2024, 1:43 PM
11 points
16 comments1 min readLW link

AI Align­ment Re­search Eng­ineer Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ARENA): Call for ap­pli­cants v4.0

Jul 6, 2024, 11:34 AM
57 points
7 comments6 min readLW link

Links and brief mus­ings for June

Kaj_SotalaJul 6, 2024, 10:10 AM
26 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

In­de­ci­sion and in­ter­nal­ized au­thor­ity figures

Kaj_SotalaJul 6, 2024, 10:10 AM
69 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(kajsotala.fi)

Free Will, Deter­minism, And Choice

Zero ContradictionsJul 6, 2024, 6:34 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Travel Buffer

jefftkJul 6, 2024, 2:20 AM
17 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What progress have we made on au­to­mated au­dit­ing?

LawrenceCJul 6, 2024, 1:49 AM
38 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A “Bit­ter Les­son” Ap­proach to Align­ing AGI and ASI

RogerDearnaleyJul 6, 2024, 1:23 AM
64 points
41 comments24 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: Whom Shall You Call?

abstractapplicJul 5, 2024, 8:53 PM
40 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[In­terim re­search re­port] Ac­ti­va­tion plateaus & sen­si­tive di­rec­tions in GPT2

Jul 5, 2024, 5:05 PM
65 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Min­i­mal­ist And Max­i­mal­ist Type Systems

adamShimiJul 5, 2024, 4:25 PM
17 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

ML4Good Sum­mer Boot­camps—Ap­pli­ca­tions Open [dead­line ex­tended]

YMJul 5, 2024, 1:59 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Are there any plans to launch a pa­per­back ver­sion of “Ra­tion­al­ity: From AI to Zom­bies”?

m_arjJul 5, 2024, 11:14 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dooms­day Ar­gu­ment and the False Dilemma of An­thropic Reasoning

Ape in the coatJul 5, 2024, 5:38 AM
49 points
61 comments7 min readLW link

Find­ing the Wis­dom to Build Safe AI

Gordon Seidoh WorleyJul 4, 2024, 7:04 PM
36 points
10 comments9 min readLW link