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Why People in Poverty Make Bad Decisions

James Stephen BrownJul 15, 2024, 11:40 PM

5 points

7 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Paper Summary: Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution

Jeffrey HeningerJul 15, 2024, 9:30 PM

29 points

9 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

MIRI’s July 2024 newsletter

HarlanJul 15, 2024, 9:28 PM

25 points

10 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

How (and why) to get tested for CMV

MetacelsusJul 15, 2024, 8:06 PM

18 points

12 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

A Better Hyperstition (for AI readers)

Yeshua GodJul 15, 2024, 7:35 PM

−20 points

6 votes

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0 comments119 min readLW link

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

Jacob G-W and TurnTrout

Jul 15, 2024, 7:06 PM

110 points

76 votes

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20 comments7 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

The AI alignment problem in socio-technical systems from a computational perspective: A Top-Down-Top view and outlook

zhaoweizhangJul 15, 2024, 6:56 PM

3 points

2 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Musings of a Layman: Technology, AI, and the Human Condition

Crimson LiquidityJul 15, 2024, 6:40 PM

−2 points

4 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Seeking feedback on a critique of the paperclip maximizer thought experiment

bio neuralJul 15, 2024, 6:39 PM

3 points

6 votes

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9 comments1 min readLW link

EAGxBerkeley 2024

LaurianderJul 15, 2024, 6:38 PM

3 points

3 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

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

GideonFJul 15, 2024, 6:37 PM

99 points

48 votes

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17 comments21 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On predictability, chaos and AIs that don’t game our goals

Alejandro TlaieJul 15, 2024, 5:16 PM

4 points

2 votes

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8 comments6 min readLW link

Deceptive agents can collude to hide dangerous features in SAEs

Simon Lermen and Mateusz Dziemian

Jul 15, 2024, 5:07 PM

33 points

18 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

Hiding in plain sight: the questions we don’t ask

DDthinkerJul 15, 2024, 5:00 PM

−1 points

3 votes

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1 comment26 min readLW link

Dialogue on What It Means For Something to Have A Function/Purpose

johnswentworth, Ramana Kumar and Steve Petersen

Jul 15, 2024, 4:28 PM

41 points

14 votes

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8 comments16 min readLW link

Comparing Quantized Performance in Llama Models

NickyPJul 15, 2024, 4:01 PM

35 points

18 votes

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2 comments8 min readLW link

[Aspiration-based designs] A. Damages from misaligned optimization – two more models

Jobst Heitzig and Simon Dima

Jul 15, 2024, 2:08 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments9 min readLW link

Stacked Laptop Monitor Update

jefftkJul 15, 2024, 9:40 AM

14 points

5 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Misnaming and Other Issues with OpenAI’s “Human Level” Superintelligence Hierarchy

DavidmanheimJul 15, 2024, 5:50 AM

49 points

25 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Series on Artificial Wisdom

Jordan ArelJul 15, 2024, 1:11 AM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

Designing Artificial Wisdom: Decision Forecasting AI & Futarchy

Jordan ArelJul 15, 2024, 12:46 AM

1 point

3 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Risk Overview of AI in Bio Research

J BostockJul 15, 2024, 12:04 AM

5 points

2 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Donating to help Democrats win in the 2024 elections: research, decision support, and recommendations

Michael CohnJul 14, 2024, 10:57 PM

−1 points

11 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

Four ways I’ve made bad decisions

SodiumJul 14, 2024, 10:18 PM

18 points

14 votes

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1 comment3 min readLW link

patent process problems

bhauthJul 14, 2024, 9:12 PM

33 points

13 votes

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13 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Breaking Circuit Breakers

mikes and tbenthompson

Jul 14, 2024, 6:57 PM

53 points

19 votes

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13 comments1 min readLW link

(confirmlabs.org)

Clopen sandwiches

dkl9Jul 14, 2024, 1:07 PM

4 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Child Handrail Returns

jefftkJul 14, 2024, 12:40 PM

12 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A (paraconsistent) logic to deal with inconsistent preferences

B JacobsJul 14, 2024, 11:17 AM

6 points

3 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Robert Caro And Mechanistic Models In Biography

adamShimiJul 14, 2024, 10:56 AM

24 points

9 votes

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5 comments7 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

An Introduction to Representation Engineering—an activation-based paradigm for controlling LLMs

j_weJul 14, 2024, 10:37 AM

37 points

19 votes

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6 comments17 min readLW link

LLMs as a Planning Overhang

LarksJul 14, 2024, 2:54 AM

38 points

22 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Brief notes on the Wikipedia game

Olli JärviniemiJul 14, 2024, 2:28 AM

68 points

22 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Spark in the Dark Guest Spots

jefftkJul 14, 2024, 1:40 AM

6 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Ice: The Penultimate Frontier

RokoJul 13, 2024, 11:44 PM

66 points

34 votes

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56 comments1 min readLW link

(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

benkuhnJul 13, 2024, 6:00 PM

44 points

20 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Stitching SAEs of different sizes

Bart Bussmann, Patrick Leask, Joseph Bloom, Curt Tigges and Neel Nanda

Jul 13, 2024, 5:19 PM

39 points

25 votes

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12 comments12 min readLW link

Kinds of Motivation

SableJul 13, 2024, 3:52 PM

7 points

3 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

A simple case for extreme inner misalignment

Richard_NgoJul 13, 2024, 3:40 PM

86 points

39 votes

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41 comments7 min readLW link

Reality Testing

Ben TurtelJul 13, 2024, 3:20 PM

−2 points

8 votes

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1 comment6 min readLW link

(bturtel.substack.com)

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better: The Animation.

WriterJul 13, 2024, 2:03 PM

10 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

The Modern Problems with Conformity

Zero ContradictionsJul 13, 2024, 8:20 AM

0 points

8 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

(expandingrationality.substack.com)

Designing Artificial Wisdom: GitWise and AlphaWise

Jordan ArelJul 13, 2024, 6:46 AM

2 points

3 votes

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0 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI’s Intelligence Levels

infinibot27Jul 13, 2024, 6:25 AM

1 point

1 vote

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Some desirable properties of automated wisdom

Marius Adrian NicoarăJul 13, 2024, 6:05 AM

3 points

2 votes

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2 comments6 min readLW link

Thought Experiments Website

minmi_droverJul 13, 2024, 4:47 AM

11 points

10 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

A Second Wetsuit Summer

jefftkJul 13, 2024, 2:00 AM

19 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Timaeus is hiring!

Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Daniel Murfet

Jul 12, 2024, 11:42 PM

67 points

28 votes

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6 comments2 min readLW link

Consider attending the AI Security Forum ’24, a 1-day pre-DEFCON event

Charlie Rogers-SmithJul 12, 2024, 11:01 PM

21 points

4 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Memorising molecular structures

dkl9Jul 12, 2024, 10:40 PM

6 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

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