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Ransomware Payments Should Require a Sin Tax

Brian BienJul 22, 2024, 9:16 PM

20 points

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10 comments2 min readLW link

The Elusive Root Cause of Schizophrenia—Thesis Introduction Only

kareempforbesJul 22, 2024, 8:24 PM

−9 points

5 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Chinese AGI a valid concern for the USA?

sammyboizJul 22, 2024, 8:21 PM

0 points

7 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

Trying to understand Hanson’s Cultural Drift argument

KempJul 22, 2024, 8:20 PM

18 points

8 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders

Anish MudideJul 22, 2024, 6:45 PM

118 points

67 votes

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20 comments12 min readLW link

Analyzing DeepMind’s Probabilistic Methods for Evaluating Agent Capabilities

Axel Højmark, Govind Pimpale, Arjun Panickssery, Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer

Jul 22, 2024, 4:17 PM

69 points

32 votes

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0 comments16 min readLW link

The Garden of Eden

Alexander TurokJul 22, 2024, 4:07 PM

23 points

11 votes

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2 comments9 min readLW link

Caring about excellence

owencbJul 22, 2024, 2:24 PM

47 points

19 votes

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4 comments6 min readLW link

Tim Dillon’s fake business altered my perspective more significantly than any other video I have watched in the last 24 months

Stuart JohnsonJul 22, 2024, 12:54 PM

6 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

On the CrowdStrike Incident

ZviJul 22, 2024, 12:40 PM

75 points

33 votes

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14 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Auto-Enhance: Developing a meta-benchmark to measure LLM agents’ ability to improve other agents

Sam F. Brown, BasilLabib, Codruta (Coco) Lugoj and Sai Sasank Y

Jul 22, 2024, 12:33 PM

20 points

19 votes

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0 comments14 min readLW link

What does “the universe is quantum” actually mean?

TahpJul 22, 2024, 11:52 AM

2 points

1 vote

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0 comments14 min readLW link

Initial Experiments Using SAEs to Help Detect AI Generated Text

Aaron_ScherJul 22, 2024, 5:16 AM

18 points

10 votes

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1 comment14 min readLW link

Categories of leadership on technical teams

benkuhnJul 22, 2024, 4:50 AM

38 points

16 votes

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0 comments8 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

An experiment on hidden cognition

Olli JärviniemiJul 22, 2024, 3:26 AM

25 points

9 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI Boycott Revisit

Jake DennieJul 22, 2024, 1:44 AM

17 points

15 votes

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2 comments2 min readLW link

Coalitional agency

Richard_NgoJul 22, 2024, 12:09 AM

61 points

17 votes

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6 comments6 min readLW link

The AI Driver’s Licence—A Policy Proposal

Joshua W and Tessa Malan

Jul 21, 2024, 8:38 PM

0 points

10 votes

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1 comment19 min readLW link

Demography and Destiny

Zero ContradictionsJul 21, 2024, 8:34 PM

6 points

7 votes

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11 comments1 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

The $100B plan with “70% risk of killing us all” w Stephen Fry [video]

Oleg TrottJul 21, 2024, 8:06 PM

35 points

16 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

xanderbalwitJul 21, 2024, 7:18 PM

−2 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(press.asimov.com)

A simple model of math skill

Alex_AltairJul 21, 2024, 6:57 PM

101 points

55 votes

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16 comments8 min readLW link

Using an LLM perplexity filter to detect weight exfiltration

Adam KarvonenJul 21, 2024, 6:18 PM

25 points

12 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Would a scope-insensitive AGI be less likely to incapacitate humanity?

Jim BuhlerJul 21, 2024, 2:15 PM

2 points

1 vote

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3 comments1 min readLW link

Holomorphic surjection theorem (Picard’s little theorem)

dkl9Jul 21, 2024, 1:24 PM

15 points

6 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

aimless ace analyzes active amateur: a micro-aaaaalignment proposal

lemonhopeJul 21, 2024, 12:37 PM

12 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Pivotal Acts are easier than Alignment?

Michael SoareverixJul 21, 2024, 12:15 PM

2 points

5 votes

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4 comments1 min readLW link

Ball Sq Pathways

jefftkJul 21, 2024, 2:20 AM

13 points

4 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Freedom and Privacy of Thought Architectures

SebastianG Jul 20, 2024, 9:43 PM

5 points

1 vote

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Why Georgism Lost Its Popularity

Zero ContradictionsJul 20, 2024, 3:08 PM

47 points

33 votes

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55 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Only Fools Avoid Hindsight Bias

Kevin DorstJul 20, 2024, 1:42 PM

−11 points

7 votes

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5 comments6 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

A more systematic case for inner misalignment

Richard_NgoJul 20, 2024, 5:03 AM

31 points

11 votes

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4 comments5 min readLW link

BatchTopK: A Simple Improvement for TopK-SAEs

Bart Bussmann, Patrick Leask and Neel Nanda

Jul 20, 2024, 2:20 AM

61 points

21 votes

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0 comments4 min readLW link

Krona Compare

jefftkJul 20, 2024, 1:10 AM

10 points

2 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

(Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents

johnswentworth and David Lorell

Jul 19, 2024, 11:02 PM

45 points

16 votes

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1 comment4 min readLW link

Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions

Lidor Banuel Dabbah and Aviel Boag

Jul 19, 2024, 8:32 PM

59 points

21 votes

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6 comments16 min readLW link

JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, nps29, Arthur Conmy, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár and Neel Nanda

Jul 19, 2024, 4:10 PM

55 points

21 votes

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10 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Truth is Universal: Robust Detection of Lies in LLMs

Lennart BuergerJul 19, 2024, 2:07 PM

24 points

13 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sustainability of Digital Life Form Societies

Hiroshi YamakawaJul 19, 2024, 1:59 PM

19 points

5 votes

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1 comment20 min readLW link

Romae Industriae

Maxwell TabarrokJul 19, 2024, 1:03 PM

34 points

19 votes

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2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Have people given up on iterated distillation and amplification?

Chris_LeongJul 19, 2024, 12:23 PM

20 points

9 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

How do we know that “good research” is good? (aka “direct evaluation” vs “eigen-evaluation”)

RubyJul 19, 2024, 12:31 AM

49 points

17 votes

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21 comments6 min readLW link

Linkpost: Surely you can be serious

kaveJul 18, 2024, 10:18 PM

62 points

34 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.experimental-history.com)

My experience applying to MATS 6.0

micJul 18, 2024, 7:02 PM

18 points

9 votes

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3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are the actual arguments in favor of computationalism as a theory of identity?

sunwillriseJul 18, 2024, 6:44 PM

15 points

12 votes

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27 comments5 min readLW link

Yet Another Critique of “Luxury Beliefs”

ymeskhoutJul 18, 2024, 6:37 PM

6 points

17 votes

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10 comments9 min readLW link

(www.ymeskhout.com)

[Interim research report] Evaluating the Goal-Directedness of Language Models

Rauno Arike, Elizabeth Donoway and Marius Hobbhahn

Jul 18, 2024, 6:19 PM

40 points

12 votes

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4 comments11 min readLW link

Interpretability in Action: Exploratory Analysis of VPT, a Minecraft Agent

Karolis Jucys, george_adams and Sonia Joseph

Jul 18, 2024, 5:02 PM

9 points

8 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Activation Engineering Theories of Impact

kubaneticsJul 18, 2024, 4:44 PM

6 points

5 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Me & My Clone

SimonBaarsJul 18, 2024, 4:25 PM

27 points

18 votes

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22 comments1 min readLW link

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