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Lifelogging for Alignment & Immortality

Dev.ErrataAug 17, 2024, 11:42 PM

13 points

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3 comments7 min readLW link

Playing Minecraft with a Superintelligence

Johannes C. MayerAug 17, 2024, 10:47 PM

3 points

10 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Does “Momentism” via Eternal Inflation dominate Longtermism in expectation?

Jordan ArelAug 17, 2024, 10:28 PM

8 points

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1 comment4 min readLW link

The causal backbone conjecture

tailcalledAug 17, 2024, 6:50 PM

26 points

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0 comments2 min readLW link

I didn’t have to avoid you; I was just insecure

Chris LakinAug 17, 2024, 4:41 PM

37 points

21 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Please support this blog (with money)

ElizabethAug 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

113 points

45 votes

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3 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Release: Optimal Weave (P1): A Prototype Cohabitive Game

mako yassAug 17, 2024, 2:08 PM

82 points

30 votes

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21 comments7 min readLW link

New blog: Expedition to the Far Lands

Connor LeahyAug 17, 2024, 11:07 AM

29 points

15 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.ettf.land)

Rationalists are missing a core piece for agent-like structure (energy vs information overload)

tailcalledAug 17, 2024, 9:57 AM

61 points

23 votes

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9 comments4 min readLW link

Calendar feature geometry in GPT-2 layer 8 residual stream SAEs

Patrick Leask, Bart Bussmann and Neel Nanda

Aug 17, 2024, 1:16 AM

54 points

22 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] How unusual is the fact that there is no AI monopoly?

ViliamAug 16, 2024, 8:21 PM

32 points

11 votes

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15 comments1 min readLW link

The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations

garrisonAug 16, 2024, 7:37 PM

22 points

13 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Principled Satisficing To Avoid Goodhart

JenniferRMAug 16, 2024, 7:05 PM

45 points

16 votes

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2 comments8 min readLW link

Rewilding the Gut VS the Autoimmune Epidemic

GGDAug 16, 2024, 6:00 PM

51 points

20 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

The Bar for Contributing to AI Safety is Lower than You Think

Chris_LeongAug 16, 2024, 3:20 PM

20 points

22 votes

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1 comment2 min readLW link

Investigating the Chart of the Century: Why is food so expensive?

Maxwell TabarrokAug 16, 2024, 1:21 PM

125 points

56 votes

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26 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Music in the AI World

Martin SustrikAug 16, 2024, 4:20 AM

31 points

13 votes

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8 comments1 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

AGI’s Opposing Force

SimonBaarsAug 16, 2024, 4:18 AM

9 points

8 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Money Pump Arguments assume Memoryless Agents. Isn’t this Unrealistic?

DalcyAug 16, 2024, 4:16 AM

26 points

9 votes

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6 comments1 min readLW link

Recommended

blake8086Aug 16, 2024, 1:49 AM

2 points

4 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(blakehouseholder.substack.com)

Demis Hassabis — Google DeepMind: The Podcast

Zach Stein-PerlmanAug 16, 2024, 12:00 AM

55 points

20 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Danger, AI Scientist, Danger

ZviAug 15, 2024, 10:40 PM

107 points

74 votes

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9 comments7 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Linkpost] ‘The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery’

Bogdan Ionut CirsteaAug 15, 2024, 9:32 PM

20 points

8 votes

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1 comment1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

On power and its amplification

Ted SandersAug 15, 2024, 8:13 PM

0 points

7 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

The Overlooked Necessity of Complete Semantic Representation in AI Safety and Alignment

williamsaeAug 15, 2024, 7:42 PM

−1 points

2 votes

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0 comments3 min readLW link

My article in The Nation — California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry

garrisonAug 15, 2024, 7:25 PM

35 points

18 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.thenation.com)

Critique of ‘Many People Fear A.I. They Shouldn’t’ by David Brooks.

Axel AhlqvistAug 15, 2024, 6:38 PM

12 points

5 votes

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8 comments3 min readLW link

Primary Perceptive Systems

ChristianKlAug 15, 2024, 11:26 AM

14 points

7 votes

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2 comments3 min readLW link

Sequence overview: Welfare and moral weights

MichaelStJulesAug 15, 2024, 4:22 AM

7 points

2 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Funding for programs and events on global catastrophic risk, effective altruism, and other topics

abergal and reallyeli

Aug 14, 2024, 11:59 PM

9 points

5 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

Funding for work that builds capacity to address risks from transformative AI

abergal and reallyeli

Aug 14, 2024, 11:52 PM

16 points

7 votes

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0 comments5 min readLW link

GPT-2 Sometimes Fails at IOI

Ronak_MehtaAug 14, 2024, 11:24 PM

13 points

12 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

(ronakrm.github.io)

Toward a Human Hybrid Language for Enhanced Human-Machine Communication: Addressing the AI Alignment Problem

Andndn DheudndAug 14, 2024, 10:19 PM

−4 points

8 votes

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2 comments4 min readLW link

Adverse Selection by Life-Saving Charities

vaishnav92Aug 14, 2024, 8:46 PM

41 points

26 votes

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16 comments5 min readLW link

(www.everythingisatrolley.com)

The great Enigma in the sky: The universe as an encryption machine

Alex_ShleizerAug 14, 2024, 1:21 PM

4 points

12 votes

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1 comment8 min readLW link

An anti-inductive sequence

ViliamAug 14, 2024, 12:28 PM

37 points

15 votes

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10 comments3 min readLW link

Rabin’s Paradox

Charlie SteinerAug 14, 2024, 5:40 AM

19 points

27 votes

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41 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing the $200k EA Community Choice

Austin ChenAug 14, 2024, 12:39 AM

58 points

20 votes

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8 comments4 min readLW link

(manifund.substack.com)

Debate: Is it ethical to work at AI capabilities companies?

Ben Pace and LawrenceC

Aug 14, 2024, 12:18 AM

39 points

16 votes

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21 comments11 min readLW link

Fields that I reference when thinking about AI takeover prevention

BuckAug 13, 2024, 11:08 PM

145 points

57 votes

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16 comments10 min readLW link

(redwoodresearch.substack.com)

Ten counter-arguments that AI is (not) an existential risk (for now)

kwiat.devAug 13, 2024, 10:35 PM

20 points

14 votes

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5 comments8 min readLW link

Alignment from equivariance

hamishtodd1Aug 13, 2024, 9:09 PM

3 points

3 votes

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2 comments5 min readLW link

[LDSL#6] When is quantification needed, and when is it hard?

tailcalledAug 13, 2024, 8:39 PM

32 points

8 votes

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0 comments2 min readLW link

A computational complexity argument for many worlds

jessicataAug 13, 2024, 7:35 PM

32 points

16 votes

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15 comments5 min readLW link

(unstableontology.com)

The Consciousness Conundrum: Why We Can’t Dismiss Machine Sentience

SystematicApproachAug 13, 2024, 6:01 PM

−22 points

6 votes

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Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk

KatjaGrace and Nathan Young

Aug 13, 2024, 5:00 PM

118 points

48 votes

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42 comments7 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Eugenics And Reproduction Licenses FAQs: For the Common Good

Zero ContradictionsAug 13, 2024, 4:34 PM

−7 points

28 votes

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14 comments4 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Superintelligent AI is possible in the 2020s

HunterJayAug 13, 2024, 6:03 AM

41 points

22 votes

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3 comments12 min readLW link

Debate: Get a college degree?

Ben Pace and Saul Munn

Aug 12, 2024, 10:23 PM

42 points

18 votes

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14 comments21 min readLW link

Extracting SAE task features for in-context learning

Dmitrii Kharlapenko, neverix, Neel Nanda and Arthur Conmy

Aug 12, 2024, 8:34 PM

31 points

16 votes

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1 comment9 min readLW link

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