AI Safety at the Fron­tier: Paper High­lights, Au­gust ’24

gasteigerjo3 Sep 2024 19:17 UTC
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(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

The Check­list: What Suc­ceed­ing at AI Safety Will In­volve

Sam Bowman3 Sep 2024 18:18 UTC
151 points
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(sleepinyourhat.github.io)

Democ­racy be­yond majoritarianism

Arturo Macias3 Sep 2024 15:10 UTC
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On the UBI Paper

Zvi3 Sep 2024 14:50 UTC
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An Opinionated Look at In­fer­ence Rules

Gianluca Calcagni3 Sep 2024 13:32 UTC
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An­nounc­ing the PIBBSS Sym­po­sium ’24!

3 Sep 2024 11:19 UTC
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Re­duc­ing global AI com­pe­ti­tion through the Com­merce Con­trol List and Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a dual-pronged approach

Ben Smith3 Sep 2024 5:28 UTC
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How I got 4.2M YouTube views with­out mak­ing a sin­gle video

Closed Limelike Curves3 Sep 2024 3:52 UTC
405 points
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Duped: AI and the Mak­ing of a Global Suicide Cult

izzyness2 Sep 2024 18:51 UTC
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A gen­tle in­tro­duc­tion to sparse autoencoders

Nick Jiang2 Sep 2024 18:11 UTC
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What makes math prob­lems hard for re­in­force­ment learn­ing: a case study

Anibal, Bartek, Sergei, Shehper and Piotr2 Sep 2024 18:11 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Sur­vey: How Do Elite Chi­nese Stu­dents Feel About the Risks of AI?

Nick Corvino2 Sep 2024 18:11 UTC
141 points
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Data-driven dona­tions to help Democrats win fed­eral elec­tions: an update

Michael Cohn2 Sep 2024 16:32 UTC
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(perplexedguide.net)

[Question] What are the effec­tive util­i­tar­ian pros and cons of hav­ing chil­dren (in rich coun­tries)?

SpectrumDT2 Sep 2024 10:01 UTC
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My de­com­po­si­tion of the al­ign­ment problem

Daniel C2 Sep 2024 0:21 UTC
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DC Fore­cast­ing & Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets Meetup

David Glidden2 Sep 2024 0:00 UTC
1 point
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A primer on the next gen­er­a­tion of antibodies

Abhishaike Mahajan1 Sep 2024 22:37 UTC
25 points
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(www.owlposting.com)

[Question] Who looked into ex­treme nu­clear melt­downs?

Remmelt1 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC
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Re­dun­dant At­ten­tion Heads in Large Lan­guage Models For In Con­text Learning

skunnavakkam1 Sep 2024 20:08 UTC
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(skunnavakkam.github.io)

The Role of Trans­parency and Ex­plain­abil­ity in Re­spon­si­ble NLP

RAMEBC781 Sep 2024 20:08 UTC
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Book Re­view: What Even Is Gen­der?

Joey Marcellino1 Sep 2024 16:09 UTC
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Can a Bayesian Or­a­cle Prevent Harm from an Agent? (Ben­gio et al. 2024)

mattmacdermott1 Sep 2024 7:46 UTC
28 points
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(yoshuabengio.org)

Fore­cast­ing One-Shot Games

Raemon31 Aug 2024 23:10 UTC
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On epistemic autonomy

sanyer31 Aug 2024 18:50 UTC
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Epistemic states as a po­ten­tial be­nign prior

Tamsin Leake31 Aug 2024 18:26 UTC
31 points
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(carado.moe)

My Model of Epistemology

adamShimi31 Aug 2024 17:01 UTC
37 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Ver­ifi­ca­tion meth­ods for in­ter­na­tional AI agreements

Orpheus1631 Aug 2024 14:58 UTC
14 points
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(arxiv.org)

Fake Blog Posts as a Prob­lem Solv­ing Device

silentbob31 Aug 2024 9:22 UTC
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Ac­tu­ally Ra­tional & Kind Se­quences Read­ing Group

segfault 31 Aug 2024 4:21 UTC
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An­thropic is be­ing sued for copy­ing books to train Claude

Remmelt31 Aug 2024 2:57 UTC
20 points
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(fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)

Book re­view: On the Edge

PeterMcCluskey30 Aug 2024 22:18 UTC
39 points
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(bayesianinvestor.com)

Can Large Lan­guage Models effec­tively iden­tify cy­ber­se­cu­rity risks?

emile delcourt30 Aug 2024 20:20 UTC
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Sin­gu­lar learn­ing the­ory: exercises

Zach Furman30 Aug 2024 20:00 UTC
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AI for Bio: State Of The Field

sarahconstantin30 Aug 2024 18:00 UTC
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(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Multi-Tiered AI

Timothy Bruneau30 Aug 2024 17:46 UTC
1 point
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I uni­ver­sally try­ing to re­ject the Mind Pro­jec­tion Fal­lacy—consequences

YanLyutnev30 Aug 2024 17:42 UTC
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AIS ter­minol­ogy pro­posal: stan­dard­ize terms for prob­a­bil­ity ranges

eggsyntax30 Aug 2024 15:43 UTC
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[Question] Does a time-re­versible phys­i­cal law/​Cel­lu­lar Au­toma­ton always im­ply the First Law of Ther­mo­dy­nam­ics?

Noosphere8930 Aug 2024 15:12 UTC
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Prin­ci­ples for the AGI Race

William_S30 Aug 2024 14:29 UTC
248 points
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Con­gres­sional In­sider Trading

Maxwell Tabarrok30 Aug 2024 13:32 UTC
57 points
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(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Thoughts on pa­per “How Or­ganisms Come to Know the World: Fun­da­men­tal Limits on Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence”?

mikbp30 Aug 2024 9:04 UTC
2 points
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Are LLMs on the Path to AGI?

Davidmanheim30 Aug 2024 3:14 UTC
14 points
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Nurs­ing doubts

dynomight30 Aug 2024 2:25 UTC
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(dynomight.net)

Free Will and Dodg­ing Anvils: AIXI Off-Policy

Cole Wyeth29 Aug 2024 22:42 UTC
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Seat­tle USA—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

a7x29 Aug 2024 21:42 UTC
2 points
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Ran­cho Cu­ca­monga USA—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

Nelson James Horsley29 Aug 2024 19:18 UTC
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Reno USA—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

Daniel Gold29 Aug 2024 19:18 UTC
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Ta­marindo Costa Rica—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

timeless29 Aug 2024 18:44 UTC
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San­ti­ago Chile—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

Iñaki 29 Aug 2024 18:44 UTC
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Flo­ri­anópo­lis Brazil—ACX Mee­tups Every­where Fall 2024

Adiel29 Aug 2024 18:44 UTC
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