Do mod­els know when they are be­ing eval­u­ated?

17 Feb 2025 23:13 UTC
57 points
9 comments12 min readLW link

AGI Safety & Align­ment @ Google Deep­Mind is hiring

Rohin Shah17 Feb 2025 21:11 UTC
102 points
19 comments10 min readLW link

The Peeperi (un­finished) - By Katja Grace

Nathan Young17 Feb 2025 19:33 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

Progress links and short notes, 2025-02-17

jasoncrawford17 Feb 2025 19:18 UTC
8 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

Claude 3.5 Son­net (New)’s AGI scenario

Nathan Young17 Feb 2025 18:47 UTC
5 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Talk­ing to lay­men about AI de­vel­op­ment

David Steel17 Feb 2025 18:42 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

On the Re­birth of Aris­toc­racy in the Amer­i­can Regime

shawkisukkar17 Feb 2025 16:18 UTC
−16 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(shawkisukkar.substack.com)

Ascetic hedonism

dkl917 Feb 2025 15:56 UTC
15 points
9 comments2 min readLW link
(dkl9.net)

AIS Ber­lin, events, op­por­tu­ni­ties and the flipped game­board—Field­builders Newslet­ter, Fe­bru­ary 2025

17 Feb 2025 14:16 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #27: Fe­bru­ary 2025

Zvi17 Feb 2025 14:10 UTC
27 points
3 comments44 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What new x- or s-risk field­build­ing or­gani­sa­tions would you like to see? An EOI form. (FBB #3)

gergogaspar17 Feb 2025 12:39 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

A His­tory of the Fu­ture, 2025-2040

L Rudolf L17 Feb 2025 12:03 UTC
238 points
42 comments75 min readLW link
(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Ther­mo­dy­namic en­tropy = Kol­mogorov complexity

Aram Ebtekar17 Feb 2025 5:56 UTC
76 points
14 comments1 min readLW link
(doi.org)

THE ARCHIVE

Jason Reid17 Feb 2025 1:12 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] What are the sur­viv­ing wor­lds like?

KvmanThinking17 Feb 2025 0:41 UTC
21 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

arch-an­ar­chist read­ing list

Peter lawless 16 Feb 2025 22:47 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Cy­berE­con­omy. The Limits to Growth

16 Feb 2025 21:02 UTC
−3 points
0 comments23 min readLW link

Co­op­er­a­tion for AI safety must tran­scend geopoli­ti­cal interference

Matrice Jacobine16 Feb 2025 18:18 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.scmp.com)

[Question] Pro­gram­ming Lan­guage Early Fund­ing?

J Thomas Moros16 Feb 2025 17:34 UTC
2 points
6 comments3 min readLW link

[Closed] Gaug­ing In­ter­est for a Learn­ing-The­o­retic Agenda Men­tor­ship Programme

Vanessa Kosoy16 Feb 2025 16:24 UTC
54 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

Celtic Knots on Ein­stein Lattice

Ben16 Feb 2025 15:56 UTC
47 points
11 comments2 min readLW link

It’s been ten years. I pro­pose HPMOR An­niver­sary Par­ties.

Screwtape16 Feb 2025 1:43 UTC
153 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Come join Dove­tail’s agent foun­da­tions fel­low­ship talks & discussion

Alex_Altair15 Feb 2025 22:10 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tify­ing the Qual­i­ta­tive: Towards a Bayesian Ap­proach to Per­sonal Insight

Pruthvi Kumar15 Feb 2025 19:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

Knit­ting a Sweater in a Burn­ing House

CrimsonChin15 Feb 2025 19:50 UTC
27 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Microplas­tics: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

15 Feb 2025 19:08 UTC
82 points
8 comments13 min readLW link

Prefer­ence for un­cer­tainty and im­pact over­es­ti­ma­tion bias in al­tru­is­tic sys­tems.

Luck15 Feb 2025 12:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ar­tifi­cial Static Place In­tel­li­gence: Guaran­teed Alignment

ank15 Feb 2025 11:08 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

The cur­rent AI strate­gic land­scape: one bear’s perspective

Matrice Jacobine15 Feb 2025 9:49 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

6 (Po­ten­tial) Mis­con­cep­tions about AI Intellectuals

ozziegooen14 Feb 2025 23:51 UTC
18 points
11 comments12 min readLW link

[Question] Should Open Philan­thropy Make an Offer to Buy OpenAI?

peterr14 Feb 2025 23:18 UTC
25 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A com­pu­ta­tional no-co­in­ci­dence principle

Eric Neyman14 Feb 2025 21:39 UTC
148 points
39 comments6 min readLW link
(www.alignment.org)

Hope­ful hy­poth­e­sis, the Per­sona Juke­box.

Donald Hobson14 Feb 2025 19:24 UTC
11 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­tion to Ex­pected Value Fanaticism

Petra Kosonen14 Feb 2025 19:05 UTC
9 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(utilitarianism.net)

In­trin­sic Di­men­sion of Prompts in LLMs

Karthik Viswanathan14 Feb 2025 19:02 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Ob­jec­tive Real­ism: A Per­spec­tive Beyond Hu­man Constructs

Apatheos14 Feb 2025 19:02 UTC
−12 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

A short course on AGI safety from the GDM Align­ment team

14 Feb 2025 15:43 UTC
104 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(deepmindsafetyresearch.medium.com)

The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales

Zvi14 Feb 2025 15:30 UTC
81 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Celtic Knots on a hex lattice

Ben14 Feb 2025 14:29 UTC
27 points
10 comments2 min readLW link

Bi­modal AI Beliefs

Adam Train14 Feb 2025 6:45 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

What is a cir­cuit? [in in­ter­pretabil­ity]

Yudhister Kumar14 Feb 2025 4:40 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Sys­tem­atic Sand­bag­ging Eval­u­a­tions on Claude 3.5 Sonnet

farrelmahaztra14 Feb 2025 1:22 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(farrelmahaztra.com)

Para­noia, Cog­ni­tive Bi­ases, and Catas­trophic Thought Pat­terns.

Spiritus Dei14 Feb 2025 0:13 UTC
−4 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Notes on the Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion of 1836

Arjun Panickssery13 Feb 2025 23:40 UTC
23 points
0 comments7 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Static Place AI Makes Agen­tic AI Re­dun­dant: Mul­tiver­sal AI Align­ment & Ra­tional Utopia

ank13 Feb 2025 22:35 UTC
1 point
2 comments11 min readLW link

I’m mak­ing a ttrpg about life in an in­ten­tional com­mu­nity dur­ing the last year be­fore the Sin­gu­lar­ity

bgaesop13 Feb 2025 21:54 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

SWE Au­toma­tion Is Com­ing: Con­sider Sel­ling Your Crypto

A_donor13 Feb 2025 20:17 UTC
12 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

≤10-year Timelines Re­main Un­likely De­spite Deep­Seek and o3

Rafael Harth13 Feb 2025 19:21 UTC
52 points
67 comments15 min readLW link

Sys­tem 2 Alignment

Seth Herd13 Feb 2025 19:17 UTC
35 points
0 comments22 min readLW link

Mur­der plots are infohazards

Chris Monteiro13 Feb 2025 19:15 UTC
311 points
44 comments2 min readLW link