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Some Theses on Motivational and Directional Feedback

abstractapplic2 Feb 2025 22:50 UTC

10 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Humanity Has A Possible 99.98% Chance Of Extinction

st3rlxx2 Feb 2025 21:46 UTC

−12 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Exploring how OthelloGPT computes its world model

JMaar2 Feb 2025 21:29 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

An Introduction to Evidential Decision Theory

Babić2 Feb 2025 21:27 UTC

5 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

“DL training == human learning” is a bad analogy

kman2 Feb 2025 20:59 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Conditional Importance in Toy Models of Superposition

james__p2 Feb 2025 20:35 UTC

9 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

Tracing Typos in LLMs: My Attempt at Understanding How Models Correct Misspellings

Ivan Dostal2 Feb 2025 19:56 UTC

11 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

The Simplest Good

Jesse Hoogland2 Feb 2025 19:51 UTC

76 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

Gradual Disempowerment, Shell Games and Flinches

Jan_Kulveit2 Feb 2025 14:47 UTC

146 points

36 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts on Toy Models of Superposition

james__p2 Feb 2025 13:52 UTC

5 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

Escape from Alderaan I

lsusr2 Feb 2025 10:48 UTC

62 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

ChatGPT: Exploring the Digital Wilderness, Findings and Prospects

Bill Benzon2 Feb 2025 9:54 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Would anyone be interested in pursuing the Virtue of Scholarship with me?

japancolorado2 Feb 2025 4:02 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Chinese room AI to survive the inescapable end of compute governance

rotatingpaguro2 Feb 2025 2:42 UTC

−4 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

Seasonal Patterns in BIDA’s Attendance

jefftk2 Feb 2025 2:40 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

AI acceleration, DeepSeek, moral philosophy

Josh H2 Feb 2025 0:08 UTC

2 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Falsehoods you might believe about people who are at a rationalist meetup

Screwtape1 Feb 2025 23:32 UTC

70 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Interpreting autonomous driving agents with attention based architecture

Manav Dahra1 Feb 2025 23:20 UTC

1 point

0 comments11 min readLW link

Rationalist Movie Reviews

Nicholas Kross1 Feb 2025 23:10 UTC

16 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Retroactive If-Then Commitments

MichaelDickens1 Feb 2025 22:22 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Exploring the coherence of features explanations in the GemmaScope

Mattia Proietti1 Feb 2025 21:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments19 min readLW link

Machine Unlearning in Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey with Empirical Insights from the Qwen 1.5 1.8B Model

Rudaiba1 Feb 2025 21:26 UTC

9 points

2 comments11 min readLW link

Towards a Science of Evals for Sycophancy

andrejfsantos1 Feb 2025 21:17 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Post AGI effect prediction

Juliezhanggg1 Feb 2025 21:16 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Unlocking Ethical AI and Improving Jailbreak Defenses: Reinforcement Learning with Layered Morphology (RLLM)

MiguelDev1 Feb 2025 19:17 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Poetic Methods I: Meter as Communication Protocol

adamShimi1 Feb 2025 18:22 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

Blackpool Applied Rationality Unconference 2025

Henry Prowbell and emily.fan

1 Feb 2025 14:09 UTC

6 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] How likely is an attempted coup in the United States in the next four years?

Alexander de Vries1 Feb 2025 13:12 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Blackpool Applied Rationality Unconference 2025

Henry Prowbell and emily.fan

1 Feb 2025 13:04 UTC

23 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

One-dimensional vs multi-dimensional features in interpretability

charlieoneill1 Feb 2025 9:10 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Can 7B-8B LLMs judge their own homework?

dereshev1 Feb 2025 8:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments4 min readLW link

2024 was the year of the big battery, and what that means for solar power

transhumanist_atom_understander1 Feb 2025 6:27 UTC

36 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Re: Taste

lsusr1 Feb 2025 3:34 UTC

35 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Thoughts about Policy Ecosystems: The Missing Links in AI Governance

Echo Huang1 Feb 2025 1:54 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readLW link

Proposal: Safeguarding Against Jailbreaking Through Iterative Multi-Turn Testing

jacquesallen31 Jan 2025 23:00 UTC

4 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers

Ben Pace31 Jan 2025 18:56 UTC

143 points

77 comments5 min readLW link

(www.palladiummag.com)

Safe Search is off: root causes of AI catastrophic risks

Jemal Young31 Jan 2025 18:22 UTC

4 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

5,000 calories of peanut butter every week for 3 years straight

Declan Molony31 Jan 2025 17:29 UTC

18 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Will alignment-faking Claude accept a deal to reveal its misalignment?

ryan_greenblatt and Kyle Fish

31 Jan 2025 16:49 UTC

208 points

28 comments12 min readLW link

Some articles in “International Security” that I enjoyed

Buck31 Jan 2025 16:23 UTC

134 points

10 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do biological or spiking neural networks learn?

Dom Polsinelli31 Jan 2025 16:03 UTC

2 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Defense Against the Dark Prompts: Mitigating Best-of-N Jailbreaking with Prompt Evaluation

Stuart_Armstrong and rgorman

31 Jan 2025 15:36 UTC

16 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Strong, Stable, Open: Choose Two—in search of an article

Eli_31 Jan 2025 14:48 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

DeepSeek: Don’t Panic

Zvi31 Jan 2025 14:20 UTC

45 points

6 comments27 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Catastrophe through Chaos

Marius Hobbhahn31 Jan 2025 14:19 UTC

191 points

17 comments12 min readLW link

Interviews with Moonshot AI’s CEO, Yang Zhilin

Cosmia_Nebula31 Jan 2025 9:19 UTC

4 points

0 comments68 min readLW link

(rentry.co)

Review: The Lathe of Heaven

dr_s31 Jan 2025 8:10 UTC

25 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

[Question] Is weak-to-strong generalization an alignment technique?

cloud31 Jan 2025 7:13 UTC

22 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Takeaways from sketching a control safety case

joshc31 Jan 2025 4:43 UTC

28 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(redwoodresearch.substack.com)

Thread for Sense-Making on Recent Murders and How to Sanely Respond

Ben Pace31 Jan 2025 3:45 UTC

109 points

146 comments2 min readLW link