LawrenceC(Lawrence Chan)

Karma: 4,820

I do AI Alignment research. Currently independent, but previously at: METR, Redwood, UC Berkeley, Good Judgment Project.

I’m also a part-time fund manager for the LTFF.

Obligatory research billboard website: https://chanlawrence.me/

Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop Happening at ICML 2024!

Neel Nanda, LawrenceC and Fazl

3 May 2024 1:18 UTC

47 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Superposition is not “just” neuron polysemanticity

LawrenceC26 Apr 2024 23:22 UTC

52 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Anthropic release Claude 3, claims >GPT-4 Performance

LawrenceC4 Mar 2024 18:23 UTC

114 points

40 comments2 min readLW link

(www.anthropic.com)

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

LawrenceC17 Nov 2023 20:42 UTC

192 points

75 comments1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Open Phil releases RFPs on LLM Benchmarks and Forecasting

LawrenceC11 Nov 2023 3:01 UTC

53 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

LawrenceC5 Sep 2023 19:19 UTC

212 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)

Linch, calebp99, abergal, habryka, Thomas Larsen, LawrenceC and Lauro Langosco

31 Aug 2023 0:28 UTC

33 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Meta announces Llama 2; “open sources” it for commercial use

LawrenceC18 Jul 2023 19:28 UTC

46 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(about.fb.com)

Should we publish mechanistic interpretability research?

Marius Hobbhahn and LawrenceC

21 Apr 2023 16:19 UTC

105 points

40 comments13 min readLW link

[Appendix] Natural Abstractions: Key Claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Erik Jenner and Leon Lang

16 Mar 2023 16:38 UTC

46 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Natural Abstractions: Key claims, Theorems, and Critiques

LawrenceC, Leon Lang and Erik Jenner

16 Mar 2023 16:37 UTC

206 points

20 comments45 min readLW link

Sam Altman: “Planning for AGI and beyond”

LawrenceC24 Feb 2023 20:28 UTC

104 points

54 comments6 min readLW link

(openai.com)

Meta “open sources” LMs competitive with Chinchilla, PaLM, and code-davinci-002 (Paper)

LawrenceC24 Feb 2023 19:57 UTC

38 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(research.facebook.com)

Behavioral and mechanistic definitions (often confuse AI alignment discussions)

LawrenceC20 Feb 2023 21:33 UTC

33 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

Paper: The Capacity for Moral Self-Correction in Large Language Models (Anthropic)

LawrenceC16 Feb 2023 19:47 UTC

65 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

GPT-175bee

Adam Scherlis and LawrenceC

8 Feb 2023 18:58 UTC

119 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

OpenAI/Microsoft announce “next generation language model” integrated into Bing/Edge

LawrenceC7 Feb 2023 20:38 UTC

79 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(blogs.microsoft.com)

Evaluations (of new AI Safety researchers) can be noisy

LawrenceC5 Feb 2023 4:15 UTC

130 points

10 comments16 min readLW link

The Alignment Problem from a Deep Learning Perspective (major rewrite)

SoerenMind, Richard_Ngo and LawrenceC

10 Jan 2023 16:06 UTC

83 points

8 comments39 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Paper: Superposition, Memorization, and Double Descent (Anthropic)

LawrenceC5 Jan 2023 17:54 UTC

53 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(transformer-circuits.pub)