Furry Ra­tion­al­ists & Effec­tive An­thro­po­mor­phism both exist

agentydragonOct 25, 2022, 3:37 AM
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Build­ing a trans­former from scratch—AI safety up-skil­ling challenge

Marius HobbhahnOct 12, 2022, 3:40 PM
42 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Depen­dency Tree For The Devel­op­ment Of Plate Tectonics

ElizabethOct 5, 2022, 10:40 PM
41 points
3 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Quick notes on “mir­ror neu­rons”

Steven ByrnesOct 4, 2022, 5:39 PM
39 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

When re­port­ing AI timelines, be clear who you’re defer­ring to

Sam ClarkeOct 10, 2022, 2:24 PM
38 points
6 commentsLW link

Con­sider try­ing Vivek Heb­bar’s al­ign­ment exercises

Orpheus16Oct 24, 2022, 7:46 PM
38 points
1 comment4 min readLW link

AI Re­search Pro­gram Pre­dic­tion Markets

tailcalledOct 20, 2022, 1:42 PM
38 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Weekly Roundup #2

ZviOct 21, 2022, 12:10 PM
37 points
2 comments11 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Deep­fake(?) Phishing

jefftkOct 21, 2022, 2:30 PM
37 points
9 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Should we push for re­quiring AI train­ing data to be li­censed?

ChristianKlOct 19, 2022, 5:49 PM
37 points
32 comments1 min readLW link

AI re­searchers an­nounce Neu­roAI agenda

Cameron BergOct 24, 2022, 12:14 AM
37 points
12 comments6 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Covid 10/​6/​22: Over­re­ac­tions Aplenty

ZviOct 6, 2022, 7:10 PM
37 points
18 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Science of Deep Learn­ing—a tech­ni­cal agenda

Marius HobbhahnOct 18, 2022, 2:54 PM
37 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Another prob­lem with AI con­fine­ment: or­di­nary CPUs can work as ra­dio transmitters

RomanSOct 14, 2022, 8:28 AM
36 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(news.softpedia.com)

Sleep Training

jefftkOct 5, 2022, 2:10 AM
36 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Prizes for ML Safety Bench­mark Ideas

joshcOct 28, 2022, 2:51 AM
36 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Why So Many Cookie Ban­ners?

jefftkOct 10, 2022, 2:20 AM
35 points
28 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Is GitHub Copi­lot in le­gal trou­ble?

tcelferactOct 18, 2022, 4:19 PM
35 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

How are you deal­ing with on­tol­ogy iden­ti­fi­ca­tion?

Erik JennerOct 4, 2022, 11:28 PM
34 points
10 comments3 min readLW link

What will the scaled up GATO look like? (Up­dated with ques­tions)

Amal Oct 25, 2022, 12:44 PM
34 points
22 comments1 min readLW link

Re­search Depri­ori­tiz­ing Ex­ter­nal Communication

jefftkOct 6, 2022, 12:20 PM
34 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Nat­u­ral Cat­e­gories Update

Logan ZoellnerOct 10, 2022, 3:19 PM
33 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

In­stru­men­tal con­ver­gence in sin­gle-agent systems

Oct 12, 2022, 12:24 PM
33 points
4 comments8 min readLW link
(www.gladstone.ai)

Covid 10/​27/​22: Another Ori­gin Story

ZviOct 27, 2022, 1:40 PM
32 points
1 comment13 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Iver­mectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know

George3d6Oct 3, 2022, 3:02 PM
31 points
10 comments1 min readLW link
(doyourownresearch.substack.com)

Ad­ver­sar­ial vs Col­lab­o­ra­tive Contexts

jefftkOct 4, 2022, 2:40 AM
31 points
4 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] De­liber­ate prac­tice for re­search?

Alex_AltairOct 8, 2022, 3:45 AM
30 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is good Cy­ber Se­cu­rity Ad­vice?

Gunnar_ZarnckeOct 24, 2022, 11:27 PM
30 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Paper: In-con­text Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing with Al­gorithm Distil­la­tion [Deep­mind]

LawrenceCOct 26, 2022, 6:45 PM
29 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Con­sider Ap­ply­ing to the Fu­ture Fel­low­ship at MIT

jefftkOct 25, 2022, 3:40 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Co­op­er­a­tors are more pow­er­ful than agents

Ivan VendrovOct 21, 2022, 8:02 PM
29 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

POWER­play: An open-source toolchain to study AI power-seeking

Edouard HarrisOct 24, 2022, 8:03 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(github.com)

A game of mattering

KatjaGraceOct 12, 2022, 8:50 AM
28 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Covid 10/​13/​22: Just the Facts

ZviOct 13, 2022, 2:40 PM
28 points
7 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

From tech­noc­racy to the counterculture

jasoncrawfordOct 11, 2022, 7:37 PM
28 points
1 comment26 min readLW link
(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] Find­ing Great Tutors

Ulisse MiniOct 5, 2022, 10:08 PM
27 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Quan­tum Im­mor­tal­ity, foiled

BenOct 29, 2022, 11:00 AM
27 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How many GPUs does NVIDIA make?

leogaoOct 8, 2022, 5:54 PM
27 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[MLSN #6]: Trans­parency sur­vey, prov­able ro­bust­ness, ML mod­els that pre­dict the future

Dan HOct 12, 2022, 8:56 PM
27 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

Me (Steve Byrnes) on the “Brain In­spired” podcast

Steven ByrnesOct 30, 2022, 7:15 PM
26 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(braininspired.co)

GD’s Im­plicit Bias on Separable Data

Xander DaviesOct 17, 2022, 4:13 AM
25 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

Newslet­ter for Align­ment Re­search: The ML Safety Updates

Esben KranOct 22, 2022, 4:17 PM
25 points
0 commentsLW link

Au­di­tion to perform in Bay Sec­u­lar Solstice

mingyuanOct 18, 2022, 3:10 AM
25 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

I am a Me­moryless System

Nicholas / Heather KrossOct 23, 2022, 5:34 PM
25 points
2 comments9 min readLW link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Ve­hi­cle Pla­toon­ing—a real world ex­am­i­na­tion of the difficul­ties in coordination

M. Y. ZuoOct 13, 2022, 7:33 PM
24 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Pon­der­ing com­pu­ta­tion in the real world

Adam ShaiOct 28, 2022, 3:57 PM
24 points
13 comments5 min readLW link

Maps and Blueprint; the Two Sides of the Align­ment Equation

Nora_Ammann25 Oct 2022 16:29 UTC
24 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

AI Safety Ideas: An Open AI Safety Re­search Platform

Esben Kran17 Oct 2022 17:01 UTC
24 points
0 commentsLW link

Notes on Notes on the Syn­the­sis of Form

Vaniver6 Oct 2022 2:36 UTC
24 points
0 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] Does biol­ogy re­li­ably find the global max­i­mum, or at least get close?

Noosphere8910 Oct 2022 20:55 UTC
24 points
71 comments1 min readLW link