25 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Epoch is hiring an ML Distributed Systems Senior Researcher

merilalama and Jaime Sevilla Molina

24 Nov 2023 22:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

Article Discussion And Free Pizza—St Paul

25Hour24 Nov 2023 21:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why focus on schemers in particular (Sections 1.3 and 1.4 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith24 Nov 2023 19:18 UTC

8 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

Surviving and Shaping Long-Term Competitions: Lessons from Net Assessment

Gentzel and ihavenoahidea

24 Nov 2023 18:18 UTC

5 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense

So8res24 Nov 2023 17:37 UTC

195 points

84 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

The Limitations of GPT-4

p.b.24 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC

27 points

12 comments4 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-11-24: Bottlenecks of aging, Starship launches, and much more

jasoncrawford24 Nov 2023 15:25 UTC

40 points

1 comment14 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What’s the evidence that LLMs will scale up efficiently beyond GPT4? i.e. couldn’t GPT5, etc., be very inefficient?

M. Y. Zuo24 Nov 2023 15:22 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Sapience, understanding, and “AGI”

Seth Herd24 Nov 2023 15:13 UTC

15 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Insulate your ideas

Logan Kieller24 Nov 2023 14:08 UTC

18 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Bordeaux, Gironde, France – irregular ACX Meetup 2023-12-09

vi21maobk9vp24 Nov 2023 11:17 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Question] A Question For People Who Believe In God

yanni kyriacos24 Nov 2023 5:22 UTC

3 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] First and Last Questions for GPT-5*

Mitchell_Porter24 Nov 2023 5:03 UTC

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

4. A Moral Case for Evolved-Sapience-Chauvinism

RogerDearnaley24 Nov 2023 4:56 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Detecting What’s Been Seen

jefftk24 Nov 2023 3:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Help to find a blog I don’t remember the name of

JavierCC23 Nov 2023 22:49 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What did you change your mind about in the last year?

mike_hawke23 Nov 2023 20:53 UTC

41 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

A few Superhuman examples of Superaligned Superintelligence from Google Bard (Thanksgiving 2023)

bionicles and bionalexhoward

23 Nov 2023 19:06 UTC

−9 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

Prepsgiving, A Convergently Instrumental Human Practice

JenniferRM23 Nov 2023 17:24 UTC

39 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

AI #39: The Week of OpenAI

Zvi23 Nov 2023 15:10 UTC

67 points

8 comments28 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

3. Uploading

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:39 UTC

21 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

2. AIs as Economic Agents

RogerDearnaley23 Nov 2023 7:07 UTC

9 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Thomas Kwa’s research journal

Thomas Kwa and Adrià Garriga-alonso

23 Nov 2023 5:11 UTC

79 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Never Drop A Ball

Screwtape23 Nov 2023 4:15 UTC

62 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Possible OpenAI’s Q* breakthrough and DeepMind’s AlphaGo-type systems plus LLMs

Burny23 Nov 2023 3:16 UTC

37 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

Boston Secular Solstice: Call for Singers and Musicans

jefftk23 Nov 2023 2:40 UTC

16 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

My Mental Model of Infohazards

MadHatter23 Nov 2023 2:37 UTC

8 points

34 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Saturating the Difficulty Levels of Alignment

Johannes C. Mayer23 Nov 2023 0:39 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Sacramento LW/ACX Meetup

mcint22 Nov 2023 23:52 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI was precipitated by letter to board about AI breakthrough—Reuters

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 23:17 UTC

18 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Foresight Institute: 2023 Progress & 2024 Plans for funding beneficial technology development

Allison Duettmann22 Nov 2023 22:09 UTC

24 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

AISC project: TinyEvals

Jett Janiak22 Nov 2023 20:47 UTC

22 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

The proposal to add a ``Last Judge″ to an AI, does not remove the urgency, of making progress on the ``what alignment target should be aimed at?″ question.

ThomasCederborg22 Nov 2023 18:59 UTC

1 point

0 comments18 min readLW link

Neither Copernicus, Galileo, nor Kepler had proof

Meow P22 Nov 2023 18:41 UTC

4 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cricetuscricetus.co.uk)

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board

Zvi22 Nov 2023 17:30 UTC

281 points

83 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Altman returns as OpenAI CEO with new board

Seth Herd22 Nov 2023 16:04 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A taxonomy of non-schemer models (Section 1.2 of “Scheming AIs”)

Joe Carlsmith22 Nov 2023 15:24 UTC

13 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

AI debate: test yourself against chess ‘AIs’

Richard Willis22 Nov 2023 14:58 UTC

26 points

35 comments4 min readLW link

Public Call for Interest in Mathematical Alignment

Davidmanheim22 Nov 2023 13:22 UTC

89 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

How “Pinky Promise” diplomacy once stopped a war in the Middle East

positivesum22 Nov 2023 12:03 UTC

15 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

(tryingtruly.substack.com)

Alignment, conflict, powerseeking

Oliver Sourbut22 Nov 2023 9:47 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

[Bias] Restricting freedom is more harmful than it seems

lsusr22 Nov 2023 9:44 UTC

17 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Portable Chargers are Great

jefftk22 Nov 2023 2:50 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Atlantis: Berkeley event venue available for rent

Jonas V22 Nov 2023 1:47 UTC

45 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How much should e-signatures have to cost a country?

FlorianH21 Nov 2023 22:45 UTC

5 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

My first conversation with Annie Altman

Remmelt21 Nov 2023 21:58 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(open.spotify.com)

Userscript to always show LW comments in context vs at the top

Vlad Sitalo21 Nov 2023 17:53 UTC

44 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Dialogue on the Claim: “OpenAI’s Firing of Sam Altman (And Shortly-Subsequent Events) On Net Reduced Existential Risk From AGI”

johnswentworth and Ruby

21 Nov 2023 17:39 UTC

73 points

84 comments11 min readLW link

AI Alignment [progress] this Week (11/19/2023)

Logan Zoellner21 Nov 2023 16:09 UTC

17 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(midwitalignment.substack.com)