Why I am not an AI ex­tinc­tion cautionista

Shmi18 Jun 2023 21:28 UTC
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My im­pres­sion of sin­gu­lar learn­ing theory

Ege Erdil18 Jun 2023 15:34 UTC
47 points
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Ber­lin AI Align­ment Open Meetup July 2023

GuyP18 Jun 2023 14:13 UTC
1 point
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Alaska Trip

jefftk18 Jun 2023 13:40 UTC
18 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

UK Foun­da­tion Model Task Force—Ex­pres­sion of Interest

ojorgensen18 Jun 2023 9:43 UTC
64 points
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(twitter.com)

Cry­on­ics Ca­reer Sur­vey (more jobs than you think)

Mati_Roy18 Jun 2023 2:13 UTC
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Solomonoff in­duc­tion still works if the uni­verse is un­com­putable, and its use­ful­ness doesn’t re­quire know­ing Oc­cam’s razor

Christopher King18 Jun 2023 1:52 UTC
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DSLT 2. Why Neu­ral Net­works obey Oc­cam’s Razor

Liam Carroll18 Jun 2023 0:23 UTC
22 points
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The foun­da­tions of knowl­edge.

archeon18 Jun 2023 0:05 UTC
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A few more ants and grasshoppers

c.trout17 Jun 2023 23:38 UTC
16 points
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The “Loss Func­tion of Real­ity” Is Not So Spiky and Unpredictable

Thoth Hermes17 Jun 2023 21:43 UTC
12 points
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(thothhermes.substack.com)

[Question] What is the foun­da­tion of me ex­pe­rienc­ing the pre­sent mo­ment be­ing right now and not at some other point in time?

MvB17 Jun 2023 20:47 UTC
20 points
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Ad­ven­tist Health Study-2 sup­ports pesc­etar­i­anism more than veganism

Elizabeth17 Jun 2023 20:10 UTC
67 points
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(acesounderglass.com)

The en­vi­ron­ment as infrastructure

jasoncrawford17 Jun 2023 18:42 UTC
28 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

A sum­mary of cur­rent work in AI governance

constructive17 Jun 2023 18:41 UTC
44 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Linkpost] Rosetta Neu­rons: Min­ing the Com­mon Units in a Model Zoo

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea17 Jun 2023 16:38 UTC
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Par­tial Si­mu­la­tion Ex­trap­o­la­tion: A Pro­posal for Build­ing Safer Simulators

lukemarks17 Jun 2023 13:55 UTC
16 points
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Alewife Train is Now Arriving

jefftk17 Jun 2023 13:20 UTC
21 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] What frac­tion of words writ­ten/​read are AI-writ­ten?

Mati_Roy17 Jun 2023 13:15 UTC
8 points
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Are Bayesian meth­ods guaran­teed to overfit?

Ege Erdil17 Jun 2023 12:52 UTC
52 points
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(www.yulingyao.com)

The AI gov­er­nance gaps in de­vel­op­ing countries

ntran17 Jun 2023 2:50 UTC
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June and Mulberries

jefftk17 Jun 2023 1:30 UTC
13 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Up­dat­ing Drexler’s CAIS model

Matthew Barnett16 Jun 2023 22:53 UTC
47 points
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Avoid­ing meta­physics means giv­ing bad philos­o­phy a free pass

Aditya16 Jun 2023 20:54 UTC
5 points
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Crit­i­cism of Eliezer’s ir­ra­tional moral beliefs

Jorterder16 Jun 2023 20:47 UTC
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Car­tog­ra­phy, blow­ing one’s mind, the illu­sion of sep­a­ra­tion and other gen­eral musings

Neil 16 Jun 2023 19:19 UTC
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[Repli­ca­tion] Con­jec­ture’s Sparse Cod­ing in Small Transformers

16 Jun 2023 18:02 UTC
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Longevity: Dou­ble Hu­man Lifes­pan in the Next Decade?

Jannik Schg16 Jun 2023 17:51 UTC
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LLMs Some­times Gen­er­ate Purely Nega­tively-Re­in­forced Text

Fabien Roger16 Jun 2023 16:31 UTC
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Palan­tir’s AI models

ChristianKl16 Jun 2023 16:20 UTC
26 points
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(www.palantir.com)

[Linkpost] Faith and Fate: Limits of Trans­form­ers on Compositionality

Joe Kwon16 Jun 2023 15:04 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

The ones who endure

Richard_Ngo16 Jun 2023 14:40 UTC
61 points
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(www.thinkingcomplete.com)

Con­jec­ture: A stand­ing offer for pub­lic de­bates on AI

Andrea_Miotti16 Jun 2023 14:33 UTC
29 points
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(www.conjecture.dev)

Ex­plain­ing “Tak­ing fea­tures out of su­per­po­si­tion with sparse au­toen­coders”

Robert_AIZI16 Jun 2023 13:59 UTC
10 points
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(aizi.substack.com)

[Question] How not to write the Cook­book of Doom?

brunoparga16 Jun 2023 13:37 UTC
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Scaf­folded LLMs: Less Ob­vi­ous Concerns

Stephen Fowler16 Jun 2023 10:39 UTC
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Mo­ti­va­tion in AI

nickasaf16 Jun 2023 9:50 UTC
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DSLT 0. Distill­ing Sin­gu­lar Learn­ing Theory

Liam Carroll16 Jun 2023 9:50 UTC
76 points
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DSLT 1. The RLCT Mea­sures the Effec­tive Di­men­sion of Neu­ral Networks

Liam Carroll16 Jun 2023 9:50 UTC
51 points
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[Linkpost] Map­ping Brains with Lan­guage Models: A Survey

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea16 Jun 2023 9:49 UTC
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Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions is look­ing for an AI Safety scriptwriter, a lead com­mu­nity man­ager, and other roles.

Writer16 Jun 2023 9:41 UTC
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[Question] Does any­one’s full-time job in­clude read­ing and un­der­stand­ing all the most-promis­ing for­mal AI al­ign­ment work?

Nicholas / Heather Kross16 Jun 2023 2:24 UTC
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Level­ing Up Or Level­ing Off? Un­der­stand­ing The Science Be­hind Skill Plateaus

lynettebye16 Jun 2023 0:18 UTC
45 points
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hu­man in­tel­li­gence may be al­ign­ment-limited

bhauth15 Jun 2023 22:32 UTC
16 points
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Devel­op­ing a tech­nol­ogy with safety in mind: Les­sons from the Wright Brothers

jasoncrawford15 Jun 2023 21:08 UTC
30 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

AXRP Epi­sode 22 - Shard The­ory with Quintin Pope

DanielFilan15 Jun 2023 19:00 UTC
52 points
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Can we ac­cel­er­ate hu­man progress? Moder­ated Con­ver­sa­tion in NYC

Jannik Schg15 Jun 2023 17:33 UTC
1 point
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Group Pri­ori­tar­i­anism: Why AI Should Not Re­place Hu­man­ity [draft]

fsh15 Jun 2023 17:33 UTC
8 points
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Press the hap­piness but­ton!

Spiarrow15 Jun 2023 17:30 UTC
5 points
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AI #16: AI in the UK

Zvi15 Jun 2023 13:20 UTC
46 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)