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How to decide under low-stakes uncertainty

dkl911 Aug 2023 18:07 UTC

11 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

The Pandemic is Only Beginning: The Long COVID Disaster

salvatore mattera11 Aug 2023 17:36 UTC

−6 points

15 comments8 min readLW link

When discussing AI risks, talk about capabilities, not intelligence

Vika11 Aug 2023 13:38 UTC

116 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(vkrakovna.wordpress.com)

What are the flaws in this AGI argument?

William the Kiwi 11 Aug 2023 11:31 UTC

5 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Google DeepMind’s RT-2

SandXbox11 Aug 2023 11:26 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(robotics-transformer2.github.io)

Linkpost: We need another Expert Survey on Progress in AI, urgently

David Mears11 Aug 2023 8:22 UTC

25 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

What Does a Marginal Grant at LTFF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking Thresholds at the Long-Term Future Fund

Linch, calebp99 and Daniel_Eth

11 Aug 2023 3:59 UTC

64 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] Will posting any thread on LW guarantee that a LLM will index all my content, and if questions people ask to the LLM after my name will surface up all my LW content?

Alex K. Chen (parrot)11 Aug 2023 1:40 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AI Safety Concepts Writeup: WebGPT

JustisMills11 Aug 2023 1:35 UTC

9 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

[Question] What is science?

Adam Zerner11 Aug 2023 0:00 UTC

6 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Three configurable prettyprinters

philh10 Aug 2023 23:10 UTC

9 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

(reasonableapproximation.net)

Ilya Sutskever’s thoughts on AI safety (July 2023): a transcript with my comments

mishka10 Aug 2023 19:07 UTC

21 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

Seeking Input to AI Safety Book for non-technical audience

Darren McKee10 Aug 2023 17:58 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Evaluating GPT-4 Theory of Mind Capabilities

gcmac and Nathan

10 Aug 2023 17:57 UTC

15 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Some alignment ideas

SelonNerias10 Aug 2023 17:51 UTC

1 point

0 comments11 min readLW link

Self Supervised Learning (SSL)

Varshul Gupta10 Aug 2023 17:43 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(dubverseblack.substack.com)

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater

jefftk10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

33 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(naobservatory.org)

AI #24: Week of the Podcast

Zvi10 Aug 2023 15:00 UTC

49 points

5 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Could We Automate AI Alignment Research?

Stephen McAleese10 Aug 2023 12:17 UTC

34 points

10 comments21 min readLW link

The positional embedding matrix and previous-token heads: how do they actually work?

AdamYedidia10 Aug 2023 1:58 UTC

26 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

LLMs are (mostly) not helped by filler tokens

Kshitij Sachan10 Aug 2023 0:48 UTC

66 points

35 comments6 min readLW link

2023 ACX Meetups Everywhere—Newton, MA

duck_master9 Aug 2023 22:47 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-08-09: US adds new nuclear, Katalin Karikó interview, and more

jasoncrawford9 Aug 2023 19:22 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Mech Interp Challenge: August—Deciphering the First Unique Character Model

CallumMcDougall9 Aug 2023 19:14 UTC

36 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Real Meaning of life has been found. Eliezer discovered it in 2000′s.

Jorterder9 Aug 2023 18:13 UTC

−15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Marginal Revolution unofficial birthday party

Derek M. Jones9 Aug 2023 14:35 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

The Case for Convexity

Jesse Richardson9 Aug 2023 14:09 UTC

19 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

A content analysis of the SQ-R questionnaire and a proposal for testing EQ-SQ theory

tailcalled9 Aug 2023 13:51 UTC

10 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

[Question] Does LessWrong allow exempting posts from being scraped by GPTBot?

mic9 Aug 2023 13:02 UTC

29 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

If I Was An Eccentric Trillionaire

niplav9 Aug 2023 7:56 UTC

9 points

8 comments26 min readLW link

Modulating sycophancy in an RLHF model via activation steering

Nina Panickssery9 Aug 2023 7:06 UTC

69 points

20 comments12 min readLW link

Open Thread—August 2023

habryka9 Aug 2023 3:52 UTC

18 points

49 comments1 min readLW link

marine cloud brightening

bhauth9 Aug 2023 2:50 UTC

40 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Inflection.ai is a major AGI lab

nikola9 Aug 2023 1:05 UTC

137 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

Acausal Now: We could totally acausally bargain with aliens at our current tech level if desired

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:50 UTC

1 point

5 comments4 min readLW link

Necromancy’s unintended consequences.

Christopher King9 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC

−6 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

What’s A “Market”?

johnswentworth8 Aug 2023 23:29 UTC

94 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Podcast (+transcript): Nathan Barnard on how US financial regulation can inform AI governance

Aaron Bergman8 Aug 2023 21:46 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.aaronbergman.net)

What are the flaws in this argument about p(Doom)?

William the Kiwi 8 Aug 2023 20:34 UTC

0 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

A Simple Theory Of Consciousness

SherlockHolmes8 Aug 2023 18:05 UTC

2 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(peterholmes.medium.com)

[Linkpost] Rationally awake

jpc8 Aug 2023 17:59 UTC

−1 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(jpc.dev)

Yet more UFO Betting: Put Up or Shut Up

MoreRatsWrongReUAP8 Aug 2023 17:50 UTC

10 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #18: Challenges of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Microsoft’s Security Breach, and Conceptual Research on AI Safety

aogara8 Aug 2023 15:52 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

[Question] Beginner’s question about RLHF

FTPickle8 Aug 2023 15:48 UTC

1 point

3 comments1 min readLW link

My Trial Period as an Independent Alignment Researcher

Bart Bussmann8 Aug 2023 14:16 UTC

34 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

4 types of AGI selection, and how to constrain them

Remmelt8 Aug 2023 10:02 UTC

−4 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Notice your everything

metachirality8 Aug 2023 2:38 UTC

15 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Model Organisms of Misalignment: The Case for a New Pillar of Alignment Research

evhub, Nicholas Schiefer, Carson Denison and Ethan Perez

8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

312 points

29 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

Perpetually Declining Population?

jefftk8 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC

48 points

29 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How do I find all the items on LW that I’ve favorited or upvoted?

Alex K. Chen (parrot)7 Aug 2023 23:51 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link