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[Question] Boxing

Zach Stein-Perlman2 Aug 2023 23:38 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

External rationality vs. internal rationality

metachirality2 Aug 2023 23:29 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

When performing a dimensionality reduction on tensors, the trace is often zero.

Joseph Van Name2 Aug 2023 21:06 UTC

7 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Progress links digest, 2023-08-02: Superconductor edition

jasoncrawford2 Aug 2023 20:27 UTC

13 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Question] What works for ADHD and/or related things?

TeaTieAndHat2 Aug 2023 18:37 UTC

6 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would you pay for a search engine limited to rationalist sites?

Conor2 Aug 2023 18:06 UTC

4 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

The Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive: advice for applicants, request for support

jasoncrawford2 Aug 2023 15:37 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

3 levels of threat obfuscation

HoldenKarnofsky2 Aug 2023 14:58 UTC

69 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

ChatGPT for translation

Varshul Gupta2 Aug 2023 11:57 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

(dubverseblack.substack.com)

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

abergal, calebp99, Linch, habryka, Thomas Larsen and Vaniver

2 Aug 2023 7:54 UTC

81 points

3 comments50 min readLW link

[Question] Could we breed/engineer intelligent parrots?

lemonhope2 Aug 2023 7:32 UTC

9 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Anthropical Motte and Bailey in two versions of Sleeping Beauty

Ape in the coat2 Aug 2023 7:08 UTC

32 points

56 comments6 min readLW link

solar-thermal and techno-economic analysis

bhauth2 Aug 2023 6:22 UTC

21 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

South Bay ACX/SSC Meetup @ Whole Foods

allisona2 Aug 2023 3:44 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

“Is There Anything That’s Worth More”

Zack_M_Davis2 Aug 2023 3:28 UTC

64 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Bay Winter Solstice: call for speech pitches!

tcheasdfjkl2 Aug 2023 3:24 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

[Question] What is ontology?

Adam Zerner2 Aug 2023 0:54 UTC

28 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

My current LK99 questions

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Aug 2023 22:48 UTC

206 points

38 comments5 min readLW link

Spiral Staircase

Michael Samoilov1 Aug 2023 21:51 UTC

19 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Open Mic—August 2023

Adam Zerner1 Aug 2023 19:24 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

ARC Evals new report: Evaluating Language-Model Agents on Realistic Autonomous Tasks

Beth Barnes1 Aug 2023 18:30 UTC

153 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

(evals.alignment.org)

[Question] When(if ever) are superstimuli good/useful/advantageous?

Perhaps1 Aug 2023 15:50 UTC

−7 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

AISN #17: Automatically Circumventing LLM Guardrails, the Frontier Model Forum, and Senate Hearing on AI Oversight

aogara and Dan H

1 Aug 2023 15:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #16: White House Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading AI Labs and Lessons from Oppenheimer

aogara, Dan H and Corin Katzke

1 Aug 2023 15:39 UTC

3 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

“Desperate Honesty” by Agnes Callard

David Gross1 Aug 2023 13:34 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(dailynous.com)

Barbieheimer: Across the Dead Reckoning

Zvi1 Aug 2023 13:00 UTC

49 points

17 comments41 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Untangling Infrabayesianism: A redistillation [PDF link; ~12k words + lots of math]

Lorxus1 Aug 2023 12:42 UTC

29 points

16 comments2 min readLW link

(docdro.id)

What Is Childhood Supposed To Be?

Sable1 Aug 2023 9:51 UTC

21 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

AI romantic partners will harm society if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov1 Aug 2023 9:32 UTC

25 points

76 comments13 min readLW link

What is autonomy, and how does it lead to greater risk from AI?

Davidmanheim1 Aug 2023 7:58 UTC

30 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Evaluating Superhuman Models with Consistency Checks

Daniel Paleka and Lukas Fluri

1 Aug 2023 7:51 UTC

21 points

2 comments9 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

[See link to Sept meetup below!] San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday” August 5, 1 pm

guenael1 Aug 2023 3:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Exercise: Solve “Thinking Physics”

Raemon1 Aug 2023 0:44 UTC

100 points

29 comments5 min readLW link

The “public debate” about AI is confusing for the general public and for policymakers because it is a three-sided debate

Adam David Long1 Aug 2023 0:08 UTC

146 points

30 comments4 min readLW link

The “no sandbagging on checkable tasks” hypothesis

Joe Carlsmith31 Jul 2023 23:06 UTC

55 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

A Social History of Truth

Vaniver31 Jul 2023 22:49 UTC

64 points

2 comments14 min readLW link

Watermarking considered overrated?

DanielFilan31 Jul 2023 21:36 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

What The Lord of the Rings Teaches Us About AI Alignment

Jeffrey Heninger31 Jul 2023 20:16 UTC

24 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

The “spelling miracle”: GPT-3 spelling abilities and glitch tokens revisited

mwatkins31 Jul 2023 19:47 UTC

85 points

29 comments20 min readLW link

“Building a House” Review

jefftk31 Jul 2023 19:20 UTC

62 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

The Meaning of Shoggoth AI Memes

Dan Smith31 Jul 2023 18:52 UTC

−5 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any existing term summarizing non-scalable oversight methods in outer alignment?

Allen Shen31 Jul 2023 17:31 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Lack of Social Grace Is an Epistemic Virtue

Zack_M_Davis31 Jul 2023 16:38 UTC

41 points

104 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

Thoughts on sharing information about language model capabilities

paulfchristiano31 Jul 2023 16:04 UTC

208 points

44 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

Trading off compute in training and inference (Overview)

Pablo Villalobos31 Jul 2023 16:03 UTC

42 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(epochai.org)

Open Problems and Fundamental Limitations of RLHF

scasper31 Jul 2023 15:31 UTC

66 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

“Not Necessarily”

Benjamin Hendricks31 Jul 2023 15:19 UTC

24 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

How to find AI alignment researchers to collaborate with?

Florian Dietz31 Jul 2023 9:05 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is Kennedy a Nazi?

Pee Doom31 Jul 2023 8:51 UTC

−12 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Is Light Drinking Protective?

jefftk31 Jul 2023 3:00 UTC

45 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)