Prob­lems with Robin Han­son’s Quillette Ar­ti­cle On AI

DaemonicSigil6 Aug 2023 22:13 UTC
89 points
33 comments8 min readLW link

Yann LeCun on AGI and AI Safety

Chris_Leong6 Aug 2023 21:56 UTC
37 points
13 comments1 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

Com­pu­ta­tional Thread Art

CallumMcDougall6 Aug 2023 21:42 UTC
75 points
2 comments6 min readLW link

‘We’re chang­ing the clouds.’ An un­fore­seen test of geo­eng­ineer­ing is fuel­ing record ocean warmth

Annapurna6 Aug 2023 20:58 UTC
60 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.science.org)

[Linkpost] Will AI avoid ex­ploita­tion?

cdkg6 Aug 2023 14:28 UTC
22 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Re­duc­ing the risk of catas­troph­i­cally mis­al­igned AI by avoid­ing the Sin­gle­ton sce­nario: the Many­ton Variant

GravitasGradient6 Aug 2023 14:24 UTC
−6 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­boot­ing AI Gover­nance: An AI-Driven Ap­proach to AI Governance

utilon6 Aug 2023 14:19 UTC
1 point
1 comment29 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Model-Based Policy Anal­y­sis un­der Deep Uncertainty

utilon6 Aug 2023 14:07 UTC
14 points
1 comment23 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

[Question] On be­ing in a bad place and too stub­born to leave.

TeaTieAndHat6 Aug 2023 11:45 UTC
12 points
14 comments3 min readLW link

Safety-First Agents/​Ar­chi­tec­tures Are a Promis­ing Path to Safe AGI

Brendon_Wong6 Aug 2023 8:02 UTC
13 points
2 comments12 min readLW link

The Benev­olent Ruler’s Hand­book (Part 1): The Policy Problem

FCCC6 Aug 2023 3:46 UTC
11 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­plor­ing the Mul­ti­verse of Large Lan­guage Models

franky6 Aug 2023 2:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

Align­ing my web server with de­vops prac­tices: part 2 (se­cu­rity)

VipulNaik6 Aug 2023 1:30 UTC
6 points
0 comments19 min readLW link

how 2 tell if ur in­put is out of dis­tri­bu­tion given only model weights

dkirmani5 Aug 2023 22:45 UTC
47 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Sum­mary of Im­prov­ing Global De­ci­sion Mak­ing (around AI)

Will_Pearson5 Aug 2023 18:46 UTC
−7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ground-Truth La­bel Im­bal­ance Im­pairs the Perfor­mance of Con­trast-Con­sis­tent Search (and Other Con­trast-Pair-Based Un­su­per­vised Meth­ods)

5 Aug 2023 17:55 UTC
6 points
2 comments7 min readLW link
(drive.google.com)

Seat­tle As­tral Codex Ten Monthly Social

a7x5 Aug 2023 17:55 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

AISafety.info’s Writ­ing & Edit­ing Hackathon

smallsilo5 Aug 2023 17:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Join AISafety.info’s Writ­ing & Edit­ing Hackathon (Aug 25-28) (Prizes to be won!)

smallsilo5 Aug 2023 14:08 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Stomach Ulcers and Den­tal Cavities

Metacelsus5 Aug 2023 14:08 UTC
56 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

video games > IQ tests

bhauth5 Aug 2023 13:27 UTC
35 points
45 comments3 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Ap­pli­ca­bil­ity of scal­ing laws to vi­sion en­cod­ing models

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea5 Aug 2023 11:10 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

A Naive Pro­posal for Con­struct­ing In­ter­pretable AI

Chris_Leong5 Aug 2023 10:32 UTC
18 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

ACX Paris Meetup—Au­gust 11 2023

PoignardAzur5 Aug 2023 9:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Meet Hype­r­ion on Sun­day Aug 6?

duck_master5 Aug 2023 4:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What are the best pub­lished pa­pers from out­side the al­ign­ment com­mu­nity that are rele­vant to Agent Foun­da­tions?

Stephen Fowler5 Aug 2023 3:02 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing Squig­gle Hub

5 Aug 2023 1:00 UTC
46 points
4 comments5 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Read More Books but Pre­tend to Read Even More

Arjun Panickssery5 Aug 2023 0:07 UTC
23 points
12 comments4 min readLW link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Sinews of Su­dan’s Lat­est War

Tim Liptrot4 Aug 2023 18:17 UTC
43 points
12 comments12 min readLW link

Pri­vate notes on LW?

Raemon4 Aug 2023 17:35 UTC
61 points
33 comments1 min readLW link

When train­ing AI, we should es­ca­late the fre­quency of ca­pa­bil­ity tests

Hauke Hillebrandt4 Aug 2023 16:07 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Man­i­fund: What we’re fund­ing (weeks 2-4)

Austin Chen4 Aug 2023 16:00 UTC
44 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(manifund.substack.com)

[Linkpost] Mul­ti­modal Neu­rons in Pre­trained Text-Only Transformers

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea4 Aug 2023 15:29 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Apollo Re­search is hiring evals and in­ter­pretabil­ity en­g­ineers & scientists

Marius Hobbhahn4 Aug 2023 10:54 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Has any­one tried cre­at­ing a YouTube or TikTok se­ries cov­er­ing the se­quences?

Max Rossi4 Aug 2023 0:10 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Is there any met­ric mea­sur­ing ~”pro­por­tion of peo­ple cre­at­ing ex­tra value”?

Amal 3 Aug 2023 22:54 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Hy­po­thet­i­cal: what would you do?

JNS3 Aug 2023 22:39 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

[Linkpost] De­cep­tion Abil­ities Emerged in Large Lan­guage Models

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea3 Aug 2023 17:28 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Embed­ding Eth­i­cal Pri­ors into AI Sys­tems: A Bayesian Approach

Justausername3 Aug 2023 15:31 UTC
−5 points
3 comments21 min readLW link

Pass­word-locked mod­els: a stress case for ca­pa­bil­ities evaluation

Fabien Roger3 Aug 2023 14:53 UTC
156 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

AI #23: Fun­da­men­tal Prob­lems with RLHF

Zvi3 Aug 2023 12:50 UTC
59 points
9 comments41 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Bad Imi­ta­tion Instruments

jefftk3 Aug 2023 2:30 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Kol­mogorov’s the­ory of Al­gorith­mic Probability

Aidan Rocke3 Aug 2023 0:58 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(keplerlounge.com)

Work cul­ture creep

CrimsonChin3 Aug 2023 0:38 UTC
27 points
15 comments8 min readLW link

[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