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Jacob on the Precipice

Richard_Ngo26 Sep 2023 21:16 UTC

42 points

8 comments11 min readLW link

(narrativeark.substack.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2022

jefftk26 Sep 2023 20:40 UTC

33 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

GPT-4 for personal productivity: online distraction blocker

Sergii26 Sep 2023 17:41 UTC

64 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

(grgv.xyz)

ARENA 2.0 - Impact Report

CallumMcDougall26 Sep 2023 17:13 UTC

35 points

5 comments13 min readLW link

Mechanistic Interpretability Reading group

1stuserhere and woog

26 Sep 2023 16:26 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the CNN Interpretability Competition

scasper26 Sep 2023 16:21 UTC

22 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Making AIs less likely to be spiteful

Nicolas Macé, Anthony DiGiovanni and JesseClifton

26 Sep 2023 14:12 UTC

116 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Mark Zuckerberg confronted about Meta’s Llama 2 AI’s ability to give users detailed guidance on making anthrax—Business Insider

mic26 Sep 2023 12:05 UTC

18 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.businessinsider.com)

Enforcing Far-Future Contracts for Governments

FCCC26 Sep 2023 4:26 UTC

−7 points

49 comments3 min readLW link

Carioca Petrov Day

Giskard26 Sep 2023 0:30 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] A few Alignment questions: utility optimizers, SLT, sharp left turn and identifiability

Igor Timofeev26 Sep 2023 0:27 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Impact stories for model internals: an exercise for interpretability researchers

jenny25 Sep 2023 23:15 UTC

29 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Autonomic Sanity

Sable25 Sep 2023 22:37 UTC

20 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

[Question] What is wrong with this “utility switch button problem” approach?

Donald Hobson25 Sep 2023 21:36 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

You should just smile at strangers a lot

chaosmage25 Sep 2023 20:12 UTC

13 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

The King and the Golem

Richard_Ngo25 Sep 2023 19:51 UTC

187 points

18 comments5 min readLW link 1 review

(narrativeark.substack.com)

Public Opinion on AI Safety: AIMS 2023 and 2021 Summary

Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet Pauketat and Ali

25 Sep 2023 18:55 UTC

3 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Welcome to Apply: The 2024 Vitalik Buterin Fellowships in AI Existential Safety by FLI!

Zhijing Jin25 Sep 2023 18:42 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Evaluating hidden directions on the utility dataset: classification, steering and removal

Annah and shash42

25 Sep 2023 17:19 UTC

25 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

Linkpost: A model of biases as arising from meta-beliefs

JuanGarcia25 Sep 2023 17:14 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What causes a decision theory to be used?

Dagon25 Sep 2023 16:33 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Understanding strategic deception and deceptive alignment

Marius Hobbhahn, Mikita Balesni, Jérémy Scheurer and Dan Braun

25 Sep 2023 16:27 UTC

64 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

(www.apolloresearch.ai)

The Merits of Contrarianism & Why I hate Chatbots. [My Experience with the Ideological Turing Test @ a Less Wrong meetup]

Amina V.25 Sep 2023 16:13 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(bimbollectual.com)

Inside Views, Impostor Syndrome, and the Great LARP

johnswentworth25 Sep 2023 16:08 UTC

331 points

53 comments5 min readLW link

“X distracts from Y” as a thinly-disguised fight over group status / politics

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2023 15:18 UTC

108 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

Davis_Kingsley25 Sep 2023 14:55 UTC

44 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

Should Effective Altruists be Valuists instead of utilitarians?

spencerg and AmberDawn

25 Sep 2023 14:03 UTC

1 point

3 comments6 min readLW link

Feedly Breaks MathML

jefftk25 Sep 2023 13:40 UTC

15 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How have you become more hard-working?

Chi Nguyen25 Sep 2023 12:37 UTC

80 points

42 comments1 min readLW link

Automating Intelligence: A Cursory Glance at How AutoML Brings Precision to AI Development

RoscoHunter25 Sep 2023 9:39 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Interpreting OpenAI’s Whisper

EllenaR24 Sep 2023 17:53 UTC

114 points

13 comments7 min readLW link

Contradiction Appeal Bias

onur24 Sep 2023 17:03 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

RAIN: Your Language Models Can Align Themselves without Finetuning—Microsoft Research 2023 - Reduces the adversarial prompt attack success rate from 94% to 19%!

Singularian250124 Sep 2023 16:48 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Honor System for Vaccination?

jefftk24 Sep 2023 11:50 UTC

17 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Far-Future Commitments as a Policy Consensus Strategy

FCCC24 Sep 2023 6:34 UTC

7 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

Five neglected work areas that could reduce AI risk

CharlotteS and Aaron_Scher

24 Sep 2023 2:03 UTC

17 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Are the other Rationality: A-Z sequences coming out as books?

caffeinated_dissonance24 Sep 2023 0:38 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Dick Kick’em Paradox

Augs SMSHacks23 Sep 2023 22:22 UTC

−5 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

I designed an AI safety course (for a philosophy department)

Eleni Angelou23 Sep 2023 22:03 UTC

37 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Paper: LLMs trained on “A is B” fail to learn “B is A”

lberglund, Owain_Evans, Meg, Maximilian Kaufmann, Mikita Balesni, Asa Cooper Stickland and Tomek Korbak

23 Sep 2023 19:55 UTC

120 points

74 comments4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sparse Coding, for Mechanistic Interpretability and Activation Engineering

David Udell23 Sep 2023 19:16 UTC

42 points

7 comments34 min readLW link

[Question] Places to meet interesting middle-aged men?

anon_girl23 Sep 2023 19:06 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoencoders more quickly with informed initialization

Pierre Peigné23 Sep 2023 16:21 UTC

30 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

A quick remark on so-called “hallucinations” in LLMs and humans

Bill Benzon23 Sep 2023 12:17 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Hand-writing MathML

jefftk23 Sep 2023 11:20 UTC

16 points

40 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Musk, Starlink, and Crimea

Nicholas / Heather Kross23 Sep 2023 2:35 UTC

−13 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Linkpost/Video] All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World

Jacob G-W23 Sep 2023 1:18 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Luck based medicine: inositol for anxiety and brain fog

Elizabeth22 Sep 2023 20:10 UTC

40 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

If influence functions are not approximating leave-one-out, how are they supposed to help?

Fabien Roger22 Sep 2023 14:23 UTC

66 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Modeling p(doom) with TrojanGDP

K. Liam Smith22 Sep 2023 14:19 UTC

−2 points

2 comments13 min readLW link