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The hostile telepaths problem

Valentine27 Oct 2024 15:26 UTC

339 points

74 comments15 min readLW link

I got dysentery so you don’t have to

eukaryote22 Oct 2024 4:55 UTC

305 points

4 comments17 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Overview of strong human intelligence amplification methods

TsviBT8 Oct 2024 8:37 UTC

264 points

141 comments10 min readLW link

The Hopium Wars: the AGI Entente Delusion

Max Tegmark13 Oct 2024 17:00 UTC

199 points

55 comments9 min readLW link

Why I’m not a Bayesian

Richard_Ngo6 Oct 2024 15:22 UTC

184 points

92 comments10 min readLW link

(www.mindthefuture.info)

Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage

abstractapplic1 Oct 2024 20:45 UTC

171 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

The Summoned Heroine’s Prediction Markets Keep Providing Financial Services To The Demon King!

abstractapplic26 Oct 2024 12:34 UTC

157 points

16 comments7 min readLW link

A Rocket–Interpretability Analogy

plex21 Oct 2024 13:55 UTC

149 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

dynomight17 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC

147 points

32 comments6 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Overcoming Bias Anthology

Arjun Panickssery20 Oct 2024 2:01 UTC

146 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(overcoming-bias-anthology.com)

My motivation and theory of change for working in AI healthtech

Andrew_Critch12 Oct 2024 0:36 UTC

145 points

36 comments13 min readLW link

Momentum of Light in Glass

Ben9 Oct 2024 20:19 UTC

141 points

44 comments11 min readLW link

Circuits in Superposition: Compressing many small neural networks into one

Lucius Bushnaq and jake_mendel

14 Oct 2024 13:06 UTC

126 points

8 comments13 min readLW link

BIG-Bench Canary Contamination in GPT-4

Jozdien22 Oct 2024 15:40 UTC

123 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

Miles Brundage resigned from OpenAI, and his AGI readiness team was disbanded

garrison23 Oct 2024 23:40 UTC

118 points

1 comment7 min readLW link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

A bird’s eye view of ARC’s research

Jacob_Hilton23 Oct 2024 15:50 UTC

116 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

I turned decision theory problems into memes about trolleys

Tapatakt30 Oct 2024 20:13 UTC

103 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

LLMs can learn about themselves by introspection

Felix J Binder and Owain_Evans

18 Oct 2024 16:12 UTC

102 points

38 comments9 min readLW link

Advice for journalists

Nathan Young7 Oct 2024 16:46 UTC

100 points

53 comments9 min readLW link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Behavioral red-teaming is unlikely to produce clear, strong evidence that models aren’t scheming

Buck10 Oct 2024 13:36 UTC

100 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

The case for unlearning that removes information from LLM weights

Fabien Roger14 Oct 2024 14:08 UTC

96 points

14 comments6 min readLW link

Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models

David Duvenaud, Joe Benton, Sam Bowman, evhub, mishajw, Eric Christiansen, HoldenKarnofsky, Ethan Perez and Buck

18 Oct 2024 22:33 UTC

93 points

55 comments6 min readLW link

(assets.anthropic.com)

Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary In 6 Weeks

Michaël Trazzi28 Oct 2024 20:17 UTC

93 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(manifund.org)

Information vs Assurance

johnswentworth20 Oct 2024 23:16 UTC

93 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems

evhub22 Oct 2024 20:57 UTC

90 points

8 comments15 min readLW link

Three Notions of “Power”

johnswentworth30 Oct 2024 6:10 UTC

88 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

Research update: Towards a Law of Iterated Expectations for Heuristic Estimators

Eric Neyman7 Oct 2024 19:29 UTC

87 points

2 comments22 min readLW link

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimi2 Oct 2024 8:33 UTC

87 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

There is a globe in your LLM

jacob_drori8 Oct 2024 0:43 UTC

86 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

5 homegrown EA projects, seeking small donors

Austin Chen28 Oct 2024 23:24 UTC

85 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Self-prediction acts as an emergent regularizer

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Mike Vaiana, Diogo de Lucena, florin_pop and AE Studio

23 Oct 2024 22:27 UTC

84 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Newsom Vetoes SB 1047

Zvi1 Oct 2024 12:20 UTC

84 points

6 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Values Are Real Like Harry Potter

johnswentworth and David Lorell

9 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC

81 points

17 comments5 min readLW link

Scaffolding for “Noticing Metacognition”

Raemon9 Oct 2024 17:54 UTC

78 points

4 comments17 min readLW link

Bitter lessons about lucid dreaming

avturchin16 Oct 2024 21:27 UTC

76 points

62 comments2 min readLW link

What is malevolence? On the nature, measurement, and distribution of dark traits

David Althaus, Chi Nguyen and Clare

23 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

76 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Gwern: Why So Few Matt Levines?

kave29 Oct 2024 1:07 UTC

76 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

Why I quit effective altruism, and why Timothy Telleen-Lawton is staying (for now)

Elizabeth22 Oct 2024 18:20 UTC

75 points

78 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Rationality Quotes—Fall 2024

Screwtape10 Oct 2024 18:37 UTC

75 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

Could randomly choosing people to serve as representatives lead to better government?

John Huang21 Oct 2024 17:10 UTC

75 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Video lectures on the learning-theoretic agenda

Vanessa Kosoy27 Oct 2024 12:01 UTC

75 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Introducing Transluce — A Letter from the Founders

jsteinhardt23 Oct 2024 18:10 UTC

74 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

[Question] Interest in Leetcode, but for Rationality?

Gregory 16 Oct 2024 17:54 UTC

73 points

20 comments2 min readLW link

A Narrow Path: a plan to deal with AI extinction risk

Andrea_Miotti, davekasten and Tolga

7 Oct 2024 13:02 UTC

73 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.narrowpath.co)

Joshua Achiam Public Statement Analysis

Zvi10 Oct 2024 12:50 UTC

73 points

14 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Mask Comes Off: At What Price?

Zvi21 Oct 2024 23:50 UTC

71 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Automation collapse

Geoffrey Irving, Tomek Korbak and Benjamin Hilton

21 Oct 2024 14:50 UTC

70 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

If far-UV is so great, why isn’t it everywhere?

Austin Chen19 Oct 2024 18:56 UTC

70 points

23 comments1 min readLW link

(strainhardening.substack.com)

EIS XIV: Is mechanistic interpretability about to be practically useful?

scasper11 Oct 2024 22:13 UTC

67 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

On Shifgrethor

JustisMills27 Oct 2024 15:30 UTC

66 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

(justismills.substack.com)