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“25 Lessons from 25 Years of Marriage” by honorary rationalist Ferrett Steinmetz

CronoDAS2 Oct 2024 22:42 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(theferrett.substack.com)

MIT FutureTech are hiring for a Head of Operations role

peterslattery2 Oct 2024 17:11 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Can AI Quantity beat AI Quality?

Gianluca Calcagni2 Oct 2024 15:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

[Intuitive self-models] 3. The Homunculus

Steven Byrnes2 Oct 2024 15:20 UTC

75 points

36 comments25 min readLW link

AI Safety University Organizing: Early Takeaways from Thirteen Groups

agucova2 Oct 2024 15:14 UTC

26 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Three main arguments that AI will save humans and one meta-argument

avturchin2 Oct 2024 11:39 UTC

8 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections)

B Jacobs2 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC

5 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, September ’24

gasteigerjo2 Oct 2024 9:49 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimi2 Oct 2024 8:33 UTC

88 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

The murderous shortcut: a toy model of instrumental convergence

Thomas Kwa2 Oct 2024 6:48 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Switching to a Yamaha P-121 Keyboard

jefftk2 Oct 2024 2:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Foresight Vision Weekend 2024

Allison Duettmann1 Oct 2024 21:59 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Happy simulations

FateGrinder1 Oct 2024 21:05 UTC

−5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Three Subtle Examples of Data Leakage

abstractapplic1 Oct 2024 20:45 UTC

171 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

AI Safety Newsletter #42: Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Governance Summary

Corin Katzke, Corin Katzke, Julius, Alexa Pan, andrewz and Dan H

1 Oct 2024 20:35 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Retrieval Augmented Genesis

João Ribeiro Medeiros1 Oct 2024 20:18 UTC

6 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

Likelihood calculation with duobels

Martin Gerdes1 Oct 2024 16:21 UTC

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Is Text Watermarking a lost cause?

egor.timatkov1 Oct 2024 16:20 UTC

17 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Information dark matter

Logan Kieller1 Oct 2024 15:05 UTC

33 points

4 comments28 min readLW link

(logankieller.substack.com)

Conventional footnotes considered harmful

dkl91 Oct 2024 14:54 UTC

25 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Newsom Vetoes SB 1047

Zvi1 Oct 2024 12:20 UTC

84 points

6 comments32 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will AI and Humanity Go to War?

Simon Goldstein1 Oct 2024 6:35 UTC

9 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] AMA: International School Student in China

Novice1 Oct 2024 6:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

AGI Farm

Rahul Chand1 Oct 2024 4:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why comparative advantage does not help horses

Sherrinford30 Sep 2024 22:27 UTC

101 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Intelligence explosion: a rational assessment.

p4rziv4l30 Sep 2024 21:17 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Peak Human Capital

PeterMcCluskey30 Sep 2024 21:13 UTC

69 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Sam Altman’s Business Negging

Julian Bradshaw30 Sep 2024 21:06 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

In-Context Learning: An Alignment Survey

alamerton30 Sep 2024 18:44 UTC

8 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(docs.google.com)

Not Just For Therapy Chatbots: The Case For Compassion In AI Moral Alignment Research

kenneth_diao30 Sep 2024 18:37 UTC

2 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Exploring Decomposability of SAE Features

Vikram_N30 Sep 2024 18:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Knowledge Base 1: Could it increase intelligence and make it safer?

iwis30 Sep 2024 16:00 UTC

−4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Point of Failure: Semiconductor-Grade Quartz

Annapurna30 Sep 2024 15:57 UTC

41 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(jorgevelez.substack.com)

on bacteria, on teeth

bhauth30 Sep 2024 15:56 UTC

62 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

SB 1047 gets vetoed

ryan_b30 Sep 2024 15:49 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.reuters.com)

Of Birds and Bees

RussellThor30 Sep 2024 10:52 UTC

7 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

A new process for mapping discussions

Nathan Young30 Sep 2024 8:57 UTC

28 points

7 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

MATS Alumni Impact Analysis

utilistrutil, Juan Gil, yams, LauraVaughan, K Richards and Ryan Kidd

30 Sep 2024 2:35 UTC

61 points

7 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Most capable publicly available agents?

Gabe30 Sep 2024 0:04 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

the case for CoT unfaithfulness is overstated

nostalgebraist29 Sep 2024 22:07 UTC

245 points

40 comments11 min readLW link

0.202 Bits of Evidence In Favor of Futarchy

niplav29 Sep 2024 21:57 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Pomodoro Method Randomized Self Experiment

niplav29 Sep 2024 21:55 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Toy Models of Superposition: Simplified by Hand

Axel Sorensen29 Sep 2024 21:19 UTC

9 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

LLMs are likely not conscious

research_prime_space29 Sep 2024 20:57 UTC

6 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

A Policy Proposal

phdead29 Sep 2024 20:45 UTC

10 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Do Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) transfer across base and finetuned language models?

Taras Kutsyk, Tommaso Mencattini and Ciprian Florea

29 Sep 2024 19:37 UTC

26 points

8 comments25 min readLW link

Models of life

Abhishaike Mahajan29 Sep 2024 19:24 UTC

8 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

Interpreting the effects of Jailbreak Prompts in LLMs

Harsh Raj29 Sep 2024 19:01 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

New Capabilities, New Risks? - Evaluating Agentic General Assistants using Elements of GAIA & METR Frameworks

Tej Lander29 Sep 2024 18:58 UTC

5 points

0 comments29 min readLW link

Developmental Stages in Multi-Problem Grokking

James Sullivan29 Sep 2024 18:58 UTC

4 points

0 comments6 min readLW link