(Maybe) A Bag of Heuris­tics is All There Is & A Bag of Heuris­tics is All You Need

Sodium3 Oct 2024 19:11 UTC
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Does nat­u­ral se­lec­tion fa­vor AIs over hu­mans?

cdkg3 Oct 2024 18:47 UTC
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(link.springer.com)

What Hayek Taught Us About Nature

Ground Truth Data3 Oct 2024 18:20 UTC
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Bi­as­ing VLM Re­sponse with Vi­sual Stimuli

Jaehyuk Lim3 Oct 2024 18:04 UTC
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AI #84: Bet­ter Than a Podcast

Zvi3 Oct 2024 15:00 UTC
56 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] If I have some money, whom should I donate it to in or­der to re­duce ex­pected P(doom) the most?

KvmanThinking3 Oct 2024 11:31 UTC
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Shut­ting down all com­pet­ing AI pro­jects might not buy a lot of time due to In­ter­nal Time Pressure

ThomasCederborg3 Oct 2024 0:01 UTC
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“25 Les­sons from 25 Years of Mar­riage” by hon­orary ra­tio­nal­ist Fer­rett Stein­metz

CronoDAS2 Oct 2024 22:42 UTC
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(theferrett.substack.com)

MIT Fu­tureTech are hiring for a Head of Oper­a­tions role

peterslattery2 Oct 2024 17:11 UTC
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Can AI Quan­tity beat AI Qual­ity?

Gianluca Calcagni2 Oct 2024 15:21 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 3. The Homunculus

Steven Byrnes2 Oct 2024 15:20 UTC
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AI Safety Univer­sity Or­ga­niz­ing: Early Take­aways from Thir­teen Groups

agucova2 Oct 2024 15:14 UTC
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Three main ar­gu­ments that AI will save hu­mans and one meta-argument

avturchin2 Oct 2024 11:39 UTC
8 points
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Should we ab­stain from vot­ing? (In non­de­ter­minis­tic elec­tions)

B Jacobs2 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC
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(bobjacobs.substack.com)

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

gasteigerjo2 Oct 2024 9:49 UTC
13 points
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(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimi2 Oct 2024 8:33 UTC
87 points
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(formethods.substack.com)

The mur­der­ous short­cut: a toy model of in­stru­men­tal convergence

Thomas Kwa2 Oct 2024 6:48 UTC
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Switch­ing to a Yamaha P-121 Keyboard

jefftk2 Oct 2024 2:20 UTC
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(www.jefftk.com)

Fore­sight Vi­sion Week­end 2024

Allison Duettmann1 Oct 2024 21:59 UTC
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Happy simulations

FateGrinder1 Oct 2024 21:05 UTC
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Three Sub­tle Ex­am­ples of Data Leakage

abstractapplic1 Oct 2024 20:45 UTC
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AI Safety Newslet­ter #42: New­som Ve­toes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Gover­nance Summary

1 Oct 2024 20:35 UTC
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(newsletter.safe.ai)

Retrieval Aug­mented Genesis

João Ribeiro Medeiros1 Oct 2024 20:18 UTC
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Like­li­hood calcu­la­tion with duobels

Martin Gerdes1 Oct 2024 16:21 UTC
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Is Text Water­mark­ing a lost cause?

egor.timatkov1 Oct 2024 16:20 UTC
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In­for­ma­tion dark matter

Logan Kieller1 Oct 2024 15:05 UTC
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(logankieller.substack.com)

Con­ven­tional foot­notes con­sid­ered harmful

dkl91 Oct 2024 14:54 UTC
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(dkl9.net)

New­som Ve­toes SB 1047

Zvi1 Oct 2024 12:20 UTC
84 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Will AI and Hu­man­ity Go to War?

Simon Goldstein1 Oct 2024 6:35 UTC
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[Question] AMA: In­ter­na­tional School Stu­dent in China

Novice1 Oct 2024 6:00 UTC
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AGI Farm

Rahul Chand1 Oct 2024 4:29 UTC
1 point
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Why com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage does not help horses

Sherrinford30 Sep 2024 22:27 UTC
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In­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion: a ra­tio­nal as­sess­ment.

p4rziv4l30 Sep 2024 21:17 UTC
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(docs.google.com)

Peak Hu­man Capital

PeterMcCluskey30 Sep 2024 21:13 UTC
68 points
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(bayesianinvestor.com)

Sam Alt­man’s Busi­ness Negging

Julian Bradshaw30 Sep 2024 21:06 UTC
13 points
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(www.bloomberg.com)

In-Con­text Learn­ing: An Align­ment Survey

alamerton30 Sep 2024 18:44 UTC
8 points
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(docs.google.com)

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

kenneth_diao30 Sep 2024 18:37 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing De­com­pos­abil­ity of SAE Features

Vikram_N30 Sep 2024 18:28 UTC
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Knowl­edge Base 1: Could it in­crease in­tel­li­gence and make it safer?

iwis30 Sep 2024 16:00 UTC
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Point of Failure: Semi­con­duc­tor-Grade Quartz

Annapurna30 Sep 2024 15:57 UTC
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(jorgevelez.substack.com)

on bac­te­ria, on teeth

bhauth30 Sep 2024 15:56 UTC
61 points
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(bhauth.com)

SB 1047 gets vetoed

ryan_b30 Sep 2024 15:49 UTC
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(www.reuters.com)

Of Birds and Bees

RussellThor30 Sep 2024 10:52 UTC
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A new pro­cess for map­ping discussions

Nathan Young30 Sep 2024 8:57 UTC
28 points
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(open.substack.com)

MATS Alumni Im­pact Analysis

30 Sep 2024 2:35 UTC
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[Question] Most ca­pa­ble pub­li­cly available agents?

Gabe30 Sep 2024 0:04 UTC
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the case for CoT un­faith­ful­ness is overstated

nostalgebraist29 Sep 2024 22:07 UTC
242 points
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0.202 Bits of Ev­i­dence In Fa­vor of Futarchy

niplav29 Sep 2024 21:57 UTC
38 points
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Po­modoro Method Ran­dom­ized Self Experiment

niplav29 Sep 2024 21:55 UTC
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Toy Models of Su­per­po­si­tion: Sim­plified by Hand

Axel Sorensen29 Sep 2024 21:19 UTC
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