Open Thread Fall 2024

habryka5 Oct 2024 22:28 UTC
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[Question] Seek­ing AI Align­ment Tu­tor/​Ad­vi­sor: $100–150/​hr

MrThink5 Oct 2024 21:28 UTC
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In­ter­pretabil­ity of SAE Fea­tures Rep­re­sent­ing Check in ChessGPT

Jonathan Kutasov5 Oct 2024 20:43 UTC
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2024 Elec­tion Fore­cast­ing Contest

mike207315 Oct 2024 20:43 UTC
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(www.mikesblog.net)

5 ways to im­prove CoT faithfulness

CBiddulph5 Oct 2024 20:17 UTC
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Con­scious­ness As Re­cur­sive Reflections

Gunnar_Zarncke5 Oct 2024 20:00 UTC
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(www.astralcodexten.com)

What is it like to be psy­cholog­i­cally healthy? Pod­cast ft. DaystarEld

5 Oct 2024 19:14 UTC
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(chrislakin.blog)

Mus­ings on Text Data Wall (Oct 2024)

Vladimir_Nesov5 Oct 2024 19:00 UTC
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Ap­ply to the Co­op­er­a­tive AI PhD Fel­low­ship by Oc­to­ber 14th!

Lewis Hammond5 Oct 2024 12:41 UTC
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AISafety.info: What is the “nat­u­ral ab­strac­tions hy­poth­e­sis”?

Algon5 Oct 2024 12:31 UTC
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(aisafety.info)

ARENA4.0 Cap­stone: Hyper­pa­ram­e­ter tun­ing for MELBO + repli­ca­tion on Llama-3.2-1b-Instruct

5 Oct 2024 11:30 UTC
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Ex­plor­ing SAE fea­tures in LLMs with defi­ni­tion trees and to­ken lists

mwatkins4 Oct 2024 22:15 UTC
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AXRP Epi­sode 37 - Jaime Sevilla on Fore­cast­ing AI

DanielFilan4 Oct 2024 21:00 UTC
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[Question] Seek­ing Solu­tions for Ag­gre­gat­ing Clas­sifier Outputs

Saeid Ghafouri4 Oct 2024 17:39 UTC
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Amoeba roles in tech

Sindhu Shivaprasad4 Oct 2024 17:25 UTC
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LASR Labs Spring 2025 ap­pli­ca­tions are open!

4 Oct 2024 13:44 UTC
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(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
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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
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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
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(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Self-Help Corner: Loop Detection

adamShimi2 Oct 2024 8:33 UTC
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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
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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
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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
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(bayesianinvestor.com)