AGI & Con­scious­ness—Joscha Bach

Rahul Chand8 Oct 2024 22:51 UTC
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Video and tran­script of pre­sen­ta­tion on Oth­er­ness and con­trol in the age of AGI

Joe Carlsmith8 Oct 2024 22:30 UTC
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From seeded com­plex­ity to con­scious­ness—yes, it’s all the same.

eschatail8 Oct 2024 21:31 UTC
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Limits of safe and al­igned AI

Shivam8 Oct 2024 21:30 UTC
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[Question] What con­sti­tutes an in­fo­haz­ard?

K1r4d4rk.v18 Oct 2024 21:29 UTC
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[Question] What makes one a “ra­tio­nal­ist”?

mathyouf8 Oct 2024 20:25 UTC
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[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 4. Trance

Steven Byrnes8 Oct 2024 13:30 UTC
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Schel­ling game eval­u­a­tions for AI control

Olli Järviniemi8 Oct 2024 12:01 UTC
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Think­ing About a Pedalboard

jefftk8 Oct 2024 11:50 UTC
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Overview of strong hu­man in­tel­li­gence am­plifi­ca­tion methods

TsviBT8 Oct 2024 8:37 UTC
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Near-death experiences

Declan Molony8 Oct 2024 6:34 UTC
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The un­rea­son­able effec­tive­ness of plas­mid se­quenc­ing as a service

Abhishaike Mahajan8 Oct 2024 2:02 UTC
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(www.owlposting.com)

There is a globe in your LLM

jacob_drori8 Oct 2024 0:43 UTC
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MATS AI Safety Strat­egy Cur­ricu­lum v2

7 Oct 2024 22:44 UTC
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2025 Color Trends

sarahconstantin7 Oct 2024 21:20 UTC
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(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Clar­ify­ing Align­ment Fun­da­men­tals Through the Lens of Ontology

eternal/ephemera7 Oct 2024 20:57 UTC
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Ethics on Cos­mic Scale, Outer Space Treaty, Directed Pansper­mia, For­wards-Con­tam­i­na­tion, Tech­nol­ogy Assess­ment, Plane­tary Pro­tec­tion, and Fermi’s Paradox

MrFantastic7 Oct 2024 20:56 UTC
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Do­main-spe­cific SAEs

jacob_drori7 Oct 2024 20:15 UTC
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Me­tac­u­lus Is Open Source

ChristianWilliams7 Oct 2024 19:55 UTC
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(www.metaculus.com)

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

Eric Neyman7 Oct 2024 19:29 UTC
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AI Model Registries: A Foun­da­tional Tool for AI Governance

7 Oct 2024 19:27 UTC
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(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Eval­u­at­ing the truth of state­ments in a world of am­bigu­ous lan­guage.

Hastings7 Oct 2024 18:08 UTC
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Ad­vice for journalists

Nathan Young7 Oct 2024 16:46 UTC
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(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Time Effi­cient Re­sis­tance Training

romeostevensit7 Oct 2024 15:15 UTC
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A Nar­row Path: a plan to deal with AI ex­tinc­tion risk

7 Oct 2024 13:02 UTC
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(www.narrowpath.co)

Toy Models of Fea­ture Ab­sorp­tion in SAEs

7 Oct 2024 9:56 UTC
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An ar­gu­ment that con­se­quen­tial­ism is incomplete

cousin_it7 Oct 2024 9:45 UTC
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An X-Ray is Worth 15 Fea­tures: Sparse Au­toen­coders for In­ter­pretable Ra­diol­ogy Re­port Generation

7 Oct 2024 8:53 UTC
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(arxiv.org)

Com­pel­ling Villains and Co­her­ent Values

Cole Wyeth6 Oct 2024 19:53 UTC
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To Be Born in a Bag

Niko_McCarty6 Oct 2024 17:21 UTC
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(www.asimov.press)

Whim­si­cal Thoughts on an AI Notepad: Ex­plor­ing Non-In­va­sive Neu­ral In­te­gra­tion via Viral and Stem Cell Pathways

Pug stanky6 Oct 2024 16:37 UTC
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Why I’m not a Bayesian

Richard_Ngo6 Oct 2024 15:22 UTC
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(www.mindthefuture.info)

Euro­pean Progress Conference

Martin Sustrik6 Oct 2024 11:10 UTC
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(250bpm.substack.com)

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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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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