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Drug development costs can range over two orders of magnitude

rossry3 Nov 2024 23:13 UTC

38 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Redefining Tolerance: Beyond Popper’s Paradox

mindprison3 Nov 2024 22:23 UTC

−1 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Goal: Understand Intelligence

Johannes C. Mayer3 Nov 2024 21:20 UTC

13 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting

Simon Lermen and Govind Pimpale

3 Nov 2024 19:24 UTC

156 points

8 comments5 min readLW link

Why our politicians aren’t Median

Yair Halberstadt3 Nov 2024 14:03 UTC

60 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

Human Biodiversity (Part 4: Astral Codex Ten)

Evan_Gaensbauer3 Nov 2024 4:20 UTC

−13 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(reflectivealtruism.com)

Understanding incomparability versus incommensurability in relation to RLHF

artemiocobb2 Nov 2024 22:57 UTC

1 point

1 comment2 min readLW link

electric turbofans

bhauth2 Nov 2024 22:50 UTC

61 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Reality as Category-Theoretic State Machines: A Mathematical Framework

Wenitte Apiou2 Nov 2024 21:04 UTC

−8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

The Median Researcher Problem

johnswentworth2 Nov 2024 20:16 UTC

162 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Testing “True” Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal

MtryaSam2 Nov 2024 19:12 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Testing “True” Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal

MtryaSam2 Nov 2024 19:12 UTC

−3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Feedback request: what am I missing?

Nathan Helm-Burger2 Nov 2024 17:38 UTC

35 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Fragile, Robust, and Antifragile Preference Satisfaction

adamShimi2 Nov 2024 17:25 UTC

19 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(formethods.substack.com)

Higher Order Signs, Hallucination and Schizophrenia

Nicolas Villarreal2 Nov 2024 16:33 UTC

3 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

(nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com)

[Question] Is OpenAI net negative for AI Safety?

Lysandre Terrisse2 Nov 2024 16:18 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Two arguments against longtermist thought experiments

momom22 Nov 2024 10:22 UTC

15 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Both-Sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

James Stephen Brown2 Nov 2024 3:04 UTC

3 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

What can we learn from insecure domains?

Logan Zoellner1 Nov 2024 23:53 UTC

14 points

21 comments1 min readLW link

Science advances one funeral at a time

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena and AE Studio

1 Nov 2024 23:06 UTC

92 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

The Cartesian Crisis

mindprison1 Nov 2024 23:02 UTC

−5 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Composition Circuits in Vision Transformers (Hypothesis)

phenomanon1 Nov 2024 22:16 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

SAE Probing: What is it good for? Absolutely something!

Subhash Kantamneni, JoshEngels, Senthooran Rajamanoharan and Neel Nanda

1 Nov 2024 19:23 UTC

31 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

[Question] Set Theory Multiverse vs Mathematical Truth—Philosophical Discussion

Wenitte Apiou1 Nov 2024 18:56 UTC

8 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Educational CAI: Aligning a Language Model with Pedagogical Theories

Bharath Puranam1 Nov 2024 18:55 UTC

5 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

Prediction markets and Taxes

Edmund Nelson1 Nov 2024 17:39 UTC

10 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Dentistry, Oral Surgeons, and the Inefficiency of Small Markets

GeneSmith1 Nov 2024 17:26 UTC

77 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

Live Machinery: An Interface Design Philosophy for Wholesome AI Futures

Sahil1 Nov 2024 17:24 UTC

48 points

3 comments35 min readLW link

Seeking Collaborators

abramdemski1 Nov 2024 17:13 UTC

57 points

15 comments7 min readLW link

Complete Feedback

abramdemski1 Nov 2024 16:58 UTC

23 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Levers for Biological Progress—A Response to “Machines of Loving Grace”

Niko_McCarty1 Nov 2024 16:35 UTC

15 points

0 comments20 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

2024 Unofficial LW Community Census, Request for Comments

Screwtape1 Nov 2024 16:34 UTC

23 points

32 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] When engaging with a large amount of resources during a literature review, how do you prevent yourself from becoming overwhelmed?

corruptedCatapillar1 Nov 2024 7:29 UTC

25 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(draft) Cyborg software should be open (?)

AtillaYasar1 Nov 2024 7:24 UTC

4 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Another UFO Bet

codyz1 Nov 2024 1:55 UTC

6 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Trading Candy

jefftk1 Nov 2024 1:10 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

JargonBot Beta Test

Raemon1 Nov 2024 1:05 UTC

84 points

55 comments6 min readLW link

GPT-4o Guardrails Gone: Data Poisoning & Jailbreak-Tuning

ChengCheng, Brendan Murphy, AdamGleave and Kellin Pelrine

1 Nov 2024 0:10 UTC

18 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

(far.ai)

The slingshot helps with learning

Wilson Wu31 Oct 2024 23:18 UTC

33 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Toward Safety Case Inspired Basic Research

Lucas Teixeira, Lauren Greenspan, Dmitry Vaintrob and Eric Winsor

31 Oct 2024 23:06 UTC

55 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

Spooky Recommendation System Scaling

phdead31 Oct 2024 22:00 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

‘Meta’, ‘mesa’, and mountains

Lorec31 Oct 2024 17:25 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Toward Safety Cases For AI Scheming

Mikita Balesni and Marius Hobbhahn

31 Oct 2024 17:20 UTC

60 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

AI #88: Thanks for the Memos

Zvi31 Oct 2024 15:00 UTC

46 points

5 comments77 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Compendium, A full argument about extinction risk from AGI

adamShimi, Gabriel Alfour, Connor Leahy, Chris Scammell and Andrea_Miotti

31 Oct 2024 12:01 UTC

192 points

52 comments2 min readLW link

(www.thecompendium.ai)

Some Preliminary Notes on the Promise of a Wisdom Explosion

Chris_Leong31 Oct 2024 9:21 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

What TMS is like

Sable31 Oct 2024 0:44 UTC

207 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

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

gasteigerjo31 Oct 2024 0:09 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(aisafetyfrontier.substack.com)

Standard SAEs Might Be Incoherent: A Choosing Problem & A “Concise” Solution

Kola Ayonrinde30 Oct 2024 22:50 UTC

27 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Generic advice caveats

Saul Munn30 Oct 2024 21:03 UTC

27 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

(www.brasstacks.blog)