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My guess at Conjecture’s vision: triggering a narrative bifurcation

Alexandre Variengien6 Feb 2024 19:10 UTC

75 points

12 comments16 min readLW link

Arrogance and People Pleasing

Jonathan Moregård6 Feb 2024 18:43 UTC

26 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

What does davidad want from «boundaries»?

Chipmonk and davidad

6 Feb 2024 17:45 UTC

44 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] How can I efficiently read all the Dath Ilan worldbuilding?

mike_hawke6 Feb 2024 16:52 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Preventing model exfiltration with upload limits

ryan_greenblatt6 Feb 2024 16:29 UTC

66 points

21 comments14 min readLW link

Evolution is an observation, not a process

Neil 6 Feb 2024 14:49 UTC

8 points

11 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] Why do we need an understanding of the real world to predict the next tokens in a body of text?

Valentin Baltadzhiev6 Feb 2024 14:43 UTC

2 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy

Zvi6 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC

64 points

6 comments63 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Why Two Valid Answers Approach is not Enough for Sleeping Beauty

Ape in the coat6 Feb 2024 14:21 UTC

6 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

Are most personality disorders really trust disorders?

chaosmage6 Feb 2024 12:37 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

From Conceptual Spaces to Quantum Concepts: Formalising and Learning Structured Conceptual Models

Roman Leventov6 Feb 2024 10:18 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Fluent dreaming for language models (AI interpretability method)

tbenthompson, mikes and Zygi Straznickas

6 Feb 2024 6:02 UTC

45 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Selfish AI Inevitable

Davey Morse6 Feb 2024 4:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Toy models of AI control for concentrated catastrophe prevention

Fabien Roger and Buck

6 Feb 2024 1:38 UTC

51 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Things You’re Allowed to Do: University Edition

Saul Munn6 Feb 2024 0:36 UTC

94 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

(www.brasstacks.blog)

Value learning in the absence of ground truth

Joel_Saarinen5 Feb 2024 18:56 UTC

47 points

8 comments45 min readLW link

Implementing activation steering

Annah5 Feb 2024 17:51 UTC

68 points

7 comments7 min readLW link

AI alignment as a translation problem

Roman Leventov5 Feb 2024 14:14 UTC

22 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Safe Stasis Fallacy

Davidmanheim5 Feb 2024 10:54 UTC

54 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How has internalising a post-AGI world affected your current choices?

yanni kyriacos5 Feb 2024 5:43 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

A thought experiment for comparing “biological” vs “digital” intelligence increase/explosion

Super AGI5 Feb 2024 4:57 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Noticing Panic

Cole Wyeth5 Feb 2024 3:45 UTC

57 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

EA/ACX/LW February Santa Cruz Meetup

madmail4 Feb 2024 23:26 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Vitalia Rationality Meetup

veronica4 Feb 2024 19:46 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Personal predictions

Daniele De Nuntiis4 Feb 2024 3:59 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

A sketch of acausal trade in practice

Richard_Ngo4 Feb 2024 0:32 UTC

35 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century

Roko3 Feb 2024 20:36 UTC

216 points

156 comments9 min readLW link

My thoughts on the Beff Jezos—Connor Leahy debate

Ariel Kwiatkowski3 Feb 2024 19:47 UTC

−5 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

The Journal of Dangerous Ideas

rogersbacon3 Feb 2024 15:40 UTC

−25 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

(www.secretorum.life)

Attitudes about Applied Rationality

Camille Berger 3 Feb 2024 14:42 UTC

108 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Practicing my Handwriting in 1439

Maxwell Tabarrok3 Feb 2024 13:21 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Finite Factored Sets to Bayes Nets Part 2

J Bostock3 Feb 2024 12:25 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Why I no longer identify as transhumanist

Kaj_Sotala3 Feb 2024 12:00 UTC

55 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Attention SAEs Scale to GPT-2 Small

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

3 Feb 2024 6:50 UTC

77 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Why do we need RLHF? Imitation, Inverse RL, and the role of reward

Ran W3 Feb 2024 4:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA)

James Fox, mike_safeAI and Ryan Kidd

2 Feb 2024 23:17 UTC

98 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Survey for alignment researchers!

Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt and AE Studio

2 Feb 2024 20:41 UTC

71 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Voting Results for the 2022 Review

Ben Pace2 Feb 2024 20:34 UTC

57 points

3 comments73 min readLW link

On Dwarkesh’s 3rd Podcast With Tyler Cowen

Zvi2 Feb 2024 19:30 UTC

36 points

9 comments21 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Most experts believe COVID-19 was probably not a lab leak

DanielFilan2 Feb 2024 19:28 UTC

66 points

89 comments2 min readLW link

(gcrinstitute.org)

What Failure Looks Like is not an existential risk (and alignment is not the solution)

otto.barten2 Feb 2024 18:59 UTC

13 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

Solving alignment isn’t enough for a flourishing future

mic2 Feb 2024 18:23 UTC

27 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Manifold Markets

PeterMcCluskey2 Feb 2024 17:48 UTC

26 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Types of subjective welfare

MichaelStJules2 Feb 2024 9:56 UTC

10 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Open Source Sparse Autoencoders for all Residual Stream Layers of GPT2-Small

Joseph Bloom2 Feb 2024 6:54 UTC

102 points

37 comments15 min readLW link

Soft Prompts for Evaluation: Measuring Conditional Distance of Capabilities

porby2 Feb 2024 5:49 UTC

47 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(1drv.ms)

Running a Prediction Market Mafia Game

Arjun Panickssery1 Feb 2024 23:24 UTC

22 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Evaluating Stability of Unreflective Alignment

james.lucassen1 Feb 2024 22:15 UTC

49 points

10 comments18 min readLW link

(jlucassen.com)

Davidad’s Provably Safe AI Architecture—ARIA’s Programme Thesis

simeon_c1 Feb 2024 21:30 UTC

69 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

(www.aria.org.uk)

Alignment has a Basin of Attraction: Beyond the Orthogonality Thesis

RogerDearnaley1 Feb 2024 21:15 UTC

15 points

15 comments13 min readLW link