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In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk

owencb25 Jun 2024 23:52 UTC

105 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

What is a Tool?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

25 Jun 2024 23:40 UTC

62 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] When do alignment researchers retire?

Jordan Taylor25 Jun 2024 23:30 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Compute Governance Literature Review

sijarvis25 Jun 2024 22:41 UTC

10 points

0 comments13 min readLW link

Computational Complexity as an Intuition Pump for LLM Generality

aribrill25 Jun 2024 20:25 UTC

18 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Failure Modes of Teaching AI Safety

Eleni Angelou25 Jun 2024 19:07 UTC

20 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Kingfisher Summer Tour 2024

jefftk25 Jun 2024 18:50 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Incentive Learning vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven Byrnes25 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC

27 points

1 comment28 min readLW link

An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs

Adam Karvonen25 Jun 2024 15:57 UTC

25 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

(adamkarvonen.github.io)

Formal verification, heuristic explanations and surprise accounting

Jacob_Hilton25 Jun 2024 15:40 UTC

156 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

Metastrategy get-started guide

Tahp25 Jun 2024 15:04 UTC

5 points

1 comment8 min readLW link

Labor Participation is an Alignment Risk

alex25 Jun 2024 14:15 UTC

−5 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

Monthly Roundup #19: June 2024

Zvi25 Jun 2024 12:00 UTC

28 points

9 comments54 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Regularly meta-optimization

Crazy philosopher25 Jun 2024 6:12 UTC

−4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Memetics as an analogy and its implicit connotations

Rachel Shu25 Jun 2024 5:13 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Mistakes people make when thinking about units

Isaac King25 Jun 2024 3:39 UTC

74 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Higher-effort summer solstice: What if we used AI (i.e., Angel Island)?

Rachel Shu25 Jun 2024 1:35 UTC

46 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Prediction Market Trading as an LLM Benchmark

Jesse Richardson25 Jun 2024 0:46 UTC

8 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

I’m a bit skeptical of AlphaFold 3

Oleg Trott25 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC

87 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Being hella lost as rationality practice

Rachel Shu24 Jun 2024 23:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

A Basic Economics-Style Model of AI Existential Risk

Rubi J. Hudson24 Jun 2024 20:26 UTC

24 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

The Minority Coalition

Richard_Ngo24 Jun 2024 20:01 UTC

99 points

7 comments5 min readLW link

(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Compact Proofs of Model Performance via Mechanistic Interpretability

LawrenceC, rajashree, Adrià Garriga-alonso and Jason Gross

24 Jun 2024 19:27 UTC

96 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Contrapositive Natural Abstraction—Project Intro

Elliot Callender24 Jun 2024 18:37 UTC

4 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Sparse Features Through Time

Rogan Inglis24 Jun 2024 18:06 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(roganinglis.io)

PSA: Consider alternatives to AUROC when reporting classifier metrics for alignment

rpglover6424 Jun 2024 17:53 UTC

18 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

Paying Russians to not invade Ukraine

djColliderBias24 Jun 2024 17:46 UTC

9 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

SAE feature geometry is outside the superposition hypothesis

jake_mendel24 Jun 2024 16:07 UTC

221 points

17 comments11 min readLW link

So you want to work on technical AI safety

gw24 Jun 2024 14:29 UTC

51 points

3 comments14 min readLW link

The Future of Work: How Can Policymakers Prepare for AI’s Impact on Labor Markets?

davidconrad, Arturs and Tillman Schenk

24 Jun 2024 14:18 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux

eggsyntax24 Jun 2024 12:52 UTC

217 points

119 comments7 min readLW link

On Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Zvi24 Jun 2024 12:00 UTC

95 points

14 comments13 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Book Review: Righteous Victims—A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict

Yair Halberstadt24 Jun 2024 11:02 UTC

51 points

8 comments34 min readLW link

The Living Planet Index: A Case Study in Statistical Pitfalls

Jan_Kulveit24 Jun 2024 10:05 UTC

24 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.nature.com)

Sci-Fi books micro-reviews

Yair Halberstadt24 Jun 2024 9:49 UTC

43 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

A Step Against Land Value Tax

Blog Alt24 Jun 2024 5:13 UTC

9 points

23 comments6 min readLW link

(antematters.substack.com)

Different senses in which two AIs can be “the same”

Vivek Hebbar and Buck

24 Jun 2024 3:16 UTC

68 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

Talk: AI safety fieldbuilding at MATS

Ryan Kidd23 Jun 2024 23:06 UTC

26 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

AI Labs Wouldn’t be Convicted of Treason or Sedition

Matthew Khoriaty23 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC

9 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Control Vectors as Dispositional Traits

Gianluca Calcagni23 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC

10 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

“On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [humor]

gwern23 Jun 2024 21:18 UTC

22 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(gwern.net)

[Question] How are you preparing for the possibility of an AI bust?

Nate Showell23 Jun 2024 19:13 UTC

26 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

A simple text status can change something

nextcaller23 Jun 2024 18:48 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

35 Interactive Learning Modules Relevant to EAs / Effective Altruism (that are all free)

spencerg23 Jun 2024 17:57 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists

KatjaGrace23 Jun 2024 13:50 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2019

jefftk23 Jun 2024 13:20 UTC

23 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Population ethics and the value of variety

cousin_it23 Jun 2024 10:42 UTC

24 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Karma votes: blind to or accounting for score?

cata22 Jun 2024 21:40 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should effective altruism be more “cool”?

jaredmantell22 Jun 2024 20:42 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Meta Alignment: Communication Wack-a-Mole

Bridgett Kay22 Jun 2024 20:12 UTC

16 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(dxmrevealed.wordpress.com)