In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

owencb25 Jun 2024 23:52 UTC
105 points
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What is a Tool?

25 Jun 2024 23:40 UTC
62 points
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[Question] When do al­ign­ment re­searchers re­tire?

Jordan Taylor25 Jun 2024 23:30 UTC
4 points
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Com­pute Gover­nance Liter­a­ture Re­view

sijarvis25 Jun 2024 22:41 UTC
10 points
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Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity as an In­tu­ition Pump for LLM Gen­er­al­ity

aribrill25 Jun 2024 20:25 UTC
18 points
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Failure Modes of Teach­ing AI Safety

Eleni Angelou25 Jun 2024 19:07 UTC
20 points
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Kingfisher Sum­mer Tour 2024

jefftk25 Jun 2024 18:50 UTC
9 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

In­cen­tive Learn­ing vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

Steven Byrnes25 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC
27 points
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An In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of Sparse Au­toen­coders for Mechanis­tic In­ter­pretabil­ity of LLMs

Adam Karvonen25 Jun 2024 15:57 UTC
25 points
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(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
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La­bor Par­ti­ci­pa­tion is an Align­ment Risk

alex25 Jun 2024 14:15 UTC
−5 points
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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
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Memet­ics as an anal­ogy and its im­plicit connotations

Rachel Shu25 Jun 2024 5:13 UTC
3 points
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Mis­takes peo­ple make when think­ing about units

Isaac King25 Jun 2024 3:39 UTC
74 points
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Higher-effort sum­mer sols­tice: What if we used AI (i.e., An­gel Is­land)?

Rachel Shu25 Jun 2024 1:35 UTC
46 points
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Pre­dic­tion Mar­ket Trad­ing as an LLM Benchmark

Jesse Richardson25 Jun 2024 0:46 UTC
8 points
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I’m a bit skep­ti­cal of AlphaFold 3

Oleg Trott25 Jun 2024 0:04 UTC
87 points
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Be­ing hella lost as ra­tio­nal­ity practice

Rachel Shu24 Jun 2024 23:50 UTC
14 points
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A Ba­sic Eco­nomics-Style Model of AI Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Rubi J. Hudson24 Jun 2024 20:26 UTC
24 points
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The Minor­ity Coalition

Richard_Ngo24 Jun 2024 20:01 UTC
99 points
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(www.narrativeark.xyz)

Com­pact Proofs of Model Perfor­mance via Mechanis­tic Interpretability

24 Jun 2024 19:27 UTC
95 points
3 comments8 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Con­tra­pos­i­tive Nat­u­ral Ab­strac­tion—Pro­ject Intro

Elliot Callender24 Jun 2024 18:37 UTC
4 points
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Sparse Fea­tures Through Time

Rogan Inglis24 Jun 2024 18:06 UTC
12 points
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(roganinglis.io)

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

rpglover6424 Jun 2024 17:53 UTC
18 points
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Pay­ing Rus­si­ans to not in­vade Ukraine

djColliderBias24 Jun 2024 17:46 UTC
9 points
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SAE fea­ture ge­om­e­try is out­side the su­per­po­si­tion hypothesis

jake_mendel24 Jun 2024 16:07 UTC
221 points
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So you want to work on tech­ni­cal AI safety

gw24 Jun 2024 14:29 UTC
50 points
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The Fu­ture of Work: How Can Poli­cy­mak­ers Pre­pare for AI’s Im­pact on La­bor Mar­kets?

24 Jun 2024 14:18 UTC
5 points
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LLM Gen­er­al­ity is a Timeline Crux

eggsyntax24 Jun 2024 12:52 UTC
217 points
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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
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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
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So­cial in­ter­ac­tion-in­spired AI alignment

Chipmonk24 Jun 2024 8:10 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(chrislakin.blog)

A Step Against Land Value Tax

Blog Alt24 Jun 2024 5:13 UTC
9 points
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(antematters.substack.com)

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

24 Jun 2024 3:16 UTC
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Talk: AI safety field­build­ing at MATS

Ryan Kidd23 Jun 2024 23:06 UTC
26 points
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AI Labs Wouldn’t be Con­victed of Trea­son or Sedition

Matthew Khoriaty23 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC
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Con­trol Vec­tors as Dis­po­si­tional Traits

Gianluca Calcagni23 Jun 2024 21:34 UTC
9 points
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“On the Im­pos­si­bil­ity of Su­per­in­tel­li­gent Ru­bik’s Cube Solvers”, Claude 2024 [hu­mor]

gwern23 Jun 2024 21:18 UTC
22 points
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(gwern.net)

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

Nate Showell23 Jun 2024 19:13 UTC
26 points
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A sim­ple text sta­tus can change something

nextcaller23 Jun 2024 18:48 UTC
5 points
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35 In­ter­ac­tive Learn­ing Mo­d­ules Rele­vant to EAs /​ Effec­tive Altru­ism (that are all free)

spencerg23 Jun 2024 17:57 UTC
5 points
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Pod­casts: AGI Show, Con­sis­tently Can­did, Lon­don Futurists

KatjaGrace23 Jun 2024 13:50 UTC
16 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2019

jefftk23 Jun 2024 13:20 UTC
23 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Pop­u­la­tion ethics and the value of variety

cousin_it23 Jun 2024 10:42 UTC
24 points
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[Question] Karma votes: blind to or ac­count­ing for score?

cata22 Jun 2024 21:40 UTC
19 points
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[Question] Should effec­tive al­tru­ism be more “cool”?

jaredmantell22 Jun 2024 20:42 UTC
3 points
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