Toward a tax­on­omy of cog­ni­tive bench­marks for agen­tic AGIs

Ben Smith27 Jun 2024 23:50 UTC
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How Big a Deal are MatMul-Free Trans­form­ers?

JustisMills27 Jun 2024 22:28 UTC
19 points
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(justismills.substack.com)

Se­condary forces of debt

KatjaGrace27 Jun 2024 21:10 UTC
77 points
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(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Distil­la­tion of ‘Do lan­guage mod­els plan for fu­ture to­kens’

TheManxLoiner27 Jun 2024 20:57 UTC
26 points
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how birds sense mag­netic fields

bhauth27 Jun 2024 18:59 UTC
51 points
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(www.bhauth.com)

Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Tuning

Christopher Ackerman27 Jun 2024 17:44 UTC
35 points
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An is­sue with train­ing schemers with su­per­vised fine-tuning

Fabien Roger27 Jun 2024 15:37 UTC
49 points
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AI #70: A Beau­tiful Sonnet

Zvi27 Jun 2024 14:40 UTC
38 points
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De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

jefftk27 Jun 2024 14:01 UTC
87 points
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(naobservatory.org)

Cross Robin

jefftk27 Jun 2024 3:10 UTC
11 points
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(www.jefftk.com)

Live The­ory Part 0: Tak­ing In­tel­li­gence Seriously

Sahil26 Jun 2024 21:37 UTC
101 points
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In­stru­men­tal vs Ter­mi­nal Desiderata

Max Harms26 Jun 2024 20:57 UTC
21 points
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Im­bue (Gen­er­ally In­tel­li­gent) con­tinue to make progress

Nathan Helm-Burger26 Jun 2024 20:41 UTC
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(imbue.com)

Trac­ing the steps

matimissona26 Jun 2024 19:22 UTC
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Coun­ter­ing AI dis­in­for­ma­tion and deep fakes with digi­tal signatures

Dave Lindbergh26 Jun 2024 18:09 UTC
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Progress Con­fer­ence 2024: Toward Abun­dant Futures

jasoncrawford26 Jun 2024 15:39 UTC
40 points
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(rootsofprogress.org)

Schel­ling points in the AGI policy space

mesaoptimizer26 Jun 2024 13:19 UTC
52 points
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Bad les­sons learned from the debate

bayesyatina26 Jun 2024 11:54 UTC
8 points
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Child­hood and Ed­u­ca­tion Roundup #6: Col­lege Edition

Zvi26 Jun 2024 11:40 UTC
28 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

New fast trans­former in­fer­ence ASIC — Sohu by Etched

lemonhope26 Jun 2024 9:56 UTC
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(www.etched.com)

Em­piri­cal vs. Math­e­mat­i­cal Joints of Nature

26 Jun 2024 1:55 UTC
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My Cur­rent Claims and Cruxes on LLM Fore­cast­ing & Epistemics

ozziegooen26 Jun 2024 0:40 UTC
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In favour of ex­plor­ing nag­ging doubts about x-risk

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

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

Jordan Taylor25 Jun 2024 23:30 UTC
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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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In­cen­tive Learn­ing vs Dead Sea Salt Experiment

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

Adam Karvonen25 Jun 2024 15:57 UTC
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(adamkarvonen.github.io)

For­mal ver­ifi­ca­tion, heuris­tic ex­pla­na­tions and sur­prise accounting

Jacob_Hilton25 Jun 2024 15:40 UTC
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(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
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Monthly Roundup #19: June 2024

Zvi25 Jun 2024 12:00 UTC
28 points
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(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Reg­u­larly meta-optimization

Crazy philosopher25 Jun 2024 6:12 UTC
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Memet­ics as an anal­ogy and its im­plicit connotations

Rachel Shu25 Jun 2024 5:13 UTC
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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
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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
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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
96 points
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(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
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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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