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Reliable Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC

381 points

53 comments43 min readLW link

Universal Basic Income and Poverty

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jul 2024 7:23 UTC

288 points

134 comments9 min readLW link

80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

272 points

71 comments1 min readLW link

Superbabies: Putting The Pieces Together

sarahconstantin11 Jul 2024 20:40 UTC

215 points

37 comments10 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Towards more cooperative AI safety strategies

Richard_Ngo16 Jul 2024 4:36 UTC

208 points

133 comments4 min readLW link

Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment

Marc Carauleanu, Mike Vaiana, Judd Rosenblatt, Diogo de Lucena, Cameron Berg and AE Studio

30 Jul 2024 16:22 UTC

193 points

43 comments12 min readLW link

Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and “Cope”

Raemon17 Jul 2024 22:14 UTC

193 points

46 comments7 min readLW link

Safety consultations for AI lab employees

Zach Stein-Perlman27 Jul 2024 15:00 UTC

181 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

This is already your second chance

Malmesbury28 Jul 2024 17:13 UTC

175 points

13 comments8 min readLW link

Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires

owencb and Raymond D

11 Jul 2024 9:38 UTC

146 points

32 comments12 min readLW link

(strangecities.substack.com)

An Extremely Opinionated Annotated List of My Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers v2

Neel Nanda7 Jul 2024 17:39 UTC

134 points

15 comments25 min readLW link

“AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems”

gjm25 Jul 2024 15:58 UTC

133 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

(deepmind.google)

On saying “Thank you” instead of “I’m Sorry”

Michael Cohn8 Jul 2024 3:13 UTC

132 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

Pantheon Interface

NicholasKees and Sofia Vanhanen

8 Jul 2024 19:03 UTC

126 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

Efficient Dictionary Learning with Switch Sparse Autoencoders

Anish Mudide22 Jul 2024 18:45 UTC

118 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

A List of 45+ Mech Interp Project Ideas from Apollo Research’s Interpretability Team

Lee Sharkey, Lucius Bushnaq, Dan Braun, StefanHex and Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill

18 Jul 2024 14:15 UTC

117 points

18 comments18 min readLW link

Introduction to French AI Policy

Lucie Philippon4 Jul 2024 3:39 UTC

110 points

12 comments6 min readLW link

You should go to ML conferences

Jan_Kulveit24 Jul 2024 11:47 UTC

110 points

13 comments4 min readLW link

OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics

jylin04, JackS, Adam Karvonen and Can

2 Jul 2024 9:12 UTC

108 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Most smart and skilled people are outside of the EA/rationalist community: an analysis

titotal12 Jul 2024 12:13 UTC

107 points

36 comments1 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Me, Myself, and AI: the Situational Awareness Dataset (SAD) for LLMs

L Rudolf L, bilalchughtai, jan betley, kaivu, Jérémy Scheurer, Mikita Balesni, AlexMeinke, Owain_Evans and Marius Hobbhahn

8 Jul 2024 22:24 UTC

106 points

28 comments5 min readLW link

Transformer Circuit Faithfulness Metrics Are Not Robust

Joseph Miller, bilalchughtai and William_S

12 Jul 2024 3:47 UTC

104 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Poker is a bad game for teaching epistemics. Figgie is a better one.

rossry8 Jul 2024 6:05 UTC

104 points

47 comments11 min readLW link

(blog.rossry.net)

A simple model of math skill

Alex_Altair21 Jul 2024 18:57 UTC

100 points

16 comments8 min readLW link

Dialogue introduction to Singular Learning Theory

Olli Järviniemi8 Jul 2024 16:58 UTC

97 points

14 comments8 min readLW link

I found >800 orthogonal “write code” steering vectors

Jacob G-W and TurnTrout

15 Jul 2024 19:06 UTC

96 points

19 comments7 min readLW link

(jacobgw.com)

Against Aschenbrenner: How ‘Situational Awareness’ constructs a narrative that undermines safety and threatens humanity

GideonF15 Jul 2024 18:37 UTC

93 points

17 comments21 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

A Solomonoff Inductor Walks Into a Bar: Schelling Points for Communication

johnswentworth and David Lorell

26 Jul 2024 0:33 UTC

93 points

1 comment13 min readLW link

New page: Integrity

Zach Stein-Perlman10 Jul 2024 15:00 UTC

91 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Covert Malicious Finetuning

Tony Wang and dannyhalawi

2 Jul 2024 2:41 UTC

89 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

AI #73: Openly Evil AI

Zvi18 Jul 2024 14:40 UTC

89 points

20 comments52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Re: Anthropic’s suggested SB-1047 amendments

RobertM27 Jul 2024 22:32 UTC

87 points

13 comments9 min readLW link

(www.documentcloud.org)

Reflections on Less Online

Error7 Jul 2024 3:49 UTC

85 points

15 comments18 min readLW link

Scalable oversight as a quantitative rather than qualitative problem

Buck6 Jul 2024 17:42 UTC

85 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

What are you getting paid in?

Austin Chen17 Jul 2024 19:23 UTC

85 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.approachwithalacrity.com)

Fluent, Cruxy Predictions

Raemon10 Jul 2024 18:00 UTC

85 points

14 comments14 min readLW link

A simple case for extreme inner misalignment

Richard_Ngo13 Jul 2024 15:40 UTC

85 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Decomposing the QK circuit with Bilinear Sparse Dictionary Learning

keith_wynroe and Lee Sharkey

2 Jul 2024 13:17 UTC

81 points

7 comments12 min readLW link

3C’s: A Recipe For Mathing Concepts

johnswentworth and David Lorell

3 Jul 2024 1:06 UTC

80 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

On the CrowdStrike Incident

Zvi22 Jul 2024 12:40 UTC

75 points

14 comments17 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Interpreting Preference Models w/ Sparse Autoencoders

Logan Riggs and Jannik Brinkmann

1 Jul 2024 21:35 UTC

74 points

12 comments9 min readLW link

LK-99 in retrospect

bhauth7 Jul 2024 2:06 UTC

72 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

D&D.Sci Scenario Index

aphyer and abstractapplic

23 Jul 2024 2:00 UTC

72 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Multiplex Gene Editing: Where Are We Now?

sarahconstantin16 Jul 2024 20:50 UTC

71 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Yoshua Bengio: Reasoning through arguments against taking AI safety seriously

Judd Rosenblatt11 Jul 2024 23:53 UTC

70 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(yoshuabengio.org)

Analyzing DeepMind’s Probabilistic Methods for Evaluating Agent Capabilities

Axel Højmark, Govind Pimpale, Arjun Panickssery, Marius Hobbhahn and Jérémy Scheurer

22 Jul 2024 16:17 UTC

69 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

An AI Race With China Can Be Better Than Not Racing

niplav2 Jul 2024 17:57 UTC

69 points

33 comments11 min readLW link

Indecision and internalized authority figures

Kaj_Sotala6 Jul 2024 10:10 UTC

68 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Brief notes on the Wikipedia game

Olli Järviniemi14 Jul 2024 2:28 UTC

68 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Timaeus is hiring!

Jesse Hoogland, Stan van Wingerden, Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel and Daniel Murfet

12 Jul 2024 23:42 UTC

67 points

6 comments2 min readLW link