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Why People in Poverty Make Bad Decisions

James Stephen Brown15 Jul 2024 23:40 UTC

5 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

Paper Summary: Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution

Jeffrey Heninger15 Jul 2024 21:30 UTC

29 points

1 comment4 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

MIRI’s July 2024 newsletter

Harlan15 Jul 2024 21:28 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(intelligence.org)

How (and why) to get tested for CMV

Metacelsus15 Jul 2024 20:06 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

A Better Hyperstition (for AI readers)

Yeshua God15 Jul 2024 19:35 UTC

−20 points

0 comments119 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)

The AI alignment problem in socio-technical systems from a computational perspective: A Top-Down-Top view and outlook

zhaoweizhang15 Jul 2024 18:56 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Musings of a Layman: Technology, AI, and the Human Condition

Crimson Liquidity15 Jul 2024 18:40 UTC

−2 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

[Question] Seeking feedback on a critique of the paperclip maximizer thought experiment

bio neural15 Jul 2024 18:39 UTC

3 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

EAGxBerkeley 2024

Lauriander15 Jul 2024 18:38 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

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)

On predictability, chaos and AIs that don’t game our goals

Alejandro Tlaie15 Jul 2024 17:16 UTC

4 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Deceptive agents can collude to hide dangerous features in SAEs

Simon Lermen and Mateusz Dziemian

15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

33 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Hiding in plain sight: the questions we don’t ask

DDthinker15 Jul 2024 17:00 UTC

−1 points

1 comment26 min readLW link

Dialogue on What It Means For Something to Have A Function/Purpose

johnswentworth, Ramana Kumar and Steve Petersen

15 Jul 2024 16:28 UTC

38 points

5 comments16 min readLW link

Comparing Quantized Performance in Llama Models

NickyP15 Jul 2024 16:01 UTC

32 points

2 comments8 min readLW link

[Aspiration-based designs] A. Damages from misaligned optimization – two more models

Jobst Heitzig and Simon Dima

15 Jul 2024 14:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Stacked Laptop Monitor Update

jefftk15 Jul 2024 9:40 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Misnaming and Other Issues with OpenAI’s “Human Level” Superintelligence Hierarchy

Davidmanheim15 Jul 2024 5:50 UTC

48 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Series on Artificial Wisdom

Jordan Arel15 Jul 2024 1:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Designing Artificial Wisdom: Decision Forecasting AI & Futarchy

Jordan Arel15 Jul 2024 0:46 UTC

0 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Risk Overview of AI in Bio Research

J Bostock15 Jul 2024 0:04 UTC

5 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

Donating to help Democrats win in the 2024 elections: research, decision support, and recommendations

Michael Cohn14 Jul 2024 22:57 UTC

−1 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Four ways I’ve made bad decisions

Sodium14 Jul 2024 22:18 UTC

18 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

patent process problems

bhauth14 Jul 2024 21:12 UTC

33 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Breaking Circuit Breakers

mikes and tbenthompson

14 Jul 2024 18:57 UTC

53 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(confirmlabs.org)

Clopen sandwiches

dkl914 Jul 2024 13:07 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Child Handrail Returns

jefftk14 Jul 2024 12:40 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A (paraconsistent) logic to deal with inconsistent preferences

B Jacobs14 Jul 2024 11:17 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Robert Caro And Mechanistic Models In Biography

adamShimi14 Jul 2024 10:56 UTC

24 points

5 comments7 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

An Introduction to Representation Engineering—an activation-based paradigm for controlling LLMs

Jan Wehner14 Jul 2024 10:37 UTC

35 points

5 comments17 min readLW link

LLMs as a Planning Overhang

Larks14 Jul 2024 2:54 UTC

38 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Brief notes on the Wikipedia game

Olli Järviniemi14 Jul 2024 2:28 UTC

68 points

9 comments4 min readLW link

Spark in the Dark Guest Spots

jefftk14 Jul 2024 1:40 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Ice: The Penultimate Frontier

Roko13 Jul 2024 23:44 UTC

62 points

56 comments1 min readLW link

(transhumanaxiology.substack.com)

Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly

benkuhn13 Jul 2024 18:00 UTC

42 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Stitching SAEs of different sizes

Bart Bussmann, Patrick Leask, Joseph Bloom, Curt Tigges and Neel Nanda

13 Jul 2024 17:19 UTC

39 points

12 comments12 min readLW link

Kinds of Motivation

Sable13 Jul 2024 15:52 UTC

7 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

A simple case for extreme inner misalignment

Richard_Ngo13 Jul 2024 15:40 UTC

83 points

41 comments7 min readLW link

Reality Testing

Ben Turtel13 Jul 2024 15:20 UTC

−2 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

(bturtel.substack.com)

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better: The Animation.

Writer13 Jul 2024 14:03 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

The Modern Problems with Conformity

Zero Contradictions13 Jul 2024 8:20 UTC

0 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(expandingrationality.substack.com)

Designing Artificial Wisdom: GitWise and AlphaWise

Jordan Arel13 Jul 2024 6:46 UTC

2 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

OpenAI’s Intelligence Levels

infinibot2713 Jul 2024 6:25 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.bloomberg.com)

Some desirable properties of automated wisdom

Marius Adrian Nicoară13 Jul 2024 6:05 UTC

3 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Thought Experiments Website

minmi_drover13 Jul 2024 4:47 UTC

10 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

A Second Wetsuit Summer

jefftk13 Jul 2024 2:00 UTC

19 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

Consider attending the AI Security Forum ’24, a 1-day pre-DEFCON event

Charlie Rogers-Smith12 Jul 2024 23:01 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Memorising molecular structures

dkl912 Jul 2024 22:40 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)