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Freedom and Privacy of Thought Architectures

JohnBuridan20 Jul 2024 21:43 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Introduction to Modern Dating: Strategic Dating Advice for beginners

Jesper Lindholm20 Jul 2024 15:45 UTC

5 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

Why Georgism Lost Its Popularity

Zero Contradictions20 Jul 2024 15:08 UTC

43 points

50 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Only Fools Avoid Hindsight Bias

Kevin Dorst20 Jul 2024 13:42 UTC

−11 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(kevindorst.substack.com)

A more systematic case for inner misalignment

Richard_Ngo20 Jul 2024 5:03 UTC

31 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

BatchTopK: A Simple Improvement for TopK-SAEs

Bart Bussmann, Patrick Leask and Neel Nanda

20 Jul 2024 2:20 UTC

52 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Krona Compare

jefftk20 Jul 2024 1:10 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

(Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents

johnswentworth and David Lorell

19 Jul 2024 23:02 UTC

41 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Feature Targeted LLC Estimation Distinguishes SAE Features from Random Directions

Lidor Banuel Dabbah and Aviel Boag

19 Jul 2024 20:32 UTC

59 points

6 comments16 min readLW link

JumpReLU SAEs + Early Access to Gemma 2 SAEs

Senthooran Rajamanoharan, Tom Lieberum, nps29, Arthur Conmy, Vikrant Varma, János Kramár and Neel Nanda

19 Jul 2024 16:10 UTC

48 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(storage.googleapis.com)

Truth is Universal: Robust Detection of Lies in LLMs

Lennart Buerger19 Jul 2024 14:07 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Sustainability of Digital Life Form Societies

Hiroshi Yamakawa19 Jul 2024 13:59 UTC

19 points

1 comment20 min readLW link

Romae Industriae

Maxwell Tabarrok19 Jul 2024 13:03 UTC

34 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

[Question] Have people given up on iterated distillation and amplification?

Chris_Leong19 Jul 2024 12:23 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

How do we know that “good research” is good? (aka “direct evaluation” vs “eigen-evaluation”)

Ruby19 Jul 2024 0:31 UTC

47 points

21 comments6 min readLW link

Linkpost: Surely you can be serious

kave18 Jul 2024 22:18 UTC

59 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.experimental-history.com)

My experience applying to MATS 6.0

mic18 Jul 2024 19:02 UTC

16 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

[Question] What are the actual arguments in favor of computationalism as a theory of identity?

sunwillrise18 Jul 2024 18:44 UTC

12 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Yet Another Critique of “Luxury Beliefs”

ymeskhout18 Jul 2024 18:37 UTC

6 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

(www.ymeskhout.com)

[Interim research report] Evaluating the Goal-Directedness of Language Models

Rauno Arike, Elizabeth Donoway and Marius Hobbhahn

18 Jul 2024 18:19 UTC

39 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

Interpretability in Action: Exploratory Analysis of VPT, a Minecraft Agent

Karolis Jucys, george_adams and Sonia Joseph

18 Jul 2024 17:02 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Activation Engineering Theories of Impact

kubanetics18 Jul 2024 16:44 UTC

6 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] Me & My Clone

SimonBaars18 Jul 2024 16:25 UTC

27 points

22 comments1 min readLW link

AI #73: Openly Evil AI

Zvi18 Jul 2024 14:40 UTC

89 points

20 comments52 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

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

SAEs (usually) Transfer Between Base and Chat Models

Connor Kissane, robertzk, Arthur Conmy and Neel Nanda

18 Jul 2024 10:29 UTC

65 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] Should we exclude alignment research from LLM training datasets?

Ben Millwood18 Jul 2024 10:27 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Keeping content out of LLM training datasets

Ben Millwood18 Jul 2024 10:27 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

The Assassination of Trump’s Ear is Evidence for Time-Travel

elv18 Jul 2024 7:01 UTC

−9 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Friendship is transactional, unconditional friendship is insurance

Ruby17 Jul 2024 22:52 UTC

66 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

D&D.Sci: Whom Shall You Call? [Evaluation and Ruleset]

abstractapplic17 Jul 2024 22:34 UTC

17 points

5 comments5 min readLW link

Optimistic Assumptions, Longterm Planning, and “Cope”

Raemon17 Jul 2024 22:14 UTC

193 points

46 comments7 min readLW link

Baking vs Patissing vs Cooking, the HPS explanation

adamShimi17 Jul 2024 20:29 UTC

30 points

16 comments3 min readLW link

(epistemologicalfascinations.substack.com)

Launching the Respiratory Outlook 2024/25 Forecasting Series

ChristianWilliams17 Jul 2024 19:51 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

What are you getting paid in?

Austin Chen17 Jul 2024 19:23 UTC

84 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

(www.approachwithalacrity.com)

Individually incentivized safe Pareto improvements in open-source bargaining

Nicolas Macé, Anthony DiGiovanni and JesseClifton

17 Jul 2024 18:26 UTC

39 points

2 comments17 min readLW link

Profit and Value

kwang17 Jul 2024 18:06 UTC

22 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

(open.substack.com)

So You’ve Learned To Teleport by Tom Scott

landscape_kiwi17 Jul 2024 18:04 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

How does generalized accessibility compare to targeted accessibility?

ErioirE17 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Housing Roundup #9: Restricting Supply

Zvi17 Jul 2024 12:50 UTC

25 points

8 comments44 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

We ran an AI safety conference in Tokyo. It went really well. Come next year!

Blaine17 Jul 2024 6:55 UTC

45 points

1 comment6 min readLW link

Agency in Politics

Martin Sustrik17 Jul 2024 5:30 UTC

35 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(250bpm.substack.com)

Arrakis—A toolkit to conduct, track and visualize mechanistic interpretability experiments.

Yash Srivastava17 Jul 2024 2:02 UTC

2 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing Open Philanthropy’s AI governance and policy RFP

Julian Hazell17 Jul 2024 2:02 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Turning Your Back On Traffic

jefftk17 Jul 2024 1:00 UTC

37 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Opinions on Eureka Labs

jmh17 Jul 2024 0:16 UTC

6 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Simplifying Corrigibility – Subagent Corrigibility Is Not Anti-Natural

Rubi J. Hudson16 Jul 2024 22:44 UTC

44 points

27 comments5 min readLW link

Multiplex Gene Editing: Where Are We Now?

sarahconstantin16 Jul 2024 20:50 UTC

69 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Recursion in AI is scary. But let’s talk solutions.

Oleg Trott16 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

3 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

How to wash your hands precisely and thoroughly

dkl916 Jul 2024 18:29 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)