Gell-Mann checks

Cleo Scrolls26 Sep 2024 22:45 UTC
20 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Do­ing Noth­ing Utility Function

k6426 Sep 2024 22:05 UTC
9 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Stanis­lav Petrov Quar­terly Perfor­mance Review

Ricki Heicklen26 Sep 2024 21:20 UTC
145 points
3 comments5 min readLW link
(bayesshammai.substack.com)

Self lo­ca­tion for LLMs by LLMs: Self-Assess­ment Check­list.

weightt an26 Sep 2024 19:57 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Four Levels of Vot­ing Methods

hive26 Sep 2024 18:15 UTC
17 points
3 comments9 min readLW link
(hiveism.substack.com)

Char­ac­ter­iz­ing sta­ble re­gions in the resi­d­ual stream of LLMs

26 Sep 2024 13:44 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Chevy Bolt Review

jefftk26 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

AI #83: The Mask Comes Off

Zvi26 Sep 2024 12:00 UTC
82 points
20 comments36 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The Ex­is­ten­tial Dread of Be­ing a Pow­er­ful AI System

testingthewaters26 Sep 2024 10:56 UTC
6 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

[Question] What pre­vents SB-1047 from trig­ger­ing on deep fake porn/​voice clon­ing fraud?

ChristianKl26 Sep 2024 9:17 UTC
27 points
21 comments1 min readLW link

[Com­pleted] The 2024 Petrov Day Scenario

26 Sep 2024 8:08 UTC
136 points
114 comments5 min readLW link

Source Con­trol for Pro­to­typ­ing and Analysis

jefftk26 Sep 2024 1:50 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Linkpost] Play with SAEs on Llama 3

25 Sep 2024 22:35 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Mira Mu­rati leaves OpenAI/​ OpenAI to re­move non-profit control

Sodium25 Sep 2024 21:15 UTC
58 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Com­par­ing Fore­cast­ing Track Records for AI Bench­mark­ing and Beyond

ChristianWilliams25 Sep 2024 21:01 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.metaculus.com)

Ex­tend­ing the Off-Switch Game: Toward a Ro­bust Frame­work for AI Corrigibility

OwenChen25 Sep 2024 20:38 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Eval­u­at­ing Syn­thetic Ac­ti­va­tions com­posed of SAE La­tents in GPT-2

25 Sep 2024 20:37 UTC
27 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Cli­mate Change And Global Warming

Zero Contradictions25 Sep 2024 19:13 UTC
−7 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(zerocontradictions.net)

How to pre­vent col­lu­sion when us­ing un­trusted mod­els to mon­i­tor each other

Buck25 Sep 2024 18:58 UTC
81 points
8 comments22 min readLW link

Align­ment by de­fault: the simu­la­tion hypothesis

gb25 Sep 2024 16:26 UTC
21 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

A Dialogue on De­cep­tive Align­ment Risks

Rauno Arike25 Sep 2024 16:10 UTC
11 points
0 comments18 min readLW link

[Paper] Hid­den in Plain Text: Emer­gence and Miti­ga­tion of Stegano­graphic Col­lu­sion in LLMs

25 Sep 2024 14:52 UTC
30 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

AIS Hun­gary Oper­a­tions Officer role, Dead­line: 2024 Oc­to­ber 6th

gergogaspar25 Sep 2024 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

[In­tu­itive self-mod­els] 2. Con­scious Awareness

Steven Byrnes25 Sep 2024 13:29 UTC
81 points
48 comments16 min readLW link

Book Re­view: On the Edge: The Business

Zvi25 Sep 2024 12:20 UTC
38 points
0 comments36 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Join the $10K Au­toHack 2024 Tournament

Paul Bricman25 Sep 2024 11:54 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(noemaresearch.com)

[Paper] A is for Ab­sorp­tion: Study­ing Fea­ture Split­ting and Ab­sorp­tion in Sparse Autoencoders

25 Sep 2024 9:31 UTC
71 points
16 comments3 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] Non-hu­man cen­tric view of existence

ZY25 Sep 2024 5:47 UTC
−3 points
14 comments1 min readLW link

How to Live Well: My Philos­o­phy of Life

Philosofer12325 Sep 2024 1:13 UTC
−8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(philosofer123.wordpress.com)

An open re­sponse to Wit­tkot­ter and Yampolskiy

Donald Hobson24 Sep 2024 22:27 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

A Path out of In­suffi­cient Views

Unreal24 Sep 2024 20:00 UTC
55 points
46 comments9 min readLW link

How to give effec­tively to US Dems

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Sep 2024 14:38 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.slowboring.com)

[Question] How do you fol­low AI (safety) news?

PeterH24 Sep 2024 13:58 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

In­struc­tion Fol­low­ing with­out In­struc­tion Tuning

Bogdan Ionut Cirstea24 Sep 2024 13:49 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(arxiv.org)

Book Re­view: On the Edge: The Gamblers

Zvi24 Sep 2024 11:50 UTC
35 points
1 comment89 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Edit­ing at the Take Level

jefftk24 Sep 2024 11:30 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Us­ing LLM’s for AI Foun­da­tion re­search and the Sim­ple Solu­tion assumption

Donald Hobson24 Sep 2024 11:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

When to join a re­spectabil­ity cascade

B Jacobs24 Sep 2024 7:54 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readLW link
(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Sam­pling Effects on Strate­gic Be­hav­ior in Su­per­vised Learn­ing Models

Phil Bland24 Sep 2024 7:44 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readLW link

In Praise of the Beatitudes

robotelvis24 Sep 2024 5:08 UTC
9 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(messyprogress.substack.com)

[Question] What are the best ar­gu­ments for/​against AIs be­ing “slightly ‘nice’”?

Raemon24 Sep 2024 2:00 UTC
94 points
58 comments31 min readLW link

Strug­gling like a Shadowmoth

Raemon24 Sep 2024 0:47 UTC
176 points
38 comments7 min readLW link

Bounty for Ev­i­dence on Some of Pal­isade Re­search’s Beliefs

23 Sep 2024 20:01 UTC
46 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dict­ing In­fluenza Abun­dance in Wastew­a­ter Me­tage­nomic Se­quenc­ing Data

jefftk23 Sep 2024 17:25 UTC
27 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(naobservatory.org)

A primer on ML in an­ti­body engineering

Abhishaike Mahajan23 Sep 2024 17:03 UTC
11 points
0 comments25 min readLW link
(www.owlposting.com)

[Question] On the sub­ject of in-house large lan­guage mod­els ver­sus im­ple­ment­ing fron­tier models

Annapurna23 Sep 2024 15:00 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A ba­sic sys­tems ar­chi­tec­ture for AI agents that do au­tonomous research

Buck23 Sep 2024 13:58 UTC
187 points
15 comments8 min readLW link

Book Re­view: On the Edge: The Fundamentals

Zvi23 Sep 2024 13:40 UTC
64 points
3 comments31 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Switch­ing to a 4GB SD

jefftk23 Sep 2024 11:20 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Model evals for dan­ger­ous capabilities

Zach Stein-Perlman23 Sep 2024 11:00 UTC
51 points
11 comments3 min readLW link