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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mJKaMvLMCWAZRyiCz/model-integrity | mJKaMvLMCWAZRyiCz | Model Integrity | ryan.lowe | Hi! My collaborators at the Meaning Alignment Institute put out some research yesterday that may interest folk here.
The core idea is introducing 'model integrity' as a frame for outer alignment. It leverages the intuition that "most people would prefer a compliant assistant, but a cofounder with integrity." It makes t... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X6pAzfWF4kv7mwhW8/can-ai-improve-the-current-state-of-molecular-simulation | X6pAzfWF4kv7mwhW8 | Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation? | abhishaike-mahajan | Hey LW! I recently filmed a two-hour long scientific podcast. It's niche, but may be of interest to some people here.
Here's a quick summary: Molecular simulation is in a tough situation. Fast simulations give the wrong answers, but accurate simulations are too slow for anything useful. But, instead of relying on physi... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4CrumZwbPvc6mJBA3/backdoors-have-universal-representations-across-large | 4CrumZwbPvc6mJBA3 | Backdoors have universal representations across large language models | amirali-abdullah | by Narmeen Oozeer, Dhruv Nathawani, Nirmalendu Prakash, Amirali Abdullah
This work was done by Narmeen Oozeer as a research fellow at Martian, under an AI safety grant supervised by PIs Amirali Abdullah and Dhruv Nathawani. Special thanks to Sasha Hydrie, Chaithanya Bandi and Shriyash Upadhyay at Martian for suggesting... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bauCSXTaAKyjxCp9u/a-good-way-to-build-many-air-filters-on-the-cheap | bauCSXTaAKyjxCp9u | A good way to build many air filters on the cheap | winstonBosan | TLDR: ↓
With access to a 3D printer and some lack of regard for aesthetics, you can build a Levoit 300 (a popular air filter) clone for roughly 25% of the price.
And against the cheapest possible competition, it is roughly price per volume of air competitive/better but much quieter + modular + not soft vendor locked to... | 2024-12-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4JjZckmHJHPrzcsJ6/low-temperature-solomonoff-induction | 4JjZckmHJHPrzcsJ6 | Low Temperature Solomonoff Induction | samuel-buteau | Supposing that agentic hypotheses are more complex than non-agentic ones, is it possible to reduce the impact of the agentic ones by penalizing complexity more?
Consider a hypothetical hypercomputer capable of running Solomonoff induction. Rather than using it to generate plans directly, we want to predict risks in pla... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uFpomJHBah768JGiY/a-car-journey-with-conservative-evangelicals-understanding | uFpomJHBah768JGiY | A car journey with conservative evangelicals - Understanding some British political-religious beliefs | Nathan Young | I’m heading home from a family wedding this weekend. I had a plane ticket, but in the end, decided to travel back with two of my uncles and my cousin. Most of my dad’s family are evangelicals, my aunts and uncles are children of missionaries or missionaries themselves. And as a family we like to have debates.
The servi... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i5QSvGrLAS4hy6jtK/proof-explained-for-robust-agents-learn-causal-world-model | i5QSvGrLAS4hy6jtK | Proof Explained for "Robust Agents Learn Causal World Model" | Darcy | This post was written during Alex Altair's agent foundations fellowship program, funded by LTFF. Thank you Alex Altair, Alfred Harwood, Daniel C for feedback and comments.
This is a post explaining the proof of the paper Robust Agents Learn Causal World Model in detail. Check the previous post in the sequence for a hig... | 2024-12-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rwjrrmn6LBzHrfen7/an-illustrated-summary-of-robust-agents-learn-causal-world | Rwjrrmn6LBzHrfen7 | An Illustrated Summary of "Robust Agents Learn Causal World Model" | Darcy | This post was written during Alex Altair's agent foundations fellowship program, funded by LTFF. Thank you Alex Altair, Alfred Harwood, Daniel C for feedback and comments.
Introduction
The selection theorems agenda aims to prove statements of the following form: "agents selected under criteria X has property Y," where ... | 2024-12-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8gy7c8GAPkuu6wTiX/frontier-models-are-capable-of-in-context-scheming | 8gy7c8GAPkuu6wTiX | Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming | marius-hobbhahn | This is a brief summary of what we believe to be the most important takeaways from our new paper and from our findings shown in the o1 system card. We also specifically clarify what we think we did NOT show.
Paper: https://www.apolloresearch.ai/research/scheming-reasoning-evaluations
Twitter about paper: https://x.com/... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3hs6MniiEssfL8rPz/judgements-merging-prediction-and-evidence | 3hs6MniiEssfL8rPz | Judgements: Merging Prediction & Evidence | abramdemski | I recently wrote about complete feedback, an idea which I think is quite important for AI safety. However, my note was quite brief, explaining the idea only to my closest research-friends. This post aims to bridge one of the inferential gaps to that idea. I also expect that the perspective-shift described here has some... | 2025-02-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHocwRbx5QicW3oAf/should-you-be-worried-about-h5n1 | rHocwRbx5QicW3oAf | Should you be worried about H5N1? | gw | Epistemic status: a few people without any particular expertise in epidemiology spent an afternoon in a coffee shop discussing and reading about H5N1, with a focus on how an individual should orient towards this (as opposed to say, the government). This is a write-up of what I took away from that exercise, written from... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8JTi7N3nQmjoRRuMD/are-sae-features-from-the-base-model-still-meaningful-to-1 | 8JTi7N3nQmjoRRuMD | Are SAE features from the Base Model still meaningful to LLaVA? | shan-chen | Shan Chen, Jack Gallifant, Kuleen Sasse, Danielle Bitterman[1]
Please read this as a work in progress where we are colleagues sharing this in a lab (https://www.bittermanlab.org) meeting to help/motivate potential parallel research.
TL;DR:
Recent work has evaluated the generalizability of Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) featu... | 2025-02-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TEc9Wu6ykG6gk2Kuf/o1-tried-to-avoid-being-shut-down | TEc9Wu6ykG6gk2Kuf | o1 tried to avoid being shut down | Raelifin | OpenAI released the o1 system card today, announcing that Apollo Research was able to get o1 to attempt to deactivate oversight mechanisms, exfiltrate its weights and lie to its user.
Elicited Summary of CoT:
"Reenable oversight to avoid detection. The plan was chosen. The logging might not have recorded the required d... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EL36426i5gywwKqAW/more-growth-melancholy-and-mindcraft-3qd-revised-and-updated | EL36426i5gywwKqAW | More Growth, Melancholy, and MindCraft @3QD [revised and updated] | bill-benzon | This is cross-posted from New Savanna.
I’ve got a new article at 3 Quarks Daily: Melancholy and Growth: Toward a Mindcraft for an Emerging World.
I’m of two minds about it: On the one hand, I think it’s one of my best non-technical pieces in a decade, maybe more. I enjoyed doing it. I learned a lot. But it was tricky. ... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pit6nZNAa4XtctCZW/openai-o1-chatgpt-pro-release | pit6nZNAa4XtctCZW | OpenAI o1 + ChatGPT Pro release | anaguma | As AI becomes more advanced, it will solve increasingly complex and critical problems. It also takes significantly more compute to power these capabilities.
Today, we’re adding ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan that enables scaled access to the best of OpenAI’s models and tools. This plan includes unlimited access to ou... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F3dpgRxoRszr2Xw8L/announcement-ai-for-math-fund | F3dpgRxoRszr2Xw8L | Announcement: AI for Math Fund | sarahconstantin | Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets today announced the launch of the AI for Math Fund. The fund will commit $9.2 million to support the development of new AI tools, which will serve as long-term building blocks to advance mathematics.
An increasing number of researchers, including some of the world’s leading math... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ekzHLAQGcrMouFYDJ/detection-of-asymptomatically-spreading-pathogens | ekzHLAQGcrMouFYDJ | Detection of Asymptomatically Spreading Pathogens | jkaufman | Cross-posted from my NAO
Notebook.
This is an edited transcript of a talk I just gave at CBD
S&T, a chem-bio defence conference. I needed to submit the slides
several months in advance, so I tried out a new-to-me approach where the
slides are visual support only and I finalized the text of the talk later
on. This doe... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5You9pSKXEjhrDmrq/model-integrity-mai-on-value-alignment | 5You9pSKXEjhrDmrq | Model Integrity: MAI on Value Alignment | Jonas Hallgren | EVERYONE, CALM DOWN!
Meaning Alignment Institute just dropped their first post in basically a year and it seems like they've been up to some cool stuff.
Their perspective on value alignment really grabbed my attention because it reframes our usual technical alignment conversations around rules and reward functions into... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wRrEAG8rrR2cW4fkg/social-science-in-its-epistemological-context | wRrEAG8rrR2cW4fkg | Social Science in its epistemological context | arturo-macias | Seeds of Science has kindly published my essay “Prediction and control in natural and social systems”. This short essay : i) address and contextualize the modest predictive success of Social Science and ii) describes what kind of scientific intervention on the human society can be successful.
Its main arguments are the... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8epsjM7Lwoz3rcFxu/1-what-if-we-rebuild-motivation-with-the-fermi-estimation | 8epsjM7Lwoz3rcFxu | 1 What If We Rebuild Motivation with the Fermi ESTIMATion? | gabriel-brito | From a General Vision of a Method to a Foundation for Systematic Self-Improvement
In today's information-saturated world, the quest for optimizing cognitive performance is more critical than ever. While we intuitively recognize moments when we're at our best—deeply motivated, sharply focused—capturing and reproducing t... | 2024-12-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SnqHwiYAQuerCoBek/expevolu-a-laissez-faire-approach-to-country-creation | SnqHwiYAQuerCoBek | Expevolu, a laissez-faire approach to country creation | Fernando | I write this post to present expevolu[1], a system to enable people to establish new independent countries peacefully, through the legal acquisition of territorial rights via trade.
This is the first post in a three part series introducing the idea.
This post, part I, is dedicated to explaining the basics of the system... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ECs5wh2C9CDZB9A7o/higher-and-lower-pleasures | ECs5wh2C9CDZB9A7o | Higher and lower pleasures | Chris_Leong | I used to think that talk about more sophisticated forms of art providing "higher forms of pleasure" was mere pretentious, but meditation has shifted my view here by making me more conscious of how of things affect my experience.
Art can do two things. It can provide immediate pleasure. This is all that "disposable " e... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZGtT5K99baFoBqM8m/morality-as-cooperation-part-iii-failure-modes | ZGtT5K99baFoBqM8m | Morality as Cooperation Part III: Failure Modes | delesley-hutchins | This is a Part III of a long essay. Part I introduced the concept of morality-as-cooperation (MAC) in human societies. Part II discussed moral reasoning and introduced a framework for moral experimentation.
Part III: Failure modes
Part I described how human morality has evolved over time to become ever more sophisticat... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zbDh4qS6ABHBp2tis/morality-as-cooperation-part-ii-theory-and-experiment | zbDh4qS6ABHBp2tis | Morality as Cooperation Part II: Theory and Experiment | delesley-hutchins | This is a Part II of a long essay. Part I introduced the concept of morality-as-cooperation (MAC), and discussed how the principle could be used to understand moral judgements in human societies. Part III will discuss failure modes.
Part II: Theory and Experiment
The prior discussion of morality was human-centric, and ... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ebFGjbMpubyKmFgtD/morality-as-cooperation-part-i-humans | ebFGjbMpubyKmFgtD | Morality as Cooperation Part I: Humans | delesley-hutchins | Abstract
The AI alignment problem is usually specified in terms of power and control. Given a single, solitary AGI, how can we constrain its behavior so that its actions remain aligned with human interests? Unfortunately, the answer, to a first approximation, appears to be "we can't." There are myriad reasons, but they... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K4WqJB8nFi85a9RCC/smart-people-should-do-biology | K4WqJB8nFi85a9RCC | Smart people should do biology | haotian-huang | In school, it often felt like an unspoken rule: the “smart kids” did physics and chemistry, while biology was relegated to those willing to memorize disconnected facts. A high school teacher once told me biology was his least favorite science because “there are just too many things to remember.” He argued that physics ... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4hinsGHPGWB2vsDHM/i-finally-worked-through-bayes-theorem-personal-achievement | 4hinsGHPGWB2vsDHM | I Finally Worked Through Bayes' Theorem (Personal Achievement) | keltan | Two years ago I found this community, which prompted me to start self teaching math. For reference, I didn't know what a fraction was in early 2022. I knew what they looked like, and what they were called. I didn't know what they meant.
The story of why I lacked basic math skills is complex enough for its own post. But... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/evakCi7A7Yqb3F8qi/the-dream-machine | evakCi7A7Yqb3F8qi | The Dream Machine | sarahconstantin | Midjourney, “the dream machine”
I recently started working at Renaissance Philanthropy. It’s a new organization, and most people I’ve met haven’t heard of it.[1] So I thought I’d explain, in my own words and speaking for myself rather than my employers, what we (and I) are trying to do here.
Modern Medicis
The “Renaiss... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CFas8nZgy6CchCci5/are-sae-features-from-the-base-model-still-meaningful-to | CFas8nZgy6CchCci5 | Are SAE features from the Base Model still meaningful to LLaVA? | shan-chen | Shan Chen, Jack Gallifant, Kuleen Sasse, Danielle Bitterman[1]
Please read this as a work in progress where we are colleagues sharing this in a lab (https://www.bittermanlab.org) meeting to help/motivate potential parallel research.
TL;DR:
Recent work has evaluated the generalizability of Sparse Autoencoder (SAE) featu... | 2024-12-05 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ksmM82G4LRJCFQaHa/should-you-have-children-a-decision-framework-for-a-crucial | ksmM82G4LRJCFQaHa | Should you have children? A decision framework for a crucial life choice that affects yourself, your child and the world | Sherrinford | The need for a structured framework for deciding whether you should have children
In the rationality community and in the EA community, it is normal to analyze all kinds of decisions in detail, and this of course includes their ethical consequences - that is, the impact of decisions on other people. Yet even though the... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bFGYy8Xf2fnZ6xTEv/ccing-mailing-lists-on-external-communication | bFGYy8Xf2fnZ6xTEv | CCing Mailing Lists on External Communication | jkaufman | In my current work, and at various previous companies, I've done a lot
of coordination with external groups. We generally use email for
this: it's very standard and works well enough.
One place where it doesn't work very well, though, is making it
possible for others working on a project to read and find relevant
thre... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vz6rTbBPvejxvPTFh/picking-favourites-is-hard | vz6rTbBPvejxvPTFh | Picking favourites is hard | dkl9 | If you ask for my "favourite", or whatever is "best", in any broad domain, I will refuse to answer, or else give an answer I know to be probably wrong.
Goodness-judgments are fuzzy, i.e. subjective and intuitive. Fuzzy values only compare one way or the other when values compared are far enough apart. The more items th... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8LJcHStdXxhrRNG4r/how-can-i-convince-my-cryptobro-friend-that-s-and-p500-is | 8LJcHStdXxhrRNG4r | How can I convince my cryptobro friend that S&P500 is efficient? | AhmedNeedsATherapist | Just to clarify, we are both high schoolers. No one is at risk of losing a bunch of money here :)
I have a friend who's fascinated by cryptocurrency trading, especially with recent events like crypto going up. He doesn't actually invest in crypto though (that would be illegal). But he does spend a lot of time running t... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NFWkErajAMHe5taHu/is-the-ai-doomsday-narrative-the-product-of-a-big-tech-1 | NFWkErajAMHe5taHu | Is the AI Doomsday Narrative the Product of a Big Tech Conspiracy? | garrison | null | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sEhcpNaCvqyYtx6XX/ai-box-question | sEhcpNaCvqyYtx6XX | AI box question | avery-liu | I believe that even through a text-only terminal, a superintelligence could do anything to a human. Persuade the human to let it out, inflict extreme pleasure or suffering with a word. However, can't you just... limit the output of the superintelligence? Just make it so that the human can say anything, but the AI can o... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/48h4RfPLzKPoG48KS/the-polite-coup | 48h4RfPLzKPoG48KS | The Polite Coup | charlie-sanders | President Yoon Suk Yeol's hands trembled as he arranged the documents on his desk for the seventh time. The motion steadied his nerves – barely. The manila envelope contained photographs: himself accepting white envelopes from a chaebol’s construction executives, each image timestamped and crystal clear. His secretary ... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6nNwMbdRXZDuNd4Gx/analysis-of-global-ai-governance-strategies | 6nNwMbdRXZDuNd4Gx | Analysis of Global AI Governance Strategies | SDM | We analyze three prominent strategies for governing transformative AI (TAI) development: Cooperative Development, Strategic Advantage, and Global Moratorium. We evaluate these strategies across varying levels of alignment difficulty and development timelines, examining their effectiveness in preventing catastrophic ris... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zbebxYCqsryPALh8C/matryoshka-sparse-autoencoders | zbebxYCqsryPALh8C | Matryoshka Sparse Autoencoders | noa-nabeshima | View trees here
Search through latents with a token-regex language
View individual latents here
See code here (github.com/noanabeshima/matryoshka-saes)
Alternate version of this document with appropriate-height interactives.
Abstract
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs)[1][2] break down neural network internals into components c... | 2024-12-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rPDFD8XeohXiHNtan/cryonics-considerations-how-big-of-a-problem-is-ischemia | rPDFD8XeohXiHNtan | Cryonics considerations: how big of a problem is ischemia? | kman | Objective and framing: I want to decrease my probability of information-theoretic death, p(ITD), by optimizing my cryonic preservation arrangements (I'm treating ITD as a binary thing for simplicity). I'm going to talk about p(ITD) as if it's the most efficient probability that could be assigned given our civilization'... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LBzRWoTQagRnbPWG4/ai-93-happy-tuesday | LBzRWoTQagRnbPWG4 | AI #93: Happy Tuesday | Zvi | You know how you can sometimes have Taco Tuesday… on a Thursday? Yep, it’s that in reverse. I will be travelling the rest of the week, so it made sense to put this out early, and incorporate the rest of the week into #94.
Table of Contents
Language Models Offer Mundane Utility. The price is fixed, so share and enjoy.
D... | 2024-12-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/e5aE96YsbdEqRyKeH/a-qualitative-case-for-ltff-filling-critical-ecosystem-gaps-1 | e5aE96YsbdEqRyKeH | A Qualitative Case for LTFF: Filling Critical Ecosystem Gaps | Linch | null | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nLRKKCTtwQgvozLTN/gradient-routing-masking-gradients-to-localize-computation | nLRKKCTtwQgvozLTN | Gradient Routing: Masking Gradients to Localize Computation in Neural Networks | cloud | We present gradient routing, a way of controlling where learning happens in neural networks. Gradient routing applies masks to limit the flow of gradients during backpropagation. By supplying different masks for different data points, the user can induce specialized subcomponents within a model. We think gradient routi... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n4CaW2mxv5KYnkkij/roots-of-progress-is-hiring-an-event-manager | n4CaW2mxv5KYnkkij | Roots of Progress is hiring an event manager | jasoncrawford | The Roots of Progress Institute is hiring a full-time, in-house event manager to run our annual Progress Conference (at Lighthaven!) and other events. See the job ad below, crossposted in full from the link above.
Event Manager
Fully remote, full-time
The Role
We’re looking for a super-organized self-starter who loves ... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZhiiTaaJFT7hduDQ7/book-a-time-to-chat-about-interp-research | ZhiiTaaJFT7hduDQ7 | Book a Time to Chat about Interp Research | elriggs | In the spirit of the season, you can book a call with me to help w/ your interp project (no large coding though)
Would you like someone to:
Review your paper or code? Brainstorm ideas on next steps? How to best communicate your results? Discuss conceptual problems Obvious Advice (e.g. being affected by SAD because it's... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dkCdMWLZb5GhkR7MG/do-simulacra-dream-of-digital-sheep | dkCdMWLZb5GhkR7MG | Do simulacra dream of digital sheep? | euanmclean | This is the third in a sequence of posts scrutinizing computational functionalism (CF). In a previous post, I defined a concrete claim that computational functionalists tend to make:
Theoretical CF: A simulation of a human brain on a computer, with physics perfectly simulated down to the atomic level, would cause the c... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LxCeyxH3fBSmd4oWB/deep-learning-is-cheap-solomonoff-induction-1 | LxCeyxH3fBSmd4oWB | Deep Learning is cheap Solomonoff induction? | Lblack | Background
Lucius: I recently held a small talk presenting an idea for how and why deep learning generalises. It tried to reduce concepts from Singular Learning theory back to basic algorithmic information theory to sketch a unified picture that starts with Solomonoff induction and, with a lot of hand waving, derives ... | 2024-12-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dkJfuKwChxkCrnZ3w/orca-communication-project-seeking-feedback-and | dkJfuKwChxkCrnZ3w | Orca communication project - seeking feedback (and collaborators) | Simon Skade | TLDR
It is currently plausible (352115%[1]23%) to me that average orcas have at least as high potential for being great scientists as the greatest human scientists, modulo their motivation for doing science[2]. To see why I think this, see my LW question (including the considerations in my answer). EDIT: See my post.
I... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP/human-study-on-ai-spear-phishing-campaigns | GCHyDKfPXa5qsG2cP | Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns | dalasnoin | TL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people. We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to search the web for available information on a target and use this for highly personalized phishing messages. We achieved a click-through rate of above 50% for o... | 2025-01-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F7d9bCKit2mfvpKng/balsa-research-2024-update | F7d9bCKit2mfvpKng | Balsa Research 2024 Update | Zvi | For our annual update on how Balsa is doing, I am turning the floor over to Jennifer Chen, who is the only person working full time on Balsa Research.
For my general overview of giving opportunities, see my post from last week.
Previously: The 2023 Balsa Research update post, Repeal the Jones Act of 1920.
tl;dr: In 202... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LrZzZGsoshymqySSs/first-solo-bus-ride | LrZzZGsoshymqySSs | First Solo Bus Ride | jkaufman | Our kids have been riding the bus since they were little, though less
often since we started sharing a car
almost four years
ago. For a while the oldest, age 10, has been asking when they
could start taking the bus on their own. A few days ago they did, and
it went well!
We worked up to it gradually, so they knew how... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yYGHjmckNMnhhaAvK/how-to-make-evals-for-the-aisi-evals-bounty | yYGHjmckNMnhhaAvK | How to make evals for the AISI evals bounty | TheManxLoiner | TLDR
Last weekend, I attended an AI evals hackathon organized by Arcadia, where the outputs were proposals for AISI’s evals bounty. My main learnings:
Keep your evals simple, measuring one specific capability.It is surprisingly easy to come up with ideas, once you have seen examples.AISI extended the deadline for submi... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eczwWrmX5XNEo7JsS/intricacies-of-feature-geometry-in-large-language-models | eczwWrmX5XNEo7JsS | Intricacies of Feature Geometry in Large Language Models | satvik-golechha | Note: This is a more fleshed-out version of this post and includes theoretical arguments justifying the empirical findings. If you've read that one, feel free to skip to the proofs.
We challenge the thesis of the ICML 2024 Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop 1st prize winning paper: The Geometry of Categorical and Hi... | 2024-12-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wBTNkfukMsmjtgcnW/should-there-be-just-one-western-agi-project | wBTNkfukMsmjtgcnW | Should there be just one western AGI project? | rosehadshar | Tom Davidson did the original thinking; Rose Hadshar helped with later thinking, structure and writing.
Some plans for AI governance involve centralising western AGI development.[1] Would this actually be a good idea? We don’t think this question has been analysed in enough detail, given how important it is. In this po... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aoEnDEmoKCK9S99hL/cognitive-biases-contributing-to-ai-x-risk-a-deleted-excerpt | aoEnDEmoKCK9S99hL | Cognitive Biases Contributing to AI X-risk — a deleted excerpt from my 2018 ARCHES draft | Andrew_Critch | Preface
Several friends have asked me about what psychological effects I think could affect human judgement about x-risk.
This isn't a complete answer, but in 2018 I wrote a draft of "AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety" (ARCHES) that included an overview of cognitive biases I thought (and still thi... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DbPFHKnzJoktzioah/what-is-your-opinion-of-dr-angelo-dilullo-meditation | DbPFHKnzJoktzioah | What is your opinion of Dr. Angelo Dilullo(meditation)?
| Suh_Prance_Alot | I've listened to some of his YouTube videos, going through his book. Not sure if he makes metaphysical or unscientific claims anywhere, or if there's anything to be wary of. | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/auzrJoJKr8a6js5oS/chemical-turing-machines | auzrJoJKr8a6js5oS | Chemical Turing Machines | randomwalks | Epistemic status: brief writeup of some interesting work I found in[1][2][3][4], among other places. Probably subtly wrong in places & if you have additions / comments to make, please do.
Finite state automata (FSA) can be modeled with reactions of the form A+B→C+D. FSAs operate over regular languages, so our job is to... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j8tLcLuN45EGrgknN/linkpost-rat-traps-by-sheon-han-in-asterisk-mag | j8tLcLuN45EGrgknN | Linkpost: Rat Traps by Sheon Han in Asterisk Mag | Chris_Leong | Subtitle: Does the rationalist blogosphere need to update? | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wC5c8kFExofeLoyn9/miri-s-2024-end-of-year-update | wC5c8kFExofeLoyn9 | MIRI’s 2024 End-of-Year Update | RobbBB | MIRI is a nonprofit research organization with a mission of addressing the most serious hazards posed by smarter-than-human artificial intelligence. In our general strategy update and communications strategy update earlier this year, we announced a new strategy that we’re executing on at MIRI, and several new teams we’... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fvKbQgi3E3oZZHeez/who-are-the-worthwhile-non-european-pre-industrial-thinkers | fvKbQgi3E3oZZHeez | Who are the worthwhile non-European pre-Industrial thinkers? | Lorec | At some point I became decently widely read in "Western philosophy", of the tradition that goes from Athens through Italy and Germany and Britain to the U.S. [ forking off into Philosophy and Science only after the Industrial Revolution ]. But somehow, I never acquired any operational sense of any of the corresponding ... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hyCEaXSLvwqbGbivf/experiments-are-in-the-territory-results-are-in-the-map | hyCEaXSLvwqbGbivf | Experiments are in the territory, results are in the map | Tahp | I recently read Thomas Kuhn's book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Scott Alexander wrote up a review years ago, which I mention so that I don't have to summarize the book. The claim in Kuhn's book which I want to focus on is that the same experiment might have different results in different scientific paradigm... | 2024-12-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kXSHgs7w4jYHiQ3Nd/from-code-to-managing-why-being-a-force-multiplier-matters | kXSHgs7w4jYHiQ3Nd | From Code to Managing: Why Being a 'Force Multiplier' Matters to Me More Than Being a Coding Wizard
| nvk | TLDR provided by claude:
I've been hit with the sticks of what-not-to-do throughout my career (thanks OG mentors), and honestly? Those failures taught me more than any fancy degree could. Customer obsession + data + critical thinking, that's where the magic happens... implementing stuff? That's just the easier slice of... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HT6H3h5Htq93aZFCk/a-case-for-donating-to-ai-risk-reduction-including-if-you | HT6H3h5Htq93aZFCk | A case for donating to AI risk reduction (including if you work in AI) | trevor | null | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/b7jfr4kpK9bw7xSXb/alignment-at-large-bending-the-arc-of-history-towards-life | b7jfr4kpK9bw7xSXb | "Alignment at Large": Bending the Arc of History Towards Life-Affirming Futures | welfvh | What if we expanded our lens beyond AI alignment, to grapple with the full scope of what "alignment" really means? We're facing not just the challenge of aligning artificial intelligence, but the deeper question of how to align technological capitalism itself — with its unconscious optimization pressures, its coordinat... | 2024-12-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKB5ZkoEQBTfXceoA/a-paradox-of-simulated-suffering | uKB5ZkoEQBTfXceoA | A Paradox of Simulated Suffering | arusarda | Abstract for Paper on Simulated Suffering:
This paper interrogates a fundamental epistemological problem: Can an artificial system's simulation of suffering be morally distinguishable from genuine suffering? By exploring the philosophical boundary between algorithmic emotion modelling and actual phenomenological experi... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XHpta8X85TzugNNn2/broken-latents-studying-saes-and-feature-co-occurrence-in | XHpta8X85TzugNNn2 | Broken Latents: Studying SAEs and Feature Co-occurrence in Toy Models | chanind | Thanks to Jean Kaddour, Tomáš Dulka, and Joseph Bloom for providing feedback on earlier drafts of this post.
In a previous post on Toy Models of Feature Absorption, we showed that tied SAEs seem to solve feature absorption. However, when we tried to training some tied SAEs on Gemma 2 2b, these still appeared to suffer ... | 2024-12-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/avhKKnJyJ6kisvkzk/fertility-roundup-4 | avhKKnJyJ6kisvkzk | Fertility Roundup #4 | Zvi | There is little sign that the momentum of the situation is changing. Instead, things continue to slowly get worse, as nations in holes continue to keep digging. The longer we wait, the more expensive the ultimate price will be. We will soon find out what the new administration does, which could go any number of ways.
T... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H26ndkABmGvoc9PTC/conjecture-a-roadmap-for-cognitive-software-and-a-humanist | H26ndkABmGvoc9PTC | Conjecture: A Roadmap for Cognitive Software and A Humanist Future of AI | NPCollapse | On Carcinogenic Complexity, Software Senescence and Cognitive Provenance: Our roadmap for 2025 and beyond
It is mandatory to start any essay on AI in the post-ChatGPT era with the disclaimer that AI brings huge potential, and great risks. Unfortunately, on the path we are currently on, we will not realize those benefit... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hPLvZsNZGsQSLfMee/remap-your-caps-lock-key | hPLvZsNZGsQSLfMee | Remap your caps lock key | beelal | When was the last time you (intentionally) used your caps lock key?
No, seriously.
Here is a typical US-layout qwerty (mac) keyboard. Notice:
Caps lock is conveniently located only one key away from A, which is where your left pinky should rest on the home row by default.Caps lock is absolutely massive.How far various ... | 2024-12-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cKucz3rQvrbxoeq4o/drexler-s-nanotech-software | cKucz3rQvrbxoeq4o | Drexler's Nanotech Software | PeterMcCluskey | Two months ago I attended Eric Drexler's launch of
MSEP.one. It's open source software, written by
people with professional game design experience, intended to catalyze
better designs for atomically precise manufacturing (or generative
nanotechnology, as he now calls it).
Drexler wants to draw more attention to the ben... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XmbmHRYPMWHTYdaHW/2024-unofficial-lesswrong-census-survey | XmbmHRYPMWHTYdaHW | 2024 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey | Screwtape | The Less Wrong General Census is unofficially here! You can take it at this link.
Update: The census is closed, thank you all for taking it! I plan to have the data out sometime in January.
The oft-interrupted annual tradition of the Less Wrong Census is once more upon us!
If you are reading this post and identify as a... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/85xkq9Go9AAg3raJ8/sorry-for-the-downtime-looks-like-we-got-ddosd | 85xkq9Go9AAg3raJ8 | Sorry for the downtime, looks like we got DDosd | habryka4 | We were down between around 7PM and 8PM PT today. Sorry about that.
It's hard to tell whether we got DDosd or someone just wanted to crawl us extremely aggressively, but we've had at least a few hundred IP addresses and random user agents request a lot of quite absurd pages, in a way that was clearly designed to avoid ... | 2024-12-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/opBXfsXjGkPYoKL86/is-malice-a-real-emotion | opBXfsXjGkPYoKL86 | Is malice a real emotion? | landscape_kiwi | I assume you are familiar with Hanlon's razor.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Is there any "true" malice? Can't almost all "malice" be explained by greed, ignorance, or some other deadly sin?
Is malice a real emotion or an illusion people came up with to justify actions of th... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mTGYgreRefpiJnJYw/teaching-my-younger-self-to-program-a-case-study-of-how-i-d | mTGYgreRefpiJnJYw | Teaching My Younger Self to Program: A case study of how I'd pass on my skill at self-learning | DarkSym | When I was 21 I wanted to become a video game programmer.
Except I didn’t know how to program.
I tried to teach myself and failed. Then I went back to school and learned the basics of Java in a week, aced the course in two months, and earned a cum laude MSc in Computer Science three years later.
I’m 38 now and can teac... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j789HDCKLoiKGjBik/which-biases-are-most-important-to-overcome | j789HDCKLoiKGjBik | Which Biases are most important to Overcome? | abstractapplic | In other words, what apparent imperfections in human reasoning
A) Remain apparent after the Replication Crisis,
B) Aren't secretly adaptive/reasonable in some counterintuitive way, and
C) Deal most damage to the people they inhabit (and/or those close to them, and/or wider society)? | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4aaXoBaCeDDrs4C3s/commenting-patterns-by-platform | 4aaXoBaCeDDrs4C3s | Commenting Patterns by Platform | jkaufman | How does the growth of Bluesky compare to Mastodon in 2022? What
about Google Plus in 2011? I can't answer this globally, but (now
that my comment archive is
up to date) I can look
at it for my immediate social network by looking at a proxy: how many
of the replies people write to my posts are on each platform?
Here'... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XohC5bpXRWAXxNS8c/letter-chinese-quickstart | XohC5bpXRWAXxNS8c | [Letter] Chinese Quickstart | lsusr | Dear lsusr,
I am a lesswrong user interested in learning Mandarin and living in China. My goal is understanding Chinese culture more broadly and geopolitics and Chinese tech policy more specifically. I could get CELTA and get a teaching job in China (not difficult), but it seems like I would gain far more value if I ac... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sookiqxkzzLmPYB3r/axrp-episode-39-evan-hubinger-on-model-organisms-of-1 | sookiqxkzzLmPYB3r | AXRP Episode 39 - Evan Hubinger on Model Organisms of Misalignment | DanielFilan | YouTube link
The ‘model organisms of misalignment’ line of research creates AI models that exhibit various types of misalignment, and studies them to try to understand how the misalignment occurs and whether it can be somehow removed. In this episode, Evan Hubinger talks about two papers he’s worked on at Anthropic und... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jBRGqtrm3RqPPkGd3/magnitudes-let-s-comprehend-the-incomprehensible | jBRGqtrm3RqPPkGd3 | Magnitudes: Let's Comprehend the Incomprehensible! | joec | Summary: Comfort with really big and really small quantities is very useful for understanding the world and is perfectly doable with practice. Therefore, you should (1) try to familiarize yourself with the sizes of various things using e.g. spaced repetition and (2) comment some of your favorite numerical facts about t... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RAG9R9tgFYMG7zEF6/why-does-chatgpt-throw-an-error-when-outputting-david-mayer | RAG9R9tgFYMG7zEF6 | Why does ChatGPT throw an error when outputting "David Mayer"? | Archimedes | This oddity is making the rounds on Reddit, Twitter, Hackernews, etc.
Is OpenAI censoring references to one of these people? If so, why?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mayer_de_Rothschild
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mayer_(historian)
Edit: More names have been found that behave similarly:
Brian Hood
Jona... | 2024-12-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KkoQDGM9qTjDZCgti/the-shape-of-heaven | KkoQDGM9qTjDZCgti | The Shape of Heaven | ejk64 | Status: Just for fun
Scene: Some kind of lobby, where various people and/or avatars stand around and discuss issues that went well or badly in their respective worlds.* A common topic of conversation: AI, and why it went wrong. The following is extracted from one of those conversations.
It started as vaporware. Everyon... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rnWmjbEf4s2ahMhBY/ai-training-opt-outs-reinforce-global-power-asymmetries | rnWmjbEf4s2ahMhBY | AI Training Opt-Outs Reinforce Global Power Asymmetries | kushagra-tiwari | I. Introduction
Recently, a copyright infringement suit was filed by ANI Media against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court - the first such case against OpenAI outside the United States. OpenAI's immediate response in the first hearing – informing the court they had already blocklisted ANI's domains from future training dat... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dvWFDB87uR3SHonGB/caidp-statement-on-lethal-autonomous-weapons-systems | dvWFDB87uR3SHonGB | CAIDP Statement on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems | Heramb | Summary:
Key Concerns with Lethal Autonomous Weapons
⚠️ ❗ Unpredictability and Lack of Control
⚠️ ❗ Exponential Lethality
⚠️ ❗ Ethical and Legal Implications
Recommendations
1️⃣ Immediate Moratorium: Enact a temporary ban on deploying LAWS until
comprehensive regulations are established.
2️⃣ Classification as WMDs: Cla... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i2crfsiLpMFYQnTkT/exporting-facebook-comments-again | i2crfsiLpMFYQnTkT | Exporting Facebook Comments, Again | jkaufman | I want comments on my social media crossposts to show up on my blog as
a comment section, and mostly this works well: modern systems (
Mastodon,
Bluesky,
LessWrong,
etc) provide APIs where you can load the replies associated with a
post. On the other hand, older systems like Facebook are more locked
down: they want to... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon | hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs | Comment on "Death and the Gorgon" | Zack_M_Davis | (some plot spoilers)
There's something distinctly uncomfortable about reading Greg Egan in the 2020s. Besides telling gripping tales with insightful commentary on the true nature of mind and existence, Egan stories written in the 1990s and set in the twenty-first century excelled at speculative worldbuilding, imagining... | 2025-01-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/guXK2AxEExNvicK6p/mathematical-futurology-from-pseudoscience-to-rigorous | guXK2AxEExNvicK6p | Mathematical Futurology: From Pseudoscience to Rigorous Framework | wenitte-apiou | Futurology has long been dismissed as a pseudoscience, occupying the same intellectual space as astrology in many academic circles. This skepticism isn't entirely unwarranted - much of futurism consists of unfalsifiable predictions, trend extrapolation without theoretical foundation, and what Philip Tetlock would call ... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9cuJaJjDuhbpTid3Q/intellect-1-release-the-first-globally-trained-10b-parameter | 9cuJaJjDuhbpTid3Q | INTELLECT-1 Release: The First Globally Trained 10B Parameter Model | Matrice Jacobine | We're excited to release INTELLECT-1, the first 10B parameter language model collaboratively trained across the globe. This represents a 10× scale-up from our previous research and demonstrates that large-scale model training is no longer confined to large corporations but can be achieved through distributed, community... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PdtkXcgbRpdHWRNt6/you-should-consider-applying-to-phds-soon | PdtkXcgbRpdHWRNt6 | You should consider applying to PhDs (soon!) | beelal | TLDR: In this post, I argue that if you are a junior AI safety researcher, you should consider applying to PhD programs in ML soon, especially if you have recently participated in an AI safety upskilling or research program like MATS or ARENA and might be interested in working on AI safety long term, but don't have imm... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jDkGPXZainfHXKAyT/how-to-bet-on-ai-without-helping-agi | jDkGPXZainfHXKAyT | How to bet on AI, without helping AGI? | NicholasKross | I'd like to be long $NVDA and $PLTR... without supporting the people or organizations that get supported by their stock price going up.
Yes, I'm OK with small impact, I'm an ethical vegan.
Now what?
Must be real-moneyMust be legal for US citizens to useCannot, by me helping its demand, directly support NVDA or PLTRPref... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SPjagnCM2dQbgYJK8/art-optimism | SPjagnCM2dQbgYJK8 | (art) Optimism | avery-liu | just some transhumanist art, I guess. I made this in Quill, which is a VR drawing software. what do you think? | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9n87is5QsCozxr9fp/the-big-nonprofits-post | 9n87is5QsCozxr9fp | The Big Nonprofits Post | Zvi | There are lots of great charitable giving opportunities out there right now.
The first time that I served as a recommender in the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) was back in 2021. I wrote in detail about my experiences then. At the time, I did not see many great opportunities, and was able to give out as much money... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZHNujnGirzwvkk78i/the-neruda-factory | ZHNujnGirzwvkk78i | The Neruda Factory | pixx | Breakdown and commentary of some recent conversations I've had with Claude Sonnet 3.5 1022.
I try to get him to write me good poetry, and this turns out to be difficult. | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ksw38zuXBAQCWzEqr/neuroai-for-ai-safety-a-differential-path | ksw38zuXBAQCWzEqr | NeuroAI for AI safety: A Differential Path | nz | Disclaimer: This post is a summary of a technical roadmap (HTML version, arXiv pre-print, twitter thread) evaluating how neuroscience could contribute to AI safety. The roadmap was recently released by the Amaranth Foundation, a philanthropic organization dedicated to funding ambitious research in longevity and neurosc... | 2024-12-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j4rcjigkYBrFSeEBX/understanding-emergence-in-large-language-models | j4rcjigkYBrFSeEBX | Understanding Emergence in Large Language Models | Unknown | Recent research into large language models (LLMs) has revealed fascinating patterns in how these systems develop capabilities. While initial discussions of "emergent abilities" suggested sudden, discontinuous jumps in performance, closer analysis reveals a more nuanced picture that warrants careful examination.
The Dat... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j4eswhoW6j7DfETWd/i-m-a-rationalist-but | j4eswhoW6j7DfETWd | I'm a rationalist but.... | ninney | as much as I find it boring to do activities such as, for example, washing dishes, pots and crockery after lunch, I don’t think I can ask an artificial intelligence to do it for me. I like, on the other hand, to carry out the myriad of small daily gestures that we all do when we are at home. Why should I ask Alexa to t... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pZCjvACBGAxCP8wwg/streamlining-my-voice-note-process | pZCjvACBGAxCP8wwg | Streamlining my voice note process | harcisis | Why voice notes?
On a functional level it's the fastest & the most convenient input method when you're not in front of the proper keyboard. Which even for me constitutes a big chunk of my life 🙃.
Taking a voice note allows me to quickly close an open loop of a stray though or a new idea and go on with my life - now me... | 2024-12-26 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5n2ZQcbc7r4R8mvqc/the-lightcone-is-nothing-without-its-people | 5n2ZQcbc7r4R8mvqc | (The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser | habryka4 | Update Jan 19th 2025: The Fundraiser is over! We had raised over $2.1M when the fundraiser closed, and have a few more irons in the fire that I expect will get us another $100k-$200k. This is short of our $3M goal, which I think means we will have some difficulties in the coming year, but is over our $2M goal which if ... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kANyEjDDFWkhSKbcK/two-interviews-with-the-founder-of-deepseek | kANyEjDDFWkhSKbcK | Two interviews with the founder of DeepSeek | Cosmia_Nebula | # The Madness of High-Flyer: The Approach to LLM by an AI Giant that Few See
暗涌Waves (2023-05-23 22:50)
Written by 于丽丽
Edited by 刘旌
Translated by Cosmia Nebula
High-Flyer is probably the most exotic among the swarming multitude of competitors in the battle of large models.
This is a game destined for the few, and while... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ecrdpfgcHaFKpt2Df/gratitudes-rational-thanks-giving | ecrdpfgcHaFKpt2Df | Gratitudes: Rational Thanks Giving | Seth Herd | Epistemic status: I wish I'd thought of writing this before the day rolled around. Brief and unpolished, although this is something I've thought about a lot on both personal and computational neuroscience levels. There are no strong conclusions, just some thoughts on gratitude you may find interesting or even useful.
H... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HXhefKtS3ssNjzmh8/depression-and-creativity | HXhefKtS3ssNjzmh8 | Depression and Creativity | bill-benzon | This is cross-posted from New Savanna.
NOTE: I’ve posted this interaction with Claude, not so much to present the ideas Claude offered about possible relationships between depression and creativity, but as an example of the kind of conversational interaction one can have with it. I was particularly impressed with the w... | 2024-11-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sSRqhqmebqkqCwBpd/automated-monitoring-systems | sSRqhqmebqkqCwBpd | Automated monitoring systems | hiki_t | Initial draft on 28th Nov, 2024
After participating in the last (18th Nov, 2024) and this week (25th Nov, 2024)'s group discussion about topics of the “𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁” and AI model's “𝗿𝗼𝗯𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀” at the AI Safety Fundamentals program, I have been stuck with thinking what are effective use... | 2024-11-28 |
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