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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiyHmq5jxCSdBLaau/drug-development-costs-can-range-over-two-orders-of | hiyHmq5jxCSdBLaau | Drug development costs can range over two orders of magnitude | rossry | This is a cross-post from my new newsletter, where I intend to post about clinical trials and biotech, and from my personal blog, where I intend to go on posting about all other sorts of topics as well.
I also recently went on the Complex Systems podcast, where I discuss these topics with more examples from actual tria... | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hMBTaFvAzdMNnj29c/evolutionary-prompt-optimization-for-sae-feature | hMBTaFvAzdMNnj29c | Evolutionary prompt optimization for SAE feature visualization | neverix | TLDR:
Fluent dreaming for language models is an algorithm based on the GCG method that can reliably find plain-text readable prompts for LLMs that maximize certain logits or residual stream directions by using gradients and genetic algorithms. Authors showed its use for visualizing MLP neurons. We show this method can ... | 2024-11-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hsiQFMarkaKxuAJBi/a-small-improvement-to-wikipedia-page-on-pareto-efficiency | hsiQFMarkaKxuAJBi | A small improvement to Wikipedia page on Pareto Efficiency | ektimo | Note: I would have done this as a Quick Take, but it doesn't allow images.
In the spirit of How I got 4.2M YouTube views without making a single video, I improved a diagram on the wikipedia page for Pareto Efficiency.
ORIGINAL VERSION
NEW VERSION
Based on the text, I don't think the author understood that Cooperate/Coo... | 2024-11-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y83twCDAdGkWLN8Jp/goal-understand-intelligence | Y83twCDAdGkWLN8Jp | Goal: Understand Intelligence | johannes-c-mayer | Save the world by understanding intelligence.
Instead of having SGD "grow" intelligence, design the algorithms of intelligence directly to get a system we can reason about. Align this system to a narrow but pivotal task, e.g. upload a human.
The key to intelligence is finding the algorithms that infer world models that... | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YkniQRdiDo2EPyvA6/gpt-8-may-not-be-asi | YkniQRdiDo2EPyvA6 | GPT-8 may not be ASI | rvzlxax409 | Imagine the gap between GPT-2 and GPT-3. Imagine the gap between GPT-3 and GPT-4. Let's suppose GPT-5 has the same gap with GPT-4, and GPT-6 has the same gap with GPT-5, and so on till GPT-8.
It is still entirely possible that GPT-8 is not better than the best of humanity at all possible tasks. There can still exist mu... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hFB8AMqxLsteEWKAH/ai-timelines-don-t-account-for-base-rate-of-tech-progress | hFB8AMqxLsteEWKAH | AI timelines don't account for base rate of tech progress | rvzlxax409 | Papers about LLM scaling law projections don't make an attempt to estimate base rate of technological progress.
In particular, they don't make an attempt to estimate the base rate of false alarms when inventing new science and technology. If you study any hard science (not computer science) you realise how high this ra... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oxyGrTczrgjGodWAh/why-our-politicians-aren-t-median | oxyGrTczrgjGodWAh | Why our politicians aren't Median | yair-halberstadt | Scott asks why, if the Median Voter Theorem is true, American politicians aren't all middle of the road, and barely distinguishable from each other.
Elegant as this proof may be, it fails to describe the real world. Democrats and Republicans don’t have platforms exactly identical to each other and to the exact most cen... | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eTHvMqxaLsrxtRLq3/empathy-systemizing-quotient-is-a-poor-biased-model-for-the | eTHvMqxaLsrxtRLq3 | Empathy/Systemizing Quotient is a poor/biased model for the autism/sex link | tailcalled | Thank you to Justis Millis for providing feedback and proofreading on this post. This post is also available on my Substack.
TL/DR: Contrary to the theory that neurological sex differences and autism both involve the same tradeoff of systemic versus empathic thinking, I found complex differences. It turned out that men... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FLxYALyCzQegMhf76/human-biodiversity-part-4-astral-codex-ten | FLxYALyCzQegMhf76 | Human Biodiversity (Part 4: Astral Codex Ten) | Evan_Gaensbauer | null | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6c8fSXopb8v9Yccio/redefining-tolerance-beyond-popper-s-paradox | 6c8fSXopb8v9Yccio | Redefining Tolerance: Beyond Popper's Paradox | mindprison | Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, often concisely stated as "if a society is tolerant without limits, it will eventually be destroyed by the intolerant; therefore, we have a right to be intolerant of the intolerant", is paradoxically being used to destroy tolerance, in direct contrast to its original intention. Below... | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GmHsy6JQvfwEL8RCa/understanding-incomparability-versus-incommensurability-in | GmHsy6JQvfwEL8RCa | Understanding incomparability versus incommensurability in relation to RLHF | artemiocobb | This post contains my initial thoughts after reading Prof. Ruth Chang's chapter "Value Incomparability and Incommensurability" in the Oxford Handbook of Value Theory. All text in quotation marks are copied directly from the chapter.
Two items are incommensurable if they cannot be placed on the same scale—the same measu... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5LwWEcC5FjdLykA3r/electric-turbofans | 5LwWEcC5FjdLykA3r | electric turbofans | bhauth | It seems I've been typecast as a person to ask about "hard tech startups" with big claims that are getting attention. This time it's been Astro Mechanica, a Y Combinator startup making aircraft engines. Here's a video, possibly set up by a PR agency. Apparently Paul Graham compared the significance of their engine to J... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YSJCPC5Tu2vRRryto/option-control | YSJCPC5Tu2vRRryto | Option control | joekc | Introduction and summary
(This is the third in a series of four posts about how we might solve the alignment problem. See the first post for an introduction to this project and a summary of the posts that have been released thus far.)
In the first post in this series, I distinguished between “motivation control” (tryin... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NGHisAtzpfLg8njjz/reality-as-category-theoretic-state-machines-a-mathematical | NGHisAtzpfLg8njjz | Reality as Category-Theoretic State Machines: A Mathematical Framework | wenitte-apiou | Epistemic Status: Exploratory theoretical Mathematical foundations are solid, physical interpretations are speculative but grounded in established theoretical approaches._
Overview
This post proposes treating reality as an interconnected system of state machines, formalized through category theory. Building on Platonis... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F/the-median-researcher-problem-1 | vZcXAc6txvJDanQ4F | The Median Researcher Problem | johnswentworth | Claim: memeticity in a scientific field is mostly determined, not by the most competent researchers in the field, but instead by roughly-median researchers. We’ll call this the “median researcher problem”.
Prototypical example: imagine a scientific field in which the large majority of practitioners have a very poor und... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n7Fa63ZgHDH8zcw9d/we-can-survive | n7Fa63ZgHDH8zcw9d | We can survive | Oxidize | We subconsciously optimize for "Business as usual"[1]
But in the back of our minds, we all know we're f*****.
If AI doesn't kill us all, it will be biotech, nanotech, nuclear fallout, or a random science experiment that creates a substance or reaction not naturally occurring in nature that just happens to wipe us all o... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mDDFnqoLSNqN7xfAp/fragile-robust-and-antifragile-preference-satisfaction | mDDFnqoLSNqN7xfAp | Fragile, Robust, and Antifragile Preference Satisfaction | adamShimi | What do I want to do?
This sounds like a question with an obvious answer, but the more I reflect on it, the more I notice complexity and subtleties.
First, there's a difficult tradeoff between what I want locally and globally: I regularly wish to do thing in the moment that would go against my global preferences (eat t... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKio2gxGEpkyYoBer/higher-order-signs-hallucination-and-schizophrenia | CKio2gxGEpkyYoBer | Higher Order Signs, Hallucination and Schizophrenia | nicolas-villarreal | Picture yourself on a beach. The beach isn’t on Earth, it’s on a planet that’s going to be colonized by humans several thousand years from now. Let’s say the water is a little different color than what we’re used to, somewhat greener. Whatever you just experienced was not a phenomena which you’ve actually been exposed ... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gBwzDWx44JNbF5NBL/is-openai-net-negative-for-ai-safety | gBwzDWx44JNbF5NBL | Is OpenAI net negative for AI Safety? | Lysandre Terrisse | I recently saw a post arguing that top AI labs should shut down. This let me wonder whether the AI Safety community thinks OpenAI is net negative for AI safety. I chose OpenAI because I consider it as the most representative top AI lab (in the sense that, if we ask someone to think about an AI lab, they would probably ... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cL3Loo8r5cwRAK7BB/testing-true-language-understanding-in-llms-a-simple-1 | cL3Loo8r5cwRAK7BB | Testing "True" Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal | MtryaSam | The Core Idea
What if we could test whether language models truly understand meaning, rather than just matching patterns? Here's a simple thought experiment:
Create two artificial languages (A and B) that bijectively map to the same set of basic concepts R'Ensure these languages are designed independently (no parallel ... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wTwt6BNzyb6MwDw4D/testing-true-language-understanding-in-llms-a-simple | wTwt6BNzyb6MwDw4D | Testing "True" Language Understanding in LLMs: A Simple Proposal | MtryaSam | The Core Idea
What if we could test whether language models truly understand meaning, rather than just matching patterns? Here's a simple thought experiment:
Create two artificial languages (A and B) that bijectively map to the same set of basic concepts R'Ensure these languages are designed independently (no parallel ... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jjMNCxYnnJZKoPAN2/the-current-state-of-rsps | jjMNCxYnnJZKoPAN2 | The current state of RSPs | Zach Stein-Perlman | This is a reference post. It contains no novel facts and almost no novel analysis.
The idea of responsible scaling policies is now over a year old. Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind each have something like an RSP, and several other relevant companies have committed to publish RSPs by February.
The core of an RSP is a ri... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/95HMbpMQgZGqidtGn/both-sidesism-when-fair-and-balanced-goes-wrong | 95HMbpMQgZGqidtGn | Both-Sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong | james-brown | In a few days time, voting will close for millions of Americans in one of the most contentious and globally consequential elections in world history. And while this week’s subject; both-sidesism, is ‘evergreen’ in that the topic will continue to be relevant long into the future, this election has highlighted its signif... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qW9uW2NQvEcKjNvxn/what-can-we-learn-from-insecure-domains | qW9uW2NQvEcKjNvxn | What can we learn from insecure domains? | logan-zoellner | Cryptocurrency is terrible. With a single click of a button, it is possible to accidentally lose all of your funds. 99.9% of all cryptocurrency projects are complete scams (conservative estimate). Crypto is also tailor-made for ransomware attacks, since it makes it possible to send money in such a way that the recei... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHncgnNSZN6oPgfZX/science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time | tHncgnNSZN6oPgfZX | Science advances one funeral at a time | cameron-berg | Major scientific institutions talk a big game about innovation, but the reality is that many of the mechanisms designed to ensure quality—peer review, funding decisions, the academic hierarchy—explicitly incentivize incremental rather than revolutionary progress; are far more oriented towards 'day science' than 'night ... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CyFqTjLnpCniC4JRe/the-cartesian-crisis | CyFqTjLnpCniC4JRe | The Cartesian Crisis | mindprison | The Cartesian Crisis, as detailed in this more verbose essay, represents an unprecedented existential threat to humanity's ability to discern reality from fiction. We stand at a critical juncture where the foundations of truth are being systematically dismantled by a perfect storm of technological and social forces, le... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zFXLSWhceutjNneMx/two-arguments-against-longtermist-thought-experiments | zFXLSWhceutjNneMx | Two arguments against longtermist thought experiments | amaury-lorin | Epistemic status: shower thoughts.
I am currently going through the EA Introductory Course and we discussed two arguments against longtermism which I have not seen elsewhere.
So goes a thought experiment: imagine you have toxic waste at hand, which you can process right now at the cost of 100 lives, or bury it so it'll... | 2024-11-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sMfT3pzxw8Ztao9rG/composition-circuits-in-vision-transformers-hypothesis | sMfT3pzxw8Ztao9rG | Composition Circuits in Vision Transformers (Hypothesis) | ekg | Idea
I just wanted to make a quick post to get this idea out there, I'll hope to do a more thorough explanation later, and experiments after that.
Basically, I hypothesize that Vision Transformers have mechanisms that I call composition circuits, which operate like induction circuits in text transformers. They begin wi... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5DauDzGC8KdvDRwSd/analyzing-how-sae-features-evolve-across-a-forward-pass | 5DauDzGC8KdvDRwSd | Analyzing how SAE features evolve across a forward pass | bensenberner | This research was completed for the Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) summer 2024 iteration. The team was supervised by @Stefan Heimersheim (Apollo Research). Find out more about the program and upcoming iterations here.
TL,DR: We look for related SAE features, purely based on statistical correlations. W... | 2024-11-07 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Pr9AmRbKu9Evztrjc/prediction-markets-and-taxes | Pr9AmRbKu9Evztrjc | Prediction markets and Taxes | edmund-nelson | (Epistemic status: This is super trivial information)
(Note 2: there is a timely Culture war issue that triggered this post but I will not be mentioning any Culture war issues in this post)
Imagine you worked for the US mint, and somebody was betting that a coin you manufactured was unfair, now you work for the US mint... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NMLq8yoTecAF44KX9/sae-probing-what-is-it-good-for | NMLq8yoTecAF44KX9 | SAE Probing: What is it good for? | subhashk | Subhash and Josh are co-first authors. Work done as part of the two week research sprint in Neel Nanda’s MATS stream
Update February 2025:
We have recently expanded this post into a full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16681
Our results are now substantially more negative. We find that SAE probes do not consistently ... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xAYbPv33gvZZJZsgo/dentistry-oral-surgeons-and-the-inefficiency-of-small | xAYbPv33gvZZJZsgo | Dentistry, Oral Surgeons, and the Inefficiency of Small Markets | GeneSmith | There are million dollar bills lying on the ground for those with eyes to see them.
I'm in Miami today, visiting a friend who is opening a dental practice. Chatting with someone very knowledgeable about a niche industry is an interesting experience because you get to learn about just how insane everything is behind the... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7AzexLYpXKMqevttN/seeking-collaborators | 7AzexLYpXKMqevttN | Seeking Collaborators | abramdemski | I've been accepted as a mentor for the next AI Safety Camp. You can apply to work with me on the tiling problem. The goal will be to develop reflectively consistent UDT-inspired decision theories, and try to prove tiling theorems for them.
The deadline for applicants is November 17.
The program will run from January 11... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3ag99iJEgFFwyj64Z/complete-feedback | 3ag99iJEgFFwyj64Z | Complete Feedback | abramdemski | A simple, weak notion of corrigibility is having a "complete" feedback interface. In logical induction terms, I mean the AI trainer can insert any trader into the market. I want to contrast this with "partial" feedback, in which only some propositions get feedback and others ("latent" propositions) form the structured ... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2zmxYKKsSaWWjALg2/levers-for-biological-progress-a-response-to-machines-of | 2zmxYKKsSaWWjALg2 | Levers for Biological Progress - A Response to "Machines of Loving Grace" | niko-2 | By Niko McCarty for Asimov Press
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently published an essay called “Machines of Loving Grace.” It sketches out his vision for how AI could radically transform neuroscience, economics, diplomacy, and the meaning of work. Amodei also imagines the ways AI could accelerate biological re... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9KamjXbTaQpPnNsxp/live-machinery-an-interface-design-philosophy-for-wholesome | 9KamjXbTaQpPnNsxp | Live Machinery: An Interface Design Philosophy for Wholesome AI Futures | Sahil | Fluid interfaces for sensemaking at pace with AI development.
Register interest here for the workshop in November 2024 (or to be invited to future workshops). To know some practical details, go to section 2.Click here to help raise funds for the workshop and related events.Apply for the AI Safety camp 2025 project on l... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rZmJwv4mSNeyeEu3g/empirical-insights-into-feature-geometry-in-sparse | rZmJwv4mSNeyeEu3g | Empirical Insights into Feature Geometry in Sparse Autoencoders | jason-boxi-zhang | Key Findings:
We demonstrate that subspaces with semantically opposite meanings within the GemmaScope series of Sparse Autoencoders are not pointing towards opposite directions.Furthermore, subspaces that are pointing towards opposite directions are usually not semantically related.As a set of auxiliary experiments, we... | 2025-01-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aAmioCcbTSryfHNNg/set-theory-multiverse-vs-mathematical-truth-philosophical | aAmioCcbTSryfHNNg | Set Theory Multiverse vs Mathematical Truth - Philosophical Discussion | wenitte-apiou | I've been thinking about the set theory multiverse and its philosophical implications, particularly regarding mathematical truth. While I understand the pragmatic benefits of the multiverse view, I'm struggling with its philosophical implications.
The multiverse view suggests that statements like the Continuum Hypothes... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZoFxTqWRBkyanonyb/current-safety-training-techniques-do-not-fully-transfer-to | ZoFxTqWRBkyanonyb | Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting | dalasnoin | TL;DR: We are presenting three recent papers which all share a similar finding, i.e. the safety training techniques for chat models don’t transfer well from chat models to the agents built from them. In other words, models won’t tell you how to do something harmful, but they are often willing to directly execute harmfu... | 2024-11-03 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9Le7HuuFyhvFeMcAF/when-engaging-with-a-large-amount-of-resources-during-a | 9Le7HuuFyhvFeMcAF | When engaging with a large amount of resources during a literature review, how do you prevent yourself from becoming overwhelmed? | corruptedCatapillar | I was originally going to email Gwern directly, but figured being in a public space would benefit others who have the same questions and also put more eyes on it.
BLUF: I'm writing to you with a question and asking for advice in doing research better. When you're engaging with an overwhelming amount of resources how do... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xHxxeZE78kjhrYA2n/another-ufo-bet | xHxxeZE78kjhrYA2n | Another UFO Bet | codyz | It's been a little while since this has come up, but I'm hoping there's still interest. I'm offering the best odds yet (50:1).
I'd like to offer another bet similar to Yudkowsky's bet with RatsWrongAboutUAP. Here would be the rules:
I will pay out immediately upon our agreement to the bet. The other party only needs to... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T5vntejHAZ2jWXMHW/trading-candy | T5vntejHAZ2jWXMHW | Trading Candy | jkaufman | There are a lot of fun things about halloween, with costumes,
neighbors, and sweets, but maybe the part I like best is the
trading. Two kids sit down, each with a bucket full of candy. After a
while they get back up, each with a better bucket than they started
with. This feels like it shouldn't be possible: isn't the... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h9N5jaupqRGQrd4R5/draft-cyborg-software-should-be-open | h9N5jaupqRGQrd4R5 | (draft) Cyborg software should be open (?) | atillayasar | (note: lots of discussion happened in the comments, you'll want to read it if you found this post interesting)
TLDR:
- Building powerful human-AI collaboration tools in the open removes capabilities overhang, which reduces discourse lag, which reduces x-risk.
- Alignment work is philosophy/writing/thinking-heavy, capab... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9S8vnBjLQg6pkuQNo/gpt-4o-guardrails-gone-data-poisoning-and-jailbreak-tuning | 9S8vnBjLQg6pkuQNo | GPT-4o Guardrails Gone: Data Poisoning & Jailbreak-Tuning | ccstan99 | Imagine your once reliable, trusty AI assistant suddenly suggesting dangerous actions or spreading misinformation. This is a growing threat as large language models (LLMs) become more capable and pervasive. The culprit? Data poisoning, where LLMs are trained on corrupted or harmful data, potentially turning powerful to... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cHnPxEKmX63gAGEY5/educational-cai-aligning-a-language-model-with-pedagogical | cHnPxEKmX63gAGEY5 | Educational CAI: Aligning a Language Model with Pedagogical Theories | bharath-puranam | Bharath Puranam (bharath225525@gmail.com)
This research blog represents my final project for the AI Safety Fundamentals: AI Alignment Course for June 2024 Cohort.
Update: Finally received my certification for the course: AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment | Bharath Puranam
Imagine a world where artificial intelligence d... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QCYDNbD2zmwxuzMcr/spooky-recommendation-system-scaling | QCYDNbD2zmwxuzMcr | Spooky Recommendation System Scaling | phdead | Crosspost of https://phoropter.substack.com/p/spooky-recommendation-system-scaling
Today I wish to focus on one reason that recommendation systems should be regulated: the benefits of scaling that famously apply to language models also apply to recommendation systems. While applications of recommendation systems are pe... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/T9DAHucovCqhLqCdq/2024-unofficial-lw-community-census-request-for-comments | T9DAHucovCqhLqCdq | 2024 Unofficial LW Community Census, Request for Comments | Screwtape | Overview
The LessWrong Community Census is an entertaining site tradition that doubles as a useful way to answer various questions about what the userbase looks like. This is a request for comments, constructive criticism, careful consideration, and silly jokes on the census.
Here's the draft.
I'm posting this request ... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F4nzox6oh5oAdX9D3/abstractions-are-not-natural | F4nzox6oh5oAdX9D3 | Abstractions are not Natural | Alfred Harwood | (This was inspired by a conversation with Alex Altair and other fellows as part of the agent foundations fellowship, funded by the LTFF)
(Also: after I had essentially finished this piece, I was pointed toward the post Natural abstractions are observer-dependent which covers a lot of similar ground. I've decided to pos... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JLZnSnJptzmPtSRTc/intuitive-self-models-8-rooting-out-free-will-intuitions | JLZnSnJptzmPtSRTc | [Intuitive self-models] 8. Rooting Out Free Will Intuitions | steve2152 | 8.1 Post summary / Table of contents
This is the final post of the Intuitive Self-Models series.
One-paragraph tl;dr: This post is, in a sense, the flip side of Post 3. Post 3 centered around the suite of intuitions related to free will. What are these intuitions? How did these intuitions wind up in my brain, even when... | 2024-11-04 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oBpHiAHSuEL6W9koL/meta-mesa-and-mountains | oBpHiAHSuEL6W9koL | 'Meta', 'mesa', and mountains | Lorec | Recently, in a conversation with a coworker, I was trying to describe the rate at which time passed subjectively, with a term that distinguished from the usual objective clock speed constrained only by general relativity and generic human psychology. I ended up saying "meta-rate". That bothered me for reasons I couldn'... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sZvMLWrWomN28uWA9/jargonbot-beta-test | sZvMLWrWomN28uWA9 | JargonBot Beta Test | Raemon | We've just launched a new experimental feature: "Automated Jargon Glossaries." If it goes well, it may pave the way for things like LaTeX hoverovers and other nice things.
Whenever an author with 100+ karma saves a draft of a post[1] or presses the "Generate Terms" button, our database queries a language model to:
Iden... | 2024-11-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FXoEFdTq5uL8NPDGe/toward-safety-cases-for-ai-scheming-1 | FXoEFdTq5uL8NPDGe | Toward Safety Cases For AI Scheming | mykyta-baliesnyi | Developers of frontier AI systems will face increasingly challenging decisions about whether their AI systems are safe enough to develop and deploy. One reason why systems may not be safe is if they engage in scheming. In our new report "Towards evaluations-based safety cases for AI scheming", written in collaboration ... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EzrFeLRuww7zTSXhy/toward-safety-case-inspired-basic-research | EzrFeLRuww7zTSXhy | Toward Safety Case Inspired Basic Research | Lucas Teixeira | Abstract
AI safety is a young science. In its early history, deep and speculative questions regarding the risks of artificial superintelligence attracted the attention of basic science and philosophy, but the near-horizon focus of industry and governance, coupled with shorter safety timelines, means that applied scienc... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HHkYEyFaigRpczhHy/ai-88-thanks-for-the-memos | HHkYEyFaigRpczhHy | AI #88: Thanks for the Memos | Zvi | Following up on the Biden Executive Order on AI, the White House has now issued an extensive memo outlining its AI strategy. The main focus is on government adaptation and encouraging innovation and competitiveness, but there’s also sections on safety and international governance. Who knows if a week or two from now, a... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/prm7jJMZzToZ4QxoK/the-compendium-a-full-argument-about-extinction-risk-from | prm7jJMZzToZ4QxoK | The Compendium, A full argument about extinction risk from AGI | adamShimi | We (Connor Leahy, Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi) have just published The Compendium, which brings together in a single place the most important arguments that drive our models of the AGI race, and what we need to do to avoid catastrophe.
We felt that something like this has been missing from... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oofzmbidovjZf2Dg3/some-preliminary-notes-on-the-promise-of-a-wisdom-explosion | oofzmbidovjZf2Dg3 | Some Preliminary Notes on the Promise of a Wisdom Explosion | Chris_Leong | This post is one-half of my third-prize winning entry for the AI Impacts Essay Competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. It proposes a "wisdom explosion" as an alternative to an intelligence explosion that is safer from the standpoint of differential technological development. | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g3iKYS8wDapxS757x/what-tms-is-like | g3iKYS8wDapxS757x | What TMS is like | Sable | There are two nuclear options for treating depression: Ketamine and TMS; This post is about the latter.
TMS stands for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Basically, it fixes depression via magnets, which is about the second or third most magical things that magnets can do.
I don’t know a whole lot about the neuroscienc... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA9rjLiJZ8C8zrZe3/ai-safety-at-the-frontier-paper-highlights-october-24 | yA9rjLiJZ8C8zrZe3 | AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, October '24 | gasteigerjo | This is a selection of AI safety paper highlights in October 2024, from my blog "AI Safety at the Frontier". The selection primarily covers ML-oriented research. It's only concerned with papers (arXiv, conferences etc.), not LessWrong or Alignment Forum posts. As such, it should be a nice addition for people primarily ... | 2024-10-31 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fzGTp9nbSraxqHF47/generic-advice-caveats | fzGTp9nbSraxqHF47 | Generic advice caveats | saul-munn | You were (probably) linked here from some advice. Unfortunately, that advice has some caveats. See below:
There exist some people who should not do the advice.Moreover, people are different.More moreover, situations are different. What worked there/then might not work here/now.Some of the advice is missing context, con... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ayvCEeGBqycEqcZab/i-turned-decision-theory-problems-into-memes-about-trolleys | ayvCEeGBqycEqcZab | I turned decision theory problems into memes about trolleys | Tapatakt | I hope it has some educational, memetic or at least humorous potential.
Newcomb's problemSmoking lesionParfit's HitchhikerCounterfactual muggingXor-blackmail
Bonus
Five-and-ten problem | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XXK2T4EcbHRkRTBce/antonym-heads-predict-semantic-opposites-in-language-models | XXK2T4EcbHRkRTBce | Antonym Heads Predict Semantic Opposites in Language Models | jake-ward | In general, attention layers in large language models do two types of computation: They identify which token positions contain information relevant to predicting the next token (the QK circuit), and they transform information at these positions in some way that is useful for predicting the next token (the OV circuit). ... | 2024-11-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PSL88nJjMghpMNTfe/ai-as-a-powerful-meme-via-cgp-grey | PSL88nJjMghpMNTfe | AI as a powerful meme, via CGP Grey | TheManxLoiner | In episode 158 of Cortext podcast, CGP Grey gives their high-level reason why they are worried about AI.
My one line summary: AI should not be compared to nuclear weapons but instead to biological weapons or memes, which evolve under the implicit evolutionary pressures that exist, leading to AI's that are good at survi... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZP5tmbh6TXmQmQmuw/updating-the-nao-simulator | ZP5tmbh6TXmQmQmuw | Updating the NAO Simulator | jkaufman | Cross-posted from my NAO
Notebook.
In April we released released
a tool to model
the efficacy of different approaches to stealth pathogen
identification. The tool's interface is pretty rough, which I'm not
super happy about, but there just aren't that many people in the world
who need to simulate the performance impac... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bac4wxb9F4sciuAh6/occupational-licensing-roundup-1 | bac4wxb9F4sciuAh6 | Occupational Licensing Roundup #1 | Zvi | We’re coming out firmly against it.
Our attitude:
The customer is always right. Yes, you should go ahead and fix your own damn pipes if you know how to do that, and ignore anyone who tries to tell you different. And if you don’t know how to do it, well, it’s at your own risk.
With notably rare exceptions, it should be ... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ancAQBkfKPdcu2JDN/three-notions-of-power | ancAQBkfKPdcu2JDN | Three Notions of "Power" | johnswentworth | We begin with three stories about three people.
First, Zhu Di, emperor of China from 1402 to 1424. In that period, it was traditional for foreign envoys to present gifts to the emperor and make a show of submission, reinforcing the emperor’s authority and China’s image as the center of civilization. Yet the emperor wou... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vYfeCbvtZT35XgA2B/motivation-control | vYfeCbvtZT35XgA2B | Motivation control | joekc | (This is the second in a series of four posts about how we might solve the alignment problem. See the first post for an introduction to this project and a summary of the posts that have been released thus far.)
Summary
In my last post, I laid out the ontology I’m going to use for thinking about approaches to solving th... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ff8cHDfaJxzoPbhGT/how-might-language-influence-how-an-ai-thinks | Ff8cHDfaJxzoPbhGT | How might language influence how an AI "thinks"? | plosique | In some fiction I've encountered humans are treated as being linguistically deterministic. For example, in Arrival humans are strongly linguistically deterministic and a human that learns the alien language is able to escape the linear ordering of time that English imposes. In 1984 Newspeak is a language created for th... | 2024-10-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DTYaY8wAo4BQdJMTu/gothenburg-lw-acx-meetup-4 | DTYaY8wAo4BQdJMTu | Gothenburg LW/ACX meetup | stefan-1 | This is another social meetup for Gothenburg readers of LW/ACX. We will be meeting in the Condeco at Fredsgatan, on the second floor, look for a book on the table. | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jsEgH6q6bCgYKka5t/introduction-to-choice-set-misspecification-in-reward | jsEgH6q6bCgYKka5t | Introduction to Choice set Misspecification in Reward Inference
| rahul-chand | In classical RL, we have an agent with a set of States (S), a set of action (A), and given some reward function (R), the aim is to find out the optimal policy (pi) which maximizes the following. This is the cummulative rewards we get by sampling actions using our policy (here we assume discount factor is 1)
π∗=argmax(E... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zWJTcaJCkYiJwCmgx/the-alignment-trap-ai-safety-as-path-to-power | zWJTcaJCkYiJwCmgx | The Alignment Trap: AI Safety as Path to Power | crispweed | Recent discussions about artificial intelligence safety have focused heavily on ensuring AI systems remain under human control. While this goal seems laudable on its surface, we should carefully examine whether some proposed safety measures could paradoxically enable rather than prevent dangerous concentrations of powe... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jJqPfzhhCyK5XjtTH/housing-roundup-10 | jJqPfzhhCyK5XjtTH | Housing Roundup #10 | Zvi | There’s more campaign talk about housing. The talk of needing more housing is highly welcome, as one prominent person after another (including Jerome Powell!) talking like a YIMBY.
A lot of the concrete proposals are of course terrible, but not all of them. I’ll start off covering all that along with everyone’s favorit... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fKboizBPnPDa9suLF/a-poem-is-all-you-need-jailbreaking-chatgpt-meta-and-more | fKboizBPnPDa9suLF | A Poem Is All You Need: Jailbreaking ChatGPT, Meta & More | sharat-jacob-jacob | This project report was created in September 2024 as part of the BlueDot AI Safety Fundamentals Course, with the guidance of my facilitator, Alexandra Abbas. Work on this project originated as part of an ideation at a Apart Research hackathon.
This report dives into APIAYN (A Poem Is All You Need), a simple jailbreak t... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3AcK7Pcp9D2LPoyR2/ai-87-staying-in-character | 3AcK7Pcp9D2LPoyR2 | AI #87: Staying in Character | Zvi | The big news of the week was the release of a new version of Claude Sonnet 3.5, complete with its ability (for now only through the API) to outright use your computer, if you let it. It’s too early to tell how big an upgrade this is otherwise. ChatGPT got some interface tweaks that, while minor, are rather nice, as wel... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qMKvGDCXCBpbtwojc/gwern-why-so-few-matt-levines | qMKvGDCXCBpbtwojc | Gwern: Why So Few Matt Levines? | kave | Matt Levine is the most well-known newslettrist (“Money Stuff”) in the financial industry, having blogged or written since 2011, finding his niche in popularization after stints in Wall Street & law. His commentary is influential, people leak to him, he sometimes interviews major figures (notoriously, Sam Bankman-Fried... | 2024-10-29 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qv8Kgmtf26JLwa6Au/october-2024-progress-in-guaranteed-safe-ai | qv8Kgmtf26JLwa6Au | October 2024 Progress in Guaranteed Safe AI | quinn-dougherty | Safeguarded AI TA 1.4 funding call
A way of verifying quantitative properties of program pairs
The lean zulip aggregates recent ICLR submissions.
If rust's compiler wasn't strong enough already...
verified controller synthesis for heterogeneous dynamical systems
A dafny coding benchmark | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nAgciBjxDh5MSeoGs/5-homegrown-ea-projects-seeking-small-donors | nAgciBjxDh5MSeoGs | 5 homegrown EA projects, seeking small donors | austin-chen | null | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QNfzCFhhGtH8xmMwK/enhancing-mathematical-modeling-with-llms-goals-challenges | QNfzCFhhGtH8xmMwK | Enhancing Mathematical Modeling with LLMs: Goals, Challenges, and Evaluations | ozziegooen | null | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7rzCGyTdDXnNoawDP/visual-demonstration-of-optimizer-s-curse | 7rzCGyTdDXnNoawDP | Visual demonstration of Optimizer's curse | Roman Malov | Epistemic status: I am currently taking this course, and after reading this post on Goodhart's curse, I wanted to create some visuals to better understand the described effect.
Chapter 1: Optimization
Veronica is a stock trader, and her job is to buy stocks, and then sell it at a specific time during the month. Her obj... | 2024-11-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QrJAcpapGyG4LMpDi/ai-and-wisdom-3-ai-effects-on-amortised-optimisation | QrJAcpapGyG4LMpDi | AI & wisdom 3: AI effects on amortised optimisation | LRudL | Written for the AI Impacts essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy
Having waxed philosophical about wisdom and amortised optimisation, I now turn to the question of what AI will concretely do:
How will AI affect human mechanisms for amortised optimisation, such as cultural evolution & written knowl... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SoGpdNMsWpzPEwjNJ/ai-and-wisdom-2-growth-and-amortised-optimisation | SoGpdNMsWpzPEwjNJ | AI & wisdom 2: growth and amortised optimisation | LRudL | Written for the AI Impacts essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy
Growth modes and direct v amortised optimisation
Amortised optimisation is more important when relevant histories are long and growth is slow. If growth suddenly picks up, the flexibility of optimising on the fly with direct optimis... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4WLQvcgDWxeuFRymz/ai-and-wisdom-1-wisdom-amortised-optimisation-and-ai | 4WLQvcgDWxeuFRymz | AI & wisdom 1: wisdom, amortised optimisation, and AI | LRudL | Written for the AI Impacts essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy
At least in name, AI is about intelligence. However, intelligence is not the only mental quality that matters. Many deep mental skills, in particular regarding good, deep, or long-term judgement, are bundled under the term "wisdom".... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YGn5ryzAS4L2mkmtd/finishing-the-sb-1047-documentary-in-6-weeks | YGn5ryzAS4L2mkmtd | Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary In 6 Weeks | mtrazzi | (Crossposted from Manifund)
Summary of the proposal
We will produce a one-hour feature documentary about SB-1047, which would:
Serve as a comprehensive reference on the bill's history and implications.Present a balanced view of perspectives from both proponents and opponents, bridging ideological divides.Contribute to ... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nxRNCCwTe2fWZnEfe/quantitative-trading-bootcamp-nov-6-10 | nxRNCCwTe2fWZnEfe | Quantitative Trading Bootcamp [Nov 6-10] | bayesshammai | I'm running a trading bootcamp at Lighthaven, from Wednesday evening Nov 6 through Sunday night Nov 10. It covers the fundamentals of quantitative trading—markets, order books, auctions, risk and sizing, adverse selection, arbitrage, and how quant trading firms make money.
You can sign up here, and if you check "LessWr... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hiuTzNBqG2EYg6qM5/winners-of-the-essay-competition-on-the-automation-of-wisdom | hiuTzNBqG2EYg6qM5 | Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy | owencb | We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy.
Overview
The competition attracted 90 entries in total (only one of which was obviously just the work of an LLM!), taking a wide variety of angles on the topic. The judges awarded the top four prizes as follows:... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rFGqh4wx2YnudvLGK/miles-brundage-finding-ways-to-credibly-signal-the | rFGqh4wx2YnudvLGK | Miles Brundage: Finding Ways to Credibly Signal the Benignness of AI Development and Deployment is an Urgent Priority | Zach Stein-Perlman | Miles Brundage has a new substack and I like this post. Here's the introduction.
A simplified view of AI policy is that there are two “arenas” with distinct challenges and opportunities. In the domestic arena, governments aim to support AI innovation within their borders and ensure that it is widely beneficial to their... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YP7epWztPhqHuAvpZ/somebody-explain-the-word-epistemic-to-me | YP7epWztPhqHuAvpZ | somebody explain the word "epistemic" to me | avery-liu | definition from lesswrong's A-Z glossary:
Concerning knowledge.
huh? So then, what is an "epistemic state"? Is it a collection of ideas? Is it a combination of knowledge a brain can have? What is an "epistemic status"? Is it the current epistemic state someone is in? Is it their amount of knowledge about something? Is ... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vPZXcgqfShfK3KQ3X/ai-safety-newsletter-43-white-house-issues-first-national | vPZXcgqfShfK3KQ3X | AI Safety Newsletter #43: White House Issues First National Security Memo on AI Plus, AI and Job Displacement, and AI Takes Over the Nobels | corin-katzke | Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
Listen to the AI Safety Newsletter for free on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Subscribe here to receive future versions.
White House Issues First National Security Memo on AI
On Oc... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jkDqiDKdumjGDyANo/death-notes-7-thoughts-on-death | jkDqiDKdumjGDyANo | Death notes - 7 thoughts on death | Nathan Young | Both my grandmother and my great aunt passed away recently, which has caused me to muse upon death.
Slowly, then all at once
What is death? I guess it's the ending of the process of consciousness. Not that we really know what consciousness is?
In that sense, do I die when I go to sleep? My consciousness in the morning ... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aa5fzGr8JA3pqvhYC/bridging-the-vlm-and-mech-interp-communities-for-multimodal | aa5fzGr8JA3pqvhYC | Bridging the VLM and mech interp communities for multimodal interpretability | redhat | Cross-posted here.
A note to the LW community
I wrote this post after spending my summer in the MATS community looking at sparse autoencoders on vision models, and then joining FAIR/Meta as a visiting researcher on their video generation team. It has been absolutely fascinating navigating both the cultural and research... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8PcjymbWGJCgT7bSf/how-likely-are-various-precursors-of-existential-risk | 8PcjymbWGJCgT7bSf | How Likely Are Various Precursors of Existential Risk? | Radamantis | Seven Samotsvety forecasters give their probabilities for different possible catastrophes to lead to more than 1M direct deaths in any one year, in any of the next 10 years. This post presents results, starting with a table which presents the probabilities, continuing with a discussion of each of the items, and conclud... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nhtKJMbgbgCFznytf/care-doesn-t-scale | nhtKJMbgbgCFznytf | Care Doesn't Scale | stavros | If you wanted to design a social system to care for children who have lost their parents, I don’t know if you could do much better. With four children, each kid can get individual care and attention, but there were four social workers each had three 24-hour blocks per week, so they had time to have their own lives with... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5JLYBeJdjgzZDMcrh/your-memory-eventually-drives-confidence-in-each-hypothesis | 5JLYBeJdjgzZDMcrh | Your memory eventually drives confidence in each hypothesis to 1 or 0 | commissar Yarrick | Our memory tends to contain less and less information. We forget certain things, and our memory about others become simplified, and a complex article boils down to “X is bad, Y is good, try to do better".
One unexpected consequence of this is how it impacts our sense of probability: to describe the probability binary, ... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KyHjinDFvgAxbTY6W/san-francisco-acx-meetup-first-saturday-9 | KyHjinDFvgAxbTY6W | San Francisco ACX Meetup “First Saturday” | nate-sternberg | Date: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm PT
Address: Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, just outside the Metreon food court, coordinates 37°47'04.4"N 122°24'11.1"W
Contact: 34251super@gmail.com
Come join San Francisco’s First Saturday ACX meetup. Whether you're an avid reader, a first time reader, or jus... | 2024-10-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HfCdBSc4LpR96H5Ty/nerdtrition-simple-diets-via-spreadsheet-abuse | HfCdBSc4LpR96H5Ty | Nerdtrition: simple diets via spreadsheet abuse | dkl9 | I found several simple (four to seven total foods) diets that, with carefully specified amounts of each food, appear, at face value, to provide full, proper nutrition. Here are a few, with amounts given per day.
fish/olive/etc450 g cooked tilapia450 g ripe olives (yes, that's a lot)200 g romaine lettuce200 g cooked len... | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6DrxzuSKjsauJak64/substituting-talkbox-for-breath-controller | 6DrxzuSKjsauJak64 | Substituting Talkbox for Breath Controller | jkaufman | One of the inputs of my
rhythm stage
setup has been a breath controller, which let's me gives me a continuous
controller. I use it for a few different things, especially when
playing music that's farther in the electronic direction:
Setting up to play a "techno
contra" last weekend, however, I realized my breath contr... | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SNAjLYEXrbQ2aWBkW/hiring-a-writer-to-co-author-with-me-spencer-greenberg-for | SNAjLYEXrbQ2aWBkW | Hiring a writer to co-author with me (Spencer Greenberg for ClearerThinking.org) | spencerg | null | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/srt6JXsRMtmqAJavD/open-source-replication-of-anthropic-s-crosscoder-paper-for | srt6JXsRMtmqAJavD | Open Source Replication of Anthropic’s Crosscoder paper for model-diffing | ckkissane | Intro
Anthropic recently released an exciting mini-paper on crosscoders (Lindsey et al.). In this post, we open source a model-diffing crosscoder trained on the middle layer residual stream of the Gemma-2 2B base and IT models, along with code, implementation details / tips, and a replication of the core results in Ant... | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ngFa92YFdCxrqAWqe/on-shifgrethor | ngFa92YFdCxrqAWqe | On Shifgrethor | JustisMills | A small number of terms are elevated from the pages of literature, up to the Mount Olympus of blog post vernacular. Moloch, as the dark god of failed coordination problems. The Dark Forest, as domains where there’s active incentive not to be noticed. And from Ursula K. Le Guin, the Omelas child, a person whose sufferin... | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NWKk2eQwfuGzRXusJ/video-lectures-on-the-learning-theoretic-agenda | NWKk2eQwfuGzRXusJ | Video lectures on the learning-theoretic agenda | vanessa-kosoy | This is a YouTube playlist of recorded lectures on the learning-theoretic AI alignment agenda (LTA) I gave for my MATS scholars of the Winter 2024 cohort, edited by my beloved spouse @Marcus Ogren. H/t William Brewer for helping with the recording, and the rest of the MATS team for making this possible.
I hope these wi... | 2024-10-27 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9adbT7X5g475r5vpM/dario-amodei-s-machines-of-loving-grace-sound-incredibly | 9adbT7X5g475r5vpM | Dario Amodei's "Machines of
Loving Grace" sound incredibly dangerous, for Humans | super-agi | What Dario lays out as a "best-case scenario" in his "Machines of Loving Grace" essay sounds incredibly dangerous, for Humans.
Would having a "continent of PhD-level intelligences" (or much greater) living in a data center really be a good idea?
How would this "continent of PhD-level intelligences" react when they foun... | 2024-10-27 |
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