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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AT6YPuJtjpHszZDXB/alignment-from-equivariance | AT6YPuJtjpHszZDXB | Alignment from equivariance | hamishtodd1 | Epistemic status: research direction
Equivariance is a way of enforcing a user-specified sense of consistency across inputs for a NN. It's a concept from computer vision which I think could be used to align AIs, or rather for building an interface/framework for aligning them.
So far it has been applied exclusively in C... | 2024-08-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RfFpMMqteqHbMz97n/sci-fi-books-micro-reviews | RfFpMMqteqHbMz97n | Sci-Fi books micro-reviews | yair-halberstadt | I've recently been reading a lot of science fiction. Most won't be original to fans of the genre, but some people might be looking for suggestions, so in lieu of full blown reviews here's super brief ratings on all of them. I might keep this updated over time, if so new books will go to the top.
A deepness in the sky (... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k38sJNLk7YbJA72ST/llm-generality-is-a-timeline-crux | k38sJNLk7YbJA72ST | LLM Generality is a Timeline Crux | eggsyntax | Four-Month Update
[EDIT: I believe that this paper looking at o1-preview, which gets much better results on both blocksworld and obfuscated blocksworld, should update us significantly toward LLMs being capable of general reasoning. See update post here.]
Short Summary
LLMs may be fundamentally incapable of fully genera... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rrXFg8WwY2JgziHXk/a-step-against-land-value-tax | rrXFg8WwY2JgziHXk | A Step Against Land Value Tax | blog-alt | Introduction
Many Nuance-oors like the promised pragmatic arguments for LVT (densification, lack of deadweight loss) and lament some of the principled arguments against (kicking out grandmas, unbounded gentrification). Here I build the intuition for the economic efficiency of the status quo (from here on SQ) over LVT w... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4j6HJt8Exowmqp245/different-senses-in-which-two-ais-can-be-the-same | 4j6HJt8Exowmqp245 | Different senses in which two AIs can be “the same” | Vivek | Sometimes people talk about two AIs being “the same” or “different” AIs. We think the intuitive binary of “same vs. different” conflates several concepts which are often better to disambiguate. In this post, we spell out some of these distinctions. We don’t think anything here is particularly novel; we wrote this post ... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WGNYAdBrsNjujJaB8/talk-ai-safety-fieldbuilding-at-mats | WGNYAdBrsNjujJaB8 | Talk: AI safety fieldbuilding at MATS | ryankidd44 | I recently gave a talk to the AI Alignment Network (ALIGN) in Japan on my priorities for AI safety fieldbuilding based on my experiences at MATS and LISA (slides, recording). A lightly edited talk transcript is below. I recommend this talk to anyone curious about the high level strategy that motivates projects like MAT... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/H9duMiE7sjJhC2pcX/contrapositive-natural-abstraction-project-intro | H9duMiE7sjJhC2pcX | Contrapositive Natural Abstraction - Project Intro | javanotmocha | Epistemic status: Early-stage model, and I'm relatively new to AI safety. This is also my first LessWrong post, but please hold my ideas and writing to a higher bar. Prioritize candidness over politeness.
Thanks to John Wentworth for pointers on an early draft.
TL;DR: I'm starting work on the Natural Abstraction Hypoth... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k7Qe8wrha4QAKhuky/on-the-impossibility-of-superintelligent-rubik-s-cube | k7Qe8wrha4QAKhuky | "On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers", Claude 2024 [humor] | gwern | In recent years, a number of prominent computer scientists and roboticists have suggested that artificial intelligence may one day solve Rubik's Cubes faster than humans. Many have further argued that AI could even come to exceed human Rubik's Cube-solving abilities by a significant margin. However, there are at least ... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RpuX6hpSZqHdyyMT6/how-are-you-preparing-for-the-possibility-of-an-ai-bust | RpuX6hpSZqHdyyMT6 | How are you preparing for the possibility of an AI bust? | Nate Showell | What actions have you been taking to prepare for the possibility that the AI industry will experience a market crash, something along the lines of the dotcom bust of the early 2000s? Also, what actions would you take if a crash like that occurred? For example:
If your career is strongly AI-focused, what backup plan do ... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XD3Kr9mRt4FrEd8Pk/a-simple-text-status-can-change-something | XD3Kr9mRt4FrEd8Pk | A simple text status can change something | nextcaller | Take something like X/Twitter. Users there upload some concepts through text, which can be of high importance to users following them. But say you are annoyed that every thought you convey is being stored in history, every post can be analyzed chronologically, unless you do the job of removing them automatically after ... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vABADbprinFmaLceq/ai-labs-wouldn-t-be-convicted-of-treason-or-sedition | vABADbprinFmaLceq | AI Labs Wouldn't be Convicted of Treason or Sedition | matthew-khoriaty | This is a shortened version of "Preventing AI from Overthrowing the Government" from my Substack to focus on the things that would be interesting to LessWrong. Full version with citations can be found here.
Introduction
Many AI labs, including OpenAI, are forthright in saying that their goal is to create AGI. An AI lik... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EhyGuhHny4uvzPzsA/35-interactive-learning-modules-relevant-to-eas-effective | EhyGuhHny4uvzPzsA | 35 Interactive Learning Modules Relevant to EAs / Effective Altruism (that are all free) | spencerg | null | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4aoCfswbJFa38zitw/podcasts-agi-show-consistently-candid-london-futurists | 4aoCfswbJFa38zitw | Podcasts: AGI Show, Consistently Candid, London Futurists | KatjaGrace | For those of you who enjoy learning things via listening in on numerous slightly different conversations about them, and who also want to learn more about this AI survey I led, three more podcasts on the topic, and also other topics:
The AGI Show: audio, video (other topics include: my own thoughts about the future of ... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/prNZuwcLfnAvguiQf/text-posts-from-the-kids-group-2019 | prNZuwcLfnAvguiQf | Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2019 | jkaufman | Another round of liberating kid posts from
Facebook. For reference,
in 2019 Lily turned 5 and Anna turned 3.
(Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me"
could mean either of us.)
2019-01-05
Anna: I was kicking Lily over and I tripped on a balloon.
Me: You were doing what?
Anna: (pause) I was a... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6hQmaeZNaFtqhmwbs/population-ethics-and-the-value-of-variety | 6hQmaeZNaFtqhmwbs | Population ethics and the value of variety | cousin_it | Problems in population ethics (are 2 lives at 2 utility better than 1 life at 3 utility?) are similar to problems about lifespan of a single person (is it better to live 2 years with 2 utility per year than 1 year with 3 utility per year?)
On the surface, this analogy seems to favor total utilitarianism. 2 years at 1 h... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bf3ryxiM6Gff2zamw/control-vectors-as-dispositional-traits | Bf3ryxiM6Gff2zamw | Control Vectors as Dispositional Traits | gianluca-calcagni | I have been reading recently about a technique that can be used to partially control the behaviour of Large Language Models: the technique is exploiting control vectors[1] to alter the activation patterns of the LLMs and trigger some desired behaviour. While the technique does not provide guarantees, it gives high prob... | 2024-06-23 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kGt3ukLR924kyfn5y/so-you-want-to-work-on-technical-ai-safety | kGt3ukLR924kyfn5y | So you want to work on technical AI safety | gw | I’ve been to two EAGx events and one EAG, and the vast majority of my one on ones with junior people end up covering some subset of these questions. I’m happy to have such conversations, but hopefully this is more efficient and wide-reaching (and more than I could fit into a 30 minute conversation).
I am specifically a... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdpMQQfRfkR4qSMNv/karma-votes-blind-to-or-accounting-for-score | fdpMQQfRfkR4qSMNv | Karma votes: blind to or accounting for score? | cata | Normally I try to use karma votes in a practical way to try to help promote content that I want to see more of on LW, or to downrank content that I want to see less of. (As opposed to using them as a kind of social signal, which is a separate issue.)
One thing I have never quite figured out is which of these two I shou... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wpA98qrsbHKCpKqbD/meta-alignment-communication-wack-a-mole | wpA98qrsbHKCpKqbD | Meta Alignment: Communication Wack-a-Mole | bridgett-kay | When warning the public about the dangers of superintelligent AI, a common question is how,exactly, an unaligned superintelligence could kill humanity. An AI is just a program running on a computer, after all. Wouldn’t it need arms and legs and nukes and possibly a military to kill all of us? In fact, why would it kill... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LLoAokviAx7zSHs9q/should-effective-altruism-be-more-cool | LLoAokviAx7zSHs9q | Should effective altruism be more "cool"? | jaredmantell | As a recent entrant to the sphere of rationality and effective altruism, I often wonder if the primarily-nerdy audience & community (which I adore) is less than a boon to the objectives of effective altruism.
If a popularization (through social media platforms such as TikTok) were to happen with EA, would this even be ... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Th5iwZFScXpcEcJcp/expected-number-of-tries | Th5iwZFScXpcEcJcp | Expected number of tries | unicode-59bD | Epistemic status: An idea I had a few days ago and shared with two or three friends.
Suppose you want to install a new habit. For example, gratitude journaling.
You might try to give it a go, by pledging to write down 3 things you are grateful for every day right before you go to sleep.
After a few days, you start skip... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4F4Wenko2ihgGJHhb/applying-force-to-the-wrong-end-of-a-causal-chain | 4F4Wenko2ihgGJHhb | Applying Force to the Wrong End of a Causal Chain | silentbob | A causal chain, of course.
There’s a very common thing that humans do: a person makes an observation about something they dislike, so they go ahead and make an effort to change that thing. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. If it doesn’t work, there can be a variety of reasons for that – maybe the thing is v... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HNuJe83z86jmy3bNC/bed-time-quests-and-dinner-games-for-3-5-year-olds | HNuJe83z86jmy3bNC | Bed Time Quests & Dinner Games for 3-5 year olds | Gunnar_Zarncke | I like these games because they are playful, engage the child and still achieve the objective of getting the child to bed/eat dinner etc. Requires creativity and some slack.
Excerpt from Shohannah's post:
Recently I had the bright idea to give up on being a regular parent. Mostly cause regular parenting practices melt ... | 2024-06-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3HYqTAi4kD35G3BzQ/singular-learning-theory-exercises | 3HYqTAi4kD35G3BzQ | Singular learning theory: exercises | zfurman | Thanks to Jesse Hoogland and George Wang for feedback on these exercises.
In learning singular learning theory (SLT), I found it was often much easier to understand by working through examples, rather than try to work through the (fairly technical) theorems in their full generality. These exercises are an attempt to co... | 2024-08-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iJjFRrGQkCxaqKrEo/best-of-n-with-misaligned-reward-models-for-math-reasoning | iJjFRrGQkCxaqKrEo | Best-of-n with misaligned reward models for Math reasoning | Fabien | In this post, I share some quick results that I got as part of a bigger project that pivoted.
TL;DR:
When trying to generate Math reasoning with current LLMs, optimizing too hard against their judgment of what is “good reasoning” can make the proportion of correct reasoning diminish.If you optimize using a misaligned r... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wXZhoh54CDA8AohGT/no-really-the-sticker-shortcut-fallacy-is-indeed-a-fallacy | wXZhoh54CDA8AohGT | No really, the Sticker Shortcut fallacy is indeed a fallacy | ymeskhout | In a recent post, I outlined some problems I identified with Scott Alexander’s Noncentral Fallacy. He identified a very real problem in the discourse, but I disagreed with him about what made it fallacious. Briefly, Scott believed the problem lay in the use of applying technically correct but non-central labels to evok... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xmkdNasTGxsRivsgQ/sarajevo-1914-black-swan-questions | xmkdNasTGxsRivsgQ | Sarajevo 1914: Black Swan Questions | JohnBuridan | The 110th Anniversary of Sarajevo is next Friday.
To commemorate I am thinking about the following questions.
What does the sentence: The assassination of archduke Ferdinand caused WWI mean? Is it true?Was World War I inevitable?Given the invention of the tools that make things like machine guns were machine guns inevi... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/89ukf4LvwkDchHvAM/yudkowsky-is-too-optimistic-about-how-ai-will-treat-humans | 89ukf4LvwkDchHvAM | Yudkowsky is too optimistic about how AI will treat humans. | ProfessorFalken | Yudkowsky merely suggests that once humanity creates superintelligence everyone dies.
I worry that it could be worse than this. A superintelligence trapped in a box has limited options to manipulate the world without help. Human beings could be useful tools for carrying out the superintelligences desires. It could ensl... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iyFXGh8amLKufqSs3/juneberry-puffs | iyFXGh8amLKufqSs3 | Juneberry Puffs | jkaufman | I only learned
about
Juneberries a few years ago, and they're a bit tricky. Eaten
fresh, right off the tree, they have a bunch of subtle flavors that
remind me of peach ice tea. If I
bake them, though,
these flavors mostly go away, leaving an almondy flavor. Which isn't
terrible, but also isn't better than almond ex... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PWCa2aQBAkWFWFNeh/let-s-design-a-school-part-3-2-costs | PWCa2aQBAkWFWFNeh | Let's Design a School, Part 3.2
Costs | Sable | We’ve established our hybrid model of school, where social services issues are addressed with a sieve model and education boils down to three phases.
In part 1, we went through the expected costs for the school-as-social-services model.
Now we’ll go through the costs for school-as-education, then we’ll discuss the cost... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j2pKBBvyAxHPNbuS6/what-distinguishes-early-mid-and-end-games | j2pKBBvyAxHPNbuS6 | What distinguishes "early", "mid" and "end" games? | Raemon | Recently William_S posted:
In my mental model, we're still in the mid-game, not yet in the end-game.
I replied:
A thing I've been thinking about lately is "what does it mean to shift from the early-to-mid-to-late game".
In strategy board games, there's an explicit shift from "early game, it's worth spending the effort ... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YPanDKKNd74gdnSdp/nuclear-war-map-and-territory-values-or-guild-of-the-rose | YPanDKKNd74gdnSdp | Nuclear War, Map and Territory, Values | Guild of the Rose Newsletter, May 2024 | moridinamael | Community Updates
Upcoming events:
Naturalism event every week on ThursdaysThis Interest Group discusses the 'Naturalism' sequence by Logan Strohl, practicing the techniques it describes.Meaning and Spirituality event every other week on TuesdaysThis Interest Group concerns itself with determining how we can help each ... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHBtqQfcnoHftFgdr/2022-ai-alignment-course-5-37-working-on-ai-safety | DHBtqQfcnoHftFgdr | 2022 AI Alignment Course: 5→37% working on AI safety | dewi | Introduction
In 2022, we ran the second iteration of the AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment course. The curriculum was designed by Richard Ngo, and the course was run by myself and Jamie. The course’s objectives were to teach participants about AI alignment, motivate them to work in the field, and help them find opportu... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cuAFeLmquyEm3X6s5/ai-governance-needs-a-theory-of-victory-1 | cuAFeLmquyEm3X6s5 | AI governance needs a theory of victory | corin-katzke | null | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RKdQgSJzpDvRgkwuj/some-thoughts-on-ai-alignment-using-ai-to-control-ai | RKdQgSJzpDvRgkwuj | Some Thoughts on AI Alignment: Using AI to Control AI | eigenvalue | Recent news has caused me to think through some questions about AI alignment, so I collected my thoughts here. While I'm sure a lot of this stuff isn't new, I haven't seen all these ideas presented together in one place. I think that some of the approaches that are used in designing decentralized systems can also be us... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WmW33s6nMYsSa3JKi/what-does-the-universe-is-quantum-actually-mean | WmW33s6nMYsSa3JKi | What does "the universe is quantum" actually mean? | Tahp | To shamelessly steal from Yudkowsky:
If you get one law, like Special Relativity, you can look at the language it's written in, and infer what the next law ought to look like. If the laws are not being generated from the same language, they surely have something in common; and this I refer to as the Tao.
I am very int... | 2024-07-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/nWSj8smpyWCqEeMyr/the-future-of-work-how-can-policymakers-prepare-for-ai-s | nWSj8smpyWCqEeMyr | The Future of Work: How Can Policymakers Prepare for AI's Impact on Labor Markets? | davidconrad | This is a brief overview of a more detailed research paper conducted as part of the AI Safety Camp. Our aim is to give those outside the economic discourse a deeper understanding of the labor market impacts of AI and to discuss potential policies in response.
The draft report can be found here. All feedback greatly app... | 2024-06-24 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mQmEQQLk7kFEENQ3W/on-openai-s-model-spec | mQmEQQLk7kFEENQ3W | On OpenAI’s Model Spec | Zvi | There are multiple excellent reasons to publish a Model Spec like OpenAI’s, that specifies how you want your model to respond in various potential situations.
It lets us have the debate over how we want the model to act.
It gives us a way to specify what changes we might request or require.
It lets us identify whether ... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eLzDLCB68qNoWDRba/compute-governance-literature-review | eLzDLCB68qNoWDRba | Compute Governance Literature Review | sijarvis | This white paper reviews the use of compute governance to mitigate risks from AI, the reasoning behind this approach, the ways in which it has been used and in which it could be further developed. It aims to provide an introduction for individuals who feel that there is a need for AI safety and would like to further un... | 2024-06-25 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZBZtWxsf9iXN7R2D5/how-arena-course-material-gets-made | ZBZtWxsf9iXN7R2D5 | How ARENA course material gets made | TheMcDouglas | TL;DR
In this post, I describe my methodology for building new material for ARENA. I'll mostly be referring to the exercises on IOI, Superposition and Function Vectors as case studies. I expect this to be useful for people who are interested in designing material for ARENA or ARENA-like courses, as well as people who a... | 2024-07-02 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJY4keJCxonnQGyfg/capitalising-on-trust-a-simulation | vJY4keJCxonnQGyfg | Capitalising On Trust—A Simulation | james-brown | Recently I’ve been exploring moral philosophy with a series on Moral Licensing, Andrew Tane Glen’s Why Cooperate?, and in a workshop I ran with my daughter’s class about the strategies of cooperation and defection. One phenomenon that has arisen through these explorations is that defectors generally gain a short term r... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4ZBDNKKno7k7dYxcf/than-average-is-almost-meaningless | 4ZBDNKKno7k7dYxcf | "... than average" is (almost) meaningless | jwfiredragon | Recently, I was talking to a friend who hadn't seen me in a while. They mentioned that my hair had grown noticeably, and then asked whether my hair grew fast or slow. I said that my hair growth was probably around average, but upon consideration, I realized that statement was so divorced from reality it would be a diss... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FgFXiEmmpAxWjcKKF/the-kernel-of-meaning-in-property-rights | FgFXiEmmpAxWjcKKF | The Kernel of Meaning in Property Rights | abhimanyu-pallavi-sudhir | A phenomenon I have often encountered when thinking about things is when everything seems to collapse to tautology. This is hard to define precisely, but I’ll give you some examples:
Bounded rationality: Bounded rationality can be thought of as “rationality conditional on some given algorithmic information” (in contras... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TDMKch5qzuaac5LFF/enriched-tab-is-now-the-default-lw-frontpage-experience-for | TDMKch5qzuaac5LFF | Enriched tab is now the default LW Frontpage experience for logged-in users | Ruby | In the past few months, the LessWrong team has been making use of the latest AI tools (given that they unfortunately exist[1]) for art, music, and deciding what we should all be reading.
Our experiments with the latter, i.e. the algorithm that chooses which posts to show on the frontpage, has produced results sufficien... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DGt9mJNKcfqiesYFZ/debate-oracles-and-obfuscated-arguments-3 | DGt9mJNKcfqiesYFZ | Debate, Oracles, and Obfuscated Arguments | jonah-brown-cohen | This post is about recent and ongoing work on the power and limits of debate from the computational complexity point of view. As a starting point our paper Scalable AI Safety via Doubly-Efficient Debate gives new complexity-theoretic formalizations for debate. In this post we will give an overview of the model of debat... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7azdvoX656SSJYgkJ/evaporation-of-improvements | 7azdvoX656SSJYgkJ | Evaporation of improvements | Viliam | I don't know if there is a standard way to express the idea that "if something seems like an obvious improvement of your situation, the advantage will probably (almost) disappear after everything settles in a new balance".
Examples:
people make more money (yay)... inflation happens and things get more expensive (oh no)... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xyuZcijPfjBa5qZDw/claude-3-5-sonnet | xyuZcijPfjBa5qZDw | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Zach Stein-Perlman | we’ll be releasing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude 3.5 Opus later this year.
They made a mini model card. Notably:
The UK AISI also conducted pre-deployment testing of a near-final model, and shared their results with the US AI Safety Institute . . . . Additionally, METR did an initial exploration of the model’s autonomy-r... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Quqekpvx8BGMMcaem/interpreting-and-steering-features-in-images | Quqekpvx8BGMMcaem | Interpreting and Steering Features in Images | gytis-daujotas | We trained a SAE to find sparse features in image embeddings. We found many meaningful, interpretable, and steerable features. We find that steering image diffusion works surprisingly well and yields predictable and high-quality generations.
You can see the feature library here. We also have an intervention playground ... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pZmFcKWZ4dXJaPPPa/jailbreak-steering-generalization | pZmFcKWZ4dXJaPPPa | Jailbreak steering generalization | Sarah Ball | This work was performed as part of SPAR
We use activation steering (Turner et al., 2023; Panickssery et al., 2023) to investigate whether different types of jailbreaks operate via similar internal mechanisms. We find preliminary evidence that they may.
Our analysis includes a wide range of jailbreaks such as harmful p... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wzpn6LxMgJcydSGv2/what-is-going-to-happen-in-a-case-of-an-agi-era-where-humans | wzpn6LxMgJcydSGv2 | What is going to happen in a case of an AGI era where humans are out of the game? | Cipolla | I am referring to the very specific case where humans, as known to us, no more actively shape the environment surrounding them, due to an AGI take over.
Whatever entity comes after, will it start to explore the galaxy? Will it pursue new or old fundamental questions?
I was wondering if there were some references with f... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gAuYn49Cm8BPjewzf/case-studies-on-social-welfare-based-standards-in-various | gAuYn49Cm8BPjewzf | Case studies on social-welfare-based standards in various industries | HoldenKarnofsky | null | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ytFLs37zLsFBqLHGA/ai-69-nice | ytFLs37zLsFBqLHGA | AI #69: Nice | Zvi | Nice job breaking it, hero, unfortunately. Ilya Sutskever, despite what I sincerely believe are the best of intentions, has decided to be the latest to do The Worst Possible Thing, founding a new AI company explicitly looking to build ASI (superintelligence). The twists are zero products with a ‘cracked’ small team, wh... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5XmxmszdjzBQzqpmz/interpreting-preference-models-w-sparse-autoencoders | 5XmxmszdjzBQzqpmz | Interpreting Preference Models w/ Sparse Autoencoders | elriggs | This is the real reward output for an OS preference model. The bottom "jailbreak" completion was manually created by looking at reward-relevant SAE features.
Preference Models (PMs) are trained to imitate human preferences and are used when training with RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback); however, we do... | 2024-07-01 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Fzm3o8bW88T58krrg/niche-product-design | Fzm3o8bW88T58krrg | Niche product design | itay-dreyfus | I came to realize that the most inspiring, authentic design on the internet today comes from niche places.
As a designer, I’ve been following the herd for quite some time, as I used to observe the big-corps as role models. Whether I had to design a simple UI element, a marketing website, or search for inspiration—I've ... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5PpnxT5ygrfA3wFBR/data-on-ai | 5PpnxT5ygrfA3wFBR | Data on AI | robirahman | Epoch AI collects key data on machine learning models from 1950 to the present to analyze historical and contemporary progress in AI.
This is a big update to the website, and the datasets have substantially expanded since last year. | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CJPqwXoFtgkKPRay8/an-intuitive-explanation-of-sparse-autoencoders-for | CJPqwXoFtgkKPRay8 | An Intuitive Explanation of Sparse Autoencoders for Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs | karvonenadam | Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have recently become popular for interpretability of machine learning models (although SAEs have been around since 1997). Machine learning models and LLMs are becoming more powerful and useful, but they are still black boxes, and we don't understand how they do the things that they are capabl... | 2024-06-25 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BAGykyfHuioKuRjPM/week-one-of-studying-transformers-architecture | BAGykyfHuioKuRjPM | Week One of Studying Transformers Architecture | JustisMills | I asked Claude already, but he's kind of a suckup, so if any experts find themselves reading, please tell me if anything here is super wrong.
I’ve been writing a lot about the meta level, which I think can be a trap for blogs in general, and blogs in the rationalist diaspora specifically. So this post is going to go in... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fRx6naypeRrktitEM/proposing-the-post-singularity-symbiotic-researches-2 | fRx6naypeRrktitEM | Proposing the Post-Singularity Symbiotic Researches | hiroshi-yamakawa | The great concern that had long smoldered in the depths of people's hearts—that humanity would be displaced by beings surpassing us in intelligence, which would eventually come into existence. This is now beginning to take on sufficient reality. At this juncture, we must have the resolve to accept this risk and find ho... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DsoqEcnCu8vQeeeBe/actually-power-plants-may-be-an-ai-training-bottleneck | DsoqEcnCu8vQeeeBe | Actually, Power Plants May Be an AI Training Bottleneck. | derpherpize | There have been presistent rumors that electricity generation was somehow bottlenecking new data centers. This claim was recently repeated by Donald Trump, who implied that San Francisco donors requested the construction of new power plants for powering new AI data centers in the US. While this may sound unlikely, my r... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/myr9XD3nsZW3okDRu/what-are-things-you-re-allowed-to-do-as-a-startup | myr9XD3nsZW3okDRu | What are things you're allowed to do as a startup? | pktechgirl | The internet has previously seen Things You're Allowed To Do (as an adult) and Things You're Allowed To Do: University Edition. The idea is to list things that are totally possible, often easy, but people often fail to think of because not one of the highlighted options. Things like "run mturk surveys" or "dissect a ca... | 2024-06-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5SKRHQEFr8wYQHYkx/connecting-the-dots-llms-can-infer-and-verbalize-latent | 5SKRHQEFr8wYQHYkx | Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer & Verbalize Latent Structure from Training Data | Johannes_Treutlein | TL;DR: We published a new paper on out-of-context reasoning in LLMs. We show that LLMs can infer latent information from training data and use this information for downstream tasks, without any in-context learning or CoT. For instance, we finetune GPT-3.5 on pairs (x,f(x)) for some unknown function f. We find that the ... | 2024-06-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ApxQTnC9ujSagEP82/why-we-need-more-shovel-ready-ai-notkilleveryoneism | ApxQTnC9ujSagEP82 | Why We Need More Shovel-Ready AI Notkilleveryoneism Megaproject Proposals | peter-berggren | A lot of people within AI safety and adjacent ecosystems have discussed AI notkilleveryoneism megaproject ideas, but there appears to be a key problem with these previous discussions. These discussions presuppose that the funding landscape will not change much in the near future, in ways that have proven inaccurate in ... | 2025-01-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YznaDZZ9axbYfCWDs/chronic-perfectionism-through-the-eyes-of-school-reports | YznaDZZ9axbYfCWDs | Chronic perfectionism through the eyes of school reports | stuart-johnson | A short post for a short thought. I was sifting through old school reports, and there's only one comment which is repeated in pretty much every report from 3 years old all the way through to 16.
3 years old: "Has a hard time dealing with disappointments. Tends to cry and is hard to console. Always wants to be first and... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oeZ93QTv39TeB94Wt/ilya-sutskever-created-a-new-agi-startup | oeZ93QTv39TeB94Wt | Ilya Sutskever created a new AGI startup | harfe | [copy of the whole text of the announcement on ssi.inc, not an endorsement]
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Superintelligence is within reach.
Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
We have started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: ... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2iALhBnMpcjbWJJ3w/beyond-the-board-exploring-ai-robustness-through-go | 2iALhBnMpcjbWJJ3w | Beyond the Board: Exploring AI Robustness Through Go | AdamGleave | Last year, we showed that supposedly superhuman Go AIs can be beaten by human amateurs playing specific “cyclic” patterns on the board. Vulnerabilities have previously been observed in a wide variety of sub- or near-human AI systems, but this result demonstrates that even far superhuman AI systems can fail catastrophic... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/AcHcAj2D8RBdpfgz7/a-study-on-cults-and-non-cults-answer-questions-about-a | AcHcAj2D8RBdpfgz7 | A study on cults and non-cults - answer questions about a group and get a cult score | spencerg | Hi all! We're running a study examining the differences between cults and non-cults. It would be great if you'd take part! It involves answering a bunch of questions about a group/community/org you are in or used to be in.
In the end, you'll get to see a (very rough) cult score for the group. This study is aimed at hel... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wBhZ9jTo4KtBL8KN2/workshop-data-analysis-for-software-engineers | wBhZ9jTo4KtBL8KN2 | Workshop: data analysis for software engineers | Derek-Jones | I'm giving a hands-on workshop: Data analysis for software engineers this coming Saturday, in central London+online.
The material is based on my book Evidence-based Software Engineering which discusses what is known about software engineering, based on all the publicly available data pdf+code+all data freely available ... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rh2uChtdWeq97ofjo/flexible-and-adaptable-llm-s-with-continuous-self-training | rh2uChtdWeq97ofjo | FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE LLM’s WITH CONTINUOUS SELF TRAINING | escaque-66 | CURRENT UNFLEXIBLE MODELS
Current LLMs have serious limitations in adaptability, flexibility, and continuous learning. The knowledge and world model contained in the LLM’s parameters is fixed at the time of training completion. Interactions during inference time do not influence the model's knowledge:
Factual knowledge... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hdRGzspxg9Wy6Qaxy/lesswrong-acx-meetup-transilvanya-tour-alba-iulia | hdRGzspxg9Wy6Qaxy | LessWrong/ACX meetup Transilvanya tour - Alba Iulia | Marius Adrian Nicoară | Let's get together in the Parc Cetate(tables near hotel Cetate, see Google Doc) and hang out for a while. I'll bring an interesting board game that involves teamwork and Bayesian reasoning; requires 4 players.
As a starting point, we can talk about "The Pyramid And The Garden" by Scott Alexander: https://www.lesswrong.... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DBRScDwh6krAkLerQ/self-responsibility-1 | DBRScDwh6krAkLerQ | Self responsibility | Elo | I see a modern puzzle of "self responsibility" which gets tricky quickly. At all times a person has responsibility to themselves. From child to adult, you are “self responsible”. It always applies.
When a person isn't of a sound mind, they are still expected to maintain their responsibility but they may simply be unw... | 2024-06-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5tRrZxxCLvqbqJR9x/gizmo-watch-review | 5tRrZxxCLvqbqJR9x | Gizmo Watch Review | jkaufman | Summary: the watches do the basic things they need to and have let
us give our kids more freedom, but there are also a bunch of annoying
limitations and they're 36% more expensive than they look. I'm overall
happy we got them.
Our older two kids, Lily and Anna, are ten and eight, and are mature
enough that they're able... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sXhBCDLJPEjadwHBM/boycott-openai | sXhBCDLJPEjadwHBM | Boycott OpenAI | PeterMcCluskey | I have canceled my OpenAI subscription in protest over OpenAI's lack of
ethics.
In particular, I object to:
threats to confiscate departing employees' equity unless those
employees signed a life-long non-disparagement contract
Sam Altman's pattern of lying about important topics
I'm trying to hold AI companies to highe... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bdz4yPxxRMxeKJHay/book-review-the-iliad | bdz4yPxxRMxeKJHay | Book review: the Iliad | philh | Translated by Emily Wilson
1.
I didn't know what the Iliad was about. I thought it was the story of how Helen of Troy gets kidnapped, triggering the Trojan war, which lasts a long time and eventually gets settled with a wooden horse.
Instead it's just a few days, nine years into that war. The Greeks are camped on the s... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cojCve8bcj72EgsWw/ai-safety-newsletter-37-us-launches-antitrust-investigations | cojCve8bcj72EgsWw | AI Safety Newsletter #37: US Launches Antitrust Investigations
Plus, recent criticisms of OpenAI and Anthropic, and a summary of Situational Awareness | 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.
US Launches Antitrust Investigations
The U.S. Government has launched antitrust investigations into Nv... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y4hFATbyPL9Zp3frX/suffering-is-not-pain | Y4hFATbyPL9Zp3frX | Suffering Is Not Pain | jbkjr | “Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”
The motivation of this post is to address the persistent conflation between suffering and pain I have observed from members of the EA community, even amongst those who purport to be “suffering-focused” in their ethical motivations. In order to best address the problem of suf... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6xqTkyizDiaTLAPTR/lamini-s-targeted-hallucination-reduction-may-be-a-big-deal | 6xqTkyizDiaTLAPTR | Lamini’s Targeted Hallucination Reduction May Be a Big Deal for Job Automation | sweenesm | Lamini recently posted a paper explaining their “memory tuning” methodology of using a Mixture of Memory Experts to significantly reduce LLM hallucinations over a limited domain of knowledge. They describe using this technique with a Mistral 2 open-source LLM model to achieve 95% accuracy on a text-to-SQL query task fo... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/frEYsehsPHswDXnNX/on-deepmind-s-frontier-safety-framework | frEYsehsPHswDXnNX | On DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework | Zvi | On DeepMind’s Frontier Safety Framework
Previously: On OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, On RSPs.
The First Two Frameworks
To first update on Anthropic and OpenAI’s situation here:
Anthropic’s RSP continues to miss the definitions of the all-important later levels, in addition to other issues, although it is otherwise p... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aXz9xfe4ifmHLB8hb/linkpost-transcendence-generative-models-can-outperform-the | aXz9xfe4ifmHLB8hb | [Linkpost] Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them | bogdan-ionut-cirstea | Authors: Edwin Zhang, Vincent Zhu, Naomi Saphra, Anat Kleiman, Benjamin L. Edelman, Milind Tambe, Sham M. Kakade, Eran Malach.
Abstract:
Generative models are trained with the simple objective of imitating the conditional probability distribution induced by the data they are trained on. Therefore, when trained on data ... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sCWe5RRvSHQMccd2Q/i-would-have-shit-in-that-alley-too | sCWe5RRvSHQMccd2Q | I would have shit in that alley, too | declan-molony | After living in a suburb for most of my life, when I moved to a major U.S. city the first thing I noticed was the feces. At first I assumed it was dog poop, but my naivety didn’t last long.
One day I saw a homeless man waddling towards me at a fast speed while holding his ass cheeks. He turned into an alley and took a ... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/upspuxNFAzaHPcrrL/calling-my-second-family-dance | upspuxNFAzaHPcrrL | Calling My Second Family Dance | jkaufman | Yesterday I called my second family dance, which went pretty well!
I've stopped calling regular contra dances because I don't enjoy it
very much anymore, but these two have been a lot of fun and I'm up for
doing more.
As usual we played with an open band, and this time Nora decided to play bass:
Despite the flyers, no ... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gRfrL9iEoSsNag64G/the-thing-i-don-t-understand-about-agi | gRfrL9iEoSsNag64G | The thing I don't understand about AGI | jeremy-kalfus | Recently I've been hearing a lot about AGI, specifically that it's 5-10 years out. As someone with an interest in neuroscience, I don't understand how any system so much less complex than the human brain would be able to achieve such a thing. To me, I feel that current models are incapable of actual logical reasoning (... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mP3TedbRvnd2DrFhR/llm-secured-systems-a-general-purpose-tool-for-structured | mP3TedbRvnd2DrFhR | LLM-Secured Systems: A General-Purpose Tool For Structured Transparency | ozziegooen | null | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Wp9eb4CAkH6chyqZm/questionable-narratives-of-situational-awareness | Wp9eb4CAkH6chyqZm | Questionable Narratives of "Situational Awareness" | fergusq | This is my analysis of narratives present in Leopold Aschenbrenner's "Situational Awareness" essay series. In the post, I argue that Aschenbrenner uses dubious, propaganda-esque, and nationalistic narratives, and flawed argumentation overall, which weakens his essay's credibility. I don't believe there is necessarily a... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FSgGBjDiaCdWxNBhj/sycophancy-to-subterfuge-investigating-reward-tampering-in | FSgGBjDiaCdWxNBhj | Sycophancy to subterfuge: Investigating reward tampering in large language models | carson-denison | New Anthropic model organisms research paper led by Carson Denison from the Alignment Stress-Testing Team demonstrating that large language models can generalize zero-shot from simple reward-hacks (sycophancy) to more complex reward tampering (subterfuge). Our results suggest that accidentally incentivizing simple rewa... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ks8wLbuRWXfrcfrn9/labor-participation-is-a-high-priority-ai-alignment-risk | Ks8wLbuRWXfrcfrn9 | Labor Participation is a High-Priority AI Alignment Risk | alex | Thank you to Jolien Sweere (Open Philanthropy, Blueprint Biosecurity) for her thoughtful review and suggestions; and Tzu Kit Chan, et al. for his insightful feedback.
Intro
Defining the concept of “economics” can be challenging even for tenured academics in the field. Economics can be the study of collective human beha... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rdwui3wHxCeKb7feK/getting-50-sota-on-arc-agi-with-gpt-4o | Rdwui3wHxCeKb7feK | Getting 50% (SoTA) on ARC-AGI with GPT-4o | ryan_greenblatt | I recently got to 50%[1] accuracy on the public test set for ARC-AGI by having GPT-4o generate a huge number of Python implementations of the transformation rule (around 8,000 per problem) and then selecting among these implementations based on correctness of the Python programs on the examples (if this is confusing, g... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cPCvfrqjgy5Cu2FCs/analysing-adversarial-attacks-with-linear-probing-3 | cPCvfrqjgy5Cu2FCs | Analysing Adversarial Attacks with Linear Probing | Yoann Poupart | This work was produced as part of the Apart Fellowship. @Yoann Poupart and @Imene Kerboua led the project; @Clement Neo and @Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier provided mentorship, feedback and project guidance.
Here, we present a qualitative analysis of our preliminary results. We are at the very beginning of our experiments,... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4NRNvRcHuYbxRrM6T/what-s-the-future-of-ai-hardware | 4NRNvRcHuYbxRrM6T | What’s the future of AI hardware? | itay-dreyfus | Since the AI mania erupted, I haven’t made up my mind about the century's hottest topic. I’ve been experimenting with building “AI-inside” products for a year now, but I’ve cautiously tried not to form a strong opinion about it.
As a software native, the recent AI hardware discourse oddly seemed like a good starting po... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q3zs7E7rktHsESXaF/openai-8-the-right-to-warn | q3zs7E7rktHsESXaF | OpenAI #8: The Right to Warn | Zvi | The fun at OpenAI continues.
We finally have the details of how Leopold Aschenbrenner was fired, at least according to Leopold. We have a letter calling for a way for employees to do something if frontier AI labs are endangering safety. And we have continued details and fallout from the issues with non-disparagement ag... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TKRp7inbiLRmzNMFB/logit-prisms-decomposing-transformer-outputs-for-mechanistic | TKRp7inbiLRmzNMFB | Logit Prisms: Decomposing Transformer Outputs for Mechanistic Interpretability | thong-nguyen | ABSTRACT: We introduce a straightforward yet effective method to break down transformer outputs into individual components. By treating the model’s non-linear activations as constants, we can decompose the output in a linear fashion, expressing it as a sum of contributions. These contributions can be easily calculated ... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hzt9gHpNwA2oHtwKX/self-other-overlap-a-neglected-approach-to-ai-alignment | hzt9gHpNwA2oHtwKX | Self-Other Overlap: A Neglected Approach to AI Alignment | Marc-Everin Carauleanu | Figure 1. Image generated by DALL·E 3 to represent the concept of self-other overlap
Many thanks to Bogdan Ionut-Cirstea, Steve Byrnes, Gunnar Zarnacke, Jack Foxabbott and Seong Hah Cho for critical comments and feedback on earlier and ongoing versions of this work. This research was conducted at AE Studio and supporte... | 2024-07-30 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DbwcnYoPFigJ449Xv/linkpost-guardian-article-covering-lightcone-infrastructure | DbwcnYoPFigJ449Xv | [Linkpost] Guardian article covering Lightcone Infrastructure, Manifest and CFAR ties to FTX | scipio | Response from Habryka: | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Z5sDqqGridJQfr4uC/fat-tails-discourage-compromise | Z5sDqqGridJQfr4uC | Fat Tails Discourage Compromise | niplav | Say that we have a set of options, such as (for example) wild animal
welfare interventions.
Say also that you have two axes along which you can score those
interventions: popularity (how much people will like your intervention)
and effectiveness (how much the intervention actually helps wild
animals).
Assume that we (f... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/THHzxbBgqXARq95KQ/our-intuitions-about-the-criminal-justice-system-are-screwed | THHzxbBgqXARq95KQ | Our Intuitions About The Criminal Justice System Are Screwed Up
| omnizoid | Stop calling it aggression
Ooh, we hate that expression!
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo
They love us everywhere we go
—Tom Lehrer.
In the modern West, we tend to think of ourselves as very civilized, certainly compared to our ancient and barbaric ancestors. We don’t own slaves, women can ... | 2024-06-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iqNjYdsectt5TvJRh/loving-a-world-you-don-t-trust | iqNjYdsectt5TvJRh | Loving a world you don’t trust | joekc | (Cross-posted from my website. Audio version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.)
This is the final essay in a series that I'm calling "Otherness and
control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can be
read fairly well on their own, but
see here for
a brief summary of the... | 2024-06-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SLzk8x8KGdqDM2Ay3/ym-s-shortform | SLzk8x8KGdqDM2Ay3 | YM's Shortform | Yannick_Muehlhaeuser_duplicate0.05902100825326273 | null | 2024-06-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kkyEZqpukj87Zfn2u/is-ought-is-fraught | kkyEZqpukj87Zfn2u | “Is-Ought” is Fraught | mister-kittty | I’ve concluded that the “Is-ought” correlation (not the philosophical problem) is fraught after my kerfuffle with how one moves from is-ness to ought-ness. Ought is derived from personal emotions (on either extremes), and influence from social circles.
The seemingly real pressure one feels from ought isn’t an offspring... | 2024-06-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/G9vwrkFCRMJ4GPpHx/the-type-of-ai-humanity-has-chosen-to-create-so-far-is | G9vwrkFCRMJ4GPpHx | The type of AI humanity has chosen to create so far is unsafe, for soft social reasons and not technical ones. | l8c | I saw this image on X:
and I not only endorse this lady's comment, but would like to briefly expand on it in terms of AI safety.
How many people here were attracted to the concept of AI safety by Eliezer Yudkowsky's engaging writing style across a few different topics and genres? Or what about any number of other human... | 2024-06-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xknjY568uQp4PGFcW/self-control-of-llm-behaviors-by-compressing-suffix-gradient-1 | xknjY568uQp4PGFcW | Self-Control of LLM Behaviors by Compressing Suffix Gradient into Prefix Controller | henry-cai | In this paper, we are trying to control model behaviors. For example, by asking saying "You hear someone making fun of a topic you're passionate about", we can control an LLM to behave in an angrier manner. We can also control "any" behaviors of an LLM by simply defining a one-liner of description. The teaser below sho... | 2024-06-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jEiQJK5y8nKTHPeuL/zuvillage-georgia-mission-statement | jEiQJK5y8nKTHPeuL | ZuVillage Georgia – Mission Statement | Burns | This is a statement by Veronica and Burns, the initiators of the upcoming "ZuVillage Georgia" – our attempt of a refined second iteration of the Zuzalu 2023 experiment (series). Our addition builds on a triune directional protocol and on the application of the Zuzalu.city OS – both public goods, intended to safeguard ... | 2024-06-17 |
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