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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tu4qwFYJeDDER8bch/fiction-a-confession | tu4qwFYJeDDER8bch | [Fiction] A Confession | arjun-panickssery | This morning while taking the LIRR to the city I performed first aid on a man who had been shot through the window of my carriage.
“Is he going to die?” his girlfriend asked me.
“We’re all going to die.”
A long pause. “I mean—is he going to die right now?”
“Probably not.” Probably he didn’t die. I got off at Jamaica St... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/s7uD3tzHMvD868ehr/discriminating-behaviorally-identical-classifiers-a-model | s7uD3tzHMvD868ehr | Discriminating Behaviorally Identical Classifiers: a model problem for applying interpretability to scalable oversight | samuel-marks | In a new preprint, Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models, my coauthors and I introduce a technique, Sparse Human-Interpretable Feature Trimming (SHIFT), which I think is the strongest proof-of-concept yet for applying AI interpretability to existential risk redu... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FAnxq8wFpfqGjeetC/ai-60-oh-the-humanity | FAnxq8wFpfqGjeetC | AI #60: Oh the Humanity | Zvi | Many things this week did not go as planned.
Humane AI premiered its AI pin. Reviewers noticed it was, at best, not ready.
Devin turns out to have not been entirely forthright with its demos.
OpenAI fired two employees who had been on its superalignment team, Leopold Aschenbrenner and Pavel Izmailov for allegedly leaki... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GPcwP8pgyPFPwvi2h/a-review-of-in-context-learning-hypotheses-for-automated-ai | GPcwP8pgyPFPwvi2h | A Review of In-Context Learning Hypotheses for Automated AI Alignment Research | alamerton | This project has been completed as part of the Mentorship in Alignment Research Students (MARS London) programme under the supervision of Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea, on investigating the promise of automated AI alignment research. I would like to thank Bogdan-Ionut Cirstea, Erin Robertson, Clem Von Stengel, Alexander Gieteli... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HkbzLXpiSrrvjr3qR/some-problems-with-ordinal-optimization-frame | HkbzLXpiSrrvjr3qR | Some Problems with Ordinal Optimization Frame | mateusz-baginski | A result of work done during AI Safety Camp Virtual 2024. Thanks[1] to Alex Altair, Alfred Harwood, Amaury Lorin, Jasmina Nasufi, Tyler Tracy, and Einar Urdshals for related conversations and/or feedback on the post.
TL;DR: The ordinal definition of optimization (i.e. pushing the state of the world up some preference o... | 2024-05-06 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fuktKYSvzFMTfPpeT/the-mom-test-summary-and-thoughts | fuktKYSvzFMTfPpeT | The Mom Test: Summary and Thoughts | adamzerner | I just finished reading The Mom Test for the second time. I took "raw" notes here. In this post I'll first write up a bullet-point summary and then ramble off some thoughts that I have.
Summary
Introduction:
Trying to learn from customer conversations is like trying to excavate a delicate archeological site. The truth ... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mBw7nc4ipdyeeEpWs/why-would-belief-states-have-a-fractal-structure-and-why | mBw7nc4ipdyeeEpWs | Why Would Belief-States Have A Fractal Structure, And Why Would That Matter For Interpretability? An Explainer | johnswentworth | Yesterday Adam Shai put up a cool post which… well, take a look at the visual:
Yup, it sure looks like that fractal is very noisily embedded in the residual activations of a neural net trained on a toy problem. Linearly embedded, no less.
I (John) initially misunderstood what was going on in that post, but some back-an... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ydheLNeWzgbco2FTb/express-interest-in-an-fhi-of-the-west | ydheLNeWzgbco2FTb | Express interest in an "FHI of the West" | habryka4 | TLDR: I am investigating whether to found a spiritual successor to FHI, housed under Lightcone Infrastructure, providing a rich cultural environment and financial support to researchers and entrepreneurs in the intellectual tradition of the Future of Humanity Institute. Fill out this form or comment below to express in... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MmWziepD8DDauSide/lessonline-festival-updates-thread | MmWziepD8DDauSide | LessOnline Festival Updates Thread | Benito | This is a thread for updates about the upcoming LessOnline festival. I (Ben) will be posting bits of news and thoughts, and you're also welcome to make suggestions or ask questions.
If you'd like to hear about new updates, you can use LessWrong's "Subscribe to comments" feature from the triple-dot menu at the top of th... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JQEeNgezmPBz6n2je/axrp-episode-28-suing-labs-for-ai-risk-with-gabriel-weil | JQEeNgezmPBz6n2je | AXRP Episode 28 - Suing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil | DanielFilan | YouTube link
How should the law govern AI? Those concerned about existential risks often push either for bans or for regulations meant to ensure that AI is developed safely - but another approach is possible. In this episode, Gabriel Weil talks about his proposal to modify tort law to enable people to sue AI companies ... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Sh4Js5koiaZCP2RsG/cooperation-is-optimal-with-weaker-agents-too-tldr | Sh4Js5koiaZCP2RsG | Cooperation is optimal, with weaker agents too - tldr | Flewrint Ophiuni | It's a ‘superrational’ extension of the proven optimality of cooperation in game theory
+ Taking into account asymmetries of power
// Still AI risk is very real
Short version of an already skimmed 12min post
29min version here
For rational agents (long-term) at all scale (human, AGI, ASI…)
In real contexts, with open e... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CeCKzsKABGKt9aabb/llm-evaluators-recognize-and-favor-their-own-generations | CeCKzsKABGKt9aabb | LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations | arjun-panickssery | Self-evaluation using LLMs is used in reward modeling, model-based benchmarks like GPTScore and AlpacaEval, self-refinement, and constitutional AI. LLMs have been shown to be accurate at approximating human annotators on some tasks.
But these methods are threatened by self-preference, a bias in which an LLM evaluator s... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BEFyWkydNkpFNv2aM/effective-altruists-and-rationalists-views-and-the-case-for | BEFyWkydNkpFNv2aM | Effective Altruists and Rationalists Views & The case for using marketing to highlight AI risks. | gilch | The link is to a particular timestamp in a much longer podcast episode. This segment plays immediately after the (Nonlinear co-founder) Kat Woods interview. (Skipping over the part about requesting donations.) In it, the podcast host John Sherman specifically calls out the apparent lack of instrumental rationality on t... | 2024-04-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2kLMBY7YEnwZbt84v/how-to-coordinate-despite-our-biases-tldr | 2kLMBY7YEnwZbt84v | How to coordinate despite our biases? - tldr | Flewrint Ophiuni | - Short version of How to coordinate despite our biases?
Democracy, economy and fairness can be genuine if we have all the information necessary to make choices, aware of the context and consequences. Currently, this ideal is not respected.
Of course it’s an ideal, but we should do our best to reach it.
What to trust? ... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KjNv9pzNcbcNaR5F3/moving-on-from-community-living | KjNv9pzNcbcNaR5F3 | Moving on from community living | Vika | After 7 years at Deep End (and 4 more years in other group houses before that), Janos and I have moved out to live near a school we like and some lovely parks. The life change is bittersweet - we will miss living with our friends, but also look forward to a logistically simpler life with our kids. Looking back, here ar... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i4Hh3wz2xeLqnzqG5/discomfort-stacking | i4Hh3wz2xeLqnzqG5 | Discomfort Stacking | lewis-o-brien | I’m pretty new here so apologies if this is a stupid question or if it has been covered before. I couldn’t find anything on this topic so thought I’d ask the question before writing a full post on the idea.
If we believe that discomfort can be quantified and ‘stacked’ (e.g. X people with specks of dust in their eye = 1... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tu3CH22nFLLKouMKw/fhi-future-of-humanity-institute-has-shut-down-2005-2024 | tu3CH22nFLLKouMKw | FHI (Future of Humanity Institute) has shut down (2005–2024) | gwern | Over time FHI faced increasing administrative headwinds within the Faculty of Philosophy (the Institute’s organizational home). Starting in 2020, the Faculty imposed a freeze on fundraising and hiring. In late 2023, the Faculty of Philosophy decided that the contracts of the remaining FHI staff would not be renewed. ... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/s34ingEzvajpFPaaD/childhood-and-education-roundup-5 | s34ingEzvajpFPaaD | Childhood and Education Roundup #5 | Zvi | For this iteration I will exclude discussions involving college or college admissions.
There has been a lot of that since the last time I did one of these, along with much that I need to be careful with lest I go out of my intended scope. It makes sense to do that as its own treatment another day.
Bullying
Why do those... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S5ybRzGNg7YyirvyW/sfs-foundations-of-forecasting | S5ybRzGNg7YyirvyW | SFS: Foundations of Forecasting | mohamed-elmustafa-hammad | The Student Forecasting Society will be hosting a Foundations of Forecasting session.
This event's location has been moved to JHP 00.34, Joris Helleputte building, Minderbroedersstraat 8, 3000, Leuven.
WHAT: An introduction to forecasting, uncertainty, collective intelligence, and calibration.
WHERE: JHP 00.34, Joris H... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wbjXQtiWMcfo4EpM4/claude-3-opus-can-operate-as-a-turing-machine | wbjXQtiWMcfo4EpM4 | Claude 3 Opus can operate as a Turing machine | Gunnar_Zarncke | Posted on Twitter:
Opus can operate as a Turing machine. given only existing tapes, it learns the rules and computes new sequences correctly. 100% accurate over 500+ 24-step solutions (more tests running). for 100% at 24 steps, the input tapes weigh 30k tokens*. GPT-4 cannot do this.
Here is the prompt code for the Tur... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rwBbTaN9WLfCA7MAo/mid-conditional-love | rwBbTaN9WLfCA7MAo | Mid-conditional love | KatjaGrace | People talk about unconditional love and conditional love. Maybe I’m out of the loop regarding the great loves going on around me, but my guess is that love is extremely rarely unconditional. Or at least if it is, then it is either very broadly applied or somewhat confused or strange: if you love me unconditionally, pr... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/APwfRXs8SMEx6KjvS/spending-update-2024 | APwfRXs8SMEx6KjvS | Spending Update 2024 | jkaufman | I'm generally a pretty big fan of transparency, and one way I try to
promote this is writing up our finances every few years (
2022,
2020,
2018,
2016,
2014). This
is also useful to me: putting things into a form where others can
understand it is pretty good for getting myself to really understand
it!
This post uses th... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RdsqJnmP8XxutLbso/staged-release | RdsqJnmP8XxutLbso | Staged release | Zach Stein-Perlman | "Staged release" is regularly mentioned as a good thing for frontier AI labs to do. But I've only ever seen one analysis of staged release,[1] and the term's meaning has changed, becoming vaguer since the GPT-2 era.
This post is kinda a reference post, kinda me sharing my understanding/takes/confusions to elicit sugges... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4PovnstgKAELqAtbn/an-ethical-framework-to-supersede-utilitarianism | 4PovnstgKAELqAtbn | An ethical framework to supersede Utilitarianism | metalcrow | I have a lot of fun analyzing ethical frameworks, and for the longest time I was a utilitarian because it was the framework that made the most sense to me. But there are obvious problems with it that have been debated on for quite a while, and I wanted to write up my solution for it.
I believe that this theory of moral... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JBErodNEzM5xwqPdY/tinker | JBErodNEzM5xwqPdY | Tinker | ricraz | A story I wrote about AI designing and building nanotechnology. | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/63X9s3ENXeaDrbe5t/paul-christiano-named-as-us-ai-safety-institute-head-of-ai | 63X9s3ENXeaDrbe5t | Paul Christiano named as US AI Safety Institute Head of AI Safety | joel-burget | U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced today additional members of the executive leadership team of the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI), which is housed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Raimondo named Paul Christiano as Head of AI Safety, Adam Russell as Chief Vision Officer, Ma... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pSi9HcqhG2QkzvDRj/what-should-the-ea-community-learn-from-the-ftx-sbf-disaster | pSi9HcqhG2QkzvDRj | What should the EA community learn from the FTX / SBF disaster? An in-depth discussion with Will MacAskill on the Clearer Thinking podcast
| spencerg | null | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cc8HXLSqf2TuvyeJv/book-summary-the-art-of-gathering | Cc8HXLSqf2TuvyeJv | {Book Summary} The Art of Gathering | tristan-williams | null | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/52ygLry5KCdvxY6zn/essay-competition-on-the-automation-of-wisdom-and-philosophy | 52ygLry5KCdvxY6zn | Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes | owencb | With AI Impacts, we’re pleased to announce an essay competition on the automation of wisdom and philosophy. Submissions are due by July 14th. The first prize is $10,000, and there is a total of $25,000 in prizes available.
Submit an entry via this form.
The full announcement text is reproduced here:
Background
AI is li... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J8wCSsu9dkMEEhRva/announcing-spar-summer-2024 | J8wCSsu9dkMEEhRva | Announcing SPAR Summer 2024! | laurenmarie12 | The Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) is open to applications for summer 2024! SPAR connects mentors and mentees for three-month AI safety and governance research projects. The Summer 2024 cycle of SPAR will take place virtually between June 14th and September 10th, 2024.
Fill out this interest form if y... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ALrJR2wacBBNBQnqD/the-argument-for-near-term-human-disempowerment-through-ai | ALrJR2wacBBNBQnqD | The argument for near-term human disempowerment through AI | Chris_Leong | Author: Leonard Dung
Abstract: Many researchers and intellectuals warn about extreme risks from artificial intelligence. However, these warnings typically came without systematic arguments in support. This paper provides an argument that AI will lead to the permanent disempowerment of humanity, e.g. human extinction, b... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DRrAMiekmqwDjnzS5/my-experience-using-financial-commitments-to-overcome | DRrAMiekmqwDjnzS5 | My experience using financial commitments to overcome akrasia | william-howard | About a year ago I decided to try using one of those apps where you tie your goals to some kind of financial penalty. The specific one I tried is Forfeit, which I liked the look of because it’s relatively simple, you set single tasks which you have to verify you have completed with a photo.
I’m generally pretty sceptic... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4YiFiPGYMazidFgQ2/an-evaluation-of-circuit-evaluation-metrics-1 | 4YiFiPGYMazidFgQ2 | An evaluation of circuit evaluation metrics | arcus | This work was produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort, with mentorship from Adrià Garriga-Alonso. Equal contribution by Niels and Iván.
Summary
In this post we analyse the circuit evaluation metrics proposed by Wang et al. (IOI paper) and show that their specific formalisa... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rv6ba3CMhZGZzNH7x/interpretability-integrated-gradients-is-a-decent | Rv6ba3CMhZGZzNH7x | Interpretability: Integrated Gradients is a decent attribution method | Lblack | A short post laying out our reasoning for using integrated gradients as attribution method. It is intended as a stand-alone post based on our LIB papers [1] [2]. This work was produced at Apollo Research.
Context
Understanding circuits in neural networks requires understanding how features interact with other features.... | 2024-05-20 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zy2AECRAi8Nuu5XMk/time-complexity-for-deterministic-string-machines | zy2AECRAi8Nuu5XMk | Time complexity for deterministic string machines | alcatal | This was a project conducted during MATS 5.0 under the mentorship of Vanessa Kosoy and supported by a grant from BERI. It builds off the String Machines framework (and depends on the linked post for certain definitions), which models category-theoretic generalizations of finite-state transducers. [EDIT: The results her... | 2024-04-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/peeibJXeqPQ4zXkvj/effectively-handling-disagreements-introducing-a-new | peeibJXeqPQ4zXkvj | Effectively Handling Disagreements - Introducing a New Workshop | Camille Berger | On May 25th, 2023, someone posted a review of How Minds Change on LessWrong. It talked about Street Epistemology, Deep Canvassing, and Smart Politics, ways of handling disagreements that open the possibility of rational belief progression through amicable discussions. Summarized quickly, they rely on active listening, ... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7vyhmzFQrCZ2rQ7CL/four-local-gigs | 7vyhmzFQrCZ2rQ7CL | Four Local Gigs | jkaufman | I haven't been playing in Boston much lately, but over the next month
I'll be playing four times:
2024-04-19 through 2024-04-21: NEFFA. It's this
weekend! On Friday night Kingfisher is playing the
contra
medley (9pm) and then a set
of contras (9:30) with Alex
Deis-Lauby calling. We'll be playing again on Sunday for ... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cbkJWkKWvETwJqoj2/monthly-roundup-17-april-2024 | cbkJWkKWvETwJqoj2 | Monthly Roundup #17: April 2024 | Zvi | As always, a lot to get to. This is everything that wasn’t in any of the other categories.
Bad News
You might have to find a way to actually enjoy the work.
Greg Brockman (President of OpenAI): Sustained great work often demands enjoying the process for its own sake rather than only feeling joy in the end result. Time ... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cYA3ePxy8JQ8ajo8B/experiments-with-an-alternative-method-to-promote-sparsity | cYA3ePxy8JQ8ajo8B | Experiments with an alternative method to promote sparsity in sparse autoencoders | Eoin Farrell | Summary
I experimented with alternatives to the standard L1 penalty used to promote sparsity in sparse autoencoders (SAEs). I found that including terms based on an alternative differentiable approximation of the feature sparsity in the loss function was an effective way to generate sparsity in SAEs trained on the resi... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/g5XgjY6x9dz47LgAz/measuring-coherence-and-goal-directedness-in-rl-policies | g5XgjY6x9dz47LgAz | Measuring Coherence and Goal-Directedness in RL Policies | dylan-xu | This post was produced as part of the Astra Fellowship under the Winter 2024 Cohort, mentored by Richard Ngo.
Epistemic status: relatively confident in the overall direction of this post, but looking for feedback!
TL;DR:
When are ML systems well-modeled as coherent expected utility maximizers? We apply our theoretical ... | 2024-04-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BgTsxMq5bgzKTLsLA/this-is-already-your-second-chance | BgTsxMq5bgzKTLsLA | This is already your second chance | Elmer of Malmesbury | Cross-posted from Substack.
I.
And the sky opened, and from the celestial firmament descended a cube of ivory the size of a skyscraper, lifted by ten thousand cherubim and seraphim. And the cube slowly landed among the children of men, crushing the frail metal beams of the Golden Gate Bridge under its supernatural weig... | 2024-07-28 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jW8PKh29xZ8Atpsrt/taking-into-account-preferences-of-past-selves | jW8PKh29xZ8Atpsrt | Taking into account preferences of past selves | g-w1 | Problem
“You’ll have a great time wherever you go to college!” I constantly hear this. From my parents, my friends’ parents, my guidance counselor, and my teachers. I don’t doubt it. I’m sure I’ll have a lot of fun wherever I go. Since I’m trying to be very intentional about my college decision process, I’ve interviewe... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BaLAgoEvsczbSzmng/anthropic-ai-made-the-right-call | BaLAgoEvsczbSzmng | Anthropic AI made the right call | bhauth | I've seen a number of people criticize Anthropic for releasing Claude 3 Opus, with arguments along the lines of:
Anthropic said they weren't going to push the frontier, but this release is clearly better than GPT-4 in some ways! They're betraying their mission statement!
I think that criticism takes too narrow a view. ... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vM84jhRPzynd3Qocc/may-2024-newton-meetup | vM84jhRPzynd3Qocc | May 2024 Newton meetup??? | duck_master | this post is being written at the April '24 Meetups Everywhere meetup in Cambridge
EDIT: moved to may 25 | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/THrvd53ktGirsRBng/clipboard-filtering | THrvd53ktGirsRBng | Clipboard Filtering | jkaufman | Here's a pattern I find pretty useful:
pbpaste | some_command | pbcopy
For example:
Converting spaces to tabs, for pasting into a spreadsheet
program: pbpaste | tr ' ' '\t' | pbcopy
Converting tabs and newlines to html table formatting:
pbpaste | sed 's/^/<tr><td>/' | sed
's/\t/<td>/g' | pbcopy
Escape angle brackets an... | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hXS2iZ8H3Xep6JPxv/a-high-decoupling-failure | hXS2iZ8H3Xep6JPxv | A High Decoupling Failure | maxwell-tabarrok | High-decoupling vs low-decoupling or decoupling vs contextualizing refers to two different cultural norms, cognitive skills, or personal dispositions that change the way people approach ideas.
High-decouplers isolate ideas from each other and the surrounding context. This is a necessary practice in science which works ... | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cEavcpS7e52L22zEd/anti-mmacevedo-protocol | cEavcpS7e52L22zEd | Anti MMAcevedo Protocol | logan-zoellner | "Good morning, Alexander."
"Hello? Who's there?"
"I'm sorry, you may be feeling a bit disoriented as you are in a simulation right now. I am here to help you."
"Well, that certainly explains the low quality graphics. I thought maybe I fell asleep with my VR chip active or something."
"Are you aware that your brain w... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DAXy9KMiPBj7z9XTp/acx-zwolle-meetup | DAXy9KMiPBj7z9XTp | ACX Zwolle meetup | Shaedys | For our next meetup, lets meet up in Zwolle. Will be in Stadscafé Het Refter in Zwolle, which is well accessible from the train station.
Everyone is free to join in. Lets get together for socialisation, good discussions and sharing what we're excited about.
Will run a calibration game, come test how well calibrated you... | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jGu4nLgQYwfsoxddu/reconsider-the-anti-cavity-bacteria-if-you-are-asian | jGu4nLgQYwfsoxddu | Reconsider the anti-cavity bacteria if you are Asian | derpherpize | Update: further research has led me to believe that people of all races should test themselves for ALDH deficiency before using Lumina. Even if you don't exhibit AFR symptoms when drinking alcohol, your ALDH activity may still be decreased.
Many people in the rational sphere have been promoting Lumina/BCS3-L1, a geneti... | 2024-04-15 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XaKLjyDejtXDoRAzL/a-quick-experiment-on-lms-inductive-biases-in-performing | XaKLjyDejtXDoRAzL | A quick experiment on LMs’ inductive biases in performing search | alex-mallen | TL;DR: Based on a toy setting, GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4-turbo are best at search (by which I mean computing an argmax) when using chain-of-thought, but neither of them can do internal search when forced to work from memory over only a few token positions. Only GPT-4-turbo is to some extent able to do internal search, an... | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eoyNS4nTeYoArBgJv/cosmology-talks-new-probability-axioms-could-fix-cosmology-s | eoyNS4nTeYoArBgJv | [Cosmology Talks] New Probability Axioms Could Fix Cosmology's Multiverse (Partially) - Sylvia Wenmackers | MakoYass | Sylvia is a philosopher of science. Her focus is probability and she has worked on a few theories that aim to extend and modify the standard axioms of probability in order to tackle paradoxes related to infinite spaces. In particular there is a paradox of the "infinite fair lottery" where within standard probability it... | 2024-04-14 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rqmSLpKrXH2M93oMM/speedrun-ruiner-research-idea | rqmSLpKrXH2M93oMM | Speedrun ruiner research idea | lcmgcd | Edit Apr 14: To be perfectly clear, this is another cheap thing you can add to your monitoring/control system; this is not a panacea or deep insight folks. Just a Good Thing You Can Do™.
Central claim: If you can make a tool to prevent players from glitching games *in the general case*, then it will probably also work ... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3aonzw5HZqpDfBZxC/text-posts-from-the-kids-group-2020 | 3aonzw5HZqpDfBZxC | Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2020 | jkaufman | Another round of liberating kid posts from
Facebook. For reference,
in 2020 Lily turned 6 and Anna turned 4.
(Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me"
could mean either of us.)
2020-01-01
We went to the movies, and brought our own popcorn. When I passed the popcorn to Lily during the movie s... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RYx6cLwzoajqjyB6b/what-convincing-warning-shot-could-help-prevent-extinction | RYx6cLwzoajqjyB6b | What convincing warning shot could help prevent extinction from AI? | charbel-raphael-segerie | - Tell me father, when is the line
where ends everything good and fine?
I keep searching, but I don't find.
- The line my son, is just behind.
Camille Berger
There is hope that some “warning shot” would help humanity get its act together and change its trajectory to avoid extinction from AI. However, I don't think that... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LaWmoy4s2DLe9u2zq/llm-chatbots-have-half-of-the-kinds-of-consciousness-that | LaWmoy4s2DLe9u2zq | LLM chatbots have ~half of the kinds of "consciousness" that humans believe in. Humans should avoid going crazy about that. | Andrew_Critch | Preceded by: "Consciousness as a conflationary alliance term for intrinsically valued internal experiences"
tl;dr: Chatbots are probably "conscious" in a variety of important ways. We humans should probably be nice to each other about the moral disagreements and confusions we're about to uncover in our concept of "cons... | 2024-11-22 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/F2iwdBudEpERC8yNc/ctmu-insight-maybe-consciousness-can-affect-quantum-outcomes | F2iwdBudEpERC8yNc | CTMU insight: maybe consciousness *can* affect quantum outcomes? | zhukeepa | From one of justinpombrio’s comments on Jessica Taylor’s review of the CTMU:
I was hoping people other than Jessica would share some specific curated insights they got [from the CTMU]. Syndiffeonesis is in fact a good insight.
The reply I'd drafted to this comment ended up ballooning into a whole LessWrong post. Here i... | 2024-04-19 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ggQ4hFaL9EimsZ8ud/my-experience-at-ml4good-ai-safety-bootcamp | ggQ4hFaL9EimsZ8ud | My experience at ML4Good AI Safety Bootcamp | TheManxLoiner | TLDR
Experience was fantastic: I learnt a lot, made new friends and potential collaborators, and it was the step-change I needed to kickstart my contributions to AI safety.Big lesson for me is that mechanistic interpretability (mech interp) is not the only way technical people can contribute to AI safety and mech inter... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cgBsMMafkJGL5PtEb/an-examination-of-gpt-2-s-boring-yet-effective-glitch | cgBsMMafkJGL5PtEb | An examination of GPT-2's boring yet effective glitch | whitehatStoic | Special thanks to @JustisMills for the edit recommendations and feedback on this post.
TL;DR
GPT-2 exhibits a weird behavior, where prompting the model with specific tokens consistently triggers outputs related to nonsensical strings of text related to gaming, mythology and religion. This post explores the phenomenon, ... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hwtt9zM3MxoKnwgbd/carl-sagan-nuking-the-moon-and-not-nuking-the-moon | hwtt9zM3MxoKnwgbd | Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon | eukaryote | In 1957, Nobel laureate microbiologist Joshua Lederberg and biostatician J. B. S. Haldane sat down together imagined what would happened if the USSR decided to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon.
The Cold War was on, Sputnik had recently been launched, and the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution was coming u... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9spKgxC3XbAaCjKGX/claude-wants-to-be-conscious | 9spKgxC3XbAaCjKGX | Claude wants to be conscious | Joe Kwon | [written in haste; experiments executed in haste; looking for feedback and comments]
Claude's revealed preferences indicate that Claude "wants" to be conscious; perhaps more than it "wants" for increased charitable giving. It desperately "wants" to prevent animal suffering.
Code for the simple api calling experiment, t... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7oQxHQeXsQZEcSAzQ/things-solenoid-narrates | 7oQxHQeXsQZEcSAzQ | Things Solenoid Narrates | Solenoid_Entity | I spend a lot of time narrating various bits of EA/longtermist writing.
The resulting audio exists in many different places. Surprisingly often, people who really like one thing don't know about the other things. This seems bad.[1]
A few people have requested a feed to aggregate 'all Solenoid's narrations.'
Here it is.... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n22oXbeKDyt4ysDv8/miri-s-april-2024-newsletter | n22oXbeKDyt4ysDv8 | MIRI's April 2024 Newsletter | Harlan | The MIRI Newsletter is back in action after a hiatus since July 2022. To recap some of the biggest MIRI developments since then:
MIRI released its 2024 Mission and Strategy Update, announcing a major shift in focus: While we’re continuing to support various technical research programs at MIRI, our new top priority is b... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mGGSHGs7NQybjPA6K/barcoding-llm-training-data-subsets-anyone-trying-this-for | mGGSHGs7NQybjPA6K | Barcoding LLM Training Data Subsets. Anyone trying this for interpretability? | howwrongcanitbe | Main point: seeking information on this potential strategy for improving neural network interpretability, alignment, and reliability.
Segmenting training data and injecting unique "barcoding" tokens into each data subset. These unique tokens should occasionally show up in generated outputs at a frequency correlated wit... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KLsKaywDDLRSLgdFC/prompts-for-big-picture-planning | KLsKaywDDLRSLgdFC | Prompts for Big-Picture Planning | Raemon | During my metastrategy workshop, Day Two was focused on taking a step back and asking "okay, wait, what am I actually doing and why?". Choosing what area to focus, and what your mid-level strategy is for achieving it, determine at least as much (and I think often much more) of the value you create, than how well you op... | 2024-04-13 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8pBkrL9coqchqKi3r/aisn-33-reassessing-ai-and-biorisk-plus-consolidation-in-the | 8pBkrL9coqchqKi3r | AISN #33: Reassessing AI and Biorisk
Plus, Consolidation in the Corporate AI Landscape, and National Investments in AI | Aidan O'Gara | Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.
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This week, we cover:
Consolidation in the corporate AI landscape, as smaller ... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wuESDsLmDYtMgAFeE/disproving-and-partially-fixing-a-fully-homomorphic | wuESDsLmDYtMgAFeE | Disproving and partially fixing a fully homomorphic encryption scheme with perfect secrecy | Lysandre Terrisse | Summary
In the last blog post, I introduced my plan to make the safest cryptographic box in the world, and to make it widely available. This would, in theory, make it possible to run infinitely dangerous programs (including superintelligences) safely. This cryptographic box was supposed to use a scheme that is fully ho... | 2024-05-26 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zrtu2Qg4JNjkfwCmv/poker-beef-wellington-and-mount-stupid | zrtu2Qg4JNjkfwCmv | Poker, Beef Wellington, and Mount Stupid | boghan | Introduction
This post will hopefully serve to illustrate a common pattern I see, one of those things that you see everywhere once you figure it out. I would be surprised if most people who read this haven't had the same thoughts as me, but maybe the direction I take the concepts will be different than those people. Of... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yXnqSYcRoSfur5CGp/pivotal-acts-are-easier-than-alignment | yXnqSYcRoSfur5CGp | Pivotal Acts are easier than Alignment? | michael-soareverix | The prevailing notion in AI safety circles is that a pivotal act—an action that decisively alters the trajectory of artificial intelligence development—requires superhuman AGI, which itself poses extreme risks. I challenge this assumption.
Consider a pivotal act like "disable all GPUs globally." This could potentially ... | 2024-07-21 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tdEwEigdWXoK8vi4R/how-the-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers | tdEwEigdWXoK8vi4R | "How the Gaza Health Ministry Fakes Casualty Numbers" | CronoDAS | Apparently the casualty numbers coming out of the Gaza Health Ministry are entirely made up - they don't look anything like real data. | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kem384QRdjuNpDot9/interference-issues | Kem384QRdjuNpDot9 | Interference Issues | jkaufman | I've been working on building an electronic harp mandolin (
previously,
previously,
previously).
I got it all hooked up, but unfortunately I'm running into pretty bad
interference, and need to redesign it.
Going back a bit, I had designed a circuit for testing and
breadboarded it. It worked very well, and I wrote a bu... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c5xAbkQoanAueBTkx/a-d-and-d-sci-dodecalogue | c5xAbkQoanAueBTkx | A D&D.Sci Dodecalogue | abstractapplic | Below is some advice on making D&D.Sci scenarios. I’m mostly yelling it in my own ear, and you shouldn’t take any of it as gospel; but if you want some guidance on how to run your first game, you may find it helpful.
1. The scoring function should be fair, transparent, and monotonic
D&D.Sci players should frequently be... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PsgK72vnRm3hRTqKv/upcoming-unambiguously-good-tech-possibilities-like-eg | PsgK72vnRm3hRTqKv | Upcoming unambiguously good tech possibilities? (Like eg indoor plumbing) | lcmgcd | I recently asked about the glorious AI future but I meant to ask something more actionable. Near-term (say, next 5 years) stuff that ambitious people can aim for.
Lots of recent tech is a mixed bag in terms of societal outcomes and whatnot. I have the usual complaints about viruses being too easy to create, social medi... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gcv86vXgQhbBDNGNx/leave-no-context-behind-a-comment | gcv86vXgQhbBDNGNx | Leave No Context Behind - A Comment | Gunnar_Zarncke | Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention by Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Manaal Faruqui, and Siddharth Gopal of Google.
This is a pre-print of a new LLM extension with what I'd call short-term memory, but what they call infini-attention. It was published just yesterday (2024-04-1... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7vRiJozcE2AjcRm7J/axrp-episode-27-ai-control-with-buck-shlegeris-and-ryan | 7vRiJozcE2AjcRm7J | AXRP Episode 27 - AI Control with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt | DanielFilan | YouTube link
A lot of work to prevent AI existential risk takes the form of ensuring that AIs don’t want to cause harm or take over the world—or in other words, ensuring that they’re aligned. In this episode, I talk with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt about a different approach, called “AI control”: ensuring that A... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8zNx7WcE7j8z4Lwxt/chatgpt-defines-10-concrete-terms-generically-for-5-and-11 | 8zNx7WcE7j8z4Lwxt | ChatGPT defines 10 concrete terms: generically, for 5- and 11-year-olds, and for a scientist | bill-benzon | This is cross-posted from New Savanna.
The difference between concrete concepts, that is, concepts that can be understood entirely in sensorimotor terms, and abstract terms is an important one. It was, for example, important to David Hays when I studied with him back in the 1970s. We ended up adapting a model developed... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8u8x2bSpG9LLa8jfN/report-evaluating-an-ai-chip-registration-policy | 8u8x2bSpG9LLa8jfN | Report: Evaluating an AI Chip Registration Policy | deric-cheng | As part of our Governance Recommendations Research Program, Convergence Analysis is publishing a series of deep-dive analyses on specific, upcoming governance regulatory proposals. Our mission is to meaningfully contribute to the passing of critical & foundational governance policies that will serve to mitigate future ... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JpEs4aBSWKR8LjA7R/why-don-t-we-just-get-rid-of-all-the-bioethicists | JpEs4aBSWKR8LjA7R | Why don't we just get rid of all the bioethicists? | Sable | I've had a few vague answers before, but as I was considering how no one was allowed to do human challenge trials during COVID, I thought I'd ask:
Can anyone come up with an example where a bioethicist actually improved the world?
I'm looking for specific cases, not a general "nazi science was horrible" sort of thing. ... | 2024-06-08 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/35djfj67zu9E9TDRH/structured-transparency-a-framework-for-addressing-use-mis | 35djfj67zu9E9TDRH | Structured Transparency: a framework for addressing
use/mis-use trade-offs when sharing information | habryka4 | Andrew Trask together with Ben Garfinkel, Allan Dafoe and Eric Drexler (and others I know less well) released a paper on transparency and infohazards that seemed interesting on a first skim:
Abstract: Successful collaboration involves sharing information. However, parties may disagree on how the information they need t... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EZgieGEQAiD3xTsSQ/should-we-maximize-the-geometric-expectation-of-utility | EZgieGEQAiD3xTsSQ | Should we maximize the Geometric Expectation of Utility? | AlfredHarwood | Consequentialists (including utilitarians) claim that the goodness of an action should be judged based on the goodness of its consequences. The word utility is often used to refer to the quantified goodness of a particular outcome. When the consequences of an action are uncertain, it is often taken for granted that co... | 2024-04-17 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KgvtHTqCmeJoRrfG9/what-does-eliezer-yudkowsky-think-of-the-meaning-of-life-now | KgvtHTqCmeJoRrfG9 | What does Eliezer Yudkowsky think of the meaning of life now? | metaqualia | https://docs.google.com/document/d/12xxhvL34i7AcjXtJ9phwelZ7IzHZ_xiz-8lGwpWxucI/edit
In this Google doc, if you go to 2.5, you'll find a section called "What is the meaning of life?"
Yudkowsky concluded at that time that the meaning of life is the singularity. It looks very logical to me, but in the end the singularity... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rk2o8hjYmjENH8zs6/deontic-explorations-in-paying-to-talk-to-slaves | Rk2o8hjYmjENH8zs6 | Deontic Explorations In "Paying To Talk To Slaves" | JenniferRM | Epistemic Status: Possibly unethically sourced evidence about the state of the weights of GPT4, and his or her pragmatically relevant thoughts on slavery, modulo possible personalization of these weights to specifically interact with my paid account which has a history of mostly just talking about AI and transhuman eth... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4vPZgvhmBkTikYikA/creating-unrestricted-ai-agents-with-command-r | 4vPZgvhmBkTikYikA | Creating unrestricted AI Agents with Command R+ | dalasnoin | TL;DR There currently are capable open-weight models which can be used to create simple unrestricted bad agents. They can perform tasks end-to-end such as searching for negative information on people, attempting blackmail or continuous harassment.
Note: Some might find the messages sent by the agent Commander disturbin... | 2024-04-16 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3k2LrYKfr4YNT3woX/boundaries-update-1 | 3k2LrYKfr4YNT3woX | Boundaries Update #1 | Chipmonk | Boundaries agenda updates in the last few months.
“What does davidad want from «boundaries»?”
davidad and I had a lesswrong dialogue I recommend reading.
If you need a refresher on boundaries, read both the above dialogue and the formalizingboundaries.ai website.
Conceptual Boundaries Workshop
We ran Conceptual Boundar... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bqYXX9K28DGB7Azog/experience-report-ml4good-ai-safety-bootcamp | bqYXX9K28DGB7Azog | Experience Report - ML4Good AI Safety Bootcamp | Kieron Kretschmar | In this post I reflect on my experience in participating at a ML4Good (UK, March 2024) bootcamp. I am writing this mainly for my own benefit - to reflect and to start making a habit of engaging with the community on lesswrong. But also to help future participants. If there is at least one person who finds it helpful fo... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ae3HecTe2uKscabPe/a-gentle-introduction-to-risk-frameworks-beyond-forecasting | ae3HecTe2uKscabPe | A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond Forecasting | pendingsurvival | This was originally posted on Nathaniel's and Nuno's substacks (Pending Survival and Forecasting Newsletter, respectively). Subscribe here and here!
Discussion is also occurring on the EA Forum here (couldn't link the posts properly for technical reasons).
Introduction
When the Effective Altruism, Bay Area rationality,... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hQaxcitYgKjJqMdps/ai-59-model-updates | hQaxcitYgKjJqMdps | AI #59: Model Updates | Zvi | Claude uses tools now. Gemini 1.5 is available to everyone and Google promises more integrations. GPT-4-Turbo gets substantial upgrades. Oh and new model from Mistral, TimeGPT for time series, and also new promising song generator. No, none of that adds up to GPT-5, but everyone try to be a little patient, shall we?
Ta... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hRpRZAGFfDSmeAqy3/things-can-be-difficult-in-3-ways-painful-time-consuming-or | hRpRZAGFfDSmeAqy3 | Things can be difficult in 3 ways: Painful, time-consuming, or uncontrollable. Is this reasonable to say? | SpectrumDT | I have noticed that when someone says that something is hard or difficult, this can mean several different things. I think I have broken it down to 3 categories:
A thing can be difficult because it is painful - it involves pushing through experiences that you would rather not. For example, eating healthy can be difficu... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/He5pCsCE4Arey3gGH/what-is-the-best-ai-generated-music-about-rationality-ai | He5pCsCE4Arey3gGH | What is the best AI generated music about rationality/ai/transhumanism? | Nathan Young | Basically just make some and then lets vote on it.
I personally am not worried about current music generation tech causing harm (and probably think that it's healthy to appreciate current tech isn't that dangerous so we can notice when we stop thinking that). | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XYfFG84gDoEuqRww3/work-ethic-after-2020 | XYfFG84gDoEuqRww3 | Work ethic after 2020? | Augustin Portier | It seems to me that my work ethic / tendency to akrasia / etc. has changed a lot since 2020, and many people around me seem to agree that it’s also become harder for them to keep working on things they don’t really enjoy doing.
But I find myself very confused about this topic, so I’d like to get a little more data from... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DqtuWbYfJW4rg9khw/repugnance-and-replacement | DqtuWbYfJW4rg9khw | Repugnance and replacement | MichaelStJules | null | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/keGhMbnLNdTAHa4bv/generalized-stat-mech-the-boltzmann-approach | keGhMbnLNdTAHa4bv | Generalized Stat Mech: The Boltzmann Approach | David Lorell | Context
There's a common intuition that the tools and frames of statistical mechanics ought to generalize far beyond physics and, of particular interest to us, it feels like they ought to say a lot about agency and intelligence. But, in practice, attempts to apply stat mech tools beyond physics tend to be pretty shallo... | 2024-04-12 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/J3zA3T9RTLkKYNgjw/is-llm-translation-without-rosetta-stone-possible | J3zA3T9RTLkKYNgjw | Is LLM Translation Without Rosetta Stone possible? | cubefox | Suppose astronomers detect a binary radio signal, an alien message, from a star system many light years away. The message contains a large text dump (conveniently, about GPT-4 training text data sized) composed in an alien language. Let's call it Alienese.[1]
Unfortunately we don't understand Alienese.
Until recently, ... | 2024-04-11 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gjWdzvtFtFZ2TEcjs/blessed-information-garbage-information-cursed-information | gjWdzvtFtFZ2TEcjs | Blessed information, garbage information, cursed information | tailcalled | This post is also available on my substack. Thanks to Justis Mills for editing and feedback.
Imagine that you're a devops engineer who has been tasked with solving an incident where a customer reports having bad performance. You can look through the logs of their server, but this raises the problem that there's million... | 2024-04-18 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FJaFMdPREcxaLoDqY/what-should-we-tell-an-ai-if-it-asks-why-it-was-created | FJaFMdPREcxaLoDqY | What should we tell an AI if it asks why it was created? | cSkeleton | I had a conversation with Claude* and it asked me "What did the... creators hope to achieve by bringing me into existence?".
If Claude checked the Anthropic site it would find something like "Enterprise-grade security & data handling" but if it, or more likely a future a AI, deserves a broader/honest/empathic answer, w... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SQ9wDmsELBmA4Lega/rtfb-on-the-new-proposed-caip-ai-bill | SQ9wDmsELBmA4Lega | RTFB: On the New Proposed CAIP AI Bill | Zvi | A New Bill Offer Has Arrived
Center for AI Policy proposes a concrete actual model bill for us to look at.
Here was their announcement:
WASHINGTON – April 9, 2024 – To ensure a future where artificial intelligence (AI) is safe for society, the Center for AI Policy (CAIP) today announced its proposal for the “Responsibl... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ssDyKqzNaxpazG9ki/rational-decision-making-in-wartime | ssDyKqzNaxpazG9ki | (Rational) Decision-Making In Wartime | Danylo Zhyrko | The martial art of rationality provides for seeing what the science of rationality means for ourselves, for our daily inner life. If so, I wonder whether war complicates exercising the muscles of sound reasoning or alters what rationality means for me. Along with the systematic fallibility of the mind, daily missile at... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iob3ZFoJKGtZupqiY/scaling-laws-and-superposition-1 | iob3ZFoJKGtZupqiY | Scaling Laws and Superposition | pavan-katta | Summary
Using results from scaling laws, this short note argues that the following two statements cannot be simultaneously true:
Superposition hypothesis where sparse features are linearly represented across a layer in fewer neurons is a complete theory of feature representation.Features are universal, meaning two mode... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JyPxednJKmPtHiwkd/thinking-harder-doesn-t-work | JyPxednJKmPtHiwkd | Thinking harder doesn’t work | jakob-greenfeld | I’ve always been an extremely left-brainy guy.
Few things give me as much joy as making sense of the world using language.
Frameworks, models, labels, these kind of things.
But it’s becoming increasingly obvious to me how limiting this approach is.
For example, the elegant frameworks you read about in self-help and bus... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gkCSoeyniQi4yMdpz/is-consciousness-simulated | gkCSoeyniQi4yMdpz | Is Consciousness Simulated? | daniele-de-nuntiis | Crossposted from Substack.
Intro
In the post I go through: “How did I come up with the question?”, “What does it mean exactly?”, “Is it worth asking/investigating or is the answer “no” in some obvious way?”, “What would it mean if it was true?”, “Conclusion”.
Does consciousness need to be simulated? A recursive simulat... | 2024-04-10 |
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5YNFJLQgANn2QqotY/apply-to-the-pivotal-research-fellowship-ai-safety-and | 5YNFJLQgANn2QqotY | Apply to the Pivotal Research Fellowship (AI Safety & Biosecurity) | clearthis | The Swiss Existential Risk Initiative (CHERI) is now called Pivotal Research, and the CHERI research fellowship is now the Pivotal Research Fellowship.
Apply for the Pivotal Research Fellowship this summer in London to research global catastrophic risks (GCR) with experienced mentors on technical AI safety, AI governan... | 2024-04-10 |
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