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[HUMAN VOICE] "CFAR Takeaways: Andrew Critch" by Raemon
Many arguments for AI x-risk are wrong
Tips for Empirical Alignment Research
Timaeus’s First Four Months
Contra Ngo et al. “Every ‘Every Bay Area House Party’ Bay Area House Party”
[HUMAN VOICE] "Updatelessness doesn't solve most problems" by Martín Soto
[HUMAN VOICE] "And All the Shoggoths Merely Players" by Zack_M_Davis
Every “Every Bay Area House Party” Bay Area House Party
2023 Survey Results
Raising children on the eve of AI
“No-one in my org puts money in their pension”
Masterpiece
CFAR Takeaways: Andrew Critch
[HUMAN VOICE] "Believing In" by Anna Salamon
[HUMAN VOICE] "Attitudes about Applied Rationality" by Camille Berger
Scale Was All We Needed, At First
Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy
[HUMAN VOICE] "A Shutdown Problem Proposal" by johnswentworth, David Lorell
Brute Force Manufactured Consensus is Hiding the Crime of the Century
[HUMAN VOICE] "Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI" by Jeremy Gillen, peterbarnett
Leading The Parade
[HUMAN VOICE] "The case for ensuring that powerful AIs are controlled" by ryan_greenblatt, Buck
Processor clock speeds are not how fast AIs think
Without fundamental advances, misalignment and catastrophe are the default outcomes of training powerful AI
Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model
The case for training frontier AIs on Sumerian-only corpus
This might be the last AI Safety Camp
[HUMAN VOICE] "There is way too much serendipity" by Malmesbury
[HUMAN VOICE] "Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training" by evhub et al
[HUMAN VOICE] "How useful is mechanistic interpretability?" by ryan_greenblatt, Neel Nanda, Buck, habryka
The impossible problem of due process
[HUMAN VOICE] "Gentleness and the artificial Other" by Joe Carlsmith
Introducing Alignment Stress-Testing at Anthropic
Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training
[HUMAN VOICE] "Meaning & Agency" by Abram Demski
What’s up with LLMs representing XORs of arbitrary features?
Gentleness and the artificial Other
MIRI 2024 Mission and Strategy Update
The Plan - 2023 Version
Apologizing is a Core Rationalist Skill
[HUMAN VOICE] "A case for AI alignment being difficult" by jessicata
The Dark Arts
Critical review of Christiano’s disagreements with Yudkowsky
Most People Don’t Realize We Have No Idea How Our AIs Work
Discussion: Challenges with Unsupervised LLM Knowledge Discovery
Succession
Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims
Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong
Constellations are Younger than Continents
The ‘Neglected Approaches’ Approach: AE Studio’s Alignment Agenda
“Humanity vs. AGI” Will Never Look Like “Humanity vs. AGI” to Humanity
Is being sexy for your homies?
[HUMAN VOICE] "Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible" by Gene Smith and Kman
[HUMAN VOICE] "Moral Reality Check (a short story)" by jessicata
AI Control: Improving Safety Despite Intentional Subversion
2023 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey
The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science. This is bad for science and bad for longevity.
[HUMAN VOICE] "What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?" by Julia Wise
Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible
re: Yudkowsky on biological materials
Speaking to Congressional staffers about AI risk
[HUMAN VOICE] "Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety" by technicalities & Stag
Thoughts on “AI is easy to control” by Pope & Belrose
The 101 Space You Will Always Have With You
[HUMAN VOICE] "Social Dark Matter" by Duncan Sabien
Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety
Ability to solve long-horizon tasks correlates with wanting things in the behaviorist sense
[HUMAN VOICE] "The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful." by scasper
OpenAI: The Battle of the Board
OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend
Sam Altman fired from OpenAI
Social Dark Matter
[HUMAN VOICE] "Thinking By The Clock" by Screwtape
"You can just spontaneously call people you haven't met in years" by lc
[HUMAN VOICE] "AI Timelines" by habryka, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ajeya Cotra, Ege Erdil
"EA orgs' legal structure inhibits risk taking and information sharing on the margin" by Elizabeth
"Integrity in AI Governance and Advocacy" by habryka, Olivia Jimenez
Loudly Give Up, Don’t Quietly Fade
[HUMAN VOICE] "Deception Chess: Game #1" by Zane et al.
[HUMAN VOICE] "Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models With Dictionary Learning" by Zac Hatfield-Dodds
"The 6D effect: When companies take risks, one email can be very powerful." by scasper
"The other side of the tidal wave" by Katja Grace
"Does davidad's uploading moonshot work?" by jacobjabob et al.
"Propaganda or Science: A Look at Open Source AI and Bioterrorism Risk" by 1a3orn
"My thoughts on the social response to AI risk" by Matthew Barnett
Comp Sci in 2027 (Short story by Eliezer Yudkowsky)
"Thoughts on the AI Safety Summit company policy requests and responses" by So8res
"President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence" by Tristan Williams
[Human Voice] "Book Review: Going Infinite" by Zvi
"We're Not Ready: thoughts on "pausing" and responsible scaling policies" by Holden Karnofsky
"At 87, Pearl is still able to change his mind" by rotatingpaguro
"Architects of Our Own Demise: We Should Stop Developing AI" by Roko
"AI as a science, and three obstacles to alignment strategies" by Nate Soares
"Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation" by Paul Christiano
"Announcing Timaeus" by Jesse Hoogland et al.
[HUMAN VOICE] "Alignment Implications of LLM Successes: a Debate in One Act" by Zack M Davis
"Holly Elmore and Rob Miles dialogue on AI Safety Advocacy" by jacobjacob, Robert Miles & Holly_Elmore
"LoRA Fine-tuning Efficiently Undoes Safety Training from Llama 2-Chat 70B" by Simon Lermen & Jeffrey Ladish.
"Labs should be explicit about why they are building AGI" by Peter Barnett
[HUMAN VOICE] "Sum-threshold attacks" by TsviBT