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Back to Search"Gemma Needs Help" by Anna Soligo
This work was done with William Saunders and Vlad Mikulik as part of the Anthropic Fellows programme. The full write-up is available here. Thanks to…
4 months, 1 week ago
"On Independence Axiom" by Ihor Kendiukhov
The Fifth Fourth Postulate of Decision Theory
In 1820, the Hungarian mathematician Farkas Bolyai wrote a desperate letter to his son János, who had …
4 months, 1 week ago
"Solar storms" by Croissanthology
Most of civilization's electricity is generated far off-site from where it's delivered. This is because you don't want to be running and refueling c…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Schelling Goodness, and Shared Morality as a Goal" by Andrew_Critch
Also available in markdown at theMultiplicity.ai/blog/schelling-goodness.
This post explores a notion I'll call Schelling goodness. Claims of Schell…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Maybe there’s a pattern here?" by dynomight
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It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundr…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"OpenAI’s surveillance language has many potential loopholes and they can do better" by Tom Smith
(The author is not affiliated with the Department of War or any major AI company.)
There's a lot of disagreement about the new surveillance language…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"An Alignment Journal: Coming Soon" by Dan MacKinlay, JessRiedel, Edmund Lau, Daniel Murfet, Scott Aaronson, Jan_Kulveit
tl;dr We’re incubating an academic journal for AI alignment: rapid peer-review of foundational Alignment research that the current publication ecosy…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Frontier AI companies probably can’t leave the US" by Anders Woodruff
It's plausible that, over the next few years, US-based frontier AI companies will become very unhappy with the domestic political situation. This co…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Persona Parasitology" by Raymond Douglas
There was a lot of chatter a few months back about "Spiral Personas" — AI personas that spread between users and models through seeds, spores, and b…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
"Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers" by jefftk
Six years ago, as covid-19 was rapidly spreading through the US, mysister was working as a medical resident. One day she was handed anN95 and told t…
4 months, 3 weeks ago