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As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockma…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Ayn Rand’s model of ‘living money’; and an upside of burnout” by AnnaSalamon
Epistemic status: Toy model. Oversimplified, but has been anecdotally useful to at least a couple people, and I like it as a metaphor.
Introduction
I’…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Neutrality” by sarahconstantin
Midjourney, “infinite library”I’ve had post-election thoughts percolating, and the sense that I wanted to synthesize something about this moment, but…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Making a conservative case for alignment” by Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, phgubbins, AE Studio
Trump and the Republican party will yield broad governmental control during what will almost certainly be a critical period for AGI development. In t…
1 year, 5 months ago
“OpenAI Email Archives (from Musk v. Altman)” by habryka
As part of the court case between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, a substantial number of emails between Elon, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockma…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Catastrophic sabotage as a major threat model for human-level AI systems” by evhub
Thanks to Holden Karnofsky, David Duvenaud, and Kate Woolverton for useful discussions and feedback.
Following up on our recent “Sabotage Evaluations …
1 year, 5 months ago
“The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed” by Zvi
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The GamblersI have previously been heavily involved in sports betting. That world was very good to me. The times w…
1 year, 5 months ago
“o1 is a bad idea” by abramdemski
This post comes a bit late with respect to the news cycle, but I argued in a recent interview that o1 is an unfortunate twist on LLM technologies, ma…
1 year, 5 months ago
“Current safety training techniques do not fully transfer to the agent setting” by Simon Lermen, Govind Pimpale
TL;DR: I'm presenting three recent papers which all share a similar finding, i.e. the safety training techniques for chat models don’t transfer well …
1 year, 5 months ago
“Explore More: A Bag of Tricks to Keep Your Life on the Rails” by Shoshannah Tekofsky
At least, if you happen to be near me in brain space.
What advice would you give your younger self?
That was the prompt for a class I taught at PAIR 20…
1 year, 5 months ago